The first table below looks at the demand for the QA Leader 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 Leader in their job title over the 3 months to 24 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Quality Assurance Lead
Rank 526 548 537
Rank change year-on-year
+22 -11
Permanent jobs requiring a QA Leader 58 88 113
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in London 0.133% 0.164% 0.195%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.142% 0.175% 0.208%
Number of salaries quoted 50 85 102
Average salary £60,000 £50,000 £50,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+20.00% -
90% offered a salary of more than £47,250 £40,600 £42,000
10% offered a salary of more than £75,000 £80,000 £72,500
UK excluding London average salary £42,500 £45,000 £41,250
% change year-on-year
-5.55% +9.09%
All Job Titles
London
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
40860 50394 54260
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in London 93.43% 93.96% 93.55%
Number of salaries quoted 34360 43737 45781
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 Leader
England

QA Leader
Jobs Demand Trend

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

London QA Leader Jobs Demand Trend

QA Leader
Salary Trend

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

London QA Leader Salary Trend

QA Leader
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing QA Leader across the London region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

London QA Leader Salary Histogram

QA Leader
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing QA Leader within the London region over the 3 months to 24 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 +7 15 £62,500 +11.11%
Ealing - 2 - -
QA Leader
England

QA Leader
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the London region that cited QA Leader 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 Leader in their job title.

1 168 (100.00%) QA
2 58 (34.52%) Selenium
3 55 (32.74%) Agile Software Development
4 39 (23.21%) Finance
5 38 (22.62%) Scrum
5 38 (22.62%) Degree
5 38 (22.62%) Apple iOS
6 35 (20.83%) Java
7 34 (20.24%) SQL
7 34 (20.24%) Test Strategy
7 34 (20.24%) WebDriver
8 32 (19.05%) Test Automation
9 31 (18.45%) Software Testing
9 31 (18.45%) Cucumber
10 30 (17.86%) E-Commerce
10 30 (17.86%) TDD
11 27 (16.07%) Automated Testing
12 26 (15.48%) Computer Science
12 26 (15.48%) User Acceptance Testing
13 25 (14.88%) HTTP
13 25 (14.88%) ISEB
14 23 (13.69%) Internet
14 23 (13.69%) System Testing
14 23 (13.69%) BDD
15 22 (13.10%) Test Scripting
15 22 (13.10%) JIRA
15 22 (13.10%) C#
15 22 (13.10%) UNIX
16 21 (12.50%) Derivative
16 21 (12.50%) Test Management

