QA Jobs in England

Quality Assurance (QA)
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England 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 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 65 22 49
Rank change year-on-year -43 +27 +12
Permanent jobs citing QA 3,095 8,208 8,467
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 3.58% 9.28% 6.18%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 26.01% 48.20% 37.10%
Number of salaries quoted 2,043 2,422 4,042
10th Percentile £30,000 £36,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £39,500 £46,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £80,000 £76,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -12.50% +4.35% +4.55%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
England

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 England with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 11,901 17,029 22,822
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 13.76% 19.25% 16.66%
Number of salaries quoted 8,299 7,895 11,911
10th Percentile £27,000 £32,080 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £42,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% -
75th Percentile £70,250 £77,500 £73,750
90th Percentile £92,500 £93,750 £90,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% +4.76%

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Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for QA in England

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Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for QA in England

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Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing QA in England over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Salary histogram for QA in England

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Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing QA within the England region over the 6 months to 20 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
London -47 810 £67,750 -3.21% 465
South East -28 703 £47,500 -13.64% 283
North of England -57 552 £47,500 -13.64% 265
Midlands -41 468 £50,000 -4.76% 212
South West -34 361 £47,500 - 147
North West -59 310 £47,500 -5.00% 128
West Midlands -45 280 £52,500 -4.55% 132
East Midlands -39 188 £47,500 -1.04% 80
Yorkshire -45 186 £46,250 -15.91% 101
East of England -69 168 £45,000 +5.88% 130
North East -52 56 £52,500 -8.70% 42
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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 51 (1.65%) Confluence
2 41 (1.32%) IIS
3 39 (1.26%) CMS
4 35 (1.13%) SharePoint
5 26 (0.84%) Apache
6 20 (0.65%) Apache Spark
7 17 (0.55%) Drupal
8 13 (0.42%) Documentum
9 11 (0.36%) Apache Airflow
9 11 (0.36%) Microsoft Exchange
10 8 (0.26%) WordPress
11 7 (0.23%) Apache Pig
12 5 (0.16%) Kinematics
12 5 (0.16%) nginx
13 4 (0.13%) Adobe Experience Manager
13 4 (0.13%) Apache Solr
13 4 (0.13%) TWiki
13 4 (0.13%) Umbraco
14 3 (0.097%) Smallworld
15 2 (0.065%) Joomla!
Applications
1 142 (4.59%) Microsoft Excel
2 112 (3.62%) Microsoft Office
