The first table below looks at the demand for HP Quality Center skills in IT jobs advertised for the Bracknell region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited HP Quality Center 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 of the Systems Management category for the Bracknell region.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
HP Quality Center (HP QC)
Rank 62 46 48
Rank change year-on-year
-16 +2
Permanent jobs citing HP Quality Center 18 5 1
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Bracknell 3.352% 1.299% 0.270%
As % of the Systems Management category 21.43% 14.29% 3.125%
Number of salaries quoted 2 4 1
Average salary £40,000 £45,500 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-12.08% +13.75%
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £37,500 £38,500
% change year-on-year
+6.66% -2.59%
All Systems Management
Bracknell
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Systems Management category
84 35 32
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Bracknell 15.64% 9.091% 8.625%
Number of salaries quoted 15 25 21
Average salary £45,000 £32,500 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+38.46% -18.75%
90% offered a salary of more than £28,600 £30,000 £35,000
10% offered a salary of more than £47,500 £60,000 £46,000
UK excluding London average salary £42,000 £40,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
+5.00% -
HP Quality Center
Berkshire

HP Quality Center
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing HP Quality Center across the Bracknell region as a proportion of the total demand within the Systems Management category.

Bracknell HP Quality Center Jobs Demand Trend

HP Quality Center
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing HP Quality Center across the Bracknell region.

Bracknell HP Quality Center Salary Trend

HP Quality Center
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Bracknell region citing HP Quality Center 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 HP Quality Center.

1 32 (100.00%) Test Scripting
2 28 (87.50%) Windows
3 24 (75.00%) HP
4 22 (68.75%) ISEB
4 22 (68.75%) Regression Testing
4 22 (68.75%) SC Cleared
4 22 (68.75%) Security Cleared
5 21 (65.63%) Test Automation
5 21 (65.63%) LoadRunner
6 20 (62.50%) Migration
6 20 (62.50%) Oracle
6 20 (62.50%) SQL Server
7 18 (56.25%) Active Directory
7 18 (56.25%) Windows XP
7 18 (56.25%) LAN
7 18 (56.25%) WAN
7 18 (56.25%) Windows Server 2003
7 18 (56.25%) Windows 7
7 18 (56.25%) Windows Server 2008
8 17 (53.13%) VMware Infrastructure
8 17 (53.13%) VMware
9 16 (50.00%) VMware ESX
9 16 (50.00%) VMware Workstation
9 16 (50.00%) Oracle 8/8i
9 16 (50.00%) Non-Functional Testing
9 16 (50.00%) Validation
10 14 (43.75%) Telecoms
10 14 (43.75%) Finance
10 14 (43.75%) Retail
10 14 (43.75%) Automated Testing

HP Quality Center
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Bracknell region citing HP Quality Center 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 HP Quality Center. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms
1 14 (43.75%) IIS
1 14 (43.75%) Tomcat
Communications & Networking
1 18 (56.25%) LAN
1 18 (56.25%) WAN
2 10 (31.25%) TCP/IP
3 9 (28.13%) NAS
4 8 (25.00%) IPv6
4 8 (25.00%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (62.50%) SQL Server
2 16 (50.00%) Oracle 8/8i
Development Applications
1 21 (65.63%) LoadRunner
2 9 (28.13%) QuickTest Pro
3 5 (15.63%) SilkTest
General
1 14 (43.75%) Telecoms
1 14 (43.75%) Finance
1 14 (43.75%) Retail
Job Titles
1 13 (40.63%) Analyst
1 13 (40.63%) Test Analyst
2 11 (34.38%) Senior Analyst
2 11 (34.38%) Senior Test Analyst
3 9 (28.13%) Test Consultant
3 9 (28.13%) Consultant
3 9 (28.13%) Performance Test Consultant
4 8 (25.00%) QA Engineer
5 6 (18.75%) Test Engineer
5 6 (18.75%) Security Analyst
6 4 (12.50%) Systems Tester
6 4 (12.50%) Tester
6 4 (12.50%) Security Consultant
6 4 (12.50%) QA Tester
6 4 (12.50%) Senior Tester
6 4 (12.50%) Senior Security Analyst
6 4 (12.50%) Senior QA Engineer
6 4 (12.50%) Senior QA Tester
7 2 (6.250%) Systems Test Engineer
7 2 (6.250%) Systems Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 5 (15.63%) Field-Programmable Gate Array
2 2 (6.250%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 28 (87.50%) Windows
2 18 (56.25%) Windows XP
2 18 (56.25%) Windows Server 2003
2 18 (56.25%) Windows Server 2008
2 18 (56.25%) Windows 7
3 10 (31.25%) UNIX
4 1 (3.125%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (100.00%) Test Scripting
2 22 (68.75%) Regression Testing
3 21 (65.63%) Test Automation
4 20 (62.50%) Migration
5 16 (50.00%) Validation
5 16 (50.00%) Non-Functional Testing
6 14 (43.75%) Automated Testing
7 10 (31.25%) System Testing
7 10 (31.25%) Product Management
8 9 (28.13%) Agile Software Development
9 5 (15.63%) Performance Testing
Programming Languages
1 14 (43.75%) SQL
Qualifications
1 22 (68.75%) ISEB
1 22 (68.75%) SC Cleared
1 22 (68.75%) Security Cleared
2 10 (31.25%) Degree
3 6 (18.75%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (31.25%) QA
System Software
1 18 (56.25%) Active Directory
2 17 (53.13%) VMware Infrastructure
3 16 (50.00%) VMware ESX
3 16 (50.00%) VMware Workstation
4 10 (31.25%) NFS
Systems Management
1 10 (31.25%) Legato
Vendors
1 24 (75.00%) HP
2 20 (62.50%) Oracle
3 17 (53.13%) VMware
4 14 (43.75%) Fujitsu
5 10 (31.25%) Veritas
6 4 (12.50%) Hitachi