The first table below looks at the demand for QA skills in IT jobs advertised for the Kent region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited QA over the 3 months to 23 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 Kent region.

Location
3 months to
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Quality Assurance (QA)
Rank 58 47 65
Rank change year-on-year
-11 +18
Permanent jobs citing QA 33 25 34
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Kent 2.880% 3.516% 3.163%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 43.42% 37.31% 44.74%
Number of salaries quoted 31 19 34
Average salary £37,000 £37,500 £28,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-1.33% +31.57%
90% offered a salary of more than £35,000 £24,700 £25,000
10% offered a salary of more than £49,200 £65,500 £45,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £37,500 £39,000
% change year-on-year
+1.33% -3.84%
All Quality Assurance & Compliance
Kent
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Quality Assurance & Compliance category
76 67 76
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Kent 6.632% 9.423% 7.070%
Number of salaries quoted 69 54 74
Average salary £37,000 £37,500 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-1.33% +7.14%
90% offered a salary of more than £25,000 £26,000 £25,000
10% offered a salary of more than £55,000 £60,000 £65,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £41,000
% change year-on-year
- -2.43%
QA
South East

QA
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Kent 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 Kent region.

Kent QA Salary Trend

QA
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing QA across the Kent region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

Kent QA Salary Histogram

QA
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 Kent region over the 3 months to 23 May 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
West Malling - 5 £43,500 -
Maidstone 0 4 £41,250 +194.64%
Rochester -7 3 £40,000 +25.98%
Dartford - 2 £36,250 -
Sevenoaks - 1 £47,500 -
QA
South East

QA
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Kent 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 25 (33.33%) UNIX
2 19 (25.33%) SQL
3 17 (22.67%) Java
3 17 (22.67%) MySQL
3 17 (22.67%) Linux
4 15 (20.00%) Finance
5 14 (18.67%) Project Management
6 13 (17.33%) PHP
6 13 (17.33%) Agile Software Development
6 13 (17.33%) Banking
6 13 (17.33%) Automated Testing
6 13 (17.33%) Degree
7 11 (14.67%) Investment Banking
7 11 (14.67%) Microsoft
8 10 (13.33%) Mainframe
8 10 (13.33%) Windows
9 9 (12.00%) HP Quality Center
9 9 (12.00%) Firewall
9 9 (12.00%) Retail
9 9 (12.00%) Information Security
9 9 (12.00%) QuickTest Pro
9 9 (12.00%) ISEB
10 8 (10.67%) Perl
10 8 (10.67%) Software Testing
10 8 (10.67%) Scrum
10 8 (10.67%) Capacity Planning
10 8 (10.67%) Test Scripting
11 7 (9.333%) CentOS
11 7 (9.333%) Fault Management
11 7 (9.333%) Extreme Programming

