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 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 54 26 62
Rank change year-on-year -28 +36 -14
Permanent jobs citing QA 703 1,058 1,047
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 4.16% 7.38% 5.19%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 28.80% 41.15% 33.19%
Number of salaries quoted 390 372 636
10th Percentile £30,000 £36,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £37,625 £45,000 £45,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £58,750 £71,250 £70,000
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 2,441 2,571 3,155
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 14.46% 17.93% 15.64%
Number of salaries quoted 1,604 1,238 1,900
10th Percentile £24,500 £30,000 £28,725
25th Percentile £32,500 £41,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,625 £51,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.54% -2.86% +5.00%
75th Percentile £61,750 £67,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £75,000 £81,250 £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 20 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 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
Thames Valley -44 241 £50,000 -9.09% 88
Hampshire +1 170 £45,000 -18.18% 54
Surrey +38 146 £47,500 -28.30% 31
Berkshire -30 112 £50,000 -11.11% 31
Oxfordshire -24 83 £52,293 -4.92% 33
Kent -24 57 £37,000 -1.33% 17
Buckinghamshire -50 46 £47,500 +10.74% 25
West Sussex -21 39 £65,000 +23.81% 9
East Sussex -14 27 £52,500 -12.50% 10
Sussex - 9 £62,500 - 1
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 (2.42%) SharePoint
2 13 (1.85%) Documentum
3 9 (1.28%) Confluence
4 8 (1.14%) CMS
5 5 (0.71%) Kinematics
6 4 (0.57%) TWiki
7 2 (0.28%) Apache
7 2 (0.28%) nginx
7 2 (0.28%) WordPress
Applications
1 34 (4.84%) Microsoft Office
2 19 (2.70%) Microsoft Excel
3 9 (1.28%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.28%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.14%) Doxygen
5 1 (0.14%) OrCAD
5 1 (0.14%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 13 (1.85%) TrackWise
2 8 (1.14%) Dynamics CRM
2 8 (1.14%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.14%) Primavera
3 1 (0.14%) SAP QM
3 1 (0.14%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 121 (17.21%) Azure
2 76 (10.81%) SaaS
3 72 (10.24%) Azure DevOps
4 61 (8.68%) AWS
5 36 (5.12%) GCP
6 22 (3.13%) Microsoft 365
7 19 (2.70%) GitHub
8 17 (2.42%) Power Platform
9 11 (1.56%) Dynamics 365
10 7 (1.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 7 (1.00%) Power Automate
10 7 (1.00%) PowerApps
11 6 (0.85%) Serverless
12 5 (0.71%) Azure Service Bus
13 4 (0.57%) Snowflake
14 3 (0.43%) Amazon EC2
15 2 (0.28%) Basecamp
15 2 (0.28%) Entra ID
15 2 (0.28%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
15 2 (0.28%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 8 (1.14%) Firewall
2 7 (1.00%) Wi-Fi
3 6 (0.85%) 5G
3 6 (0.85%) Bluetooth
3 6 (0.85%) Wireless
4 5 (0.71%) GSM
4 5 (0.71%) Internet
4 5 (0.71%) ISDN
4 5 (0.71%) LTE
4 5 (0.71%) PSTN
4 5 (0.71%) Remote Desktop
4 5 (0.71%) RFID
4 5 (0.71%) UMTS
5 4 (0.57%) DNS
6 3 (0.43%) VPN
7 2 (0.28%) DHCP
7 2 (0.28%) MQTT
7 2 (0.28%) RS-485
7 2 (0.28%) SSL
8 1 (0.14%) Ethernet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 51 (7.25%) SQL Server
