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 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 87 40 50
Rank change year-on-year -47 +10 +13
Permanent jobs citing QA 810 2,163 5,182
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 3.42% 6.41% 7.39%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 24.22% 38.84% 45.21%
Number of salaries quoted 620 1,260 2,109
10th Percentile £41,125 £44,425 £43,550
25th Percentile £52,500 £52,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,750 £70,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.21% +3.70% +3.85%
75th Percentile £95,000 £91,250 £90,000
90th Percentile £112,500 £106,250 £102,750
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 3,345 5,569 11,462
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 14.14% 16.51% 16.35%
Number of salaries quoted 2,449 3,563 5,292
10th Percentile £36,250 £39,800 £40,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £50,750
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 20 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 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
Central London -20 148 £75,000 - 38
South London -47 36 £60,000 +71.43% 16
West London -62 25 £85,000 +70.00% 31
East London +38 20 £65,000 +47.73% 57
North London -2 3 £40,000 -13.98% 8
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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 23 (2.84%) Apache
2 22 (2.72%) Confluence
3 20 (2.47%) Apache Spark
4 17 (2.10%) CMS
5 12 (1.48%) Drupal
6 10 (1.23%) Apache Airflow
7 9 (1.11%) Microsoft Exchange
8 8 (0.99%) IIS
9 7 (0.86%) Apache Pig
10 4 (0.49%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 4 (0.49%) SharePoint
11 3 (0.37%) nginx
11 3 (0.37%) Smallworld
11 3 (0.37%) Umbraco
11 3 (0.37%) WordPress
12 2 (0.25%) Joomla!
12 2 (0.25%) Moodle
13 1 (0.12%) Apache Solr
13 1 (0.12%) SAS
13 1 (0.12%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 41 (5.06%) Microsoft Excel
2 35 (4.32%) Microsoft Office
3 8 (0.99%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 7 (0.86%) Microsoft Project
5 4 (0.49%) AutoCAD
5 4 (0.49%) MS Visio
5 4 (0.49%) 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 (1.23%) Dynamics CRM
2 6 (0.74%) SAP S/4HANA
3 5 (0.62%) Distributed Ledger
4 4 (0.49%) 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
1 190 (23.46%) Azure
2 144 (17.78%) AWS
3 79 (9.75%) GCP
4 64 (7.90%) SaaS
5 49 (6.05%) Azure DevOps
6 46 (5.68%) Power Platform
7 33 (4.07%) Serverless
8 22 (2.72%) Dynamics 365
9 15 (1.85%) Amazon S3
10 13 (1.60%) AWS Lambda
11 11 (1.36%) GitHub
12 10 (1.23%) Amazon SQS
12 10 (1.23%) AWS Step Functions
12 10 (1.23%) Azure Data Factory
13 9 (1.11%) Google Analytics
14 7 (0.86%) AWS CodeCommit
14 7 (0.86%) Cloud Computing
14 7 (0.86%) Microsoft 365
14 7 (0.86%) PowerApps
15 6 (0.74%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 16 (1.98%) 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 (0.49%) 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 41 (5.06%) SQL Server
2 26 (3.21%) Power BI
3 25 (3.09%) NoSQL
4 18 (2.22%) PostgreSQL
5 17 (2.10%) Apache Hive
6 15 (1.85%) Data Warehouse
6 15 (1.85%) Relational Database
