The first table below looks at the demand for QA skills in IT jobs advertised for the Knutsford 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 Knutsford region.

Location
3 months to
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Quality Assurance (QA)
Rank 29 31 26
Rank change year-on-year
+2 -5
Permanent jobs citing QA 1 8 3
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Knutsford 0.667% 4.444% 2.459%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 33.33% 53.33% 25.00%
Number of salaries quoted 1 1 2
Average salary £30,000 £52,500 £41,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-42.85% +26.50%
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £37,500 £39,000
% change year-on-year
+1.33% -3.84%
All Quality Assurance & Compliance
Knutsford
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Quality Assurance & Compliance category
3 15 12
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Knutsford 2.000% 8.333% 9.836%
Number of salaries quoted 3 8 11
Average salary £50,000 £63,250 £42,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-20.94% +50.59%
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £41,000
% change year-on-year
- -2.43%
QA
Cheshire

QA
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Knutsford 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 Knutsford region.

Knutsford QA Salary Trend

QA
Top 21 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Knutsford 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 3 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 3 (100.00%) SQL
1 3 (100.00%) VB.NET
1 3 (100.00%) .NET
1 3 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 3 (100.00%) IIS
1 3 (100.00%) ASP.NET
1 3 (100.00%) CSS
1 3 (100.00%) SOAP
1 3 (100.00%) Web Services
1 3 (100.00%) XML
1 3 (100.00%) Windows
1 3 (100.00%) Web Design
1 3 (100.00%) Subversion
1 3 (100.00%) Google
1 3 (100.00%) Web Development
1 3 (100.00%) jQuery
1 3 (100.00%) Load Testing
1 3 (100.00%) Unit Testing
1 3 (100.00%) Windows Server 2008
1 3 (100.00%) SQL Server 2008

QA
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Knutsford 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 (100.00%) .NET
1 3 (100.00%) ASP.NET
1 3 (100.00%) CSS
1 3 (100.00%) SOAP
1 3 (100.00%) Web Services
1 3 (100.00%) XML
1 3 (100.00%) jQuery
Application Platforms
1 3 (100.00%) IIS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 3 (100.00%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 3 (100.00%) Subversion
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Developer
1 3 (100.00%) .NET Developer
1 3 (100.00%) VB.NET Developer
1 3 (100.00%) ASP.NET Developer
1 3 (100.00%) VB.NET/ASP.NET Developer
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) Windows
1 3 (100.00%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Web Design
1 3 (100.00%) Web Development
1 3 (100.00%) Load Testing
1 3 (100.00%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 3 (100.00%) SQL
1 3 (100.00%) VB.NET
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Google