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

6 months to
28 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 419 413 407
Rank change year-on-year -6 -6 +83
Permanent jobs citing Quality Management 411 276 517
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.40% 0.56% 0.59%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.55% 0.62% 0.72%
Number of salaries quoted 164 103 200
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £35,750 £39,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £60,000 £53,500
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% +12.15% -12.30%
75th Percentile £57,350 £85,000 £78,005
90th Percentile £87,500 £103,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £60,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -25.00% +20.00% -4.76%

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 74,833 44,225 71,828
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.64% 89.70% 81.44%
Number of salaries quoted 51,638 25,059 48,434
10th Percentile £30,500 £28,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £37,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.66%
75th Percentile £78,750 £76,250 £73,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £93,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +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 28 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 28 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 +25 357 £45,000 -25.00% 160
UK excluding London +30 313 £45,000 -25.00% 134
North of England -41 100 £52,500 -13.49% 26
Midlands +29 83 £50,000 +19.05% 39
Work from Home -11 83 £50,000 -20.00% 48
London -35 75 £50,000 -2.44% 32
North West +59 63 £60,000 -9.59% 14
West Midlands +31 59 £50,000 +25.00% 20
South East -6 42 £36,500 -41.60% 39
South West -29 36 £41,250 -17.50% 11
East Midlands -4 24 £29,000 -33.63% 19
Yorkshire -105 21 £53,250 -3.18% 10
Scotland +26 16 £57,500 -39.47% 1
North East -33 16 £34,500 -28.13% 3
East of England -5 15 £40,000 -60.00% 19
Northern Ireland - 15 - - 4
Wales -58 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 (2.92%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.24%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (0.24%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 46 (11.19%) Microsoft Excel
2 24 (5.84%) Microsoft Office
3 11 (2.68%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 6 (1.46%) Microsoft Project
5 3 (0.73%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 26 (6.33%) SAP QM
2 21 (5.11%) SAP S/4HANA
3 19 (4.62%) SAP ERP
4 8 (1.95%) SAP PP
5 7 (1.70%) Q-Pulse
6 4 (0.97%) Dynamics CRM
6 4 (0.97%) Primavera
6 4 (0.97%) SAP EHS
7 3 (0.73%) Sage 200
8 2 (0.49%) SAP MDG
9 1 (0.24%) FastStats
9 1 (0.24%) SAP MDG-F
9 1 (0.24%) SAP MDG-M
9 1 (0.24%) SAP MDG-S
9 1 (0.24%) SAP PM
Cloud Services
1 29 (7.06%) Azure
1 29 (7.06%) Power Platform
2 16 (3.89%) AWS
3 14 (3.41%) Microsoft Purview
4 10 (2.43%) GCP
5 8 (1.95%) Microsoft 365
6 7 (1.70%) SaaS
7 5 (1.22%) Power Automate
8 4 (0.97%) Azure DevOps
8 4 (0.97%) Smartsheet
9 3 (0.73%) Cloud Computing
9 3 (0.73%) Collibra
9 3 (0.73%) Copilot Studio
9 3 (0.73%) Dynamics 365
9 3 (0.73%) Microsoft Copilot
10 2 (0.49%) Anthropic Claude
10 2 (0.49%) AWS CloudFormation
10 2 (0.49%) Azure Data Factory
10 2 (0.49%) GitHub
10 2 (0.49%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 4 (0.97%) Network Security
2 2 (0.49%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (7.06%) Power BI
2 16 (3.89%) Metadata
3 12 (2.92%) Data Warehouse
4 6 (1.46%) Power Query
5 5 (1.22%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 5 (1.22%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 5 (1.22%) Tableau
6 3 (0.73%) Relational Database
7 2 (0.49%) Azure SQL Database
7 2 (0.49%) MySQL
7 2 (0.49%) NoSQL
7 2 (0.49%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 1 (0.24%) Amazon Athena
8 1 (0.24%) Amazon Redshift
8 1 (0.24%) Data Lake
8 1 (0.24%) Delta Lake
8 1 (0.24%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.24%) PostgreSQL
8 1 (0.24%) Spark SQL
8 1 (0.24%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 8 (1.95%) JIRA
2 2 (0.49%) Claude Code
2 2 (0.49%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.24%) Selenium
General
1 171 (41.61%) Social Skills
2 151 (36.74%) Finance
3 135 (32.85%) Analytical Skills
4 108 (26.28%) Manufacturing
5 35 (8.52%) Influencing Skills
6 33 (8.03%) Legal
