QA Jobs in the West Midlands

Quality Assurance (QA)
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands requiring QA skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited QA over the 6 months leading up to 26 July 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 55 40 68
Rank change year-on-year -15 +28 +2
Permanent jobs citing QA 265 319 367
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 3.79% 6.28% 4.20%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 26.08% 32.29% 22.22%
Number of salaries quoted 166 149 234
10th Percentile £29,250 £22,750 £29,500
25th Percentile £38,750 £45,000 £36,438
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,250 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.27% +10.00% +16.96%
75th Percentile £68,591 £68,750 £62,500
90th Percentile £88,750 £82,500 £70,250
England median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -12.50% +4.35% +4.55%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
West Midlands

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 the West Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 1,016 988 1,652
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 14.52% 19.46% 18.92%
Number of salaries quoted 661 586 906
10th Percentile £27,500 £28,000 £29,256
25th Percentile £30,750 £38,750 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,500 £52,500 £49,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.90% +7.14% +5.72%
75th Percentile £65,000 £67,500 £63,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £80,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £58,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -5.17% +5.45% -

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Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing QA as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for QA in the West Midlands

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Salary Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing QA in the West Midlands.

Salary trend for QA in the West Midlands

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Salary Histogram in the West Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing QA in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 26 July 2024.

Salary histogram for QA in the West Midlands

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Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing QA within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 26 July 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
Birmingham -11 100 £60,000 - 22
Warwickshire +48 52 £55,000 -1.79% 7
Staffordshire -16 30 £44,500 -1.11% 15
Worcestershire -9 18 £30,000 +9.09% 1
Coventry +16 17 £65,000 - 1
Shropshire +13 16 £50,000 +66.67% 5
Herefordshire -5 7 £65,000 +30.00% 2
Solihull -1 3 £67,500 +35.00%
Wolverhampton -6 2 £86,000 - 2
Tipton - 2 - -
Sutton Coldfield - 1 £30,000 -
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 13 (4.91%) IIS
2 4 (1.51%) SharePoint
3 3 (1.13%) Confluence
4 1 (0.38%) WordPress
Applications
1 9 (3.40%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (1.51%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.75%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 6 (2.26%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (1.13%) NEC Housing
2 3 (1.13%) SAP ERP
