quality control jobs in 2026 — demand, top roles hiring, and related skills
As of 2026-09-28, quality control appears in 461 job postings indexed by Skillenai over the past 90 days — Program Manager has the most postings mentioning quality control, with demand down 34% vs the prior 4 weeks.
Last updated · 90d ending 2026-09-28
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+Is quality control in demand in 2026?
Yes. quality control appears in 461 job postings indexed by Skillenai over the 90 days ending 2026-09-28, with demand down 34% vs the prior 4 weeks. Program Manager accounts for the most postings mentioning quality control (10.8% of all postings mentioning quality control).
+What jobs require quality control?
According to the Skillenai jobs index over the 90 days ending 2026-09-28, among roles with at least 20 postings, the highest shares mentioning quality control are Quality Assurance Coordinator (19.4% of that role’s postings mention quality control), Customer Program Manager (12.2% of that role’s postings mention quality control), Quality Assurance Manager (8.3% of that role’s postings mention quality control).
+What skills are commonly paired with quality control?
Across job postings indexed by Skillenai (90 days ending 2026-09-28), quality control most often appears alongside quality assurance, Python, project management, Root cause analysis, Data analysis.
+Where is quality control most in demand?
As of 2026-09-28, the metro areas posting the most jobs requiring quality control are New York City, Bastrop, Washington, Atlanta, Bengaluru, according to the Skillenai jobs index.
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Weekly job postings requiring quality control — last 90 days
Salary distribution
Box = 25th–75th percentile · tick = median · whisker = 10th–90th · USD, annualized
Roles most likely to require quality control
Among roles with at least 20 postings in the same period.
| Role | Postings mentioning skill | % of role postings mentioning skill |
|---|---|---|
| Quality Assurance Coordinator | 7 | 19.4% |
| Customer Program Manager | 5 | 12.2% |
| Quality Assurance Manager | 22 | 8.3% |
| Quality Assurance Inspector | 6 | 7.8% |
| Quality Assurance Specialist | 25 | 7.7% |
| Quality Assurance Technician | 9 | 7.2% |
| Quality Assurance Associate | 5 | 5.9% |
| Quality Assurance Intern | 2 | 5.7% |
| Quality Assurance Analyst | 9 | 5.7% |
| Quality Assurance Supervisor | 3 | 4.8% |
Roles with the most quality control postings
| Role | Postings mentioning skill | Share of skill postings |
|---|---|---|
| Program Manager | 50 | 10.8% |
| Quality Assurance Specialist | 25 | 5.4% |
| Quality Assurance Manager | 22 | 4.8% |
| Software Engineer | 17 | 3.7% |
| Quality Assurance Engineer | 12 | 2.6% |
| Technical Program Manager | 11 | 2.4% |
| Data Analyst | 9 | 2.0% |
| Product Manager | 9 | 2.0% |
| Quality Assurance Analyst | 9 | 2.0% |
| Quality Assurance Technician | 9 | 2.0% |
Top metros hiring for quality control
| Name | Postings | Share |
|---|---|---|
| New York City | 14 | 3.0% |
| Bastrop | 9 | 2.0% |
| Washington | 9 | 2.0% |
| Atlanta | 8 | 1.7% |
| Bengaluru | 7 | 1.5% |
| London | 6 | 1.3% |
| San Francisco | 6 | 1.3% |
| Annapolis | 5 | 1.1% |
| Gurugram | 5 | 1.1% |
Skills commonly paired with quality control
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- Quality Assurance Coordinator
- Customer Program Manager
- Quality Assurance Manager
- Quality Assurance Inspector
- Quality Assurance Specialist
- Quality Assurance Technician
- Quality Assurance Associate
- Quality Assurance Intern
- quality assurance
- Python
- project management
- Root cause analysis
- Data analysis
- SQL
- Risk Management
- Excel
How this was computed
Counts derive from the Skillenai jobs index over the 90 days ending 2026-09-28. Skills are resolved against the Skillenai canonical taxonomy, so the same entity is counted whether a posting writes 'Python', 'Python 3', or 'python'. Role prevalence divides postings mentioning quality control by all postings for each role in the same window, ranking roles with at least 20 postings. Role distribution divides each role’s quality control postings by all quality control postings, including postings without a role. Shares need not sum to 100% for the displayed roles. Pages refresh weekly (or daily for the top-50 most-requested skills).
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- Skillenai jobs index, deduplicated daily
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- 2026-09-28
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