The first table below looks at the demand for QA skills in IT jobs advertised for the Farnborough region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited QA over the 3 months to 20 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 Farnborough region.

Location
3 months to
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Quality Assurance (QA)
Rank 32 37 26
Rank change year-on-year
+5 -11
Permanent jobs citing QA 4 2 3
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Farnborough 2.210% 0.870% 2.521%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 18.18% 40.00% 50.00%
Number of salaries quoted 4 2 3
Average salary £25,000 £35,000 £47,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-28.57% -26.31%
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £37,500 £39,125
% change year-on-year
+1.33% -4.15%
All Quality Assurance & Compliance
Farnborough
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Quality Assurance & Compliance category
22 5 6
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Farnborough 12.15% 2.174% 5.042%
Number of salaries quoted 18 4 6
Average salary £55,000 £37,500 £45,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+46.66% -16.66%
90% offered a salary of more than £25,000 £35,000 £27,000
10% offered a salary of more than £70,000 £47,850 £70,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £41,000
% change year-on-year
- -2.43%
QA
Hampshire

QA
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Farnborough QA Jobs Demand Trend

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Salary Trend

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

Farnborough QA Salary Trend

QA
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing QA across the Farnborough region over the 3 months to 20 May 2013.

Farnborough QA Salary Histogram

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT jobs across the Farnborough 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 15 (60.00%) Software Testing
2 13 (52.00%) Automated Testing
2 13 (52.00%) Microsoft
3 12 (48.00%) Active Directory
3 12 (48.00%) MS Office
3 12 (48.00%) MS Exchange
3 12 (48.00%) Information Security
4 11 (44.00%) Performance Testing
5 10 (40.00%) MS Excel
6 8 (32.00%) MySQL
6 8 (32.00%) Linux
6 8 (32.00%) SQL
6 8 (32.00%) Degree
6 8 (32.00%) Manual Testing
7 7 (28.00%) Test Scripting
7 7 (28.00%) CentOS
7 7 (28.00%) Scrum
7 7 (28.00%) Extreme Programming
7 7 (28.00%) PHP
8 6 (24.00%) UNIX
8 6 (24.00%) Perl
8 6 (24.00%) ISEB
9 4 (16.00%) Vulnerability Assessment
9 4 (16.00%) Finance
9 4 (16.00%) Vulnerability Management
9 4 (16.00%) PCI DSS
9 4 (16.00%) CISSP
9 4 (16.00%) Business Continuity
9 4 (16.00%) Disaster Recovery
9 4 (16.00%) Management Information System

QA
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT jobs across the Farnborough 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 (4.000%) .NET
1 1 (4.000%) ASP.NET
1 1 (4.000%) XML
1 1 (4.000%) DOM
1 1 (4.000%) LAMP
1 1 (4.000%) CodeIgniter
1 1 (4.000%) Kohana
1 1 (4.000%) RESTful
Application Platforms
1 12 (48.00%) MS Exchange
2 1 (4.000%) Apache
Applications
1 12 (48.00%) MS Office
2 10 (40.00%) MS Excel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (32.00%) MySQL
General
1 4 (16.00%) Finance
2 1 (4.000%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 10 (40.00%) QA Engineer
2 8 (32.00%) QA Tester
2 8 (32.00%) Tester
3 7 (28.00%) Administrator
3 7 (28.00%) Software Tester
4 5 (20.00%) Exchange Administrator
5 4 (16.00%) Security Engineer
5 4 (16.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 4 (16.00%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
6 2 (8.000%) Systems Support
6 2 (8.000%) Developer
6 2 (8.000%) Systems Administrator
6 2 (8.000%) IT Support
7 1 (4.000%) Senior Software Developer
7 1 (4.000%) PHP Developer
7 1 (4.000%) Senior Developer
7 1 (4.000%) Junior
7 1 (4.000%) Software Developer
7 1 (4.000%) Manual Tester
Miscellaneous
1 4 (16.00%) Management Information System
2 1 (4.000%) N-Tier
Operating Systems
1 8 (32.00%) Linux
2 7 (28.00%) CentOS
3 6 (24.00%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (60.00%) Software Testing
2 13 (52.00%) Automated Testing
3 12 (48.00%) Information Security
4 11 (44.00%) Performance Testing
5 8 (32.00%) Manual Testing
6 7 (28.00%) Test Scripting
6 7 (28.00%) Scrum
6 7 (28.00%) Extreme Programming
7 4 (16.00%) Business Continuity
7 4 (16.00%) Disaster Recovery
7 4 (16.00%) Vulnerability Assessment
7 4 (16.00%) Vulnerability Management
8 1 (4.000%) Test Automation
8 1 (4.000%) Agile Software Development
8 1 (4.000%) MVC
Programming Languages
1 8 (32.00%) SQL
2 7 (28.00%) PHP
3 6 (24.00%) Perl
4 2 (8.000%) C#
4 2 (8.000%) PowerShell
5 1 (4.000%) T-SQL
5 1 (4.000%) XPath
5 1 (4.000%) PHP5
Qualifications
1 8 (32.00%) Degree
2 6 (24.00%) ISEB
3 4 (16.00%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (16.00%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 12 (48.00%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 13 (52.00%) Microsoft