QA Manager Jobs in England

Quality Assurance Manager
UK > England

The median Quality Assurance Manager salary in England is £47,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 12 June 2024.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 574 830 1037
Rank change year-on-year +256 +207 -194
Permanent jobs requiring a QA Manager 302 64 149
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.32% 0.078% 0.10%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.33% 0.086% 0.11%
Number of salaries quoted 186 38 70
10th Percentile £30,000 £50,000 £52,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £57,500 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £62,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -24.00% -3.85% -
75th Percentile £60,000 £70,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £70,000 £122,500 £90,000
UK median annual salary £45,000 £62,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -28.00% -3.85% -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in England. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in England with a recognized job title 90,431 74,847 138,483
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.61% 91.19% 95.86%
Number of salaries quoted 65,915 49,353 75,297
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,713 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.53% +1.19% +9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

QA Manager
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings that featured QA Manager in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for QA Manager in England

QA Manager
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for QA Manager in England

QA Manager
Salary Histogram in England

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

Salary histogram for QA Manager in England

QA Manager
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing QA Manager within the England 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
London +149 69 £67,500 -12.90% 6
Midlands +16 67 £47,500 -5.00% 2
South East +27 65 £53,000 -11.67% 5
North of England +46 47 £35,000 -44.00% 6
East Midlands +2 43 £47,500 -5.00% 1
South West -23 26 £50,000 -16.67% 3
West Midlands +12 24 £50,000 -4.76% 1
North West - 24 £30,000 - 6
East of England +9 22 £45,000 -30.77% 1
Yorkshire +77 17 £40,000 -40.74%
North East -17 6 £55,000 -12.00%
QA Manager
UK

QA Manager Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 12 June 2024, QA Manager job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the England region featuring QA Manager in the job title.

1 302 (100.00%) QA
2 92 (30.46%) Manufacturing
3 67 (22.19%) QMS
4 56 (18.54%) Social Skills
5 55 (18.21%) Pharmaceutical
6 49 (16.23%) Quality Management
7 45 (14.90%) GMP
8 36 (11.92%) Validation
9 32 (10.60%) Degree
10 31 (10.26%) Continuous Improvement
11 29 (9.60%) Management Information System
12 26 (8.61%) Biotechnology
13 24 (7.95%) Test Automation
13 24 (7.95%) Risk Management
13 24 (7.95%) Good Clinical Practice
13 24 (7.95%) Change Control
14 23 (7.62%) Coaching
15 22 (7.28%) Life Science
16 19 (6.29%) Agile
16 19 (6.29%) Mentoring
17 18 (5.96%) Retail
18 16 (5.30%) Analytical Skills
19 15 (4.97%) GxP
19 15 (4.97%) Process Improvement
19 15 (4.97%) CAPA
20 14 (4.64%) ISO 9001
21 13 (4.30%) Law
21 13 (4.30%) Documentum
21 13 (4.30%) LIMS
21 13 (4.30%) TrackWise

QA Manager Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 13 (4.30%) Documentum
2 1 (0.33%) Confluence
2 1 (0.33%) IBM Domino
Applications
1 4 (1.32%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.66%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 13 (4.30%) TrackWise
2 3 (0.99%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 5 (1.66%) Azure
2 3 (0.99%) Dynamics 365
3 2 (0.66%) Amazon EC2
3 2 (0.66%) Amazon S3
3 2 (0.66%) AWS
3 2 (0.66%) AWS CloudFormation
3 2 (0.66%) AWS Lambda
3 2 (0.66%) Serverless
4 1 (0.33%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (0.33%) SonarCloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (0.66%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 9 (2.98%) JIRA
2 5 (1.66%) SoapUI
2 5 (1.66%) TestRail
3 2 (0.66%) Selenium
4 1 (0.33%) eggPlant
4 1 (0.33%) GitLab
4 1 (0.33%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.33%) Octopus Deploy
4 1 (0.33%) TeamCity
General
1 92 (30.46%) Manufacturing
2 56 (18.54%) Social Skills
3 55 (18.21%) Pharmaceutical
4 18 (5.96%) Retail
5 16 (5.30%) Analytical Skills
6 13 (4.30%) Law
7 12 (3.97%) Marketing
8 11 (3.64%) Finance
8 11 (3.64%) Legal
9 9 (2.98%) Police
9 9 (2.98%) Telecoms
10 6 (1.99%) Influencing Skills
11 4 (1.32%) Aerospace
12 2 (0.66%) Documentation Skills
12 2 (0.66%) Health Technology
13 1 (0.33%) Electronics
13 1 (0.33%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (2.98%) .NET
2 5 (1.66%) SOAP
3 2 (0.66%) Playwright
4 1 (0.33%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 29 (9.60%) Management Information System
2 22 (7.28%) Life Science
3 13 (4.30%) LIMS
4 3 (0.99%) Robotics
5 2 (0.66%) IoT
6 1 (0.33%) Client/Server
6 1 (0.33%) FMCG
6 1 (0.33%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 10 (3.31%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 67 (22.19%) QMS
2 49 (16.23%) Quality Management
3 36 (11.92%) Validation
4 31 (10.26%) Continuous Improvement
5 26 (8.61%) Biotechnology
6 24 (7.95%) Change Control
6 24 (7.95%) Risk Management
6 24 (7.95%) Test Automation
7 23 (7.62%) Coaching
8 19 (6.29%) Agile
8 19 (6.29%) Mentoring
9 15 (4.97%) CAPA
9 15 (4.97%) Process Improvement
10 13 (4.30%) Impact Assessments
11 12 (3.97%) Project Management
12 11 (3.64%) Continuous Improvement Process
12 11 (3.64%) Root Cause Analysis
13 10 (3.31%) Problem-Solving
14 9 (2.98%) CI/CD
14 9 (2.98%) Due Diligence
Programming Languages
1 8 (2.65%) PL/1
2 2 (0.66%) JavaScript
3 1 (0.33%) C#
3 1 (0.33%) Go
3 1 (0.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 32 (10.60%) Degree
2 4 (1.32%) ISTQB
3 3 (0.99%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (0.99%) ISEB
3 3 (0.99%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
4 2 (0.66%) AWS Certification
4 2 (0.66%) SC Cleared
4 2 (0.66%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 302 (100.00%) QA
2 45 (14.90%) GMP
3 24 (7.95%) Good Clinical Practice
4 15 (4.97%) GxP
5 14 (4.64%) ISO 9001
6 5 (1.66%) ISO 14001
7 2 (0.66%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 1 (0.33%) ISO/IEC 17025
System Software
1 1 (0.33%) Virtual Machines
Vendors
1 8 (2.65%) Microsoft
1 8 (2.65%) QAD
2 6 (1.99%) Minitab
3 3 (0.99%) Atlassian
4 2 (0.66%) Capita
5 1 (0.33%) NCR