The first table below looks at the demand for the QA Tester role in IT jobs advertised for the Coventry region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited QA Tester in their job title over the 3 months to 18 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 Job Titles advertised for the Coventry region.

Location
3 months to
18 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Quality Assurance Tester
Rank 67 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Permanent jobs requiring a QA Tester 1 0 0
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Coventry 0.154% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.164% - -
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 0
Average salary £52,500 - -
UK excluding London average salary £32,500 £32,000 £30,000
% change year-on-year
+1.56% +6.66%
All Job Titles
Coventry
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
611 322 446
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Coventry 94.14% 94.71% 97.81%
Number of salaries quoted 489 302 414
Average salary £37,500 £35,000 £42,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+7.14% -16.66%
90% offered a salary of more than £25,000 £24,500 £31,500
10% offered a salary of more than £57,500 £65,000 £58,500
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +1.33%
QA Tester
West Midlands

QA Tester
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing QA Tester across the Coventry region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

Coventry QA Tester Jobs Demand Trend

QA Tester
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing QA Tester across the Coventry region.

Coventry QA Tester Salary Trend

QA Tester
Top 14 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT jobs across the Coventry region that cited QA Tester in their job title 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 with QA Tester in their job title.

1 4 (100.00%) QA
2 3 (75.00%) Selenium
2 3 (75.00%) Manual Testing
2 3 (75.00%) Automated Testing
2 3 (75.00%) Finance
2 3 (75.00%) HTML
2 3 (75.00%) SQL
2 3 (75.00%) VB
2 3 (75.00%) Oracle
2 3 (75.00%) SQL Server
2 3 (75.00%) UNIX
2 3 (75.00%) Windows
2 3 (75.00%) Windows 2000
3 1 (25.00%) Business Transformation

QA Tester
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT jobs across the Coventry region that cited QA Tester in their job title 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 with QA Tester in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 3 (75.00%) HTML
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (75.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (75.00%) Selenium
General
1 3 (75.00%) Finance
Operating Systems
1 3 (75.00%) UNIX
1 3 (75.00%) Windows
1 3 (75.00%) Windows 2000
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Automated Testing
1 3 (75.00%) Manual Testing
2 1 (25.00%) Business Transformation
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) SQL
1 3 (75.00%) VB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (100.00%) QA
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) Oracle
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