QA Jobs in the South West

Quality Assurance (QA)
England > South West

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South West 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 15 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
15 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 63 28 63
Rank change year-on-year -35 +35 +61
Permanent jobs citing QA 359 549 405
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 3.88% 8.19% 4.97%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 28.95% 45.33% 29.82%
Number of salaries quoted 199 127 261
10th Percentile £24,600 £31,250 £31,750
25th Percentile £29,000 £39,375 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £47,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year - - +5.56%
75th Percentile £63,750 £55,000 £58,750
90th Percentile £75,500 £63,000 £76,520
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 West

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 West with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 1,240 1,211 1,358
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 13.40% 18.07% 16.67%
Number of salaries quoted 815 620 845
10th Percentile £26,250 £27,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £32,500 £37,500 £38,313
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £68,750 £65,688 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £76,250 £76,520
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 West

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

Job vacancy trend for QA in the South West

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Salary Trend in the South West

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

Salary trend for QA in the South West

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Salary Histogram in the South West

Salary distribution for jobs citing QA in the South West over the 6 months to 15 May 2024.

Salary histogram for QA in the South West

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Job Locations in the South West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing QA within the South West region over the 6 months to 15 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
Bristol -24 127 £55,000 +15.79% 31
Wiltshire -8 59 £30,000 -40.00% 17
Gloucestershire -23 57 £35,000 -22.22% 17
Dorset -51 50 £47,500 - 13
Somerset -5 36 £30,000 -33.33% 27
Devon -20 14 £26,500 -26.95% 16
Cornwall -15 5 £26,000 -35.00% 5
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 8 (2.23%) Confluence
2 5 (1.39%) CMS
3 4 (1.11%) Drupal
4 1 (0.28%) SAS
4 1 (0.28%) Umbraco
4 1 (0.28%) WordPress
Applications
1 18 (5.01%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (2.79%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 9 (2.51%) InfoPath
4 7 (1.95%) Microsoft Office
5 4 (1.11%) Microsoft Project
6 2 (0.56%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 10 (2.79%) SAP QM
2 3 (0.84%) Q-Pulse
3 1 (0.28%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 96 (26.74%) Azure
2 70 (19.50%) AWS
3 65 (18.11%) Azure DevOps
4 34 (9.47%) GCP
5 13 (3.62%) SaaS
6 9 (2.51%) Microsoft 365
6 9 (2.51%) Power Automate
7 5 (1.39%) IaaS
7 5 (1.39%) PaaS
8 3 (0.84%) Dynamics 365
8 3 (0.84%) Power Platform
8 3 (0.84%) Serverless
9 2 (0.56%) BrowserStack
9 2 (0.56%) Sauce Labs
10 1 (0.28%) Cloud Computing
10 1 (0.28%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.11%) Firewall
2 3 (0.84%) VoIP
3 1 (0.28%) BGP
3 1 (0.28%) HSRP
3 1 (0.28%) Intranet
3 1 (0.28%) LAN
3 1 (0.28%) VLAN
3 1 (0.28%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (11.42%) Data Warehouse
2 32 (8.91%) BigQuery
2 32 (8.91%) Looker
3 28 (7.80%) SQL Server
4 12 (3.34%) Relational Database
5 5 (1.39%) Data Mining
6 4 (1.11%) NoSQL
7 3 (0.84%) Oracle Database
7 3 (0.84%) Power BI
7 3 (0.84%) RDBMS
7 3 (0.84%) Tableau
8 2 (0.56%) MySQL
8 2 (0.56%) Qlik Sense
9 1 (0.28%) Amazon RDS
9 1 (0.28%) Azure SQL Database
9 1 (0.28%) Big Data
9 1 (0.28%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 29 (8.08%) Selenium
2 26 (7.24%) Git
2 26 (7.24%) JIRA
3 22 (6.13%) Visual Studio
4 14 (3.90%) Cucumber
5 9 (2.51%) Cypress.io
5 9 (2.51%) Postman
5 9 (2.51%) TeamCity
6 5 (1.39%) Jenkins
6 5 (1.39%) JMeter
7 4 (1.11%) Appium
7 4 (1.11%) Eclipse
7 4 (1.11%) IntelliJ
7 4 (1.11%) Visual Studio Code
8 3 (0.84%) JDeveloper
8 3 (0.84%) SpecFlow
9 2 (0.56%) GitLab
9 2 (0.56%) Serenity BDD
9 2 (0.56%) Team Foundation Server
9 2 (0.56%) TestComplete
General
1 96 (26.74%) Social Skills
2 89 (24.79%) Manufacturing
3 55 (15.32%) Analytical Skills
4 36 (10.03%) Pharmaceutical
5 32 (8.91%) Billing
6 25 (6.96%) Finance
