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

6 months to
16 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 421 358 351
Rank change year-on-year -63 -7 +172
Permanent jobs citing Quality Management 476 347 505
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.40% 0.71% 0.72%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.54% 0.80% 0.87%
Number of salaries quoted 274 74 147
10th Percentile £30,244 £29,500 £30,300
25th Percentile £38,809 £42,125 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £50,000 £54,399
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% -8.09% -11.19%
75th Percentile £60,000 £69,688 £71,838
90th Percentile £70,000 £90,250 £82,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £44,038 £48,717 £45,169
% change year-on-year -9.60% +7.86% -13.96%

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 87,497 43,445 57,940
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.45% 88.84% 82.20%
Number of salaries quoted 59,802 24,607 31,056
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,250 £33,099
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,250 £44,541
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -
75th Percentile £78,000 £75,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,000 £53,000
% change year-on-year +17.02% -11.32% -1.85%

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 October 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 October 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 -29 434 £45,497 -9.01% 63
UK excluding London -77 359 £44,038 -9.60% 58
Work from Home -5 101 £50,000 -23.08% 26
London -31 101 £55,000 +7.32% 15
Midlands +23 91 £42,500 -2.73% 9
South East -73 85 £45,000 -33.33% 16
North of England -61 84 £50,250 -2.43% 13
West Midlands +6 64 £45,000 +12.50% 6
North West +13 52 £52,500 -4.55% 5
East of England -16 34 £40,959 +11.45% 6
South West -47 33 £36,959 +32.00% 7
East Midlands -17 27 £42,500 -6.37% 3
Scotland -31 19 £60,000 +21.38% 1
Yorkshire -87 17 £56,500 - 3
North East -59 15 £43,459 -9.46% 5
Wales -69 9 £28,392 -40.19% 6
Northern Ireland -79 4 - -

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 15 (3.15%) SharePoint
2 4 (0.84%) Confluence
3 3 (0.63%) Apache Spark
3 3 (0.63%) SharePoint Server
4 1 (0.21%) IIS
4 1 (0.21%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 53 (11.13%) Microsoft Excel
2 35 (7.35%) Microsoft Office
3 14 (2.94%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 12 (2.52%) Microsoft Project
5 9 (1.89%) Spreadsheet
6 3 (0.63%) MS Visio
7 1 (0.21%) ProjectWise
Business Applications
1 16 (3.36%) SAP QM
2 15 (3.15%) SAP ERP
3 12 (2.52%) SAP S/4HANA
4 9 (1.89%) SAP PP
5 8 (1.68%) SAP R/3
6 6 (1.26%) Q-Pulse
7 5 (1.05%) Dynamics CRM
7 5 (1.05%) Primavera
7 5 (1.05%) SAP EHS
8 4 (0.84%) SAP PM
9 3 (0.63%) Sage 200
9 3 (0.63%) SAP MM
10 2 (0.42%) SAP MDG
11 1 (0.21%) Dynamics AX
11 1 (0.21%) Dynamics NAV
11 1 (0.21%) FastStats
11 1 (0.21%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 58 (12.18%) Power Platform
2 53 (11.13%) Azure
3 31 (6.51%) AWS
4 20 (4.20%) Microsoft 365
5 19 (3.99%) Microsoft Purview