QA
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Kent 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 (9.333%) .NET
1 7 (9.333%) XML
2 5 (6.667%) CSS
3 3 (4.000%) soapUI
3 3 (4.000%) HTML
3 3 (4.000%) SOAP
4 1 (1.333%) RESTful
4 1 (1.333%) HTML5
4 1 (1.333%) CSS3
4 1 (1.333%) Kohana
4 1 (1.333%) MooTools
4 1 (1.333%) jQuery
4 1 (1.333%) CodeIgniter
4 1 (1.333%) DOM
4 1 (1.333%) Flash
4 1 (1.333%) LAMP
Application Platforms
1 4 (5.333%) Apache
2 1 (1.333%) ESB
Applications
1 5 (6.667%) MS Excel
2 4 (5.333%) MS Project
3 1 (1.333%) MS Visio
3 1 (1.333%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 1 (1.333%) Agresso
Communications & Networking
1 9 (12.00%) Firewall
2 4 (5.333%) NetScreen
2 4 (5.333%) BIG-IP
2 4 (5.333%) Cisco PIX
2 4 (5.333%) Cisco ASA
2 4 (5.333%) FWSM
3 3 (4.000%) NAS
3 3 (4.000%) SAN
3 3 (4.000%) VPN
4 2 (2.667%) Network Security
5 1 (1.333%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (22.67%) MySQL
2 7 (9.333%) SQL Server
3 3 (4.000%) Data Mining
4 1 (1.333%) RDBMS
4 1 (1.333%) OLAP
4 1 (1.333%) Crystal Reports
4 1 (1.333%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 9 (12.00%) QuickTest Pro
2 3 (4.000%) Sahi
2 3 (4.000%) QADirector
2 3 (4.000%) Selenium
General
1 15 (20.00%) Finance
2 13 (17.33%) Banking
3 11 (14.67%) Investment Banking
4 9 (12.00%) Retail
5 3 (4.000%) Marketing
5 3 (4.000%) Legal
5 3 (4.000%) Manufacturing
5 3 (4.000%) Advertising
6 2 (2.667%) Automotive
7 1 (1.333%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 10 (13.33%) Analyst
1 10 (13.33%) Solutions Designer
1 10 (13.33%) Designer
2 8 (10.67%) Project Manager
2 8 (10.67%) QA Engineer
3 7 (9.333%) QA Analyst
4 5 (6.667%) Deployment Engineer
5 4 (5.333%) Consultant
5 4 (5.333%) Network Engineer
5 4 (5.333%) Head of IT
6 3 (4.000%) Automation Engineer
6 3 (4.000%) Lead Network Engineer
6 3 (4.000%) Business Analyst
6 3 (4.000%) Test Engineer
6 3 (4.000%) Software Engineer
6 3 (4.000%) Senior Consultant
7 2 (2.667%) Software Test Engineer
7 2 (2.667%) IT Project Manager
7 2 (2.667%) Infrastructure Specialist
7 2 (2.667%) Account Director
Miscellaneous
1 10 (13.33%) Mainframe
2 3 (4.000%) Computer Science
2 3 (4.000%) Management Information System
3 2 (2.667%) Equities
3 2 (2.667%) EPoS
Operating Systems
1 25 (33.33%) UNIX
2 17 (22.67%) Linux
3 10 (13.33%) Windows
4 7 (9.333%) CentOS
5 3 (4.000%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (18.67%) Project Management
2 13 (17.33%) Agile Software Development
2 13 (17.33%) Automated Testing
3 9 (12.00%) Information Security
4 8 (10.67%) Software Testing
4 8 (10.67%) Scrum
4 8 (10.67%) Capacity Planning
4 8 (10.67%) Test Scripting
5 7 (9.333%) Fault Management
5 7 (9.333%) Extreme Programming
5 7 (9.333%) Risk Management
5 7 (9.333%) Change Management
5 7 (9.333%) Regression Testing
6 6 (8.000%) E-Commerce
6 6 (8.000%) System Testing
7 5 (6.667%) PRINCE2
7 5 (6.667%) GAP Analysis
8 4 (5.333%) Penetration Testing
8 4 (5.333%) ITIL
8 4 (5.333%) PRINCE
Programming Languages
1 19 (25.33%) SQL
2 17 (22.67%) Java
3 13 (17.33%) PHP
4 8 (10.67%) Perl
5 5 (6.667%) Ruby
5 5 (6.667%) Python
6 4 (5.333%) JavaScript
6 4 (5.333%) C#
6 4 (5.333%) C++
7 3 (4.000%) C
7 3 (4.000%) VB
8 2 (2.667%) PHP5
8 2 (2.667%) Bash shell
9 1 (1.333%) ActionScript 3.0
9 1 (1.333%) ActionScript 2.0
9 1 (1.333%) XPath
9 1 (1.333%) PHP4
9 1 (1.333%) ActionScript
Qualifications
1 13 (17.33%) Degree
2 9 (12.00%) ISEB
3 4 (5.333%) SC Cleared
3 4 (5.333%) Security Cleared
4 3 (4.000%) PRINCE2 Certification
4 3 (4.000%) ISTQB
5 2 (2.667%) CISM
5 2 (2.667%) CISSP
6 1 (1.333%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (1.333%) PMP
6 1 (1.333%) PMI Certification
6 1 (1.333%) CCSP
6 1 (1.333%) CCNP
6 1 (1.333%) CCNA
6 1 (1.333%) CCSE
6 1 (1.333%) CCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.667%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 2 (2.667%) Active Directory
1 2 (2.667%) ISA Server
1 2 (2.667%) Forefront TMG
2 1 (1.333%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 9 (12.00%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 11 (14.67%) Microsoft
2 7 (9.333%) Juniper
2 7 (9.333%) Cisco
3 4 (5.333%) CheckPoint
3 4 (5.333%) F5
4 3 (4.000%) 3PAR
4 3 (4.000%) WatchGuard
4 3 (4.000%) HP
4 3 (4.000%) Thunderhead
5 2 (2.667%) IBM
5 2 (2.667%) Websense
5 2 (2.667%) McAfee
6 1 (1.333%) webMethods
6 1 (1.333%) VMware
Maidstone, Kent
You will have at least three years' experience of installing Cisco data networking equipment and its peripherals eg Wireless, Unified Communications, Security etc... Work closely with the project...
FT Select
Salary: From £28,000 to £30,000 per annum plus car, overtime, oncall and benef
Posted: 21 May 2013