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

6 months to
7 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 404 416 422
Rank change year-on-year +12 +6 +56
Permanent jobs citing Quality Management 402 289 568
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.41% 0.60% 0.55%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.56% 0.66% 0.67%
Number of salaries quoted 155 111 289
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,500 £26,450
25th Percentile £35,475 £36,250 £36,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -18.18% +10.00% -17.36%
75th Percentile £60,000 £80,125 £71,250
90th Percentile £88,250 £100,000 £87,800
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £55,000 £43,250
% change year-on-year -18.18% +27.17% -15.49%

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 71,870 43,651 85,354
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.67% 90.86% 82.18%
Number of salaries quoted 49,673 24,244 60,243
10th Percentile £30,250 £28,822 £29,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -8.71%
75th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £54,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +8.00% - -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 7 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 7 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 +15 350 £45,497 -15.36% 124
UK excluding London +24 301 £45,000 -18.18% 92
North of England -54 95 £55,000 +28.65% 22
Midlands +47 87 £45,000 +12.50% 29
Work from Home +6 81 £50,000 -20.00% 42
London -23 75 £53,750 +7.50% 39
North West +47 58 £60,000 -9.59% 10
West Midlands +22 56 £50,000 +25.00% 21
South East -25 41 £36,500 -41.60% 16
South West -40 33 £41,250 -11.29% 11
East Midlands +5 31 £29,000 -30.95% 7
Yorkshire -98 21 £53,250 +42.00% 9
North East -33 16 £34,500 -28.13% 4
Scotland +16 15 £45,000 -40.00% 3
East of England -11 12 £40,000 -60.00% 10
Northern Ireland - 12 - - 2
Wales -47 6 - - 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 (2.99%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.25%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (0.25%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 53 (13.18%) Microsoft Excel
2 26 (6.47%) Microsoft Office
3 11 (2.74%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.75%) Microsoft Project
4 3 (0.75%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 26 (6.47%) SAP QM
2 22 (5.47%) SAP S/4HANA
3 19 (4.73%) SAP ERP
4 8 (1.99%) Q-Pulse
4 8 (1.99%) SAP PP
5 4 (1.00%) Dynamics CRM
6 3 (0.75%) Sage 200
7 2 (0.50%) Primavera
7 2 (0.50%) SAP EHS
7 2 (0.50%) SAP MDG
7 2 (0.50%) SAP PM
8 1 (0.25%) FastStats
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 26 (6.47%) Power Platform
2 23 (5.72%) Azure
3 14 (3.48%) Microsoft Purview
4 13 (3.23%) AWS
5 11 (2.74%) GCP
6 7 (1.74%) SaaS
7 6 (1.49%) Microsoft 365
8 5 (1.24%) Azure DevOps
8 5 (1.24%) Power Automate
9 3 (0.75%) Copilot Studio
9 3 (0.75%) Dynamics 365
9 3 (0.75%) Microsoft Copilot
10 2 (0.50%) Anthropic Claude
10 2 (0.50%) AWS CloudFormation
10 2 (0.50%) Azure Data Factory
10 2 (0.50%) Collibra
10 2 (0.50%) GitHub
10 2 (0.50%) GitHub Copilot
10 2 (0.50%) Smartsheet
10 2 (0.50%) Zapier
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.00%) Network Security
2 2 (0.50%) Internet
3 1 (0.25%) IP Telephony
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (6.47%) Power BI
2 17 (4.23%) Metadata
3 8 (1.99%) Data Warehouse
4 5 (1.24%) Tableau
5 3 (0.75%) Power Query
5 3 (0.75%) Relational Database
6 2 (0.50%) Azure SQL Database
6 2 (0.50%) Data Lake
6 2 (0.50%) MySQL
6 2 (0.50%) NoSQL
6 2 (0.50%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 2 (0.50%) SQL Server Reporting Services
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
Development Applications
1 7 (1.74%) JIRA
2 2 (0.50%) Claude Code
2 2 (0.50%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.25%) Selenium
General
1 185 (46.02%) Social Skills
2 146 (36.32%) Finance
3 131 (32.59%) Analytical Skills
4 108 (26.87%) Manufacturing
5 44 (10.95%) Influencing Skills
6 30 (7.46%) Pharmaceutical
7 28 (6.97%) Organisational Skills
8 27 (6.72%) Legal
9 22 (5.47%) Retail
