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

Location
3 months to
20 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Quality Assurance (QA)
Rank 70 70 43
Rank change year-on-year
0 -27
Permanent jobs citing QA 20 9 17
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Guildford 2.232% 1.329% 3.327%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 25.64% 28.13% 43.59%
Number of salaries quoted 15 9 17
Average salary £42,500 £47,500 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-10.52% +35.71%
90% offered a salary of more than £30,500 £44,500 £31,000
10% offered a salary of more than £56,500 £60,500 £49,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £40,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-5.00% -
All Quality Assurance & Compliance
Guildford
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Quality Assurance & Compliance category
78 32 39
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Guildford 8.705% 4.727% 7.632%
Number of salaries quoted 66 30 36
Average salary £47,000 £42,500 £36,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+10.58% +18.05%
90% offered a salary of more than £30,000 £19,500 £31,000
10% offered a salary of more than £69,000 £48,000 £60,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £41,500 £40,500
% change year-on-year
-3.61% +2.46%
QA
Surrey

QA
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Guildford 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 Guildford region.

Guildford QA Salary Trend

QA
Salary Histogram

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

Guildford QA Salary Histogram

QA
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT jobs across the Guildford 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 26 (40.63%) ISEB
2 25 (39.06%) Automated Testing
3 23 (35.94%) Software Testing
4 18 (28.13%) Degree
4 18 (28.13%) MySQL
4 18 (28.13%) Security Cleared
5 16 (25.00%) SC Cleared
5 16 (25.00%) Linux
6 14 (21.88%) Java
6 14 (21.88%) QuickTest Pro
6 14 (21.88%) Selenium
7 13 (20.31%) Open Source
7 13 (20.31%) WinRunner
7 13 (20.31%) ISTQB
8 12 (18.75%) Test Scripting
9 11 (17.19%) Information Security
9 11 (17.19%) PHP
9 11 (17.19%) SQL
10 9 (14.06%) Agile Software Development
10 9 (14.06%) Microsoft
10 9 (14.06%) Hadoop
11 8 (12.50%) CentOS
11 8 (12.50%) MS Excel
11 8 (12.50%) Scrum
12 7 (10.94%) Finance
12 7 (10.94%) Extreme Programming
12 7 (10.94%) JavaScript
12 7 (10.94%) Perl
12 7 (10.94%) UNIX
12 7 (10.94%) CSS

