The first table below looks at the demand for QA skills in IT jobs advertised for the Leicester region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited QA over the 3 months to 20 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 Leicester region.

Location
3 months to
20 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Quality Assurance (QA)
Rank 50 53 35
Rank change year-on-year
+3 -18
Permanent jobs citing QA 16 5 11
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Leicester 4.324% 1.238% 3.833%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 30.77% 15.15% 73.33%
Number of salaries quoted 12 5 11
Average salary £38,000 £32,500 £39,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+16.92% -16.66%
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £40,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-5.00% -
All Quality Assurance & Compliance
Leicester
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Quality Assurance & Compliance category
52 33 15
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Leicester 14.05% 8.168% 5.226%
Number of salaries quoted 43 18 15
Average salary £42,500 £32,500 £39,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+30.76% -16.66%
90% offered a salary of more than £32,500 £24,500 £26,800
10% offered a salary of more than £52,500 £44,500 £54,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £41,500 £40,500
% change year-on-year
-3.61% +2.46%
QA
Leicestershire

QA
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Leicester 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 Leicester region.

Leicester QA Salary Trend

QA
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing QA across the Leicester region over the 3 months to 20 June 2013.

Leicester QA Salary Histogram

QA
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT jobs across the Leicester 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 7 (41.18%) Microsoft
2 6 (35.29%) ISEB
2 6 (35.29%) E-Commerce
2 6 (35.29%) N-Tier
2 6 (35.29%) SQL
2 6 (35.29%) MVC
2 6 (35.29%) User Acceptance Testing
3 5 (29.41%) Test Scripting
3 5 (29.41%) Performance Management
3 5 (29.41%) Agile Software Development
3 5 (29.41%) Internet
3 5 (29.41%) Configuration Management
3 5 (29.41%) OWASP
4 4 (23.53%) Software Deployment
4 4 (23.53%) Change Management
4 4 (23.53%) Oracle
4 4 (23.53%) Windows
4 4 (23.53%) Software Testing
5 3 (17.65%) Retail
5 3 (17.65%) Test Management
5 3 (17.65%) JIRA
5 3 (17.65%) Linux
5 3 (17.65%) SQL Server
5 3 (17.65%) XML
5 3 (17.65%) UNIX
5 3 (17.65%) .NET
5 3 (17.65%) C#
6 2 (11.76%) Project Management
6 2 (11.76%) ASP.NET
6 2 (11.76%) Selenium

QA
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT jobs across the Leicester 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 (17.65%) XML
1 3 (17.65%) .NET
2 2 (11.76%) ASP.NET
2 2 (11.76%) WPF
2 2 (11.76%) Ajax
2 2 (11.76%) .NET Framework
2 2 (11.76%) jQuery
3 1 (5.882%) ASP.NET MVC 4
3 1 (5.882%) ASP.NET MVC
3 1 (5.882%) HTML5
3 1 (5.882%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
3 1 (5.882%) CSS3
3 1 (5.882%) WinForms
3 1 (5.882%) JSON
3 1 (5.882%) LINQ
3 1 (5.882%) CSS
3 1 (5.882%) SOAP
3 1 (5.882%) Web Services
3 1 (5.882%) HTML
Applications
1 1 (5.882%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 5 (29.41%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (17.65%) SQL Server
2 1 (5.882%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 1 (5.882%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 1 (5.882%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 3 (17.65%) JIRA
2 2 (11.76%) Selenium
3 1 (5.882%) WebDriver
3 1 (5.882%) NUnit
3 1 (5.882%) Visual Studio
3 1 (5.882%) QuickTest Pro
General
1 3 (17.65%) Retail
2 1 (5.882%) Finance
Job Titles
1 9 (52.94%) Analyst
2 4 (23.53%) Test Analyst
2 4 (23.53%) Release Analyst
3 3 (17.65%) Test Manager
4 2 (11.76%) Technical Analyst
5 1 (5.882%) Configuration Engineer
5 1 (5.882%) Performance Engineer
5 1 (5.882%) Technical Test Analyst
5 1 (5.882%) Software Tester
5 1 (5.882%) Lead Test Analyst
5 1 (5.882%) QA Analyst
5 1 (5.882%) Architect
5 1 (5.882%) Project Manager
5 1 (5.882%) Tester
5 1 (5.882%) Technical Architect
5 1 (5.882%) Software Architect
Miscellaneous
1 6 (35.29%) N-Tier
2 1 (5.882%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (5.882%) Digital Media
2 1 (5.882%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 4 (23.53%) Windows
2 3 (17.65%) Linux
2 3 (17.65%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (35.29%) E-Commerce
1 6 (35.29%) MVC
1 6 (35.29%) User Acceptance Testing
2 5 (29.41%) Test Scripting
2 5 (29.41%) Performance Management
2 5 (29.41%) Agile Software Development
2 5 (29.41%) Configuration Management
2 5 (29.41%) OWASP
3 4 (23.53%) Software Deployment
3 4 (23.53%) Change Management
3 4 (23.53%) Software Testing
4 3 (17.65%) Test Management
5 2 (11.76%) Project Management
5 2 (11.76%) Automated Testing
5 2 (11.76%) Automation Testing
6 1 (5.882%) User Stories
6 1 (5.882%) MSF
6 1 (5.882%) MVVM
6 1 (5.882%) Waterfall
6 1 (5.882%) Web Application Development
Programming Languages
1 6 (35.29%) SQL
2 3 (17.65%) C#
3 2 (11.76%) JavaScript
4 1 (5.882%) Java
Qualifications
1 6 (35.29%) ISEB
2 1 (5.882%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.882%) SLA
Systems Management
1 1 (5.882%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 7 (41.18%) Microsoft
2 4 (23.53%) Oracle
Leicester, Leicestershire
The role also includes ensuring that validation and data quality assurance methods are developed implemented and maintained... Experience of working in data warehouses and data modelling is needed...
Gem CSU
Salary: £45,707 - 56,504 per year
Posted: 17 June 2013