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This section looks at the demand for Quality Assurance (QA) skills within the London 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 last 3 months to 16 May 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

LinkQuality Assurance (QA)
Location
3 months to 16 May 2008Same period last year
Rank7285
Rank change on same period last yearUp+13
Matching permanent IT job ads23222332
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled1.138 %1.032 %
As % of the category below48.81 %48.26 %
Salaries quoted19611859
Average minimum salary£42,803£44,531
Average salary£46,501£47,952
% change on same period last year-3.02 %
Average maximum salary£50,199£51,373
UK excluding London average salary£37,636£37,770
% change on same period last year-0.35 %
Quality Assurance & Compliance LondonQuality Assurance & Compliance
London
Matching permanent IT job ads47574832
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled2.332 %2.139 %
Salaries quoted40353805
Average minimum salary£45,204£45,455
Average salary£49,186£48,869
% change on same period last year+0.64 %
Average maximum salary£53,169£52,284
UK excluding London average salary£38,390£40,714
% change on same period last year-5.70 %
QA EnglandQA
England

QA
Demand Trend

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

London QA Demand Trend

QA
Salary Trend

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

London QA Salary Trend

QA
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing QA across the London region over the past 3 months.

London QA Salary Histogram

QA
Job Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing QA within the London region over the past 3 months.

RankLocationRank Change
on Same Period
Last Last
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
1City of LondonUp+9668£48,801-18.81 %
2LutonUp+2149£36,211+7.67 %
3Docklands, LondonUp+1529£63,440-2.37 %
3HammersmithDown-129£48,294+39.98 %
4Canary WharfUp+114£54,583-10.10 %
5CroydonDown-110£61,750+208.75 %
5UxbridgeDown-2510£32,800-7.74 %
6WembleyUp+87£31,143-0.22 %
6BromleyDown-27£33,214-24.99 %
7HayesNew entry-4--
8PaddingtonNew entry-3£42,000-
8ClaphamDown-73£37,500+8.69 %
9HarrowDown-162£32,000-11.01 %
9IlfordNew entry-2£30,000-
10UpminsterUp+41£35,000+16.66 %
10TwickenhamNew entry-1£27,500-
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England

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

Over the past 6 months permanent IT jobs across the London region citing QA also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled citing QA.

11426 (30.87 %)Finance
21157 (25.04 %)SQL
3673 (14.57 %)Java
4636 (13.77 %)Banking
5598 (12.94 %)Degree
6576 (12.47 %)ISEB
7561 (12.14 %)Unix
8512 (11.08 %)Windows
9491 (10.63 %)SQL Server
10474 (10.26 %)Test Scripting
11467 (10.11 %).NET
12465 (10.06 %)Project Management
13433 (9.372 %)Oracle
14405 (8.766 %)C#
15397 (8.593 %)TestDirector
16394 (8.528 %)QuickTest Pro
17386 (8.355 %)Automated Testing
18377 (8.160 %)XML
19372 (8.052 %)Microsoft
20359 (7.771 %)User Acceptance Testing
21343 (7.424 %)Agile Software Development
22338 (7.316 %)Software Testing
23318 (6.883 %)C++
24306 (6.623 %)E-Commerce
25298 (6.450 %)Internet
26288 (6.234 %)HTML
26288 (6.234 %)Investment Banking
27280 (6.061 %)Derivative
28275 (5.952 %)Linux
29263 (5.693 %)Front Office

