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 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 672 854 920
Rank change year-on-year +182 +66 +205
Permanent jobs citing Software Quality Assurance 12 31 67
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.023% 0.032% 0.064%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 0.14% 0.23% 0.34%
Number of salaries quoted 10 10 41
10th Percentile £47,250 £49,800 £37,500
25th Percentile £47,500 £51,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,250 £55,024 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +20.40% -4.31% +4.55%
75th Percentile £80,313 £74,387 £72,500
90th Percentile £82,625 £80,000 £83,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £52,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year -14.29% +16.67% -18.18%

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 8,850 13,541 19,961
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 16.97% 13.77% 19.19%
Number of salaries quoted 4,598 9,268 9,195
10th Percentile £31,250 £27,000 £32,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £36,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £52,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -8.70% +4.55%
75th Percentile £73,750 £70,000 £76,250
90th Percentile £90,000 £90,000 £93,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +15.79% -5.00% +5.04%

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 30 April 2025.

Salary histogram for Software Quality Assurance in the UK

Software Quality Assurance
Top 7 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 30 April 2025. 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 +173 11 £66,250 +3.88% 25
London +111 10 £67,500 -15.63% 14
UK excluding London +181 2 £45,000 -14.29% 21
Work from Home +157 1 £65,000 -5.49% 12
Northern Ireland - 1 - - 4
Midlands - 1 £45,000 - 1
West Midlands - 1 £45,000 -

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 5 (41.67%) Liferay
2 3 (25.00%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (8.33%) Elite 3E
Cloud Services
1 6 (50.00%) Azure
2 5 (41.67%) Cloud Computing
2 5 (41.67%) Entra ID
3 1 (8.33%) AWS
Development Applications
1 4 (33.33%) JIRA
2 3 (25.00%) Jenkins
2 3 (25.00%) MSTest
3 2 (16.67%) JMeter
3 2 (16.67%) Selenium
4 1 (8.33%) Cypress.io
4 1 (8.33%) JUnit
4 1 (8.33%) Katalon Studio
4 1 (8.33%) LoadRunner
4 1 (8.33%) TestRail
General
1 6 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 6 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 4 (33.33%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (8.33%) Finance
3 1 (8.33%) Law
3 1 (8.33%) Legal
Job Titles
1 6 (50.00%) Senior
2 5 (41.67%) Developer
2 5 (41.67%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
2 5 (41.67%) Senior Developer
2 5 (41.67%) Senior Front-End Developer
3 3 (25.00%) Lead
3 3 (25.00%) QA Leader
3 3 (25.00%) Test Leader
4 2 (16.67%) QA Engineer
5 1 (8.33%) Performance Tester
5 1 (8.33%) QA Test Engineer
5 1 (8.33%) Senior QA Engineer
5 1 (8.33%) Senior Test Engineer
5 1 (8.33%) Test Engineer
5 1 (8.33%) Test Manager
5 1 (8.33%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (41.67%) CSS
1 5 (41.67%) HTML
1 5 (41.67%) React
Miscellaneous
1 5 (41.67%) Onboarding
2 4 (33.33%) Self-Motivation
2 4 (33.33%) Team-Oriented Environment
3 3 (25.00%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (8.33%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (100.00%) Agile
1 12 (100.00%) Code Quality
1 12 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 7 (58.33%) Computer Science
2 7 (58.33%) SDLC
3 6 (50.00%) Manual Testing
3 6 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
3 6 (50.00%) Software Engineering
4 5 (41.67%) B2C
4 5 (41.67%) Defect Tracking
4 5 (41.67%) Front End Development
4 5 (41.67%) Identity Management
4 5 (41.67%) Mentoring
4 5 (41.67%) TDD
4 5 (41.67%) Test Management
4 5 (41.67%) Wireframes
5 4 (33.33%) Software Testing
5 4 (33.33%) User Experience
6 3 (25.00%) Data Entry
6 3 (25.00%) Mathematics
Programming Languages
1 9 (75.00%) JavaScript
2 5 (41.67%) SQL
3 4 (33.33%) Python
4 3 (25.00%) C#
4 3 (25.00%) Java
5 1 (8.33%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 10 (83.33%) Degree
2 3 (25.00%) Numerate Degree
3 2 (16.67%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (16.67%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (100.00%) QA
System Software
1 5 (41.67%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 6 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (8.33%) Pega