The first table below looks at the demand for the QA Tester role in IT jobs advertised for the Bath 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 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 Job Titles advertised for the Bath region.

Location
3 months to
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Quality Assurance Tester
Rank 47 43 -
Rank change year-on-year
-4 -
Permanent jobs requiring a QA Tester 5 2 0
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Bath 1.292% 0.909% -
As % of the Job Titles category 1.344% 0.909% -
Number of salaries quoted 5 2 0
Average salary £35,000 £32,125 -
Average salary % change year-on-year
+8.94% -
UK excluding London average salary £34,000 £32,500 £29,500
% change year-on-year
+4.61% +10.16%
All Job Titles
Bath
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
372 220 201
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Bath 96.12% 100.00% 100.00%
Number of salaries quoted 347 217 188
Average salary £35,000 £35,000 £35,000
90% offered a salary of more than £21,500 £25,000 £27,500
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £62,500 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +1.33%
QA Tester
Somerset

QA Tester
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Bath 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 Bath region.

Bath QA Tester Salary Trend

QA Tester
Top 24 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Bath 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 10 (100.00%) QA
2 9 (90.00%) .NET
3 8 (80.00%) User Acceptance Testing
3 8 (80.00%) Automated Testing
4 7 (70.00%) Java
4 7 (70.00%) SQL
5 5 (50.00%) Project Management
6 2 (20.00%) EPoS
6 2 (20.00%) ASP.NET
6 2 (20.00%) HTTP
6 2 (20.00%) ISEB
6 2 (20.00%) Agile Software Development
7 1 (10.00%) Test Scripting
7 1 (10.00%) Selenium
7 1 (10.00%) Release Management
7 1 (10.00%) Degree
7 1 (10.00%) Software Testing
7 1 (10.00%) QuickTest Pro
7 1 (10.00%) ITIL
7 1 (10.00%) C#
7 1 (10.00%) Delphi
7 1 (10.00%) WinForms
7 1 (10.00%) Games
7 1 (10.00%) Scrum

QA Tester
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Bath 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 9 (90.00%) .NET
2 2 (20.00%) ASP.NET
3 1 (10.00%) WinForms
Communications & Networking
1 2 (20.00%) HTTP
Development Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Selenium
1 1 (10.00%) QuickTest Pro
General
1 1 (10.00%) Games
Miscellaneous
1 2 (20.00%) EPoS
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (80.00%) User Acceptance Testing
1 8 (80.00%) Automated Testing
2 5 (50.00%) Project Management
3 2 (20.00%) Agile Software Development
4 1 (10.00%) Test Scripting
4 1 (10.00%) Release Management
4 1 (10.00%) Software Testing
4 1 (10.00%) ITIL
4 1 (10.00%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 7 (70.00%) Java
1 7 (70.00%) SQL
2 1 (10.00%) C#
2 1 (10.00%) Delphi
Qualifications
1 2 (20.00%) ISEB
2 1 (10.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (100.00%) QA
Bristol, Chippenham, Gloucester, Bath, Swindon,...
Senior QA Automation Tester, Web Application Testing, £30-42,000 plus great benefits, Bristol (City Centre)... - In depth experience of automated test tools suitable for testing web based...
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Salary: £35-42,000 + Bens
Posted: 13 May 2013