The first table below looks at the demand for the QA Analyst role in IT jobs advertised for the London region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited QA Analyst in their job title over the 3 months to 17 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 Job Titles advertised for the London region.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Quality Assurance Analyst
Rank 415 367 459
Rank change year-on-year
-48 +92
Permanent jobs requiring a QA Analyst 196 308 179
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in London 0.449% 0.572% 0.311%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.481% 0.610% 0.333%
Number of salaries quoted 184 292 170
Average salary £45,000 £42,500 £45,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+5.88% -5.55%
90% offered a salary of more than £35,000 £32,050 £32,500
10% offered a salary of more than £60,000 £52,500 £70,000
UK excluding London average salary £35,000 £34,000 £32,500
% change year-on-year
+2.94% +4.61%
All Job Titles
London
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
40744 50505 53832
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in London 93.41% 93.86% 93.60%
Number of salaries quoted 34331 43869 45250
Average salary £50,000 £50,000 £52,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
- -4.76%
90% offered a salary of more than £32,500 £31,500 £31,500
10% offered a salary of more than £75,000 £80,000 £77,500
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +1.33%
QA Analyst
England

QA Analyst
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing QA Analyst across the London region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

London QA Analyst Jobs Demand Trend

QA Analyst
Salary Trend

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

London QA Analyst Salary Trend

QA Analyst
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing QA Analyst across the London region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

London QA Analyst Salary Histogram

QA Analyst
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing QA Analyst within the London region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
City of London +39 63 £40,000 -5.88%
Croydon - 3 £42,500 -
Docklands, London - 1 £37,500 -
Bermondsey - 1 - -
QA Analyst
England

QA Analyst
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the London region that cited QA Analyst in their job title 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 with QA Analyst in their job title.

1 362 (100.00%) QA
2 198 (54.70%) Selenium
3 154 (42.54%) SQL
4 152 (41.99%) Finance
5 141 (38.95%) Agile Software Development
6 98 (27.07%) Java
7 94 (25.97%) QuickTest Pro
8 93 (25.69%) Automation Testing
9 90 (24.86%) Manual Testing
10 87 (24.03%) Test Automation
11 83 (22.93%) Automated Testing
12 80 (22.10%) Banking
13 78 (21.55%) Degree
14 73 (20.17%) Software Testing
15 71 (19.61%) C#
15 71 (19.61%) E-Commerce
16 70 (19.34%) Test Scripting
17 65 (17.96%) BDD
18 63 (17.40%) Cucumber
18 63 (17.40%) TDD
19 61 (16.85%) ISEB
20 55 (15.19%) JIRA
21 54 (14.92%) WebDriver
22 53 (14.64%) FitNesse
22 53 (14.64%) Derivative
22 53 (14.64%) .NET
23 43 (11.88%) LoadRunner
24 42 (11.60%) Scrum
25 38 (10.50%) VBScript
25 38 (10.50%) HTTP

