QA Jobs in the South East

Quality Assurance (QA)
England > South East

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 55 26 58
Rank change year-on-year -29 +32 -7
Permanent jobs citing QA 698 1,069 1,045
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 4.16% 7.42% 5.24%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 28.68% 40.80% 33.37%
Number of salaries quoted 391 374 637
10th Percentile £31,000 £36,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £38,000 £45,000 £46,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £59,000 £72,188 £71,250
90th Percentile £72,500 £82,500 £82,500
England median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
South East

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 South East with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 2,434 2,620 3,132
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 14.52% 18.19% 15.71%
Number of salaries quoted 1,608 1,262 1,901
10th Percentile £24,500 £29,410 £28,750
25th Percentile £31,500 £40,612 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £51,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.76% -2.86% +5.00%
75th Percentile £61,750 £67,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £75,000 £82,450 £78,750
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 South East

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

Job vacancy trend for QA in the South East

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Salary Trend in the South East

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

Salary trend for QA in the South East

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Salary Histogram in the South East

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

Salary histogram for QA in the South East

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Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing QA within the South East 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
Thames Valley -47 240 £50,000 -9.09% 81
Hampshire 0 170 £45,000 -18.18% 44
Surrey +46 142 £47,500 -30.91% 28
Berkshire -35 110 £50,000 -9.09% 33
Oxfordshire -27 81 £52,293 -4.92% 25
Kent -24 57 £37,000 -1.33% 17
Buckinghamshire -43 49 £47,500 +9.33% 24
West Sussex -24 39 £65,000 +23.81% 9
East Sussex -16 27 £52,500 -12.50% 10
Sussex - 9 £62,500 - 2
Middlesex -18 7 £43,000 -44.52% 1
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 17 (2.44%) SharePoint
2 13 (1.86%) Documentum
3 8 (1.15%) CMS
3 8 (1.15%) Confluence
4 5 (0.72%) Kinematics
5 4 (0.57%) TWiki
6 2 (0.29%) Apache
6 2 (0.29%) nginx
6 2 (0.29%) WordPress
Applications
1 31 (4.44%) Microsoft Office
2 19 (2.72%) Microsoft Excel
3 9 (1.29%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.29%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.14%) Doxygen
5 1 (0.14%) OrCAD
5 1 (0.14%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 13 (1.86%) TrackWise
2 8 (1.15%) Dynamics CRM
3 7 (1.00%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.14%) Primavera
4 1 (0.14%) SAP QM
4 1 (0.14%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 115 (16.48%) Azure
2 76 (10.89%) SaaS
3 69 (9.89%) Azure DevOps
4 58 (8.31%) AWS
5 36 (5.16%) GCP
6 22 (3.15%) Microsoft 365
7 19 (2.72%) GitHub
8 17 (2.44%) Power Platform
9 11 (1.58%) Dynamics 365
10 7 (1.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 7 (1.00%) Power Automate
10 7 (1.00%) PowerApps
11 6 (0.86%) Serverless
12 5 (0.72%) Azure Service Bus
13 4 (0.57%) Snowflake
14 3 (0.43%) Amazon EC2
15 2 (0.29%) Asana
