The first table below looks at the demand for QA skills in IT jobs advertised for the Bath 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 Bath region.

Location
3 months to
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Quality Assurance (QA)
Rank 46 37 40
Rank change year-on-year
-9 +3
Permanent jobs citing QA 6 8 2
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Bath 1.550% 3.636% 0.995%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 14.29% 40.00% 20.00%
Number of salaries quoted 6 8 0
Average salary £35,000 £30,000 -
Average salary % change year-on-year
+16.66% -
UK excluding London average salary £38,250 £37,500 £39,000
% change year-on-year
+2.00% -3.84%
All Quality Assurance & Compliance
Bath
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Quality Assurance & Compliance category
42 20 10
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Bath 10.85% 9.091% 4.975%
Number of salaries quoted 40 20 8
Average salary £35,000 £37,000 £58,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-5.40% -36.75%
90% offered a salary of more than £21,450 £29,000 £33,850
10% offered a salary of more than £57,500 £62,500 £60,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £41,000
% change year-on-year
- -2.43%
QA
Somerset

QA
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Bath 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 Bath region.

Bath QA Salary Trend

QA
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Bath 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 18 (40.91%) XML
2 17 (38.64%) Java
2 17 (38.64%) Degree
3 16 (36.36%) Computer Science
3 16 (36.36%) Unit Testing
3 16 (36.36%) Continuous Integration
3 16 (36.36%) Trapeze
3 16 (36.36%) Hudson
3 16 (36.36%) Ant
3 16 (36.36%) SOAP
3 16 (36.36%) Web Services
3 16 (36.36%) XML Schema
3 16 (36.36%) TDD
4 15 (34.09%) SQL
5 14 (31.82%) Oracle
6 13 (29.55%) .NET
7 12 (27.27%) SLA
7 12 (27.27%) Finance
7 12 (27.27%) Resource Management
7 12 (27.27%) Statistics
8 11 (25.00%) Automated Testing
9 10 (22.73%) Microsoft
9 10 (22.73%) JavaScript
9 10 (22.73%) C++
10 9 (20.45%) Linux
11 8 (18.18%) Spring
11 8 (18.18%) Ajax
11 8 (18.18%) Google
11 8 (18.18%) UNIX
11 8 (18.18%) Management Information System

QA
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Bath 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 18 (40.91%) XML
2 16 (36.36%) SOAP
2 16 (36.36%) Web Services
2 16 (36.36%) XML Schema
3 13 (29.55%) .NET
4 8 (18.18%) Spring
4 8 (18.18%) Ajax
4 8 (18.18%) Hibernate
4 8 (18.18%) HTML
4 8 (18.18%) JSP
4 8 (18.18%) JSTL
4 8 (18.18%) Google Maps API
4 8 (18.18%) jQuery
4 8 (18.18%) Bing Maps
4 8 (18.18%) Ext JS
5 5 (11.36%) ASP.NET
6 2 (4.545%) CSS
6 2 (4.545%) WinForms
Business Applications
1 6 (13.64%) Oracle Applications
Communications & Networking
1 3 (6.818%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (18.18%) RDBMS
2 6 (13.64%) Oracle Reports
2 6 (13.64%) Oracle BI EE
Development Applications
1 16 (36.36%) Hudson
1 16 (36.36%) Ant
2 8 (18.18%) JUnit
2 8 (18.18%) Visual Studio
2 8 (18.18%) jMock
3 4 (9.091%) QuickTest Pro
4 3 (6.818%) Selenium
5 2 (4.545%) WebDriver
5 2 (4.545%) Cucumber
General
1 12 (27.27%) Finance
2 1 (2.273%) Games
Job Titles
1 16 (36.36%) Software Developer
1 16 (36.36%) Developer
2 12 (27.27%) DBA
2 12 (27.27%) Tester
3 11 (25.00%) Analyst
4 10 (22.73%) QA Tester
5 9 (20.45%) QA Analyst
6 7 (15.91%) Senior Analyst
6 7 (15.91%) Quality Analyst
6 7 (15.91%) Senior QA Analyst
6 7 (15.91%) Senior QA Tester
6 7 (15.91%) Senior Tester
7 6 (13.64%) Oracle Applications DBA
7 6 (13.64%) Oracle DBA
8 4 (9.091%) Test Analyst
9 2 (4.545%) Web Tester
9 2 (4.545%) Automated Test Analyst
10 1 (2.273%) Software Tester
10 1 (2.273%) Applications Support
10 1 (2.273%) Team Leader
Miscellaneous
1 16 (36.36%) Computer Science
2 12 (27.27%) Statistics
3 8 (18.18%) Management Information System
4 3 (6.818%) EPoS
Operating Systems
1 9 (20.45%) Linux
2 8 (18.18%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (36.36%) Unit Testing
1 16 (36.36%) Continuous Integration
1 16 (36.36%) TDD
2 12 (27.27%) Resource Management
3 11 (25.00%) Automated Testing
4 8 (18.18%) Data Modelling
4 8 (18.18%) User Acceptance Testing
4 8 (18.18%) Waterfall
5 5 (11.36%) Project Management
6 3 (6.818%) Agile Software Development
7 2 (4.545%) Test Scripting
7 2 (4.545%) Analytics
7 2 (4.545%) Automation Testing
7 2 (4.545%) Manual Testing
7 2 (4.545%) E-Commerce
7 2 (4.545%) Regression Testing
8 1 (2.273%) Scrum
8 1 (2.273%) Software Testing
8 1 (2.273%) ITIL
8 1 (2.273%) Problem Management
Programming Languages
1 17 (38.64%) Java
2 15 (34.09%) SQL
3 10 (22.73%) JavaScript
3 10 (22.73%) C++
4 3 (6.818%) C#
5 2 (4.545%) C
5 2 (4.545%) Delphi
5 2 (4.545%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 17 (38.64%) Degree
2 4 (9.091%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (27.27%) SLA
Vendors
1 16 (36.36%) Trapeze
2 14 (31.82%) Oracle
3 10 (22.73%) Microsoft
4 8 (18.18%) Google
4 8 (18.18%) JBoss
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