The first table below looks at the demand for the QA Test Analyst role in IT jobs advertised for the England region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited QA Test Analyst in their job title 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 Job Titles advertised for the England region.

Location
3 months to
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Quality Assurance Test Analyst
Rank 727 666 753
Rank change year-on-year
-61 +87
Permanent jobs requiring a QA Test Analyst 113 207 85
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in England 0.111% 0.180% 0.073%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.118% 0.190% 0.078%
Number of salaries quoted 111 180 76
Average salary £40,000 £35,000 £39,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+14.28% -11.39%
90% offered a salary of more than £29,000 £27,500 £27,800
10% offered a salary of more than £55,000 £47,500 £58,500
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £34,000 £32,500
% change year-on-year
+17.64% +4.61%
All Job Titles
England
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
96074 109197 109157
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in England 94.44% 94.79% 94.29%
Number of salaries quoted 80838 94319 92814
Average salary £42,500 £42,500 £42,500
90% offered a salary of more than £27,000 £27,500 £26,500
10% offered a salary of more than £67,500 £72,500 £70,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +1.33%
QA Test Analyst
UK

QA Test Analyst
Jobs Demand Trend

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

England QA Test Analyst Jobs Demand Trend

QA Test Analyst
Salary Trend

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

England QA Test Analyst Salary Trend

QA Test Analyst
Salary Histogram

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

England QA Test Analyst Salary Histogram

QA Test Analyst
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing QA Test Analyst within the England region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
London +19 64 £41,000 +2.50%
South East -13 24 £37,000 +8.82%
Yorkshire -25 12 £40,000 +40.35%
North West -13 6 £35,000 +11.11%
East of England -5 5 £34,000 +4.61%
West Midlands -9 1 £27,500 -
North East - 1 £30,000 -
QA Test Analyst
UK

QA Test Analyst
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the England region that cited QA Test Analyst 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 Test Analyst in their job title.

1 260 (100.00%) QA
2 107 (41.15%) Selenium
3 91 (35.00%) Agile Software Development
4 90 (34.62%) SQL
5 83 (31.92%) Finance
6 79 (30.38%) Java
7 77 (29.62%) Test Scripting
8 69 (26.54%) Automated Testing
9 66 (25.38%) ISEB
10 59 (22.69%) .NET
11 58 (22.31%) Test Automation
12 56 (21.54%) C#
13 53 (20.38%) Software Testing
14 46 (17.69%) Degree
14 46 (17.69%) Microsoft
15 43 (16.54%) User Acceptance Testing
16 39 (15.00%) E-Commerce
17 36 (13.85%) SQL Server
17 36 (13.85%) ISTQB
17 36 (13.85%) Cucumber
18 35 (13.46%) BDD
19 34 (13.08%) TDD
19 34 (13.08%) Manual Testing
20 33 (12.69%) WebDriver
21 32 (12.31%) Windows
21 32 (12.31%) Python
22 30 (11.54%) QuickTest Pro
23 29 (11.15%) MS Excel
24 27 (10.38%) XML
25 26 (10.00%) Ruby