3 37 (1.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 23 (0.74%) Microsoft Project
5 10 (0.32%) MS Visio
6 8 (0.26%) InfoPath
7 5 (0.16%) Spreadsheet
8 4 (0.13%) AutoCAD
8 4 (0.13%) Trello
9 3 (0.097%) Photoshop
9 3 (0.097%) Simulink
10 2 (0.065%) Adobe Captivate
10 2 (0.065%) Adobe Illustrator
10 2 (0.065%) Chatbot
11 1 (0.032%) Blender
11 1 (0.032%) InDesign
11 1 (0.032%) Notion
11 1 (0.032%) Revit
11 1 (0.032%) Sketch
11 1 (0.032%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 34 (1.10%) Dynamics CRM
2 13 (0.42%) SAP S/4HANA
2 13 (0.42%) TrackWise
3 10 (0.32%) SAP QM
4 8 (0.26%) Salesforce CRM
4 8 (0.26%) Shopify
5 5 (0.16%) Distributed Ledger
5 5 (0.16%) SAP ERP
6 4 (0.13%) Dynamics NAV
6 4 (0.13%) Lawson
6 4 (0.13%) Magento
6 4 (0.13%) SAP IBP
7 3 (0.097%) Payment Gateway
7 3 (0.097%) Primavera
7 3 (0.097%) Q-Pulse
7 3 (0.097%) SAP CRM
7 3 (0.097%) SAP PM
8 2 (0.065%) Endur
8 2 (0.065%) NEC Housing
8 2 (0.065%) SAP MII
Cloud Services
1 610 (19.71%) Azure
2 377 (12.18%) AWS
3 269 (8.69%) Azure DevOps
4 233 (7.53%) SaaS
5 176 (5.69%) GCP
6 95 (3.07%) Power Platform
7 68 (2.20%) Serverless
8 65 (2.10%) Dynamics 365
9 64 (2.07%) Microsoft 365
10 38 (1.23%) GitHub
11 27 (0.87%) Power Automate
12 24 (0.78%) AWS Lambda
13 22 (0.71%) PowerApps
14 21 (0.68%) Amazon S3
14 21 (0.68%) PaaS
15 14 (0.45%) Azure Data Factory
15 14 (0.45%) BrowserStack
16 13 (0.42%) Snowflake
17 11 (0.36%) Azure Cosmos DB
17 11 (0.36%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 30 (0.97%) Firewall
2 25 (0.81%) Internet
3 16 (0.52%) Wireless
4 15 (0.48%) WAN
5 11 (0.36%) TCP/IP
6 10 (0.32%) LAN
6 10 (0.32%) SD-WAN
7 8 (0.26%) HTTP
7 8 (0.26%) VLAN
8 7 (0.23%) VoIP
8 7 (0.23%) Wi-Fi
9 6 (0.19%) 5G
9 6 (0.19%) Bluetooth
9 6 (0.19%) DNS
10 5 (0.16%) GSM
10 5 (0.16%) ISDN
10 5 (0.16%) PSTN
10 5 (0.16%) Remote Desktop
10 5 (0.16%) RFID
10 5 (0.16%) UMTS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 225 (7.27%) SQL Server
2 100 (3.23%) Data Warehouse
3 92 (2.97%) Relational Database
4 74 (2.39%) Looker
5 70 (2.26%) BigQuery
6 66 (2.13%) Power BI
7 58 (1.87%) NoSQL
8 51 (1.65%) MySQL
9 38 (1.23%) PostgreSQL
10 27 (0.87%) Oracle Database
10 27 (0.87%) Tableau
11 23 (0.74%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 22 (0.71%) RDBMS
13 21 (0.68%) Big Data
14 17 (0.55%) Apache Hive
15 15 (0.48%) SQL Server Reporting Services
16 14 (0.45%) MongoDB
17 13 (0.42%) Azure SQL Database
17 13 (0.42%) Data Mining
17 13 (0.42%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 219 (7.08%) JIRA
2 218 (7.04%) Selenium
3 212 (6.85%) Git
4 122 (3.94%) Cucumber
5 102 (3.30%) Postman
6 99 (3.20%) Jenkins
7 82 (2.65%) Cypress.io
8 62 (2.00%) Visual Studio
9 55 (1.78%) Appium
10 35 (1.13%) SpecFlow
11 31 (1.00%) Jasmine
12 30 (0.97%) JUnit
13 29 (0.94%) TeamCity
14 28 (0.90%) JMeter
15 27 (0.87%) Karma Test Runner
15 27 (0.87%) TestRail
16 25 (0.81%) GitLab
17 23 (0.74%) WebDriver
18 22 (0.71%) SoapUI
19 21 (0.68%) JDeveloper
General
1 949 (30.66%) Social Skills
2 464 (14.99%) Finance
2 464 (14.99%) Manufacturing
3 460 (14.86%) Analytical Skills
