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 15 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 68 77 59
Rank change year-on-year +9 -18 +17
Permanent jobs citing QA 72 27 72
As % of all permanent jobs in West Yorkshire 1.72% 1.81% 3.18%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 22.93% 20.77% 23.53%
Number of salaries quoted 48 21 39
10th Percentile - £41,075 £26,000
25th Percentile £30,000 £47,875 £37,369
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £44,724 £59,800 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -25.21% +32.89% -25.00%
75th Percentile £60,000 £71,250 £62,500
90th Percentile £77,500 - £82,500
Yorkshire median annual salary £40,000 £55,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year -27.27% +29.41% -29.17%

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 314 130 306
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 7.49% 8.70% 13.50%
Number of salaries quoted 253 100 155
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,493 £26,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £32,500 £32,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £53,000 £49,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.94% +8.16% -10.91%
75th Percentile £67,500 £65,000 £62,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £72,750 £78,000
Yorkshire median annual salary £47,988 £45,000 £46,215
% change year-on-year +6.64% -2.63% -7.57%

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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 15 September 2026.

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 15 September 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
Leeds -15 57 £42,500 -29.17% 66
Bradford -7 5 £30,000 -48.94% 3
Keighley - 3 £55,000 -
Wakefield - 1 £55,000 -
Castleford - 1 - -
Cleckheaton - 1 £35,000 -
Huddersfield - 1 £18,000 -
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 3 (4.17%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.39%) CMS
Applications
1 7 (9.72%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (8.33%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (1.39%) Navisworks
3 1 (1.39%) Revit
Business Applications
1 4 (5.56%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 10 (13.89%) AWS
1 10 (13.89%) Serverless
2 9 (12.50%) Amazon EC2
2 9 (12.50%) AWS Lambda
3 8 (11.11%) Amazon S3
3 8 (11.11%) Azure
3 8 (11.11%) Power Platform
4 5 (6.94%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 5 (6.94%) GitHub
4 5 (6.94%) GitHub Actions
5 4 (5.56%) Azure DevOps
6 3 (4.17%) Amazon EKS
7 2 (2.78%) Copilot Studio
7 2 (2.78%) Entra ID
7 2 (2.78%) Microsoft 365
7 2 (2.78%) Microsoft Copilot
7 2 (2.78%) NetDocuments
7 2 (2.78%) Power Automate
7 2 (2.78%) SaaS
8 1 (1.39%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 4 (5.56%) DNS
1 4 (5.56%) Internet
1 4 (5.56%) SSL
1 4 (5.56%) TCP/IP
1 4 (5.56%) VPN
2 3 (4.17%) HTTP
2 3 (4.17%) Structured Cabling
3 1 (1.39%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (9.72%) Power BI
2 1 (1.39%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (1.39%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (1.39%) Metadata
2 1 (1.39%) MongoDB
2 1 (1.39%) MySQL
2 1 (1.39%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 15 (20.83%) JIRA
2 13 (18.06%) Git
3 10 (13.89%) GitLab
3 10 (13.89%) Jenkins
4 8 (11.11%) Cypress.io
5 5 (6.94%) Postman
6 4 (5.56%) JMeter
7 3 (4.17%) Artifactory
7 3 (4.17%) Cucumber
7 3 (4.17%) Selenium
7 3 (4.17%) SonarQube
8 1 (1.39%) Bitbucket
8 1 (1.39%) JUnit
General
1 35 (48.61%) Social Skills
2 12 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
3 10 (13.89%) Finance
4 6 (8.33%) Organisational Skills
5 4 (5.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 4 (5.56%) Law
6 3 (4.17%) Public Sector
6 3 (4.17%) Telecoms
7 2 (2.78%) Legal