QA
Top Related IT Skills by Category

Over the past 6 months permanent IT jobs across the London region citing QA also mentioned the following skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled citing QA. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1467 (10.11 %).NET
2377 (8.160 %)XML
3288 (6.234 %)HTML
4249 (5.390 %)J2EE
5144 (3.117 %)CSS
6138 (2.987 %)ASP
7110 (2.381 %)WebServices
891 (1.970 %)ASP.NET
984 (1.818 %)XSLT
1075 (1.623 %)JDBC
1171 (1.537 %)JSP
1267 (1.450 %).NET Framework
1357 (1.234 %)AJAX
1442 (0.909 %)SOAP
1533 (0.714 %)Struts
1533 (0.714 %)Hibernate
1632 (0.693 %)Middleware
1730 (0.649 %)JMS
1826 (0.563 %)WinForms
1925 (0.541 %)Spring
Application Platforms
1101 (2.186 %)Apache
280 (1.732 %)Tomcat
378 (1.688 %)CMS
468 (1.472 %)JBoss
555 (1.190 %)SAS
654 (1.169 %)IIS
750 (1.082 %)SharePoint
845 (0.974 %)WebLogic
928 (0.606 %)MS Exchange
1022 (0.476 %)DOC1
1118 (0.390 %)Content Management Server
1118 (0.390 %)ColdFusion
1217 (0.368 %)Papyrus
1315 (0.325 %)SharePoint Server 2007
1411 (0.238 %)WebSphere Application Server
158 (0.173 %)Oracle 10gAS
167 (0.152 %)MQSeries
176 (0.130 %)Exchange Server 2003
176 (0.130 %)Exstream Dialogue
185 (0.108 %)Blackberry Enterprise Server
Applications
1208 (4.502 %)MS Excel
2107 (2.316 %)MS Office
392 (1.991 %)MS Visio
462 (1.342 %)MS Project
551 (1.104 %)MS PowerPoint
640 (0.866 %)Photoshop
717 (0.368 %)PrintSoft PReS
815 (0.325 %)CA Clarity
912 (0.260 %)InDesign
106 (0.130 %)RoboHelp
106 (0.130 %)SPSS
115 (0.108 %)Adobe Illustrator
122 (0.043 %)MATLAB
131 (0.022 %)Acrobat
131 (0.022 %)InfoPath
Business Applications
115 (0.325 %)SAP HR
214 (0.303 %)assyst
311 (0.238 %)Oracle EBS
48 (0.173 %)Oracle Financials
48 (0.173 %)Oracle 11i
48 (0.173 %)Beauchamp
57 (0.152 %)SAP HR-PA
57 (0.152 %)INSURE/90
57 (0.152 %)LongView
66 (0.130 %)Singl.eView
75 (0.108 %)Fidessa
75 (0.108 %)HiPortfolio
75 (0.108 %)Summit
84 (0.087 %)RMDS
84 (0.087 %)Line 500
84 (0.087 %)Endur
84 (0.087 %)Oracle Applications
93 (0.065 %)BusinessWorks
93 (0.065 %)Navision
93 (0.065 %)Eagle PACE
Communications & Networking
1298 (6.450 %)Internet
2102 (2.208 %)TCP/IP
363 (1.364 %)Broadband
436 (0.779 %)SMS
436 (0.779 %)HTTP
525 (0.541 %)Wireless
622 (0.476 %)FTP
719 (0.411 %)Intranet
818 (0.390 %)SSH
915 (0.325 %)Firewall
915 (0.325 %)SAN
915 (0.325 %)GPRS
1013 (0.281 %)GSM
1013 (0.281 %)UMTS
1111 (0.238 %)WAN
1111 (0.238 %)LAN
1210 (0.216 %)DNS
139 (0.195 %)VPN
147 (0.152 %)CTI
147 (0.152 %)SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1491 (10.63 %)SQL Server
2151 (3.268 %)SQL Server 2005
3140 (3.030 %)Datawarehouse
472 (1.558 %)SQL Server 2000
559 (1.277 %)MySQL
650 (1.082 %)RDBMS
746 (0.996 %)DB2
837 (0.801 %)Oracle 10g
837 (0.801 %)SQL Server 7
932 (0.693 %)BusinessObjects
1031 (0.671 %)Oracle 9i
1128 (0.606 %)Crystal Reports
1226 (0.563 %)SQL Server Reporting Services
