QA Jobs in Buckinghamshire

Quality Assurance (QA)
South East > Buckinghamshire

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Buckinghamshire requiring QA skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited QA over the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 75 37 52
Rank change year-on-year -38 +15 -12
Permanent jobs citing QA 48 83 119
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire 2.30% 6.43% 5.70%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 16.00% 41.29% 33.90%
Number of salaries quoted 26 21 49
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £35,200
25th Percentile £41,875 £40,947 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £42,894 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.74% -22.01% -
75th Percentile £55,813 £52,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £58,750 £61,250 £78,000
South East median annual salary £47,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -13.64% - +10.00%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Buckinghamshire

QA falls under the Quality Assurance and Compliance category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring quality assurance or compliance skills in Buckinghamshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 300 201 351
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire 14.35% 15.57% 16.80%
Number of salaries quoted 163 96 156
10th Percentile £27,650 £31,250 £29,250
25th Percentile £32,750 £36,250 £38,438
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £47,500 £51,250
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -7.32% -3.30%
75th Percentile £51,250 £55,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £71,250 £69,375 £78,750
South East median annual salary £45,000 £51,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -11.76% -2.86% +5.00%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Buckinghamshire

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

Job vacancy trend for QA in Buckinghamshire

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Salary Trend in Buckinghamshire

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

Salary trend for QA in Buckinghamshire

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Salary Histogram in Buckinghamshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing QA in Buckinghamshire over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Salary histogram for QA in Buckinghamshire

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Job Locations in Buckinghamshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing QA within the Buckinghamshire region over the 6 months to 12 June 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
Milton Keynes +12 41 £47,500 +7.95% 19
Gerrards Cross +1 3 £26,000 -
High Wycombe -6 1 £40,000 +25.00% 3
Aylesbury -8 1 - - 3
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South East

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Buckinghamshire 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 3 (6.25%) SharePoint
2 2 (4.17%) CMS
Applications
1 2 (4.17%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 27 (56.25%) Azure
2 21 (43.75%) Azure DevOps
3 12 (25.00%) AWS
4 8 (16.67%) GCP
5 3 (6.25%) Dynamics 365
5 3 (6.25%) SaaS
6 2 (4.17%) Asana
6 2 (4.17%) Azure Pipelines
6 2 (4.17%) Basecamp
6 2 (4.17%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 5 (10.42%) 5G
1 5 (10.42%) Bluetooth
1 5 (10.42%) GSM
1 5 (10.42%) ISDN
1 5 (10.42%) LTE
1 5 (10.42%) PSTN
1 5 (10.42%) UMTS
1 5 (10.42%) Wi-Fi
1 5 (10.42%) Wireless
2 3 (6.25%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (25.00%) Relational Database
2 8 (16.67%) BigQuery
2 8 (16.67%) Data Warehouse
2 8 (16.67%) Looker
3 3 (6.25%) EDRMS
4 2 (4.17%) Data Mining
Development Applications
1 17 (35.42%) Selenium
2 11 (22.92%) NUnit
2 11 (22.92%) Visual Studio
3 10 (20.83%) WebDriver
4 5 (10.42%) LabVIEW
5 3 (6.25%) Git
6 2 (4.17%) Cypress.io
6 2 (4.17%) Jenkins
6 2 (4.17%) JIRA
6 2 (4.17%) Postman
7 1 (2.08%) Appium
7 1 (2.08%) Cucumber
7 1 (2.08%) JMeter
7 1 (2.08%) JUnit
7 1 (2.08%) Mockito
7 1 (2.08%) SpecFlow
General
1 13 (27.08%) Analytical Skills
2 10 (20.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 8 (16.67%) Billing
4 7 (14.58%) Finance
5 5 (10.42%) Retail
5 5 (10.42%) Telecoms
6 3 (6.25%) Social Skills
7 2 (4.17%) Manufacturing
7 2 (4.17%) Marketing
8 1 (2.08%) Health Technology
8 1 (2.08%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (2.08%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 8 (16.67%) Data Manager
1 8 (16.67%) Engineering Manager
2 6 (12.50%) Analyst
2 6 (12.50%) QA Engineer
2 6 (12.50%) Test Analyst
3 5 (10.42%) QA Manager
4 4 (8.33%) Automation Test Analyst
4 4 (8.33%) Quality Engineer
5 3 (6.25%) Developer
5 3 (6.25%) Hardware Engineer
5 3 (6.25%) Junior
5 3 (6.25%) Junior Developer
5 3 (6.25%) Lead
5 3 (6.25%) Quality Manager
5 3 (6.25%) Systems Developer
6 2 (4.17%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 2 (4.17%) AWS Infrastructure Engineer
6 2 (4.17%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
6 2 (4.17%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
6 2 (4.17%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (33.33%) .NET
2 12 (25.00%) JSON
3 9 (18.75%) .NET Core
3 9 (18.75%) XML
4 4 (8.33%) Playwright
5 2 (4.17%) CSS
5 2 (4.17%) HTML
6 1 (2.08%) Spring
6 1 (2.08%) Spring Boot
6 1 (2.08%) Web Services
6 1 (2.08%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 8 (16.67%) Product Ownership
2 5 (10.42%) Acoustics
2 5 (10.42%) Satnav
3 2 (4.17%) Self-Motivation
3 2 (4.17%) Taxonomies
4 1 (2.08%) FMCG
4 1 (2.08%) Mobile App
4 1 (2.08%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 3 (6.25%) Linux
2 2 (4.17%) Android
2 2 (4.17%) Apple iOS
3 1 (2.08%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (66.67%) Agile
2 24 (50.00%) DevOps
3 22 (45.83%) Test Automation
4 17 (35.42%) Problem-Solving
5 13 (27.08%) CI/CD
5 13 (27.08%) Scrum
6 12 (25.00%) Continuous Integration
7 11 (22.92%) Manual Testing
8 10 (20.83%) Backlog Management
8 10 (20.83%) Business Strategy
8 10 (20.83%) Integration Testing
8 10 (20.83%) Microservices
8 10 (20.83%) Product Backlog
8 10 (20.83%) Project Management
8 10 (20.83%) Root Cause Analysis
8 10 (20.83%) SDET
9 9 (18.75%) Non-Functional Testing
9 9 (18.75%) Platform Engineering
9 9 (18.75%) Scaled Agile Framework
9 9 (18.75%) System Integration Testing
Programming Languages
1 17 (35.42%) C#
2 12 (25.00%) SQL
3 7 (14.58%) JavaScript
4 5 (10.42%) Python
5 2 (4.17%) Java
6 1 (2.08%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 10 (20.83%) Degree
2 2 (4.17%) ISEB
2 2 (4.17%) ISTQB
3 1 (2.08%) Master's Degree
3 1 (2.08%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (6.25%) Accessibility
System Software
1 4 (8.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (8.33%) Kubernetes
2 3 (6.25%) Ansible
2 3 (6.25%) Docker Swarm
3 1 (2.08%) Terraform
Vendors
1 8 (16.67%) Google
2 6 (12.50%) Microsoft