QA Job Trends in West Yorkshire

Quality Assurance (QA)
Yorkshire > West Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in West Yorkshire requiring QA skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 29 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 64 68 77
Rank change year-on-year +4 +9 -24
Permanent jobs citing QA 61 42 66
As % of all permanent jobs in West Yorkshire 3.38% 2.76% 3.37%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 28.64% 17.50% 21.64%
Number of salaries quoted 21 18 40
10th Percentile £41,075 £30,575 £41,125
25th Percentile £55,233 £41,375 £42,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £44,250 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +46.89% -34.44% +22.73%
75th Percentile £80,000 £67,022 £82,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £81,250 £83,750
Yorkshire median annual salary £52,500 £45,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +16.67% -25.00% +14.29%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
West Yorkshire

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 West Yorkshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 213 240 305
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 11.81% 15.79% 15.57%
Number of salaries quoted 111 116 205
10th Percentile £26,520 £25,875 £35,000
25th Percentile £31,250 £40,038 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,000 £52,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% -8.70% +9.52%
75th Percentile £65,000 £68,897 £73,250
90th Percentile £81,250 £83,250 £88,500
Yorkshire median annual salary £47,500 £50,000 £51,528
% change year-on-year -5.00% -2.97% +3.06%

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Job Vacancy Trend in West Yorkshire

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

QA job vacancy trend in West Yorkshire

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Salary Trend in West Yorkshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in West Yorkshire citing QA.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in West Yorkshire citing QA

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Salary Histogram in West Yorkshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing QA in West Yorkshire over the 6 months to 29 December 2025.

Salary histogram for QA in West Yorkshire

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Job Locations in West Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing QA within the West Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 29 December 2025. 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
Leeds -1 36 £63,250 +45.40% 72
Pontefract +1 15 £50,000 - 3
Bradford -8 7 £65,000 +52.94% 32
Batley - 1 - -
QA
Yorkshire

