Leicestershire QA Jobs

The table below looks at the demand for Quality Assurance (QA) skills within the Leicestershire region with a comparison to our Quality Assurance & Compliance category. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited QA over the 3 months to 8 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Quality Assurance (QA)
Location Aberdeen Aberdeenshire Abingdon Addlestone Aldershot Aylesbury Banbury Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Bishop's Stortford Bolton Bootle Borehamwood Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentford Brighton Bristol Bromsgrove Buckingham Buckinghamshire Burnley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Chatham Cheadle Chelmsford Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chester Chippenham Cirencester City of London Clapham Colchester Congleton County Antrim Coventry Crawley Croydon Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorking Dorset Dundee East Grinstead East Midlands East of England East Sussex Eastleigh Edenbridge Edinburgh Elland England Epsom Essex Exeter Fareham Farnborough Farnham Fife Gatwick Glasgow Glenrothes Gloucester Gloucestershire Godalming Greenock Guildford Gwent Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Hayes Hemel Hempstead Hereford Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Home Counties Horsham Hove Hungerford Huntingdon Ilford Inverclyde Ipswich Isle of Man Kent Kingston Upon Thames Knutsford Lancashire Lancaster Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Letchworth Lightwater Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston London Loughborough M4 Corridor Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester March Marlow Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Midlothian Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Newton-le-Willows Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Nuneaton Oldham Oxford Oxfordshire Paddington Perth and Kinross Peterborough Petersfield Poole Portsmouth Potters Bar Preston Reading Redhill Reigate Rochester Royston Rugby Runcorn Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Sittingbourne Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southam Southampton Southwark St Helens Stafford Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stirling Stockport Stoke-on-Trent Stroud Suffolk Sunderland Surbiton Surrey Sussex Swadlincote Swansea Swindon Tadworth Taunton Telford Thames Valley Tonbridge Trowbridge Tunbridge Wells Twickenham Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Wallingford Warrington Warwickshire Watford Welwyn Garden City West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Wigan Wiltshire Wimbledon Winchester Windsor Woking Worcester Worcestershire Worksop Worthing York Yorkshire	3 months to 8 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	76	54
Rank change on same period last year	-22
Matching permanent IT job ads	2	36
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.001 %	0.016 %
As % of the category below	11.76 %	57.14 %
Salaries quoted	2	34
Average minimum salary	£36,000	£32,347
Average salary	£37,167	£33,958
% change on same period last year	+9.44 %
Average maximum salary	£38,333	£35,569
UK excluding London average salary	£37,493	£38,862
% change on same period last year	-3.52 %
Quality Assurance & Compliance Leicestershire
Matching permanent IT job ads	17	63
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.010 %	0.027 %
Salaries quoted	17	61
Average minimum salary	£35,100	£29,869
Average salary	£35,525	£31,381
% change on same period last year	+13.20 %
Average maximum salary	£35,950	£32,892
UK excluding London average salary	£39,799	£39,924
% change on same period last year	-0.31 %
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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of permanent IT jobs citing QA across the Leicestershire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Quality Assurance & Compliance category.

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Salary Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing QA across the Leicestershire region.

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Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing QA within the Leicestershire region over the 3 months to 8 October 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Permanent IT Job Ads	Average Salary Last 3 Months	Average Salary % Change on Same Period Last Year
Leicester	-1	2	£35,750	+32.81 %
Loughborough	-6	1	£40,000	+33.33 %

QA East Midlands

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 8 October 2008, IT jobs across the Leicestershire 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 (42.86 %) C 1 3 (42.86 %) C# 1 3 (42.86 %) C++ 1 3 (42.86 %) HTML 1 3 (42.86 %) JavaScript 1 3 (42.86 %) VB 1 3 (42.86 %) .NET 1 3 (42.86 %) Oracle 1 3 (42.86 %) Crystal Reports 1 3 (42.86 %) Visual Studio 1 3 (42.86 %) ASP.NET 1 3 (42.86 %) HNC 1 3 (42.86 %) UML 1 3 (42.86 %) OO 1 3 (42.86 %) Oracle Reports

1 3 (42.86 %) OOD 1 3 (42.86 %) ISO9001 1 3 (42.86 %) Microsoft 1 3 (42.86 %) AJAX 1 3 (42.86 %) Degree 2 2 (28.57 %) IBM Mainframe 2 2 (28.57 %) Penetration Testing 2 2 (28.57 %) IBM 2 2 (28.57 %) Mainframe 3 1 (14.29 %) SAP BW 3 1 (14.29 %) DataStage 3 1 (14.29 %) SAP R/3 3 1 (14.29 %) Business Intelligence 3 1 (14.29 %) ETL 3 1 (14.29 %) Data Modelling

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 8 October 2008, IT jobs across the Leicestershire 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 (42.86 %) HTML 1 3 (42.86 %) .NET 1 3 (42.86 %) ASP.NET 1 3 (42.86 %) AJAX	Business Applications 1 1 (14.29 %) SAP R/3
Database & Business Intelligence 1 3 (42.86 %) Crystal Reports 1 3 (42.86 %) Oracle Reports 2 1 (14.29 %) ETL 2 1 (14.29 %) SAP BW 2 1 (14.29 %) DataStage	Development Applications 1 3 (42.86 %) Visual Studio
Job Titles 1 2 (28.57 %) IT Auditor 1 2 (28.57 %) Auditor 2 1 (14.29 %) DataStage Developer 2 1 (14.29 %) Developer 2 1 (14.29 %) Analyst 2 1 (14.29 %) Analyst Programmer 2 1 (14.29 %) Programmer	Miscellaneous 1 2 (28.57 %) Mainframe 1 2 (28.57 %) IBM Mainframe
Processes & Methodologies 1 3 (42.86 %) UML 1 3 (42.86 %) OO 1 3 (42.86 %) OOD 2 2 (28.57 %) Penetration Testing 3 1 (14.29 %) Business Intelligence 3 1 (14.29 %) Data Modelling	Programming Languages 1 3 (42.86 %) C 1 3 (42.86 %) C# 1 3 (42.86 %) C++ 1 3 (42.86 %) JavaScript 1 3 (42.86 %) VB
Qualifications 1 3 (42.86 %) HNC 1 3 (42.86 %) Degree	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 3 (42.86 %) ISO9001
Vendors 1 3 (42.86 %) Oracle 1 3 (42.86 %) Microsoft 2 2 (28.57 %) IBM 3 1 (14.29 %) SAP