QA Job Trends in Wigan

Quality Assurance (QA)
Manchester > Wigan

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Wigan requiring QA skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 11 10 -
Rank change year-on-year -1 - -
Permanent jobs citing QA 4 1 0
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wigan 8.70% 2.78% -
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 57.14% 25.00% -
Number of salaries quoted 0 1 0
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) - £52,500 -
Manchester median annual salary £55,000 £40,887 £55,000
% change year-on-year +34.52% -25.66% -

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Wigan

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 Wigan.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 7 4 0
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wigan 15.22% 11.11% -
Number of salaries quoted 2 3 0
10th Percentile - £33,550 -
25th Percentile £32,500 £37,000 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £35,000 £43,500 -
Median % change year-on-year -19.54% - -
75th Percentile £37,500 £49,000 -
90th Percentile - £51,850 -
Manchester median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -1.15%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Wigan

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

Job vacancy trend for QA in Wigan

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Salary Trend in Wigan

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Wigan citing QA.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Wigan citing QA

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Wigan 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 1 (25.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 3 (75.00%) AWS
1 3 (75.00%) Azure
2 1 (25.00%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (75.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (75.00%) Bitbucket
1 3 (75.00%) Cucumber
1 3 (75.00%) GitLab
1 3 (75.00%) JIRA
1 3 (75.00%) Maven
1 3 (75.00%) Selenium
1 3 (75.00%) SonarQube
1 3 (75.00%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 3 (75.00%) Banking
1 3 (75.00%) Finance
1 3 (75.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 2 (50.00%) Corporate Banking
2 2 (50.00%) Investment Banking
2 2 (50.00%) Retail
3 1 (25.00%) Manufacturing
3 1 (25.00%) Organisational Skills
3 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Software Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Technologist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (75.00%) CSS
1 3 (75.00%) HTML
1 3 (75.00%) JPA
1 3 (75.00%) Kafka
1 3 (75.00%) React
1 3 (75.00%) Redux
1 3 (75.00%) Spring
1 3 (75.00%) Spring Boot
2 2 (50.00%) CSS3
2 2 (50.00%) HTML5
2 2 (50.00%) Jest
2 2 (50.00%) REST
2 2 (50.00%) RESTful
2 2 (50.00%) Sass
3 1 (25.00%) Hibernate
Miscellaneous
1 3 (75.00%) Enterprise Software
1 3 (75.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Agile
1 3 (75.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (75.00%) Containerisation
1 3 (75.00%) DevOps
1 3 (75.00%) Front End Development
1 3 (75.00%) Full-Stack Development
1 3 (75.00%) Microservices
1 3 (75.00%) Performance Optimisation
1 3 (75.00%) SDLC
1 3 (75.00%) Software Engineering
1 3 (75.00%) Test Automation
2 2 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 2 (50.00%) Migration
2 2 (50.00%) Responsive Web Design
2 2 (50.00%) Strategic Thinking
2 2 (50.00%) User Experience
3 1 (25.00%) Clean Code
3 1 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (25.00%) Internal Audit
3 1 (25.00%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) Java
1 3 (75.00%) JavaScript
1 3 (75.00%) SQL
2 2 (50.00%) TypeScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (50.00%) Accessibility
2 1 (25.00%) GMP
System Software
1 3 (75.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (75.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) Solace
2 1 (25.00%) SAP