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 1 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 407 418 432
Rank change year-on-year +11 +14 +38
Permanent jobs citing Quality Management 395 283 580
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.41% 0.61% 0.55%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.56% 0.66% 0.67%
Number of salaries quoted 149 111 298
10th Percentile £29,500 £27,500 £26,675
25th Percentile £35,201 £36,250 £36,781
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -18.18% +10.00% -16.67%
75th Percentile £60,000 £80,125 £70,000
90th Percentile £87,750 £100,000 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £55,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year -18.18% +29.41% -15.00%

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 70,838 42,616 86,708
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.43% 91.47% 82.17%
Number of salaries quoted 48,971 23,341 61,278
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,822 £29,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -9.09%
75th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £53,171 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +6.34% - -9.09%

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 1 July 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 1 July 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
England +18 342 £45,000 -16.28% 146
UK excluding London +24 299 £45,000 -18.18% 107
North of England -51 95 £55,000 +28.65% 27
Midlands +34 85 £45,000 +12.50% 30
Work from Home +24 81 £50,000 -20.00% 40
London -40 70 £50,000 - 46
North West +46 58 £60,000 -9.59% 12
West Midlands +13 53 £50,000 +25.00% 23
South East -27 41 £36,500 -41.60% 26
South West -34 33 £41,250 -11.29% 13
East Midlands +5 32 £29,000 -30.95% 7
Yorkshire -105 21 £53,250 +42.00% 11
North East -37 16 £34,500 -28.13% 5
Scotland +29 15 £45,000 -40.00% 2
Northern Ireland - 12 - - 2
East of England -8 11 £40,000 -60.00% 9
Wales -45 7 £25,400 -21.85% 1