QA Analyst
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the London region that cited QA Analyst in their job title 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 with QA Analyst in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 53 (14.64%) .NET
2 24 (6.630%) Web Services
3 22 (6.077%) XML
4 14 (3.867%) soapUI
4 14 (3.867%) Gherkin
5 10 (2.762%) SOAP
6 8 (2.210%) HTML
6 8 (2.210%) ASP.NET
6 8 (2.210%) REST
7 7 (1.934%) J2EE
8 6 (1.657%) .NET Framework
8 6 (1.657%) FIX Protocol
9 5 (1.381%) ASP
10 4 (1.105%) CSS
11 3 (0.829%) WCF
11 3 (0.829%) WPF
11 3 (0.829%) Flash
11 3 (0.829%) Ajax
12 2 (0.552%) WebSphere
12 2 (0.552%) XML Schema
Application Platforms
1 6 (1.657%) CMS
2 4 (1.105%) Tomcat
2 4 (1.105%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.552%) ColdFusion
3 2 (0.552%) Apache
3 2 (0.552%) Confluence
4 1 (0.276%) IIS
Applications
1 15 (4.144%) MS Excel
2 3 (0.829%) MS Office
3 2 (0.552%) S-PLUS
Communications & Networking
1 38 (10.50%) HTTP
2 5 (1.381%) Internet
3 3 (0.829%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.276%) Intranet
4 1 (0.276%) LDAP
4 1 (0.276%) Broadband
4 1 (0.276%) SMTP
4 1 (0.276%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (7.735%) SQL Server
2 12 (3.315%) MySQL
3 6 (1.657%) Big Data
4 4 (1.105%) SQL Server 2008
4 4 (1.105%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (1.105%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 4 (1.105%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 3 (0.829%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (0.552%) QlikView
7 1 (0.276%) Oracle 11g
7 1 (0.276%) TOAD
7 1 (0.276%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 198 (54.70%) Selenium
2 94 (25.97%) QuickTest Pro
3 63 (17.40%) Cucumber
4 55 (15.19%) JIRA
5 54 (14.92%) WebDriver
6 53 (14.64%) FitNesse
7 43 (11.88%) LoadRunner
8 32 (8.840%) WinRunner
9 17 (4.696%) JMeter
10 13 (3.591%) JUnit
11 10 (2.762%) Visual Studio
11 10 (2.762%) TestComplete
12 9 (2.486%) SpecFlow
12 9 (2.486%) WATIR
13 5 (1.381%) Subversion
13 5 (1.381%) Eclipse
13 5 (1.381%) Jenkins
13 5 (1.381%) TeamCity
13 5 (1.381%) Team Foundation Server
14 4 (1.105%) RSpec
General
1 152 (41.99%) Finance
2 80 (22.10%) Banking
3 37 (10.22%) Investment Banking
4 25 (6.906%) Front Office
5 16 (4.420%) Law
6 11 (3.039%) Marketing
7 9 (2.486%) Telecoms
8 8 (2.210%) Publishing
9 7 (1.934%) Retail
10 5 (1.381%) Financial Institution
10 5 (1.381%) Back Office
11 4 (1.105%) Games
11 4 (1.105%) Arabic Language
12 3 (0.829%) Advertising
13 2 (0.552%) Russian Language
13 2 (0.552%) Multimedia
Miscellaneous
1 53 (14.64%) Derivative
2 33 (9.116%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 31 (8.564%) Equities
4 21 (5.801%) Computer Science
5 20 (5.525%) Open Source
6 17 (4.696%) Digital Media
7 15 (4.144%) Mathematics
8 14 (3.867%) Mobile App
9 11 (3.039%) Hedge funds
9 11 (3.039%) SaaS
9 11 (3.039%) Client/Server
10 10 (2.762%) iPhone
11 7 (1.934%) iPad
11 7 (1.934%) Blog
11 7 (1.934%) Fixed Income
12 6 (1.657%) Physics
12 6 (1.657%) Credit Derivative
12 6 (1.657%) Equity Derivative
13 5 (1.381%) Statistics
14 4 (1.105%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 30 (8.287%) UNIX
2 25 (6.906%) Windows
3 8 (2.210%) Android
4 7 (1.934%) Linux
5 5 (1.381%) Mac OS X
5 5 (1.381%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 141 (38.95%) Agile Software Development
2 93 (25.69%) Automation Testing
3 90 (24.86%) Manual Testing
4 87 (24.03%) Test Automation
5 83 (22.93%) Automated Testing
6 73 (20.17%) Software Testing
7 71 (19.61%) E-Commerce
8 70 (19.34%) Test Scripting
9 65 (17.96%) BDD
10 63 (17.40%) TDD
11 42 (11.60%) Scrum
12 35 (9.669%) Agile Testing
13 29 (8.011%) OOP
14 27 (7.459%) Continuous Integration
14 27 (7.459%) Performance Testing
15 26 (7.182%) OO
16 24 (6.630%) Time Management
17 22 (6.077%) User Stories
18 21 (5.801%) ATDD
