The first table below looks at the demand for Quality Management skills in IT jobs advertised for the Cheshire region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Quality Management 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 Processes & Methodologies category for the Cheshire region.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Quality Management
Rank 110 115 -
Rank change year-on-year
+5 -
Permanent jobs citing Quality Management 10 9 0
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Cheshire 0.559% 0.467% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.733% 0.613% -
Number of salaries quoted 9 9 0
Average salary £32,000 £25,000 -
Average salary % change year-on-year
+28.00% -
UK excluding London average salary £42,500 £45,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year
-5.55% -
All Processes & Methodologies
Cheshire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
1364 1469 1140
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Cheshire 76.24% 76.23% 68.80%
Number of salaries quoted 1042 1291 967
Average salary £37,500 £37,500 £38,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
- -1.31%
90% offered a salary of more than £25,000 £25,000 £27,500
10% offered a salary of more than £55,000 £52,500 £60,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £41,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-2.43% +2.50%
Quality Management
North West

Quality Management
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing Quality Management across the Cheshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

Cheshire Quality Management Jobs Demand Trend

Quality Management
Salary Trend

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

Cheshire Quality Management Salary Trend

Quality Management
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Quality Management within the Cheshire region over the 3 months to 17 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
Chester -14 7 £33,250 +33.00%
Warrington - 5 £27,500 -
Northwich - 2 £32,000 -
Quality Management
North West

Quality Management
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Cheshire region citing Quality Management 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 Quality Management.

1 5 (45.45%) PRINCE2
1 5 (45.45%) Agile Software Development
1 5 (45.45%) QA
2 4 (36.36%) ITIL
3 3 (27.27%) Automated Testing
3 3 (27.27%) Statistics
3 3 (27.27%) ISTQB
3 3 (27.27%) SLA
3 3 (27.27%) ISEB
3 3 (27.27%) Project Management
3 3 (27.27%) User Acceptance Testing
3 3 (27.27%) Continuous Improvement
3 3 (27.27%) Test Strategy
4 2 (18.18%) User Stories
4 2 (18.18%) Service Delivery
4 2 (18.18%) GAP Analysis
4 2 (18.18%) ITIL Certification
4 2 (18.18%) Microsoft
4 2 (18.18%) Data Mining
4 2 (18.18%) Finance
4 2 (18.18%) Publishing
5 1 (9.091%) Stakeholder Management
5 1 (9.091%) Business Continuity
5 1 (9.091%) Legal
5 1 (9.091%) Programme Management
5 1 (9.091%) Requirements Management
5 1 (9.091%) Web Development
5 1 (9.091%) Incident Management
5 1 (9.091%) Enterprise Architecture
5 1 (9.091%) HTTP

Quality Management
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Communications & Networking
1 1 (9.091%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (18.18%) Data Mining
General
1 2 (18.18%) Finance
1 2 (18.18%) Publishing
2 1 (9.091%) Legal
Job Titles
1 5 (45.45%) Service Manager
2 4 (36.36%) Service Level Manager
3 3 (27.27%) Analyst
4 2 (18.18%) Business Analyst
4 2 (18.18%) Tester
4 2 (18.18%) Software Tester
5 1 (9.091%) Service Desk Manager
5 1 (9.091%) ICT Project Manager
5 1 (9.091%) Agile Business Analyst
5 1 (9.091%) Test Analyst
5 1 (9.091%) Project Manager
Miscellaneous
1 3 (27.27%) Statistics
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (45.45%) Agile Software Development
1 5 (45.45%) PRINCE2
2 4 (36.36%) ITIL
3 3 (27.27%) Test Strategy
3 3 (27.27%) User Acceptance Testing
3 3 (27.27%) Continuous Improvement
3 3 (27.27%) Project Management
3 3 (27.27%) Automated Testing
4 2 (18.18%) Service Delivery
4 2 (18.18%) GAP Analysis
4 2 (18.18%) User Stories
5 1 (9.091%) Demand Management
5 1 (9.091%) Risk Management
5 1 (9.091%) Stakeholder Management
5 1 (9.091%) Business Continuity
5 1 (9.091%) Programme Management
5 1 (9.091%) Change Control
5 1 (9.091%) UML
5 1 (9.091%) E-Commerce
5 1 (9.091%) Incident Management
Qualifications
1 3 (27.27%) ISEB
1 3 (27.27%) ISTQB
2 2 (18.18%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (45.45%) QA
2 3 (27.27%) SLA
Vendors
1 2 (18.18%) Microsoft