2 40 (5.69%) Relational Database
3 25 (3.56%) Data Warehouse
4 24 (3.41%) BigQuery
4 24 (3.41%) Looker
5 17 (2.42%) Power BI
6 16 (2.28%) MySQL
7 12 (1.71%) NoSQL
8 9 (1.28%) Big Data
8 9 (1.28%) PostgreSQL
8 9 (1.28%) Tableau
9 8 (1.14%) Crystal Reports
10 6 (0.85%) Azure SQL Database
10 6 (0.85%) EDMS
10 6 (0.85%) MongoDB
11 5 (0.71%) 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 79 (11.24%) Selenium
2 55 (7.82%) JIRA
3 44 (6.26%) Git
4 30 (4.27%) Jenkins
5 15 (2.13%) Visual Studio
6 13 (1.85%) Cypress.io
6 13 (1.85%) GitLab
7 12 (1.71%) TestRail
7 12 (1.71%) WebDriver
8 11 (1.56%) Cucumber
8 11 (1.56%) eggPlant
8 11 (1.56%) NUnit
9 9 (1.28%) Postman
10 6 (0.85%) Bugzilla
10 6 (0.85%) Zephyr
11 5 (0.71%) LabVIEW
11 5 (0.71%) Maven
11 5 (0.71%) SpecFlow
12 4 (0.57%) JUnit
13 3 (0.43%) JDeveloper
General
1 274 (38.98%) Social Skills
2 169 (24.04%) Manufacturing
3 153 (21.76%) Analytical Skills
4 82 (11.66%) Pharmaceutical
5 74 (10.53%) Electronics
5 74 (10.53%) Finance
6 47 (6.69%) Marketing
7 40 (5.69%) Aerospace
7 40 (5.69%) Legal
8 38 (5.41%) Retail
9 26 (3.70%) Telecoms
10 25 (3.56%) Billing
11 23 (3.27%) Organisational Skills
12 18 (2.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 13 (1.85%) Police
14 11 (1.56%) Public Sector
15 9 (1.28%) Presentation Skills
16 7 (1.00%) Back Office
17 6 (0.85%) Banking
17 6 (0.85%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 79 (11.24%) Developer
2 62 (8.82%) Analyst
2 62 (8.82%) QA Engineer
3 56 (7.97%) QA Manager
4 52 (7.40%) Lead
4 52 (7.40%) Quality Engineer
5 40 (5.69%) Senior
6 36 (5.12%) Software Engineer
7 35 (4.98%) Engineering Manager
8 32 (4.55%) Quality Manager
9 30 (4.27%) Test Analyst
10 29 (4.13%) Tester
11 26 (3.70%) Data Manager
11 26 (3.70%) Test Engineer
12 25 (3.56%) Automation Tester
12 25 (3.56%) Systems Manager
13 24 (3.41%) Software Developer
14 21 (2.99%) C++ Software Engineer
14 21 (2.99%) IT Manager
14 21 (2.99%) QA Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 72 (10.24%) .NET
2 46 (6.54%) CSS
3 41 (5.83%) HTML
4 32 (4.55%) AngularJS
5 31 (4.41%) React
6 27 (3.84%) .NET Core
7 25 (3.56%) HTML5
7 25 (3.56%) jQuery
8 24 (3.41%) .NET Framework
8 24 (3.41%) ASP.NET
9 22 (3.13%) JSON
10 19 (2.70%) XML
11 15 (2.13%) ASP.NET Web API
11 15 (2.13%) Vue
11 15 (2.13%) Web Services
12 14 (1.99%) ASP.NET MVC
13 13 (1.85%) Laravel
14 12 (1.71%) CSS3
14 12 (1.71%) Symfony
15 11 (1.56%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 109 (15.50%) Management Information System
2 51 (7.25%) Product Ownership
3 26 (3.70%) Satnav
4 24 (3.41%) IoT
4 24 (3.41%) Life Science
5 21 (2.99%) Biopharmaceutical
6 17 (2.42%) Mobile App
7 15 (2.13%) Analytical Mindset
8 14 (1.99%) LIMS
9 13 (1.85%) Virtual Team
10 12 (1.71%) Data Structures
10 12 (1.71%) Legacy Systems
10 12 (1.71%) Self-Motivation
11 11 (1.56%) Algorithms
11 11 (1.56%) N-Tier
11 11 (1.56%) Taxonomies
12 8 (1.14%) Enterprise Software
13 7 (1.00%) Client/Server
14 6 (0.85%) e-Learning
14 6 (0.85%) SCORM
Operating Systems
1 43 (6.12%) Windows
2 17 (2.42%) Linux
3 10 (1.42%) Windows Server
4 8 (1.14%) Windows Server 2008
5 4 (0.57%) Android
5 4 (0.57%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.28%) Embedded Linux
7 1 (0.14%) Windows 10
7 1 (0.14%) Windows NT
7 1 (0.14%) Windows Server 2012
