QA Jobs in Hampshire

Quality Assurance (QA)
South East > Hampshire

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Hampshire 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 53 55 91
Rank change year-on-year +2 +36 -1
Permanent jobs citing QA 172 139 201
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Hampshire 4.10% 4.93% 3.72%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 35.17% 35.92% 29.91%
Number of salaries quoted 103 96 156
10th Percentile £36,250 £32,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £38,500 £38,437 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -27.27% - +15.79%
75th Percentile £53,125 £77,500 £69,063
90th Percentile £61,750 - £75,000
South East median annual salary £47,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -13.64% - +10.00%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Hampshire

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 Hampshire with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 489 387 672
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Hampshire 11.66% 13.72% 12.45%
Number of salaries quoted 375 304 454
10th Percentile £27,750 £29,430 £26,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £37,313 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £61,824 £75,000 £63,750
90th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £75,000
South East median annual salary £45,000 £51,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -11.76% -2.86% +5.00%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Hampshire

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

Job vacancy trend for QA in Hampshire

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Salary Trend in Hampshire

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

Salary trend for QA in Hampshire

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Salary Histogram in Hampshire

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

Salary histogram for QA in Hampshire

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Job Locations in Hampshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing QA within the Hampshire 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
Andover - 55 £39,000 - 3
Fareham +29 33 £37,500 +2.74% 9
Basingstoke -7 28 £49,500 -34.00% 9
Portsmouth -6 14 £44,750 -22.17% 13
Southampton -14 13 £60,500 +10.00% 5
Farnborough +8 3 £72,500 +141.67% 5
Hook -7 3 - - 1
Eastleigh - 3 - - 3
Winchester -18 2 £43,064 -4.30% 3
Romsey - 2 £58,750 -
Aldershot +4 1 £60,000 +26.32%
Petersfield 0 1 £57,500 +10.58% 1
Waterlooville - 1 £24,150 -
Bordon - 1 - -
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South East