7 30 (7.30%) Pharmaceutical
8 27 (6.57%) Organisational Skills
9 26 (6.33%) Aerospace
10 25 (6.08%) Retail
11 19 (4.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 17 (4.14%) Banking
13 12 (2.92%) Public Sector
14 9 (2.19%) Electronics
15 7 (1.70%) Advertising
15 7 (1.70%) Law
15 7 (1.70%) Presentation Skills
16 5 (1.22%) Fire and Rescue
16 5 (1.22%) Publishing
17 4 (0.97%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 72 (17.52%) Head of QA
2 39 (9.49%) Quality Engineer
3 34 (8.27%) Quality Manager
3 34 (8.27%) Senior
4 28 (6.81%) Lead
5 27 (6.57%) Systems Engineer
5 27 (6.57%) Technologist
6 17 (4.14%) Analyst
7 16 (3.89%) QA Manager
7 16 (3.89%) Systems Manager
8 14 (3.41%) QA Officer
9 13 (3.16%) Administrator
9 13 (3.16%) Project Manager
10 11 (2.68%) Senior Quality Engineer
10 11 (2.68%) Senior Systems Engineer
11 10 (2.43%) Data Manager
11 10 (2.43%) Machine Learning Engineer
12 9 (2.19%) QA Engineer
12 9 (2.19%) Software Engineer
13 8 (1.95%) Technical Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (4.62%) SAP Fiori
2 9 (2.19%) LangChain
2 9 (2.19%) LangGraph
2 9 (2.19%) PyTorch
2 9 (2.19%) scikit-learn
2 9 (2.19%) TensorFlow
3 3 (0.73%) Java RMI
4 2 (0.49%) A2A Protocol
4 2 (0.49%) Kafka
4 2 (0.49%) Model Context Protocol
5 1 (0.24%) ADO
5 1 (0.24%) IDoc
5 1 (0.24%) Playwright
5 1 (0.24%) PySpark
5 1 (0.24%) pytest
5 1 (0.24%) SAP ALE
5 1 (0.24%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 79 (19.22%) Analytical Mindset
2 19 (4.62%) Product Ownership
3 17 (4.14%) Management Information System
4 9 (2.19%) Cloud Native
5 8 (1.95%) Data Protection Act
6 7 (1.70%) Driving Licence
7 6 (1.46%) Cyberattack
7 6 (1.46%) PMI
8 5 (1.22%) Blog
8 5 (1.22%) Legacy Systems
9 4 (0.97%) FMCG
9 4 (0.97%) Onboarding
9 4 (0.97%) Self-Motivation
10 3 (0.73%) Biopharmaceutical
10 3 (0.73%) Reference Data
11 2 (0.49%) BYOD
11 2 (0.49%) Culture of Ownership
11 2 (0.49%) Data Structures
11 2 (0.49%) Life Science
11 2 (0.49%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 2 (0.49%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 189 (45.99%) Continuous Improvement
2 137 (33.33%) QMS
3 99 (24.09%) Analytics
4 93 (22.63%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 92 (22.38%) Root Cause Analysis
6 90 (21.90%) Actionable Insight
6 90 (21.90%) Change Management
7 89 (21.65%) Service Delivery
8 84 (20.44%) PRINCE2
9 78 (18.98%) Customer Experience
10 72 (17.52%) Anti-Money Laundering
11 63 (15.33%) Roadmaps
12 59 (14.36%) Problem-Solving
13 57 (13.87%) Decision-Making
14 53 (12.90%) AI
15 46 (11.19%) ERP
16 40 (9.73%) Project Management
17 38 (9.25%) Agile
18 37 (9.00%) Data Governance
19 36 (8.76%) Internal Audit
Programming Languages
1 20 (4.87%) Python
2 18 (4.38%) SQL
3 8 (1.95%) ABAP
4 5 (1.22%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 1 (0.24%) JavaScript
5 1 (0.24%) Scala
5 1 (0.24%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 72 (17.52%) Degree
1 72 (17.52%) IRCA
2 23 (5.60%) BPSS Clearance
3 17 (4.14%) DBS Check
4 13 (3.16%) Postgraduate
5 9 (2.19%) PMI Certification
6 8 (1.95%) Security Cleared
7 7 (1.70%) Chartered Engineer
7 7 (1.70%) CISSP
7 7 (1.70%) Computer Science Degree
7 7 (1.70%) SC Cleared
8 6 (1.46%) ACCA
9 4 (0.97%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 4 (0.97%) CCSP
9 4 (0.97%) Cisco Certification
9 4 (0.97%) CRISC
9 4 (0.97%) Master's Degree
9 4 (0.97%) Six Sigma Green Belt
10 3 (0.73%) CCA
10 3 (0.73%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 186 (45.26%) QA
2 118 (28.71%) ISO 9001
3 88 (21.41%) GDPR
4 59 (14.36%) Data Quality
5 25 (6.08%) Accessibility
6 22 (5.35%) GMP
7 17 (4.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 6 (1.46%) Cyber Essentials
9 5 (1.22%) Automotive SPICE
9 5 (1.22%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 5 (1.22%) GxP
9 5 (1.22%) ISO 26262
9 5 (1.22%) NIST
9 5 (1.22%) PMO
10 4 (0.97%) 21 CFR Part 11
10 4 (0.97%) COSHH
11 3 (0.73%) GLP
11 3 (0.73%) Good Clinical Practice
12 2 (0.49%) ISO 22301
12 2 (0.49%) Solvency II
System Software
1 1 (0.24%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (0.73%) Kubernetes
2 2 (0.49%) Terraform
Vendors
1 61 (14.84%) Microsoft
2 50 (12.17%) SAP
3 8 (1.95%) Google
3 8 (1.95%) ServiceNow
4 5 (1.22%) Salesforce
5 3 (0.73%) Databricks
5 3 (0.73%) Informatica
5 3 (0.73%) Sage
6 2 (0.49%) Avaya
6 2 (0.49%) Cisco
6 2 (0.49%) Genesys
6 2 (0.49%) OpenAI
7 1 (0.24%) HubSpot
7 1 (0.24%) Oracle