QA Jobs in London

Quality Assurance (QA)
England > London

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in London 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 14 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
14 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 86 40 50
Rank change year-on-year -46 +10 +12
Permanent jobs citing QA 801 2,180 5,056
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 3.40% 6.41% 7.36%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 23.92% 38.77% 45.26%
Number of salaries quoted 622 1,272 2,088
10th Percentile £41,250 £45,000 £43,250
25th Percentile £52,500 £52,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £70,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year - +3.70% +3.85%
75th Percentile £95,000 £92,500 £90,000
90th Percentile £112,500 £106,250 £105,000
England median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
London

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 London with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 3,349 5,623 11,171
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 14.20% 16.54% 16.26%
Number of salaries quoted 2,468 3,597 5,238
10th Percentile £35,000 £40,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £67,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - +3.85% -
75th Percentile £90,000 £86,250 £85,000
90th Percentile £112,500 £102,500 £100,000
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 London

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

Job vacancy trend for QA in London

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Salary Trend in London

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

Salary trend for QA in London

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Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing QA in London over the 6 months to 14 May 2024.

Salary histogram for QA in London

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Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing QA within the London region over the 6 months to 14 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
Central London -23 148 £75,000 - 35
South London -45 37 £50,000 +42.86% 8
West London -66 25 £85,000 +70.00% 28
East London +38 20 £65,000 +47.73% 12
North London -4 3 £40,000 -13.98% 5
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 21 (2.62%) Confluence
2 20 (2.50%) Apache
3 17 (2.12%) Apache Spark
3 17 (2.12%) CMS
4 12 (1.50%) Drupal
5 9 (1.12%) Microsoft Exchange
6 8 (1.00%) Apache Pig
6 8 (1.00%) IIS
7 7 (0.87%) Apache Airflow
8 4 (0.50%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 4 (0.50%) SharePoint
9 3 (0.37%) nginx
9 3 (0.37%) Smallworld
9 3 (0.37%) Umbraco
9 3 (0.37%) WordPress
10 2 (0.25%) Joomla!
10 2 (0.25%) Moodle
11 1 (0.12%) MQSeries
11 1 (0.12%) SAS
11 1 (0.12%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 43 (5.37%) Microsoft Excel
2 35 (4.37%) Microsoft Office
3 8 (1.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 7 (0.87%) Microsoft Project
5 4 (0.50%) AutoCAD
5 4 (0.50%) MS Visio
5 4 (0.50%) Trello
6 1 (0.12%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 1 (0.12%) Adobe Illustrator
6 1 (0.12%) Blender
6 1 (0.12%) InDesign
6 1 (0.12%) Notion
6 1 (0.12%) Photoshop
6 1 (0.12%) Revit
6 1 (0.12%) Sketch
6 1 (0.12%) UXPin
6 1 (0.12%) Windchill
6 1 (0.12%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 10 (1.25%) Dynamics CRM
2 6 (0.75%) SAP S/4HANA
3 5 (0.62%) Distributed Ledger
4 4 (0.50%) Lawson
5 3 (0.37%) SAP CRM
5 3 (0.37%) SAP PM
5 3 (0.37%) Shopify
6 2 (0.25%) Endur
6 2 (0.25%) Primavera
7 1 (0.12%) Adobe Campaign
7 1 (0.12%) CA PPM
7 1 (0.12%) Findur
7 1 (0.12%) SAP IBP