1323 (0.498 %)Oracle 8/8i
1421 (0.455 %)Oracle Reports
1421 (0.455 %)SQL Server Analysis Services
1520 (0.433 %)Database Marketing
1520 (0.433 %)Microsoft Analysis Services
1618 (0.390 %)ETL
1715 (0.325 %)TOAD
Development Applications
1397 (8.593 %)TestDirector
2394 (8.528 %)QuickTest Pro
3170 (3.680 %)WinRunner
4136 (2.944 %)LoadRunner
5110 (2.381 %)Selenium
684 (1.818 %)JIRA
772 (1.558 %)Flash
869 (1.494 %)Ant
963 (1.364 %)Eclipse
1062 (1.342 %)Subversion
1156 (1.212 %)Visual Studio
1249 (1.061 %)Rational Robot
1341 (0.887 %)FitNesse
1439 (0.844 %)CruiseControl
1536 (0.779 %)JUnit
1633 (0.714 %)Bugzilla
1725 (0.541 %)ClearQuest
1725 (0.541 %)VSS/SourceSafe
1725 (0.541 %)SilkTest
1821 (0.455 %)MSI
General
11426 (30.87 %)Finance
2636 (13.77 %)Banking
3288 (6.234 %)Investment Banking
4263 (5.693 %)Front Office
5262 (5.671 %)Insurance
6191 (4.134 %)Marketing
7165 (3.571 %)Pensions
8150 (3.247 %)Health
9146 (3.160 %)Retail
10128 (2.771 %)Telecoms
11119 (2.576 %)Games
12116 (2.511 %)Education
13114 (2.468 %)Back Office
1472 (1.558 %)Publishing
1564 (1.385 %)Financial Institution
1650 (1.082 %)Advertising
1748 (1.039 %)Legal
1843 (0.931 %)Government
1940 (0.866 %)Online Games
2025 (0.541 %)Auditing
Job Titles
11194 (25.84 %)Analyst
2729 (15.78 %)Tester
3507 (10.97 %)Test Analyst
3507 (10.97 %)Developer
4450 (9.740 %)QA Analyst
5433 (9.372 %)Test Manager
6349 (7.554 %)QA Engineer
7325 (7.035 %)QA Tester
8261 (5.649 %)Project Manager
9256 (5.541 %)Consultant
10242 (5.238 %)QA Manager
11234 (5.065 %)Business Analyst
12185 (4.004 %)QA Test Analyst
13167 (3.615 %)Test Engineer
14149 (3.225 %)Senior Analyst
15135 (2.922 %)Team Leader
16122 (2.641 %)Senior Developer
17110 (2.381 %)DBA
1891 (1.970 %)Test Consultant
1985 (1.840 %)Quality Engineer
Miscellaneous
1280 (6.061 %)Derivative
2213 (4.610 %)Equities
3182 (3.939 %)Asset Management
4130 (2.814 %)Computer Science
5127 (2.749 %)Fixed Income
692 (1.991 %)Foreign Exchange (FX)
772 (1.558 %)Mathematics
868 (1.472 %)Equity Derivative
965 (1.407 %)Client/Server
1060 (1.299 %)Fund Management
1145 (0.974 %)Statistics
1238 (0.823 %)Management Information System
1331 (0.671 %)PMI
1429 (0.628 %)IPTV
1526 (0.563 %)Blackberry
1526 (0.563 %)N-Tier
1623 (0.498 %)Clustering
1722 (0.476 %)Economics
1818 (0.390 %)Web 2.0
1917 (0.368 %)AS400
Operating Systems
1561 (12.14 %)Unix
2512 (11.08 %)Windows
3275 (5.952 %)Linux
481 (1.753 %)Windows 2000
540 (0.866 %)Windows NT
633 (0.714 %)Solaris
727 (0.584 %)Windows XP
821 (0.455 %)Windows Mobile
916 (0.346 %)AIX
1011 (0.238 %)HPUX
118 (0.173 %)Mac OS X
127 (0.152 %)Windows CE
135 (0.108 %)VMS
135 (0.108 %)FreeBSD
142 (0.043 %)Windows Server 2003
142 (0.043 %)Tru64
151 (0.022 %)SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1474 (10.26 %)Test Scripting
2465 (10.06 %)Project Management
3386 (8.355 %)Automated Testing