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West Yorkshire 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 (3.28%) HCL Notes
1 2 (3.28%) IIS
1 2 (3.28%) Oracle SOA Suite
1 2 (3.28%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.64%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (3.28%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.64%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 5 (8.20%) SAP ERP
2 2 (3.28%) Oracle BPM
Cloud Services
1 13 (21.31%) Azure
2 9 (14.75%) AWS
3 5 (8.20%) Amazon S3
3 5 (8.20%) AWS Lambda
3 5 (8.20%) SaaS
3 5 (8.20%) Serverless
4 4 (6.56%) Amazon ECR
4 4 (6.56%) Amazon ECS
4 4 (6.56%) Apigee
4 4 (6.56%) AWS CloudFormation
4 4 (6.56%) AWS Step Functions
5 3 (4.92%) Power Platform
6 2 (3.28%) Microsoft 365
7 1 (1.64%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 1 (1.64%) Amazon Cognito
7 1 (1.64%) Amazon EKS
7 1 (1.64%) Azure Data Factory
7 1 (1.64%) Dynamics 365
7 1 (1.64%) GCP
7 1 (1.64%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 4 (6.56%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (8.20%) DynamoDB
2 4 (6.56%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 3 (4.92%) SQL Server
4 2 (3.28%) MongoDB
4 2 (3.28%) NoSQL
4 2 (3.28%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (3.28%) Power BI
4 2 (3.28%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 2 (3.28%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (1.64%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (1.64%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 7 (11.48%) Jenkins
2 5 (8.20%) Cypress.io
2 5 (8.20%) GitLab
3 4 (6.56%) Maven
3 4 (6.56%) SonarQube
4 2 (3.28%) Postman
4 2 (3.28%) Selenium
5 1 (1.64%) Appium
5 1 (1.64%) Git
5 1 (1.64%) JIRA
5 1 (1.64%) REST Assured
General
1 17 (27.87%) Social Skills
2 15 (24.59%) Manufacturing
3 13 (21.31%) Influencing Skills
4 7 (11.48%) Organisational Skills
5 5 (8.20%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (8.20%) Finance
5 5 (8.20%) Games
5 5 (8.20%) Public Sector
6 3 (4.92%) Retail
7 2 (3.28%) Legal
7 2 (3.28%) Marketing
7 2 (3.28%) Military
8 1 (1.64%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 21 (34.43%) QA Manager
2 16 (26.23%) Quality Manager
3 14 (22.95%) Lead
4 6 (9.84%) Senior
5 4 (6.56%) Developer
5 4 (6.56%) Sales Executive
5 4 (6.56%) Software Developer
5 4 (6.56%) Software Manager
5 4 (6.56%) Technical Leader
6 3 (4.92%) Automation Engineer
6 3 (4.92%) QA Automation Engineer
6 3 (4.92%) QA Engineer
6 3 (4.92%) QA Leader
6 3 (4.92%) Team Leader
7 2 (3.28%) Senior Software Developer
7 2 (3.28%) Software Development Manager
7 2 (3.28%) Software Engineering Manager
7 2 (3.28%) Technical Team Leader
7 2 (3.28%) Test Engineer
7 2 (3.28%) User Researcher
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (11.48%) AngularJS
2 6 (9.84%) .NET
3 5 (8.20%) Spring
3 5 (8.20%) Spring Boot
4 4 (6.56%) Gherkin
4 4 (6.56%) Jest
4 4 (6.56%) React
5 3 (4.92%) ASP.NET
6 2 (3.28%) ASP.NET MVC
6 2 (3.28%) Node.js
6 2 (3.28%) RESTful
6 2 (3.28%) WCF
7 1 (1.64%) ASP.NET Web API
7 1 (1.64%) CSS
7 1 (1.64%) Flutter
7 1 (1.64%) LDAP
7 1 (1.64%) OAuth
7 1 (1.64%) PySpark
7 1 (1.64%) SOAP
7 1 (1.64%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 7 (11.48%) Cloud Native
2 4 (6.56%) Distributed Systems
2 4 (6.56%) Social Media
3 3 (4.92%) Mobile App
3 3 (4.92%) Product Ownership
3 3 (4.92%) Self-Motivation
4 2 (3.28%) Analytical Mindset
4 2 (3.28%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (3.28%) NHS
5 1 (1.64%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.64%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.64%) Security Posture
5 1 (1.64%) Wiki
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (31.15%) Agile
1 19 (31.15%) Mentoring
2 18 (29.51%) DevOps
3 17 (27.87%) CI/CD
4 14 (22.95%) Quality Management
5 13 (21.31%) Problem-Solving
6 12 (19.67%) Customer Engagement
6 12 (19.67%) Internal Audit
6 12 (19.67%) QMS
7 10 (16.39%) Continuous Improvement
8 9 (14.75%) Test Automation
9 8 (13.11%) Software Engineering
10 6 (9.84%) ERP
10 6 (9.84%) Project Delivery
10 6 (9.84%) Roadmaps
10 6 (9.84%) Scrum
10 6 (9.84%) Stakeholder Management
10 6 (9.84%) Waterfall
11 5 (8.20%) Code Quality
11 5 (8.20%) Collaborative Culture
Programming Languages
1 12 (19.67%) C#
2 11 (18.03%) Java
3 5 (8.20%) Bash
3 5 (8.20%) JavaScript
3 5 (8.20%) SQL
4 4 (6.56%) Groovy
4 4 (6.56%) Python
4 4 (6.56%) TypeScript
5 3 (4.92%) T-SQL
6 2 (3.28%) C++
7 1 (1.64%) Go
7 1 (1.64%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 6 (9.84%) SC Cleared
1 6 (9.84%) Security Cleared
2 2 (3.28%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (8.20%) PCI DSS
2 3 (4.92%) GDPR
2 3 (4.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (3.28%) Accessibility
3 2 (3.28%) Cyber Essentials
3 2 (3.28%) GRC
3 2 (3.28%) NIST
3 2 (3.28%) SOC 2
4 1 (1.64%) Data Quality
System Software
1 4 (6.56%) Docker
2 1 (1.64%) Squid
Systems Management
1 4 (6.56%) HP Fortify
2 1 (1.64%) Grafana
2 1 (1.64%) Kibana
2 1 (1.64%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.64%) Prometheus
2 1 (1.64%) Terraform
Vendors
1 10 (16.39%) Microsoft
2 5 (8.20%) SAP
3 2 (3.28%) Lotus
3 2 (3.28%) Oracle
4 1 (1.64%) New Relic
4 1 (1.64%) Sage
4 1 (1.64%) Splunk