18 21 (5.801%) Regression Testing
Programming Languages
1 154 (42.54%) SQL
2 98 (27.07%) Java
3 71 (19.61%) C#
4 38 (10.50%) VBScript
5 34 (9.392%) Ruby
6 25 (6.906%) Python
7 22 (6.077%) VBA
8 20 (5.525%) VB
9 19 (5.249%) Perl
10 17 (4.696%) JavaScript
11 13 (3.591%) C++
12 8 (2.210%) Shell Script
13 6 (1.657%) C
14 5 (1.381%) PHP
14 5 (1.381%) Bash shell
15 4 (1.105%) T-SQL
16 2 (0.552%) MATLAB
16 2 (0.552%) R
17 1 (0.276%) F#
17 1 (0.276%) Scala
Qualifications
1 78 (21.55%) Degree
2 61 (16.85%) ISEB
3 37 (10.22%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 362 (100.00%) QA
2 3 (0.829%) ISO 9001
3 1 (0.276%) WAI
System Software
1 5 (1.381%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 21 (5.801%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 25 (6.906%) Microsoft
2 18 (4.972%) Oracle
3 7 (1.934%) HP
4 5 (1.381%) VMware
5 3 (0.829%) Google
5 3 (0.829%) ATG
6 2 (0.552%) Cadis
6 2 (0.552%) Citrix
6 2 (0.552%) Hyperion
6 2 (0.552%) JBoss
6 2 (0.552%) Fidessa
7 1 (0.276%) Symbian
7 1 (0.276%) Informatica
7 1 (0.276%) BT
7 1 (0.276%) TOWER Software
7 1 (0.276%) Atlassian
7 1 (0.276%) Acunetix
London, City of
Leading Financial Service organisation are looking for a proactive, self-starting and experienced Test Analyst (Manual, QC) to join its operations. The position is ideal for a hands...
ITS Ingenium
Salary: Up to UKP 50000 per year
Posted: 16 May 2013
City, London
Key Skills: FX SPOT and FWD Pricing / Price construction / Algorithms / manual testing / FX business knowledge / JIRA Essential experience: Investment banking A leading investment bank requires a QA Analyst...
iKas International
Salary: Negotiable
Posted: 15 May 2013
City of London
Huxley Associates is seeking a senior Test analyst position to join a Top Financial Derivatives House to work within their Derivatives Valuations department. The candidate will be working...
Huxley Associates
Posted: 15 May 2013
London
My client is a major global Investment Bank, with a rare opportunity for a dynamic Test or QA Analyst with a strong background testing as well as in...
Aston Carter
Salary: £65000 - £75000 per annum + bonus and benefits
Posted: 13 May 2013
London
Tester / Software Tester / QA Tester / QA Analyst GAIN SOFTWARE TESTING EXPERIENCE IN THE FINANCIAL SECTORTesters who have worked to test APIs / Web Services are urgently needed to work...
NFP Group Ltd
Salary: £35000 - £45000 per annum + bonus and benefits
Posted: 24 April 2013
London
We are looking for a Quality Assurance Analyst to join our fast growing, non-hierarchical team... You'll play a big part in making sure that Acceptance tests...
NBS Recruitment
Salary: £35,000 - £50,000 per year
Posted: 8 May 2013
London
Senior QA Analyst Essential Experience: - Strong software testing experience working within an Agile software development environment - Strong automation experience using Selenium Webdriver in Java - Strong experience in Open...
TRG
Salary: 45000-55000 Per Annum Bonus, benefits
Posted: 29 April 2013
City, London
Key words: QTP, HP Quality Centre, System/ Regression Testing, SQL, VB Script, Shell Spripting... You will have a solid degree in a computing, mathematics or finance and between...
Aston Carter
Salary: £35000 - £42000 per annum + Bonus and Benefits
Posted: 15 May 2013
South East London
Understanding of networking TCP/IP and SQL Server. Experience with a scripting or programming language (C#, C++, Java, Python, Ruby) This is an excellent opportunity to establish your...
Client Server
Salary: £35k to £40k + bonus (c15%) + benefits
Posted: 15 May 2013
London
As a QA Test Analyst / Technical Tester you will test newly developed software, existing software upgrades and deployments to ensure quality is maintained; including manual testing (exploratory, negative...
Client Server
Salary: £35k to £40k + bonus (c15%) + benefits
Posted: 15 May 2013