7 1 (0.14%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (0.14%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 214 (30.44%) Agile
2 210 (29.87%) Problem-Solving
3 169 (24.04%) Test Automation
4 126 (17.92%) DevOps
5 114 (16.22%) Collaborative Working
6 111 (15.79%) Project Management
7 108 (15.36%) Mentoring
8 88 (12.52%) Scrum
9 87 (12.38%) Coaching
10 86 (12.23%) Continuous Improvement
11 82 (11.66%) CI/CD
12 78 (11.10%) QMS
12 78 (11.10%) Software Engineering
13 72 (10.24%) Software Testing
14 69 (9.82%) Test Scripting
15 65 (9.25%) Validation
16 61 (8.68%) Computer Science
17 60 (8.53%) FMEA
18 59 (8.39%) Product Requirements
19 58 (8.25%) Actionable Insight
Programming Languages
1 102 (14.51%) C#
2 89 (12.66%) JavaScript
3 84 (11.95%) SQL
4 46 (6.54%) C
5 44 (6.26%) Python
6 42 (5.97%) C++
7 40 (5.69%) Java
8 16 (2.28%) Go
9 15 (2.13%) PHP
10 13 (1.85%) TypeScript
11 9 (1.28%) Embedded C
12 6 (0.85%) VB.NET
13 5 (0.71%) PowerShell
13 5 (0.71%) XAML
14 4 (0.57%) Perl
14 4 (0.57%) PL/1
15 3 (0.43%) Bash
15 3 (0.43%) Ruby
15 3 (0.43%) VB
16 2 (0.28%) R
Qualifications
1 146 (20.77%) Degree
2 80 (11.38%) Security Cleared
3 41 (5.83%) SC Cleared
4 39 (5.55%) DV Cleared
5 38 (5.41%) ISTQB
6 37 (5.26%) Computer Science Degree
7 21 (2.99%) Master's Degree
8 13 (1.85%) ISEB
9 12 (1.71%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
10 10 (1.42%) DBS Check
10 10 (1.42%) MBA
11 9 (1.28%) PhD
12 8 (1.14%) Azure Certification
13 6 (0.85%) HNC
14 4 (0.57%) EMC Certification
14 4 (0.57%) Microsoft Certification
14 4 (0.57%) Numerate Degree
14 4 (0.57%) SAFe Agilist
15 3 (0.43%) PMI Certification
16 2 (0.28%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 62 (8.82%) GMP
2 23 (3.27%) Software Quality Assurance
3 20 (2.84%) GxP
4 17 (2.42%) Accessibility
5 16 (2.28%) Data Quality
6 14 (1.99%) Good Clinical Practice
6 14 (1.99%) ISO 9001
7 12 (1.71%) GDPR
8 10 (1.42%) ISO 14001
9 9 (1.28%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 8 (1.14%) ISO 13485
10 8 (1.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
11 7 (1.00%) ISO 22301
11 7 (1.00%) NEBOSH
12 6 (0.85%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 2 (0.28%) GRC
13 2 (0.28%) PMO
14 1 (0.14%) COSHH
14 1 (0.14%) IFRS
14 1 (0.14%) SLA
System Software
1 28 (3.98%) Docker
2 16 (2.28%) Firmware
3 10 (1.42%) Virtual Desktop
4 5 (0.71%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (0.43%) Embedded Firmware
6 2 (0.28%) Active Directory
6 2 (0.28%) VMware Infrastructure
7 1 (0.14%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 15 (2.13%) Kubernetes
2 8 (1.14%) Ansible
3 7 (1.00%) Terraform
4 5 (0.71%) HP Quality Center
4 5 (0.71%) Microsoft Intune
5 3 (0.43%) Docker Swarm
6 2 (0.28%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
6 2 (0.28%) Podman
6 2 (0.28%) Puppet
7 1 (0.14%) Packer
7 1 (0.14%) SCCM
7 1 (0.14%) Sysprep
7 1 (0.14%) WSUS
Vendors
1 77 (10.95%) Microsoft
2 37 (5.26%) Google
3 18 (2.56%) Oracle
3 18 (2.56%) SAP
4 13 (1.85%) ServiceNow
5 12 (1.71%) Salesforce
6 5 (0.71%) HP
7 4 (0.57%) EMC
7 4 (0.57%) Openreach
8 3 (0.43%) Micro Focus
9 2 (0.28%) Sun
9 2 (0.28%) VMware
10 1 (0.14%) AppDynamics
10 1 (0.14%) Ariba
10 1 (0.14%) Atlassian
10 1 (0.14%) Atmel
10 1 (0.14%) Citrix
10 1 (0.14%) Freescale
10 1 (0.14%) IBM
10 1 (0.14%) MuleSoft