The first table below looks at the demand for QA skills in IT jobs advertised for the Leeds region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited QA over the 3 months to 22 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 Leeds region.

Location
3 months to
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Quality Assurance (QA)
Rank 22 38 57
Rank change year-on-year
+16 +19
Permanent jobs citing QA 240 134 59
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Leeds 9.098% 6.285% 3.269%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 62.02% 51.34% 42.45%
Number of salaries quoted 201 125 51
Average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +7.14%
90% offered a salary of more than £30,000 £26,000 £27,500
10% offered a salary of more than £55,000 £42,500 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,250 £37,500 £39,000
% change year-on-year
+2.00% -3.84%
All Quality Assurance & Compliance
Leeds
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Quality Assurance & Compliance category
387 261 139
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Leeds 14.67% 12.24% 7.701%
Number of salaries quoted 333 226 124
Average salary £35,000 £37,000 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-5.40% +5.71%
90% offered a salary of more than £22,000 £24,000 £22,750
10% offered a salary of more than £55,000 £50,000 £45,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £41,000
% change year-on-year
- -2.43%
QA
West Yorkshire

QA
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Leeds 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 Leeds region.

Leeds QA Salary Trend

QA
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing QA across the Leeds region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013.

Leeds QA Salary Histogram

QA
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Leeds 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.

1 166 (36.24%) SQL
2 137 (29.91%) Agile Software Development
3 128 (27.95%) .NET
4 126 (27.51%) Finance
5 124 (27.07%) SQL Server
6 117 (25.55%) Java
7 101 (22.05%) OO
8 83 (18.12%) Project Management
9 82 (17.90%) User Acceptance Testing
10 80 (17.47%) Test Scripting
11 79 (17.25%) C#
12 73 (15.94%) Selenium
13 71 (15.50%) Test Automation
14 70 (15.28%) Automated Testing
15 68 (14.85%) Microsoft
16 67 (14.63%) Web Services
16 67 (14.63%) SQL Server 2005
17 66 (14.41%) QuickTest Pro
17 66 (14.41%) Test Management
18 63 (13.76%) SQL Server 2008
19 59 (12.88%) Unit Testing
19 59 (12.88%) ISEB
19 59 (12.88%) T-SQL
19 59 (12.88%) ASP.NET
20 54 (11.79%) Visual Studio
21 52 (11.35%) TDD
21 52 (11.35%) Scrum
22 51 (11.14%) MVC
23 50 (10.92%) E-Commerce
24 48 (10.48%) Cucumber