4 266 (8.59%) Pharmaceutical
5 208 (6.72%) Legal
6 197 (6.37%) Retail
7 147 (4.75%) Marketing
8 114 (3.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 107 (3.46%) Electronics
10 98 (3.17%) Law
11 92 (2.97%) Organisational Skills
12 77 (2.49%) Public Sector
13 72 (2.33%) Aerospace
14 67 (2.16%) Billing
15 64 (2.07%) Telecoms
16 55 (1.78%) Banking
16 55 (1.78%) Influencing Skills
17 54 (1.74%) Front Office
18 46 (1.49%) Police
Job Titles
1 431 (13.93%) Developer
2 353 (11.41%) Lead
3 350 (11.31%) Senior
4 260 (8.40%) QA Manager
5 224 (7.24%) Analyst
6 194 (6.27%) QA Engineer
7 183 (5.91%) Software Engineer
8 157 (5.07%) Quality Manager
9 130 (4.20%) Project Manager
10 111 (3.59%) .NET Developer
11 105 (3.39%) Engineering Manager
12 93 (3.00%) QA Leader
12 93 (3.00%) Tester
13 87 (2.81%) Quality Engineer
13 87 (2.81%) Senior Developer
14 71 (2.29%) Data Manager
15 66 (2.13%) Business Analyst
16 63 (2.04%) QA Specialist
17 61 (1.97%) Software Developer
18 60 (1.94%) C# Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 348 (11.24%) .NET
2 226 (7.30%) React
3 170 (5.49%) AngularJS
4 145 (4.68%) HTML
4 145 (4.68%) REST
5 141 (4.56%) CSS
6 117 (3.78%) ASP.NET
6 117 (3.78%) JSON
7 114 (3.68%) .NET Core
8 93 (3.00%) XML
9 89 (2.88%) .NET Framework
10 84 (2.71%) Vue
10 84 (2.71%) Web Services
11 74 (2.39%) RESTful
12 71 (2.29%) Node.js
13 66 (2.13%) Spring
14 65 (2.10%) jQuery
15 62 (2.00%) SOAP
16 53 (1.71%) Redux
17 43 (1.39%) Twitter Bootstrap
Miscellaneous
1 262 (8.47%) Management Information System
2 244 (7.88%) Product Ownership
3 89 (2.88%) Self-Motivation
4 79 (2.55%) Mobile App
5 55 (1.78%) Derivative
5 55 (1.78%) Hedge funds
6 45 (1.45%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 44 (1.42%) Client/Server
7 44 (1.42%) Fixed Income
8 42 (1.36%) Onboarding
9 41 (1.32%) Equities
10 40 (1.29%) Data Structures
10 40 (1.29%) IoT
11 39 (1.26%) Life Science
12 38 (1.23%) Virtual Team
13 36 (1.16%) Driving Licence
14 34 (1.10%) Enterprise Software
15 30 (0.97%) Algorithms
15 30 (0.97%) Biopharmaceutical
16 28 (0.90%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 120 (3.88%) Windows
2 87 (2.81%) Linux
3 70 (2.26%) Android
4 50 (1.62%) Apple iOS
5 18 (0.58%) Windows Server
6 10 (0.32%) Unix
7 9 (0.29%) Ubuntu
8 8 (0.26%) Mac OS
8 8 (0.26%) Windows Server 2008
9 5 (0.16%) VMS
10 4 (0.13%) AIX
11 3 (0.097%) Debian
12 2 (0.065%) Embedded Linux
12 2 (0.065%) Mac OS X
12 2 (0.065%) Windows 10
13 1 (0.032%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
13 1 (0.032%) Windows NT
13 1 (0.032%) Windows Server 2012
13 1 (0.032%) Windows Server 2016
13 1 (0.032%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 978 (31.60%) Agile
2 704 (22.75%) Problem-Solving
3 560 (18.09%) DevOps
4 518 (16.74%) Test Automation
5 439 (14.18%) Project Management
6 419 (13.54%) Mentoring
7 382 (12.34%) Scrum
8 369 (11.92%) Continuous Improvement
9 365 (11.79%) CI/CD
10 357 (11.53%) Coaching
11 314 (10.15%) Software Engineering
12 250 (8.08%) Software Testing
13 245 (7.92%) Computer Science
14 240 (7.75%) QMS
15 215 (6.95%) Line Management