Cloud Services
1 180 (22.47%) Azure
2 135 (16.85%) AWS
3 74 (9.24%) GCP
4 64 (7.99%) SaaS
5 47 (5.87%) Azure DevOps
6 46 (5.74%) Power Platform
7 33 (4.12%) Serverless
8 21 (2.62%) Dynamics 365
9 15 (1.87%) Amazon S3
10 14 (1.75%) AWS Lambda
11 12 (1.50%) GitHub
12 10 (1.25%) Amazon SQS
12 10 (1.25%) AWS Step Functions
13 9 (1.12%) Google Analytics
14 8 (1.00%) Azure Data Factory
15 7 (0.87%) AWS CodeCommit
15 7 (0.87%) Microsoft 365
16 6 (0.75%) Cloud Computing
16 6 (0.75%) IaaS
16 6 (0.75%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 16 (2.00%) Internet
2 5 (0.62%) Cisco ISE
2 5 (0.62%) LAN
2 5 (0.62%) SD-WAN
2 5 (0.62%) WAN
2 5 (0.62%) Wireless
3 4 (0.50%) SSH
4 3 (0.37%) HTTP
4 3 (0.37%) TCP/IP
5 2 (0.25%) DNS
5 2 (0.25%) SMTP
6 1 (0.12%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (4.99%) SQL Server
2 27 (3.37%) Power BI
3 24 (3.00%) NoSQL
4 18 (2.25%) PostgreSQL
5 15 (1.87%) Apache Hive
5 15 (1.87%) Data Warehouse
5 15 (1.87%) Relational Database
5 15 (1.87%) Tableau
6 13 (1.62%) MySQL
7 12 (1.50%) Hadoop
8 11 (1.37%) Big Data
9 10 (1.25%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 9 (1.12%) Data Lake
11 8 (1.00%) Looker
12 7 (0.87%) GIS
12 7 (0.87%) Presto
13 6 (0.75%) Power Query
13 6 (0.75%) PowerPivot
13 6 (0.75%) SAP BW
13 6 (0.75%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 81 (10.11%) Cucumber
2 79 (9.86%) JIRA
3 61 (7.62%) Git
3 61 (7.62%) Jenkins
4 57 (7.12%) Selenium
5 55 (6.87%) Postman
6 36 (4.49%) Cypress.io
7 24 (3.00%) JUnit
8 18 (2.25%) SpecFlow
9 15 (1.87%) Appium
10 10 (1.25%) TeamCity
11 9 (1.12%) CircleCI
11 9 (1.12%) SonarQube
11 9 (1.12%) TestRail
12 8 (1.00%) Checkstyle
13 7 (0.87%) Mockito
13 7 (0.87%) Visual Studio
14 6 (0.75%) REST Assured
14 6 (0.75%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
14 6 (0.75%) WebDriver
General
1 237 (29.59%) Social Skills
2 201 (25.09%) Finance
3 104 (12.98%) Analytical Skills
4 55 (6.87%) Front Office
5 50 (6.24%) Law
6 49 (6.12%) Retail
7 48 (5.99%) Legal
8 46 (5.74%) Marketing
9 38 (4.74%) Pharmaceutical
10 34 (4.24%) Banking
11 31 (3.87%) Manufacturing
12 29 (3.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 27 (3.37%) Organisational Skills
14 21 (2.62%) Police
15 20 (2.50%) Public Sector
16 16 (2.00%) Electronics
16 16 (2.00%) Telecoms
17 8 (1.00%) Documentation Skills
17 8 (1.00%) Investment Banking
17 8 (1.00%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 154 (19.23%) Senior
2 134 (16.73%) Developer
3 117 (14.61%) Lead
4 81 (10.11%) Software Engineer
5 74 (9.24%) Analyst
6 67 (8.36%) Project Manager
7 57 (7.12%) .NET Developer
8 53 (6.62%) QA Engineer
9 45 (5.62%) QA Manager
10 44 (5.49%) .NET Software Developer
11 43 (5.37%) .NET Software Engineer
12 41 (5.12%) Developer/Software Engineer
13 33 (4.12%) Software Manager
14 32 (4.00%) Finance Manager
14 32 (4.00%) Software Asset Manager
15 30 (3.75%) QA Leader
16 29 (3.62%) Senior Manager
17 27 (3.37%) Architect
17 27 (3.37%) Senior Developer
18 23 (2.87%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 120 (14.98%) .NET
2 91 (11.36%) React
3 68 (8.49%) REST
4 58 (7.24%) AngularJS
5 55 (6.87%) .NET Core
6 45 (5.62%) Redux
6 45 (5.62%) Vue
7 40 (4.99%) .NET Framework
8 34 (4.24%) HTML
8 34 (4.24%) JSON
9 33 (4.12%) ASP.NET
10 32 (4.00%) RESTful
11 31 (3.87%) CSS
12 28 (3.50%) Spring
13 22 (2.75%) Web Services
14 21 (2.62%) Spring Boot
15 18 (2.25%) Entity Framework
15 18 (2.25%) GraphQL
16 17 (2.12%) Node.js
17 16 (2.00%) ASP.NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 71 (8.86%) Product Ownership
2 53 (6.62%) Hedge funds
3 52 (6.49%) Derivative
4 45 (5.62%) Fixed Income
4 45 (5.62%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 43 (5.37%) Management Information System
