England QA Jobs

This section looks at the demand for Quality Assurance (QA) skills within the England 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 last 3 months to 16 May 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Quality Assurance (QA)
Location Abingdon Altrincham Amersham Aylesbury Banbury Barnstaple Basildon Basingstoke Bath Bathgate Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkhamsted Berkshire Bideford Birmingham Bishop's Stortford Borehamwood Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Burnley Burton-upon-Trent Bury St Edmunds Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Channel Islands Chatham Chelmsford Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chippenham City of London Clapham Cobham Colchester Cornwall County Antrim County Londonderry Coventry Crawley Crewe Croydon Cumbria Daventry Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Doncaster Dorset Dundee Durham East Anglia East Kilbride East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastleigh Edinburgh Egham England Epsom Essex Exeter Fareham Farnborough Farnham Ferndown Fife Glamorgan Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Godalming Gosport Guildford Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harpenden Harrogate Harrow Havant Hayes Hemel Hempstead Hereford Herefordshire Hertford Hertfordshire High Wycombe Hoddesdon Home Counties Hove Huddersfield Hull Hungerford Huntingdon Ilford Ipswich Jersey Kendal Kent Knutsford Lancashire Lancaster Leamington Spa Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Letchworth Lightwater Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool Liversedge Livingston London Loughborough Luton M4 Corridor Maidenhead Manchester Marlow Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Nantwich Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Newton-le-Willows Norfolk North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Paddington Perth and Kinross Peterborough Poole Portsmouth Preston Reading Redhill Rugby Runcorn Salford Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Skipton Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Lanarkshire South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton St Albans St Helens St Ives Staffordshire Stevenage Stirling Stockport Stockton-on-Tees Stoke-on-Trent Street Suffolk Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Thames Ditton Thames Valley Tunbridge Wells Twickenham Tyne and Wear UK Upminster Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Walsall Ware Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Welwyn Garden City Wembley West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Weston-super-Mare Weybridge Wigan Wiltshire Winchester Windsor Woking Wokingham Worcester Worcestershire Worthing York Yorkshire	3 months to 16 May 2008	Same period last year
Rank	79	86
Rank change on same period last year	+7
Matching permanent IT job ads	4907	4690
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	2.406 %	2.076 %
As % of the category below	44.28 %	44.63 %
Salaries quoted	3997	3784
Average minimum salary	£38,477	£39,577
Average salary	£41,703	£42,467
% change on same period last year	-1.79 %
Average maximum salary	£44,929	£45,358
UK excluding London average salary	£37,636	£37,770
% change on same period last year	-0.35 %
Quality Assurance & Compliance England
Matching permanent IT job ads	11082	10509
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	5.434 %	4.653 %
Salaries quoted	9142	8472
Average minimum salary	£39,589	£40,834
Average salary	£42,957	£43,869
% change on same period last year	-2.07 %
Average maximum salary	£46,324	£46,903
UK excluding London average salary	£38,390	£40,714
% change on same period last year	-5.70 %
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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total starting in 2004 of permanent IT jobs ads citing QA across the England 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 ads citing QA across the England region.

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Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing QA across the England region over the past 3 months.

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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 England region over the past 3 months.

Rank	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
1	London	+13	2322	£46,501	-3.02 %
2	South East	-2	1086	£39,605	-3.43 %
3	East of England	+11	414	£37,397	+7.35 %
4	North West	-16	278	£31,369	-6.11 %
5	South West	+26	256	£33,534	-5.28 %
6	Yorkshire	0	242	£33,818	+0.59 %
7	West Midlands	+3	171	£38,414	+3.77 %
8	East Midlands	-16	99	£37,757	+26.38 %
9	Midlands	-5	25	£51,393	+22.68 %
10	South Coast	+6	8	-	-
10	North East	-3	8	£34,286	+12.78 %

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

Over the past 6 months permanent IT jobs across the England region citing QA also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled citing QA.

