The first table below looks at the demand for QA skills in IT jobs advertised for the Chester region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited QA over the 3 months to 19 June 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 Chester region.

Location
3 months to
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Quality Assurance (QA)
Rank 39 34 55
Rank change year-on-year
-5 +21
Permanent jobs citing QA 7 1 5
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Chester 2.349% 0.602% 1.718%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 28.00% 5.882% 55.56%
Number of salaries quoted 5 1 4
Average salary £34,500 £45,000 £34,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-23.33% +30.43%
90% offered a salary of more than £26,700 £45,000 £17,600
10% offered a salary of more than £36,900 £45,000 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £40,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-5.00% -
All Quality Assurance & Compliance
Chester
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Quality Assurance & Compliance category
25 17 9
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Chester 8.389% 10.24% 3.093%
Number of salaries quoted 12 17 8
Average salary £34,750 £30,000 £34,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+15.83% -13.04%
90% offered a salary of more than £32,550 £29,000 £18,400
10% offered a salary of more than £46,500 £50,000 £42,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £41,153 £41,000
% change year-on-year
-2.80% +0.37%
QA
Cheshire

QA
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Chester 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 Chester region.

Chester QA Salary Trend

QA
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing QA across the Chester region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

Chester QA Salary Histogram

QA
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the Chester 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 4 (50.00%) Windows
1 4 (50.00%) Configuration Management
1 4 (50.00%) Change Management
1 4 (50.00%) Change Control
2 3 (37.50%) User Stories
2 3 (37.50%) Agile Software Development
2 3 (37.50%) Microsoft Analysis Services
2 3 (37.50%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 3 (37.50%) SQL Server 2005
2 3 (37.50%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 3 (37.50%) Degree
2 3 (37.50%) SQL Server Analysis Services
2 3 (37.50%) PowerShell
2 3 (37.50%) SQL Server 2008
2 3 (37.50%) Replication
2 3 (37.50%) SQL Server 2000
2 3 (37.50%) SQL
2 3 (37.50%) SQL Server
3 2 (25.00%) ITIL
3 2 (25.00%) SharePoint
3 2 (25.00%) Teradata
3 2 (25.00%) Legato
3 2 (25.00%) Requirements Management
3 2 (25.00%) Web Development
3 2 (25.00%) Quality Management
3 2 (25.00%) FMCG
4 1 (12.50%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (12.50%) Test Strategy
4 1 (12.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (12.50%) ITIL V3

QA
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the Chester 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 Platforms
1 2 (25.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (12.50%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 1 (12.50%) HTTP
1 1 (12.50%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (37.50%) Microsoft Analysis Services
1 3 (37.50%) SQL Server Reporting Services
1 3 (37.50%) SQL Server 2005
1 3 (37.50%) SQL Server Integration Services
1 3 (37.50%) SQL Server Analysis Services
1 3 (37.50%) SQL Server 2008
1 3 (37.50%) SQL Server 2000
1 3 (37.50%) SQL Server
General
1 1 (12.50%) Finance
Job Titles
1 4 (50.00%) Analyst
2 3 (37.50%) SQL DBA
2 3 (37.50%) DBA
2 3 (37.50%) Business Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) Agile Business Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) DBA Manager
3 1 (12.50%) Test Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) Administrator
3 1 (12.50%) Data Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) SQL Server DBA
3 1 (12.50%) UNIX Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 3 (37.50%) Replication
2 2 (25.00%) FMCG
3 1 (12.50%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 4 (50.00%) Windows
2 1 (12.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (12.50%) Tru64
2 1 (12.50%) UNIX
2 1 (12.50%) AIX
2 1 (12.50%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (50.00%) Configuration Management
1 4 (50.00%) Change Management
1 4 (50.00%) Change Control
2 3 (37.50%) User Stories
2 3 (37.50%) Agile Software Development
3 2 (25.00%) ITIL
3 2 (25.00%) Requirements Management
3 2 (25.00%) Web Development
3 2 (25.00%) Quality Management
4 1 (12.50%) Test Strategy
4 1 (12.50%) ITIL V3
4 1 (12.50%) Data Migration
4 1 (12.50%) Use Case
4 1 (12.50%) Test Scripting
4 1 (12.50%) Service Management
4 1 (12.50%) Migration
4 1 (12.50%) E-Commerce
4 1 (12.50%) Project Management
4 1 (12.50%) UML
Programming Languages
1 3 (37.50%) PowerShell
1 3 (37.50%) SQL
2 1 (12.50%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 3 (37.50%) Degree
System Software
1 1 (12.50%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (12.50%) PowerHA
1 1 (12.50%) VMware ESX
Systems Management
1 2 (25.00%) Legato
Vendors
1 2 (25.00%) Teradata
2 1 (12.50%) VMware
2 1 (12.50%) Microsoft
2 1 (12.50%) Red Hat
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