QA Jobs in West Yorkshire

Quality Assurance (QA)
Yorkshire > West Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in West Yorkshire 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 29 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 98 81 31
Rank change year-on-year -17 -50 +44
Permanent jobs citing QA 14 82 402
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 1.02% 2.67% 8.23%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 10.61% 22.34% 54.84%
Number of salaries quoted 9 64 88
10th Percentile £36,800 £30,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,741 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% +5.26% -5.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £62,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £72,000 £82,125 £96,250
Yorkshire median annual salary £62,500 £45,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +38.89% -18.18% +10.00%

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 132 367 733
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 9.66% 11.97% 15.00%
Number of salaries quoted 99 253 341
10th Percentile £31,850 £27,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £44,750 £32,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.00% -9.09% +22.22%
75th Percentile £71,250 £60,741 £75,000
90th Percentile £90,164 £84,984 £92,500
Yorkshire median annual salary £50,000 £45,750 £50,869
% change year-on-year +9.29% -10.06% +13.04%

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Job Vacancy Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for QA in West Yorkshire

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Salary Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Salary trend for QA in West Yorkshire

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Salary Histogram in West Yorkshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing QA in West Yorkshire over the 6 months to 29 May 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 May 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 +8 11 £48,750 -7.14% 89
Bradford +4 1 £65,000 +52.94% 77
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Yorkshire

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in West Yorkshire 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 4 (28.57%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (14.29%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (7.14%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 6 (42.86%) Azure
2 3 (21.43%) AWS
3 2 (14.29%) Azure Cosmos DB
3 2 (14.29%) GCP
3 2 (14.29%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (7.14%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (7.14%) BrowserStack
4 1 (7.14%) mabl
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (28.57%) Elasticsearch
1 4 (28.57%) MySQL
1 4 (28.57%) SQL Server
2 3 (21.43%) MongoDB
2 3 (21.43%) NoSQL
2 3 (21.43%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (14.29%) Redis
4 1 (7.14%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 4 (28.57%) JIRA
2 3 (21.43%) GitLab
2 3 (21.43%) Jenkins
2 3 (21.43%) Postman
3 2 (14.29%) Selenium
3 2 (14.29%) SoapUI
4 1 (7.14%) Cucumber
4 1 (7.14%) JMeter
4 1 (7.14%) JUnit
4 1 (7.14%) Katalon Studio
4 1 (7.14%) SonarQube
General
1 5 (35.71%) Social Skills
2 4 (28.57%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (21.43%) Marketing
4 2 (14.29%) Finance
4 2 (14.29%) Manufacturing
4 2 (14.29%) Pharmaceutical
4 2 (14.29%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (35.71%) Developer
2 3 (21.43%) Lead
2 3 (21.43%) QA Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) Analyst
3 2 (14.29%) Applications Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) Applications Support
3 2 (14.29%) Applications Support Analyst
3 2 (14.29%) Applications Support Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) DevOps Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) Lead Developer
3 2 (14.29%) Node.js Developer
3 2 (14.29%) QA Automation Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) QA Officer
3 2 (14.29%) Support Analyst
3 2 (14.29%) Support Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) QA Leader
4 1 (7.14%) Senior Developer
4 1 (7.14%) Software Developer
4 1 (7.14%) Test Automation Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (28.57%) SOAP
2 3 (21.43%) Node.js
3 2 (14.29%) .NET
3 2 (14.29%) AngularJS
3 2 (14.29%) FastAPI
3 2 (14.29%) Flask
3 2 (14.29%) GraphQL
3 2 (14.29%) LDAP
3 2 (14.29%) RabbitMQ
3 2 (14.29%) React
3 2 (14.29%) REST
3 2 (14.29%) RESTful
3 2 (14.29%) Vue
4 1 (7.14%) Apache Cordova
4 1 (7.14%) Ionic Framework
4 1 (7.14%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 2 (14.29%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (7.14%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 2 (14.29%) Linux
1 2 (14.29%) Windows
1 2 (14.29%) Windows Server
1 2 (14.29%) Windows Server 2008
1 2 (14.29%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (57.14%) Agile
2 6 (42.86%) DevOps
3 5 (35.71%) CI/CD
3 5 (35.71%) Software Testing
4 4 (28.57%) Secure Coding
5 3 (21.43%) API Development
5 3 (21.43%) B2C
5 3 (21.43%) Code Quality
5 3 (21.43%) Collaborative Culture
5 3 (21.43%) E-Commerce
5 3 (21.43%) Kanban
5 3 (21.43%) Mentoring
5 3 (21.43%) OWASP
5 3 (21.43%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (21.43%) Scrum
5 3 (21.43%) SDLC
5 3 (21.43%) Test Automation
6 2 (14.29%) Disaster Recovery
6 2 (14.29%) Regression Testing
6 2 (14.29%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 8 (57.14%) SQL
2 7 (50.00%) Java
3 6 (42.86%) JavaScript
4 5 (35.71%) C#
5 3 (21.43%) Python
6 2 (14.29%) Bash
6 2 (14.29%) PowerShell
6 2 (14.29%) TypeScript
7 1 (7.14%) Go
7 1 (7.14%) PHP
Qualifications
1 2 (14.29%) AWS Certification
1 2 (14.29%) Azure Certification
1 2 (14.29%) Degree
2 1 (7.14%) SC Cleared
2 1 (7.14%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (14.29%) GDPR
1 2 (14.29%) GMP
1 2 (14.29%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 2 (14.29%) Docker
1 2 (14.29%) Squid
Systems Management
1 2 (14.29%) Ansible
1 2 (14.29%) Grafana
1 2 (14.29%) Kibana
1 2 (14.29%) Kubernetes
1 2 (14.29%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 2 (14.29%) New Relic
2 1 (7.14%) CyberSource