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

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Quality Assurance (QA)
Rank 18 27 19
Rank change year-on-year
+9 -8
Permanent jobs citing QA 21 7 2
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Leamington Spa 15.00% 5.147% 2.410%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 95.45% 100.00% 66.67%
Number of salaries quoted 14 6 0
Average salary £36,000 £35,000 -
Average salary % change year-on-year
+2.85% -
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £37,500 £39,000
% change year-on-year
+1.33% -3.84%
All Quality Assurance & Compliance
Leamington Spa
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Quality Assurance & Compliance category
22 7 3
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Leamington Spa 15.71% 5.147% 3.614%
Number of salaries quoted 15 6 1
Average salary £35,000 £35,000 £42,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
- -17.64%
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £41,000
% change year-on-year
- -2.43%
QA
Warwickshire

QA
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Leamington Spa 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 Leamington Spa region.

Leamington Spa QA Salary Trend

QA
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing QA across the Leamington Spa region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Leamington Spa QA Salary Histogram

QA
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Leamington Spa 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 22 (70.97%) Finance
2 20 (64.52%) Selenium
2 20 (64.52%) SQL
3 19 (61.29%) Manual Testing
3 19 (61.29%) Automated Testing
4 11 (35.48%) HTML
4 11 (35.48%) Windows
5 10 (32.26%) Windows 2000
5 10 (32.26%) UNIX
5 10 (32.26%) VB
5 10 (32.26%) Oracle
5 10 (32.26%) SQL Server
6 9 (29.03%) User Acceptance Testing
7 6 (19.35%) Project Planning
7 6 (19.35%) Degree
7 6 (19.35%) JIRA
7 6 (19.35%) Mathematics
7 6 (19.35%) Computer Science
7 6 (19.35%) Time Management
7 6 (19.35%) ISEB
7 6 (19.35%) Project Management
7 6 (19.35%) Mobile Games
7 6 (19.35%) Games
7 6 (19.35%) MS Office
7 6 (19.35%) MS Excel
7 6 (19.35%) Capacity Planning
7 6 (19.35%) Game Development
8 4 (12.90%) Release Management
8 4 (12.90%) XML
8 4 (12.90%) Twitter

QA
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Leamington Spa 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 11 (35.48%) HTML
2 4 (12.90%) XML
3 1 (3.226%) CSS
3 1 (3.226%) XHTML
3 1 (3.226%) jQuery
3 1 (3.226%) HTML5
3 1 (3.226%) CSS3
Applications
1 6 (19.35%) MS Office
1 6 (19.35%) MS Excel
2 1 (3.226%) Fireworks
2 1 (3.226%) Adobe Illustrator
2 1 (3.226%) Photoshop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (32.26%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 20 (64.52%) Selenium
2 6 (19.35%) JIRA
3 1 (3.226%) JUnit
3 1 (3.226%) Dreamweaver
General
1 22 (70.97%) Finance
2 6 (19.35%) Games
Job Titles
1 17 (54.84%) Analyst
1 17 (54.84%) Test Analyst
2 10 (32.26%) Systems Analyst
2 10 (32.26%) Systems Test Analyst
3 9 (29.03%) Tester
4 8 (25.81%) Systems Tester
5 5 (16.13%) QA Tester
6 4 (12.90%) Coordinator
6 4 (12.90%) Test Coordinator
7 3 (9.677%) UAT Test Analyst
7 3 (9.677%) Games Producer
7 3 (9.677%) UAT Analyst
8 2 (6.452%) Test Engineer
8 2 (6.452%) QA Engineer
8 2 (6.452%) UAT Manager
8 2 (6.452%) UAT Test Manager
8 2 (6.452%) Test Manager
9 1 (3.226%) Developer
9 1 (3.226%) Web Developer
9 1 (3.226%) Systems Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 6 (19.35%) Mathematics
1 6 (19.35%) Computer Science
1 6 (19.35%) Mobile Games
2 3 (9.677%) Online Games
3 1 (3.226%) E-Learning
3 1 (3.226%) Open Source
Operating Systems
1 11 (35.48%) Windows
2 10 (32.26%) Windows 2000
2 10 (32.26%) UNIX
3 1 (3.226%) Windows 7
3 1 (3.226%) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (61.29%) Manual Testing
1 19 (61.29%) Automated Testing
2 9 (29.03%) User Acceptance Testing
3 6 (19.35%) Project Planning
3 6 (19.35%) Time Management
3 6 (19.35%) Project Management
3 6 (19.35%) Capacity Planning
3 6 (19.35%) Game Development
4 4 (12.90%) Release Management
5 3 (9.677%) Analytics
5 3 (9.677%) Test Strategy
5 3 (9.677%) Rapid Prototyping
5 3 (9.677%) E-Commerce
5 3 (9.677%) Load Testing
5 3 (9.677%) Test Scripting
5 3 (9.677%) V-Model
6 2 (6.452%) Test Automation
7 1 (3.226%) Disaster Recovery
7 1 (3.226%) Agile Software Development
7 1 (3.226%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 20 (64.52%) SQL
2 10 (32.26%) VB
3 2 (6.452%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 6 (19.35%) Degree
1 6 (19.35%) ISEB
Systems Management
1 2 (6.452%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 10 (32.26%) Oracle
2 4 (12.90%) Twitter
3 1 (3.226%) Microsoft
3 1 (3.226%) Adobe