Quality Management Job Trends

Quality Management
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Quality Management skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 25 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 379 369 433
Rank change year-on-year -10 +64 +13
Permanent jobs citing Quality Management 359 299 466
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.47% 0.73% 0.53%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.60% 0.78% 0.61%
Number of salaries quoted 68 117 270
10th Percentile £28,500 £28,500 £26,725
25th Percentile £39,375 £36,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +21.05% -13.64%
75th Percentile £87,500 £81,250 £65,000
90th Percentile £98,250 £97,000 £82,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,713 £42,500
% change year-on-year -5.15% +24.03% -10.53%

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK

Quality Management falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 59,591 38,445 75,955
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 77.47% 93.42% 86.89%
Number of salaries quoted 36,208 22,191 57,021
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £29,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £43,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -11.29%
75th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £101,250 £93,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -8.41%

Quality Management
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Quality Management relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Quality Management job vacancy trend in the UK

Quality Management
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Quality Management.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Quality Management

Quality Management
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Quality Management over the 6 months to 25 March 2026.

Salary histogram for Quality Management in the UK

Quality Management
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Quality Management within the UK over the 6 months to 25 March 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
UK excluding London 0 260 £50,000 -5.15% 90
England -64 243 £59,000 +7.27% 102
Scotland +43 78 £37,500 -34.78% 5
London -35 78 £81,500 +15.28% 21
North of England -53 69 £50,000 +33.33% 19
Midlands +4 53 £45,000 +12.50% 18
Work from Home +5 48 £71,000 +9.48% 30
North West -6 35 £50,000 -8.75% 9
East Midlands -17 30 £29,000 -27.50% 7
West Midlands +12 23 £50,000 -31.03% 11
Yorkshire -45 22 £15,600 -58.40% 7
South West -44 19 £85,000 +82.80% 10
Northern Ireland - 19 - -
North East -42 12 - - 4
South East -59 11 £58,750 -0.42% 26
Wales -16 8 £25,400 -67.23% 2
East of England -27 3 £40,000 -11.11% 11

