QA Jobs in the East Midlands

Quality Assurance (QA)
England > East Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the East Midlands 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 15 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
15 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 51 11 33
Rank change year-on-year -40 +22 +11
Permanent jobs citing QA 183 382 249
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East Midlands 4.14% 13.50% 7.19%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 31.88% 58.86% 36.56%
Number of salaries quoted 134 117 166
10th Percentile £33,250 £22,000 £27,625
25th Percentile £37,500 £40,000 £36,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £48,000 £45,500
Median % change year-on-year -1.04% +5.49% -4.21%
75th Percentile £58,750 £67,500 £56,250
90th Percentile £65,000 £75,500 £63,125
England median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
East Midlands

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 the East Midlands with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 574 649 681
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East Midlands 12.98% 22.93% 19.67%
Number of salaries quoted 382 219 437
10th Percentile £24,240 £25,000 £25,000
25th Percentile £29,813 £34,750 £34,242
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,500 £47,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -14.74% +5.56% -1.10%
75th Percentile £54,594 £61,250 £55,000
90th Percentile £63,750 £72,500 £67,500
England median annual salary £52,500 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% -

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Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

Job postings citing QA as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for QA in the East Midlands

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Salary Trend in the East Midlands

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing QA in the East Midlands.

Salary trend for QA in the East Midlands

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Salary Histogram in the East Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing QA in the East Midlands over the 6 months to 15 May 2024.

