The first table below looks at the demand for QA skills in IT jobs advertised for the Gloucestershire region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited QA over the 3 months to 17 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 Gloucestershire region.

Location
3 months to
17 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Quality Assurance (QA)
Rank 87 43 49
Rank change year-on-year
-44 +6
Permanent jobs citing QA 7 62 50
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Gloucestershire 0.804% 4.870% 4.078%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 9.333% 42.18% 44.64%
Number of salaries quoted 7 53 40
Average salary £28,500 £35,000 £45,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-18.57% -22.22%
90% offered a salary of more than £26,000 £27,800 £33,250
10% offered a salary of more than £37,900 £50,000 £60,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £40,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-5.00% -
All Quality Assurance & Compliance
Gloucestershire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Quality Assurance & Compliance category
75 147 112
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Gloucestershire 8.611% 11.55% 9.135%
Number of salaries quoted 65 135 101
Average salary £50,000 £42,500 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+17.64% +6.25%
90% offered a salary of more than £25,000 £30,000 £24,000
10% offered a salary of more than £72,500 £60,000 £57,500
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £41,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-2.43% +2.50%
QA
South West

QA
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Gloucestershire 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 Gloucestershire region.

Gloucestershire QA Salary Trend

QA
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing QA across the Gloucestershire region over the 3 months to 17 June 2013.

Gloucestershire QA Salary Histogram

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Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing QA within the Gloucestershire region over the 3 months to 17 June 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
Find
Job
Vacancies
Cheltenham +7 4 £32,500 -18.75%
Cirencester - 2 £27,750 -
Gloucester -17 1 £38,500 +10.00% 6
QA
South West

QA
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 June 2013, IT jobs across the Gloucestershire 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 18 (51.43%) ISEB
2 16 (45.71%) Microsoft
3 14 (40.00%) Windows
3 14 (40.00%) Windows Server 2008
4 13 (37.14%) ISTQB
4 13 (37.14%) CRM
5 12 (34.29%) SharePoint
5 12 (34.29%) BizTalk Server
5 12 (34.29%) Finance
5 12 (34.29%) Billing
5 12 (34.29%) Waterfall
6 10 (28.57%) Software Testing
7 8 (22.86%) User Acceptance Testing
7 8 (22.86%) Test Scripting
7 8 (22.86%) MS Excel
7 8 (22.86%) PRINCE2
8 7 (20.00%) Project Management
8 7 (20.00%) Resource Management
9 5 (14.29%) Statistics
9 5 (14.29%) Oracle Applications
9 5 (14.29%) Oracle
9 5 (14.29%) Linux
9 5 (14.29%) Oracle Reports
9 5 (14.29%) SLA
10 4 (11.43%) SQL
10 4 (11.43%) PRINCE2 Certification
10 4 (11.43%) PMI
10 4 (11.43%) PMI Certification
10 4 (11.43%) Agile Software Development
11 3 (8.571%) ISEB Practitioner