Quality Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 68 (18.94%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.28%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (0.28%) Confluence
Applications
1 92 (25.63%) Microsoft Excel
2 87 (24.23%) Microsoft Office
3 69 (19.22%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (1.11%) Fusion 360
5 3 (0.84%) MS Visio
6 2 (0.56%) Microsoft Project
7 1 (0.28%) Abaqus
7 1 (0.28%) AutoCAD
7 1 (0.28%) Siemens NX
7 1 (0.28%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 22 (6.13%) SAP S/4HANA
2 11 (3.06%) SAP QM
3 10 (2.79%) SAP ERP
4 9 (2.51%) SAP PP
5 5 (1.39%) Q-Pulse
6 4 (1.11%) Oracle EBS
6 4 (1.11%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 3 (0.84%) Teamcenter
8 2 (0.56%) Salesforce CRM
8 2 (0.56%) SAP CO
8 2 (0.56%) SAP FI
8 2 (0.56%) SAP FI/CO
9 1 (0.28%) DELMIA
9 1 (0.28%) SAP IBP
9 1 (0.28%) SAP MDG
9 1 (0.28%) SAP MDG-F
9 1 (0.28%) SAP MDG-M
9 1 (0.28%) SAP MDG-S
9 1 (0.28%) SAP Oil and Gas
9 1 (0.28%) SAP PM
Cloud Services
1 18 (5.01%) Azure
2 7 (1.95%) AWS
2 7 (1.95%) Power Platform
3 4 (1.11%) Entra ID
3 4 (1.11%) GCP
3 4 (1.11%) Microsoft Purview
4 3 (0.84%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (0.84%) Snowflake
5 2 (0.56%) Azure Data Factory
5 2 (0.56%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 1 (0.28%) Amazon ECS
6 1 (0.28%) Azure Storage
6 1 (0.28%) Collibra
6 1 (0.28%) Dagster
6 1 (0.28%) Power Automate
6 1 (0.28%) PowerApps
6 1 (0.28%) Prefect
6 1 (0.28%) Pulumi
6 1 (0.28%) Serverless
6 1 (0.28%) Zapier
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.84%) Modbus
2 2 (0.56%) MQTT
3 1 (0.28%) Firewall
3 1 (0.28%) IP Telephony
3 1 (0.28%) RS-485
3 1 (0.28%) VLAN
3 1 (0.28%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (3.06%) Metadata
2 7 (1.95%) Power BI
3 4 (1.11%) Data Warehouse
3 4 (1.11%) Oracle Reports
4 3 (0.84%) Data Lake
4 3 (0.84%) NoSQL
5 2 (0.56%) Azure SQL Database
5 2 (0.56%) DynamoDB
5 2 (0.56%) MySQL
6 1 (0.28%) Amazon Athena
6 1 (0.28%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (0.28%) Big Data
6 1 (0.28%) Electronic Patient Records
6 1 (0.28%) MS Access
6 1 (0.28%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (0.28%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.28%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 1 (0.28%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (0.28%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 1 (0.28%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (0.28%) JIRA
General
1 214 (59.61%) Social Skills
2 122 (33.98%) Finance
3 102 (28.41%) Analytical Skills
4 71 (19.78%) Manufacturing
5 43 (11.98%) Influencing Skills
6 18 (5.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 16 (4.46%) Retail
8 15 (4.18%) Pharmaceutical
9 14 (3.90%) Banking
9 14 (3.90%) Law
10 13 (3.62%) Organisational Skills
11 11 (3.06%) Public Sector
12 8 (2.23%) Electronics
12 8 (2.23%) Legal
13 5 (1.39%) Presentation Skills
14 4 (1.11%) Financial Institution
14 4 (1.11%) Marketing
15 3 (0.84%) Environmental Health
16 2 (0.56%) Local Government
16 2 (0.56%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 116 (32.31%) Quality Manager
2 111 (30.92%) Senior
3 95 (26.46%) Senior Manager
4 84 (23.40%) Senior Quality Manager
5 83 (23.12%) QA Manager
6 72 (20.06%) Head of QA
7 64 (17.83%) Senior QA Manager
8 29 (8.08%) Audit Manager
9 21 (5.85%) Senior Audit Manager
10 20 (5.57%) Technologist
11 19 (5.29%) Analyst
11 19 (5.29%) Systems Manager
12 15 (4.18%) Project Manager
13 11 (3.06%) Architect
13 11 (3.06%) Data Analyst
14 10 (2.79%) Lead
14 10 (2.79%) Quality Engineer
14 10 (2.79%) Systems Engineer
15 8 (2.23%) Administrator