1 2356 (24.19 %) Finance 2 2052 (21.07 %) SQL 3 1378 (14.15 %) ISEB 4 1360 (13.96 %) Java 5 1222 (12.55 %) Windows 6 1113 (11.43 %) Degree 7 1083 (11.12 %) Test Scripting 8 1069 (10.98 %) SQL Server 9 1044 (10.72 %) Oracle 10 996 (10.23 %) .NET 11 993 (10.20 %) Unix 12 956 (9.816 %) Project Management 13 823 (8.451 %) Software Testing 14 817 (8.389 %) XML 15 799 (8.204 %) Automated Testing

16 795 (8.163 %) Banking 17 779 (7.999 %) Microsoft 18 778 (7.988 %) C# 19 737 (7.568 %) User Acceptance Testing 20 714 (7.331 %) TestDirector 21 689 (7.075 %) C++ 22 641 (6.582 %) QuickTest Pro 23 614 (6.305 %) Internet 24 584 (5.997 %) Linux 25 539 (5.534 %) HTML 26 530 (5.442 %) Agile Software Development 27 529 (5.432 %) Insurance 28 486 (4.990 %) Pensions 29 476 (4.888 %) C 30 435 (4.467 %) E-Commerce

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

Over the past 6 months permanent IT jobs across the England region citing QA also mentioned the following skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled citing QA. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 996 (10.23 %) .NET 2 817 (8.389 %) XML 3 539 (5.534 %) HTML 4 421 (4.323 %) J2EE 5 225 (2.310 %) ASP.NET 6 223 (2.290 %) ASP 7 212 (2.177 %) CSS 8 199 (2.043 %) WebServices 9 181 (1.859 %) JSP 10 134 (1.376 %) XSLT 11 109 (1.119 %) JDBC 12 108 (1.109 %) AJAX 13 106 (1.088 %) SOAP 14 99 (1.017 %) .NET Framework 15 71 (0.729 %) WebSphere 16 66 (0.678 %) Servlets 17 60 (0.616 %) XHTML 17 60 (0.616 %) Middleware 18 55 (0.565 %) WinForms 19 49 (0.503 %) Hibernate	Application Platforms 1 137 (1.407 %) SAS 2 135 (1.386 %) Apache 3 115 (1.181 %) JBoss 4 104 (1.068 %) Tomcat 5 87 (0.893 %) IIS 6 84 (0.863 %) CMS 7 75 (0.770 %) WebLogic 8 72 (0.739 %) SharePoint 9 52 (0.534 %) MS Exchange 10 26 (0.267 %) WebSphere Application Server 10 26 (0.267 %) SharePoint Server 2007 11 23 (0.236 %) Content Management Server 12 22 (0.226 %) ColdFusion 12 22 (0.226 %) DOC1 13 17 (0.175 %) Papyrus 14 16 (0.164 %) Exchange Server 2003 15 14 (0.144 %) NetWeaver 16 12 (0.123 %) MQSeries 16 12 (0.123 %) Oracle 10gAS 17 7 (0.072 %) Lotus Notes
Applications 1 412 (4.230 %) MS Excel 2 283 (2.906 %) MS Office 3 157 (1.612 %) MS Visio 4 115 (1.181 %) MS Project 5 65 (0.667 %) MS PowerPoint 6 63 (0.647 %) Photoshop 7 18 (0.185 %) CA Clarity 8 17 (0.175 %) PrintSoft PReS 8 17 (0.175 %) Adobe Illustrator 9 14 (0.144 %) RoboHelp 10 12 (0.123 %) InDesign 11 8 (0.082 %) Paint Shop Pro 12 6 (0.062 %) SPSS 13 5 (0.051 %) Acrobat 14 4 (0.041 %) MATLAB 15 3 (0.031 %) 3ds Max 15 3 (0.031 %) Fireworks 15 3 (0.031 %) Adobe Premiere 15 3 (0.031 %) ArcView 16 2 (0.021 %) Pro/ENGINEER	Business Applications 