QA Jobs in the UK excluding London

Quality Assurance (QA)
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding 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 66 17 58
Rank change year-on-year -49 +41 +12
Permanent jobs citing QA 2,628 6,545 3,570
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 3.71% 10.98% 4.98%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 27.27% 53.47% 29.04%
Number of salaries quoted 1,617 1,228 2,037
10th Percentile £27,000 £31,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £41,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £51,959 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.58% +3.92% +5.26%
75th Percentile £62,200 £67,500 £63,750
90th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £76,520
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -12.50% +4.35% +7.98%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
UK excluding 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 the UK excluding London with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 9,636 12,241 12,292
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 13.60% 20.53% 17.14%
Number of salaries quoted 6,338 4,568 6,952
10th Percentile £25,625 £28,250 £26,750
25th Percentile £32,500 £37,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £50,000 £47,900
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +4.39% +0.84%
75th Percentile £62,500 £66,250 £62,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £79,400 £75,975
UK median annual salary £52,500 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% +3.77%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for QA in the UK excluding London

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Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Salary trend for QA in the UK excluding London

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Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

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

Salary histogram for QA in the UK excluding London

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Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing QA within the UK excluding 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
South East -29 698 £47,500 -13.64% 219
North of England -60 558 £47,500 -12.84% 250
Midlands -42 466 £49,000 -6.67% 197
South West -32 360 £47,500 - 133
North West -54 314 £47,500 -5.00% 137
West Midlands -45 283 £52,500 -4.55% 120
Scotland -70 246 £45,000 -18.18% 60
Yorkshire -43 187 £46,250 -15.91% 83
East Midlands -41 183 £47,500 -1.04% 77
East of England -70 167 £45,000 +5.88% 117
Wales -28 77 £45,000 +2.19% 38
Northern Ireland +57 59 £67,500 +3.85% 15
North East -52 57 £52,500 -8.70% 33
Isle of Man - 3 - -
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UK

