The first table below looks at the demand for QA skills in IT jobs advertised for the Bournemouth region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited QA over the 3 months to 21 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 Bournemouth region.

Location
3 months to
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Quality Assurance (QA)
Rank 25 41 23
Rank change year-on-year
+16 -18
Permanent jobs citing QA 20 3 23
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Bournemouth 7.092% 1.176% 7.591%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 76.92% 21.43% 71.88%
Number of salaries quoted 20 1 9
Average salary £53,750 £24,000 £50,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+123.95% -52.00%
90% offered a salary of more than £39,500 £24,000 £46,500
10% offered a salary of more than £66,000 £24,000 £85,500
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £37,500 £39,000
% change year-on-year
+1.33% -3.84%
All Quality Assurance & Compliance
Bournemouth
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Quality Assurance & Compliance category
26 14 32
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Bournemouth 9.220% 5.490% 10.56%
Number of salaries quoted 25 11 15
Average salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-9.09% +10.00%
90% offered a salary of more than £36,000 £22,600 £35,000
10% offered a salary of more than £61,000 £85,000 £60,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £41,000
% change year-on-year
- -2.43%
QA
Dorset

QA
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Bournemouth 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 Bournemouth region.

Bournemouth QA Salary Trend

QA
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing QA across the Bournemouth region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

Bournemouth QA Salary Histogram

QA
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Bournemouth 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%) Finance
2 12 (48.00%) OO
3 11 (44.00%) Java
4 10 (40.00%) OOP
5 9 (36.00%) Linux
6 7 (28.00%) LoadRunner
6 7 (28.00%) Subversion
6 7 (28.00%) Release Management
6 7 (28.00%) Performance Testing
7 6 (24.00%) Test Scripting
7 6 (24.00%) Banking
7 6 (24.00%) Content Management
7 6 (24.00%) SWIFT
7 6 (24.00%) E-Commerce
7 6 (24.00%) JavaScript
7 6 (24.00%) PHP
7 6 (24.00%) CSS
7 6 (24.00%) HTML
8 5 (20.00%) MySQL
8 5 (20.00%) C#
8 5 (20.00%) UNIX
8 5 (20.00%) CMS
8 5 (20.00%) LAMP
8 5 (20.00%) Web Development
8 5 (20.00%) Marketing
8 5 (20.00%) Joomla!
8 5 (20.00%) WordPress
8 5 (20.00%) Drupal
8 5 (20.00%) PHP5
8 5 (20.00%) Magento

QA
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Bournemouth 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 6 (24.00%) CSS
1 6 (24.00%) HTML
2 5 (20.00%) LAMP
3 3 (12.00%) XML
4 2 (8.000%) WebSphere
4 2 (8.000%) .NET
5 1 (4.000%) J2EE
5 1 (4.000%) Web Services
5 1 (4.000%) JRules
Application Platforms
1 5 (20.00%) CMS
1 5 (20.00%) Joomla!
1 5 (20.00%) WordPress
1 5 (20.00%) Drupal
1 5 (20.00%) Magento
2 2 (8.000%) WebSphere MQ
3 1 (4.000%) Tomcat
3 1 (4.000%) ESB
Applications
1 2 (8.000%) MS Excel
2 1 (4.000%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 4 (16.00%) HTTP
2 2 (8.000%) SSL
3 1 (4.000%) SWIFTNet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (20.00%) MySQL
2 2 (8.000%) Oracle 11g
2 2 (8.000%) Oracle 8/8i
3 1 (4.000%) SQL Server
3 1 (4.000%) DB2
Development Applications
1 7 (28.00%) LoadRunner
1 7 (28.00%) Subversion
2 2 (8.000%) ClearCase
2 2 (8.000%) QuickTest Pro
3 1 (4.000%) Ant
3 1 (4.000%) Hudson
General
1 17 (68.00%) Finance
2 6 (24.00%) Banking
3 5 (20.00%) Marketing
4 2 (8.000%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 10 (40.00%) Developer
2 8 (32.00%) Analyst
3 5 (20.00%) Web Developer
3 5 (20.00%) PHP Developer
3 5 (20.00%) PHP Web Developer
4 4 (16.00%) QA Leader
4 4 (16.00%) Test Analyst
4 4 (16.00%) Senior Test Analyst
4 4 (16.00%) Senior Analyst
5 3 (12.00%) Tester
5 3 (12.00%) QA Tester
5 3 (12.00%) QA Analyst
6 2 (8.000%) Senior QA Analyst
6 2 (8.000%) Non-Functional Tester
6 2 (8.000%) Applications Developer
6 2 (8.000%) Support Analyst
6 2 (8.000%) Applications Support
6 2 (8.000%) Lead Developer
6 2 (8.000%) Performance Tester
6 2 (8.000%) Applications Support Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 6 (24.00%) SWIFT
2 2 (8.000%) Clustering
3 1 (4.000%) Social Media
3 1 (4.000%) Mathematics
Operating Systems
1 9 (36.00%) Linux
2 5 (20.00%) UNIX
3 3 (12.00%) Solaris
4 2 (8.000%) Windows
5 1 (4.000%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (48.00%) OO
2 10 (40.00%) OOP
3 7 (28.00%) Release Management
3 7 (28.00%) Performance Testing
4 6 (24.00%) Test Scripting
4 6 (24.00%) Content Management
4 6 (24.00%) E-Commerce
5 5 (20.00%) Web Development
6 3 (12.00%) Configuration Management
6 3 (12.00%) High Availability
7 2 (8.000%) Root Cause Analysis
7 2 (8.000%) Unit Testing
8 1 (4.000%) Service Delivery
8 1 (4.000%) Project Management
8 1 (4.000%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 11 (44.00%) Java
2 6 (24.00%) JavaScript
2 6 (24.00%) PHP
3 5 (20.00%) C#
3 5 (20.00%) PHP5
4 3 (12.00%) SQL
5 1 (4.000%) C
5 1 (4.000%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (8.000%) ISTQB
1 2 (8.000%) ISEB
2 1 (4.000%) PMP
2 1 (4.000%) PMI Certification
2 1 (4.000%) Degree
System Software
1 2 (8.000%) Veritas Cluster Server
1 2 (8.000%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 5 (20.00%) HP Quality Center
1 5 (20.00%) Plesk
Vendors
1 4 (16.00%) webMethods
2 3 (12.00%) IBM
2 3 (12.00%) Oracle
3 1 (4.000%) Microsoft
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