The first table below looks at the demand for QA skills in IT jobs advertised for the Hemel Hempstead region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited QA over the 3 months to 24 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 Hemel Hempstead region.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Quality Assurance (QA)
Rank 33 31 22
Rank change year-on-year
-2 -9
Permanent jobs citing QA 6 12 9
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Hemel Hempstead 2.632% 5.333% 5.556%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 25.00% 28.57% 28.13%
Number of salaries quoted 6 11 8
Average salary £30,750 £41,500 £36,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-25.90% +15.27%
90% offered a salary of more than £29,000 £26,500 £31,750
10% offered a salary of more than £32,500 £41,500 £37,200
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £37,500 £39,000
% change year-on-year
+1.33% -3.84%
All Quality Assurance & Compliance
Hemel Hempstead
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Quality Assurance & Compliance category
24 42 32
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Hemel Hempstead 10.53% 18.67% 19.75%
Number of salaries quoted 24 41 27
Average salary £37,000 £33,000 £36,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+12.12% -8.33%
90% offered a salary of more than £29,000 £20,000 £27,500
10% offered a salary of more than £56,250 £37,100 £44,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £41,000
% change year-on-year
- -2.43%
QA
Hertfordshire

QA
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Hemel Hempstead 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 Hemel Hempstead region.

Hemel Hempstead QA Salary Trend

QA
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Hemel Hempstead 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 13 (100.00%) SQL
2 11 (84.62%) ISEB
2 11 (84.62%) Software Testing
2 11 (84.62%) ISTQB
3 9 (69.23%) Regression Testing
3 9 (69.23%) System Testing
4 7 (53.85%) XML
4 7 (53.85%) HTML
4 7 (53.85%) JavaScript
5 6 (46.15%) Avaya
5 6 (46.15%) QuickTest Pro
5 6 (46.15%) Cisco
5 6 (46.15%) Nortel
5 6 (46.15%) Load Testing
5 6 (46.15%) Selenium
5 6 (46.15%) JMeter
5 6 (46.15%) Automated Testing
6 5 (38.46%) HP Quality Center
6 5 (38.46%) Automation Testing
6 5 (38.46%) C++
6 5 (38.46%) Python
6 5 (38.46%) PHP
6 5 (38.46%) C
7 3 (23.08%) Java
8 2 (15.38%) C#
8 2 (15.38%) PL/SQL
8 2 (15.38%) Perl
8 2 (15.38%) .NET
8 2 (15.38%) Oracle
8 2 (15.38%) Crystal Reports

QA
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Hemel Hempstead 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 (53.85%) XML
1 7 (53.85%) HTML
2 2 (15.38%) .NET
2 2 (15.38%) ASP.NET
2 2 (15.38%) CSS
2 2 (15.38%) Web Services
2 2 (15.38%) WCF
2 2 (15.38%) WPF
2 2 (15.38%) jQuery
2 2 (15.38%) Ajax
2 2 (15.38%) .NET Framework
2 2 (15.38%) WinForms
Application Platforms
1 2 (15.38%) Oracle Application Server
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (15.38%) Crystal Reports
1 2 (15.38%) Oracle Reports
1 2 (15.38%) Oracle 8/8i
1 2 (15.38%) Oracle 10g
Development Applications
1 6 (46.15%) QuickTest Pro
1 6 (46.15%) Selenium
1 6 (46.15%) JMeter
2 2 (15.38%) Visual Studio
Job Titles
1 11 (84.62%) QA Engineer
2 9 (69.23%) Analyst
2 9 (69.23%) Test Analyst
2 9 (69.23%) Test Engineer
3 2 (15.38%) Developer
3 2 (15.38%) C# .NET Developer
3 2 (15.38%) .NET Developer
3 2 (15.38%) C# Developer
3 2 (15.38%) Lead Developer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (15.38%) Speech Recognition
1 2 (15.38%) Computer Science
Operating Systems
1 2 (15.38%) UNIX
1 2 (15.38%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (84.62%) Software Testing
2 9 (69.23%) Regression Testing
2 9 (69.23%) System Testing
3 6 (46.15%) Load Testing
3 6 (46.15%) Automated Testing
4 5 (38.46%) Automation Testing
5 2 (15.38%) Data Modelling
5 2 (15.38%) SOA
5 2 (15.38%) OO
5 2 (15.38%) Project Management
5 2 (15.38%) BDD
5 2 (15.38%) TDD
5 2 (15.38%) Information Security
5 2 (15.38%) MVC
Programming Languages
1 13 (100.00%) SQL
2 7 (53.85%) JavaScript
3 5 (38.46%) C++
3 5 (38.46%) Python
3 5 (38.46%) PHP
3 5 (38.46%) C
4 3 (23.08%) Java
5 2 (15.38%) C#
5 2 (15.38%) PL/SQL
5 2 (15.38%) Perl
5 2 (15.38%) Shell Script
5 2 (15.38%) Bourne shell
5 2 (15.38%) Bash shell
5 2 (15.38%) Korn
Qualifications
1 11 (84.62%) ISEB
1 11 (84.62%) ISTQB
2 2 (15.38%) PhD
Systems Management
1 5 (38.46%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 6 (46.15%) Avaya
1 6 (46.15%) Cisco
1 6 (46.15%) Nortel
2 2 (15.38%) Oracle