15 8 (2.23%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (2.51%) SAP Fiori
2 2 (0.56%) Oracle Fusion
3 1 (0.28%) .NET
3 1 (0.28%) ADO
3 1 (0.28%) CSS
3 1 (0.28%) HTML
3 1 (0.28%) Kafka
3 1 (0.28%) Middleware
3 1 (0.28%) NestJS
3 1 (0.28%) REST
3 1 (0.28%) SAP CAF
3 1 (0.28%) SvelteKit
3 1 (0.28%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 75 (20.89%) Analytical Mindset
2 8 (2.23%) Management Information System
3 7 (1.95%) Life Science
4 6 (1.67%) Driving Licence
5 4 (1.11%) Self-Motivation
6 3 (0.84%) Data Structures
6 3 (0.84%) IoT
6 3 (0.84%) Manufacturing Execution System
6 3 (0.84%) Virtual Team
7 2 (0.56%) Cloud Native
7 2 (0.56%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (0.56%) IVR
7 2 (0.56%) LIMS
7 2 (0.56%) Onboarding
7 2 (0.56%) Operational Technology
7 2 (0.56%) PDA
7 2 (0.56%) Product Ownership
7 2 (0.56%) Public Cloud
7 2 (0.56%) Robotics
7 2 (0.56%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 4 (1.11%) Unix
2 2 (0.56%) Windows
3 1 (0.28%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.28%) Debian
3 1 (0.28%) Linux
3 1 (0.28%) OpenWrt
Processes & Methodologies
1 188 (52.37%) Continuous Improvement
2 136 (37.88%) Customer Experience
3 108 (30.08%) Coaching
4 103 (28.69%) Analytics
5 97 (27.02%) QMS
6 93 (25.91%) Project Management
6 93 (25.91%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 79 (22.01%) Actionable Insight
8 78 (21.73%) PRINCE2
8 78 (21.73%) Root Cause Analysis
9 77 (21.45%) Change Management
10 74 (20.61%) Service Delivery
11 72 (20.06%) Anti-Money Laundering
12 67 (18.66%) Six Sigma
13 65 (18.11%) Due Diligence
14 64 (17.83%) Lean Six Sigma
14 64 (17.83%) Performance Improvement
15 39 (10.86%) Internal Audit
16 36 (10.03%) Benchmarking
17 31 (8.64%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 16 (4.46%) SQL
2 13 (3.62%) ABAP
3 4 (1.11%) Python
4 1 (0.28%) C#
4 1 (0.28%) JavaScript
4 1 (0.28%) Perl
4 1 (0.28%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 72 (20.06%) IRCA
2 64 (17.83%) Six Sigma Yellow Belt
3 32 (8.91%) Degree
4 22 (6.13%) ACCA
5 14 (3.90%) BPSS Clearance
6 12 (3.34%) Security Cleared
7 8 (2.23%) HNC
7 8 (2.23%) HND
8 7 (1.95%) Master's Degree
9 4 (1.11%) Computer Science Degree
9 4 (1.11%) PMI Certification
9 4 (1.11%) SAP Certification
9 4 (1.11%) SC Cleared
10 3 (0.84%) DBS Check
10 3 (0.84%) PMP
10 3 (0.84%) Six Sigma Green Belt
11 2 (0.56%) AWS Certification
11 2 (0.56%) City & Guilds
11 2 (0.56%) CRISC
11 2 (0.56%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 200 (55.71%) QA
2 87 (24.23%) GDPR
2 87 (24.23%) ISO 9001
3 33 (9.19%) Data Quality
4 13 (3.62%) GMP
4 13 (3.62%) IFRS
5 7 (1.95%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 6 (1.67%) ISO 13485
7 5 (1.39%) Accessibility
7 5 (1.39%) COSHH
8 4 (1.11%) GxP
8 4 (1.11%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 3 (0.84%) 21 CFR Part 11
9 3 (0.84%) Cyber Essentials
9 3 (0.84%) HIPAA
10 2 (0.56%) Automotive SPICE
10 2 (0.56%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 2 (0.56%) GAMP
10 2 (0.56%) ISO 26262
11 1 (0.28%) Solvency II
System Software
1 4 (1.11%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.28%) Docker
2 1 (0.28%) iptables
Systems Management
1 4 (1.11%) Terraform
2 1 (0.28%) Ansible
2 1 (0.28%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (0.28%) MOM
Vendors
1 115 (32.03%) Microsoft
2 42 (11.70%) SAP
3 6 (1.67%) Oracle
4 5 (1.39%) Google
5 4 (1.11%) Salesforce
5 4 (1.11%) Workday
6 3 (0.84%) Informatica
7 2 (0.56%) Databricks
7 2 (0.56%) IFS
7 2 (0.56%) ServiceNow
8 1 (0.28%) ANSYS
8 1 (0.28%) Cisco
8 1 (0.28%) Fortinet
8 1 (0.28%) Genesys
8 1 (0.28%) MikroTik
8 1 (0.28%) OneTrust
8 1 (0.28%) PTC
8 1 (0.28%) Siemens
8 1 (0.28%) TOWER Software