The first table below looks at the demand for the QA Test 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 Test Analyst in their job title over the 3 months to 21 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
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Quality Assurance Test Analyst
Rank 540 548 575
Rank change year-on-year
+8 +27
Permanent jobs requiring a QA Test Analyst 67 90 49
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in London 0.152% 0.167% 0.086%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.163% 0.178% 0.092%
Number of salaries quoted 65 82 47
Average salary £41,000 £38,250 £45,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+7.18% -15.00%
90% offered a salary of more than £31,100 £31,600 £32,500
10% offered a salary of more than £55,000 £50,000 £72,500
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £34,000 £32,500
% change year-on-year
+17.64% +4.61%
All Job Titles
London
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
41069 50577 53212
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in London 93.41% 93.89% 93.56%
Number of salaries quoted 34568 43927 44773
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 Test Analyst
England

QA Test Analyst
Jobs Demand Trend

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

London QA Test Analyst Jobs Demand Trend

QA Test Analyst
Salary Trend

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

London QA Test Analyst Salary Trend

QA Test Analyst
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing QA Test Analyst across the London region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

London QA Test Analyst Salary Histogram

QA Test Analyst
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing QA Test Analyst within the London region over the 3 months to 21 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 +10 16 £40,000 -11.11%
Bermondsey - 1 - -
QA Test Analyst
England

QA Test Analyst
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the London region that cited QA Test 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 Test Analyst in their job title.

1 150 (100.00%) QA
2 75 (50.00%) Selenium
3 68 (45.33%) Finance
4 66 (44.00%) SQL
5 61 (40.67%) Agile Software Development
6 50 (33.33%) Java
7 44 (29.33%) Test Automation
8 37 (24.67%) Automated Testing
9 35 (23.33%) ISEB
10 34 (22.67%) Degree
11 32 (21.33%) Software Testing
12 31 (20.67%) Test Scripting
12 31 (20.67%) WebDriver
13 29 (19.33%) E-Commerce
14 28 (18.67%) C#
15 26 (17.33%) Cucumber
16 25 (16.67%) Manual Testing
17 23 (15.33%) Banking
18 21 (14.00%) Ruby
18 21 (14.00%) .NET
18 21 (14.00%) QuickTest Pro
19 20 (13.33%) Python
19 20 (13.33%) OOP
20 19 (12.67%) SQL Server
20 19 (12.67%) VBScript
20 19 (12.67%) ISTQB
20 19 (12.67%) TDD
20 19 (12.67%) Automation Testing
21 18 (12.00%) JIRA
21 18 (12.00%) OO