6 18 (3.78%) GCP
7 8 (1.68%) SaaS
8 6 (1.26%) Azure DevOps
9 5 (1.05%) Smartsheet
10 4 (0.84%) Collibra
10 4 (0.84%) Dynamics 365
10 4 (0.84%) GitHub
11 3 (0.63%) Cloud Computing
11 3 (0.63%) Copilot Studio
11 3 (0.63%) Microsoft Copilot
11 3 (0.63%) Power Automate
11 3 (0.63%) Snowflake
12 2 (0.42%) Anthropic Claude
12 2 (0.42%) GitHub Copilot
12 2 (0.42%) NetDocuments
Communications & Networking
1 4 (0.84%) Network Security
2 3 (0.63%) Internet
2 3 (0.63%) Wireless
3 2 (0.42%) Firewall
4 1 (0.21%) Broadband
4 1 (0.21%) DHCP
4 1 (0.21%) DNS
4 1 (0.21%) DSL
4 1 (0.21%) LAN
4 1 (0.21%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.21%) VPN
4 1 (0.21%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 58 (12.18%) Power BI
2 31 (6.51%) Data Warehouse
3 27 (5.67%) Metadata
4 16 (3.36%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 12 (2.52%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 10 (2.10%) Power Query
7 8 (1.68%) GIS
7 8 (1.68%) SAP BW
8 5 (1.05%) SQL Server
8 5 (1.05%) Tableau
9 4 (0.84%) Crystal Reports
9 4 (0.84%) Oracle Reports
10 3 (0.63%) Geospatial Data
10 3 (0.63%) Relational Database
11 2 (0.42%) Azure SQL Database
11 2 (0.42%) EDMS
11 2 (0.42%) MySQL
11 2 (0.42%) SQL Server Analysis Services
12 1 (0.21%) NoSQL
12 1 (0.21%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 17 (3.57%) JIRA
2 10 (2.10%) Git
3 2 (0.42%) Claude Code
3 2 (0.42%) MLflow
4 1 (0.21%) Jenkins
General
1 177 (37.18%) Social Skills
2 133 (27.94%) Manufacturing
3 118 (24.79%) Finance
4 108 (22.69%) Analytical Skills
5 55 (11.55%) Legal
5 55 (11.55%) Organisational Skills
6 47 (9.87%) Aerospace
7 28 (5.88%) Electronics
8 27 (5.67%) Pharmaceutical
8 27 (5.67%) Public Sector
9 24 (5.04%) Retail
10 23 (4.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 21 (4.41%) Banking
12 17 (3.57%) Influencing Skills
13 15 (3.15%) Law
14 14 (2.94%) Military
15 10 (2.10%) Aviation
15 10 (2.10%) Fire and Rescue
16 8 (1.68%) Telecoms
17 7 (1.47%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 47 (9.87%) Senior
2 46 (9.66%) Lead
3 40 (8.40%) Quality Engineer
3 40 (8.40%) Quality Manager
4 25 (5.25%) QA Engineer
5 22 (4.62%) Data Manager
6 20 (4.20%) Analyst
6 20 (4.20%) QA Manager
7 18 (3.78%) Systems Engineer
8 17 (3.57%) Administrator
8 17 (3.57%) Compliance Manager
9 15 (3.15%) Consultant
9 15 (3.15%) Machine Learning Engineer
9 15 (3.15%) Software Engineer
10 14 (2.94%) Senior Manager
10 14 (2.94%) Technologist
11 12 (2.52%) Developer
11 12 (2.52%) IT Manager
11 12 (2.52%) Team Leader
12 11 (2.31%) QA Officer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (3.57%) PyTorch
1 17 (3.57%) scikit-learn
1 17 (3.57%) TensorFlow
2 15 (3.15%) LangChain
2 15 (3.15%) LangGraph
3 7 (1.47%) SAP Fiori
4 5 (1.05%) EDI
5 4 (0.84%) REST
5 4 (0.84%) Terraform
6 3 (0.63%) Java RMI
7 2 (0.42%) .NET
7 2 (0.42%) A2A Protocol
7 2 (0.42%) ASP.NET
7 2 (0.42%) FastAPI
7 2 (0.42%) gRPC
7 2 (0.42%) Model Context Protocol
7 2 (0.42%) NumPy
7 2 (0.42%) ONNX
7 2 (0.42%) OpenCV
7 2 (0.42%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 75 (15.76%) Management Information System
2 26 (5.46%) Driving Licence