1 30 (0.308 %) SAP HR 2 28 (0.288 %) Oracle EBS 3 21 (0.216 %) Navision 4 17 (0.175 %) Singl.eView 5 16 (0.164 %) Summit 6 15 (0.154 %) SAP ERP 7 14 (0.144 %) Movex 7 14 (0.144 %) SAP Retail 7 14 (0.144 %) assyst 8 10 (0.103 %) Oracle Financials 9 8 (0.082 %) Oracle 11i 9 8 (0.082 %) Oracle Applications 9 8 (0.082 %) Beauchamp 10 7 (0.072 %) SAP HR-PA 10 7 (0.072 %) INSURE/90 10 7 (0.072 %) BASE24 10 7 (0.072 %) SAP SD 10 7 (0.072 %) LongView 11 6 (0.062 %) SAP R/3 11 6 (0.062 %) SAP FI
Communications & Networking 1 614 (6.305 %) Internet 2 182 (1.869 %) TCP/IP 3 67 (0.688 %) Broadband 4 55 (0.565 %) HTTP 5 48 (0.493 %) Intranet 6 45 (0.462 %) Firewall 6 45 (0.462 %) SAN 7 39 (0.400 %) SMS 7 39 (0.400 %) Wireless 8 37 (0.380 %) WAN 9 35 (0.359 %) LAN 10 33 (0.339 %) FTP 11 32 (0.329 %) VoIP 12 28 (0.288 %) 3G 13 26 (0.267 %) Ethernet 14 24 (0.246 %) DNS 14 24 (0.246 %) GSM 14 24 (0.246 %) MPLS 15 23 (0.236 %) GPRS 16 22 (0.226 %) ISDN	Database & Business Intelligence 1 1069 (10.98 %) SQL Server 2 258 (2.649 %) Datawarehouse 3 214 (2.197 %) SQL Server 2005 4 178 (1.828 %) RDBMS 5 136 (1.396 %) MySQL 6 128 (1.314 %) SQL Server 2000 7 96 (0.986 %) DB2 8 91 (0.934 %) BusinessObjects 9 83 (0.852 %) Oracle 10g 10 79 (0.811 %) Oracle 8/8i 10 79 (0.811 %) Oracle 9i 11 67 (0.688 %) TOAD 12 58 (0.596 %) Oracle Reports 13 55 (0.565 %) ETL 14 52 (0.534 %) Crystal Reports 15 51 (0.524 %) SQL Server 7 16 48 (0.493 %) MS Access 17 36 (0.370 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 18 35 (0.359 %) Data Mining 19 34 (0.349 %) OLAP
Development Applications 1 714 (7.331 %) TestDirector 2 641 (6.582 %) QuickTest Pro 3 348 (3.573 %) LoadRunner 4 337 (3.460 %) WinRunner 5 128 (1.314 %) Visual Studio 6 124 (1.273 %) Selenium 7 108 (1.109 %) Rational Robot 8 98 (1.006 %) JIRA 9 97 (0.996 %) Flash 10 90 (0.924 %) Ant 11 79 (0.811 %) Subversion 12 74 (0.760 %) Eclipse 13 64 (0.657 %) QARun 14 62 (0.637 %) QALoad 15 51 (0.524 %) JUnit 16 50 (0.513 %) FitNesse 17 49 (0.503 %) MSI 18 47 (0.483 %) CruiseControl 19 43 (0.442 %) VSS/SourceSafe 20 41 (0.421 %) Bugzilla	General 1 2356 (24.19 %) Finance 2 795 (8.163 %) Banking 3 529 (5.432 %) Insurance 4 486 (4.990 %) Pensions 5 393 (4.035 %) Health 6 332 (3.409 %) Investment Banking 7 305 (3.132 %) Retail 8 299 (3.070 %) Marketing 9 292 (2.998 %) Telecoms 10 271 (2.783 %) Front Office 11 215 (2.208 %) Games 12 199 (2.043 %) Education 13 148 (1.520 %) Back Office 14 133 (1.366 %) Government 15 115 (1.181 %) Financial Institution 16 109 (1.119 %) Publishing 17 88 (0.904 %) Auditing 18 86 (0.883 %) Legal 19 83 (0.852 %) Electronics 20 79 (0.811 %) Manufacturing