4359 (7.771 %)User Acceptance Testing
5343 (7.424 %)Agile Software Development
6338 (7.316 %)Software Testing
7306 (6.623 %)E-Commerce
8235 (5.087 %)Regression Testing
9212 (4.589 %)Manual Testing
10204 (4.416 %)Risk Management
11187 (4.048 %)Test Management
12173 (3.745 %)Performance Testing
13169 (3.658 %)UML
14155 (3.355 %)PRINCE2
15144 (3.117 %)Business Analysis
16141 (3.052 %)Integration Testing
17140 (3.030 %)System Testing
18137 (2.965 %)ITIL
19121 (2.619 %)Investment Management
20118 (2.554 %)OO
Programming Languages
11157 (25.04 %)SQL
2673 (14.57 %)Java
3405 (8.766 %)C#
4318 (6.883 %)C++
5250 (5.411 %)JavaScript
6229 (4.957 %)Perl
7209 (4.524 %)C
8145 (3.139 %)VB
9117 (2.532 %)PHP
10113 (2.446 %)Transact-SQL
11105 (2.273 %)Python
12102 (2.208 %)Shell Script
1397 (2.100 %)VBA
1468 (1.472 %)VB.NET
1566 (1.429 %)PL/SQL
1658 (1.255 %)VB6
1753 (1.147 %)DHTML
1850 (1.082 %)VBScript
1931 (0.671 %)ActionScript
2030 (0.649 %)Ruby
Qualifications
1598 (12.94 %)Degree
2576 (12.47 %)ISEB
334 (0.736 %)ISTQB
428 (0.606 %)PRINCE2 Certification
524 (0.519 %)ITIL Certification
524 (0.519 %)Microsoft Certification
524 (0.519 %)PMI Certification
621 (0.455 %)PMP
720 (0.433 %)ISEB Practitioner
814 (0.303 %)CISSP
910 (0.216 %)CISA
109 (0.195 %)MCSD
116 (0.130 %)MCSA
125 (0.108 %)HND
125 (0.108 %)MCSE
125 (0.108 %)RHCT
125 (0.108 %)MBA
133 (0.065 %)NVQ Level 3
142 (0.043 %)HNC
142 (0.043 %)PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
149 (1.061 %)SLA
242 (0.909 %)Sarbanes-Oxley
338 (0.823 %)COBIT
437 (0.801 %)ISO9000
526 (0.563 %)ISO9001
624 (0.519 %)ISO27001
714 (0.303 %)BS7799
89 (0.195 %)MiFID
98 (0.173 %)Basel II
103 (0.065 %)ISO17799
103 (0.065 %)GCP
112 (0.043 %)TickIT
112 (0.043 %)ISO8583
112 (0.043 %)ISO/IEC 20000
121 (0.022 %)WCAG
121 (0.022 %)GLP
System Software
140 (0.866 %)Active Directory
219 (0.411 %)Oracle RMAN
318 (0.390 %)MSMQ
48 (0.173 %)Terminal Server
56 (0.130 %)Terminal Services
56 (0.130 %)VMware ESX
56 (0.130 %)VMware Workstation
56 (0.130 %)Oracle RAC
64 (0.087 %)Squid
73 (0.065 %)ISA Server
82 (0.043 %)Xen
Systems Management
110 (0.216 %)Oracle Enterprise Manager
25 (0.108 %)Nagios
33 (0.065 %)AutoSys
33 (0.065 %)OpenView
42 (0.043 %)OMEGAMON
51 (0.022 %)EMC NetWorker
51 (0.022 %)Legato
51 (0.022 %)Tivoli
51 (0.022 %)MOM
51 (0.022 %)Systems Management Server (SMS)
51 (0.022 %)CONTROL-M
51 (0.022 %)DameWare
Vendors
1433 (9.372 %)Oracle
2372 (8.052 %)Microsoft
3155 (3.355 %)Sybase
474 (1.602 %)SAP
545 (0.974 %)IBM
639 (0.844 %)VMware
735 (0.758 %)Adobe
735 (0.758 %)Empirix
833 (0.714 %)Cisco
932 (0.693 %)Symbian
932 (0.693 %)Business Objects
932 (0.693 %)Google
1031 (0.671 %)Citrix
1130 (0.649 %)Charles River
1229 (0.628 %)Red Hat
1324 (0.519 %)HP
1421 (0.455 %)LatentZero
1520 (0.433 %)Reuters
1618 (0.390 %)Quark
1618 (0.390 %)XMPie
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