10 21 (5.22%) Aerospace
11 17 (4.23%) Banking
11 17 (4.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 9 (2.24%) Electronics
12 9 (2.24%) Public Sector
13 8 (1.99%) Law
14 7 (1.74%) Advertising
14 7 (1.74%) Presentation Skills
15 6 (1.49%) Financial Institution
15 6 (1.49%) Local Government
16 5 (1.24%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 72 (17.91%) Head of QA
2 36 (8.96%) Quality Engineer
2 36 (8.96%) Technologist
3 32 (7.96%) Quality Manager
3 32 (7.96%) Senior
4 25 (6.22%) Systems Engineer
5 24 (5.97%) Lead
6 19 (4.73%) Systems Manager
7 18 (4.48%) Administrator
8 16 (3.98%) Analyst
9 12 (2.99%) Project Manager
9 12 (2.99%) QA Officer
10 11 (2.74%) Data Manager
10 11 (2.74%) QA Manager
10 11 (2.74%) Senior Quality Engineer
10 11 (2.74%) Senior Systems Engineer
11 10 (2.49%) Audit Manager
12 9 (2.24%) Support Engineer
12 9 (2.24%) Technical Support
12 9 (2.24%) Technical Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (4.73%) SAP Fiori
2 7 (1.74%) LangChain
2 7 (1.74%) LangGraph
2 7 (1.74%) PyTorch
2 7 (1.74%) scikit-learn
2 7 (1.74%) TensorFlow
3 3 (0.75%) Java RMI
4 2 (0.50%) Kafka
4 2 (0.50%) 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 (19.65%) Analytical Mindset
2 17 (4.23%) Product Ownership
3 13 (3.23%) Management Information System
4 9 (2.24%) Cloud Native
5 6 (1.49%) Cyberattack
5 6 (1.49%) Driving Licence
6 4 (1.00%) Blog
6 4 (1.00%) Data Protection Act
6 4 (1.00%) FMCG
6 4 (1.00%) Legacy Systems
6 4 (1.00%) Self-Motivation
7 3 (0.75%) Biopharmaceutical
7 3 (0.75%) PMI
8 2 (0.50%) Data Structures
8 2 (0.50%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (0.50%) Life Science
8 2 (0.50%) Reference Data
8 2 (0.50%) Robotics
9 1 (0.25%) Replication
9 1 (0.25%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.25%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 187 (46.52%) Continuous Improvement
2 139 (34.58%) QMS
3 95 (23.63%) Analytics
4 94 (23.38%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 91 (22.64%) Root Cause Analysis
6 90 (22.39%) Actionable Insight
7 87 (21.64%) Service Delivery
8 86 (21.39%) Change Management
9 81 (20.15%) PRINCE2
10 76 (18.91%) Customer Experience
11 72 (17.91%) Anti-Money Laundering
12 55 (13.68%) Problem-Solving
13 52 (12.94%) Roadmaps
14 49 (12.19%) AI
15 48 (11.94%) Decision-Making
16 43 (10.70%) Internal Audit
17 42 (10.45%) ERP
18 39 (9.70%) Coaching
19 35 (8.71%) Project Management
20 34 (8.46%) Agile
Programming Languages
1 15 (3.73%) Python
2 13 (3.23%) SQL
3 9 (2.24%) ABAP
4 2 (0.50%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 1 (0.25%) C#
5 1 (0.25%) JavaScript
5 1 (0.25%) Scala
5 1 (0.25%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 72 (17.91%) IRCA
2 59 (14.68%) Degree
3 18 (4.48%) BPSS Clearance
4 17 (4.23%) DBS Check
5 9 (2.24%) Postgraduate
6 8 (1.99%) ACCA
7 7 (1.74%) Security Cleared
8 6 (1.49%) CISSP
8 6 (1.49%) PMI Certification
8 6 (1.49%) SC Cleared
9 5 (1.24%) Computer Science Degree
10 4 (1.00%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 4 (1.00%) CCSP
10 4 (1.00%) Chartered Engineer
10 4 (1.00%) Cisco Certification
10 4 (1.00%) CRISC
10 4 (1.00%) Master's Degree
10 4 (1.00%) Six Sigma Green Belt
11 3 (0.75%) CCA
11 3 (0.75%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 185 (46.02%) QA
2 113 (28.11%) ISO 9001
3 88 (21.89%) GDPR
4 53 (13.18%) Data Quality
5 24 (5.97%) Accessibility
6 18 (4.48%) GMP
7 13 (3.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 6 (1.49%) 21 CFR Part 11
9 5 (1.24%) Automotive SPICE
9 5 (1.24%) COSHH
9 5 (1.24%) GxP
9 5 (1.24%) ISO 26262
9 5 (1.24%) NIST
9 5 (1.24%) PMO
10 4 (1.00%) IFRS
11 3 (0.75%) GLP
11 3 (0.75%) Good Clinical Practice
11 3 (0.75%) HIPAA
12 2 (0.50%) GAMP
12 2 (0.50%) Solvency II
System Software
1 1 (0.25%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (1.24%) Terraform
2 3 (0.75%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 70 (17.41%) Microsoft
2 50 (12.44%) SAP
3 8 (1.99%) Google
4 7 (1.74%) ServiceNow
5 5 (1.24%) Salesforce
6 3 (0.75%) Databricks
6 3 (0.75%) Sage
7 2 (0.50%) Informatica
7 2 (0.50%) OpenAI
8 1 (0.25%) Genesys
8 1 (0.25%) HubSpot
8 1 (0.25%) TOWER Software