Job Titles 1 2533 (26.01 %) Analyst 2 1516 (15.57 %) Tester 3 1183 (12.15 %) Test Analyst 4 1037 (10.65 %) Developer 5 910 (9.344 %) QA Analyst 6 758 (7.783 %) Test Manager 7 744 (7.639 %) QA Engineer 8 616 (6.325 %) Consultant 9 562 (5.771 %) QA Tester 10 497 (5.103 %) QA Manager 11 461 (4.734 %) Test Engineer 12 427 (4.384 %) Project Manager 13 410 (4.210 %) Business Analyst 14 370 (3.799 %) QA Test Analyst 15 328 (3.368 %) Team Leader 16 279 (2.865 %) Senior Analyst 17 265 (2.721 %) Software Tester 18 261 (2.680 %) Software Engineer 19 224 (2.300 %) Quality Analyst 20 213 (2.187 %) Senior Developer	Miscellaneous 1 280 (2.875 %) Derivative 2 226 (2.321 %) Computer Science 3 222 (2.279 %) Equities 4 212 (2.177 %) Client/Server 5 201 (2.064 %) Asset Management 6 127 (1.304 %) Fixed Income 7 115 (1.181 %) Mathematics 8 92 (0.945 %) Foreign Exchange (FX) 9 71 (0.729 %) Mainframe 10 70 (0.719 %) Equity Derivative 11 69 (0.708 %) N-Tier 12 62 (0.637 %) Management Information System 13 61 (0.626 %) Fund Management 14 54 (0.554 %) DTV 14 54 (0.554 %) Statistics 15 48 (0.493 %) NHS 16 44 (0.452 %) PMI 17 40 (0.411 %) AS400 17 40 (0.411 %) Handset 18 39 (0.400 %) IPTV
Operating Systems 1 1222 (12.55 %) Windows 2 993 (10.20 %) Unix 3 584 (5.997 %) Linux 4 126 (1.294 %) Windows 2000 5 119 (1.222 %) Solaris 6 91 (0.934 %) Windows NT 7 83 (0.852 %) Windows XP 8 49 (0.503 %) AIX 9 34 (0.349 %) Windows Mobile 10 28 (0.288 %) HPUX 11 22 (0.226 %) Windows Server 2003 12 16 (0.164 %) Mac OS X 13 9 (0.092 %) Windows CE 14 6 (0.062 %) Embedded Linux 14 6 (0.062 %) VxWorks 14 6 (0.062 %) VMS 15 5 (0.051 %) FreeBSD 16 4 (0.041 %) NetWare 17 2 (0.021 %) Tru64 17 2 (0.021 %) LynxOS	Processes & Methodologies 1 1083 (11.12 %) Test Scripting 2 956 (9.816 %) Project Management 3 823 (8.451 %) Software Testing 4 799 (8.204 %) Automated Testing 5 737 (7.568 %) User Acceptance Testing 6 530 (5.442 %) Agile Software Development 7 435 (4.467 %) E-Commerce 8 426 (4.374 %) Regression Testing 9 417 (4.282 %) Manual Testing 10 371 (3.809 %) PRINCE2 11 365 (3.748 %) OO 12 359 (3.686 %) Test Management 13 333 (3.419 %) ITIL 14 300 (3.080 %) Performance Testing 15 291 (2.988 %) UML 16 279 (2.865 %) System Testing 17 268 (2.752 %) Business Analysis 18 267 (2.742 %) Risk Management 19 265 (2.721 %) Change Management 20 210 (2.156 %) Scrum
