QA Job Trends in Worcestershire

Quality Assurance (QA)
West Midlands > Worcestershire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Worcestershire requiring QA skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 27 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 31 35 26
Rank change year-on-year +4 -9 +14
Permanent jobs citing QA 1 11 4
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Worcestershire 0.53% 3.14% 2.68%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 5.00% 34.38% 22.22%
Number of salaries quoted 1 8 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £60,000 - £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,000 £28,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +121.43% -41.05% -5.00%
75th Percentile £64,000 £30,000 £48,750
90th Percentile - - -
West Midlands median annual salary £53,688 £57,500 £51,250
% change year-on-year -6.63% +12.20% +2.50%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Worcestershire

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 Worcestershire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 20 32 18
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Worcestershire 10.64% 9.14% 12.08%
Number of salaries quoted 18 19 12
10th Percentile £35,000 - £28,399
25th Percentile £41,250 £28,000 £45,832
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £37,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +13.33% -21.05% +5.56%
75th Percentile £53,750 £39,875 £54,875
90th Percentile £67,800 £58,038 £58,250
West Midlands median annual salary £49,600 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -5.52% - +7.14%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Worcestershire

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

Job vacancy trend for QA in Worcestershire

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Salary Trend in Worcestershire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Worcestershire citing QA.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Worcestershire citing QA

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Worcestershire 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) BrowserStack
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) JMeter
General
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Lead
1 1 (100.00%) Lead Test Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Platform Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Playwright
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Compatibility Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Exploratory Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) TypeScript