QA Test Analyst
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the London region that cited QA Test 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 Test Analyst in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 21 (14.00%) .NET
2 14 (9.333%) Web Services
2 14 (9.333%) XML
3 8 (5.333%) ASP.NET
4 5 (3.333%) .NET Framework
5 4 (2.667%) FIX Protocol
5 4 (2.667%) Gherkin
5 4 (2.667%) J2EE
5 4 (2.667%) SOAP
6 2 (1.333%) OAuth
6 2 (1.333%) REST
6 2 (1.333%) ASP
6 2 (1.333%) CSS
6 2 (1.333%) XML Schema
7 1 (0.667%) HTML
7 1 (0.667%) COM
7 1 (0.667%) soapUI
7 1 (0.667%) ASP.NET MVC
Application Platforms
1 2 (1.333%) Confluence
1 2 (1.333%) Apache
1 2 (1.333%) Tomcat
1 2 (1.333%) SharePoint
1 2 (1.333%) ColdFusion
Applications
1 12 (8.000%) MS Excel
2 2 (1.333%) S-PLUS
3 1 (0.667%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 15 (10.00%) HTTP
2 4 (2.667%) Internet
3 2 (1.333%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.667%) LDAP
4 1 (0.667%) Broadband
4 1 (0.667%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (12.67%) SQL Server
2 8 (5.333%) MySQL
3 3 (2.000%) Big Data
4 2 (1.333%) QlikView
4 2 (1.333%) SQL Server 2008
4 2 (1.333%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 2 (1.333%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 1 (0.667%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (0.667%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 75 (50.00%) Selenium
2 31 (20.67%) WebDriver
3 26 (17.33%) Cucumber
4 21 (14.00%) QuickTest Pro
5 18 (12.00%) JIRA
6 7 (4.667%) JMeter
6 7 (4.667%) FitNesse
7 5 (3.333%) JUnit
8 4 (2.667%) JBehave
9 3 (2.000%) Visual Studio
9 3 (2.000%) SpecFlow
9 3 (2.000%) Team Foundation Server
10 2 (1.333%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 2 (1.333%) Eclipse
10 2 (1.333%) Subversion
11 1 (0.667%) Bugzilla
11 1 (0.667%) TestPartner
11 1 (0.667%) SilkTest
11 1 (0.667%) TestDirector
11 1 (0.667%) LoadRunner
General
1 68 (45.33%) Finance
2 23 (15.33%) Banking
3 15 (10.00%) Law
4 8 (5.333%) Investment Banking
4 8 (5.333%) Front Office
5 7 (4.667%) Telecoms
6 6 (4.000%) Marketing
7 5 (3.333%) Retail
8 4 (2.667%) Arabic Language
8 4 (2.667%) Financial Institution
8 4 (2.667%) Publishing
9 3 (2.000%) Back Office
9 3 (2.000%) Games
10 2 (1.333%) Russian Language
10 2 (1.333%) Advertising
Miscellaneous
1 13 (8.667%) Open Source
2 11 (7.333%) Derivative
2 11 (7.333%) Mobile App
3 8 (5.333%) SaaS
4 7 (4.667%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 6 (4.000%) Computer Science
5 6 (4.000%) Hedge funds
5 6 (4.000%) Credit Derivative
6 5 (3.333%) Statistics
6 5 (3.333%) Equities
7 4 (2.667%) iPhone
7 4 (2.667%) Enterprise Software
7 4 (2.667%) Client/Server
8 3 (2.000%) Smartphone
9 2 (1.333%) Online Games
9 2 (1.333%) Streaming Video
10 1 (0.667%) Replication
10 1 (0.667%) Fixed Income
10 1 (0.667%) iPad
10 1 (0.667%) Spread Betting
Operating Systems
1 14 (9.333%) Windows
2 11 (7.333%) UNIX
3 6 (4.000%) Android
4 4 (2.667%) Linux
5 2 (1.333%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 61 (40.67%) Agile Software Development
2 44 (29.33%) Test Automation
3 37 (24.67%) Automated Testing
4 32 (21.33%) Software Testing
5 31 (20.67%) Test Scripting
6 29 (19.33%) E-Commerce
7 25 (16.67%) Manual Testing
8 20 (13.33%) OOP
9 19 (12.67%) TDD
9 19 (12.67%) Automation Testing
10 18 (12.00%) OO
11 16 (10.67%) Performance Testing
11 16 (10.67%) User Stories
12 15 (10.00%) BDD
13 14 (9.333%) Continuous Integration
14 11 (7.333%) Scrum
14 11 (7.333%) User Acceptance Testing
15 10 (6.667%) Continuous Improvement
16 8 (5.333%) Agile Testing
17 6 (4.000%) Integration Testing
Programming Languages
1 66 (44.00%) SQL
2 50 (33.33%) Java
3 28 (18.67%) C#
4 21 (14.00%) Ruby
5 20 (13.33%) Python
6 19 (12.67%) VBScript
7 13 (8.667%) VB
8 12 (8.000%) C++
9 7 (4.667%) JavaScript
9 7 (4.667%) Perl
10 4 (2.667%) C
10 4 (2.667%) VBA
11 2 (1.333%) R
11 2 (1.333%) PHP
11 2 (1.333%) MATLAB
12 1 (0.667%) Objective-C
12 1 (0.667%) Shell Script
12 1 (0.667%) Scala
12 1 (0.667%) F#
Qualifications
1 35 (23.33%) ISEB
2 34 (22.67%) Degree
3 19 (12.67%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 150 (100.00%) QA
Systems Management
1 2 (1.333%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 14 (9.333%) Microsoft
2 10 (6.667%) Oracle
3 3 (2.000%) ATG
4 2 (1.333%) Cadis
4 2 (1.333%) HP
4 2 (1.333%) Hyperion
4 2 (1.333%) Google
5 1 (0.667%) TOWER Software
London, Central London, South East England
Job Title: QA Test AnalystLocation: LondonSalary: Up to £50,000 per yearLeading Financial Service organisation are looking for a proactive, self-starting and experienced Test Analyst (Manual, QC)...
ITS Ingenium
Salary: £0 - £50,000 per year
Posted: 21 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...
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Salary: £35k to £40k + bonus (c15%) + 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