7 2 (2.78%) Manufacturing
7 2 (2.78%) Marketing
7 2 (2.78%) Retail
8 1 (1.39%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 13 (18.06%) Lead
2 9 (12.50%) Analyst
3 7 (9.72%) Senior
4 6 (8.33%) Test Engineer
5 5 (6.94%) Business Analyst
5 5 (6.94%) Developer
5 5 (6.94%) IT Manager
5 5 (6.94%) QA Engineer
5 5 (6.94%) Tester
6 4 (5.56%) Lecturer
7 3 (4.17%) Automation Engineer
7 3 (4.17%) DevOps Engineer
7 3 (4.17%) Engineering Manager
7 3 (4.17%) Java Developer
7 3 (4.17%) QA Automation Engineer
7 3 (4.17%) Senior Test Engineer
8 2 (2.78%) IT Operations Manager
8 2 (2.78%) Operations Manager
8 2 (2.78%) Penetration Tester
8 2 (2.78%) Software Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (13.89%) Playwright
2 7 (9.72%) RESTful
3 6 (8.33%) REST
4 5 (6.94%) .NET
5 4 (5.56%) Gherkin
5 4 (5.56%) React
6 3 (4.17%) Elastic Stack
6 3 (4.17%) JSON
6 3 (4.17%) RabbitMQ
6 3 (4.17%) Terraform
6 3 (4.17%) YAML
7 1 (1.39%) CSS
7 1 (1.39%) Flutter
7 1 (1.39%) HTML
7 1 (1.39%) OAuth
7 1 (1.39%) OpenID
7 1 (1.39%) Spring
7 1 (1.39%) Spring Boot
7 1 (1.39%) Symfony
7 1 (1.39%) Vitest
Miscellaneous
1 8 (11.11%) Product Ownership
2 4 (5.56%) Cyber Kill Chain
2 4 (5.56%) Management Information System
2 4 (5.56%) Onboarding
2 4 (5.56%) Security Posture
3 3 (4.17%) Analytical Mindset
3 3 (4.17%) CCTV
3 3 (4.17%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (4.17%) Driving Licence
4 2 (2.78%) AI Agents
4 2 (2.78%) Cloud Native
4 2 (2.78%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (2.78%) Mobile App
5 1 (1.39%) Legacy Applications
5 1 (1.39%) Mainframe
5 1 (1.39%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 7 (9.72%) Linux
2 6 (8.33%) Windows
3 1 (1.39%) VME
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (40.28%) Agile
2 21 (29.17%) Continuous Improvement
3 18 (25.00%) CI/CD
3 18 (25.00%) Test Automation
4 14 (19.44%) Mentoring
5 13 (18.06%) DevOps
5 13 (18.06%) Scrum
6 12 (16.67%) Decision-Making
7 11 (15.28%) Customer-Centricity
7 11 (15.28%) Kanban
7 11 (15.28%) Problem-Solving
8 10 (13.89%) Acceptance Criteria
8 10 (13.89%) Software Delivery
9 9 (12.50%) Coaching
9 9 (12.50%) Customer Experience
9 9 (12.50%) Customer Service
9 9 (12.50%) Process Improvement
9 9 (12.50%) Software Testing
10 8 (11.11%) API Testing
11 7 (9.72%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 12 (16.67%) SQL
2 10 (13.89%) Java
2 10 (13.89%) Python
2 10 (13.89%) TypeScript
3 9 (12.50%) C#
4 8 (11.11%) JavaScript
5 3 (4.17%) Groovy
6 1 (1.39%) COBOL
6 1 (1.39%) Go
6 1 (1.39%) Perl
6 1 (1.39%) PHP
6 1 (1.39%) R
6 1 (1.39%) Scala
Qualifications
1 16 (22.22%) Security Cleared
2 15 (20.83%) SC Cleared
3 13 (18.06%) Degree
4 6 (8.33%) CREST Certified
5 4 (5.56%) DBS Check
6 3 (4.17%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (2.78%) CHECK Team Member
7 2 (2.78%) IRCA
7 2 (2.78%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (1.39%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (1.39%) City & Guilds
8 1 (1.39%) DV Cleared
8 1 (1.39%) HNC
8 1 (1.39%) HND
8 1 (1.39%) ISTQB
8 1 (1.39%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (5.56%) ISO 9001
1 4 (5.56%) PMO
2 3 (4.17%) Data Quality
2 3 (4.17%) GDPR
3 2 (2.78%) Cyber Essentials
3 2 (2.78%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 1 (1.39%) Accessibility
4 1 (1.39%) AQAP
4 1 (1.39%) GRC
4 1 (1.39%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 3 (4.17%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (4.17%) Ansible
1 3 (4.17%) Kubernetes
1 3 (4.17%) Packer
2 2 (2.78%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 11 (15.28%) Microsoft
2 4 (5.56%) SAP
3 3 (4.17%) AppDynamics
3 3 (4.17%) IBM
3 3 (4.17%) Planon
3 3 (4.17%) ServiceNow
4 2 (2.78%) Apple
4 2 (2.78%) Draytek
5 1 (1.39%) Autodesk
5 1 (1.39%) Databricks
5 1 (1.39%) Foundry