QA
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT jobs across the Guildford 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 7 (10.94%) CSS
1 7 (10.94%) jQuery
2 5 (7.813%) HTML
3 4 (6.250%) Spring MVC
3 4 (6.250%) Spring Integration
3 4 (6.250%) Swing
3 4 (6.250%) J2EE
3 4 (6.250%) Struts
3 4 (6.250%) Spring
3 4 (6.250%) Hibernate
3 4 (6.250%) Lucene
4 3 (4.688%) .NET
5 2 (3.125%) XML
5 2 (3.125%) .NET Framework
6 1 (1.563%) WebSphere
6 1 (1.563%) LAMP
6 1 (1.563%) WinForms
6 1 (1.563%) DOM
6 1 (1.563%) ASP.NET
6 1 (1.563%) COM
Application Platforms
1 1 (1.563%) Apache
1 1 (1.563%) WebLogic
1 1 (1.563%) ColdFusion
1 1 (1.563%) Magento
Applications
1 8 (12.50%) MS Excel
2 3 (4.688%) MS Office
2 3 (4.688%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (1.563%) Agresso
Communications & Networking
1 5 (7.813%) HTTP
2 4 (6.250%) SAN
2 4 (6.250%) Firewall
3 2 (3.125%) Intranet
3 2 (3.125%) VoIP
4 1 (1.563%) Wireshark
4 1 (1.563%) TCP/IP
4 1 (1.563%) RTP
4 1 (1.563%) Asterisk PBX
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (28.13%) MySQL
2 9 (14.06%) Hadoop
3 6 (9.375%) Big Data
4 5 (7.813%) SQL Server
5 2 (3.125%) SQL Server 2008
6 1 (1.563%) SQL Server 2005
6 1 (1.563%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 1 (1.563%) SQL Server 2000
6 1 (1.563%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 14 (21.88%) QuickTest Pro
1 14 (21.88%) Selenium
2 13 (20.31%) WinRunner
3 5 (7.813%) JUnit
4 4 (6.250%) Eclipse
4 4 (6.250%) Maven
5 3 (4.688%) Subversion
5 3 (4.688%) Team Foundation Server
6 2 (3.125%) MSBuild
6 2 (3.125%) ClearCase
6 2 (3.125%) Ant
6 2 (3.125%) Visual Studio
6 2 (3.125%) SilkTest
7 1 (1.563%) JIRA
7 1 (1.563%) FogBugz
7 1 (1.563%) Trac
7 1 (1.563%) TestComplete
General
1 7 (10.94%) Finance
2 3 (4.688%) Games
2 3 (4.688%) Electronics
3 2 (3.125%) Legal
3 2 (3.125%) Manufacturing
3 2 (3.125%) Marketing
4 1 (1.563%) Law
Job Titles
1 14 (21.88%) Test Manager
2 10 (15.63%) QA Engineer
3 8 (12.50%) Analyst
4 7 (10.94%) Tester
4 7 (10.94%) QA Leader
5 5 (7.813%) Developer
6 4 (6.250%) Business Analyst Team Leader
6 4 (6.250%) Business Analyst
6 4 (6.250%) Architect
6 4 (6.250%) Technical Architect
6 4 (6.250%) Team Leader
6 4 (6.250%) Java Technical Architect
6 4 (6.250%) Java Architect
7 3 (4.688%) PHP Developer
7 3 (4.688%) Software Tester
7 3 (4.688%) QA Manager
7 3 (4.688%) Project Manager
7 3 (4.688%) Automation Engineer
8 2 (3.125%) Web Tester
8 2 (3.125%) Test Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 13 (20.31%) Open Source
2 6 (9.375%) Enterprise Software
3 4 (6.250%) Mobile App
3 4 (6.250%) Visualisation
4 2 (3.125%) Client/Server
4 2 (3.125%) Statistics
5 1 (1.563%) SaaS
Operating Systems
1 16 (25.00%) Linux
2 8 (12.50%) CentOS
3 7 (10.94%) UNIX
4 4 (6.250%) Windows
5 1 (1.563%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (39.06%) Automated Testing
2 23 (35.94%) Software Testing
3 12 (18.75%) Test Scripting
4 11 (17.19%) Information Security
5 9 (14.06%) Agile Software Development
6 8 (12.50%) Scrum
7 7 (10.94%) Extreme Programming
7 7 (10.94%) Continuous Integration
8 6 (9.375%) Test Automation
8 6 (9.375%) Continuous Improvement
8 6 (9.375%) MVC
9 5 (7.813%) Load Testing
10 4 (6.250%) Resource Management
10 4 (6.250%) Cyber Security
10 4 (6.250%) E-Commerce
10 4 (6.250%) ERP
10 4 (6.250%) Data Analysis
10 4 (6.250%) Business Analysis
11 3 (4.688%) OO
11 3 (4.688%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 14 (21.88%) Java
2 11 (17.19%) PHP
2 11 (17.19%) SQL
3 7 (10.94%) JavaScript
3 7 (10.94%) Perl
4 5 (7.813%) Python
5 2 (3.125%) PowerShell
5 2 (3.125%) PHP5
6 1 (1.563%) Ruby
6 1 (1.563%) XPath
6 1 (1.563%) C#
6 1 (1.563%) T-SQL
6 1 (1.563%) VB
6 1 (1.563%) VB.NET
6 1 (1.563%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 26 (40.63%) ISEB
2 18 (28.13%) Degree
2 18 (28.13%) Security Cleared
3 16 (25.00%) SC Cleared
4 13 (20.31%) ISTQB
System Software
1 1 (1.563%) OpenSIPS
Systems Management
1 2 (3.125%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 9 (14.06%) Microsoft
2 4 (6.250%) Oracle
3 3 (4.688%) JBoss
4 2 (3.125%) Perforce
5 1 (1.563%) Zend
Guildford, Surrey
PHP web / Software Developers ( PHP, MySQL, HTML, JQuery, CSS, Javascript ) needed... You will join the ever growing PHP Web Development team and work on some enterprise level projects.....
IT Executive Ltd
Salary: £24000 - £47000 per annum
Posted: 17 June 2013