The first table below looks at the demand for QA skills in IT jobs advertised for the Aldershot region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited QA over the 3 months to 24 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 of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category for the Aldershot region.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Quality Assurance (QA)
Rank 6 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Permanent jobs citing QA 10 0 0
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Aldershot 19.61% - -
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 47.62% - -
Number of salaries quoted 10 0 0
Average salary £42,500 - -
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £37,500 £39,000
% change year-on-year
+1.33% -3.84%
All Quality Assurance & Compliance
Aldershot
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Quality Assurance & Compliance category
21 1 0
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Aldershot 41.18% 2.857% -
Number of salaries quoted 21 1 0
Average salary £55,000 £40,000 -
Average salary % change year-on-year
+37.50% -
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £41,000
% change year-on-year
- -2.43%
QA
Hampshire

QA
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing QA across the Aldershot region as a proportion of the total demand within the Quality Assurance & Compliance category.

Aldershot QA Jobs Demand Trend

QA
Salary Trend

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

Aldershot QA Salary Trend

QA
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing QA across the Aldershot region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Aldershot QA Salary Histogram

QA
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Aldershot region citing QA also 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 that cited QA.

1 13 (72.22%) Software Testing
2 11 (61.11%) Test Scripting
3 9 (50.00%) Information Security
3 9 (50.00%) SQL
3 9 (50.00%) Linux
4 8 (44.44%) MySQL
4 8 (44.44%) Microsoft
4 8 (44.44%) Scrum
4 8 (44.44%) Degree
5 7 (38.89%) CentOS
5 7 (38.89%) Extreme Programming
5 7 (38.89%) PHP
5 7 (38.89%) MS Office
6 6 (33.33%) Perl
6 6 (33.33%) UNIX
6 6 (33.33%) SQL Server
6 6 (33.33%) Regression Testing
6 6 (33.33%) ISEB
7 3 (16.67%) Quality Management
8 2 (11.11%) Law
9 1 (5.556%) Automated Testing
9 1 (5.556%) Agile Software Development
9 1 (5.556%) XPath
9 1 (5.556%) CodeIgniter
9 1 (5.556%) PHP5
9 1 (5.556%) Kohana
9 1 (5.556%) Test Automation
9 1 (5.556%) RESTful
9 1 (5.556%) Functional Testing
9 1 (5.556%) LAMP

QA
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Aldershot region citing QA also 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 that cited QA. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (5.556%) CodeIgniter
1 1 (5.556%) Kohana
1 1 (5.556%) RESTful
1 1 (5.556%) LAMP
1 1 (5.556%) .NET
1 1 (5.556%) ASP.NET
1 1 (5.556%) XML
1 1 (5.556%) DOM
Application Platforms
1 1 (5.556%) Apache
Applications
1 7 (38.89%) MS Office
2 1 (5.556%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.556%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (44.44%) MySQL
2 6 (33.33%) SQL Server
General
1 2 (11.11%) Law
Job Titles
1 8 (44.44%) QA Manager
2 7 (38.89%) QA Engineer
3 4 (22.22%) Quality Manager
4 2 (11.11%) Analyst
4 2 (11.11%) Test Analyst
4 2 (11.11%) Tester
4 2 (11.11%) QA Tester
4 2 (11.11%) QA Analyst
5 1 (5.556%) Senior QA Analyst
5 1 (5.556%) Senior QA Manager
5 1 (5.556%) Senior QA Test Analyst
5 1 (5.556%) PHP Developer
5 1 (5.556%) Software Tester
5 1 (5.556%) Senior Test Analyst
5 1 (5.556%) QA Test Analyst
5 1 (5.556%) Quality Analyst
5 1 (5.556%) QA Leader
5 1 (5.556%) Lead Tester
5 1 (5.556%) Senior Analyst
5 1 (5.556%) Developer
Operating Systems
1 9 (50.00%) Linux
2 7 (38.89%) CentOS
3 6 (33.33%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (72.22%) Software Testing
2 11 (61.11%) Test Scripting
3 9 (50.00%) Information Security
4 8 (44.44%) Scrum
5 7 (38.89%) Extreme Programming
6 6 (33.33%) Regression Testing
7 3 (16.67%) Quality Management
8 1 (5.556%) Automated Testing
8 1 (5.556%) Agile Software Development
8 1 (5.556%) Test Automation
8 1 (5.556%) Functional Testing
8 1 (5.556%) MVC
8 1 (5.556%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 9 (50.00%) SQL
2 7 (38.89%) PHP
3 6 (33.33%) Perl
4 1 (5.556%) XPath
4 1 (5.556%) PHP5
4 1 (5.556%) C#
Qualifications
1 8 (44.44%) Degree
2 6 (33.33%) ISEB
Vendors
1 8 (44.44%) Microsoft