QA Jobs in Yorkshire

Quality Assurance (QA)
England > Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in 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 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 87 71 20
Rank change year-on-year -16 -51 +71
Permanent jobs citing QA 60 181 978
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Yorkshire 2.24% 3.14% 11.85%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 16.57% 22.94% 60.26%
Number of salaries quoted 29 115 130
10th Percentile £34,400 £26,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £35,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £47,500 £53,750
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -11.63% +7.50%
75th Percentile £70,000 £58,125 £68,438
90th Percentile £86,250 £72,000 £87,500
England median annual salary £57,500 £53,150 £60,000
% change year-on-year +8.18% -11.42% -

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
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 Yorkshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 362 789 1,623
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Yorkshire 13.54% 13.69% 19.67%
Number of salaries quoted 211 535 544
10th Percentile £28,500 £26,250 £27,575
25th Percentile £32,250 £32,500 £38,063
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £47,500 £51,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -7.77% +14.44%
75th Percentile £65,000 £60,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £86,250 £80,750 £83,525
England median annual salary £60,000 £52,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year +14.29% -8.70% +4.55%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for QA in Yorkshire

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Salary Trend in Yorkshire

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

Salary trend for QA in Yorkshire

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Salary Histogram in Yorkshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing QA in Yorkshire over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Salary histogram for QA in Yorkshire