7 14 (1.73%) Tableau
8 13 (1.60%) MySQL
9 11 (1.36%) Hadoop
10 10 (1.23%) Big Data
10 10 (1.23%) Presto
10 10 (1.23%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 9 (1.11%) Data Lake
12 7 (0.86%) GIS
12 7 (0.86%) Looker
13 6 (0.74%) Power Query
13 6 (0.74%) PowerPivot
13 6 (0.74%) SAP BW
13 6 (0.74%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 82 (10.12%) JIRA
2 78 (9.63%) Cucumber
3 61 (7.53%) Jenkins
4 60 (7.41%) Git
5 55 (6.79%) Selenium
6 54 (6.67%) Postman
7 34 (4.20%) Cypress.io
8 24 (2.96%) JUnit
9 18 (2.22%) SpecFlow
10 13 (1.60%) Appium
11 10 (1.23%) TeamCity
12 9 (1.11%) CircleCI
12 9 (1.11%) TestRail
13 8 (0.99%) SonarQube
14 7 (0.86%) Checkstyle
14 7 (0.86%) Mockito
15 6 (0.74%) REST Assured
15 6 (0.74%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
15 6 (0.74%) Visual Studio
15 6 (0.74%) WebDriver
General
1 242 (29.88%) Social Skills
2 201 (24.81%) Finance
3 109 (13.46%) Analytical Skills
4 54 (6.67%) Front Office
5 53 (6.54%) Retail
6 51 (6.30%) Law
7 48 (5.93%) Marketing
8 47 (5.80%) Legal
9 38 (4.69%) Pharmaceutical
10 35 (4.32%) Manufacturing
11 33 (4.07%) Banking
12 29 (3.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 26 (3.21%) Organisational Skills
14 22 (2.72%) Public Sector
15 21 (2.59%) Police
16 19 (2.35%) Electronics
17 17 (2.10%) Telecoms
18 9 (1.11%) Investment Banking
19 8 (0.99%) Local Government
20 7 (0.86%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 151 (18.64%) Senior
2 130 (16.05%) Developer
3 122 (15.06%) Lead
4 87 (10.74%) Software Engineer
5 73 (9.01%) Analyst
6 68 (8.40%) Project Manager
7 55 (6.79%) .NET Developer
8 52 (6.42%) QA Engineer
8 52 (6.42%) QA Manager
9 42 (5.19%) .NET Software Developer
10 41 (5.06%) .NET Software Engineer
11 40 (4.94%) Developer/Software Engineer
12 33 (4.07%) Software Manager
13 32 (3.95%) Finance Manager
13 32 (3.95%) Software Asset Manager
14 31 (3.83%) QA Leader
15 29 (3.58%) Senior Manager
16 26 (3.21%) Senior Developer
17 22 (2.72%) Administrator
17 22 (2.72%) Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 121 (14.94%) .NET
2 93 (11.48%) React
3 67 (8.27%) REST
4 60 (7.41%) AngularJS
5 55 (6.79%) .NET Core
6 44 (5.43%) Vue
7 43 (5.31%) Redux
8 38 (4.69%) .NET Framework
9 35 (4.32%) HTML
10 31 (3.83%) ASP.NET
10 31 (3.83%) CSS
10 31 (3.83%) JSON
11 30 (3.70%) RESTful
12 29 (3.58%) Spring
13 20 (2.47%) Spring Boot
14 19 (2.35%) GraphQL
15 18 (2.22%) Web Services
16 17 (2.10%) Lambda Expressions
16 17 (2.10%) Node.js
17 16 (1.98%) Entity Framework
Miscellaneous
1 70 (8.64%) Product Ownership
2 52 (6.42%) Hedge funds
3 51 (6.30%) Derivative
4 47 (5.80%) Management Information System
5 44 (5.43%) Fixed Income
5 44 (5.43%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 40 (4.94%) Equities
7 34 (4.20%) Self-Motivation
8 24 (2.96%) Client/Server
9 21 (2.59%) Virtual Team
10 20 (2.47%) Data Structures
11 19 (2.35%) Greenfield Project
12 18 (2.22%) Mobile App
13 17 (2.10%) Onboarding
14 16 (1.98%) Algorithms
15 14 (1.73%) PropTech
16 13 (1.60%) Renewable Energy
17 12 (1.48%) Driving Licence
18 11 (1.36%) Data Protection Act
19 10 (1.23%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 30 (3.70%) Android
