Software Quality Assurance Jobs

Software Quality Assurance
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Software Quality Assurance skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Software Quality Assurance over the 6 months to 29 November 2023 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 Nov 2023
Same period 2022 Same period 2021
Rank 694 958 1036
Rank change year-on-year +264 +78 -335
Permanent jobs citing Software Quality Assurance 39 132 63
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.072% 0.10% 0.049%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 0.49% 0.60% 0.31%
Number of salaries quoted 11 58 43
10th Percentile £32,500 £42,500 £31,450
25th Percentile £40,106 £46,250 £36,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £49,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.01% +10.00% -29.13%
75th Percentile £73,125 £58,750 £65,875
90th Percentile £85,000 £77,625 £81,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £55,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -18.18% +22.22% -10.00%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
UK

Software Quality Assurance is in the Quality Assurance and Compliance category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 7,965 22,144 20,162
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 14.72% 17.60% 15.62%
Number of salaries quoted 5,839 12,086 12,512
10th Percentile £31,500 £31,250 £31,000
25th Percentile £43,625 £42,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% +1.72%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £72,050
90th Percentile £93,750 £95,000 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year +5.00% +5.26% -5.00%

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 29 November 2023.

Salary histogram for Software Quality Assurance in the UK

Software Quality Assurance
Top 11 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 29 November 2023. 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 +235 34 £56,500 +15.31% 9
UK excluding London +178 29 £45,000 -18.18% 11
Work from Home +237 17 £41,394 -24.74% 4
South West +69 14 £60,000 +26.32%
South East +139 11 £45,000 -21.74% 6
London +242 6 £80,000 +110.53% 2
North of England +118 2 - -
North West +95 2 - -
Midlands +112 1 £30,000 -38.78% 1
West Midlands +100 1 £30,000 -38.78% 1
Scotland +54 1 - -

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 2 (5.13%) Confluence
2 1 (2.56%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 1 (2.56%) osCommerce
Cloud Services
1 9 (23.08%) SaaS
2 8 (20.51%) Azure
3 7 (17.95%) Azure DevOps
4 4 (10.26%) AWS
5 1 (2.56%) BrowserStack
5 1 (2.56%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.56%) DNS
1 1 (2.56%) HTTP
1 1 (2.56%) Internet
1 1 (2.56%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.56%) MySQL
1 1 (2.56%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 10 (25.64%) Selenium
2 4 (10.26%) Cucumber
2 4 (10.26%) Cypress.io
2 4 (10.26%) Protractor
3 3 (7.69%) Git
3 3 (7.69%) JIRA
4 2 (5.13%) Jenkins
4 2 (5.13%) REST Assured
4 2 (5.13%) SoapUI
4 2 (5.13%) Team Foundation Server
4 2 (5.13%) Visual Studio
4 2 (5.13%) WebDriver
5 1 (2.56%) JUnit
5 1 (2.56%) NUnit
5 1 (2.56%) Postman
5 1 (2.56%) SpecFlow
5 1 (2.56%) TestRail
General
1 3 (7.69%) Retail
1 3 (7.69%) Social Skills
2 2 (5.13%) Billing
2 2 (5.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (2.56%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (2.56%) Electronics
3 1 (2.56%) Finance
3 1 (2.56%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 12 (30.77%) C++ Software Engineer
1 12 (30.77%) Software Engineer
2 8 (20.51%) Developer
3 7 (17.95%) C++ Developer
4 6 (15.38%) Quality Engineer
4 6 (15.38%) Software Quality Engineer
5 3 (7.69%) QA Engineer
5 3 (7.69%) Software QA Engineer
5 3 (7.69%) Test Automation Engineer
5 3 (7.69%) Test Engineer
6 2 (5.13%) Analyst
6 2 (5.13%) Cloud Engineer
6 2 (5.13%) IT Engineer
6 2 (5.13%) QA Tester
6 2 (5.13%) Senior
6 2 (5.13%) Senior QA Engineer
6 2 (5.13%) Senior Quality Engineer
6 2 (5.13%) Test Analyst
6 2 (5.13%) Test Manager
6 2 (5.13%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (28.21%) XML
2 3 (7.69%) .NET
3 2 (5.13%) .NET Framework
3 2 (5.13%) CSS
3 2 (5.13%) Gherkin
3 2 (5.13%) HTML
3 2 (5.13%) REST
3 2 (5.13%) RESTful
3 2 (5.13%) Web Services
4 1 (2.56%) JSON
4 1 (2.56%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 9 (23.08%) Satnav
2 3 (7.69%) Management Information System
3 2 (5.13%) Client/Server
3 2 (5.13%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (5.13%) Onboarding
4 1 (2.56%) IoT
4 1 (2.56%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 12 (30.77%) Linux
2 10 (25.64%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (100.00%) Code Quality
2 23 (58.97%) Test Automation
3 20 (51.28%) Software Engineering
4 19 (48.72%) Actionable Insight
5 13 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
6 11 (28.21%) Agile
7 10 (25.64%) Clean Code
7 10 (25.64%) Secure Coding
7 10 (25.64%) Unit Testing
8 9 (23.08%) Quality Management
9 7 (17.95%) DevOps
9 7 (17.95%) Software Testing
10 6 (15.38%) Scrum
10 6 (15.38%) SDLC
10 6 (15.38%) Test Scripting
11 5 (12.82%) Acceptance Criteria
11 5 (12.82%) Regression Testing
12 4 (10.26%) CI/CD
12 4 (10.26%) Manual Testing
12 4 (10.26%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 19 (48.72%) C++
2 9 (23.08%) C
3 7 (17.95%) JavaScript
4 6 (15.38%) Python
5 5 (12.82%) C#
5 5 (12.82%) Java
6 4 (10.26%) SQL
7 1 (2.56%) PHP
Qualifications
1 16 (41.03%) SC Cleared
1 16 (41.03%) Security Cleared
2 3 (7.69%) ISTQB
2 3 (7.69%) ITIL Certification
3 2 (5.13%) CCNA
3 2 (5.13%) Cisco Certification
3 2 (5.13%) Degree
4 1 (2.56%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (2.56%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 39 (100.00%) QA
2 3 (7.69%) IEC 61508
2 3 (7.69%) ISO 9001
3 2 (5.13%) Accessibility
3 2 (5.13%) WCAG
System Software
1 3 (7.69%) Embedded Firmware
1 3 (7.69%) Firmware
2 2 (5.13%) Docker
2 2 (5.13%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 2 (5.13%) Ansible
1 2 (5.13%) Kubernetes
1 2 (5.13%) Packer
1 2 (5.13%) Terraform
2 1 (2.56%) cPanel
2 1 (2.56%) Plesk
Vendors
1 2 (5.13%) Microsoft
1 2 (5.13%) VMware
2 1 (2.56%) ServiceNow