The first table below looks at the demand for QA skills in IT jobs advertised for the Gloucester region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited QA over the 3 months to 21 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 Gloucester region.

Location
3 months to
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Quality Assurance (QA)
Rank - 25 25
Permanent jobs citing QA 0 36 10
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Gloucester - 8.933% 5.000%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category - 65.45% 66.67%
Number of salaries quoted 0 24 8
Average salary - £31,250 £52,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
- -40.47%
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £37,500 £39,000
% change year-on-year
+1.33% -3.84%
All Quality Assurance & Compliance
Gloucester
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Quality Assurance & Compliance category
24 55 15
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Gloucester 10.00% 13.65% 7.500%
Number of salaries quoted 18 41 13
Average salary £72,500 £42,500 £60,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+70.58% -29.16%
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £41,000
% change year-on-year
- -2.43%
QA
Gloucestershire

QA
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Gloucester 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 Gloucester region.

Gloucester QA Salary Trend

QA
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Gloucester 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 6 (54.55%) Oracle
1 6 (54.55%) Oracle Reports
1 6 (54.55%) SLA
1 6 (54.55%) Finance
1 6 (54.55%) Oracle Applications
1 6 (54.55%) Statistics
1 6 (54.55%) Resource Management
2 3 (27.27%) iSCSI
2 3 (27.27%) SC Cleared
2 3 (27.27%) Security Cleared
2 3 (27.27%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (27.27%) Windows Server 2008
2 3 (27.27%) NAS
2 3 (27.27%) Project Planning
2 3 (27.27%) Service Delivery
2 3 (27.27%) VMware
2 3 (27.27%) Clustering
2 3 (27.27%) Cisco
2 3 (27.27%) ITIL
2 3 (27.27%) PRINCE2
2 3 (27.27%) UNIX
2 3 (27.27%) Windows
2 3 (27.27%) Solaris
2 3 (27.27%) Linux
2 3 (27.27%) Windows 2000
2 3 (27.27%) HP
2 3 (27.27%) Citrix
2 3 (27.27%) SAN
2 3 (27.27%) NetApp
2 3 (27.27%) Red Hat

QA
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Gloucester 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 1 (9.091%) MS PowerPoint
1 1 (9.091%) MS Visio
1 1 (9.091%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 6 (54.55%) Oracle Applications
Communications & Networking
1 3 (27.27%) iSCSI
1 3 (27.27%) NAS
1 3 (27.27%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (54.55%) Oracle Reports
General
1 6 (54.55%) Finance
Job Titles
1 6 (54.55%) DBA
1 6 (54.55%) Oracle DBA
1 6 (54.55%) Oracle Applications DBA
2 3 (27.27%) Technical Architect
2 3 (27.27%) Architect
3 2 (18.18%) Project Manager
3 2 (18.18%) Programme Manager
3 2 (18.18%) Delivery Project Manager
3 2 (18.18%) Software Manager
3 2 (18.18%) IT Project Manager
3 2 (18.18%) Delivery Manager
3 2 (18.18%) Software Project Manager
4 1 (9.091%) Technical Design Architect
Miscellaneous
1 6 (54.55%) Statistics
2 3 (27.27%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 3 (27.27%) Windows Server 2008
1 3 (27.27%) UNIX
1 3 (27.27%) Windows
1 3 (27.27%) Solaris
1 3 (27.27%) Linux
1 3 (27.27%) Windows 2000
1 3 (27.27%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (54.55%) Resource Management
2 3 (27.27%) Project Planning
2 3 (27.27%) Service Delivery
2 3 (27.27%) ITIL
2 3 (27.27%) PRINCE2
Qualifications
1 3 (27.27%) SC Cleared
1 3 (27.27%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (54.55%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (27.27%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 6 (54.55%) Oracle
2 3 (27.27%) VMware
2 3 (27.27%) Cisco
2 3 (27.27%) HP
2 3 (27.27%) Citrix
2 3 (27.27%) NetApp
2 3 (27.27%) Red Hat
3 1 (9.091%) Microsoft
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