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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 41 (1.56%) Confluence
2 34 (1.29%) IIS
2 34 (1.29%) SharePoint
3 22 (0.84%) CMS
4 13 (0.49%) Documentum
5 6 (0.23%) OpenStack
6 5 (0.19%) Drupal
6 5 (0.19%) Kinematics
6 5 (0.19%) WordPress
7 4 (0.15%) TWiki
8 3 (0.11%) Apache
8 3 (0.11%) Apache Solr
9 2 (0.076%) ArcGIS
9 2 (0.076%) BizTalk Server
9 2 (0.076%) Microsoft Exchange
9 2 (0.076%) nginx
10 1 (0.038%) Apache Airflow
10 1 (0.038%) IBM Domino
10 1 (0.038%) SAS
10 1 (0.038%) Umbraco
Applications
1 107 (4.07%) Microsoft Excel
2 91 (3.46%) Microsoft Office
3 30 (1.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 19 (0.72%) Microsoft Project
5 9 (0.34%) InfoPath
6 8 (0.30%) Spreadsheet
7 7 (0.27%) MS Visio
8 4 (0.15%) Simulink
9 2 (0.076%) Adobe Captivate
9 2 (0.076%) Chatbot
9 2 (0.076%) Photoshop
10 1 (0.038%) Adobe Illustrator
10 1 (0.038%) Blender
10 1 (0.038%) Doxygen
10 1 (0.038%) OrCAD
10 1 (0.038%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 21 (0.80%) Dynamics CRM
2 13 (0.49%) TrackWise
3 11 (0.42%) SAP QM
4 7 (0.27%) NEC Housing
4 7 (0.27%) Salesforce CRM
5 5 (0.19%) SAP ERP
5 5 (0.19%) Shopify
6 4 (0.15%) Dynamics NAV
6 4 (0.15%) Magento
7 3 (0.11%) Payment Gateway
7 3 (0.11%) Q-Pulse
7 3 (0.11%) SAP IBP
7 3 (0.11%) SAP S/4HANA
8 2 (0.076%) Sage 200
8 2 (0.076%) SAP MII
9 1 (0.038%) NetSuite
9 1 (0.038%) Oracle EBS
9 1 (0.038%) Primavera
9 1 (0.038%) SAP SD
9 1 (0.038%) SAP WM
Cloud Services
1 475 (18.07%) Azure
2 284 (10.81%) AWS
3 240 (9.13%) Azure DevOps
4 192 (7.31%) SaaS
5 113 (4.30%) GCP
6 62 (2.36%) Microsoft 365
7 49 (1.86%) Power Platform
8 46 (1.75%) Serverless
9 41 (1.56%) Dynamics 365
10 27 (1.03%) GitHub
11 22 (0.84%) Power Automate
12 16 (0.61%) PowerApps
13 15 (0.57%) BlazeMeter
13 15 (0.57%) PaaS
14 13 (0.49%) Cloud Computing
15 12 (0.46%) Azure Cosmos DB
16 11 (0.42%) AWS Lambda
17 10 (0.38%) BrowserStack
17 10 (0.38%) Google Play
18 9 (0.34%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 27 (1.03%) Firewall
1 27 (1.03%) TCP/IP
2 12 (0.46%) HTTP
3 11 (0.42%) WAN
3 11 (0.42%) Wireless
4 10 (0.38%) MQTT
4 10 (0.38%) Wireshark
5 9 (0.34%) VoIP
6 8 (0.30%) VLAN
7 7 (0.27%) Internet
7 7 (0.27%) Wi-Fi
8 6 (0.23%) 5G
8 6 (0.23%) Bluetooth
8 6 (0.23%) LAN
9 5 (0.19%) GSM
9 5 (0.19%) PSTN
9 5 (0.19%) Remote Desktop
9 5 (0.19%) RFID
9 5 (0.19%) SD-WAN
9 5 (0.19%) UMTS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 197 (7.50%) SQL Server
2 101 (3.84%) Data Warehouse
3 95 (3.61%) Relational Database
4 74 (2.82%) BigQuery
4 74 (2.82%) Looker
5 48 (1.83%) MySQL
6 40 (1.52%) NoSQL
6 40 (1.52%) Power BI
7 35 (1.33%) Oracle Database
8 30 (1.14%) RDBMS
9 26 (0.99%) PostgreSQL
10 17 (0.65%) Big Data
11 14 (0.53%) Crystal Reports
12 13 (0.49%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 13 (0.49%) Tableau
13 11 (0.42%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 10 (0.38%) MongoDB
15 9 (0.34%) EDMS
16 8 (0.30%) Data Mining
17 7 (0.27%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 172 (6.54%) Selenium
2 167 (6.35%) Git
3 155 (5.90%) JIRA
4 72 (2.74%) Cypress.io
4 72 (2.74%) Visual Studio