Programming Languages 1 2052 (21.07 %) SQL 2 1360 (13.96 %) Java 3 778 (7.988 %) C# 4 689 (7.075 %) C++ 5 476 (4.888 %) C 6 413 (4.241 %) VB 7 403 (4.138 %) JavaScript 8 350 (3.594 %) Perl 9 192 (1.971 %) PHP 10 160 (1.643 %) PL/SQL 11 150 (1.540 %) VB.NET 11 150 (1.540 %) Transact-SQL 12 148 (1.520 %) Python 13 131 (1.345 %) Shell Script 14 117 (1.201 %) VBA 15 115 (1.181 %) VBScript 16 114 (1.171 %) VB6 17 81 (0.832 %) DHTML 18 53 (0.544 %) ActionScript 18 53 (0.544 %) VC++	Qualifications 1 1378 (14.15 %) ISEB 2 1113 (11.43 %) Degree 3 119 (1.222 %) ISTQB 4 82 (0.842 %) PRINCE2 Certification 5 80 (0.821 %) ITIL Certification 6 74 (0.760 %) ISEB Practitioner 7 53 (0.544 %) Microsoft Certification 8 44 (0.452 %) PMI Certification 9 36 (0.370 %) PMP 10 33 (0.339 %) Cisco Certification 11 28 (0.288 %) HND 12 21 (0.216 %) MCSE 12 21 (0.216 %) CCNP 13 19 (0.195 %) CISSP 14 15 (0.154 %) CCDA 14 15 (0.154 %) PhD 15 14 (0.144 %) CCNA 16 13 (0.133 %) MCSD 17 12 (0.123 %) PRINCE2 Practitioner 18 10 (0.103 %) HNC
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 121 (1.242 %) ISO9001 2 75 (0.770 %) SLA 3 64 (0.657 %) ISO9000 4 55 (0.565 %) Sarbanes-Oxley 5 48 (0.493 %) TickIT 5 48 (0.493 %) COBIT 6 33 (0.339 %) ISO27001 7 16 (0.164 %) BS7799 8 12 (0.123 %) GCP 9 9 (0.092 %) MiFID 10 8 (0.082 %) Basel II 11 6 (0.062 %) GMP 11 6 (0.062 %) GxP 12 5 (0.051 %) GLP 13 4 (0.041 %) ISO8583 14 3 (0.031 %) ISO/IEC 20000 14 3 (0.031 %) ISO17799 15 2 (0.021 %) ISO9002 15 2 (0.021 %) ISO12207 15 2 (0.021 %) ISO14001	System Software 1 95 (0.975 %) Active Directory 2 27 (0.277 %) Terminal Server 3 19 (0.195 %) MSMQ 3 19 (0.195 %) Oracle RMAN 4 12 (0.123 %) Oracle RAC 5 9 (0.092 %) Novell eDirectory 6 6 (0.062 %) Terminal Services 6 6 (0.062 %) VMware ESX 6 6 (0.062 %) VMware Workstation 7 5 (0.051 %) Squid 8 3 (0.031 %) Nmap 8 3 (0.031 %) AquaLogic 8 3 (0.031 %) NetBackup 8 3 (0.031 %) ISA Server 8 3 (0.031 %) MetaFrame 9 2 (0.021 %) WebInspect 9 2 (0.021 %) Xen 10 1 (0.010 %) Microsoft Virtual Server 10 1 (0.010 %) Citrix Presentation Server 10 1 (0.010 %) NFS
Systems Management 1 11 (0.113 %) Oracle Enterprise Manager 2 9 (0.092 %) DirXML 3 7 (0.072 %) Tivoli 4 6 (0.062 %) AutoSys 4 6 (0.062 %) Nagios 5 5 (0.051 %) Systems Management Server (SMS) 6 3 (0.031 %) OpenView 6 3 (0.031 %) Legato 6 3 (0.031 %) EMC NetWorker 6 3 (0.031 %) Nessus 7 2 (0.021 %) OMEGAMON 8 1 (0.010 %) BMC Marimba 8 1 (0.010 %) DameWare 8 1 (0.010 %) ServiceCenter 8 1 (0.010 %) MOM 8 1 (0.010 %) OpenView Configuration Management 8 1 (0.010 %) CONTROL-M	Vendors 1 1044 (10.72 %) Oracle 2 779 (7.999 %) Microsoft 3 214 (2.197 %) SAP 4 183 (1.879 %) Sybase 5 96 (0.986 %) Cisco 6 92 (0.945 %) IBM 7 91 (0.934 %) Business Objects 8 89 (0.914 %) Citrix 9 74 (0.760 %) HP 10 70 (0.719 %) VMware 11 69 (0.708 %) Reuters 12 57 (0.585 %) Sun 13 54 (0.554 %) Adobe 14 53 (0.544 %) Compuware 15 45 (0.462 %) Empirix 16 41 (0.421 %) Mapinfo 17 38 (0.390 %) Teradata 18 37 (0.380 %) Red Hat 19 32 (0.329 %) Symbian 19 32 (0.329 %) Google