QA Job Trends in Warwickshire

Quality Assurance (QA)
West Midlands > Warwickshire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Warwickshire requiring QA skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 33 73 60
Rank change year-on-year +40 -13 +1
Permanent jobs citing QA 20 8 12
As % of all permanent jobs in Warwickshire 2.95% 1.30% 1.91%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 19.42% 14.55% 12.24%
Number of salaries quoted 16 1 9
10th Percentile £36,000 - £42,915
25th Percentile £37,000 £62,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,034 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.26% - +30.00%
75th Percentile £79,688 £67,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £83,125 - £72,500
West Midlands median annual salary £57,500 £57,500 £49,000
% change year-on-year - +17.35% -9.26%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Warwickshire

QA 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 in Warwickshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 103 55 98
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Warwickshire 15.21% 8.94% 15.58%
Number of salaries quoted 29 26 85
10th Percentile £34,500 £31,125 £38,330
25th Percentile £37,000 £36,000 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £63,750 £55,500
Median % change year-on-year -21.57% +14.86% +11.00%
75th Percentile £62,500 £70,938 £65,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £86,000 £86,000
West Midlands median annual salary £52,500 £52,500 £51,814
% change year-on-year - +1.32% +3.63%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Warwickshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing QA relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Warwickshire.

QA job vacancy trend in Warwickshire

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Salary Trend in Warwickshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Warwickshire citing QA.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Warwickshire citing QA

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Salary Histogram in Warwickshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing QA in Warwickshire over the 6 months to 15 January 2026.

Salary histogram for QA in Warwickshire

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Job Locations in Warwickshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing QA within the Warwickshire region over the 6 months to 15 January 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
Warwick -3 4 £75,000 +15.38% 4
Bedworth - 3 £37,000 -
Rugby +10 2 - -
Stratford-upon-Avon - 2 £54,068 - 1
Alcester - 2 £35,000 -
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West Midlands

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Warwickshire 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 2 (10.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 7 (35.00%) Azure
2 3 (15.00%) AWS
2 3 (15.00%) Azure DevOps
2 3 (15.00%) Azure Sentinel
3 2 (10.00%) SaaS
3 2 (10.00%) Slack
4 1 (5.00%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 3 (15.00%) SD-WAN
1 3 (15.00%) VLAN
1 3 (15.00%) WAN
Development Applications
1 4 (20.00%) JIRA
2 1 (5.00%) LoadRunner
2 1 (5.00%) SoapUI
General
1 5 (25.00%) Manufacturing
2 3 (15.00%) Finance
2 3 (15.00%) Public Sector
3 2 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (10.00%) Social Skills
4 1 (5.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (5.00%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (30.00%) Lead
2 3 (15.00%) Network Engineer
2 3 (15.00%) QA Engineer
3 2 (10.00%) Analyst
3 2 (10.00%) Business Analyst
3 2 (10.00%) IT Manager
3 2 (10.00%) IT Project Manager
3 2 (10.00%) Manufacturing Engineer
3 2 (10.00%) Manufacturing Engineering Engineer
3 2 (10.00%) Project Manager
3 2 (10.00%) Senior
3 2 (10.00%) Senior Analyst
3 2 (10.00%) Senior Business Analyst
3 2 (10.00%) Technical Leader
3 2 (10.00%) Test Leader
3 2 (10.00%) Test Manager
4 1 (5.00%) Agile Scrum Master
4 1 (5.00%) Azure Test Lead
4 1 (5.00%) Lead DevOps
4 1 (5.00%) Migration Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.00%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 3 (15.00%) Driving Licence
1 3 (15.00%) SCADA
2 2 (10.00%) Onboarding
3 1 (5.00%) Data Centre
3 1 (5.00%) PACS
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 9 (45.00%) Agile
3 6 (30.00%) User Acceptance Testing
4 5 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
4 5 (25.00%) Roadmaps
4 5 (25.00%) Service Delivery
5 4 (20.00%) CI/CD
5 4 (20.00%) Customer Requirements
5 4 (20.00%) Proactive Management
5 4 (20.00%) Product Roadmap
5 4 (20.00%) Release Management
6 3 (15.00%) Data Migration
6 3 (15.00%) DevOps
6 3 (15.00%) Digital Strategy
6 3 (15.00%) ITSM
6 3 (15.00%) Migration
6 3 (15.00%) Network Monitoring
6 3 (15.00%) Scrum
6 3 (15.00%) Supplier Management
6 3 (15.00%) Waterfall
Qualifications
1 2 (10.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (15.00%) ISO/IEC 20000
Vendors
1 3 (15.00%) Avaya
1 3 (15.00%) Cisco
1 3 (15.00%) Microsoft
1 3 (15.00%) SolarWinds
1 3 (15.00%) Zscaler
2 1 (5.00%) Dynatrace