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 16 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 392 363 452
Rank change year-on-year -29 +89 -4
Permanent jobs citing Quality Management 331 322 441
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.44% 0.75% 0.52%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.57% 0.80% 0.60%
Number of salaries quoted 64 116 266
10th Percentile £28,500 £28,500 £26,625
25th Percentile £39,375 £36,250 £35,313
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £54,897 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +0.19% +15.57% -13.64%
75th Percentile £87,500 £80,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £99,250 £94,375 £80,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £48,500 £42,500
% change year-on-year +3.09% +14.12% -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 58,145 40,321 73,905
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 77.92% 93.51% 87.23%
Number of salaries quoted 35,200 22,427 56,120
10th Percentile £29,750 £31,925 £29,000
25th Percentile £39,911 £44,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -11.78%
75th Percentile £76,299 £80,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £102,500 £93,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -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 16 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 16 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 -2 237 £50,000 +3.09% 88
England -72 224 £57,750 +18.46% 108
Scotland +44 76 £37,500 -34.78% 4
London -34 75 £81,500 +19.50% 28
North of England -59 59 £50,000 +33.33% 21
Midlands +18 49 £50,000 +25.00% 17
Work from Home +13 48 £71,000 +6.98% 26
North West -2 31 £50,000 -8.75% 14
East Midlands -13 29 £29,000 -27.50% 4
West Midlands +8 20 £50,000 -31.03% 13
Yorkshire -52 20 £15,600 -58.40% 3
Northern Ireland - 16 - -
South East -33 14 £58,750 +17.25% 28
South West -46 14 £87,500 +88.17% 9
North East -45 8 - - 5
Wales -17 6 £25,400 -67.23%
East of England -22 3 £40,000 -11.11% 10

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 (20.54%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.30%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (0.30%) Confluence
Applications
1 91 (27.49%) Microsoft Excel
2 87 (26.28%) Microsoft Office
3 69 (20.85%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (1.21%) Fusion 360
5 3 (0.91%) MS Visio
6 2 (0.60%) Microsoft Project
7 1 (0.30%) Abaqus
7 1 (0.30%) AutoCAD
7 1 (0.30%) Siemens NX
7 1 (0.30%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 22 (6.65%) SAP S/4HANA
2 10 (3.02%) SAP ERP
3 9 (2.72%) SAP PP
3 9 (2.72%) SAP QM
4 5 (1.51%) Q-Pulse
5 4 (1.21%) Oracle EBS
5 4 (1.21%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 3 (0.91%) SAP CO
6 3 (0.91%) SAP FI
6 3 (0.91%) SAP FI/CO
6 3 (0.91%) Teamcenter
7 2 (0.60%) Salesforce CRM
8 1 (0.30%) DELMIA
8 1 (0.30%) SAP IBP
8 1 (0.30%) SAP Oil and Gas
8 1 (0.30%) SAP PM
Cloud Services
1 16 (4.83%) Azure
2 8 (2.42%) Power Platform
3 7 (2.11%) AWS
4 4 (1.21%) Entra ID
4 4 (1.21%) GCP
5 3 (0.91%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (0.91%) Microsoft Purview
5 3 (0.91%) Snowflake
6 2 (0.60%) Azure Data Factory
6 2 (0.60%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 1 (0.30%) Amazon ECS
7 1 (0.30%) Azure Storage
7 1 (0.30%) Dagster
7 1 (0.30%) Dynamics 365
7 1 (0.30%) Power Automate
7 1 (0.30%) PowerApps
7 1 (0.30%) Prefect
7 1 (0.30%) Pulumi
7 1 (0.30%) Serverless
7 1 (0.30%) Zapier
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.91%) Modbus
2 2 (0.60%) MQTT
3 1 (0.30%) Firewall
3 1 (0.30%) IP Telephony
3 1 (0.30%) RS-485
3 1 (0.30%) VLAN
3 1 (0.30%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (2.72%) Metadata
2 8 (2.42%) Power BI
3 5 (1.51%) Data Warehouse
4 4 (1.21%) Oracle Reports
5 3 (0.91%) Data Lake
5 3 (0.91%) NoSQL
6 2 (0.60%) Azure SQL Database
6 2 (0.60%) DynamoDB
6 2 (0.60%) MySQL
6 2 (0.60%) Tableau
7 1 (0.30%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (0.30%) Big Data
7 1 (0.30%) Electronic Patient Records
7 1 (0.30%) MS Access
7 1 (0.30%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (0.30%) QlikView
7 1 (0.30%) Relational Database
7 1 (0.30%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 1 (0.30%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 1 (0.30%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 1 (0.30%) JIRA
General
1 192 (58.01%) Social Skills
2 101 (30.51%) Finance
3 76 (22.96%) Analytical Skills
4 70 (21.15%) Manufacturing
5 40 (12.08%) Influencing Skills
6 18 (5.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 16 (4.83%) Law