6 41 (5.12%) Equities
7 35 (4.37%) Self-Motivation
8 25 (3.12%) Client/Server
9 21 (2.62%) Data Structures
10 19 (2.37%) Greenfield Project
10 19 (2.37%) Virtual Team
11 18 (2.25%) Mobile App
12 17 (2.12%) Onboarding
13 16 (2.00%) Algorithms
14 14 (1.75%) PropTech
15 13 (1.62%) Renewable Energy
16 12 (1.50%) Driving Licence
17 11 (1.37%) Data Protection Act
18 10 (1.25%) Blog
Operating Systems
1 33 (4.12%) Android
2 27 (3.37%) Apple iOS
3 22 (2.75%) Linux
4 19 (2.37%) Windows
5 8 (1.00%) Windows Server
6 5 (0.62%) Ubuntu
7 3 (0.37%) Debian
7 3 (0.37%) Unix
8 1 (0.12%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 292 (36.45%) Agile
2 170 (21.22%) Problem-Solving
3 156 (19.48%) DevOps
4 140 (17.48%) Software Engineering
5 131 (16.35%) Project Management
6 130 (16.23%) Test Automation
7 128 (15.98%) CI/CD
8 99 (12.36%) Mentoring
9 95 (11.86%) Scrum
10 94 (11.74%) Test Strategy
11 93 (11.61%) Continuous Improvement
12 91 (11.36%) TDD
13 85 (10.61%) Full Stack Development
14 84 (10.49%) Fintech
15 82 (10.24%) Computer Science
16 73 (9.11%) Project Delivery
17 69 (8.61%) API Testing
18 65 (8.11%) Roadmaps
19 62 (7.74%) Decision-Making
20 60 (7.49%) BDD
Programming Languages
1 130 (16.23%) C#
2 126 (15.73%) Python
2 126 (15.73%) SQL
3 125 (15.61%) Java
4 119 (14.86%) JavaScript
5 81 (10.11%) TypeScript
6 27 (3.37%) Kotlin
7 18 (2.25%) Scala
8 14 (1.75%) PL/1
9 11 (1.37%) PHP
10 10 (1.25%) Ruby
10 10 (1.25%) Swift
11 9 (1.12%) T-SQL
12 7 (0.87%) Go
13 6 (0.75%) Bash
13 6 (0.75%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 6 (0.75%) Perl
14 5 (0.62%) R
15 4 (0.50%) Dart
16 3 (0.37%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 194 (24.22%) Degree
2 56 (6.99%) Computer Science Degree
3 27 (3.37%) Security Cleared
4 24 (3.00%) Master's Degree
5 19 (2.37%) PMI Certification
6 15 (1.87%) DBS Check
6 15 (1.87%) ISTQB
6 15 (1.87%) PMP
6 15 (1.87%) SC Cleared
7 10 (1.25%) Numerate Degree
8 9 (1.12%) CREST Certified
8 9 (1.12%) PRINCE2 Certification
9 8 (1.00%) DV Cleared
10 7 (0.87%) NVQ Level 3
11 6 (0.75%) Azure Certification
11 6 (0.75%) Cisco Certification
12 5 (0.62%) CCNA
12 5 (0.62%) CCNP
12 5 (0.62%) ISEB
13 4 (0.50%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (2.87%) Accessibility
2 21 (2.62%) Good Clinical Practice
3 20 (2.50%) GMP
4 18 (2.25%) Data Quality
5 13 (1.62%) PMO
6 9 (1.12%) 21 CFR Part 11
6 9 (1.12%) CDISC
6 9 (1.12%) GDPR
7 7 (0.87%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 6 (0.75%) NIST
8 6 (0.75%) SLA
9 5 (0.62%) PCI DSS
9 5 (0.62%) Software Quality Assurance
10 4 (0.50%) ISO 9001
11 3 (0.37%) COBIT
11 3 (0.37%) GRC
11 3 (0.37%) MiFID
11 3 (0.37%) NEBOSH
11 3 (0.37%) UCITS
12 2 (0.25%) PMBOK
System Software
1 43 (5.37%) Docker
2 11 (1.37%) Firmware
3 10 (1.25%) Virtual Machines
4 9 (1.12%) Embedded Firmware
5 8 (1.00%) Active Directory
5 8 (1.00%) HDFS
6 2 (0.25%) Varnish
6 2 (0.25%) VMware Infrastructure
6 2 (0.25%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 27 (3.37%) Kubernetes
2 22 (2.75%) Terraform
3 10 (1.25%) Ansible
4 7 (0.87%) Puppet
5 3 (0.37%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 3 (0.37%) Kibana
6 2 (0.25%) Packer
7 1 (0.12%) HAProxy
7 1 (0.12%) Kubeflow
7 1 (0.12%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 132 (16.48%) Microsoft
2 48 (5.99%) Google
3 22 (2.75%) SAP
4 15 (1.87%) Databricks
5 11 (1.37%) Atlassian
5 11 (1.37%) Oracle
6 10 (1.25%) Aderant
6 10 (1.25%) Adobe
7 9 (1.12%) Salesforce
8 8 (1.00%) IBM
8 8 (1.00%) Marketo
8 8 (1.00%) QAD
9 7 (0.87%) CheckPoint
10 6 (0.75%) Bloomberg
10 6 (0.75%) Cognos
10 6 (0.75%) IFS
11 5 (0.62%) Cisco
11 5 (0.62%) Meraki
11 5 (0.62%) UiPath
12 4 (0.50%) JD Edwards