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

Location
3 months to
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Quality Assurance (QA)
Rank 37 44 60
Rank change year-on-year
+7 +16
Permanent jobs citing QA 176 149 112
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Cambridgeshire 6.687% 5.190% 3.756%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 58.67% 66.22% 60.87%
Number of salaries quoted 165 123 90
Average salary £37,500 £40,750 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-7.97% +1.87%
90% offered a salary of more than £30,000 £30,000 £25,000
10% offered a salary of more than £70,000 £65,000 £45,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £37,500 £39,000
% change year-on-year
+1.33% -3.84%
All Quality Assurance & Compliance
Cambridgeshire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Quality Assurance & Compliance category
300 225 184
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Cambridgeshire 11.40% 7.837% 6.170%
Number of salaries quoted 250 183 144
Average salary £40,000 £40,000 £40,000
90% offered a salary of more than £27,500 £27,500 £27,500
10% offered a salary of more than £60,250 £62,500 £62,500
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £41,000
% change year-on-year
- -2.43%
QA
East of England

QA
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Cambridgeshire 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 Cambridgeshire region.

Cambridgeshire QA Salary Trend

QA
Salary Histogram

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

Cambridgeshire QA Salary Histogram

QA
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing QA within the Cambridgeshire region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Cambridge +5 103 £37,500 -6.25%
Peterborough +19 37 £47,500 -34.48%
Huntingdon +8 7 £37,500 -42.30%
QA
East of England

QA
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Cambridgeshire 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.

1 180 (48.52%) Software Testing
2 119 (32.08%) Selenium
3 114 (30.73%) Automated Testing
4 113 (30.46%) Degree
5 99 (26.68%) ISEB
6 94 (25.34%) Test Scripting
7 93 (25.07%) SQL
8 84 (22.64%) ISTQB
8 84 (22.64%) Agile Software Development
9 80 (21.56%) Python
10 77 (20.75%) Perl
11 75 (20.22%) UNIX
12 74 (19.95%) Windows
13 73 (19.68%) C#
14 72 (19.41%) HTML
15 71 (19.14%) Linux
16 65 (17.52%) Web Testing
17 53 (14.29%) TDD
17 53 (14.29%) Computer Science
17 53 (14.29%) Microsoft
18 49 (13.21%) Java
19 48 (12.94%) Security Testing
20 45 (12.13%) JavaScript
21 41 (11.05%) SQL Server
21 41 (11.05%) CSS
21 41 (11.05%) Manual Testing
22 39 (10.51%) Test Automation
22 39 (10.51%) Ruby
23 38 (10.24%) Finance
23 38 (10.24%) .NET

