QA Jobs in Cheshire

Quality Assurance (QA)
North West > Cheshire

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Cheshire with a requirement for QA skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited QA over the 6 months to 28 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 57 8 71
Rank change year-on-year -49 +63 -45
Permanent jobs citing QA 48 146 36
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cheshire 2.97% 16.33% 3.11%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 22.12% 72.64% 21.82%
Number of salaries quoted 29 15 9
10th Percentile £22,300 - £32,350
25th Percentile £26,250 £22,000 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £40,000 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% - +6.67%
75th Percentile £62,500 £48,750 £42,500
90th Percentile £65,250 £62,500 £50,100
North West median annual salary £47,500 £47,500 £48,917
% change year-on-year - -2.90% +8.70%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Cheshire

QA is in the Quality Assurance and Compliance category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in Cheshire with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 217 201 165
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cheshire 13.41% 22.48% 14.27%
Number of salaries quoted 153 56 83
10th Percentile £24,807 £22,000 £21,250
25th Percentile £27,000 £26,913 £22,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £47,500 £37,500
Median % change year-on-year -15.79% +26.67% -16.67%
75th Percentile £57,854 £65,000 £57,028
90th Percentile £65,000 £78,125 £62,500
North West median annual salary £47,683 £50,000 £49,500
% change year-on-year -4.63% +1.01% +4.21%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

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

Job vacancy trend for QA in Cheshire

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Salary Trend in Cheshire

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

Salary trend for QA in Cheshire

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Salary Histogram in Cheshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing QA in Cheshire over the 6 months to 28 May 2024.

Salary histogram for QA in Cheshire

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Job Locations in Cheshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing QA within the Cheshire region over the 6 months to 28 May 2024. 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
Warrington -12 17 £27,500 -8.33% 14
Crewe -14 5 £49,000 +122.73%
Northwich - 4 - - 1
Chester +4 2 £26,000 -22.39% 4
Ellesmere Port - 2 £76,500 - 1
Runcorn +6 1 £67,500 +35.00% 1
Knutsford -4 1 - - 2
Macclesfield -9 1 £16,000 -60.00% 1
Wilmslow - 1 £62,500 - 1
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North West

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cheshire 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 7 (14.58%) IIS
2 1 (2.08%) CMS
2 1 (2.08%) IBM Domino
2 1 (2.08%) WordPress
Applications
1 2 (4.17%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 11 (22.92%) SaaS
2 8 (16.67%) Azure
3 7 (14.58%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (2.08%) AWS
4 1 (2.08%) BrowserStack
4 1 (2.08%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.08%) Modbus
1 1 (2.08%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (27.08%) SQL Server
2 1 (2.08%) DynamoDB
2 1 (2.08%) MongoDB
2 1 (2.08%) MySQL
2 1 (2.08%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 7 (14.58%) Jasmine
1 7 (14.58%) Karma Test Runner
2 6 (12.50%) Selenium
3 3 (6.25%) JMeter
3 3 (6.25%) SpecFlow
3 3 (6.25%) TeamCity
3 3 (6.25%) WebDriver
4 1 (2.08%) Cucumber
4 1 (2.08%) Cypress.io
4 1 (2.08%) JIRA
4 1 (2.08%) Postman
4 1 (2.08%) TestCafe
General
1 14 (29.17%) Social Skills
2 12 (25.00%) Finance
3 9 (18.75%) Manufacturing
4 5 (10.42%) Pharmaceutical
5 3 (6.25%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (2.08%) Legal
6 1 (2.08%) Marketing
6 1 (2.08%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (2.08%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (2.08%) Retail
6 1 (2.08%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 14 (29.17%) Developer
2 7 (14.58%) C# Developer
3 6 (12.50%) IT Manager
3 6 (12.50%) IT Project Manager
3 6 (12.50%) Project Manager
4 5 (10.42%) Analyst
4 5 (10.42%) Coordinator
4 5 (10.42%) Lead
4 5 (10.42%) Project Coordinator
4 5 (10.42%) Tester
5 4 (8.33%) QA Analyst
5 4 (8.33%) QA Tester
5 4 (8.33%) Senior
6 3 (6.25%) Automation Tester
6 3 (6.25%) QA Engineer
6 3 (6.25%) Senior Analyst
6 3 (6.25%) Senior Automation Tester
6 3 (6.25%) Senior QA Analyst
6 3 (6.25%) Senior QA Tester
6 3 (6.25%) Senior Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (29.17%) .NET
2 8 (16.67%) JSON
2 8 (16.67%) XML
3 7 (14.58%) AngularJS
3 7 (14.58%) ASP.NET
3 7 (14.58%) REST
3 7 (14.58%) RxJS
3 7 (14.58%) Sass
3 7 (14.58%) SOAP
3 7 (14.58%) Web Services
3 7 (14.58%) XML Schema
4 6 (12.50%) CSS
4 6 (12.50%) HTML
5 3 (6.25%) Gherkin
6 1 (2.08%) jQuery
6 1 (2.08%) Node-RED
6 1 (2.08%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 1 (2.08%) Enterprise Software
1 1 (2.08%) Graphic Design
1 1 (2.08%) Industry 4.0
1 1 (2.08%) IoT
1 1 (2.08%) Legacy Systems
1 1 (2.08%) Life Science
1 1 (2.08%) Operational Technology
1 1 (2.08%) Product Ownership
1 1 (2.08%) SCADA
1 1 (2.08%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (25.00%) Agile
1 12 (25.00%) Project Management
2 11 (22.92%) DevOps
3 8 (16.67%) Customer Service
3 8 (16.67%) Test Automation
3 8 (16.67%) User Acceptance Testing
4 7 (14.58%) Mentoring
4 7 (14.58%) SDLC
4 7 (14.58%) Unit Testing
4 7 (14.58%) Validation
5 6 (12.50%) Computer Science
5 6 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement
5 6 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
6 5 (10.42%) Adaptive Web Design
6 5 (10.42%) BDD
6 5 (10.42%) ERP
6 5 (10.42%) PRINCE2
6 5 (10.42%) Project Planning
6 5 (10.42%) Sprint Retrospective
6 5 (10.42%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 20 (41.67%) JavaScript
2 18 (37.50%) C#
3 11 (22.92%) SQL
4 7 (14.58%) T-SQL
4 7 (14.58%) TypeScript
4 7 (14.58%) VB
4 7 (14.58%) VB.NET
4 7 (14.58%) VB6
5 2 (4.17%) Java
6 1 (2.08%) PHP
6 1 (2.08%) Python
Qualifications
1 7 (14.58%) Degree
2 6 (12.50%) Computer Science Degree
3 5 (10.42%) PRINCE2 Certification
4 4 (8.33%) ISTQB
5 1 (2.08%) Chartered Engineer
5 1 (2.08%) HNC
5 1 (2.08%) HND
5 1 (2.08%) PMI Certification
5 1 (2.08%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.08%) GAMP
1 1 (2.08%) PMO
System Software
1 1 (2.08%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (2.08%) Functional Safety
Vendors
1 9 (18.75%) Microsoft
2 1 (2.08%) Allen-Bradley
2 1 (2.08%) AVEVA
2 1 (2.08%) BT
2 1 (2.08%) Rockwell
2 1 (2.08%) Salesforce
2 1 (2.08%) SAP
2 1 (2.08%) Siemens