QA
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Leeds 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
1 128 (27.95%) .NET
2 67 (14.63%) Web Services
3 59 (12.88%) ASP.NET
4 38 (8.297%) XML
4 38 (8.297%) SOAP
5 29 (6.332%) HTML
6 27 (5.895%) WCF
6 27 (5.895%) jQuery
7 25 (5.459%) Hibernate
7 25 (5.459%) Razor View Engine
8 21 (4.585%) CSS
9 18 (3.930%) GWT
9 18 (3.930%) .NET Framework
9 18 (3.930%) JavaFX
9 18 (3.930%) Qt
9 18 (3.930%) OSGi
9 18 (3.930%) JFace
9 18 (3.930%) Vaadin
10 16 (3.493%) J2EE
10 16 (3.493%) XSD
Application Platforms
1 8 (1.747%) OpenEdge
2 5 (1.092%) WebLogic
3 4 (0.873%) IIS
4 3 (0.655%) SharePoint
5 2 (0.437%) Apache
5 2 (0.437%) BizTalk Server
6 1 (0.218%) Liferay
6 1 (0.218%) Apache Solr
6 1 (0.218%) SAS
6 1 (0.218%) Lotus Notes
6 1 (0.218%) Tomcat
Applications
1 25 (5.459%) MS Excel
2 18 (3.930%) MS Office
3 1 (0.218%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (0.873%) Dynamics AX
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.655%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 124 (27.07%) SQL Server
2 67 (14.63%) SQL Server 2005
3 63 (13.76%) SQL Server 2008
4 28 (6.114%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 24 (5.240%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 21 (4.585%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 19 (4.148%) Oracle 9i
7 19 (4.148%) Oracle 10g
7 19 (4.148%) Oracle 11g
8 15 (3.275%) RDBMS
9 14 (3.057%) Data Warehouse
10 6 (1.310%) GIS
11 4 (0.873%) DTS
12 1 (0.218%) QlikView
12 1 (0.218%) Oracle Reports
12 1 (0.218%) MySQL
12 1 (0.218%) DB2
Development Applications
1 73 (15.94%) Selenium
2 66 (14.41%) QuickTest Pro
3 54 (11.79%) Visual Studio
4 48 (10.48%) Cucumber
5 37 (8.079%) Team Foundation Server
6 27 (5.895%) JUnit
6 27 (5.895%) Subversion
7 18 (3.930%) JProfiler
7 18 (3.930%) Eclipse RCP
7 18 (3.930%) Eclipse
7 18 (3.930%) LoadRunner
8 15 (3.275%) FitNesse
9 13 (2.838%) JIRA
10 11 (2.402%) Bugzilla
11 8 (1.747%) SpecFlow
12 7 (1.528%) WebDriver
12 7 (1.528%) WebSpeed
13 5 (1.092%) QALoad
13 5 (1.092%) JMeter
14 4 (0.873%) TeamCity
General
1 126 (27.51%) Finance
2 11 (2.402%) Games
3 10 (2.183%) Law
4 6 (1.310%) Legal
5 5 (1.092%) Retail
6 4 (0.873%) Banking
7 3 (0.655%) Back Office
8 1 (0.218%) Marketing
8 1 (0.218%) Electronics
8 1 (0.218%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 151 (32.97%) Developer
2 115 (25.11%) Analyst
3 92 (20.09%) Tester
4 86 (18.78%) Test Analyst
5 46 (10.04%) QA Analyst
6 44 (9.607%) Senior Developer
7 36 (7.860%) Automated Tester
8 33 (7.205%) QA Tester
8 33 (7.205%) Web Tester
9 29 (6.332%) Automation Tester
9 29 (6.332%) QA Test Analyst
10 28 (6.114%) Test Manager
11 26 (5.677%) Database Developer
11 26 (5.677%) SQL Developer
11 26 (5.677%) Java Developer
12 25 (5.459%) Team Leader
13 23 (5.022%) Technical Analyst
13 23 (5.022%) Senior SQL Developer
14 22 (4.803%) ScrumMaster
14 22 (4.803%) QA Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 31 (6.769%) Computer Science
2 25 (5.459%) Data Integration
3 19 (4.148%) Open Source
4 17 (3.712%) Enterprise Software
5 10 (2.183%) Client/Server
6 7 (1.528%) Replication
7 5 (1.092%) N-Tier
8 3 (0.655%) Mobile App
8 3 (0.655%) Social Media
8 3 (0.655%) IVR
9 2 (0.437%) Management Information System
9 2 (0.437%) Speech Recognition
9 2 (0.437%) NHS
9 2 (0.437%) Chemistry
9 2 (0.437%) CMDB
10 1 (0.218%) iSeries
10 1 (0.218%) Mainframe
10 1 (0.218%) AS400
Operating Systems
1 35 (7.642%) Windows
2 21 (4.585%) UNIX
3 3 (0.655%) Apple iOS
3 3 (0.655%) Android
4 1 (0.218%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 137 (29.91%) Agile Software Development
2 101 (22.05%) OO
3 83 (18.12%) Project Management
4 82 (17.90%) User Acceptance Testing
5 80 (17.47%) Test Scripting
6 71 (15.50%) Test Automation
7 70 (15.28%) Automated Testing
8 66 (14.41%) Test Management
9 59 (12.88%) Unit Testing
10 52 (11.35%) TDD
10 52 (11.35%) Scrum
11 51 (11.14%) MVC
12 50 (10.92%) E-Commerce
13 45 (9.825%) Pair Programming
14 40 (8.734%) DSDM
15 37 (8.079%) Business Analysis
16 36 (7.860%) Continuous Integration
17 35 (7.642%) Service Management
18 32 (6.987%) Software Testing
19 31 (6.769%) Configuration Management
Programming Languages
1 166 (36.24%) SQL
2 117 (25.55%) Java
3 79 (17.25%) C#
4 59 (12.88%) T-SQL
5 45 (9.825%) JavaScript
6 29 (6.332%) VB.NET
7 25 (5.459%) XAML
8 21 (4.585%) PL/SQL
9 19 (4.148%) Shell Script
10 15 (3.275%) Delphi
11 12 (2.620%) C++
12 8 (1.747%) Perl
12 8 (1.747%) Progress 4GL
13 7 (1.528%) VC++
14 4 (0.873%) VB
14 4 (0.873%) PowerShell
15 3 (0.655%) C
15 3 (0.655%) Objective-C
16 2 (0.437%) PHP
17 1 (0.218%) PHP5
Qualifications
1 59 (12.88%) ISEB
2 37 (8.079%) Degree
3 15 (3.275%) ISTQB
4 3 (0.655%) ITIL Certification
5 1 (0.218%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
5 1 (0.218%) MCTS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (0.655%) SLA
2 1 (0.218%) Sarbanes-Oxley
Systems Management
1 29 (6.332%) HP Quality Center
2 5 (1.092%) Tivoli
2 5 (1.092%) Control-M
Vendors
1 68 (14.85%) Microsoft
2 47 (10.26%) Oracle
3 19 (4.148%) IBM
4 15 (3.275%) Borland
5 14 (3.057%) hybris
5 14 (3.057%) ATG
6 12 (2.620%) HP
7 8 (1.747%) Progress
8 5 (1.092%) BEA
9 3 (0.655%) LANDesk
9 3 (0.655%) EPiServer
9 3 (0.655%) Omniture
10 2 (0.437%) Avaya
10 2 (0.437%) Nortel
10 2 (0.437%) Zend
11 1 (0.218%) Lotus
11 1 (0.218%) JBoss
11 1 (0.218%) SAP
11 1 (0.218%) Business Objects
11 1 (0.218%) Google
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