5 56 (2.13%) Cucumber
5 56 (2.13%) Jenkins
6 53 (2.02%) Postman
7 39 (1.48%) JMeter
8 38 (1.45%) Appium
9 32 (1.22%) Jasmine
10 30 (1.14%) JDeveloper
11 28 (1.07%) Karma Test Runner
12 22 (0.84%) SoapUI
13 21 (0.80%) WebDriver
14 20 (0.76%) GitLab
15 19 (0.72%) TeamCity
16 17 (0.65%) NUnit
17 16 (0.61%) TestRail
18 15 (0.57%) SpecFlow
General
1 803 (30.56%) Social Skills
2 466 (17.73%) Manufacturing
3 393 (14.95%) Analytical Skills
4 338 (12.86%) Finance
5 253 (9.63%) Pharmaceutical
6 175 (6.66%) Legal
7 156 (5.94%) Retail
8 122 (4.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 119 (4.53%) Marketing
10 99 (3.77%) Electronics
11 78 (2.97%) Organisational Skills
12 73 (2.78%) Billing
13 63 (2.40%) Public Sector
14 62 (2.36%) Aerospace
15 59 (2.25%) Influencing Skills
15 59 (2.25%) Telecoms
16 54 (2.05%) Law
17 40 (1.52%) Games
18 37 (1.41%) Automotive
19 30 (1.14%) Police
Job Titles
1 347 (13.20%) Developer
2 275 (10.46%) Lead
3 229 (8.71%) Senior
4 211 (8.03%) QA Manager
5 193 (7.34%) QA Engineer
6 165 (6.28%) Analyst
7 151 (5.75%) Quality Manager
8 135 (5.14%) Software Engineer
9 101 (3.84%) Engineering Manager
10 99 (3.77%) Quality Engineer
11 91 (3.46%) Tester
12 88 (3.35%) QA Leader
13 79 (3.01%) Data Manager
14 71 (2.70%) Software Developer
15 70 (2.66%) Project Manager
16 69 (2.63%) QA Specialist
17 66 (2.51%) Senior Developer
17 66 (2.51%) Test Engineer
18 60 (2.28%) .NET Developer
18 60 (2.28%) Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 249 (9.47%) .NET
2 171 (6.51%) React
3 137 (5.21%) AngularJS
4 133 (5.06%) CSS
4 133 (5.06%) HTML
5 102 (3.88%) ASP.NET
6 95 (3.61%) JSON
7 89 (3.39%) XML
8 87 (3.31%) REST
9 85 (3.23%) Web Services
10 79 (3.01%) Node.js
11 74 (2.82%) .NET Core
12 57 (2.17%) .NET Framework
12 57 (2.17%) jQuery
13 54 (2.05%) RESTful
14 53 (2.02%) SOAP
15 49 (1.86%) Spring
15 49 (1.86%) Vue
16 47 (1.79%) Playwright
17 39 (1.48%) ASP.NET MVC
Miscellaneous
1 232 (8.83%) Management Information System
2 194 (7.38%) Product Ownership
3 63 (2.40%) Mobile App
4 58 (2.21%) Self-Motivation
5 42 (1.60%) IoT
6 30 (1.14%) Enterprise Software
6 30 (1.14%) Life Science
7 29 (1.10%) Biopharmaceutical
8 28 (1.07%) Driving Licence
9 26 (0.99%) Satnav
10 25 (0.95%) Cloud Native
11 24 (0.91%) Onboarding
12 22 (0.84%) Analytical Mindset
13 21 (0.80%) Data Structures
14 20 (0.76%) Client/Server
14 20 (0.76%) Greenfield Project
14 20 (0.76%) Video\Live Streaming
15 18 (0.68%) Algorithms
15 18 (0.68%) e-Learning
15 18 (0.68%) FMCG
Operating Systems
1 110 (4.19%) Windows
2 84 (3.20%) Linux
3 47 (1.79%) Android
4 29 (1.10%) Apple iOS
5 13 (0.49%) Embedded Linux
6 8 (0.30%) Mac OS
6 8 (0.30%) Unix
7 7 (0.27%) Windows Server
8 6 (0.23%) Mesosphere
9 5 (0.19%) Windows Server 2008
10 4 (0.15%) AIX
10 4 (0.15%) Ubuntu
10 4 (0.15%) VMS
11 2 (0.076%) Mac OS X
11 2 (0.076%) Windows 10
12 1 (0.038%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 1 (0.038%) Windows 8
12 1 (0.038%) Windows Server 2016
12 1 (0.038%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 764 (29.07%) Agile
2 602 (22.91%) Problem-Solving
3 486 (18.49%) Test Automation
4 447 (17.01%) DevOps