QA Test Analyst
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the England region that cited QA Test Analyst 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 Test Analyst in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 59 (22.69%) .NET
2 27 (10.38%) XML
3 21 (8.077%) ASP.NET
4 17 (6.538%) Web Services
5 8 (3.077%) .NET Framework
5 8 (3.077%) HTML
6 6 (2.308%) SOAP
7 5 (1.923%) ASP.NET MVC
8 4 (1.538%) Gherkin
8 4 (1.538%) FIX Protocol
8 4 (1.538%) Middleware
8 4 (1.538%) J2EE
9 3 (1.154%) CSS
10 2 (0.769%) Node.js
10 2 (0.769%) REST
10 2 (0.769%) OAuth
10 2 (0.769%) XSD
10 2 (0.769%) ASP
10 2 (0.769%) WSDL
10 2 (0.769%) XML Schema
Application Platforms
1 3 (1.154%) SharePoint
2 2 (0.769%) Confluence
2 2 (0.769%) Apache
2 2 (0.769%) Tomcat
2 2 (0.769%) ColdFusion
3 1 (0.385%) IIS
Applications
1 29 (11.15%) MS Excel
2 17 (6.538%) MS Office
3 3 (1.154%) MS Project
4 2 (0.769%) S-PLUS
5 1 (0.385%) MS Visio
Communications & Networking
1 15 (5.769%) HTTP
2 7 (2.692%) Internet
3 2 (0.769%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.385%) Broadband
4 1 (0.385%) SMTP
4 1 (0.385%) LDAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (13.85%) SQL Server
2 8 (3.077%) MySQL
3 5 (1.923%) Big Data
4 2 (0.769%) SQL Server 2008
4 2 (0.769%) QlikView
4 2 (0.769%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 2 (0.769%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 2 (0.769%) DB2
4 2 (0.769%) Data Mining
5 1 (0.385%) RDBMS
5 1 (0.385%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (0.385%) SQL Server 2000
5 1 (0.385%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 107 (41.15%) Selenium
2 36 (13.85%) Cucumber
3 33 (12.69%) WebDriver
4 30 (11.54%) QuickTest Pro
5 20 (7.692%) FitNesse
6 19 (7.308%) JIRA
7 11 (4.231%) SpecFlow
7 11 (4.231%) Team Foundation Server
8 7 (2.692%) JMeter
8 7 (2.692%) WATIR
9 5 (1.923%) JUnit
9 5 (1.923%) Visual Studio
10 4 (1.538%) Concordion
10 4 (1.538%) JBehave
11 3 (1.154%) Eclipse
12 2 (0.769%) TestComplete
12 2 (0.769%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 2 (0.769%) TestPartner
12 2 (0.769%) Subversion
13 1 (0.385%) TestDirector
General
1 83 (31.92%) Finance
2 23 (8.846%) Banking
3 15 (5.769%) Law
4 8 (3.077%) Investment Banking
4 8 (3.077%) Front Office
5 7 (2.692%) Telecoms
6 6 (2.308%) Marketing
6 6 (2.308%) Retail
7 4 (1.538%) Arabic Language
7 4 (1.538%) Publishing
7 4 (1.538%) Games
7 4 (1.538%) Financial Institution
8 3 (1.154%) Back Office
9 2 (0.769%) Billing
9 2 (0.769%) Russian Language
9 2 (0.769%) Advertising
10 1 (0.385%) Pharmaceutical
Miscellaneous
1 15 (5.769%) Computer Science
2 14 (5.385%) Open Source
2 14 (5.385%) Client/Server
2 14 (5.385%) Mobile App
3 11 (4.231%) Derivative
4 10 (3.846%) Enterprise Software
5 8 (3.077%) SaaS
6 7 (2.692%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 7 (2.692%) Hedge funds
7 6 (2.308%) Credit Derivative
8 5 (1.923%) Management Information System
8 5 (1.923%) Equities
8 5 (1.923%) Statistics
9 4 (1.538%) iPhone
10 3 (1.154%) Smartphone
11 2 (0.769%) Online Games
11 2 (0.769%) Replication
11 2 (0.769%) Streaming Video
12 1 (0.385%) N-Tier
12 1 (0.385%) AS400
Operating Systems
1 32 (12.31%) Windows
2 15 (5.769%) UNIX
3 13 (5.000%) Linux
4 6 (2.308%) Android
5 3 (1.154%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.769%) Mac OS X
7 1 (0.385%) Windows Mobile
7 1 (0.385%) Windows Phone 7
7 1 (0.385%) Windows Phone
Processes & Methodologies
1 91 (35.00%) Agile Software Development
2 77 (29.62%) Test Scripting
3 69 (26.54%) Automated Testing
4 58 (22.31%) Test Automation
5 53 (20.38%) Software Testing
6 43 (16.54%) User Acceptance Testing
7 39 (15.00%) E-Commerce
8 35 (13.46%) BDD
9 34 (13.08%) TDD
9 34 (13.08%) Manual Testing
10 25 (9.615%) Regression Testing
11 24 (9.231%) Automation Testing
12 23 (8.846%) OO
13 22 (8.462%) OOP
13 22 (8.462%) Scrum
13 22 (8.462%) User Stories
14 20 (7.692%) Performance Testing
15 15 (5.769%) Continuous Integration
16 14 (5.385%) Test Strategy
17 13 (5.000%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 90 (34.62%) SQL
2 79 (30.38%) Java
3 56 (21.54%) C#
4 32 (12.31%) Python
5 26 (10.00%) Ruby
6 23 (8.846%) C++
7 19 (7.308%) VBScript
8 16 (6.154%) VB
8 16 (6.154%) JavaScript
9 15 (5.769%) Perl
10 11 (4.231%) C
11 5 (1.923%) PHP
12 4 (1.538%) Scala
12 4 (1.538%) VBA
13 3 (1.154%) PowerShell
14 2 (0.769%) R
14 2 (0.769%) MATLAB
15 1 (0.385%) PL/SQL
15 1 (0.385%) Shell Script
15 1 (0.385%) Objective-C
Qualifications
1 66 (25.38%) ISEB
2 46 (17.69%) Degree
3 36 (13.85%) ISTQB
4 1 (0.385%) Postgraduate
4 1 (0.385%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 260 (100.00%) QA
2 3 (1.154%) PCI DSS
Systems Management
1 8 (3.077%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 46 (17.69%) Microsoft
2 15 (5.769%) Oracle
3 8 (3.077%) HP
4 3 (1.154%) ATG
5 2 (0.769%) Cadis
5 2 (0.769%) Google
5 2 (0.769%) Hyperion
6 1 (0.385%) TOWER Software
London, Central London, South East England
Job Title: QA Test AnalystLocation: LondonSalary: Up to £50,000 per yearLeading Financial Service organisation are looking for a proactive, self-starting and experienced Test Analyst (Manual, QC)...
ITS Ingenium
Salary: £0 - £50,000 per year
Posted: 21 May 2013
Newbury, Thames Valley
Strong understanding of technical documentation review and requirements analysis. Understanding of quality process models and methodologies such as ISO, IEEE and ISEB Key responsibilities: Creating detailed Test Plans...
Satigo
Salary: £3000 - £3500 per annum + Benefit
Posted: 17 May 2013
City of London
QA Test Engineer / Analyst I am looking for a QA Test Engineer / Analyst with FIX protocol experience to join a Global Financial Organisation on a permanent basis.
Salary: £55000 - £60000 per annum + BENEFITS
Posted: 22 May 2013
London
As a QA Test Analyst / Technical Tester you will test newly developed software, existing software upgrades and deployments to ensure quality is maintained; including manual testing (exploratory, negative...
Client Server
Salary: £35k to £40k + bonus (c15%) + benefits
Posted: 22 May 2013