Durham QA Jobs

This section looks at the demand for Quality Assurance (QA) skills within the Durham region with a comparison to our Quality Assurance & Compliance category. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited QA over the 3 months to 29 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Quality Assurance (QA)
Location Aberdeen Abingdon Altrincham Ascot Aylesbury Banbury Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Bishop's Stortford Blackburn Borehamwood Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentford Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckingham Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Chatham Cheadle Chelmsford Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chester Chippenham Cirencester City of London Clapham Colchester Congleton Cornwall County Antrim Coventry Crawley Crewe Croydon Cumbria Cwmbran Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset Dundee Durham East Anglia East Grinstead East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastleigh Edenbridge Edinburgh Elland England Epsom Essex Exeter Fareham Farnborough Farnham Fife Gatwick Glamorgan Glasgow Glenrothes Gloucester Gloucestershire Godalming Greenock Guildford Gwent Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Harrow Hemel Hempstead Hereford Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Home Counties Horsham Hull Hungerford Huntingdon Ilford Inverclyde Ipswich Isle of Man Kent Kingston Upon Thames Kingswinford Knutsford Lancashire Lancaster Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Liverpool Livingston London Loughborough Luton Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Marlow Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Midlothian Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Newton-le-Willows Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northallerton Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Paddington Perth and Kinross Peterborough Petersfield Poole Portsmouth Potters Bar Preston Reading Redhill Reigate Rochester Royston Rugby Runcorn Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Sittingbourne Skipton Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southam Southampton Southwark St Helens St Ives Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stirling Stockport Stockton-on-Tees Stoke-on-Trent Stowmarket Street Stroud Suffolk Sunderland Surbiton Surrey Sussex Swadlincote Swansea Swindon Tadworth Teddington Telford Thames Valley Tonbridge Torfaen Trowbridge Tunbridge Wells Twickenham Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Wallingford Waltham Cross Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Welwyn Garden City West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Weybridge Wigan Wiltshire Wimbledon Winchester Windsor Woking Wokingham Worcester Worcestershire Worksop Worthing Yeovil York Yorkshire	3 months to 29 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	35	34
Rank change on same period last year	-1
Matching permanent IT job ads	3	1
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.002 %	0.000 %
As % of the category below	33.33 %	20.00 %
Salaries quoted	3	1
Average minimum salary	£27,000	£35,000
Average salary	£28,917	£42,500
% change on same period last year	-31.96 %
Average maximum salary	£30,833	£50,000
UK excluding London average salary	£37,184	£38,439
% change on same period last year	-3.26 %
Quality Assurance & Compliance Durham
Matching permanent IT job ads	9	5
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.005 %	0.002 %
Salaries quoted	3	5
Average minimum salary	£27,000	£26,200
Average salary	£28,917	£29,000
% change on same period last year	-0.28 %
Average maximum salary	£30,833	£31,800
UK excluding London average salary	£39,636	£40,082
% change on same period last year	-1.11 %
QA North East

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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of permanent IT jobs citing QA across the Durham region as a proportion of the total demand within the Quality Assurance & Compliance category.

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Salary Trend

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

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Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing QA across the Durham region over the 3 months to 29 August 2008.

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Job Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing QA within the Durham region over the 3 months to 29 August 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Permanent IT Job Ads	Average Salary Last 3 Months	Average Salary % Change on Same Period Last Year
Stockton-on-Tees	-	3	£28,917	-

QA North East

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Top 8 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 29 August 2008, IT jobs across the Durham 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 (80.00 %) Microsoft 2 3 (60.00 %) Finance 2 3 (60.00 %) MS Excel 3 1 (20.00 %) Legal 3 1 (20.00 %) ISEB 3 1 (20.00 %) Internet 3 1 (20.00 %) MS Office 3 1 (20.00 %) Windows

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 29 August 2008, IT jobs across the Durham 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.

Applications 1 3 (60.00 %) MS Excel 2 1 (20.00 %) MS Office	Communications & Networking 1 1 (20.00 %) Internet
General 1 3 (60.00 %) Finance 2 1 (20.00 %) Legal	Job Titles 1 3 (60.00 %) Author 1 3 (60.00 %) Technical Author 2 1 (20.00 %) Trainee
Operating Systems 1 1 (20.00 %) Windows	Qualifications 1 1 (20.00 %) ISEB
Vendors 1 4 (80.00 %) Microsoft