7 24 (6.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 19 (5.29%) Retail
9 15 (4.18%) Organisational Skills
10 13 (3.62%) Influencing Skills
10 13 (3.62%) Law
11 11 (3.06%) Legal
12 10 (2.79%) Aerospace
12 10 (2.79%) Marketing
13 7 (1.95%) Documentation Skills
14 6 (1.67%) Electronics
14 6 (1.67%) Publishing
15 5 (1.39%) Automotive
15 5 (1.39%) Banking
15 5 (1.39%) Games
Job Titles
1 48 (13.37%) Senior
2 46 (12.81%) Developer
3 36 (10.03%) Engineering Manager
4 34 (9.47%) QA Engineer
5 32 (8.91%) Data Manager
6 28 (7.80%) Lead
7 23 (6.41%) Quality Manager
8 22 (6.13%) QA Manager
8 22 (6.13%) Software Engineer
9 21 (5.85%) Quality Engineer
10 19 (5.29%) .NET Developer
11 18 (5.01%) Administrator
12 13 (3.62%) QA Officer
12 13 (3.62%) QA Specialist
12 13 (3.62%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
13 12 (3.34%) Technical Administrator
13 12 (3.34%) Technologist
14 11 (3.06%) QA Leader
14 11 (3.06%) Senior Developer
15 10 (2.79%) Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (11.42%) React
2 36 (10.03%) AngularJS
3 32 (8.91%) CSS
3 32 (8.91%) HTML
4 31 (8.64%) .NET
5 18 (5.01%) ASP.NET
5 18 (5.01%) Spring
6 17 (4.74%) ASP.NET MVC
6 17 (4.74%) jQuery
6 17 (4.74%) Vue
7 16 (4.46%) KnockoutJS
8 14 (3.90%) REST
9 10 (2.79%) Gherkin
10 9 (2.51%) .NET Framework
11 8 (2.23%) XML
12 6 (1.67%) Twitter Bootstrap
12 6 (1.67%) WPF
12 6 (1.67%) XSD
12 6 (1.67%) XSLT
13 5 (1.39%) Laravel
Miscellaneous
1 47 (13.09%) Product Ownership
2 10 (2.79%) Biopharmaceutical
3 9 (2.51%) Self-Motivation
4 8 (2.23%) Mobile App
5 6 (1.67%) Enterprise Software
5 6 (1.67%) NHS
6 4 (1.11%) Driving Licence
6 4 (1.11%) Low-Code
6 4 (1.11%) Management Information System
7 3 (0.84%) Data Centre
7 3 (0.84%) FMCG
7 3 (0.84%) Hedge funds
8 2 (0.56%) Acoustics
8 2 (0.56%) AS400
8 2 (0.56%) Enterprise Cloud
8 2 (0.56%) Operational Technology
8 2 (0.56%) Replication
8 2 (0.56%) Robotics
9 1 (0.28%) BBC
9 1 (0.28%) LIMS
Operating Systems
1 18 (5.01%) Windows
2 12 (3.34%) Linux
3 4 (1.11%) AIX
4 3 (0.84%) Android
4 3 (0.84%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.28%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 128 (35.65%) Agile
2 113 (31.48%) Problem-Solving
3 85 (23.68%) DevOps
4 81 (22.56%) Scrum
5 57 (15.88%) Project Management
6 49 (13.65%) CI/CD
6 49 (13.65%) Line Management
7 44 (12.26%) Mentoring
7 44 (12.26%) Test Automation
8 43 (11.98%) ETL
9 37 (10.31%) Product Backlog
10 36 (10.03%) Backlog Management
10 36 (10.03%) Data Modelling
11 34 (9.47%) Business Strategy
11 34 (9.47%) Coaching
12 32 (8.91%) Data Engineering
12 32 (8.91%) Platform Engineering
13 26 (7.24%) Validation
14 25 (6.96%) CAPA
14 25 (6.96%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 58 (16.16%) JavaScript
2 33 (9.19%) Java
3 31 (8.64%) C#
4 29 (8.08%) Python
5 18 (5.01%) SQL
6 15 (4.18%) TypeScript
7 6 (1.67%) C
7 6 (1.67%) PHP
7 6 (1.67%) Ruby
8 3 (0.84%) Bash
8 3 (0.84%) Go
8 3 (0.84%) Perl
9 2 (0.56%) Kotlin
9 2 (0.56%) MATLAB
9 2 (0.56%) Swift
10 1 (0.28%) PowerShell
10 1 (0.28%) R
10 1 (0.28%) Scala
Qualifications
1 86 (23.96%) Degree
2 20 (5.57%) Security Cleared
3 17 (4.74%) Computer Science Degree
4 7 (1.95%) ISTQB
5 6 (1.67%) SC Cleared
6 4 (1.11%) ISEB
6 4 (1.11%) Master's Degree
7 3 (0.84%) CSPO
7 3 (0.84%) IIBA
8 2 (0.56%) DBS Check
8 2 (0.56%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 2 (0.56%) MBA
8 2 (0.56%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.28%) Azure Certification
9 1 (0.28%) CCNP
9 1 (0.28%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (0.28%) MCSA
9 1 (0.28%) MCSD
9 1 (0.28%) NVQ Level 4
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 40 (11.14%) GMP
2 13 (3.62%) ISO 13485
3 10 (2.79%) ISO 9001
4 3 (0.84%) SLA
5 2 (0.56%) Data Quality
5 2 (0.56%) Def Stans
5 2 (0.56%) IEC 61508
5 2 (0.56%) ISO/IEC 17025
6 1 (0.28%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.28%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.28%) GxP
6 1 (0.28%) IEC 62304
6 1 (0.28%) ISO 14001
6 1 (0.28%) WCAG
System Software
1 3 (0.84%) Docker
2 2 (0.56%) Firmware
3 1 (0.28%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (0.84%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.28%) Functional Safety
2 1 (0.28%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
Vendors
1 61 (16.99%) Microsoft
2 37 (10.31%) Google
3 10 (2.79%) Oracle
3 10 (2.79%) SAP
4 4 (1.11%) ConnectWise
4 4 (1.11%) ServiceNow
5 3 (0.84%) Salesforce
5 3 (0.84%) Twitter
6 2 (0.56%) Fujitsu
6 2 (0.56%) VMware
7 1 (0.28%) Atlassian
7 1 (0.28%) Facebook
7 1 (0.28%) HP
7 1 (0.28%) Instagram
7 1 (0.28%) MicroStrategy
7 1 (0.28%) Red Hat
7 1 (0.28%) Thales