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 19 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 405 352 420
Rank change year-on-year -53 +68 +34
Permanent jobs citing Quality Management 344 328 531
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.40% 0.79% 0.56%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.53% 0.85% 0.65%
Number of salaries quoted 94 128 288
10th Percentile £29,500 £27,500 £26,750
25th Percentile £35,750 £36,250 £36,844
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £59,000 £49,000
Median % change year-on-year -15.25% +20.41% -10.91%
75th Percentile £86,563 £85,625 £68,500
90th Percentile £94,925 £101,125 £87,950
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 65,473 38,805 81,335
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 75.33% 92.93% 85.93%
Number of salaries quoted 40,444 22,598 59,573
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -10.57%
75th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £102,500 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,600 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.94% +5.20% -8.90%

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 19 April 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 19 April 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 -66 278 £50,000 -9.09% 104
UK excluding London -14 248 £45,000 -18.18% 105
London -43 75 £81,500 +12.41% 20
North of England -76 75 £50,000 +33.33% 23
Midlands +12 63 £50,000 +25.00% 21
Work from Home -1 60 £50,000 -23.08% 36
North West +1 38 £54,000 -1.45% 15
East Midlands -26 33 £29,000 -27.50% 7
West Midlands -3 30 £50,000 -31.03% 14
South West -38 29 £85,000 +82.80% 6
Scotland -14 28 £37,500 -37.50% 13
Yorkshire -73 25 £27,800 -25.87% 3
South East -75 22 £36,500 -39.17% 30
Northern Ireland - 17 - - 2
North East -49 12 - - 6
Wales -24 8 £25,400 -67.23% 2
East of England -34 6 £40,000 -60.00% 14

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 19 (5.52%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.29%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (0.29%) Confluence
Applications
1 48 (13.95%) Microsoft Excel
2 35 (10.17%) Microsoft Office
3 21 (6.10%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (1.16%) Fusion 360
5 3 (0.87%) MS Visio
6 2 (0.58%) Microsoft Project
7 1 (0.29%) Abaqus
7 1 (0.29%) AutoCAD
7 1 (0.29%) Siemens NX
7 1 (0.29%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 23 (6.69%) SAP S/4HANA
2 15 (4.36%) SAP QM
3 14 (4.07%) SAP ERP
4 6 (1.74%) SAP PP
5 5 (1.45%) Q-Pulse
6 4 (1.16%) Oracle EBS
6 4 (1.16%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 3 (0.87%) Teamcenter
8 2 (0.58%) Salesforce CRM
8 2 (0.58%) SAP CO
8 2 (0.58%) SAP FI
8 2 (0.58%) SAP FI/CO
9 1 (0.29%) DELMIA
9 1 (0.29%) SAP IBP
9 1 (0.29%) SAP MDG
9 1 (0.29%) SAP MDG-F
9 1 (0.29%) SAP MDG-M
9 1 (0.29%) SAP MDG-S
9 1 (0.29%) SAP Oil and Gas
9 1 (0.29%) SAP PM
Cloud Services
1 19 (5.52%) Azure
2 7 (2.03%) AWS
3 6 (1.74%) Power Platform
4 4 (1.16%) Azure DevOps
4 4 (1.16%) Entra ID
4 4 (1.16%) GCP
4 4 (1.16%) Microsoft Purview
5 3 (0.87%) Snowflake
6 2 (0.58%) Azure Data Factory
