The first table below looks at the demand for QA skills in IT jobs advertised for the Altrincham region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited QA over the 3 months to 22 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 Altrincham region.

Location
3 months to
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Quality Assurance (QA)
Rank 17 28 -
Rank change year-on-year
+11 -
Permanent jobs citing QA 20 1 0
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Altrincham 13.25% 1.031% -
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 80.00% 20.00% -
Number of salaries quoted 19 1 0
Average salary £42,500 £21,000 -
Average salary % change year-on-year
+102.38% -
UK excluding London average salary £38,250 £37,500 £39,000
% change year-on-year
+2.00% -3.84%
All Quality Assurance & Compliance
Altrincham
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Quality Assurance & Compliance category
25 5 2
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Altrincham 16.56% 5.155% 4.878%
Number of salaries quoted 22 4 1
Average salary £41,250 £25,625 £18,800
Average salary % change year-on-year
+60.97% +36.30%
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £41,000
% change year-on-year
- -2.43%
QA
Manchester

QA
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Altrincham 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 Altrincham region.

Altrincham QA Salary Trend

QA
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing QA across the Altrincham region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013.

Altrincham QA Salary Histogram

QA
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Altrincham 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 17 (68.00%) PRINCE2
2 13 (52.00%) Project Management
3 12 (48.00%) Degree
4 11 (44.00%) Finance
4 11 (44.00%) Programme Management
5 8 (32.00%) UML
6 6 (24.00%) Agile Software Development
6 6 (24.00%) GAP Analysis
6 6 (24.00%) Computer Science
6 6 (24.00%) Software Engineering
6 6 (24.00%) Waterfall
7 4 (16.00%) Automation Testing
7 4 (16.00%) Manual Testing
7 4 (16.00%) QMS
7 4 (16.00%) EasyMock
7 4 (16.00%) QALoad
7 4 (16.00%) Selenium
7 4 (16.00%) jMock
7 4 (16.00%) TestPartner
7 4 (16.00%) Automated Testing
7 4 (16.00%) SilkPerformer
7 4 (16.00%) Software Testing
7 4 (16.00%) JUnit
7 4 (16.00%) ISEB
7 4 (16.00%) QuickTest Pro
7 4 (16.00%) LoadRunner
8 3 (12.00%) SQL
9 2 (8.000%) .NET
9 2 (8.000%) J2EE
9 2 (8.000%) Oracle

QA
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Altrincham 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 2 (8.000%) .NET
1 2 (8.000%) J2EE
1 2 (8.000%) ASP.NET
1 2 (8.000%) XML
1 2 (8.000%) XSLT
1 2 (8.000%) jQuery
1 2 (8.000%) ASP.NET MVC
1 2 (8.000%) ASP.NET MVC 3
Application Platforms
1 2 (8.000%) Drupal
1 2 (8.000%) Apache Solr
1 2 (8.000%) WordPress
Applications
1 2 (8.000%) MS Excel
2 1 (4.000%) MS Project
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (8.000%) SQL Server
1 2 (8.000%) Oracle 9i
1 2 (8.000%) GIS
1 2 (8.000%) SQL Server 2005
1 2 (8.000%) SQL Server Integration Services
1 2 (8.000%) Microsoft Analysis Services
1 2 (8.000%) SQL Server Reporting Services
1 2 (8.000%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 4 (16.00%) EasyMock
1 4 (16.00%) QALoad
1 4 (16.00%) Selenium
1 4 (16.00%) jMock
1 4 (16.00%) TestPartner
1 4 (16.00%) SilkPerformer
1 4 (16.00%) JUnit
1 4 (16.00%) QuickTest Pro
1 4 (16.00%) LoadRunner
General
1 11 (44.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 11 (44.00%) Software Manager
1 11 (44.00%) Software Project Manager
1 11 (44.00%) Project Manager
2 6 (24.00%) Business Analyst
2 6 (24.00%) Analyst
3 4 (16.00%) Head of Testing
4 2 (8.000%) Developer
5 1 (4.000%) Application Development Manager
5 1 (4.000%) Applications Development Manager
5 1 (4.000%) Applications Manager
5 1 (4.000%) Project Coordinator
5 1 (4.000%) Coordinator
5 1 (4.000%) Development Manager
Miscellaneous
1 6 (24.00%) Computer Science
2 2 (8.000%) Client/Server
2 2 (8.000%) Open Source
3 1 (4.000%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (68.00%) PRINCE2
2 13 (52.00%) Project Management
3 11 (44.00%) Programme Management
4 8 (32.00%) UML
5 6 (24.00%) Agile Software Development
5 6 (24.00%) GAP Analysis
5 6 (24.00%) Software Engineering
5 6 (24.00%) Waterfall
6 4 (16.00%) Automation Testing
6 4 (16.00%) Manual Testing
6 4 (16.00%) QMS
6 4 (16.00%) Automated Testing
6 4 (16.00%) Software Testing
7 2 (8.000%) OO
7 2 (8.000%) OOD
7 2 (8.000%) SOA
7 2 (8.000%) MVC
7 2 (8.000%) TDD
7 2 (8.000%) Use Case
8 1 (4.000%) Data Protection
Programming Languages
1 3 (12.00%) SQL
2 2 (8.000%) Java
2 2 (8.000%) JavaScript
2 2 (8.000%) PHP
2 2 (8.000%) PL/SQL
2 2 (8.000%) Python
2 2 (8.000%) XPath
Qualifications
1 12 (48.00%) Degree
2 4 (16.00%) ISEB
Vendors
1 2 (8.000%) Oracle
1 2 (8.000%) Microsoft
1 2 (8.000%) ESRI
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