The first table below looks at the demand for QA skills in IT jobs advertised for the Crewe region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited QA over the 3 months to 22 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 Crewe region.

Location
3 months to
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Quality Assurance (QA)
Rank 34 40 31
Rank change year-on-year
+6 -9
Permanent jobs citing QA 2 2 5
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Crewe 1.325% 0.813% 2.874%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 11.76% 28.57% 55.56%
Number of salaries quoted 2 2 5
Average salary £47,500 £32,500 £67,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+46.15% -51.85%
UK excluding London average salary £38,250 £37,500 £39,000
% change year-on-year
+2.00% -3.84%
All Quality Assurance & Compliance
Crewe
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Quality Assurance & Compliance category
17 7 9
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Crewe 11.26% 2.846% 5.172%
Number of salaries quoted 10 4 8
Average salary £36,250 £41,000 £67,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-11.58% -39.25%
90% offered a salary of more than £18,000 £26,300 £32,500
10% offered a salary of more than £42,000 £67,500 £43,800
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £41,000
% change year-on-year
- -2.43%
QA
Cheshire

QA
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Crewe 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 Crewe region.

Crewe QA Salary Trend

QA
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing QA across the Crewe region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013.

Crewe QA Salary Histogram

QA
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Crewe 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 3 (50.00%) Service Delivery
1 3 (50.00%) Management Information System
2 2 (33.33%) MS Excel
2 2 (33.33%) .NET
2 2 (33.33%) Project Management
2 2 (33.33%) MS Office
2 2 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 2 (33.33%) Web Development
2 2 (33.33%) Budget Control
3 1 (16.67%) Windows 7
3 1 (16.67%) McAfee ePO
3 1 (16.67%) HTML5
3 1 (16.67%) MVVM
3 1 (16.67%) CSS3
3 1 (16.67%) Test Strategy
3 1 (16.67%) Software Deployment
3 1 (16.67%) Software Distribution
3 1 (16.67%) Windows Vista
3 1 (16.67%) WSUS
3 1 (16.67%) Problem Management
3 1 (16.67%) Fat Client
3 1 (16.67%) jQuery
3 1 (16.67%) Performance Testing
3 1 (16.67%) Compatibility Testing
3 1 (16.67%) SCCM
3 1 (16.67%) SC Cleared
3 1 (16.67%) Security Cleared
3 1 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (16.67%) PowerShell
3 1 (16.67%) SQL Server 2008

QA
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Crewe 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 2 (33.33%) .NET
2 1 (16.67%) HTML5
2 1 (16.67%) CSS3
2 1 (16.67%) jQuery
2 1 (16.67%) ASP.NET
2 1 (16.67%) CSS
2 1 (16.67%) Ajax
Applications
1 2 (33.33%) MS Excel
1 2 (33.33%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 1 (16.67%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) SQL Server 2008
1 1 (16.67%) SQL Server
1 1 (16.67%) SQL Server 2005
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) WinRunner
1 1 (16.67%) Visual Studio
Job Titles
1 2 (33.33%) Project Manager
2 1 (16.67%) Web Tester
2 1 (16.67%) Tester
2 1 (16.67%) Technical Specialist
2 1 (16.67%) Incident Manager
2 1 (16.67%) Technical Leader
Miscellaneous
1 3 (50.00%) Management Information System
2 1 (16.67%) Fat Client
2 1 (16.67%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 1 (16.67%) Windows 7
1 1 (16.67%) Windows Vista
1 1 (16.67%) Windows
1 1 (16.67%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (50.00%) Service Delivery
2 2 (33.33%) Project Management
2 2 (33.33%) Web Development
2 2 (33.33%) Budget Control
3 1 (16.67%) MVVM
3 1 (16.67%) Test Strategy
3 1 (16.67%) Software Deployment
3 1 (16.67%) Software Distribution
3 1 (16.67%) Problem Management
3 1 (16.67%) Performance Testing
3 1 (16.67%) Compatibility Testing
3 1 (16.67%) Test Automation
3 1 (16.67%) E-Commerce
3 1 (16.67%) MVC
3 1 (16.67%) Migration
3 1 (16.67%) Asset Management
3 1 (16.67%) Software Testing
3 1 (16.67%) Incident Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (16.67%) PowerShell
1 1 (16.67%) C#
1 1 (16.67%) VBScript
1 1 (16.67%) VB
1 1 (16.67%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) SC Cleared
1 1 (16.67%) Security Cleared
1 1 (16.67%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) ISO 9000
1 1 (16.67%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (16.67%) XenApp
1 1 (16.67%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) McAfee ePO
1 1 (16.67%) WSUS
1 1 (16.67%) SCCM
1 1 (16.67%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 1 (16.67%) Citrix
2 1 (16.67%) CA
2 1 (16.67%) McAfee
2 1 (16.67%) Sophos
2 1 (16.67%) VMware
Crewe, North West
Tester- main duties will include Join an existing Agile team developing WPF .Net (Vb.net) applications and websites written with ASP.net/jQuery. Regression, performance and blackbox testing,...
OCC Computing
Salary: £0 - 35k per year
Posted: 16 May 2013