QA
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 June 2013, IT jobs across the Gloucestershire 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 3 (8.571%) LAMP
1 3 (8.571%) Ajax
2 2 (5.714%) XML
3 1 (2.857%) HTML
3 1 (2.857%) SAP XI
3 1 (2.857%) SAP ALE
3 1 (2.857%) SAP PI
Application Platforms
1 12 (34.29%) SharePoint
1 12 (34.29%) BizTalk Server
2 3 (8.571%) Apache
3 1 (2.857%) CMS
3 1 (2.857%) Sitecore CMS
3 1 (2.857%) NetWeaver
Applications
1 8 (22.86%) MS Excel
2 1 (2.857%) MS Project
Business Applications
1 5 (14.29%) Oracle Applications
2 1 (2.857%) SAP CRM
2 1 (2.857%) SAP ERP
2 1 (2.857%) SAP ECC
Communications & Networking
1 3 (8.571%) SMTP
1 3 (8.571%) DNS
2 2 (5.714%) SAN
2 2 (5.714%) iSCSI
2 2 (5.714%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (14.29%) Oracle Reports
2 3 (8.571%) MySQL
3 1 (2.857%) SQL Server
3 1 (2.857%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (2.857%) Data Mining
3 1 (2.857%) RDBMS
3 1 (2.857%) BusinessObjects
3 1 (2.857%) SAP BW
3 1 (2.857%) QlikView
Development Applications
1 3 (8.571%) Subversion
General
1 12 (34.29%) Finance
1 12 (34.29%) Billing
2 3 (8.571%) Marketing
2 3 (8.571%) Games
3 1 (2.857%) Telecoms
3 1 (2.857%) Law
3 1 (2.857%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 12 (34.29%) Test Leader
2 7 (20.00%) Analyst
3 5 (14.29%) Oracle DBA
3 5 (14.29%) Oracle Applications DBA
3 5 (14.29%) DBA
4 4 (11.43%) Developer
4 4 (11.43%) Test Analyst
5 3 (8.571%) Architect
5 3 (8.571%) Project Manager
5 3 (8.571%) Business Analyst
5 3 (8.571%) LAMP Developer
6 2 (5.714%) Technical Architect
6 2 (5.714%) Insurance Business Analyst
6 2 (5.714%) Financial Business Analyst
7 1 (2.857%) QA Analyst
7 1 (2.857%) Senior Manager
7 1 (2.857%) Senior Project Manager
7 1 (2.857%) Technical Delivery Manager
7 1 (2.857%) Technical Manager
7 1 (2.857%) Delivery Manager
Miscellaneous
1 5 (14.29%) Statistics
2 4 (11.43%) PMI
3 3 (8.571%) Mobile Games
3 3 (8.571%) Social Media
3 3 (8.571%) iPad
3 3 (8.571%) Social Gaming
3 3 (8.571%) Mobile App
3 3 (8.571%) iPhone
4 2 (5.714%) Clustering
5 1 (2.857%) Computer Science
5 1 (2.857%) SaaS
Operating Systems
1 14 (40.00%) Windows
1 14 (40.00%) Windows Server 2008
2 5 (14.29%) Linux
3 3 (8.571%) Apple iOS
3 3 (8.571%) Android
4 2 (5.714%) UNIX
4 2 (5.714%) Windows 2000
4 2 (5.714%) Windows Server 2003
4 2 (5.714%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (37.14%) CRM
2 12 (34.29%) Waterfall
3 10 (28.57%) Software Testing
4 8 (22.86%) PRINCE2
4 8 (22.86%) User Acceptance Testing
4 8 (22.86%) Test Scripting
5 7 (20.00%) Resource Management
5 7 (20.00%) Project Management
6 4 (11.43%) Agile Software Development
7 3 (8.571%) Risk Assessment
7 3 (8.571%) Business Analysis
7 3 (8.571%) Web Development
7 3 (8.571%) Capacity Planning
8 2 (5.714%) Project Planning
8 2 (5.714%) Business Intelligence
8 2 (5.714%) Service Delivery
8 2 (5.714%) ITIL
8 2 (5.714%) ERP
9 1 (2.857%) Data Modelling
9 1 (2.857%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (11.43%) SQL
2 3 (8.571%) PHP
2 3 (8.571%) Python
3 2 (5.714%) Java
4 1 (2.857%) ABAP
Qualifications
1 18 (51.43%) ISEB
2 13 (37.14%) ISTQB
3 4 (11.43%) PRINCE2 Certification
3 4 (11.43%) PMI Certification
4 3 (8.571%) ISEB Practitioner
5 2 (5.714%) Degree
5 2 (5.714%) SC Cleared
5 2 (5.714%) Security Cleared
6 1 (2.857%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (14.29%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (5.714%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (8.571%) Nagios
Vendors
1 16 (45.71%) Microsoft
2 5 (14.29%) Oracle
3 3 (8.571%) Perforce
4 2 (5.714%) VMware
4 2 (5.714%) HP
4 2 (5.714%) Citrix
4 2 (5.714%) NetApp
4 2 (5.714%) Red Hat
4 2 (5.714%) Cisco
5 1 (2.857%) Business Objects
5 1 (2.857%) SAP
5 1 (2.857%) Sitecore
5 1 (2.857%) T-Plan
Gloucestershire
My client are looking for a C# Application Support Engineer to join their business in this time of growth... The successful candidates will have experience with C#, supporting...
Redrock Consulting Ltd
Salary: £25000 - £45000 per annum
Posted: 11 June 2013
Gloucester, Gloucestershire
Good knowledge of quality assurance processes and tools... Interest in emerging technologies and the internet... Experience with automated testing, particularly Robot Framework and behaviour driven development (BDD)... Experience...
Fasthosts Internet Ltd
Salary: Up to £35,000 per annum depending on experience plus fantastic benefit
Posted: 23 May 2013
Gloucester
Quality Assurance EngineerFasthosts, the UK's foremost web hosting company, is one of the fastest growing technology businesses in the UK.
Fasthosts
Salary: Up to £35,000 depending on experience plus fantastic benefits
Posted: 14 June 2013
Stonehouse, Gloucestershire
Ideal candidates for this opportunity should possess the following: - Coding skills in C# - Strong communication ability - Keen to learn new technologies and systems - Diagnostic and problem solving skills -...
Evolution Recruitment Solutions
Salary: 25,000 - 40,000
Posted: 16 June 2013
Gloucestershire
Good customer service and seeing support issues through to resolution are essential in any successful candidate alongside good C# coding skills and experience in the software industry, either...
Redrock Consulting Ltd
Salary: £25000 - £40000 per annum
Posted: 12 June 2013