6 2 (0.58%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 2 (0.58%) Power Automate
6 2 (0.58%) Zapier
7 1 (0.29%) Amazon ECS
7 1 (0.29%) Amazon Kinesis
7 1 (0.29%) Dynamics 365
7 1 (0.29%) Microsoft 365
7 1 (0.29%) PowerApps
7 1 (0.29%) SaaS
7 1 (0.29%) Serverless
7 1 (0.29%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.87%) Modbus
2 2 (0.58%) MQTT
3 1 (0.29%) Firewall
3 1 (0.29%) IP Telephony
3 1 (0.29%) RS-485
3 1 (0.29%) VLAN
3 1 (0.29%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (3.20%) Metadata
2 6 (1.74%) Power BI
3 4 (1.16%) Oracle Reports
4 3 (0.87%) Data Lake
4 3 (0.87%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (0.87%) NoSQL
5 2 (0.58%) Azure SQL Database
5 2 (0.58%) DynamoDB
5 2 (0.58%) MySQL
6 1 (0.29%) Amazon Athena
6 1 (0.29%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (0.29%) Big Data
6 1 (0.29%) Electronic Patient Records
6 1 (0.29%) MS Access
6 1 (0.29%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (0.29%) Power Query
6 1 (0.29%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.29%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (0.29%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 1 (0.29%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 2 (0.58%) JIRA
2 1 (0.29%) Jenkins
2 1 (0.29%) Selenium
General
1 178 (51.74%) Social Skills
2 128 (37.21%) Finance
3 110 (31.98%) Analytical Skills
4 84 (24.42%) Manufacturing
5 48 (13.95%) Influencing Skills
6 27 (7.85%) Organisational Skills
7 21 (6.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 18 (5.23%) Banking
9 15 (4.36%) Retail
10 14 (4.07%) Pharmaceutical
11 12 (3.49%) Law
12 11 (3.20%) Public Sector
13 9 (2.62%) Electronics
13 9 (2.62%) Legal
14 8 (2.33%) Aerospace
15 6 (1.74%) Financial Institution
16 4 (1.16%) Environmental Health
16 4 (1.16%) Marketing
16 4 (1.16%) Presentation Skills
17 3 (0.87%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 72 (20.93%) Head of QA
2 67 (19.48%) Quality Manager
3 60 (17.44%) Senior
4 42 (12.21%) Senior Manager
5 38 (11.05%) QA Manager
6 30 (8.72%) Senior Quality Manager
7 26 (7.56%) Audit Manager
8 23 (6.69%) Technologist
9 20 (5.81%) Quality Engineer
10 18 (5.23%) Systems Manager
11 16 (4.65%) Analyst
11 16 (4.65%) Project Manager
11 16 (4.65%) Senior Audit Manager
11 16 (4.65%) Senior QA Manager
12 15 (4.36%) Administrator
12 15 (4.36%) Systems Engineer
13 12 (3.49%) Data Analyst
14 11 (3.20%) Architect
15 9 (2.62%) Senior Quality Engineer
15 9 (2.62%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (3.78%) SAP Fiori
2 2 (0.58%) Oracle Fusion
3 1 (0.29%) .NET
3 1 (0.29%) ADO
3 1 (0.29%) CSS
3 1 (0.29%) HTML
3 1 (0.29%) Kafka
3 1 (0.29%) Middleware
3 1 (0.29%) NestJS
3 1 (0.29%) Playwright
3 1 (0.29%) pytest
3 1 (0.29%) REST
3 1 (0.29%) SAP CAF
3 1 (0.29%) SvelteKit
3 1 (0.29%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 77 (22.38%) Analytical Mindset
2 7 (2.03%) Life Science
2 7 (2.03%) Management Information System
3 6 (1.74%) Driving Licence
4 5 (1.45%) Product Ownership
4 5 (1.45%) Self-Motivation
5 3 (0.87%) Data Structures
5 3 (0.87%) IoT
5 3 (0.87%) Manufacturing Execution System