3 2 (0.75%) Magento
4 1 (0.38%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.38%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 56 (21.13%) Azure
2 25 (9.43%) AWS
3 21 (7.92%) Azure DevOps
4 11 (4.15%) Dynamics 365
5 10 (3.77%) Power Platform
5 10 (3.77%) SaaS
6 7 (2.64%) Azure Stack
7 6 (2.26%) AWS Lambda
7 6 (2.26%) Power Automate
7 6 (2.26%) PowerApps
7 6 (2.26%) Serverless
8 5 (1.89%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 5 (1.89%) Amazon S3
8 5 (1.89%) AWS Fargate
8 5 (1.89%) Azure Pipelines
8 5 (1.89%) Azure Sentinel
9 4 (1.51%) Snowflake
10 3 (1.13%) Microsoft 365
10 3 (1.13%) WhatsApp
11 2 (0.75%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 22 (8.30%) 3GPP
2 5 (1.89%) SD-WAN
2 5 (1.89%) VLAN
2 5 (1.89%) WAN
3 4 (1.51%) VoIP
3 4 (1.51%) Wireshark
4 2 (0.75%) 5G
4 2 (0.75%) HTTP
4 2 (0.75%) Radio Access Network
5 1 (0.38%) FlexRay
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (12.08%) SQL Server
2 10 (3.77%) Power BI
3 9 (3.40%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 8 (3.02%) NoSQL
5 6 (2.26%) DynamoDB
5 6 (2.26%) Power Query
5 6 (2.26%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 5 (1.89%) Relational Database
7 4 (1.51%) Elasticsearch
7 4 (1.51%) Pentaho
8 3 (1.13%) Crystal Reports
8 3 (1.13%) Data Warehouse
8 3 (1.13%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 2 (0.75%) Metadata
9 2 (0.75%) Oracle Reports
10 1 (0.38%) Amazon Redshift
10 1 (0.38%) MySQL
10 1 (0.38%) Redis
Development Applications
1 13 (4.91%) Git
2 7 (2.64%) JIRA
2 7 (2.64%) Postman
3 6 (2.26%) Octopus Deploy
3 6 (2.26%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 6 (2.26%) TeamCity
4 5 (1.89%) Jasmine
4 5 (1.89%) Karma Test Runner
4 5 (1.89%) MSTest
5 4 (1.51%) Visual Studio
6 3 (1.13%) NUnit
6 3 (1.13%) Selenium
7 2 (0.75%) Cypress.io
7 2 (0.75%) Zephyr
8 1 (0.38%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.38%) GitLab
8 1 (0.38%) gulp
8 1 (0.38%) JMeter
8 1 (0.38%) SoapUI
General
1 48 (18.11%) Manufacturing
2 41 (15.47%) Social Skills
3 37 (13.96%) Analytical Skills
4 36 (13.58%) Finance
5 31 (11.70%) Retail
6 29 (10.94%) Telecoms
7 22 (8.30%) Legal
8 21 (7.92%) Marketing
9 17 (6.42%) Agriculture
10 14 (5.28%) Pharmaceutical
11 11 (4.15%) Police
12 10 (3.77%) Public Sector
13 8 (3.02%) Organisational Skills
14 7 (2.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 4 (1.51%) Influencing Skills
16 3 (1.13%) Local Government
17 2 (0.75%) Documentation Skills
17 2 (0.75%) French Language
17 2 (0.75%) German Language
18 1 (0.38%) iGaming
Job Titles
1 53 (20.00%) Analyst
2 40 (15.09%) Lead
3 32 (12.08%) Developer
4 22 (8.30%) Senior
5 21 (7.92%) Functional Analyst
5 21 (7.92%) QA Manager
6 17 (6.42%) Business Analyst
7 16 (6.04%) Quality Manager
8 11 (4.15%) Lead Developer
9 9 (3.40%) QA Specialist
9 9 (3.40%) Team Leader
10 8 (3.02%) QA Officer
10 8 (3.02%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
10 8 (3.02%) ServiceNow Developer
11 7 (2.64%) IT Manager
11 7 (2.64%) Product Manager
11 7 (2.64%) Senior Manager
11 7 (2.64%) Senior Product Manager
12 6 (2.26%) Consultant
12 6 (2.26%) Development Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (14.34%) .NET
2 17 (6.42%) XML
3 16 (6.04%) ASP.NET
4 12 (4.53%) .NET Core
4 12 (4.53%) React
5 11 (4.15%) JSON
6 9 (3.40%) CSS
6 9 (3.40%) HTML