5 387 (14.73%) Mentoring
6 333 (12.67%) Project Management
7 321 (12.21%) Continuous Improvement
8 320 (12.18%) Coaching
9 298 (11.34%) Scrum
10 279 (10.62%) Software Testing
11 260 (9.89%) CI/CD
12 234 (8.90%) Software Engineering
13 230 (8.75%) QMS
14 202 (7.69%) Line Management
15 186 (7.08%) Computer Science
16 172 (6.54%) Code Quality
17 167 (6.35%) Collaborative Working
18 164 (6.24%) SDLC
19 157 (5.97%) Roadmaps
20 138 (5.25%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 353 (13.43%) JavaScript
2 308 (11.72%) C#
3 256 (9.74%) SQL
4 186 (7.08%) Python
5 183 (6.96%) Java
6 86 (3.27%) TypeScript
7 78 (2.97%) C
8 59 (2.25%) C++
9 54 (2.05%) PHP
10 44 (1.67%) VB
11 43 (1.64%) Bash
11 43 (1.64%) Go
12 38 (1.45%) T-SQL
13 37 (1.41%) Perl
14 35 (1.33%) Ruby
15 34 (1.29%) VB.NET
15 34 (1.29%) VB6
16 25 (0.95%) Kotlin
17 19 (0.72%) PowerShell
18 14 (0.53%) Swift
Qualifications
1 501 (19.06%) Degree
2 124 (4.72%) Security Cleared
3 108 (4.11%) Computer Science Degree
4 66 (2.51%) ISTQB
5 65 (2.47%) SC Cleared
6 46 (1.75%) Master's Degree
7 38 (1.45%) DBS Check
8 32 (1.22%) ISEB
9 31 (1.18%) DV Cleared
10 21 (0.80%) PhD
11 20 (0.76%) HNC
12 14 (0.53%) Azure Certification
13 13 (0.49%) AAT
13 13 (0.49%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
14 12 (0.46%) MBA
14 12 (0.46%) Microsoft Certification
14 12 (0.46%) PMI Certification
15 9 (0.34%) AWS Certification
15 9 (0.34%) HND
16 8 (0.30%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 208 (7.91%) GMP
2 56 (2.13%) ISO 9001
3 36 (1.37%) Data Quality
4 31 (1.18%) Accessibility
5 30 (1.14%) PMO
6 28 (1.07%) Software Quality Assurance
7 26 (0.99%) GDPR
7 26 (0.99%) GxP
8 22 (0.84%) ISO 13485
9 19 (0.72%) SLA
10 14 (0.53%) Good Clinical Practice
10 14 (0.53%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 12 (0.46%) ISO 14001
12 10 (0.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
13 9 (0.34%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 9 (0.34%) Cyber Essentials
14 7 (0.27%) ISO 22301
14 7 (0.27%) NEBOSH
15 6 (0.23%) JTAG
16 5 (0.19%) GLP
System Software
1 85 (3.23%) Docker
2 27 (1.03%) Firmware
3 12 (0.46%) Virtual Desktop
4 7 (0.27%) Hyper-V
5 5 (0.19%) Virtual Machines
5 5 (0.19%) VMware Infrastructure
6 4 (0.15%) Active Directory
7 3 (0.11%) Embedded Firmware
8 1 (0.038%) pfSense
Systems Management
1 69 (2.63%) Kubernetes
2 23 (0.88%) Ansible
3 18 (0.68%) Docker Swarm
4 12 (0.46%) Terraform
5 8 (0.30%) Puppet
6 6 (0.23%) HP Quality Center
6 6 (0.23%) Microsoft Intune
6 6 (0.23%) Progress Chef
7 3 (0.11%) Functional Safety
7 3 (0.11%) Grafana
7 3 (0.11%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
8 2 (0.076%) Podman
8 2 (0.076%) SCCM
9 1 (0.038%) Kibana
9 1 (0.038%) Packer
Vendors
1 333 (12.67%) Microsoft
2 135 (5.14%) Google
3 76 (2.89%) Oracle
4 56 (2.13%) SAP
5 36 (1.37%) ServiceNow
6 27 (1.03%) NCR
7 24 (0.91%) Salesforce
8 15 (0.57%) Databricks
9 14 (0.53%) Cisco
9 14 (0.53%) VMware
10 9 (0.34%) TOWER Software
11 8 (0.30%) MuleSoft
12 7 (0.27%) HP
12 7 (0.27%) NEC
13 6 (0.23%) Minitab
13 6 (0.23%) OutSystems
14 5 (0.19%) Intel
14 5 (0.19%) SolarWinds
14 5 (0.19%) SYSPRO
14 5 (0.19%) Xamarin