16 205 (6.62%) Roadmaps
17 204 (6.59%) SDLC
18 186 (6.01%) Project Delivery
19 182 (5.88%) Collaborative Working
20 177 (5.72%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 405 (13.09%) JavaScript
2 400 (12.92%) C#
3 342 (11.05%) SQL
4 274 (8.85%) Java
5 257 (8.30%) Python
6 156 (5.04%) TypeScript
7 70 (2.26%) C
8 56 (1.81%) PHP
9 53 (1.71%) Kotlin
10 51 (1.65%) C++
11 43 (1.39%) T-SQL
11 43 (1.39%) VB
12 38 (1.23%) Go
13 33 (1.07%) Ruby
13 33 (1.07%) VB.NET
13 33 (1.07%) VB6
14 26 (0.84%) Scala
15 25 (0.81%) Bash
15 25 (0.81%) Perl
16 22 (0.71%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 632 (20.42%) Degree
2 158 (5.11%) Computer Science Degree
3 154 (4.98%) Security Cleared
4 80 (2.58%) ISTQB
5 77 (2.49%) SC Cleared
6 52 (1.68%) DBS Check
6 52 (1.68%) Master's Degree
7 49 (1.58%) DV Cleared
8 35 (1.13%) PMI Certification
9 32 (1.03%) ISEB
10 25 (0.81%) PMP
11 23 (0.74%) HNC
12 19 (0.61%) Azure Certification
12 19 (0.61%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
13 16 (0.52%) Numerate Degree
14 15 (0.48%) PRINCE2 Certification
15 14 (0.45%) CREST Certified
15 14 (0.45%) MBA
16 13 (0.42%) AAT
16 13 (0.42%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 214 (6.91%) GMP
2 50 (1.62%) Data Quality
3 48 (1.55%) Accessibility
4 44 (1.42%) PMO
5 43 (1.39%) ISO 9001
6 35 (1.13%) GDPR
6 35 (1.13%) Good Clinical Practice
7 31 (1.00%) Software Quality Assurance
8 26 (0.84%) GxP
9 22 (0.71%) SLA
10 21 (0.68%) ISO 13485
11 17 (0.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
12 14 (0.45%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 12 (0.39%) ISO 14001
14 10 (0.32%) NEBOSH
15 9 (0.29%) 21 CFR Part 11
15 9 (0.29%) California Consumer Privacy Act
15 9 (0.29%) CDISC
15 9 (0.29%) Cyber Essentials
16 7 (0.23%) NIST
System Software
1 106 (3.42%) Docker
2 29 (0.94%) Firmware
3 21 (0.68%) Virtual Machines
4 12 (0.39%) Embedded Firmware
4 12 (0.39%) Virtual Desktop
5 11 (0.36%) Active Directory
6 7 (0.23%) HDFS
6 7 (0.23%) VMware Infrastructure
7 2 (0.065%) Varnish
7 2 (0.065%) vSphere
8 1 (0.032%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 81 (2.62%) Kubernetes
2 41 (1.32%) Terraform
3 29 (0.94%) Ansible
4 13 (0.42%) Docker Swarm
5 9 (0.29%) Puppet
6 6 (0.19%) HP Quality Center
6 6 (0.19%) Microsoft Intune
7 4 (0.13%) Kibana
8 3 (0.097%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 3 (0.097%) Functional Safety
8 3 (0.097%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
8 3 (0.097%) Packer
9 2 (0.065%) Grafana
9 2 (0.065%) Podman
9 2 (0.065%) SCCM
10 1 (0.032%) HAProxy
10 1 (0.032%) Kubeflow
10 1 (0.032%) Progress Chef
10 1 (0.032%) Sysprep
10 1 (0.032%) WSUS
Vendors
1 441 (14.25%) Microsoft
2 160 (5.17%) Google
3 71 (2.29%) SAP
4 67 (2.16%) Oracle
5 38 (1.23%) ServiceNow
6 32 (1.03%) Salesforce
7 29 (0.94%) Databricks
8 27 (0.87%) NCR
9 19 (0.61%) Cisco
10 13 (0.42%) Adobe
10 13 (0.42%) Atlassian
11 11 (0.36%) Aderant
12 10 (0.32%) IBM
12 10 (0.32%) VMware
13 8 (0.26%) Marketo
13 8 (0.26%) QAD
14 7 (0.23%) CheckPoint
14 7 (0.23%) HP
14 7 (0.23%) Xamarin
15 6 (0.19%) Bloomberg