15 2 (0.29%) Azure Pipelines
15 2 (0.29%) Basecamp
15 2 (0.29%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 7 (1.00%) Wi-Fi
2 6 (0.86%) 5G
2 6 (0.86%) Bluetooth
2 6 (0.86%) Firewall
2 6 (0.86%) Wireless
3 5 (0.72%) GSM
3 5 (0.72%) Internet
3 5 (0.72%) ISDN
3 5 (0.72%) LTE
3 5 (0.72%) PSTN
3 5 (0.72%) Remote Desktop
3 5 (0.72%) RFID
3 5 (0.72%) UMTS
4 4 (0.57%) DNS
5 3 (0.43%) VPN
6 2 (0.29%) DHCP
6 2 (0.29%) MQTT
6 2 (0.29%) RS-485
6 2 (0.29%) SSL
7 1 (0.14%) RS-232
Database & Business Intelligence
1 47 (6.73%) SQL Server
2 39 (5.59%) Relational Database
3 25 (3.58%) Data Warehouse
4 24 (3.44%) BigQuery
4 24 (3.44%) Looker
5 17 (2.44%) Power BI
6 16 (2.29%) MySQL
7 11 (1.58%) NoSQL
8 9 (1.29%) Big Data
8 9 (1.29%) PostgreSQL
8 9 (1.29%) Tableau
9 8 (1.15%) Crystal Reports
10 6 (0.86%) Azure SQL Database
10 6 (0.86%) EDMS
10 6 (0.86%) MongoDB
11 5 (0.72%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 4 (0.57%) PowerPivot
12 4 (0.57%) Redis
13 3 (0.43%) Data Mining
13 3 (0.43%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 76 (10.89%) Selenium
2 54 (7.74%) JIRA
3 43 (6.16%) Git
4 30 (4.30%) Jenkins
5 15 (2.15%) Visual Studio
6 13 (1.86%) Cypress.io
6 13 (1.86%) GitLab
7 12 (1.72%) WebDriver
8 11 (1.58%) Cucumber
8 11 (1.58%) NUnit
9 10 (1.43%) TestRail
10 9 (1.29%) Postman
11 8 (1.15%) eggPlant
12 6 (0.86%) Bugzilla
12 6 (0.86%) Zephyr
13 5 (0.72%) LabVIEW
13 5 (0.72%) Maven
13 5 (0.72%) SpecFlow
14 4 (0.57%) JUnit
15 3 (0.43%) JDeveloper
General
1 273 (39.11%) Social Skills
2 167 (23.93%) Manufacturing
3 153 (21.92%) Analytical Skills
4 80 (11.46%) Pharmaceutical
5 77 (11.03%) Finance
6 74 (10.60%) Electronics
7 48 (6.88%) Marketing
8 40 (5.73%) Legal
9 38 (5.44%) Retail
10 33 (4.73%) Aerospace
11 26 (3.72%) Telecoms
12 25 (3.58%) Billing
13 23 (3.30%) Organisational Skills
14 18 (2.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 13 (1.86%) Police
16 11 (1.58%) Public Sector
17 9 (1.29%) Presentation Skills
18 8 (1.15%) Influencing Skills
19 7 (1.00%) Back Office
20 6 (0.86%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 78 (11.17%) Developer
2 62 (8.88%) QA Engineer
3 61 (8.74%) Analyst
4 56 (8.02%) QA Manager
5 52 (7.45%) Lead
5 52 (7.45%) Quality Engineer
6 38 (5.44%) Senior
7 36 (5.16%) Software Engineer
8 35 (5.01%) Engineering Manager
9 32 (4.58%) Quality Manager
10 28 (4.01%) Test Analyst
11 27 (3.87%) Tester
12 26 (3.72%) Data Manager
13 25 (3.58%) Systems Manager
14 24 (3.44%) Software Developer
15 23 (3.30%) Automation Tester
15 23 (3.30%) Test Engineer
16 21 (3.01%) C++ Software Engineer
16 21 (3.01%) IT Manager
16 21 (3.01%) QA Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 72 (10.32%) .NET
2 46 (6.59%) CSS
3 41 (5.87%) HTML
4 31 (4.44%) AngularJS
5 30 (4.30%) React
6 27 (3.87%) .NET Core
7 25 (3.58%) HTML5
7 25 (3.58%) jQuery
8 24 (3.44%) .NET Framework
8 24 (3.44%) ASP.NET
9 22 (3.15%) JSON
10 19 (2.72%) XML
11 15 (2.15%) ASP.NET Web API
11 15 (2.15%) Vue
11 15 (2.15%) Web Services
12 14 (2.01%) ASP.NET MVC
13 13 (1.86%) Laravel
14 12 (1.72%) CSS3
14 12 (1.72%) Symfony
15 11 (1.58%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 107 (15.33%) Management Information System
2 51 (7.31%) Product Ownership
3 26 (3.72%) Satnav
4 24 (3.44%) IoT
4 24 (3.44%) Life Science
5 19 (2.72%) Biopharmaceutical
6 17 (2.44%) Mobile App
7 15 (2.15%) Analytical Mindset
8 14 (2.01%) LIMS
9 12 (1.72%) Data Structures
9 12 (1.72%) Legacy Systems
9 12 (1.72%) Self-Motivation
10 11 (1.58%) Algorithms
10 11 (1.58%) N-Tier
10 11 (1.58%) Taxonomies