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Hampshire 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 (3.49%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (0.58%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 2 (1.16%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.58%) SAP QM
Cloud Services
1 27 (15.70%) SaaS
2 17 (9.88%) AWS
3 16 (9.30%) Azure
4 5 (2.91%) Azure DevOps
4 5 (2.91%) Azure Service Bus
5 4 (2.33%) Snowflake
6 2 (1.16%) Dynamics 365
6 2 (1.16%) Entra ID
6 2 (1.16%) Serverless
7 1 (0.58%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 1 (0.58%) GitHub
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (8.72%) SQL Server
2 8 (4.65%) NoSQL
2 8 (4.65%) Relational Database
3 4 (2.33%) Redis
4 3 (1.74%) Big Data
5 2 (1.16%) Hadoop
5 2 (1.16%) MongoDB
5 2 (1.16%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 55 (31.98%) Selenium
2 12 (6.98%) JIRA
3 8 (4.65%) Git
4 4 (2.33%) Cucumber
4 4 (2.33%) SpecFlow
4 4 (2.33%) TestRail
5 2 (1.16%) Cypress.io
5 2 (1.16%) GitLab
5 2 (1.16%) JBehave
5 2 (1.16%) Jenkins
5 2 (1.16%) JUnit
5 2 (1.16%) Postman
5 2 (1.16%) SonarQube
5 2 (1.16%) TeamCity
6 1 (0.58%) SoapUI
General
1 57 (33.14%) Manufacturing
2 53 (30.81%) Electronics
3 29 (16.86%) Aerospace
4 20 (11.63%) Organisational Skills
4 20 (11.63%) Social Skills
5 7 (4.07%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (4.07%) Finance
6 6 (3.49%) Marketing
7 5 (2.91%) Banking
8 3 (1.74%) Automotive
8 3 (1.74%) Legal
8 3 (1.74%) Local Government
8 3 (1.74%) Pharmaceutical
9 2 (1.16%) Agriculture
9 2 (1.16%) Aviation
9 2 (1.16%) Retail
Job Titles
1 42 (24.42%) Quality Engineer
2 30 (17.44%) QA Engineer
3 25 (14.53%) Automation Tester
3 25 (14.53%) Tester
4 20 (11.63%) Analyst
5 18 (10.47%) QC Engineer
6 15 (8.72%) Developer
6 15 (8.72%) Lead
7 14 (8.14%) Test Analyst
7 14 (8.14%) Test Engineer
8 13 (7.56%) QA Analyst
9 10 (5.81%) QA Test Analyst
10 9 (5.23%) QA Leader
10 9 (5.23%) QA Manager
10 9 (5.23%) QA Technician
10 9 (5.23%) Quality Manager
10 9 (5.23%) Senior
10 9 (5.23%) Senior Developer
10 9 (5.23%) Software Test Engineer
10 9 (5.23%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (6.40%) AngularJS
1 11 (6.40%) React
2 7 (4.07%) .NET
2 7 (4.07%) Node.js
3 6 (3.49%) ASP.NET
3 6 (3.49%) ASP.NET MVC
3 6 (3.49%) ASP.NET Web API
3 6 (3.49%) CSS
3 6 (3.49%) HTML
3 6 (3.49%) Vue
4 5 (2.91%) HTML5
4 5 (2.91%) jQuery
4 5 (2.91%) Spring
4 5 (2.91%) Twitter Bootstrap
5 3 (1.74%) Gherkin
5 3 (1.74%) RESTful
6 2 (1.16%) Kafka
6 2 (1.16%) Keycloak
7 1 (0.58%) JSON
7 1 (0.58%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 5 (2.91%) N-Tier
2 4 (2.33%) Product Ownership
3 3 (1.74%) Augmented Reality
3 3 (1.74%) IoT
3 3 (1.74%) Self-Motivation
3 3 (1.74%) Virtual Reality
4 2 (1.16%) Data Centre
4 2 (1.16%) Management Information System
4 2 (1.16%) Renewable Energy
5 1 (0.58%) Data Structures
5 1 (0.58%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (0.58%) LIMS
Operating Systems
1 4 (2.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 83 (48.26%) Collaborative Working
2 62 (36.05%) Test Automation
3 56 (32.56%) Product Requirements
4 55 (31.98%) FMEA
4 55 (31.98%) Internal Audit
5 43 (25.00%) Agile
6 41 (23.84%) Test Scripting
7 39 (22.67%) Mentoring
8 33 (19.19%) Software Testing
9 29 (16.86%) Requirements Analysis
9 29 (16.86%) Test Assurance
10 25 (14.53%) Coaching
10 25 (14.53%) Technical Analysis
11 22 (12.79%) Actionable Insight
11 22 (12.79%) Test Strategy
12 20 (11.63%) E-Commerce
12 20 (11.63%) Web Testing
13 15 (8.72%) Problem-Solving
14 14 (8.14%) Continuous Integration
15 13 (7.56%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 23 (13.37%) C#
2 17 (9.88%) Java
2 17 (9.88%) JavaScript
3 8 (4.65%) C
3 8 (4.65%) Embedded C
4 6 (3.49%) Python
4 6 (3.49%) SQL
5 5 (2.91%) C++
Qualifications
1 30 (17.44%) Security Cleared
2 26 (15.12%) DV Cleared
3 24 (13.95%) ISTQB
4 10 (5.81%) Degree
5 8 (4.65%) ISEB
6 5 (2.91%) Computer Science Degree
7 4 (2.33%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 2 (1.16%) SC Cleared
9 1 (0.58%) DBS Check
9 1 (0.58%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (0.58%) SLA
System Software
1 7 (4.07%) Docker
2 4 (2.33%) Firmware
3 1 (0.58%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 7 (4.07%) Kubernetes
2 2 (1.16%) Ansible
2 2 (1.16%) Podman
2 2 (1.16%) Puppet
2 2 (1.16%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (2.91%) Google
1 5 (2.91%) Oracle
2 2 (1.16%) Microsoft
3 1 (0.58%) SAP