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

6 months to
29 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 380 367 441
Rank change year-on-year -13 +74 +8
Permanent jobs citing Quality Management 364 298 476
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.46% 0.72% 0.53%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.60% 0.78% 0.62%
Number of salaries quoted 72 120 270
10th Percentile £28,600 £27,500 £26,725
25th Percentile £37,188 £36,250 £36,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,750 £55,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% +15.79% -13.64%
75th Percentile £87,500 £81,563 £65,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £100,000 £82,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £51,356 £42,500
% change year-on-year -2.64% +20.84% -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 60,329 38,275 77,225
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 76.98% 93.09% 86.55%
Number of salaries quoted 37,012 22,459 57,636
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £29,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £43,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -11.29%
75th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £102,500 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -8.41%

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 29 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 29 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 +18 266 £50,000 -2.64% 90
England -53 248 £57,750 +7.44% 102
Scotland +31 78 £37,500 -34.78% 5
London -32 78 £81,500 +15.28% 21
North of England -50 70 £50,000 +33.33% 19
Midlands +17 55 £47,500 +18.75% 18
Work from Home -7 50 £55,250 -14.80% 30
North West -2 36 £50,000 -8.75% 9
East Midlands -13 30 £29,000 -27.50% 7
West Midlands +3 25 £50,000 -31.03% 11
Yorkshire -57 22 £15,600 -58.40% 7
South West -41 21 £85,000 +82.80% 10
Northern Ireland - 19 - -
North East -38 12 - - 4
South East -56 12 £55,000 -6.78% 26
Wales -19 8 £25,400 -67.23% 2
East of England -35 3 £40,000 -11.11% 11