7 7 (2.64%) SOAP
7 7 (2.64%) Web Services
8 6 (2.26%) AngularJS
8 6 (2.26%) Node.js
8 6 (2.26%) Sass
8 6 (2.26%) Twitter Bootstrap
8 6 (2.26%) XML Schema
9 5 (1.89%) .NET Framework
9 5 (1.89%) Blazor
9 5 (1.89%) REST
9 5 (1.89%) RESTful
9 5 (1.89%) RxJS
Miscellaneous
1 15 (5.66%) Product Ownership
2 13 (4.91%) Cloud Native
3 12 (4.53%) Management Information System
4 8 (3.02%) Mobile App
5 5 (1.89%) Onboarding
6 4 (1.51%) Team-Oriented Environment
7 3 (1.13%) Self-Motivation
8 2 (0.75%) Client/Server
8 2 (0.75%) Data Centre
8 2 (0.75%) Data Structures
8 2 (0.75%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (0.75%) Operational Technology
8 2 (0.75%) PACS
9 1 (0.38%) Blockchain
9 1 (0.38%) Blog
9 1 (0.38%) Digital Media
9 1 (0.38%) Distributed Applications
9 1 (0.38%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 11 (4.15%) Windows
2 4 (1.51%) VMS
3 3 (1.13%) Android
3 3 (1.13%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.38%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 66 (24.91%) Agile
2 46 (17.36%) DevOps
3 42 (15.85%) Continuous Improvement
3 42 (15.85%) Problem-Solving
4 41 (15.47%) Coaching
5 39 (14.72%) Software Testing
6 38 (14.34%) Decision-Making
7 36 (13.58%) Test Automation
7 36 (13.58%) Test Strategy
8 35 (13.21%) Mentoring
9 31 (11.70%) ITIL
10 28 (10.57%) SDLC
11 27 (10.19%) Cybersecurity
11 27 (10.19%) Project Management
11 27 (10.19%) Roadmaps
12 25 (9.43%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 22 (8.30%) Process Improvement
13 22 (8.30%) Workflow
14 19 (7.17%) ITSM
15 18 (6.79%) Logistics
Programming Languages
1 35 (13.21%) C#
2 32 (12.08%) SQL
3 22 (8.30%) JavaScript
4 11 (4.15%) Python
5 9 (3.40%) VB
6 7 (2.64%) TypeScript
7 6 (2.26%) PowerShell
7 6 (2.26%) T-SQL
8 5 (1.89%) VB.NET
8 5 (1.89%) VB6
8 5 (1.89%) VBA
9 4 (1.51%) Java
9 4 (1.51%) R
10 2 (0.75%) Kotlin
10 2 (0.75%) Ladder Logic
10 2 (0.75%) PHP
10 2 (0.75%) Swift
11 1 (0.38%) C
11 1 (0.38%) Embedded C
Qualifications
1 84 (31.70%) Degree
2 12 (4.53%) Computer Science Degree
3 8 (3.02%) Security Cleared
4 7 (2.64%) SC Cleared
5 5 (1.89%) ISTQB
5 5 (1.89%) PMI Certification
5 5 (1.89%) PMP
6 4 (1.51%) Azure Certification
7 3 (1.13%) CSPO
7 3 (1.13%) DBS Check
7 3 (1.13%) IIBA
8 2 (0.75%) CREST Certified
8 2 (0.75%) HNC
9 1 (0.38%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.38%) CITP
9 1 (0.38%) HND
9 1 (0.38%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (8.30%) NCSC
2 11 (4.15%) GMP
3 5 (1.89%) ISO/IEC 20000
4 4 (1.51%) Accessibility
4 4 (1.51%) SLA
5 3 (1.13%) GRC
6 2 (0.75%) Cyber Essentials
6 2 (0.75%) IEC 61131
7 1 (0.38%) ISO 26262
7 1 (0.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.38%) MISRA
System Software
1 5 (1.89%) Docker
2 2 (0.75%) Virtual Desktop
2 2 (0.75%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 10 (3.77%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.38%) Grafana
2 1 (0.38%) Kibana
Vendors
1 34 (12.83%) Microsoft
2 19 (7.17%) ServiceNow
3 5 (1.89%) Avaya
3 5 (1.89%) Cisco
3 5 (1.89%) Databricks
3 5 (1.89%) SAP
3 5 (1.89%) SolarWinds
3 5 (1.89%) Zscaler
4 4 (1.51%) Oracle
5 3 (1.13%) NEC
5 3 (1.13%) Salesforce
5 3 (1.13%) SYSPRO
5 3 (1.13%) Xamarin
6 2 (0.75%) Allen-Bradley
6 2 (0.75%) Citrix
6 2 (0.75%) Denodo
6 2 (0.75%) Informatica
6 2 (0.75%) Siemens
6 2 (0.75%) Talend
6 2 (0.75%) VMware