10 11 (1.58%) Virtual Team
11 8 (1.15%) Enterprise Software
12 7 (1.00%) Client/Server
13 6 (0.86%) e-Learning
13 6 (0.86%) SCORM
Operating Systems
1 39 (5.59%) Windows
2 17 (2.44%) Linux
3 6 (0.86%) Windows Server
4 5 (0.72%) Windows Server 2008
5 4 (0.57%) Android
5 4 (0.57%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.29%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 210 (30.09%) Agile
1 210 (30.09%) Problem-Solving
2 163 (23.35%) Test Automation
3 123 (17.62%) DevOps
4 111 (15.90%) Project Management
5 107 (15.33%) Collaborative Working
5 107 (15.33%) Mentoring
6 89 (12.75%) Scrum
7 85 (12.18%) Coaching
8 83 (11.89%) Continuous Improvement
9 82 (11.75%) CI/CD
10 79 (11.32%) Software Engineering
11 78 (11.17%) QMS
12 69 (9.89%) Software Testing
13 68 (9.74%) Test Scripting
14 65 (9.31%) Validation
15 62 (8.88%) Computer Science
16 60 (8.60%) FMEA
17 59 (8.45%) Product Requirements
18 58 (8.31%) Actionable Insight
Programming Languages
1 104 (14.90%) C#
2 88 (12.61%) JavaScript
3 84 (12.03%) SQL
4 46 (6.59%) C
4 46 (6.59%) Python
5 44 (6.30%) C++
6 41 (5.87%) Java
7 16 (2.29%) Go
8 15 (2.15%) PHP
9 13 (1.86%) TypeScript
10 9 (1.29%) Embedded C
11 6 (0.86%) VB.NET
12 5 (0.72%) PowerShell
12 5 (0.72%) XAML
13 4 (0.57%) Perl
13 4 (0.57%) PL/1
14 3 (0.43%) Bash
14 3 (0.43%) Ruby
14 3 (0.43%) VB
15 2 (0.29%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 142 (20.34%) Degree
2 72 (10.32%) Security Cleared
3 38 (5.44%) Computer Science Degree
4 37 (5.30%) ISTQB
4 37 (5.30%) SC Cleared
5 31 (4.44%) DV Cleared
6 22 (3.15%) Master's Degree
7 13 (1.86%) ISEB
8 10 (1.43%) DBS Check
8 10 (1.43%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 10 (1.43%) MBA
9 9 (1.29%) PhD
10 8 (1.15%) Azure Certification
11 6 (0.86%) HNC
12 4 (0.57%) EMC Certification
12 4 (0.57%) Microsoft Certification
12 4 (0.57%) Numerate Degree
12 4 (0.57%) SAFe Agilist
13 3 (0.43%) PMI Certification
14 2 (0.29%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 62 (8.88%) GMP
2 23 (3.30%) Software Quality Assurance
3 20 (2.87%) GxP
4 17 (2.44%) Accessibility
5 16 (2.29%) Data Quality
6 14 (2.01%) Good Clinical Practice
6 14 (2.01%) ISO 9001
7 12 (1.72%) GDPR
8 10 (1.43%) ISO 14001
9 9 (1.29%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 8 (1.15%) ISO 13485
10 8 (1.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
11 7 (1.00%) ISO 22301
11 7 (1.00%) NEBOSH
12 6 (0.86%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 2 (0.29%) GRC
13 2 (0.29%) PMO
14 1 (0.14%) COSHH
14 1 (0.14%) IFRS
14 1 (0.14%) SLA
System Software
1 27 (3.87%) Docker
2 15 (2.15%) Firmware
3 10 (1.43%) Virtual Desktop
4 5 (0.72%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (0.43%) Embedded Firmware
6 2 (0.29%) VMware Infrastructure
7 1 (0.14%) Active Directory
7 1 (0.14%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 14 (2.01%) Kubernetes
2 8 (1.15%) Ansible
3 7 (1.00%) Terraform
4 5 (0.72%) HP Quality Center
4 5 (0.72%) Microsoft Intune
5 3 (0.43%) Docker Swarm
6 2 (0.29%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
6 2 (0.29%) Podman
6 2 (0.29%) Puppet
7 1 (0.14%) Packer
Vendors
1 73 (10.46%) Microsoft
2 36 (5.16%) Google
3 18 (2.58%) SAP
4 17 (2.44%) Oracle
5 13 (1.86%) ServiceNow
6 11 (1.58%) Salesforce
7 5 (0.72%) HP
8 4 (0.57%) EMC
8 4 (0.57%) Openreach
9 3 (0.43%) Micro Focus
10 2 (0.29%) Sun
10 2 (0.29%) VMware
11 1 (0.14%) AppDynamics
11 1 (0.14%) Ariba
11 1 (0.14%) Atlassian
11 1 (0.14%) Atmel
11 1 (0.14%) Citrix
11 1 (0.14%) Freescale
11 1 (0.14%) IBM
11 1 (0.14%) MuleSoft