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 (18.68%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.27%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (0.27%) Confluence
Applications
1 92 (25.27%) Microsoft Excel
2 86 (23.63%) Microsoft Office
3 69 (18.96%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (1.10%) Fusion 360
5 3 (0.82%) MS Visio
6 2 (0.55%) Microsoft Project
7 1 (0.27%) Abaqus
7 1 (0.27%) AutoCAD
7 1 (0.27%) Siemens NX
7 1 (0.27%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 22 (6.04%) SAP S/4HANA
2 12 (3.30%) SAP QM
3 11 (3.02%) SAP ERP
4 8 (2.20%) SAP PP
5 5 (1.37%) Q-Pulse
6 4 (1.10%) Oracle EBS
6 4 (1.10%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 3 (0.82%) Teamcenter
8 2 (0.55%) Salesforce CRM
8 2 (0.55%) SAP CO
8 2 (0.55%) SAP FI
8 2 (0.55%) SAP FI/CO
9 1 (0.27%) DELMIA
9 1 (0.27%) SAP IBP
9 1 (0.27%) SAP MDG
9 1 (0.27%) SAP MDG-F
9 1 (0.27%) SAP MDG-M
9 1 (0.27%) SAP MDG-S
9 1 (0.27%) SAP Oil and Gas
9 1 (0.27%) SAP PM
Cloud Services
1 18 (4.95%) Azure
2 7 (1.92%) AWS
2 7 (1.92%) Power Platform
3 4 (1.10%) Entra ID
3 4 (1.10%) GCP
3 4 (1.10%) Microsoft Purview
4 3 (0.82%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (0.82%) Snowflake
5 2 (0.55%) Azure Data Factory
5 2 (0.55%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 1 (0.27%) Amazon ECS
6 1 (0.27%) Amazon Kinesis
6 1 (0.27%) Azure Storage
6 1 (0.27%) Collibra
6 1 (0.27%) Dagster
6 1 (0.27%) Power Automate
6 1 (0.27%) PowerApps
6 1 (0.27%) Prefect
6 1 (0.27%) Pulumi
6 1 (0.27%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.82%) Modbus
2 2 (0.55%) MQTT
3 1 (0.27%) Firewall
3 1 (0.27%) IP Telephony
3 1 (0.27%) RS-485
3 1 (0.27%) VLAN
3 1 (0.27%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (3.02%) Metadata
2 7 (1.92%) Power BI
3 4 (1.10%) Data Warehouse
3 4 (1.10%) Oracle Reports
4 3 (0.82%) Data Lake
4 3 (0.82%) NoSQL
5 2 (0.55%) Azure SQL Database
5 2 (0.55%) DynamoDB
5 2 (0.55%) MySQL
6 1 (0.27%) Amazon Athena
6 1 (0.27%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (0.27%) Big Data
6 1 (0.27%) Electronic Patient Records
6 1 (0.27%) MS Access
6 1 (0.27%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (0.27%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.27%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 1 (0.27%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (0.27%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 1 (0.27%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (0.27%) JIRA
General
1 214 (58.79%) Social Skills
2 123 (33.79%) Finance
3 103 (28.30%) Analytical Skills
4 73 (20.05%) Manufacturing
5 44 (12.09%) Influencing Skills
6 18 (4.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 16 (4.40%) Retail
8 15 (4.12%) Organisational Skills
8 15 (4.12%) Pharmaceutical
9 14 (3.85%) Banking
9 14 (3.85%) Law
10 11 (3.02%) Public Sector
11 9 (2.47%) Electronics
12 8 (2.20%) Legal
13 5 (1.37%) Presentation Skills
14 4 (1.10%) Environmental Health
14 4 (1.10%) Financial Institution
14 4 (1.10%) Marketing
15 3 (0.82%) Aerospace
16 2 (0.55%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 116 (31.87%) Quality Manager
2 111 (30.49%) Senior
3 95 (26.10%) Senior Manager
4 84 (23.08%) Senior Quality Manager
5 83 (22.80%) QA Manager
6 72 (19.78%) Head of QA
7 64 (17.58%) Senior QA Manager
8 29 (7.97%) Audit Manager
9 21 (5.77%) Senior Audit Manager
10 20 (5.49%) Technologist
11 19 (5.22%) Systems Manager
12 18 (4.95%) Analyst
13 15 (4.12%) Project Manager
14 13 (3.57%) Quality Engineer
15 12 (3.30%) Systems Engineer
16 11 (3.02%) Architect
16 11 (3.02%) Data Analyst
17 10 (2.75%) Lead
18 9 (2.47%) Administrator
19 8 (2.20%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (2.75%) SAP Fiori
2 2 (0.55%) Oracle Fusion
3 1 (0.27%) .NET
3 1 (0.27%) ADO
3 1 (0.27%) CSS
3 1 (0.27%) HTML
3 1 (0.27%) Kafka
3 1 (0.27%) Middleware
3 1 (0.27%) NestJS
3 1 (0.27%) REST
3 1 (0.27%) SAP CAF
3 1 (0.27%) SvelteKit
3 1 (0.27%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 76 (20.88%) Analytical Mindset
2 8 (2.20%) Management Information System
3 7 (1.92%) Life Science
4 6 (1.65%) Driving Licence
5 4 (1.10%) Self-Motivation
6 3 (0.82%) Data Structures
6 3 (0.82%) IoT
6 3 (0.82%) Manufacturing Execution System
6 3 (0.82%) Virtual Team
7 2 (0.55%) Cloud Native
7 2 (0.55%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (0.55%) IVR
7 2 (0.55%) LIMS
7 2 (0.55%) Onboarding
7 2 (0.55%) Operational Technology
7 2 (0.55%) PDA
7 2 (0.55%) Product Ownership
7 2 (0.55%) Public Cloud
7 2 (0.55%) Robotics
7 2 (0.55%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 4 (1.10%) Unix
2 2 (0.55%) Windows
3 1 (0.27%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.27%) Debian
3 1 (0.27%) Linux
3 1 (0.27%) OpenWrt
Processes & Methodologies
1 189 (51.92%) Continuous Improvement
2 136 (37.36%) Customer Experience
3 108 (29.67%) Coaching
4 103 (28.30%) Analytics
5 100 (27.47%) QMS
6 96 (26.37%) Project Management
7 93 (25.55%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 80 (21.98%) Actionable Insight
9 79 (21.70%) PRINCE2
9 79 (21.70%) Root Cause Analysis
10 77 (21.15%) Change Management
11 76 (20.88%) Service Delivery
12 72 (19.78%) Anti-Money Laundering
13 68 (18.68%) Six Sigma
14 65 (17.86%) Due Diligence
15 64 (17.58%) Lean Six Sigma
15 64 (17.58%) Performance Improvement
16 38 (10.44%) Internal Audit
17 36 (9.89%) Benchmarking
18 31 (8.52%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 16 (4.40%) SQL
2 12 (3.30%) ABAP
3 4 (1.10%) Python
4 1 (0.27%) C#
4 1 (0.27%) JavaScript
4 1 (0.27%) Perl
4 1 (0.27%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 72 (19.78%) IRCA
2 64 (17.58%) Six Sigma Yellow Belt
3 32 (8.79%) Degree
4 22 (6.04%) ACCA
5 15 (4.12%) BPSS Clearance
6 11 (3.02%) Security Cleared
7 8 (2.20%) HNC
7 8 (2.20%) HND
8 7 (1.92%) Master's Degree
9 5 (1.37%) DBS Check
10 4 (1.10%) Computer Science Degree
10 4 (1.10%) PMI Certification
10 4 (1.10%) SC Cleared
10 4 (1.10%) Six Sigma Green Belt
11 3 (0.82%) PMP
11 3 (0.82%) SAP Certification
12 2 (0.55%) CISM
12 2 (0.55%) CISSP
12 2 (0.55%) CRISC
12 2 (0.55%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 201 (55.22%) QA
2 90 (24.73%) ISO 9001
3 87 (23.90%) GDPR
4 33 (9.07%) Data Quality
5 13 (3.57%) GMP
5 13 (3.57%) IFRS
6 7 (1.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 6 (1.65%) ISO 13485
8 5 (1.37%) Accessibility
8 5 (1.37%) COSHH
9 4 (1.10%) GxP
9 4 (1.10%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 3 (0.82%) 21 CFR Part 11
10 3 (0.82%) Automotive SPICE
10 3 (0.82%) Cyber Essentials
10 3 (0.82%) HIPAA
10 3 (0.82%) ISO 26262
11 2 (0.55%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 2 (0.55%) GAMP
12 1 (0.27%) SLA
System Software
1 4 (1.10%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.27%) Docker
2 1 (0.27%) iptables
Systems Management
1 4 (1.10%) Terraform
2 1 (0.27%) Ansible
2 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (0.27%) MOM
Vendors
1 115 (31.59%) Microsoft
2 42 (11.54%) SAP
3 6 (1.65%) Oracle
4 5 (1.37%) Google
5 4 (1.10%) Salesforce
5 4 (1.10%) Workday
6 3 (0.82%) Informatica
7 2 (0.55%) Databricks
7 2 (0.55%) IFS
7 2 (0.55%) ServiceNow
8 1 (0.27%) ANSYS
8 1 (0.27%) Cisco
8 1 (0.27%) Fortinet
8 1 (0.27%) Genesys
8 1 (0.27%) MikroTik
8 1 (0.27%) OneTrust
8 1 (0.27%) PTC
8 1 (0.27%) Siemens
8 1 (0.27%) TOWER Software