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 12 (3.04%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.25%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (0.25%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 50 (12.66%) Microsoft Excel
2 25 (6.33%) Microsoft Office
3 9 (2.28%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.51%) Microsoft Project
4 2 (0.51%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 26 (6.58%) SAP QM
2 22 (5.57%) SAP S/4HANA
3 19 (4.81%) SAP ERP
4 8 (2.03%) Q-Pulse
4 8 (2.03%) SAP PP
5 4 (1.01%) Dynamics CRM
6 3 (0.76%) Sage 200
7 2 (0.51%) SAP MDG
7 2 (0.51%) SAP PM
8 1 (0.25%) FastStats
8 1 (0.25%) Primavera
8 1 (0.25%) SAP EHS
8 1 (0.25%) SAP MDG-F
8 1 (0.25%) SAP MDG-M
8 1 (0.25%) SAP MDG-S
8 1 (0.25%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 23 (5.82%) Power Platform
2 21 (5.32%) Azure
3 13 (3.29%) Microsoft Purview
4 12 (3.04%) AWS
5 11 (2.78%) GCP
6 7 (1.77%) SaaS
7 6 (1.52%) Microsoft 365
8 5 (1.27%) Azure DevOps
8 5 (1.27%) Power Automate
9 3 (0.76%) Copilot Studio
9 3 (0.76%) Dynamics 365
9 3 (0.76%) Microsoft Copilot
10 2 (0.51%) Azure Data Factory
10 2 (0.51%) Zapier
11 1 (0.25%) Amazon Kinesis
11 1 (0.25%) Amazon S3
11 1 (0.25%) AWS CloudFormation
11 1 (0.25%) GitHub
11 1 (0.25%) GitHub Copilot
11 1 (0.25%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.01%) Network Security
2 2 (0.51%) Internet
3 1 (0.25%) IP Telephony
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (5.82%) Power BI
2 16 (4.05%) Metadata
3 7 (1.77%) Data Warehouse
4 5 (1.27%) Tableau
5 3 (0.76%) Relational Database
6 2 (0.51%) Azure SQL Database
6 2 (0.51%) Data Lake
6 2 (0.51%) MySQL
6 2 (0.51%) NoSQL
6 2 (0.51%) Power Query
7 1 (0.25%) Amazon Athena
7 1 (0.25%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (0.25%) Big Data
7 1 (0.25%) Delta Lake
7 1 (0.25%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (0.25%) Spark SQL
7 1 (0.25%) SQL Server
7 1 (0.25%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 1 (0.25%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 7 (1.77%) JIRA
2 2 (0.51%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.25%) Claude Code
3 1 (0.25%) Selenium
General
1 184 (46.58%) Social Skills
2 146 (36.96%) Finance
3 127 (32.15%) Analytical Skills
4 105 (26.58%) Manufacturing
5 44 (11.14%) Influencing Skills
6 30 (7.59%) Pharmaceutical
7 29 (7.34%) Organisational Skills
8 23 (5.82%) Legal
9 22 (5.57%) Retail
10 20 (5.06%) Aerospace
11 17 (4.30%) Banking
11 17 (4.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 9 (2.28%) Electronics
13 8 (2.03%) Public Sector
14 7 (1.77%) Advertising
14 7 (1.77%) Law
14 7 (1.77%) Presentation Skills
15 6 (1.52%) Financial Institution
15 6 (1.52%) Local Government
16 5 (1.27%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 72 (18.23%) Head of QA
2 36 (9.11%) Quality Engineer
2 36 (9.11%) Technologist
3 32 (8.10%) Quality Manager
4 30 (7.59%) Senior
5 25 (6.33%) Systems Engineer
6 21 (5.32%) Lead
7 18 (4.56%) Administrator
7 18 (4.56%) Systems Manager
8 15 (3.80%) Analyst
9 12 (3.04%) QA Manager
9 12 (3.04%) QA Officer
10 11 (2.78%) Data Manager
10 11 (2.78%) Project Manager
10 11 (2.78%) Senior Quality Engineer
10 11 (2.78%) Senior Systems Engineer
11 10 (2.53%) Audit Manager
12 9 (2.28%) Support Engineer
12 9 (2.28%) Technical Support
12 9 (2.28%) Technical Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (4.81%) SAP Fiori
2 7 (1.77%) LangChain
2 7 (1.77%) LangGraph
2 7 (1.77%) PyTorch
2 7 (1.77%) scikit-learn
2 7 (1.77%) TensorFlow
3 3 (0.76%) Java RMI
4 2 (0.51%) Kafka
4 2 (0.51%) Web Services
5 1 (0.25%) .NET
5 1 (0.25%) ADO
5 1 (0.25%) IDoc
5 1 (0.25%) Playwright
5 1 (0.25%) PySpark
5 1 (0.25%) pytest
5 1 (0.25%) REST
5 1 (0.25%) SAP ALE
Miscellaneous
1 79 (20.00%) Analytical Mindset
2 16 (4.05%) Product Ownership
3 11 (2.78%) Management Information System
4 9 (2.28%) Cloud Native
5 6 (1.52%) Cyberattack
6 5 (1.27%) Driving Licence
6 5 (1.27%) Self-Motivation
7 4 (1.01%) Blog
7 4 (1.01%) FMCG
7 4 (1.01%) Legacy Systems
8 3 (0.76%) Data Protection Act
9 2 (0.51%) Biopharmaceutical
9 2 (0.51%) Data Structures
9 2 (0.51%) Greenfield Project
9 2 (0.51%) Life Science
9 2 (0.51%) Onboarding
9 2 (0.51%) PMI
9 2 (0.51%) Robotics
10 1 (0.25%) IoT
10 1 (0.25%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.25%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 183 (46.33%) Continuous Improvement
2 135 (34.18%) QMS
3 94 (23.80%) Analytics
4 93 (23.54%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 91 (23.04%) Root Cause Analysis
6 89 (22.53%) Actionable Insight
7 87 (22.03%) Service Delivery
8 86 (21.77%) Change Management
9 81 (20.51%) PRINCE2
10 76 (19.24%) Customer Experience
11 72 (18.23%) Anti-Money Laundering
12 52 (13.16%) Problem-Solving
13 50 (12.66%) Roadmaps
14 46 (11.65%) AI
15 45 (11.39%) Decision-Making
16 43 (10.89%) Internal Audit
17 40 (10.13%) ERP
18 39 (9.87%) Coaching
19 34 (8.61%) Project Management
20 33 (8.35%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 13 (3.29%) Python
2 12 (3.04%) SQL
3 9 (2.28%) ABAP
4 1 (0.25%) C#
4 1 (0.25%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 1 (0.25%) JavaScript
4 1 (0.25%) Scala
4 1 (0.25%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 72 (18.23%) IRCA
2 56 (14.18%) Degree
3 18 (4.56%) BPSS Clearance
3 18 (4.56%) DBS Check
4 9 (2.28%) Postgraduate
5 8 (2.03%) ACCA
6 7 (1.77%) Security Cleared
7 6 (1.52%) CISSP
7 6 (1.52%) SC Cleared
8 5 (1.27%) Computer Science Degree
8 5 (1.27%) PMI Certification
9 4 (1.01%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 4 (1.01%) CCSP
9 4 (1.01%) Chartered Engineer
9 4 (1.01%) Cisco Certification
9 4 (1.01%) CRISC
9 4 (1.01%) Master's Degree
9 4 (1.01%) Six Sigma Green Belt
10 3 (0.76%) CCA
10 3 (0.76%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 186 (47.09%) QA
2 114 (28.86%) ISO 9001
3 87 (22.03%) GDPR
4 49 (12.41%) Data Quality
5 24 (6.08%) Accessibility
6 19 (4.81%) GMP
7 13 (3.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 6 (1.52%) 21 CFR Part 11
9 5 (1.27%) Automotive SPICE
9 5 (1.27%) COSHH
9 5 (1.27%) GxP
9 5 (1.27%) ISO 26262
9 5 (1.27%) NIST
10 4 (1.01%) IFRS
10 4 (1.01%) PMO
11 3 (0.76%) GLP
11 3 (0.76%) Good Clinical Practice
11 3 (0.76%) HIPAA
12 2 (0.51%) Cyber Essentials
12 2 (0.51%) GAMP
System Software
1 1 (0.25%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (1.01%) Terraform
2 2 (0.51%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 68 (17.22%) Microsoft
2 48 (12.15%) SAP
3 8 (2.03%) Google
4 7 (1.77%) ServiceNow
5 5 (1.27%) Salesforce
6 3 (0.76%) Databricks
6 3 (0.76%) Sage
7 1 (0.25%) Genesys
7 1 (0.25%) HubSpot
7 1 (0.25%) Informatica
7 1 (0.25%) OpenAI
7 1 (0.25%) TOWER Software