QA
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Cambridgeshire 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 72 (19.41%) HTML
2 41 (11.05%) CSS
3 38 (10.24%) .NET
4 32 (8.625%) XML
5 12 (3.235%) ASP
6 11 (2.965%) Web Services
7 10 (2.695%) CGI
8 9 (2.426%) jQuery
8 9 (2.426%) Natural Language Processing
9 8 (2.156%) ASP.NET
10 4 (1.078%) ASP.NET MVC 3
10 4 (1.078%) ASP.NET MVC
11 3 (0.809%) J2EE
11 3 (0.809%) COM
11 3 (0.809%) HTML5
11 3 (0.809%) Spring
11 3 (0.809%) Ajax
12 2 (0.539%) Java EE
12 2 (0.539%) WebSphere
12 2 (0.539%) XSLT
Application Platforms
1 14 (3.774%) Tomcat
2 12 (3.235%) Apache
3 6 (1.617%) SharePoint
3 6 (1.617%) IIS
4 3 (0.809%) SharePoint 2010
4 3 (0.809%) SharePoint 2013
5 2 (0.539%) CMS
6 1 (0.270%) SAS
Applications
1 24 (6.469%) MS Excel
2 14 (3.774%) Photoshop
3 12 (3.235%) Adobe Illustrator
4 8 (2.156%) MS Office
5 3 (0.809%) MS Project
5 3 (0.809%) InDesign
Business Applications
1 3 (0.809%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.539%) Temenos T24
Communications & Networking
1 6 (1.617%) Internet
2 5 (1.348%) RIP
3 2 (0.539%) Firewall
4 1 (0.270%) LAN
4 1 (0.270%) VoIP
4 1 (0.270%) WAN
4 1 (0.270%) SNMP
4 1 (0.270%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.270%) IPv6
4 1 (0.270%) SAN
4 1 (0.270%) Wireless
4 1 (0.270%) iSCSI
4 1 (0.270%) VLAN
4 1 (0.270%) Unified Communications
4 1 (0.270%) Fibre Channel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (11.05%) SQL Server
2 19 (5.121%) MySQL
3 14 (3.774%) DB2
4 9 (2.426%) Text Mining
5 4 (1.078%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 4 (1.078%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 4 (1.078%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 2 (0.539%) RDBMS
6 2 (0.539%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 119 (32.08%) Selenium
2 37 (9.973%) WATIR
2 37 (9.973%) Jasmine
3 33 (8.895%) Team Foundation Server
3 33 (8.895%) MSTest
4 24 (6.469%) WebDriver
5 21 (5.660%) FitNesse
6 19 (5.121%) QuickTest Pro
7 16 (4.313%) Visual Studio
8 12 (3.235%) JIRA
9 11 (2.965%) Subversion
10 9 (2.426%) NUnit
11 8 (2.156%) TestComplete
12 3 (0.809%) LabVIEW
13 2 (0.539%) Git (software)
13 2 (0.539%) JUnit
14 1 (0.270%) Bugzilla
14 1 (0.270%) PHPUnit
General
1 38 (10.24%) Finance
2 11 (2.965%) Games
3 5 (1.348%) Banking
4 3 (0.809%) Retail
5 2 (0.539%) Retail Banking
5 2 (0.539%) Back Office
5 2 (0.539%) Law
6 1 (0.270%) Pharmaceutical
6 1 (0.270%) Electronics
6 1 (0.270%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 87 (23.45%) Tester
2 61 (16.44%) Test Engineer
3 56 (15.09%) Software Engineer
4 55 (14.82%) Developer
5 54 (14.56%) QA Engineer
6 51 (13.75%) Software Tester
7 48 (12.94%) Software Test Engineer
8 47 (12.67%) Analyst
9 39 (10.51%) QA Manager
10 32 (8.625%) Software Developer
11 18 (4.852%) Test Analyst
12 16 (4.313%) QA Analyst
12 16 (4.313%) Project Manager
13 14 (3.774%) Test Manager
13 14 (3.774%) Junior
14 13 (3.504%) QA Test Manager
14 13 (3.504%) Senior Tester
15 12 (3.235%) Business Analyst
15 12 (3.235%) Junior Tester
15 12 (3.235%) QA Tester
Miscellaneous
1 53 (14.29%) Computer Science
2 22 (5.930%) Mathematics
3 9 (2.426%) Chemistry
3 9 (2.426%) Life Science
3 9 (2.426%) Grid Computing
4 5 (1.348%) Management Information System
4 5 (1.348%) Mobile App
5 3 (0.809%) Wiki
5 3 (0.809%) Statistics
5 3 (0.809%) Animation
5 3 (0.809%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (0.539%) Mobile Banking
6 2 (0.539%) Enterprise Storage
6 2 (0.539%) Embedded Systems
6 2 (0.539%) Social Media
6 2 (0.539%) Open Source
6 2 (0.539%) Firmware
7 1 (0.270%) Client/Server
7 1 (0.270%) W3C
7 1 (0.270%) Device Driver
Operating Systems
1 75 (20.22%) UNIX
2 74 (19.95%) Windows
3 71 (19.14%) Linux
4 21 (5.660%) Mac OS
5 3 (0.809%) Windows XP
5 3 (0.809%) Windows 7
6 2 (0.539%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.539%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 180 (48.52%) Software Testing
2 114 (30.73%) Automated Testing
3 94 (25.34%) Test Scripting
4 84 (22.64%) Agile Software Development
5 65 (17.52%) Web Testing
6 53 (14.29%) TDD
7 48 (12.94%) Security Testing
8 41 (11.05%) Manual Testing
9 39 (10.51%) Test Automation
10 34 (9.164%) E-Commerce
11 26 (7.008%) Web Development
12 24 (6.469%) Project Management
13 21 (5.660%) User Stories
14 19 (5.121%) Automation Testing
15 18 (4.852%) Regression Testing
16 16 (4.313%) Business Analysis
17 15 (4.043%) PRINCE2
18 14 (3.774%) System Testing
18 14 (3.774%) Performance Testing
18 14 (3.774%) Functional Testing
Programming Languages
1 93 (25.07%) SQL
2 80 (21.56%) Python
3 77 (20.75%) Perl
4 73 (19.68%) C#
5 49 (13.21%) Java
6 45 (12.13%) JavaScript
7 39 (10.51%) Ruby
8 31 (8.356%) C
9 30 (8.086%) C++
10 18 (4.852%) Bash shell
11 11 (2.965%) Embedded C
12 6 (1.617%) VB
12 6 (1.617%) T-SQL
13 5 (1.348%) VBScript
13 5 (1.348%) PHP
14 4 (1.078%) Shell Script
14 4 (1.078%) VB.NET
15 3 (0.809%) Embedded C++
16 1 (0.270%) PHP5
Qualifications
1 113 (30.46%) Degree
2 99 (26.68%) ISEB
3 84 (22.64%) ISTQB
4 29 (7.817%) Postgraduate
5 3 (0.809%) HNC
6 1 (0.270%) Oracle Certification
6 1 (0.270%) PRINCE2 Certification
6 1 (0.270%) PMP
6 1 (0.270%) PMI Certification
6 1 (0.270%) Six Sigma Black Belt
6 1 (0.270%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (1.078%) WAI
System Software
1 1 (0.270%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (0.270%) XenServer
Systems Management
1 8 (2.156%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 53 (14.29%) Microsoft
2 26 (7.008%) Oracle
3 12 (3.235%) Adobe
4 10 (2.695%) Sybase
5 9 (2.426%) HP
6 3 (0.809%) SAP
7 2 (0.539%) Temenos
7 2 (0.539%) Sun
8 1 (0.270%) Cisco
8 1 (0.270%) VMware
8 1 (0.270%) Zend
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