QA Jobs in the West Midlands

Quality Assurance (QA)
England > West Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands with a requirement for QA skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited QA over the 6 months to 7 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 62 13 78
Rank change year-on-year -49 +65 +2
Permanent jobs citing QA 267 821 282
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 3.67% 12.84% 3.87%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 23.59% 44.55% 20.03%
Number of salaries quoted 225 184 229
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,250 £26,250
25th Percentile £39,500 £46,250 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +15.79% +5.56%
75th Percentile £67,500 £65,000 £60,325
90th Percentile £88,750 £82,125 £70,000
England median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
West Midlands

QA 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 advertised in the West Midlands with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 1,132 1,843 1,408
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 15.58% 28.82% 19.32%
Number of salaries quoted 869 707 864
10th Percentile £27,500 £30,850 £26,825
25th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £34,988
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,500 £51,573 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.74% +8.57% +0.53%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £62,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £81,250 £76,846
England median annual salary £52,500 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% -

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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 7 May 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 7 May 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 -39 100 £58,700 +6.73% 50
Staffordshire -9 54 £42,500 +21.43% 12
Warwickshire -3 26 £70,000 +25.00% 14
Shropshire +5 18 £50,000 +6.38% 4
Coventry -14 17 £65,000 - 13
Worcestershire -18 12 £30,000 -11.11% 12
Solihull +2 10 £55,000 +10.00%
Wolverhampton -26 2 £86,000 - 4
Halesowen - 2 - -
Herefordshire -8 1 £65,000 +30.00% 6
Sutton Coldfield - 1 £30,000 - 2
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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 11 (4.12%) IIS
2 4 (1.50%) SharePoint
3 3 (1.12%) Confluence
4 2 (0.75%) ArcGIS
4 2 (0.75%) WordPress
Applications
1 7 (2.62%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (1.50%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (1.12%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.75%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 6 (2.25%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (1.87%) SAP ERP
3 1 (0.37%) NEC Housing
3 1 (0.37%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.37%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 66 (24.72%) Azure
2 37 (13.86%) AWS
3 23 (8.61%) Azure DevOps
4 19 (7.12%) SaaS
5 15 (5.62%) Dynamics 365
6 12 (4.49%) Power Platform
7 8 (3.00%) AWS Lambda
7 8 (3.00%) Microsoft 365
7 8 (3.00%) Serverless
8 7 (2.62%) Azure Stack
9 6 (2.25%) GCP
9 6 (2.25%) PaaS
9 6 (2.25%) Power Automate
9 6 (2.25%) PowerApps
10 5 (1.87%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 5 (1.87%) Amazon S3
10 5 (1.87%) AWS Fargate
10 5 (1.87%) Azure Sentinel
10 5 (1.87%) GitHub
10 5 (1.87%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.87%) SD-WAN
1 5 (1.87%) VLAN
1 5 (1.87%) WAN
2 4 (1.50%) VoIP
2 4 (1.50%) Wireshark
3 3 (1.12%) Wireless
4 2 (0.75%) FlexRay
4 2 (0.75%) HTTP
4 2 (0.75%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.37%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (12.73%) SQL Server
2 12 (4.49%) Power BI
3 11 (4.12%) NoSQL
4 6 (2.25%) DynamoDB
4 6 (2.25%) Power Query
4 6 (2.25%) Relational Database
4 6 (2.25%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 6 (2.25%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 5 (1.87%) Crystal Reports
6 4 (1.50%) Elasticsearch
7 2 (0.75%) BigQuery
7 2 (0.75%) GIS
7 2 (0.75%) Looker
7 2 (0.75%) Metadata
7 2 (0.75%) MySQL
7 2 (0.75%) Spatial Data
8 1 (0.37%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.37%) Redis
Development Applications
1 23 (8.61%) Git
2 11 (4.12%) Postman
2 11 (4.12%) Selenium
3 10 (3.75%) Cucumber
3 10 (3.75%) Visual Studio
4 9 (3.37%) Jasmine
5 7 (2.62%) JIRA
6 6 (2.25%) NUnit
6 6 (2.25%) Octopus Deploy
6 6 (2.25%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 6 (2.25%) TeamCity
7 5 (1.87%) Karma Test Runner
7 5 (1.87%) MSTest
7 5 (1.87%) SoapUI
8 4 (1.50%) ESLint
8 4 (1.50%) IntelliJ
9 3 (1.12%) JMeter
10 2 (0.75%) Cypress.io
