QA Job Trends in Yorkshire

Quality Assurance (QA)
England > Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Yorkshire requiring QA skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 89 85 66
Rank change year-on-year -4 -19 -47
Permanent jobs citing QA 118 57 179
As % of all permanent jobs in Yorkshire 1.91% 2.30% 3.18%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 22.52% 18.87% 23.28%
Number of salaries quoted 60 27 113
10th Percentile £25,375 £35,600 £26,500
25th Percentile £30,000 £41,750 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £41,250 £50,750 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -18.72% +6.84% -13.64%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £57,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £86,250 £65,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £52,750
% change year-on-year -4.35% +9.00% -12.08%

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 524 302 769
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Yorkshire 8.50% 12.17% 13.66%
Number of salaries quoted 352 211 529
10th Percentile £29,000 £26,750 £26,250
25th Percentile £35,000 £30,625 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% +5.26% -5.23%
75th Percentile £67,813 £65,500 £58,750
90th Percentile £86,250 £86,250 £75,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +4.35% +9.52% -8.70%

QA
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

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

QA job vacancy trend in Yorkshire

QA
Salary Trend in Yorkshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing QA.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing QA

QA
Salary Histogram in Yorkshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing QA in Yorkshire over the 6 months to 10 May 2026.

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 10 May 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
West Yorkshire +20 81 £62,288 +43.19% 25
South Yorkshire -21 21 £32,500 -60.61% 8
North Yorkshire -10 13 £25,750 - 2
East Yorkshire -28 3 £40,000 -36.00% 4
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England

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in 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:

