Software Quality Assurance Job Trends in the West Midlands

Software Quality Assurance
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the West Midlands requiring Software Quality Assurance skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 26 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 201 174 -
Rank change year-on-year -27 - -
Permanent jobs citing Software Quality Assurance 3 1 0
As % of all permanent jobs in the West Midlands 0.037% 0.030% -
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 0.36% 0.16% -
Number of salaries quoted 2 1 0
10th Percentile £42,750 - -
25th Percentile £43,125 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £45,000 -
75th Percentile £46,875 - -
90th Percentile £47,250 - -
England median annual salary £42,500 £66,250 £63,774
% change year-on-year -35.85% +3.88% +41.72%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
West Midlands

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 in the West Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 843 610 1,123
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 10.37% 18.31% 15.52%
Number of salaries quoted 420 396 868
10th Percentile £30,958 £29,250 £27,440
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,809 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,068 £52,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +2.99% - +2.44%
75th Percentile £65,640 £63,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £79,061 £76,875 £77,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +4.35% +9.52% -8.70%

Software Quality Assurance
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Software Quality Assurance relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Software Quality Assurance job vacancy trend in the West Midlands

Software Quality Assurance
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Software Quality Assurance.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Software Quality Assurance

Software Quality Assurance
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 Software Quality Assurance within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 26 April 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
Shropshire -28 3 £45,000 - 1
Software Quality Assurance
England

Software Quality Assurance
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 3 (100.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) Azure
1 3 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 3 (100.00%) Siteimprove
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (100.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (100.00%) JIRA
1 3 (100.00%) Selenium
1 3 (100.00%) TestRail
1 3 (100.00%) Toad
1 3 (100.00%) Zephyr
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Analyst
1 3 (100.00%) QA Analyst
2 2 (66.67%) Senior
2 2 (66.67%) Senior Analyst
2 2 (66.67%) Senior QA Analyst
3 1 (33.33%) Lead
3 1 (33.33%) QA Leader
3 1 (33.33%) Quality Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 3 (100.00%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Agile
1 3 (100.00%) Code Quality
1 3 (100.00%) Computer Science
1 3 (100.00%) Defect Management
1 3 (100.00%) Defect Tracking
1 3 (100.00%) DevOps
1 3 (100.00%) Scenario Testing
1 3 (100.00%) SDLC
1 3 (100.00%) Software Testing
1 3 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 3 (100.00%) Test Management
1 3 (100.00%) Waterfall
2 2 (66.67%) Customer Service
2 2 (66.67%) QA Automation
2 2 (66.67%) Root Cause Analysis
2 2 (66.67%) Test Planning
2 2 (66.67%) Traceability Matrix
3 1 (33.33%) Acceptance Criteria
3 1 (33.33%) User Experience
3 1 (33.33%) User Stories
Qualifications
1 3 (100.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (100.00%) Accessibility
1 3 (100.00%) QA
Systems Management
1 3 (100.00%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) HP
1 3 (100.00%) Oracle