QA Leader
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the London region that cited QA Leader 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 Leader in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 18 (10.71%) XML
2 14 (8.333%) .NET
3 11 (6.548%) Web Services
4 9 (5.357%) HTML
4 9 (5.357%) XML Schema
5 6 (3.571%) XML Messaging
5 6 (3.571%) ASP.NET
6 5 (2.976%) .NET Framework
7 4 (2.381%) ASP
8 3 (1.786%) Ruby on Rails
8 3 (1.786%) REST
9 2 (1.190%) X-Windows
9 2 (1.190%) Flash
9 2 (1.190%) XSLT
10 1 (0.595%) FIX Protocol
10 1 (0.595%) soapUI
10 1 (0.595%) J2EE
10 1 (0.595%) SOAP
10 1 (0.595%) J2ME
10 1 (0.595%) Middleware
Application Platforms
1 3 (1.786%) CMS
2 2 (1.190%) IIS
3 1 (0.595%) Apache
3 1 (0.595%) Tomcat
3 1 (0.595%) SharePoint
Applications
1 6 (3.571%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 25 (14.88%) HTTP
2 23 (13.69%) Internet
3 1 (0.595%) HTTPS
3 1 (0.595%) BSS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (4.167%) SQL Server
2 4 (2.381%) MySQL
2 4 (2.381%) RDBMS
2 4 (2.381%) Big Data
3 1 (0.595%) DataStage
Development Applications
1 58 (34.52%) Selenium
2 34 (20.24%) WebDriver
3 31 (18.45%) Cucumber
4 22 (13.10%) JIRA
5 12 (7.143%) LoadRunner
6 9 (5.357%) Xcode
7 8 (4.762%) QuickTest Pro
8 6 (3.571%) JUnit
8 6 (3.571%) Eclipse
8 6 (3.571%) TestNG
9 5 (2.976%) JMeter
10 4 (2.381%) WatiN
11 3 (1.786%) FitNesse
12 2 (1.190%) SpecFlow
12 2 (1.190%) Robotium
12 2 (1.190%) WATIR
12 2 (1.190%) Git (software)
13 1 (0.595%) RSpec
13 1 (0.595%) Team Foundation Server
13 1 (0.595%) Visual Studio
General
1 39 (23.21%) Finance
2 16 (9.524%) Banking
3 14 (8.333%) Front Office
4 6 (3.571%) Investment Banking
5 5 (2.976%) Back Office
5 5 (2.976%) Legal
5 5 (2.976%) Publishing
6 3 (1.786%) Marketing
6 3 (1.786%) Law
7 2 (1.190%) Telecoms
8 1 (0.595%) Wholesale Banking
8 1 (0.595%) Advertising
8 1 (0.595%) Games
Miscellaneous
1 26 (15.48%) Computer Science
2 21 (12.50%) Derivative
3 16 (9.524%) Mobile App
4 14 (8.333%) iPhone
4 14 (8.333%) iPad
5 12 (7.143%) Blackberry
6 11 (6.548%) Equity Derivative
6 11 (6.548%) Client/Server
6 11 (6.548%) Equities
7 8 (4.762%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 5 (2.976%) Statistics
8 5 (2.976%) Data Protection Act
9 4 (2.381%) N-Tier
9 4 (2.381%) Exotic Derivative
9 4 (2.381%) Social Network
9 4 (2.381%) Cloud Computing
9 4 (2.381%) Open Source
10 3 (1.786%) Fixed Income
11 2 (1.190%) Mathematics
11 2 (1.190%) SaaS
Operating Systems
1 38 (22.62%) Apple iOS
2 22 (13.10%) UNIX
3 18 (10.71%) Linux
4 17 (10.12%) Android
5 9 (5.357%) Windows
6 2 (1.190%) Mac OS X
6 2 (1.190%) Windows Phone
7 1 (0.595%) CentOS
7 1 (0.595%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 55 (32.74%) Agile Software Development
2 38 (22.62%) Scrum
3 34 (20.24%) Test Strategy
4 32 (19.05%) Test Automation
5 31 (18.45%) Software Testing
6 30 (17.86%) E-Commerce
6 30 (17.86%) TDD
7 27 (16.07%) Automated Testing
8 26 (15.48%) User Acceptance Testing
9 23 (13.69%) System Testing
9 23 (13.69%) BDD
10 22 (13.10%) Test Scripting
11 21 (12.50%) Test Management
12 15 (8.929%) B2C
13 10 (5.952%) Regression Testing
13 10 (5.952%) Performance Testing
14 9 (5.357%) Mobile Application Development
14 9 (5.357%) Automation Testing
15 8 (4.762%) Migration
15 8 (4.762%) OO
Programming Languages
1 35 (20.83%) Java
2 34 (20.24%) SQL
3 22 (13.10%) C#
4 12 (7.143%) Ruby
5 11 (6.548%) Python
6 10 (5.952%) C
7 9 (5.357%) VBA
7 9 (5.357%) C++
7 9 (5.357%) Objective-C
8 7 (4.167%) Perl
9 5 (2.976%) Shell Script
9 5 (2.976%) PHP
10 4 (2.381%) VBScript
10 4 (2.381%) Tcl
11 2 (1.190%) JavaScript
12 1 (0.595%) XPath
12 1 (0.595%) VB
Qualifications
1 38 (22.62%) Degree
2 25 (14.88%) ISEB
3 12 (7.143%) ISTQB
4 6 (3.571%) SC Cleared
4 6 (3.571%) Security Cleared
5 1 (0.595%) ISEB Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 168 (100.00%) QA
2 1 (0.595%) 21 CFR Part 11
System Software
1 1 (0.595%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (0.595%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (1.786%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 11 (6.548%) HP
2 8 (4.762%) Microsoft
3 4 (2.381%) Oracle
4 3 (1.786%) Fidessa
4 3 (1.786%) ATG
5 1 (0.595%) Twitter
5 1 (0.595%) Sybase
5 1 (0.595%) SAP
5 1 (0.595%) Citrix
5 1 (0.595%) VMware
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