Applications
1 4 (3.39%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (2.54%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 9 (7.63%) SAP ERP
2 4 (3.39%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 11 (9.32%) SaaS
2 10 (8.47%) AWS
2 10 (8.47%) Azure
3 7 (5.93%) Amazon S3
3 7 (5.93%) AWS Lambda
3 7 (5.93%) Serverless
4 4 (3.39%) Amazon ECR
4 4 (3.39%) Amazon ECS
4 4 (3.39%) Apigee
4 4 (3.39%) AWS CloudFormation
4 4 (3.39%) AWS Step Functions
4 4 (3.39%) Power Platform
5 3 (2.54%) Amazon EC2
5 3 (2.54%) Amazon EKS
6 2 (1.69%) BrowserStack
6 2 (1.69%) Microsoft 365
6 2 (1.69%) Power Automate
6 2 (1.69%) Zapier
Communications & Networking
1 5 (4.24%) Broadband
2 2 (1.69%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (3.39%) DynamoDB
1 4 (3.39%) Power BI
2 1 (0.85%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 9 (7.63%) GitLab
1 9 (7.63%) Jenkins
2 8 (6.78%) JIRA
3 7 (5.93%) Git
3 7 (5.93%) SonarQube
4 5 (4.24%) Postman
5 4 (3.39%) Cypress.io
5 4 (3.39%) Maven
6 3 (2.54%) Artifactory
6 3 (2.54%) Cucumber
7 2 (1.69%) JUnit
7 2 (1.69%) Selenium
General
1 50 (42.37%) Social Skills
2 26 (22.03%) Manufacturing
3 16 (13.56%) Finance
4 15 (12.71%) Analytical Skills
5 14 (11.86%) Influencing Skills
5 14 (11.86%) Organisational Skills
6 8 (6.78%) Public Sector
7 6 (5.08%) Marketing
8 5 (4.24%) Games
9 3 (2.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (2.54%) Law
9 3 (2.54%) Retail
10 2 (1.69%) Pharmaceutical
11 1 (0.85%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 31 (26.27%) QA Manager
2 22 (18.64%) Quality Manager
3 11 (9.32%) Lead
4 9 (7.63%) Analyst
5 8 (6.78%) QA Engineer
6 6 (5.08%) Head of QA
7 5 (4.24%) Sales Executive
7 5 (4.24%) Senior
7 5 (4.24%) Technical Leader
8 4 (3.39%) IT Support
8 4 (3.39%) Portfolio Manager
8 4 (3.39%) QA Tester
8 4 (3.39%) Quality Inspector
8 4 (3.39%) Senior Manager
8 4 (3.39%) Senior Portfolio Manager
8 4 (3.39%) Tester
9 3 (2.54%) DevOps Engineer
9 3 (2.54%) Graduate Test Analyst
9 3 (2.54%) QA Automation Engineer
9 3 (2.54%) QA Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (4.24%) Spring
1 5 (4.24%) Spring Boot
2 4 (3.39%) AngularJS
2 4 (3.39%) Flutter
2 4 (3.39%) Gherkin
2 4 (3.39%) Jest
2 4 (3.39%) JSON
2 4 (3.39%) React
3 3 (2.54%) Elastic Stack
3 3 (2.54%) HTML
3 3 (2.54%) RabbitMQ
3 3 (2.54%) REST
3 3 (2.54%) YAML
4 2 (1.69%) .NET
4 2 (1.69%) CSS
5 1 (0.85%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 10 (8.47%) Analytical Mindset
2 7 (5.93%) Distributed Systems
3 5 (4.24%) Social Media
4 4 (3.39%) Cloud Native
4 4 (3.39%) PMI
4 4 (3.39%) Product Ownership
5 3 (2.54%) Driving Licence
5 3 (2.54%) Management Information System
5 3 (2.54%) Mobile App
5 3 (2.54%) NHS
6 2 (1.69%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (1.69%) Legacy Applications
6 2 (1.69%) Mainframe
6 2 (1.69%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (1.69%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 6 (5.08%) Linux
2 3 (2.54%) Unix
2 3 (2.54%) Windows
3 2 (1.69%) VME
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (28.81%) Agile
2 33 (27.97%) Continuous Improvement
3 26 (22.03%) CI/CD
3 26 (22.03%) DevOps
4 25 (21.19%) Mentoring
5 21 (17.80%) Problem-Solving
6 20 (16.95%) Quality Management
7 19 (16.10%) Stakeholder Management
8 15 (12.71%) Process Improvement
9 14 (11.86%) ERP
9 14 (11.86%) Test Automation
10 12 (10.17%) Coaching
10 12 (10.17%) Customer Engagement
10 12 (10.17%) Internal Audit
10 12 (10.17%) QMS
11 11 (9.32%) Analytics
11 11 (9.32%) Decision-Making
11 11 (9.32%) Microservices
12 10 (8.47%) AI
12 10 (8.47%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 14 (11.86%) Java
2 10 (8.47%) Python
3 9 (7.63%) C#
4 7 (5.93%) Groovy
5 4 (3.39%) Bash
5 4 (3.39%) Go
5 4 (3.39%) TypeScript
6 2 (1.69%) COBOL
6 2 (1.69%) SQL
7 1 (0.85%) Perl
Qualifications
1 13 (11.02%) Degree
2 6 (5.08%) IRCA
3 4 (3.39%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (3.39%) PMI Certification
4 3 (2.54%) CCEA
4 3 (2.54%) Citrix Certification
4 3 (2.54%) Security Cleared
5 2 (1.69%) DBS Check
5 2 (1.69%) ISTQB
5 2 (1.69%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 2 (1.69%) SC Cleared
6 1 (0.85%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (9.32%) GDPR
2 7 (5.93%) PCI DSS
3 6 (5.08%) ISO 9001
4 4 (3.39%) P3O
5 3 (2.54%) Data Quality
6 2 (1.69%) Cyber Essentials
6 2 (1.69%) GRC
6 2 (1.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (1.69%) NIST
6 2 (1.69%) SOC 2
7 1 (0.85%) PMO
System Software
1 5 (4.24%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (3.39%) HP Fortify
2 3 (2.54%) Ansible
2 3 (2.54%) Kubernetes
2 3 (2.54%) Packer
2 3 (2.54%) Terraform
Vendors
1 13 (11.02%) SAP
2 5 (4.24%) Microsoft
3 4 (3.39%) Planon
4 3 (2.54%) AppDynamics
4 3 (2.54%) IBM
4 3 (2.54%) ServiceNow
5 1 (0.85%) Apple
5 1 (0.85%) Draytek