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

Location
3 months to
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Quality Assurance (QA)
Rank 23 - 14
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Permanent jobs citing QA 6 0 27
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Livingston 6.122% - 10.80%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 35.29% - 54.00%
Number of salaries quoted 0 0 12
Average salary - - £40,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,250 £37,500 £39,000
% change year-on-year
+2.00% -3.84%
All Quality Assurance & Compliance
Livingston
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Quality Assurance & Compliance category
17 9 50
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Livingston 17.35% 9.000% 20.00%
Number of salaries quoted 7 3 30
Average salary £33,000 £35,000 £39,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-5.71% -10.25%
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £41,000
% change year-on-year
- -2.43%
QA
West Lothian

QA
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Livingston 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 Livingston region.

Livingston QA Salary Trend

QA
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Livingston 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 13 (81.25%) Degree
2 10 (62.50%) XML
3 9 (56.25%) XML Schema
3 9 (56.25%) QuickTest Pro
3 9 (56.25%) Continuous Integration
3 9 (56.25%) Selenium
3 9 (56.25%) FitNesse
3 9 (56.25%) Test Automation
3 9 (56.25%) Continuous Improvement
3 9 (56.25%) Scrum
3 9 (56.25%) Agile Software Development
3 9 (56.25%) TDD
3 9 (56.25%) Software Testing
3 9 (56.25%) User Stories
4 6 (37.50%) Infrastructure Management
4 6 (37.50%) Incident Management
4 6 (37.50%) Customer Engagement
4 6 (37.50%) IBM
4 6 (37.50%) Firmware
4 6 (37.50%) Service Delivery
4 6 (37.50%) Change Management
4 6 (37.50%) Windows
4 6 (37.50%) Oracle
5 5 (31.25%) UNIX
5 5 (31.25%) SQL
5 5 (31.25%) Linux
5 5 (31.25%) Disaster Recovery
5 5 (31.25%) Microsoft
5 5 (31.25%) Sun
5 5 (31.25%) EMC

QA
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Livingston 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 10 (62.50%) XML
2 9 (56.25%) XML Schema
3 1 (6.250%) JMS
3 1 (6.250%) WSDL
3 1 (6.250%) J2EE
3 1 (6.250%) JDBC
3 1 (6.250%) SOAP
3 1 (6.250%) Web Services
3 1 (6.250%) WebSphere
3 1 (6.250%) Dojo
Application Platforms
1 1 (6.250%) WebSphere MQ
1 1 (6.250%) WebSphere Process Server
1 1 (6.250%) WebSphere Message Broker
1 1 (6.250%) WebSphere Portal
Business Applications
1 1 (6.250%) Oracle BPM
Communications & Networking
1 5 (31.25%) SAN
1 5 (31.25%) NAS
2 1 (6.250%) Wi-Fi
2 1 (6.250%) Broadband
Development Applications
1 9 (56.25%) QuickTest Pro
1 9 (56.25%) Selenium
1 9 (56.25%) FitNesse
General
1 1 (6.250%) Billing
Job Titles
1 9 (56.25%) Agile Tester
1 9 (56.25%) QA Engineer
1 9 (56.25%) Tester
2 6 (37.50%) Technical Leader
3 1 (6.250%) Developer
Miscellaneous
1 6 (37.50%) Firmware
2 5 (31.25%) Symmetrix DMX
2 5 (31.25%) Replication
2 5 (31.25%) Symmetrix
3 1 (6.250%) DTV
Operating Systems
1 6 (37.50%) Windows
2 5 (31.25%) UNIX
2 5 (31.25%) Linux
3 1 (6.250%) AIX
3 1 (6.250%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (56.25%) Continuous Integration
1 9 (56.25%) Test Automation
1 9 (56.25%) Continuous Improvement
1 9 (56.25%) Scrum
1 9 (56.25%) Agile Software Development
1 9 (56.25%) TDD
1 9 (56.25%) Software Testing
1 9 (56.25%) User Stories
2 6 (37.50%) Infrastructure Management
2 6 (37.50%) Incident Management
2 6 (37.50%) Customer Engagement
2 6 (37.50%) Service Delivery
2 6 (37.50%) Change Management
3 5 (31.25%) Disaster Recovery
3 5 (31.25%) Analytics
3 5 (31.25%) Data Protection
4 1 (6.250%) SOA
4 1 (6.250%) Service Management
4 1 (6.250%) Performance Testing
Programming Languages
1 5 (31.25%) SQL
2 1 (6.250%) Java
2 1 (6.250%) XPath
Qualifications
1 13 (81.25%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.250%) SLA
System Software
1 4 (25.00%) Oracle RMAN
Systems Management
1 5 (31.25%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 6 (37.50%) IBM
1 6 (37.50%) Oracle
2 5 (31.25%) Microsoft
2 5 (31.25%) Sun
2 5 (31.25%) EMC
2 5 (31.25%) NetApp
2 5 (31.25%) StorageTek
2 5 (31.25%) Cisco
2 5 (31.25%) Brocade
3 4 (25.00%) Symantec
4 1 (6.250%) Lombardi