Software Quality Assurance Jobs

Software Quality Assurance
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring Software Quality Assurance skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Software Quality Assurance over the 6 months leading up to 9 October 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Oct 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 792 739 995
Rank change year-on-year -53 +256 +13
Permanent jobs citing Software Quality Assurance 18 37 165
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.023% 0.061% 0.11%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 0.16% 0.43% 0.65%
Number of salaries quoted 4 14 68
10th Percentile £54,000 £33,907 £41,750
25th Percentile £56,250 £41,329 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £56,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +19.47% +2.73% +22.22%
75th Percentile £85,625 £84,688 £65,625
90th Percentile £91,250 £86,750 £83,750
UK excluding London median annual salary - £52,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +27.91%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
UK

Software Quality Assurance falls under the Quality Assurance and Compliance category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring quality assurance or compliance skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 11,503 8,586 25,242
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 14.59% 14.07% 17.52%
Number of salaries quoted 4,848 6,354 12,844
10th Percentile £30,000 £32,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £45,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £56,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +7.14% +3.32%
75th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £97,250 £95,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.26%

Software Quality Assurance
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Software Quality Assurance as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Software Quality Assurance in the UK

Software Quality Assurance
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Software Quality Assurance.

Salary trend for Software Quality Assurance in the UK

Software Quality Assurance
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Software Quality Assurance over the 6 months to 9 October 2024.

Salary histogram for Software Quality Assurance in the UK

Software Quality Assurance
Top 8 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Software Quality Assurance within the UK over the 6 months to 9 October 2024. 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 -52 14 £67,500 +8.00% 11
London +14 9 £67,500 -6.90% 2
UK excluding London -53 9 - - 10
Northern Ireland - 4 - - 1
Work from Home +13 3 £55,000 +27.32% 3
South East -42 3 - - 3
North of England +6 2 - -
North West -18 2 - -

Software Quality Assurance
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 4 (22.22%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 4 (22.22%) Power Platform
2 2 (11.11%) AWS
3 1 (5.56%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 4 (22.22%) DNS
1 4 (22.22%) Firewall
1 4 (22.22%) IPv6
1 4 (22.22%) Reverse Proxy
2 3 (16.67%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (22.22%) Power BI
2 2 (11.11%) Relational Database
3 1 (5.56%) MySQL
3 1 (5.56%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 8 (44.44%) JIRA
2 4 (22.22%) Git
2 4 (22.22%) GitLab
2 4 (22.22%) Jenkins
2 4 (22.22%) JUnit
2 4 (22.22%) Selenium
2 4 (22.22%) TestNG
2 4 (22.22%) Zephyr
3 3 (16.67%) Appium
4 1 (5.56%) NUnit
General
1 11 (61.11%) Social Skills
2 7 (38.89%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (16.67%) Finance
4 2 (11.11%) Banking
Job Titles
1 11 (61.11%) QA Engineer
2 6 (33.33%) Software QA Engineer
3 5 (27.78%) Automation Engineer
3 5 (27.78%) Lead
3 5 (27.78%) QA Automation Engineer
4 4 (22.22%) Graduate
5 3 (16.67%) Analyst
5 3 (16.67%) QA Leader
6 2 (11.11%) Developer
6 2 (11.11%) Lead Developer
6 2 (11.11%) QA Analyst
7 1 (5.56%) Automation Tester
7 1 (5.56%) Data Migration Tester
7 1 (5.56%) Financial Analyst
7 1 (5.56%) QA Automation Tester
7 1 (5.56%) QA Tester
7 1 (5.56%) Senior
7 1 (5.56%) Service Analyst
7 1 (5.56%) Test Analyst
7 1 (5.56%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (27.78%) REST
2 4 (22.22%) WebdriverIO
3 2 (11.11%) React
4 1 (5.56%) .NET
4 1 (5.56%) Django
4 1 (5.56%) LAMP
Miscellaneous
1 4 (22.22%) Management Information System
2 3 (16.67%) Product Ownership
3 2 (11.11%) Bitcoin
3 2 (11.11%) Hedge funds
4 1 (5.56%) Derivative
4 1 (5.56%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (100.00%) Code Quality
2 15 (83.33%) Test Automation
3 11 (61.11%) Computer Science
3 11 (61.11%) Problem-Solving
4 10 (55.56%) Agile
4 10 (55.56%) Software Testing
5 8 (44.44%) Artificial Intelligence
5 8 (44.44%) Continuous Improvement
6 7 (38.89%) SDLC
7 6 (33.33%) CI/CD
8 5 (27.78%) Defect Management
8 5 (27.78%) Regression Testing
8 5 (27.78%) Scrum
9 4 (22.22%) Defect Tracking
9 4 (22.22%) DevOps
9 4 (22.22%) Information Security
9 4 (22.22%) Integration Testing
9 4 (22.22%) Mathematics
9 4 (22.22%) Physics
9 4 (22.22%) Product Requirements
Programming Languages
1 9 (50.00%) Python
2 6 (33.33%) SQL
3 4 (22.22%) Java
4 3 (16.67%) C#
4 3 (16.67%) JavaScript
5 2 (11.11%) C++
5 2 (11.11%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 7 (38.89%) Computer Science Degree
1 7 (38.89%) Degree
2 5 (27.78%) ISEB
3 4 (22.22%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (100.00%) QA
System Software
1 2 (11.11%) Docker
Vendors
1 1 (5.56%) Oracle