The first table below looks at the demand for QA skills in IT jobs advertised for the Durham 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 Durham region.

Location
3 months to
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Quality Assurance (QA)
Rank 20 22 -
Rank change year-on-year
+2 -
Permanent jobs citing QA 3 2 0
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Durham 3.947% 1.613% -
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 33.33% 22.22% -
Number of salaries quoted 3 2 0
Average salary £34,000 £31,500 -
Average salary % change year-on-year
+7.93% -
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £40,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-5.00% -
All Quality Assurance & Compliance
Durham
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Quality Assurance & Compliance category
9 9 2
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Durham 11.84% 7.258% 1.980%
Number of salaries quoted 6 9 2
Average salary £32,500 £31,500 £30,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+3.17% +5.00%
90% offered a salary of more than £23,750 £27,500 £28,000
10% offered a salary of more than £42,000 £32,000 £67,500
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £41,153 £41,000
% change year-on-year
-2.80% +0.37%
QA
North East

QA
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Durham 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 Durham region.

Durham QA Salary Trend

QA
Salary Histogram

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

Durham QA Salary Histogram

QA
Top 29 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, 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 1 (25.00%) MVC
1 1 (25.00%) Scrum
1 1 (25.00%) Papyrus
1 1 (25.00%) Agile Software Development
1 1 (25.00%) Software Testing
1 1 (25.00%) Requirements Analysis
1 1 (25.00%) .NET Framework
1 1 (25.00%) Selenium
1 1 (25.00%) jQuery
1 1 (25.00%) Performance Testing
1 1 (25.00%) Integration Testing
1 1 (25.00%) SQL Server 2008
1 1 (25.00%) ASP.NET MVC
1 1 (25.00%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
1 1 (25.00%) Web Application Development
1 1 (25.00%) ASP.NET MVC 4
1 1 (25.00%) C#
1 1 (25.00%) HTML
1 1 (25.00%) .NET
1 1 (25.00%) SQL Server
1 1 (25.00%) ASP.NET
1 1 (25.00%) CSS
1 1 (25.00%) Linux
1 1 (25.00%) OO
1 1 (25.00%) TCP/IP
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (25.00%) ISEB
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (25.00%) Project Management

QA
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, 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.

Application Development
1 1 (25.00%) .NET Framework
1 1 (25.00%) jQuery
1 1 (25.00%) ASP.NET MVC
1 1 (25.00%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
1 1 (25.00%) ASP.NET MVC 4
1 1 (25.00%) HTML
1 1 (25.00%) .NET
1 1 (25.00%) ASP.NET
1 1 (25.00%) CSS
Application Platforms
1 1 (25.00%) Papyrus
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) SQL Server 2008
1 1 (25.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Selenium
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Test Manager
2 1 (25.00%) QA Manager
2 1 (25.00%) Test Team Leader
2 1 (25.00%) .NET Developer
2 1 (25.00%) C# Developer
2 1 (25.00%) ASP.NET Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Team Leader
2 1 (25.00%) C# ASP.NET Developer
2 1 (25.00%) QA Test Manager
2 1 (25.00%) C# .NET Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Testing Manager
2 1 (25.00%) Developer
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (25.00%) MVC
1 1 (25.00%) Scrum
1 1 (25.00%) Agile Software Development
1 1 (25.00%) Software Testing
1 1 (25.00%) Requirements Analysis
1 1 (25.00%) Performance Testing
1 1 (25.00%) Integration Testing
1 1 (25.00%) Web Application Development
1 1 (25.00%) OO
1 1 (25.00%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) C#
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) ISEB
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Certification
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft
Durham, County Durham
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Posted: 14 June 2013