2 25 (3.09%) Apple iOS
3 22 (2.72%) Linux
4 20 (2.47%) Windows
5 8 (0.99%) Windows Server
6 5 (0.62%) Ubuntu
7 3 (0.37%) Debian
7 3 (0.37%) Unix
8 1 (0.12%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 297 (36.67%) Agile
2 177 (21.85%) Problem-Solving
3 155 (19.14%) DevOps
4 145 (17.90%) Software Engineering
5 135 (16.67%) Project Management
6 134 (16.54%) CI/CD
7 129 (15.93%) Test Automation
8 101 (12.47%) Scrum
9 96 (11.85%) Continuous Improvement
9 96 (11.85%) Mentoring
10 95 (11.73%) Test Strategy
11 92 (11.36%) TDD
12 86 (10.62%) Full Stack Development
13 83 (10.25%) Computer Science
14 82 (10.12%) Fintech
15 74 (9.14%) Project Delivery
16 69 (8.52%) Roadmaps
17 68 (8.40%) API Testing
18 62 (7.65%) Analytics
19 61 (7.53%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 131 (16.17%) Java
2 128 (15.80%) Python
3 126 (15.56%) C#
4 124 (15.31%) SQL
5 119 (14.69%) JavaScript
6 80 (9.88%) TypeScript
7 33 (4.07%) Kotlin
8 24 (2.96%) Scala
9 14 (1.73%) PL/1
10 11 (1.36%) PHP
11 9 (1.11%) Ruby
11 9 (1.11%) Swift
12 7 (0.86%) Go
12 7 (0.86%) T-SQL
13 6 (0.74%) Bash
13 6 (0.74%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 6 (0.74%) Perl
14 4 (0.49%) R
15 3 (0.37%) Dart
15 3 (0.37%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 195 (24.07%) Degree
2 59 (7.28%) Computer Science Degree
3 30 (3.70%) Security Cleared
4 23 (2.84%) Master's Degree
5 20 (2.47%) PMI Certification
6 18 (2.22%) ISTQB
7 16 (1.98%) SC Cleared
8 15 (1.85%) DBS Check
8 15 (1.85%) PMP
9 10 (1.23%) DV Cleared
10 9 (1.11%) CREST Certified
10 9 (1.11%) Numerate Degree
10 9 (1.11%) PRINCE2 Certification
11 7 (0.86%) NVQ Level 3
12 6 (0.74%) Azure Certification
12 6 (0.74%) Cisco Certification
12 6 (0.74%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
13 5 (0.62%) CCNA
13 5 (0.62%) CCNP
14 4 (0.49%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (2.84%) GMP
2 22 (2.72%) Accessibility
3 21 (2.59%) Good Clinical Practice
4 19 (2.35%) Data Quality
5 12 (1.48%) PMO
6 9 (1.11%) 21 CFR Part 11
6 9 (1.11%) CDISC
6 9 (1.11%) GDPR
7 7 (0.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 7 (0.86%) Software Quality Assurance
8 6 (0.74%) NIST
8 6 (0.74%) PCI DSS
8 6 (0.74%) SLA
9 4 (0.49%) ISO 9001
9 4 (0.49%) MiFID
9 4 (0.49%) UCITS
10 3 (0.37%) COBIT
10 3 (0.37%) GRC
10 3 (0.37%) NEBOSH
11 2 (0.25%) PMBOK
System Software
1 39 (4.81%) Docker
2 16 (1.98%) Virtual Machines
3 11 (1.36%) Firmware
4 9 (1.11%) Embedded Firmware
5 8 (0.99%) Active Directory
6 7 (0.86%) HDFS
7 2 (0.25%) Varnish
7 2 (0.25%) VMware Infrastructure
7 2 (0.25%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 30 (3.70%) Terraform
2 28 (3.46%) Kubernetes
3 11 (1.36%) Ansible
4 7 (0.86%) 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
1 133 (16.42%) Microsoft
2 52 (6.42%) Google
3 22 (2.72%) SAP
4 18 (2.22%) Databricks
5 12 (1.48%) Oracle
6 11 (1.36%) Atlassian
7 10 (1.23%) Aderant
7 10 (1.23%) Adobe
8 9 (1.11%) Salesforce
9 8 (0.99%) IBM
9 8 (0.99%) Marketo
9 8 (0.99%) QAD
10 7 (0.86%) CheckPoint
11 6 (0.74%) Bloomberg
11 6 (0.74%) Cognos
11 6 (0.74%) IFS
12 5 (0.62%) Cisco
12 5 (0.62%) Meraki
12 5 (0.62%) UiPath
13 4 (0.49%) JD Edwards