The first table below looks at the demand for the QA Test Analyst role in IT jobs advertised for the Bedfordshire region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited QA Test Analyst in their job title 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 Job Titles advertised for the Bedfordshire region.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Quality Assurance Test Analyst
Rank 93 75 -
Rank change year-on-year
-18 -
Permanent jobs requiring a QA Test Analyst 1 5 0
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Bedfordshire 0.092% 0.526% -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.097% 0.548% -
Number of salaries quoted 1 3 0
Average salary £40,000 £32,500 -
Average salary % change year-on-year
+23.07% -
UK excluding London average salary £39,500 £33,250 £32,500
% change year-on-year
+18.79% +2.30%
All Job Titles
Bedfordshire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
1028 912 839
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Bedfordshire 94.40% 95.90% 95.56%
Number of salaries quoted 915 775 789
Average salary £42,500 £42,500 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +13.33%
90% offered a salary of more than £26,500 £26,000 £25,000
10% offered a salary of more than £58,500 £55,000 £60,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +1.33%
QA Test Analyst
East of England

QA Test Analyst
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Bedfordshire QA Test Analyst Jobs Demand Trend

QA Test Analyst
Salary Trend

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

Bedfordshire QA Test Analyst Salary Trend

QA Test Analyst
Top 23 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Bedfordshire region that cited QA Test Analyst 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 Test Analyst in their job title.

1 3 (100.00%) E-Commerce
1 3 (100.00%) MVC
1 3 (100.00%) Scrum
1 3 (100.00%) TDD
1 3 (100.00%) Java
1 3 (100.00%) .NET
1 3 (100.00%) ASP.NET
1 3 (100.00%) Windows
1 3 (100.00%) Web Development
1 3 (100.00%) QA
1 3 (100.00%) Selenium
1 3 (100.00%) ASP.NET MVC
1 3 (100.00%) BDD
1 3 (100.00%) Agile Testing
2 2 (66.67%) Mobile App
2 2 (66.67%) C#
2 2 (66.67%) .NET Framework
2 2 (66.67%) Python
2 2 (66.67%) Ruby
3 1 (33.33%) Test Automation
3 1 (33.33%) WebDriver
3 1 (33.33%) Open Source
3 1 (33.33%) Cucumber

QA Test Analyst
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Bedfordshire region that cited QA Test Analyst 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 Test Analyst in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 3 (100.00%) .NET
1 3 (100.00%) ASP.NET
1 3 (100.00%) ASP.NET MVC
2 2 (66.67%) .NET Framework
Development Applications
1 3 (100.00%) Selenium
2 1 (33.33%) WebDriver
2 1 (33.33%) Cucumber
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Mobile App
2 1 (33.33%) Open Source
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) E-Commerce
1 3 (100.00%) MVC
1 3 (100.00%) Scrum
1 3 (100.00%) TDD
1 3 (100.00%) Web Development
1 3 (100.00%) BDD
1 3 (100.00%) Agile Testing
2 1 (33.33%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Java
2 2 (66.67%) C#
2 2 (66.67%) Python
2 2 (66.67%) Ruby
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (100.00%) QA