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

Location
3 months to
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI)
Rank 148 121 119
Rank change year-on-year
-27 -2
Permanent jobs citing WAI 1 9 1
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Leeds 0.039% 0.427% 0.054%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 0.262% 3.462% 0.685%
Number of salaries quoted 1 8 1
Average salary £27,500 £31,250 £25,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-12.00% +25.00%
UK excluding London average salary £35,000 £37,500 £31,750
% change year-on-year
-6.66% +18.11%
All Quality Assurance & Compliance
Leeds
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Quality Assurance & Compliance category
381 260 146
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Leeds 14.72% 12.33% 7.833%
Number of salaries quoted 327 226 129
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 £22,500
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%
WAI
West Yorkshire

WAI
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Leeds WAI Jobs Demand Trend

WAI
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing WAI across the Leeds region.

Leeds WAI Salary Trend

WAI
Top 21 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Leeds region citing WAI 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 WAI.

1 2 (100.00%) HTML
1 2 (100.00%) Java
1 2 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 2 (100.00%) PHP
1 2 (100.00%) CSS
1 2 (100.00%) W3C
1 2 (100.00%) SEO
1 2 (100.00%) CMS
1 2 (100.00%) Subversion
1 2 (100.00%) Symfony
1 2 (100.00%) Zend
1 2 (100.00%) Drupal
1 2 (100.00%) Smarty
1 2 (100.00%) HTML5
1 2 (100.00%) CSS3
1 2 (100.00%) Semantic HTML
1 2 (100.00%) WordPress
2 1 (50.00%) jQuery
2 1 (50.00%) Adobe Illustrator
2 1 (50.00%) Web Design
2 1 (50.00%) Photoshop

WAI
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Leeds region citing WAI 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 WAI. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 2 (100.00%) HTML
1 2 (100.00%) CSS
1 2 (100.00%) Symfony
1 2 (100.00%) Smarty
1 2 (100.00%) HTML5
1 2 (100.00%) CSS3
1 2 (100.00%) Semantic HTML
2 1 (50.00%) jQuery
Application Platforms
1 2 (100.00%) CMS
1 2 (100.00%) Drupal
1 2 (100.00%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Adobe Illustrator
1 1 (50.00%) Photoshop
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Subversion
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Developer
1 2 (100.00%) Front-End Developer
2 1 (50.00%) Front-End Web Developer
2 1 (50.00%) Web Developer
2 1 (50.00%) Lead Developer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) W3C
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) SEO
2 1 (50.00%) Web Design
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Java
1 2 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 2 (100.00%) PHP
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Zend
Leeds, West Yorkshire
Knowledge of modern W3C Web Standards, HTML/XHTML & CSS best practices... *Interest in emerging web standards such as HTML5, WAI-ARIA, and CSS3... *Adobe Photoshop/Fireworks and image...
Spring Technology
Salary: £20000.00 - £30000.00 per annum
Posted: 20 May 2013