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 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 113 68 20
Rank change year-on-year -45 -48 +56
Permanent jobs citing QA 48 186 879
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Yorkshire 1.61% 3.07% 11.44%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 13.95% 24.03% 59.07%
Number of salaries quoted 19 116 127
10th Percentile £40,600 £26,250 £30,300
25th Percentile £48,938 £35,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £45,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +38.89% -18.18% +10.00%
75th Percentile £85,625 £57,500 £68,750
90th Percentile £86,250 £65,000 £95,000
England median annual salary £58,500 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +11.43% -12.50% -

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 344 774 1,488
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Yorkshire 11.56% 12.77% 19.37%
Number of salaries quoted 202 508 545
10th Percentile £26,250 £26,250 £27,600
25th Percentile £30,156 £32,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,375 £45,750 £50,139
Median % change year-on-year +10.11% -8.75% +11.42%
75th Percentile £65,000 £58,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £67,875 £87,419
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 May 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 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
North Yorkshire +12 20 - - 75
West Yorkshire -9 14 £55,000 +10.00% 250
South Yorkshire -14 10 £82,500 +97.49% 144
East Yorkshire -1 2 £62,500 +108.33% 72
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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 (8.33%) Confluence
2 1 (2.08%) CMS
2 1 (2.08%) WordPress
Applications
1 4 (8.33%) Chatbot
2 2 (4.17%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (2.08%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 11 (22.92%) Azure
2 6 (12.50%) AWS
3 2 (4.17%) Azure Cosmos DB
3 2 (4.17%) GCP
3 2 (4.17%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (2.08%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (2.08%) BrowserStack
4 1 (2.08%) mabl
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.08%) Broadband
1 1 (2.08%) Internet
1 1 (2.08%) WPA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (12.50%) SQL Server
2 4 (8.33%) Elasticsearch
2 4 (8.33%) MySQL
3 3 (6.25%) MongoDB
3 3 (6.25%) NoSQL
3 3 (6.25%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (4.17%) Redis
5 1 (2.08%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 9 (18.75%) JIRA
2 3 (6.25%) GitLab
2 3 (6.25%) Jenkins
2 3 (6.25%) Postman
2 3 (6.25%) Selenium
3 2 (4.17%) SoapUI
4 1 (2.08%) Cucumber
4 1 (2.08%) JMeter
4 1 (2.08%) JUnit
4 1 (2.08%) Katalon Studio
4 1 (2.08%) SonarQube
General
1 27 (56.25%) Social Skills
2 25 (52.08%) Analytical Skills
3 24 (50.00%) Finance
4 23 (47.92%) Marketing
5 4 (8.33%) Law
5 4 (8.33%) Manufacturing
5 4 (8.33%) Pharmaceutical
6 2 (4.17%) Public Sector
7 1 (2.08%) Back Office
7 1 (2.08%) Banking
7 1 (2.08%) Front Office
7 1 (2.08%) Investment Banking
7 1 (2.08%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 20 (41.67%) Development Manager
1 20 (41.67%) Product Development Manager
1 20 (41.67%) Product Manager
2 6 (12.50%) Developer
3 4 (8.33%) QA Officer
4 3 (6.25%) Head of Engineering
4 3 (6.25%) Head of Software Engineering
4 3 (6.25%) Lead
4 3 (6.25%) QA Engineer
5 2 (4.17%) Analyst
5 2 (4.17%) Applications Support
5 2 (4.17%) Applications Support Analyst
5 2 (4.17%) Applications Support Engineer
5 2 (4.17%) ERP Project Manager
5 2 (4.17%) IT Project Manager
5 2 (4.17%) Lead Developer
5 2 (4.17%) SAP Manager
5 2 (4.17%) SAP Project Manager
5 2 (4.17%) Support Analyst
5 2 (4.17%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (14.58%) Node.js
1 7 (14.58%) React
2 4 (8.33%) .NET
2 4 (8.33%) Bootstrap
2 4 (8.33%) Redux
2 4 (8.33%) SOAP
3 3 (6.25%) AngularJS
3 3 (6.25%) Vue
4 2 (4.17%) FastAPI
4 2 (4.17%) Flask
4 2 (4.17%) GraphQL
4 2 (4.17%) LDAP
4 2 (4.17%) RabbitMQ
4 2 (4.17%) REST
4 2 (4.17%) RESTful
5 1 (2.08%) CSS
5 1 (2.08%) CSS3
5 1 (2.08%) HTML
5 1 (2.08%) HTML5
5 1 (2.08%) Ionic Framework
Miscellaneous
1 20 (41.67%) FMCG
2 2 (4.17%) Legacy Systems
2 2 (4.17%) Virtual Team
3 1 (2.08%) Mobile App
3 1 (2.08%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 2 (4.17%) Linux
1 2 (4.17%) Windows
1 2 (4.17%) Windows Server
1 2 (4.17%) Windows Server 2008
1 2 (4.17%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (54.17%) Problem-Solving
2 22 (45.83%) Project Management
3 20 (41.67%) Commercialisation
3 20 (41.67%) Competitor Analysis
3 20 (41.67%) Product Strategy
4 15 (31.25%) Agile
5 7 (14.58%) DevOps
6 6 (12.50%) CI/CD
6 6 (12.50%) Software Engineering
7 5 (10.42%) Software Testing
8 4 (8.33%) Artificial Intelligence
8 4 (8.33%) CAPA
8 4 (8.33%) Client Onboarding
8 4 (8.33%) QMS
8 4 (8.33%) Roadmaps
8 4 (8.33%) Secure Coding
8 4 (8.33%) Test Automation
8 4 (8.33%) Test Management
8 4 (8.33%) Test Strategy
8 4 (8.33%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 12 (25.00%) JavaScript
2 8 (16.67%) C#
2 8 (16.67%) SQL
3 7 (14.58%) Java
4 6 (12.50%) TypeScript
5 4 (8.33%) Python
6 2 (4.17%) Bash
6 2 (4.17%) PowerShell
7 1 (2.08%) Go
7 1 (2.08%) PHP
Qualifications
1 24 (50.00%) Degree
2 2 (4.17%) AWS Certification
2 2 (4.17%) Azure Certification
2 2 (4.17%) PMP
3 1 (2.08%) SC Cleared
3 1 (2.08%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (8.33%) GMP
2 2 (4.17%) GDPR
2 2 (4.17%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 2 (4.17%) Docker
1 2 (4.17%) Squid
Systems Management
1 2 (4.17%) Ansible
1 2 (4.17%) Grafana
1 2 (4.17%) Kibana
1 2 (4.17%) Kubernetes
1 2 (4.17%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 2 (4.17%) New Relic
1 2 (4.17%) SAP
2 1 (2.08%) CyberSource
2 1 (2.08%) Salesforce