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Job Locations in Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing QA within the Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 30 April 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
North Yorkshire +9 20 - - 5
West Yorkshire 0 20 £43,500 -15.12% 34
South Yorkshire -5 13 £82,500 +97.49% 15
East Yorkshire +4 3 £62,500 +108.33% 5
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 (6.67%) Confluence
2 1 (1.67%) IIS
2 1 (1.67%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (1.67%) WordPress
Applications
1 4 (6.67%) Chatbot
1 4 (6.67%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (5.00%) Blender
2 3 (5.00%) Maya
3 1 (1.67%) 3ds Max
3 1 (1.67%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (1.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (1.67%) Pro Tools
3 1 (1.67%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (1.67%) ZBrush
Business Applications
1 1 (1.67%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 11 (18.33%) Azure
2 6 (10.00%) AWS
3 3 (5.00%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (3.33%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 2 (3.33%) Cloud Computing
4 2 (3.33%) GCP
5 1 (1.67%) Adobe Creative Cloud
5 1 (1.67%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (1.67%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (1.67%) Amazon S3
5 1 (1.67%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (1.67%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (1.67%) BrowserStack
5 1 (1.67%) mabl
5 1 (1.67%) SaaS
5 1 (1.67%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.67%) Broadband
1 1 (1.67%) Internet
1 1 (1.67%) WPA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (11.67%) SQL Server
2 4 (6.67%) MySQL
3 3 (5.00%) Elasticsearch
4 2 (3.33%) MongoDB
4 2 (3.33%) NoSQL
4 2 (3.33%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (3.33%) Redis
Development Applications
1 10 (16.67%) JIRA
2 3 (5.00%) Git
2 3 (5.00%) GitLab
2 3 (5.00%) Jenkins
3 2 (3.33%) Postman
3 2 (3.33%) Selenium
3 2 (3.33%) SonarQube
4 1 (1.67%) Artifactory
4 1 (1.67%) Cucumber
4 1 (1.67%) JMeter
4 1 (1.67%) JUnit
4 1 (1.67%) Katalon Studio
4 1 (1.67%) SoapUI
General
1 38 (63.33%) Social Skills
2 29 (48.33%) Analytical Skills
3 28 (46.67%) Finance
4 25 (41.67%) Marketing
5 6 (10.00%) Games
6 4 (6.67%) Law
6 4 (6.67%) Manufacturing
6 4 (6.67%) Pharmaceutical
7 3 (5.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (3.33%) Public Sector
9 1 (1.67%) Back Office
9 1 (1.67%) Banking
9 1 (1.67%) Front Office
9 1 (1.67%) Investment Banking
9 1 (1.67%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (1.67%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 20 (33.33%) Development Manager
1 20 (33.33%) Product Development Manager
1 20 (33.33%) Product Manager
2 7 (11.67%) Developer
3 4 (6.67%) Project Manager
3 4 (6.67%) QA Officer
4 3 (5.00%) Analyst
4 3 (5.00%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
4 3 (5.00%) Head of Engineering
4 3 (5.00%) Head of Software Engineering
5 2 (3.33%) Applications Support Analyst
5 2 (3.33%) Applications Support Engineer
5 2 (3.33%) IT Manager
5 2 (3.33%) IT Project Manager
5 2 (3.33%) SAP Project Manager
5 2 (3.33%) Software Architect
5 2 (3.33%) Support Analyst
5 2 (3.33%) Support Engineer
5 2 (3.33%) Tester
5 2 (3.33%) Web Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (15.00%) React
2 6 (10.00%) Node.js
3 5 (8.33%) AngularJS
3 5 (8.33%) Unreal Engine
3 5 (8.33%) Vue
4 4 (6.67%) Bootstrap
4 4 (6.67%) Redux
5 3 (5.00%) .NET
5 3 (5.00%) RabbitMQ
5 3 (5.00%) REST
6 2 (3.33%) FastAPI
6 2 (3.33%) Flask
6 2 (3.33%) GraphQL
6 2 (3.33%) gRPC
6 2 (3.33%) SOAP
6 2 (3.33%) Unity (Game Engine)
7 1 (1.67%) HTML5
7 1 (1.67%) JSON
7 1 (1.67%) LDAP
7 1 (1.67%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 20 (33.33%) FMCG
2 4 (6.67%) Virtual Team
3 2 (3.33%) Algorithms
3 2 (3.33%) Data Structures
3 2 (3.33%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (3.33%) Renewable Energy
4 1 (1.67%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (1.67%) Animation
4 1 (1.67%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (1.67%) e-Learning
4 1 (1.67%) Interactive Media
4 1 (1.67%) Mobile App
4 1 (1.67%) NHS
4 1 (1.67%) Social Media
4 1 (1.67%) State Machine
4 1 (1.67%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 3 (5.00%) Linux
1 3 (5.00%) Windows
1 3 (5.00%) Windows Server
1 3 (5.00%) Windows Server 2008
1 3 (5.00%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (56.67%) Problem-Solving
2 25 (41.67%) Project Management
3 20 (33.33%) Commercialisation
3 20 (33.33%) Competitor Analysis
3 20 (33.33%) Product Strategy
4 15 (25.00%) Agile
5 7 (11.67%) CI/CD
5 7 (11.67%) DevOps
6 6 (10.00%) Software Engineering
6 6 (10.00%) Software Testing
7 5 (8.33%) Artificial Intelligence
7 5 (8.33%) Collaborative Working
7 5 (8.33%) Mentoring
7 5 (8.33%) Microservices
7 5 (8.33%) Test Strategy
8 4 (6.67%) Code Quality
8 4 (6.67%) Conversational UI
8 4 (6.67%) Sprint Planning
8 4 (6.67%) Technical Debt
8 4 (6.67%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 11 (18.33%) JavaScript
2 8 (13.33%) TypeScript
3 7 (11.67%) C#
3 7 (11.67%) SQL
4 5 (8.33%) Java
5 4 (6.67%) Python
6 1 (1.67%) Bash
6 1 (1.67%) C++
6 1 (1.67%) Groovy
6 1 (1.67%) Perl
6 1 (1.67%) PowerShell
6 1 (1.67%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 28 (46.67%) Degree
2 4 (6.67%) PMP
3 2 (3.33%) AWS Certification
3 2 (3.33%) Azure Certification
3 2 (3.33%) PMI Certification
4 1 (1.67%) DBS Check
4 1 (1.67%) SC Cleared
4 1 (1.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (6.67%) GMP
2 1 (1.67%) Accessibility
2 1 (1.67%) GDPR
2 1 (1.67%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 2 (3.33%) Docker
2 1 (1.67%) Squid
Systems Management
1 3 (5.00%) Ansible
1 3 (5.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (3.33%) Grafana
2 2 (3.33%) Prometheus
3 1 (1.67%) Kibana
3 1 (1.67%) Packer
3 1 (1.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (3.33%) ANSYS
1 2 (3.33%) Microsoft
1 2 (3.33%) SAP
2 1 (1.67%) Adobe
2 1 (1.67%) AppDynamics
2 1 (1.67%) Atlassian
2 1 (1.67%) CyberSource
2 1 (1.67%) IBM
2 1 (1.67%) New Relic
2 1 (1.67%) Salesforce