8 15 (4.53%) Pharmaceutical
8 15 (4.53%) Retail
9 14 (4.23%) Banking
10 13 (3.93%) Organisational Skills
11 11 (3.32%) Public Sector
12 9 (2.72%) Legal
13 8 (2.42%) Electronics
14 6 (1.81%) Marketing
15 5 (1.51%) Presentation Skills
16 4 (1.21%) Financial Institution
17 2 (0.60%) Aerospace
17 2 (0.60%) Back Office
17 2 (0.60%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 117 (35.35%) Quality Manager
2 116 (35.05%) Senior
3 97 (29.31%) Senior Manager
4 86 (25.98%) Senior Quality Manager
5 81 (24.47%) QA Manager
6 64 (19.34%) Senior QA Manager
7 48 (14.50%) Head of QA
8 31 (9.37%) Audit Manager
9 23 (6.95%) Senior Audit Manager
10 21 (6.34%) Analyst
11 19 (5.74%) Systems Manager
11 19 (5.74%) Technologist
12 14 (4.23%) Project Manager
13 11 (3.32%) Data Analyst
14 10 (3.02%) Senior Analyst
15 9 (2.72%) Architect
15 9 (2.72%) Quality Engineer
15 9 (2.72%) SAP Analyst
15 9 (2.72%) Systems Engineer
16 8 (2.42%) Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (2.42%) SAP Fiori
2 2 (0.60%) Oracle Fusion
3 1 (0.30%) .NET
3 1 (0.30%) ADO
3 1 (0.30%) CSS
3 1 (0.30%) HTML
3 1 (0.30%) Kafka
3 1 (0.30%) Middleware
3 1 (0.30%) NestJS
3 1 (0.30%) REST
3 1 (0.30%) SAP CAF
3 1 (0.30%) SvelteKit
3 1 (0.30%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 50 (15.11%) Analytical Mindset
2 7 (2.11%) Life Science
2 7 (2.11%) Management Information System
3 6 (1.81%) Driving Licence
4 4 (1.21%) Self-Motivation
5 3 (0.91%) Data Structures
5 3 (0.91%) IoT
5 3 (0.91%) Manufacturing Execution System
5 3 (0.91%) Virtual Team
6 2 (0.60%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (0.60%) IVR
6 2 (0.60%) LIMS
6 2 (0.60%) Onboarding
6 2 (0.60%) Operational Technology
6 2 (0.60%) PDA
6 2 (0.60%) PMI
6 2 (0.60%) Product Ownership
6 2 (0.60%) Public Cloud
6 2 (0.60%) Robotics
6 2 (0.60%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 4 (1.21%) Unix
2 2 (0.60%) Windows
3 1 (0.30%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.30%) Debian
3 1 (0.30%) Linux
3 1 (0.30%) OpenWrt
Processes & Methodologies
1 164 (49.55%) Continuous Improvement
2 112 (33.84%) Customer Experience
3 109 (32.93%) Coaching
4 93 (28.10%) QMS
5 92 (27.79%) Project Management
6 82 (24.77%) Analytics
7 68 (20.54%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 67 (20.24%) Six Sigma
9 65 (19.64%) Due Diligence
10 64 (19.34%) Lean Six Sigma
10 64 (19.34%) Performance Improvement
11 55 (16.62%) Actionable Insight
12 54 (16.31%) Root Cause Analysis
13 53 (16.01%) Change Management
14 52 (15.71%) PRINCE2
15 50 (15.11%) Service Delivery
16 48 (14.50%) Anti-Money Laundering
17 39 (11.78%) Internal Audit
18 37 (11.18%) Benchmarking
19 34 (10.27%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 16 (4.83%) SQL
2 12 (3.63%) ABAP
3 4 (1.21%) Python
4 1 (0.30%) C#
4 1 (0.30%) JavaScript
4 1 (0.30%) Perl
4 1 (0.30%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 64 (19.34%) Six Sigma Yellow Belt
2 48 (14.50%) IRCA
3 30 (9.06%) Degree
4 24 (7.25%) ACCA
5 15 (4.53%) Security Cleared
6 14 (4.23%) BPSS Clearance
7 8 (2.42%) HNC
7 8 (2.42%) HND
8 6 (1.81%) Master's Degree
8 6 (1.81%) SC Cleared
9 4 (1.21%) Computer Science Degree
9 4 (1.21%) SAP Certification
10 3 (0.91%) DBS Check
10 3 (0.91%) PMI Certification
10 3 (0.91%) Six Sigma Green Belt
11 2 (0.60%) AWS Certification
11 2 (0.60%) CISM
11 2 (0.60%) City & Guilds
11 2 (0.60%) CRISC
11 2 (0.60%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 173 (52.27%) QA
2 63 (19.03%) GDPR
3 62 (18.73%) ISO 9001
4 31 (9.37%) Data Quality
5 15 (4.53%) IFRS
6 12 (3.63%) GMP
7 7 (2.11%) ISO 13485
8 6 (1.81%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 5 (1.51%) Accessibility
9 5 (1.51%) COSHH
10 4 (1.21%) GxP
10 4 (1.21%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 3 (0.91%) 21 CFR Part 11
11 3 (0.91%) Cyber Essentials
11 3 (0.91%) HIPAA
12 2 (0.60%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 2 (0.60%) GAMP
13 1 (0.30%) NCSC
13 1 (0.30%) NIST
13 1 (0.30%) SLA
System Software
1 4 (1.21%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.30%) Docker
2 1 (0.30%) iptables
Systems Management
1 4 (1.21%) Terraform
2 1 (0.30%) Ansible
2 1 (0.30%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (0.30%) MOM
Vendors
1 114 (34.44%) Microsoft
2 42 (12.69%) SAP
3 6 (1.81%) Oracle
4 5 (1.51%) Google
4 5 (1.51%) Salesforce
5 4 (1.21%) Workday
6 2 (0.60%) IFS
6 2 (0.60%) Informatica
6 2 (0.60%) ServiceNow
7 1 (0.30%) ANSYS
7 1 (0.30%) Cisco
7 1 (0.30%) Databricks
7 1 (0.30%) Fortinet
7 1 (0.30%) Genesys
7 1 (0.30%) MikroTik
7 1 (0.30%) OneTrust
7 1 (0.30%) PTC
7 1 (0.30%) Siemens
7 1 (0.30%) TOWER Software