The first table below looks at the demand for the QA Tester role in IT jobs advertised for the Abingdon region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited QA Tester in their job title over the 3 months to 17 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all Job Titles advertised for the Abingdon region.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Quality Assurance Tester
Rank - - -
Permanent jobs requiring a QA Tester 0 0 0
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Abingdon - - -
As % of the Job Titles category - - -
Number of salaries quoted 0 0 0
Average salary - - -
UK excluding London average salary £35,000 £32,500 £29,500
% change year-on-year
+7.69% +10.16%
All Job Titles
Abingdon
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
136 101 137
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Abingdon 97.14% 94.39% 100.00%
Number of salaries quoted 116 97 124
Average salary £34,000 £37,500 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-9.33% +7.14%
90% offered a salary of more than £21,500 £25,500 £20,000
10% offered a salary of more than £49,750 £60,000 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +1.33%
QA Tester
Oxfordshire

QA Tester
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing QA Tester across the Abingdon region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

Abingdon QA Tester Jobs Demand Trend

QA Tester
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing QA Tester across the Abingdon region.

Abingdon QA Tester Salary Trend

QA Tester
Top 20 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Abingdon region that cited QA Tester in their job title mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled with QA Tester in their job title.

1 1 (100.00%) C#
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
1 1 (100.00%) .NET
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 1 (100.00%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Middleware
1 1 (100.00%) Replication
1 1 (100.00%) Agile Software Development
1 1 (100.00%) Project Planning
1 1 (100.00%) QA
1 1 (100.00%) Selenium
1 1 (100.00%) FitNesse
1 1 (100.00%) Test Scripting
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
1 1 (100.00%) Manual Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Scala
1 1 (100.00%) Cucumber
1 1 (100.00%) Concordion

QA Tester
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Abingdon region that cited QA Tester in their job title mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled with QA Tester in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (100.00%) .NET
1 1 (100.00%) Middleware
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 1 (100.00%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Selenium
1 1 (100.00%) FitNesse
1 1 (100.00%) Cucumber
1 1 (100.00%) Concordion
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Replication
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Agile Software Development
1 1 (100.00%) Project Planning
1 1 (100.00%) Test Scripting
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
1 1 (100.00%) Manual Testing
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) C#
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
1 1 (100.00%) Scala
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) QA