The first table below looks at the demand for QA skills in IT jobs advertised for the Kingston Upon Thames region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited QA over the 3 months to 19 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 Kingston Upon Thames region.

Location
3 months to
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Quality Assurance (QA)
Rank 28 25 29
Rank change year-on-year
-3 +4
Permanent jobs citing QA 9 15 8
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Kingston Upon Thames 5.921% 8.333% 5.442%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 52.94% 78.95% 80.00%
Number of salaries quoted 8 15 8
Average salary £40,000 £42,500 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-5.88% +13.33%
90% offered a salary of more than £39,250 £25,400 £29,400
10% offered a salary of more than £42,500 £50,000 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £40,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-5.00% -
All Quality Assurance & Compliance
Kingston Upon Thames
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Quality Assurance & Compliance category
17 19 10
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Kingston Upon Thames 11.18% 10.56% 6.803%
Number of salaries quoted 16 19 10
Average salary £41,250 £35,000 £41,250
Average salary % change year-on-year
+17.85% -15.15%
90% offered a salary of more than £31,500 £20,200 £29,800
10% offered a salary of more than £47,500 £51,500 £45,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £41,153 £41,000
% change year-on-year
-2.80% +0.37%
QA
London

QA
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Kingston Upon Thames 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 Kingston Upon Thames region.

Kingston Upon Thames QA Salary Trend

QA
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the Kingston Upon Thames 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 14 (63.64%) ISEB
1 14 (63.64%) Linux
1 14 (63.64%) JIRA
2 13 (59.09%) Java
3 12 (54.55%) Windows
3 12 (54.55%) Configuration Management
3 12 (54.55%) JavaScript
3 12 (54.55%) SQL
3 12 (54.55%) HTML
3 12 (54.55%) CSS
3 12 (54.55%) E-Commerce
3 12 (54.55%) IBM
3 12 (54.55%) Automated Testing
3 12 (54.55%) Selenium
3 12 (54.55%) Degree
4 11 (50.00%) Agile Testing
4 11 (50.00%) WebDriver
4 11 (50.00%) Hudson
4 11 (50.00%) soapUI
4 11 (50.00%) Web Testing
4 11 (50.00%) jQuery
4 11 (50.00%) User Acceptance Testing
4 11 (50.00%) Security Testing
4 11 (50.00%) Manual Testing
4 11 (50.00%) Ajax
4 11 (50.00%) TOAD
4 11 (50.00%) PHP
4 11 (50.00%) SOAP
4 11 (50.00%) Web Services
4 11 (50.00%) XML

QA
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the Kingston Upon Thames 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 12 (54.55%) HTML
1 12 (54.55%) CSS
2 11 (50.00%) soapUI
2 11 (50.00%) jQuery
2 11 (50.00%) Ajax
2 11 (50.00%) SOAP
2 11 (50.00%) Web Services
2 11 (50.00%) XML
3 1 (4.545%) Hibernate
3 1 (4.545%) Spring
3 1 (4.545%) XHTML
3 1 (4.545%) J2EE
3 1 (4.545%) JSP
Application Platforms
1 1 (4.545%) Tomcat
1 1 (4.545%) IIS
Applications
1 1 (4.545%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 3 (13.64%) Internet
2 2 (9.091%) DNS
2 2 (9.091%) SMTP
3 1 (4.545%) SAN
3 1 (4.545%) FTP
3 1 (4.545%) TCP/IP
3 1 (4.545%) LDAP
3 1 (4.545%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (50.00%) TOAD
2 1 (4.545%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 14 (63.64%) JIRA
2 12 (54.55%) Selenium
3 11 (50.00%) WebDriver
3 11 (50.00%) Hudson
3 11 (50.00%) AppScan
4 1 (4.545%) Subversion
4 1 (4.545%) Ant
4 1 (4.545%) JUnit
General
1 4 (18.18%) Finance
2 1 (4.545%) Banking
2 1 (4.545%) Retail
Job Titles
1 16 (72.73%) Analyst
2 13 (59.09%) Test Analyst
3 11 (50.00%) Agile Test Analyst
3 11 (50.00%) Web Analyst
3 11 (50.00%) Web Test Analyst
4 3 (13.64%) Business Analyst
4 3 (13.64%) Test Leader
5 1 (4.545%) Java Developer
5 1 (4.545%) QA Test Analyst
5 1 (4.545%) Systems Engineer
5 1 (4.545%) Senior Systems Engineer
5 1 (4.545%) QA Analyst
5 1 (4.545%) Tester
5 1 (4.545%) Developer
5 1 (4.545%) Linux Engineer
5 1 (4.545%) Senior Linux Engineer
5 1 (4.545%) Storage Engineer
5 1 (4.545%) Senior Storage Engineer
5 1 (4.545%) Lead Test Analyst
5 1 (4.545%) Windows Systems Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (9.091%) Firmware
2 1 (4.545%) Clustering
2 1 (4.545%) Management Information System
2 1 (4.545%) Computer Science
2 1 (4.545%) Social Network
2 1 (4.545%) Cloud Computing
Operating Systems
1 14 (63.64%) Linux
2 12 (54.55%) Windows
3 3 (13.64%) UNIX
4 1 (4.545%) Windows Server 2003
4 1 (4.545%) Windows XP
4 1 (4.545%) Windows 2000
4 1 (4.545%) Windows Server 2008
4 1 (4.545%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (54.55%) Configuration Management
1 12 (54.55%) E-Commerce
1 12 (54.55%) Automated Testing
2 11 (50.00%) Agile Testing
2 11 (50.00%) Web Testing
2 11 (50.00%) User Acceptance Testing
2 11 (50.00%) Security Testing
2 11 (50.00%) Manual Testing
2 11 (50.00%) Project Management
2 11 (50.00%) Scrum
2 11 (50.00%) Agile Software Development
3 3 (13.64%) Business Analysis
3 3 (13.64%) Test Strategy
4 2 (9.091%) Software Testing
5 1 (4.545%) Data Modelling
5 1 (4.545%) OO
5 1 (4.545%) Web Development
5 1 (4.545%) Integration Testing
5 1 (4.545%) Test Scripting
5 1 (4.545%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 13 (59.09%) Java
2 12 (54.55%) JavaScript
2 12 (54.55%) SQL
3 11 (50.00%) PHP
4 2 (9.091%) C#
5 1 (4.545%) AWK
5 1 (4.545%) Shell Script
5 1 (4.545%) C++
5 1 (4.545%) Perl
5 1 (4.545%) sed
Qualifications
1 14 (63.64%) ISEB
2 12 (54.55%) Degree
3 1 (4.545%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (4.545%) MCSE
3 1 (4.545%) MCITP
3 1 (4.545%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (4.545%) Terminal Services
1 1 (4.545%) Active Directory
1 1 (4.545%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (4.545%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 1 (4.545%) Veritas Storage Foundation
1 1 (4.545%) HP Data Protector
Vendors
1 12 (54.55%) IBM
2 2 (9.091%) Remedy
2 2 (9.091%) HP
2 2 (9.091%) Dell
2 2 (9.091%) VMware
3 1 (4.545%) EMC
3 1 (4.545%) Citrix
3 1 (4.545%) NetApp
3 1 (4.545%) Veritas
3 1 (4.545%) Red Hat
3 1 (4.545%) Microsoft