5 3 (0.87%) Onboarding
5 3 (0.87%) Virtual Team
6 2 (0.58%) Cloud Native
6 2 (0.58%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (0.58%) IVR
6 2 (0.58%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (0.58%) Operational Technology
6 2 (0.58%) PMI
6 2 (0.58%) Public Cloud
6 2 (0.58%) Robotics
6 2 (0.58%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 4 (1.16%) Unix
2 2 (0.58%) Windows
3 1 (0.29%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.29%) Debian
3 1 (0.29%) Linux
3 1 (0.29%) OpenWrt
Processes & Methodologies
1 151 (43.90%) Continuous Improvement
2 117 (34.01%) QMS
3 98 (28.49%) Analytics
4 94 (27.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 88 (25.58%) Customer Experience
6 85 (24.71%) Service Delivery
7 81 (23.55%) PRINCE2
8 80 (23.26%) Actionable Insight
8 80 (23.26%) Root Cause Analysis
9 76 (22.09%) Change Management
10 72 (20.93%) Anti-Money Laundering
11 60 (17.44%) Project Management
12 58 (16.86%) Coaching
13 41 (11.92%) Internal Audit
14 36 (10.47%) Benchmarking
15 34 (9.88%) Problem-Solving
16 32 (9.30%) Project Delivery
17 25 (7.27%) Risk Management
18 24 (6.98%) Agile
18 24 (6.98%) ERP
Programming Languages
1 16 (4.65%) SQL
2 9 (2.62%) ABAP
3 4 (1.16%) Python
4 1 (0.29%) C#
4 1 (0.29%) JavaScript
4 1 (0.29%) Perl
4 1 (0.29%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 72 (20.93%) IRCA
2 27 (7.85%) Degree
3 20 (5.81%) ACCA
4 16 (4.65%) Six Sigma Yellow Belt
5 15 (4.36%) BPSS Clearance
6 14 (4.07%) DBS Check
7 8 (2.33%) Security Cleared
8 7 (2.03%) Master's Degree
9 5 (1.45%) HNC
9 5 (1.45%) HND
9 5 (1.45%) PMI Certification
9 5 (1.45%) SC Cleared
10 4 (1.16%) Computer Science Degree
10 4 (1.16%) PMP
10 4 (1.16%) Six Sigma Green Belt
11 3 (0.87%) Chartered Engineer
11 3 (0.87%) Postgraduate
12 2 (0.58%) CISM
12 2 (0.58%) CISSP
12 2 (0.58%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 166 (48.26%) QA
2 102 (29.65%) ISO 9001
3 87 (25.29%) GDPR
4 33 (9.59%) Data Quality
5 14 (4.07%) GMP
6 10 (2.91%) IFRS
7 9 (2.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 6 (1.74%) ISO 13485
9 5 (1.45%) Automotive SPICE
9 5 (1.45%) COSHH
9 5 (1.45%) ISO 26262
10 4 (1.16%) Accessibility
10 4 (1.16%) GxP
10 4 (1.16%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 3 (0.87%) 21 CFR Part 11
11 3 (0.87%) Cyber Essentials
11 3 (0.87%) HIPAA
12 2 (0.58%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 2 (0.58%) GAMP
12 2 (0.58%) Solvency II
System Software
1 4 (1.16%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.29%) Docker
2 1 (0.29%) iptables
Systems Management
1 4 (1.16%) Terraform
2 1 (0.29%) Ansible
2 1 (0.29%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (0.29%) MOM
Vendors
1 71 (20.64%) Microsoft
2 40 (11.63%) SAP
3 6 (1.74%) Oracle
4 4 (1.16%) Salesforce
4 4 (1.16%) ServiceNow
4 4 (1.16%) Workday
5 3 (0.87%) Google
5 3 (0.87%) Informatica
6 2 (0.58%) Databricks
6 2 (0.58%) IFS
7 1 (0.29%) ANSYS
7 1 (0.29%) Cisco
7 1 (0.29%) Fortinet
7 1 (0.29%) Genesys
7 1 (0.29%) HubSpot
7 1 (0.29%) MikroTik
7 1 (0.29%) OneTrust
7 1 (0.29%) PTC
7 1 (0.29%) Siemens
7 1 (0.29%) TOWER Software