10 2 (0.75%) gulp
11 1 (0.37%) GitLab
General
1 60 (22.47%) Social Skills
2 50 (18.73%) Analytical Skills
3 44 (16.48%) Finance
4 37 (13.86%) Manufacturing
5 19 (7.12%) Retail
6 18 (6.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 17 (6.37%) Pharmaceutical
8 13 (4.87%) Public Sector
9 10 (3.75%) Telecoms
10 9 (3.37%) Police
11 8 (3.00%) Legal
12 6 (2.25%) Marketing
12 6 (2.25%) Organisational Skills
13 5 (1.87%) Banking
13 5 (1.87%) Publishing
14 4 (1.50%) Games
14 4 (1.50%) Influencing Skills
15 3 (1.12%) Electronics
16 2 (0.75%) Automotive
16 2 (0.75%) iGaming
Job Titles
1 49 (18.35%) Lead
2 48 (17.98%) Developer
3 20 (7.49%) Analyst
4 18 (6.74%) QA Manager
5 16 (5.99%) Senior
6 15 (5.62%) Software Engineer
7 14 (5.24%) Lead Developer
8 13 (4.87%) Quality Manager
9 12 (4.49%) QA Engineer
10 10 (3.75%) Tester
11 8 (3.00%) .NET Developer
11 8 (3.00%) Product Manager
11 8 (3.00%) ServiceNow Developer
12 7 (2.62%) C# Developer
12 7 (2.62%) QA Leader
12 7 (2.62%) QA Officer
12 7 (2.62%) Senior Manager
12 7 (2.62%) Senior Product Manager
12 7 (2.62%) Software Developer
13 6 (2.25%) Web Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 46 (17.23%) .NET
2 23 (8.61%) React
2 23 (8.61%) XML
3 20 (7.49%) ASP.NET
4 19 (7.12%) .NET Core
5 15 (5.62%) JSON
6 14 (5.24%) Node.js
7 13 (4.87%) RESTful
7 13 (4.87%) Web Services
8 11 (4.12%) SOAP
9 10 (3.75%) Jest
9 10 (3.75%) Spring Boot
9 10 (3.75%) XML Schema
10 9 (3.37%) CSS
10 9 (3.37%) HTML
10 9 (3.37%) REST
10 9 (3.37%) Spring
11 7 (2.62%) .NET Framework
11 7 (2.62%) AngularJS
11 7 (2.62%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 34 (12.73%) Management Information System
2 25 (9.36%) Product Ownership
3 11 (4.12%) Cloud Native
4 9 (3.37%) Mobile App
5 8 (3.00%) Data Structures
5 8 (3.00%) Onboarding
6 6 (2.25%) Self-Motivation
7 5 (1.87%) Client/Server
7 5 (1.87%) Distributed Applications
7 5 (1.87%) Legacy Systems
8 4 (1.50%) Team-Oriented Environment
9 3 (1.12%) CCTV
9 3 (1.12%) Mobile Games
10 2 (0.75%) Algorithms
10 2 (0.75%) Analytical Mindset
10 2 (0.75%) Data Centre
10 2 (0.75%) Data Protection Act
10 2 (0.75%) PACS
10 2 (0.75%) Pricing Data
10 2 (0.75%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 13 (4.87%) Windows
2 4 (1.50%) VMS
3 2 (0.75%) Android
3 2 (0.75%) Apple iOS
3 2 (0.75%) Linux
4 1 (0.37%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 93 (34.83%) Agile
2 58 (21.72%) DevOps
3 56 (20.97%) Test Automation
4 50 (18.73%) Problem-Solving
5 46 (17.23%) Continuous Improvement
6 36 (13.48%) Mentoring
7 35 (13.11%) Scrum
7 35 (13.11%) Software Testing
8 33 (12.36%) CI/CD
9 28 (10.49%) Project Management
9 28 (10.49%) Roadmaps
9 28 (10.49%) Software Engineering
10 27 (10.11%) Coaching
11 26 (9.74%) User Experience
12 25 (9.36%) Decision-Making
13 24 (8.99%) Project Delivery
14 23 (8.61%) Test Strategy
15 22 (8.24%) Computer Science
16 20 (7.49%) ITSM
16 20 (7.49%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 47 (17.60%) C#
2 41 (15.36%) SQL
3 37 (13.86%) JavaScript
4 19 (7.12%) Python
5 14 (5.24%) TypeScript
6 13 (4.87%) Java
7 9 (3.37%) VB
8 6 (2.25%) PowerShell
9 5 (1.87%) C
9 5 (1.87%) R
9 5 (1.87%) T-SQL
9 5 (1.87%) VB.NET
9 5 (1.87%) VB6
10 4 (1.50%) PHP
11 2 (0.75%) Kotlin
11 2 (0.75%) Ladder Logic
11 2 (0.75%) Swift
12 1 (0.37%) Embedded C
Qualifications
1 53 (19.85%) Degree
2 15 (5.62%) Computer Science Degree
3 6 (2.25%) DBS Check
3 6 (2.25%) Security Cleared
4 5 (1.87%) HNC
5 4 (1.50%) AAT
5 4 (1.50%) Azure Certification
5 4 (1.50%) CREST Certified
6 3 (1.12%) APMP
6 3 (1.12%) CITP
6 3 (1.12%) CSPO
6 3 (1.12%) IIBA
6 3 (1.12%) ISTQB
6 3 (1.12%) Numerate Degree
7 2 (0.75%) PMI Certification
7 2 (0.75%) PMP
7 2 (0.75%) SC Cleared
8 1 (0.37%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.37%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (6.74%) GMP
2 8 (3.00%) Cyber Essentials
3 7 (2.62%) Data Quality
3 7 (2.62%) SLA
4 5 (1.87%) GDPR
4 5 (1.87%) ISO/IEC 20000
5 4 (1.50%) Accessibility
6 2 (0.75%) IEC 61131
6 2 (0.75%) ISO 26262
6 2 (0.75%) MISRA
7 1 (0.37%) GRC
System Software
1 10 (3.75%) Docker
2 2 (0.75%) Virtual Desktop
2 2 (0.75%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 11 (4.12%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.37%) Grafana
2 1 (0.37%) Kibana
Vendors
1 38 (14.23%) Microsoft
2 17 (6.37%) ServiceNow
3 11 (4.12%) Databricks
4 8 (3.00%) SAP
5 6 (2.25%) Google
6 5 (1.87%) Avaya
6 5 (1.87%) Cisco
6 5 (1.87%) SolarWinds
6 5 (1.87%) SYSPRO
6 5 (1.87%) Xamarin
6 5 (1.87%) Zscaler
7 3 (1.12%) Salesforce
8 2 (0.75%) Allen-Bradley
8 2 (0.75%) Citrix
8 2 (0.75%) Siemens
8 2 (0.75%) VMware
9 1 (0.37%) IBM
9 1 (0.37%) NEC
9 1 (0.37%) Splunk