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

	6 months to 19 Oct 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Rank	424	349	349
Rank change year-on-year	-75	0	+169
Permanent jobs citing Quality Management	484	347	497
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK	0.40%	0.71%	0.72%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category	0.55%	0.80%	0.87%
Number of salaries quoted	279	72	140
10^th Percentile	£30,000	£29,500	£30,450
25^th Percentile	£37,500	£42,000	£40,000
Median annual salary (50^th Percentile)	£45,000	£50,000	£54,399
Median % change year-on-year	-10.00%	-8.09%	-9.34%
75^th Percentile	£60,000	£69,063	£71,250
90^th Percentile	£70,000	£85,000	£80,000
UK excluding London median annual salary	£44,038	£48,000	£45,169
% change year-on-year	-8.25%	+6.27%	-12.72%

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.

	6 months to 19 Oct 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills	88,011	43,297	57,101
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK	73.51%	88.60%	82.22%
Number of salaries quoted	59,859	24,595	30,556
10^th Percentile	£31,250	£28,250	£33,500
25^th Percentile	£41,250	£35,750	£45,000
Median annual salary (50^th Percentile)	£60,000	£54,500	£60,000
Median % change year-on-year	+10.09%	-9.17%	-
75^th Percentile	£77,500	£75,000	£78,750
90^th Percentile	£100,000	£95,000	£97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary	£55,000	£46,000	£54,000
% change year-on-year	+19.57%	-14.81%	+1.66%

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 Salary Trend

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 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 19 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	441	£45,500	-9.00%	258
UK excluding London	-85	365	£44,038	-8.25%	205
London	-37	103	£55,000	+7.32%	72
Work from Home	-41	100	£50,000	-23.08%	92
Midlands	+19	93	£42,500	-2.73%	33
North of England	-66	86	£50,000	-2.91%	48
South East	-71	85	£45,000	-34.55%	50
West Midlands	+11	64	£45,000	+12.50%	23
North West	-6	53	£52,500	-4.55%	24
East of England	-10	36	£40,000	+8.84%	25
South West	-63	33	£41,919	+49.71%	19
East Midlands	-13	29	£42,500	-6.37%	10
Scotland	-24	19	£60,000	+21.38%	20
Yorkshire	-80	18	£56,500	-	13
North East	-52	15	£43,459	-9.46%	12
Wales	-65	9	£28,392	-40.19%	9
Northern Ireland	-77	4	-	-	2

Quality Management Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities

For the 6 months to 19 October 2026, job vacancies citing Quality Management also mentioned the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads with a requirement for Quality Management.

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	Continuous Improvement	42.6%	206
2	QMS	32.0%	155
3	QA	31.0%	150
4	Degree	28.1%	136
5	Problem-Solving	23.8%	115
6	ISO 9001	20.9%	101
7	Microsoft	19.4%	94
8	Decision-Making	18.4%	89
9	Data Quality	16.1%	78
10	Roadmaps	15.3%	74
11	AI	14.9%	72
12	Stakeholder Management	12.6%	61
13	ERP	12.4%	60
13	Power BI	12.4%	60
13	Power Platform	12.4%	60
16	Coaching	12.2%	59
17	Service Delivery	12.0%	58
18	Business Intelligence	11.6%	56
18	Data Governance	11.6%	56
20	SAP	11.4%	55
21	Azure	11.2%	54
21	Microsoft Excel	11.2%	54
23	Internal Audit	11.0%	53
23	Security Cleared	11.0%	53
25	Risk Management	10.7%	52
26	Analytics	10.1%	49
27	SQL	9.7%	47
28	GDPR	9.5%	46
29	Root Cause Analysis	9.3%	45
30	Information Security	9.1%	44

Quality Management Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The table below expands on the one above by listing co-occurrences one category at a time. It covers the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences in each category.

Processes & Methodologies

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	Continuous Improvement	42.6%	206
2	QMS	32.0%	155
3	Problem-Solving	23.8%	115
4	Decision-Making	18.4%	89
5	Roadmaps	15.3%	74
6	AI	14.9%	72
7	Stakeholder Management	12.6%	61
8	ERP	12.4%	60
9	Coaching	12.2%	59
10	Service Delivery	12.0%	58
11	Business Intelligence	11.6%	56
11	Data Governance	11.6%	56
13	Internal Audit	11.0%	53
14	Risk Management	10.7%	52
15	Analytics	10.1%	49
16	Root Cause Analysis	9.3%	45
17	Information Security	9.1%	44
17	Validation	9.1%	44
19	Agile	8.5%	41
20	Project Management	8.3%	40