3 24 (5.04%) Product Ownership
4 21 (4.41%) Onboarding
5 15 (3.15%) Cloud Native
6 13 (2.73%) Data Protection Act
6 13 (2.73%) PMI
7 10 (2.10%) Legacy Systems
7 10 (2.10%) Operational Technology
8 9 (1.89%) Self-Motivation
9 8 (1.68%) Data Centre
9 8 (1.68%) Reference Data
10 7 (1.47%) Private Cloud
11 6 (1.26%) Cyberattack
12 5 (1.05%) Blog
12 5 (1.05%) Industry 4.0
13 4 (0.84%) Analytical Mindset
13 4 (0.84%) BYOD
13 4 (0.84%) Culture of Ownership
13 4 (0.84%) FMCG
Operating Systems
1 5 (1.05%) Windows
2 1 (0.21%) macOS
2 1 (0.21%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 204 (42.86%) Continuous Improvement
2 151 (31.72%) QMS
3 114 (23.95%) Problem-Solving
4 88 (18.49%) Decision-Making
5 72 (15.13%) Roadmaps
6 71 (14.92%) AI
7 61 (12.82%) Stakeholder Management
8 60 (12.61%) ERP
9 56 (11.76%) Data Governance
9 56 (11.76%) Service Delivery
10 55 (11.55%) Coaching
11 54 (11.34%) Business Intelligence
12 52 (10.92%) Internal Audit
12 52 (10.92%) Risk Management
13 48 (10.08%) Analytics
14 44 (9.24%) Information Security
14 44 (9.24%) Root Cause Analysis
15 42 (8.82%) Project Management
15 42 (8.82%) Validation
16 41 (8.61%) Agile
Programming Languages
1 47 (9.87%) SQL
2 33 (6.93%) Python
3 10 (2.10%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 2 (0.42%) C#
4 2 (0.42%) JavaScript
4 2 (0.42%) T-SQL
5 1 (0.21%) Bicep
5 1 (0.21%) Perl
5 1 (0.21%) PL/SQL
5 1 (0.21%) Scala
5 1 (0.21%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 133 (27.94%) Degree
2 52 (10.92%) Security Cleared
3 38 (7.98%) SC Cleared
4 25 (5.25%) BPSS Clearance
5 17 (3.57%) HNC
6 14 (2.94%) DBS Check
7 13 (2.73%) PMI Certification
8 12 (2.52%) Postgraduate
9 10 (2.10%) DV Cleared
9 10 (2.10%) HND
10 9 (1.89%) TOGAF Certification
11 8 (1.68%) Chartered Engineer
12 6 (1.26%) ACCA
12 6 (1.26%) CISSP
12 6 (1.26%) Computer Science Degree
13 5 (1.05%) Cisco Certification
14 4 (0.84%) CCSP
14 4 (0.84%) IRCA
14 4 (0.84%) Microsoft Certification
14 4 (0.84%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 148 (31.09%) QA
2 101 (21.22%) ISO 9001
3 77 (16.18%) Data Quality
4 44 (9.24%) GDPR
5 35 (7.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 26 (5.46%) Accessibility
7 17 (3.57%) GMP
8 12 (2.52%) Cyber Essentials
9 10 (2.10%) ISO 14001
10 9 (1.89%) ISO 22301
10 9 (1.89%) PCI DSS
11 8 (1.68%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 8 (1.68%) ISO/IEC 17025
12 6 (1.26%) ISO 19650
12 6 (1.26%) NIST
13 5 (1.05%) ECSS
14 4 (0.84%) AQAP
14 4 (0.84%) COSHH
14 4 (0.84%) NEBOSH
14 4 (0.84%) PMO
System Software
1 2 (0.42%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (0.63%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.21%) BMC PATROL
2 1 (0.21%) Grafana
Vendors
1 89 (18.70%) Microsoft
2 54 (11.34%) SAP
3 15 (3.15%) ServiceNow
4 14 (2.94%) Oracle
5 11 (2.31%) Google
6 9 (1.89%) Rockwell
6 9 (1.89%) Siemens
7 7 (1.47%) Sage
8 5 (1.05%) Salesforce
9 4 (0.84%) Cisco
9 4 (0.84%) Informatica
9 4 (0.84%) NEC
9 4 (0.84%) Xero
10 3 (0.63%) Databricks
10 3 (0.63%) Genesys
10 3 (0.63%) NCR
10 3 (0.63%) Veritas
11 2 (0.42%) Avaya
11 2 (0.42%) iManage
11 2 (0.42%) Thales