Salary histogram for QA in the East Midlands

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Job Locations in the East Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing QA within the East Midlands region over the 6 months to 15 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
Leicestershire -48 49 £40,000 -5.88% 18
Derbyshire -13 46 £47,500 +11.76% 17
Nottinghamshire -28 32 £60,000 -7.69% 16
Lincolnshire -20 27 £41,250 -14.06% 11
Northamptonshire -9 24 £52,000 +4.00% 14
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East Midlands 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 6 (3.28%) IIS
2 2 (1.09%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 16 (8.74%) Microsoft Office
2 8 (4.37%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (1.09%) Adobe Captivate
Business Applications
1 1 (0.55%) Dynamics NAV
1 1 (0.55%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 45 (24.59%) Azure
2 25 (13.66%) AWS
3 19 (10.38%) Azure DevOps
4 13 (7.10%) SaaS
5 10 (5.46%) GCP
6 4 (2.19%) Microsoft 365
6 4 (2.19%) Serverless
7 3 (1.64%) WhatsApp
8 2 (1.09%) Adobe Creative Cloud
8 2 (1.09%) Azure Pipelines
8 2 (1.09%) PaaS
9 1 (0.55%) Dynamics 365
9 1 (0.55%) FinancialForce
9 1 (0.55%) GitHub
9 1 (0.55%) GitHub Actions
9 1 (0.55%) Power Platform
9 1 (0.55%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
9 1 (0.55%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 13 (7.10%) Firewall
2 3 (1.64%) TCP/IP
3 2 (1.09%) Broadband
3 2 (1.09%) LAN
3 2 (1.09%) WAN
3 2 (1.09%) Wireless
4 1 (0.55%) Modbus
4 1 (0.55%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (11.48%) SQL Server
2 9 (4.92%) Data Warehouse
3 8 (4.37%) BigQuery
3 8 (4.37%) Looker
4 3 (1.64%) MySQL
4 3 (1.64%) Oracle Database
4 3 (1.64%) RDBMS
4 3 (1.64%) Relational Database
5 1 (0.55%) Power BI
5 1 (0.55%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (0.55%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 1 (0.55%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 17 (9.29%) Git
2 7 (3.83%) Team Foundation Server
3 6 (3.28%) Jasmine
3 6 (3.28%) JIRA
3 6 (3.28%) Karma Test Runner
3 6 (3.28%) Selenium
3 6 (3.28%) SoapUI
3 6 (3.28%) TestRail
4 4 (2.19%) JMeter
5 3 (1.64%) gulp
5 3 (1.64%) JDeveloper
6 2 (1.09%) Cypress.io
7 1 (0.55%) Appium
7 1 (0.55%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.55%) Gatling
7 1 (0.55%) JBehave
7 1 (0.55%) JUnit
7 1 (0.55%) SpecFlow
General
1 35 (19.13%) Social Skills
2 19 (10.38%) Retail
3 17 (9.29%) Analytical Skills
4 16 (8.74%) Legal
4 16 (8.74%) Manufacturing
5 8 (4.37%) Billing
6 7 (3.83%) Influencing Skills
7 6 (3.28%) Finance
8 5 (2.73%) Aerospace
8 5 (2.73%) Law
9 4 (2.19%) Banking
9 4 (2.19%) Marketing
10 3 (1.64%) iGaming
11 2 (1.09%) Pharmaceutical
11 2 (1.09%) Presentation Skills
11 2 (1.09%) Public Sector
12 1 (0.55%) Automotive
12 1 (0.55%) Documentation Skills
12 1 (0.55%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 42 (22.95%) QA Manager
2 27 (14.75%) Developer
3 21 (11.48%) Lead
4 18 (9.84%) Quality Manager
5 13 (7.10%) Analyst
5 13 (7.10%) QA Leader
6 11 (6.01%) C# Developer
6 11 (6.01%) Senior
7 10 (5.46%) Linux Engineer
8 9 (4.92%) Cloud Engineer
8 9 (4.92%) Data Manager
8 9 (4.92%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 9 (4.92%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
9 8 (4.37%) AWS Engineer
9 8 (4.37%) Business Analyst
9 8 (4.37%) Engineering Manager
10 7 (3.83%) AWS Infrastructure Engineer
10 7 (3.83%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
10 7 (3.83%) Systems Engineer
10 7 (3.83%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (7.65%) REST
2 13 (7.10%) React
2 13 (7.10%) SOAP
3 12 (6.56%) .NET
4 9 (4.92%) Sass
5 8 (4.37%) AngularJS
6 7 (3.83%) Node.js
7 6 (3.28%) ASP.NET
7 6 (3.28%) JSON
7 6 (3.28%) RxJS
7 6 (3.28%) Web Services
7 6 (3.28%) XML
7 6 (3.28%) XML Schema
8 5 (2.73%) .NET Core
8 5 (2.73%) Next.js
9 4 (2.19%) GraphQL
9 4 (2.19%) NestJS
10 3 (1.64%) Blazor
10 3 (1.64%) Redux
10 3 (1.64%) Twig
Miscellaneous
1 13 (7.10%) Product Ownership
2 10 (5.46%) e-Learning
2 10 (5.46%) Learning Management System
2 10 (5.46%) Self-Motivation
3 7 (3.83%) Management Information System
4 6 (3.28%) Data Centre
4 6 (3.28%) Driving Licence
5 4 (2.19%) Online Banking
6 3 (1.64%) Digital Media
7 2 (1.09%) Educational Technology
7 2 (1.09%) Fibre Optics
7 2 (1.09%) FMCG
7 2 (1.09%) IoT
7 2 (1.09%) iPhone
8 1 (0.55%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (0.55%) Industry 4.0
8 1 (0.55%) Onboarding
8 1 (0.55%) Operational Technology
8 1 (0.55%) Renewable Energy
8 1 (0.55%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 18 (9.84%) Linux
2 6 (3.28%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (24.59%) Agile
2 42 (22.95%) DevOps
3 41 (22.40%) Problem-Solving
4 27 (14.75%) Coaching
5 25 (13.66%) CI/CD
5 25 (13.66%) Project Management
6 24 (13.11%) Test Automation
7 21 (11.48%) Mathematics
7 21 (11.48%) Scrum
8 18 (9.84%) Continuous Improvement
9 17 (9.29%) Customer Service
9 17 (9.29%) SDLC
10 15 (8.20%) Manual Testing
10 15 (8.20%) QMS
11 12 (6.56%) Analytics
11 12 (6.56%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 12 (6.56%) User Acceptance Testing
12 11 (6.01%) Computer Science
12 11 (6.01%) Software Testing
12 11 (6.01%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 19 (10.38%) C#
1 19 (10.38%) JavaScript
2 11 (6.01%) SQL
2 11 (6.01%) TypeScript
3 8 (4.37%) Java
4 7 (3.83%) VB
5 6 (3.28%) T-SQL
5 6 (3.28%) VB.NET
5 6 (3.28%) VB6
6 4 (2.19%) C
6 4 (2.19%) Python
6 4 (2.19%) Ruby
7 3 (1.64%) Bash
7 3 (1.64%) C++
7 3 (1.64%) Embedded C
7 3 (1.64%) Embedded C++
7 3 (1.64%) Go
7 3 (1.64%) Perl
7 3 (1.64%) PHP
8 1 (0.55%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 27 (14.75%) Degree
2 9 (4.92%) DBS Check
3 7 (3.83%) ISEB
3 7 (3.83%) ISTQB
4 4 (2.19%) AAT
5 1 (0.55%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (2.73%) ISO 9001
2 2 (1.09%) Accessibility
2 2 (1.09%) GDPR
3 1 (0.55%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.55%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 1 (0.55%) TickIT
System Software
1 13 (7.10%) Docker
Systems Management
1 12 (6.56%) Kubernetes
2 9 (4.92%) Ansible
2 9 (4.92%) Docker Swarm
3 4 (2.19%) Terraform
4 1 (0.55%) Functional Safety
4 1 (0.55%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 38 (20.77%) Microsoft
2 10 (5.46%) Google
3 6 (3.28%) Minitab
4 4 (2.19%) Oracle
5 2 (1.09%) Adobe
6 1 (0.55%) AVEVA
6 1 (0.55%) Pardot
6 1 (0.55%) Rockwell
6 1 (0.55%) Salesforce
6 1 (0.55%) Siemens