The first table below looks at the demand for the QA Tester role in IT jobs advertised for the Birmingham 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 17 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 Birmingham region.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Quality Assurance Tester
Rank 110 90 93
Rank change year-on-year
-20 +3
Permanent jobs requiring a QA Tester 6 2 1
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Birmingham 0.358% 0.138% 0.075%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.378% 0.143% 0.078%
Number of salaries quoted 6 2 1
Average salary £21,500 £23,750 £30,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-9.47% -20.83%
UK excluding London average salary £35,000 £32,500 £29,500
% change year-on-year
+7.69% +10.16%
All Job Titles
Birmingham
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
1587 1402 1278
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Birmingham 94.69% 96.49% 96.09%
Number of salaries quoted 1333 1251 1113
Average salary £41,000 £37,500 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+9.33% -
90% offered a salary of more than £25,000 £25,500 £24,000
10% offered a salary of more than £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +1.33%
QA Tester
West Midlands

QA Tester
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Birmingham 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 Birmingham region.

Birmingham QA Tester Salary Trend

QA Tester
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Birmingham 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%) Java
2 9 (90.00%) Automated Testing
3 8 (80.00%) JasperReports
3 8 (80.00%) Ajax
3 8 (80.00%) SQL Server 2005
3 8 (80.00%) Java EE
3 8 (80.00%) Spring MVC
3 8 (80.00%) Selenium
3 8 (80.00%) FitNesse
3 8 (80.00%) Manual Testing
3 8 (80.00%) SQL Server 2008
3 8 (80.00%) TeamCity
3 8 (80.00%) MVC
3 8 (80.00%) Hibernate
3 8 (80.00%) Agile Software Development
3 8 (80.00%) ActiveMQ
3 8 (80.00%) Subversion
3 8 (80.00%) Spring
3 8 (80.00%) Maven
3 8 (80.00%) SQL Server
3 8 (80.00%) SOAP
3 8 (80.00%) JBoss
3 8 (80.00%) Tomcat
3 8 (80.00%) JMS
3 8 (80.00%) Eclipse
3 8 (80.00%) Firmware
3 8 (80.00%) JMX
3 8 (80.00%) Apache Continuum
4 1 (10.00%) Product Management

QA Tester
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Birmingham 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 8 (80.00%) SOAP
1 8 (80.00%) JMS
1 8 (80.00%) JMX
1 8 (80.00%) Hibernate
1 8 (80.00%) Spring
1 8 (80.00%) Ajax
1 8 (80.00%) Java EE
1 8 (80.00%) Spring MVC
2 1 (10.00%) .NET
Application Platforms
1 8 (80.00%) Tomcat
1 8 (80.00%) ActiveMQ
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (80.00%) SQL Server
1 8 (80.00%) JasperReports
1 8 (80.00%) SQL Server 2005
1 8 (80.00%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 8 (80.00%) Eclipse
1 8 (80.00%) Subversion
1 8 (80.00%) Maven
1 8 (80.00%) Selenium
1 8 (80.00%) FitNesse
1 8 (80.00%) TeamCity
1 8 (80.00%) Apache Continuum
Miscellaneous
1 8 (80.00%) Firmware
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (90.00%) Automated Testing
2 8 (80.00%) MVC
2 8 (80.00%) Agile Software Development
2 8 (80.00%) Manual Testing
3 1 (10.00%) Product Management
3 1 (10.00%) Software Testing
3 1 (10.00%) User Acceptance Testing
3 1 (10.00%) Web Testing
Programming Languages
1 9 (90.00%) Java
2 1 (10.00%) SQL
2 1 (10.00%) C#
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (100.00%) QA
Vendors
1 8 (80.00%) JBoss