The first table below looks at the demand for QALoad skills in IT jobs advertised for the London region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited QALoad 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 Development Applications category for the London region.

Location
3 months to
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Compuware QALoad
Rank 592 642 625
Rank change year-on-year
+50 -17
Permanent jobs citing QALoad 9 7 5
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in London 0.020% 0.013% 0.009%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.133% 0.095% 0.073%
Number of salaries quoted 9 7 5
Average salary £70,000 £40,000 £57,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+75.00% -30.43%
90% offered a salary of more than £64,000 £40,000 £42,500
10% offered a salary of more than £90,000 £40,000 £60,000
UK excluding London average salary £57,500 £35,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year
+64.28% -22.22%
All Development Applications
London
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Development Applications category
6764 7367 6851
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in London 15.37% 13.53% 12.00%
Number of salaries quoted 5802 6501 5961
Average salary £50,000 £47,500 £50,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+5.26% -5.00%
90% offered a salary of more than £35,000 £35,000 £35,000
10% offered a salary of more than £67,500 £72,500 £66,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,500 £38,000 £37,000
% change year-on-year
+1.31% +2.70%
QALoad
England

QALoad
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing QALoad across the London region as a proportion of the total demand within the Development Applications category.

London QALoad Jobs Demand Trend

QALoad
Salary Trend

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

London QALoad Salary Trend

QALoad
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing QALoad across the London region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013.

London QALoad Salary Histogram

QALoad
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the London region citing QALoad 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 QALoad.

1 9 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 9 (100.00%) Web Services
1 9 (100.00%) XML
1 9 (100.00%) IBM
1 9 (100.00%) QA
2 7 (77.78%) Load Testing
2 7 (77.78%) JPA
2 7 (77.78%) Web Application Development
2 7 (77.78%) J2EE
2 7 (77.78%) Java
2 7 (77.78%) JSP
2 7 (77.78%) WebLogic
2 7 (77.78%) BEA
2 7 (77.78%) Middleware
2 7 (77.78%) MVC
2 7 (77.78%) Spring
2 7 (77.78%) JSF
2 7 (77.78%) Ajax
2 7 (77.78%) WebSphere
3 2 (22.22%) Investment Banking
3 2 (22.22%) SilkPerformer
3 2 (22.22%) Finance
3 2 (22.22%) Banking
3 2 (22.22%) Micro Focus
3 2 (22.22%) LoadRunner
3 2 (22.22%) ASP
3 2 (22.22%) ASP.NET
3 2 (22.22%) CSS
3 2 (22.22%) .NET
3 2 (22.22%) C

QALoad
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the London region citing QALoad 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 QALoad. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 9 (100.00%) Web Services
1 9 (100.00%) XML
2 7 (77.78%) JPA
2 7 (77.78%) J2EE
2 7 (77.78%) JSP
2 7 (77.78%) Middleware
2 7 (77.78%) Spring
2 7 (77.78%) JSF
2 7 (77.78%) Ajax
2 7 (77.78%) WebSphere
3 2 (22.22%) ASP
3 2 (22.22%) ASP.NET
3 2 (22.22%) CSS
3 2 (22.22%) .NET
3 2 (22.22%) WCF
3 2 (22.22%) WPF
Application Platforms
1 7 (77.78%) WebLogic
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (22.22%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (22.22%) SilkPerformer
1 2 (22.22%) LoadRunner
1 2 (22.22%) Rational Performance Tester
General
1 2 (22.22%) Investment Banking
1 2 (22.22%) Finance
1 2 (22.22%) Banking
Job Titles
1 5 (55.56%) Technical Consultant
1 5 (55.56%) Consultant
2 2 (22.22%) Solutions Architect
2 2 (22.22%) Test Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) Performance Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) Architect
2 2 (22.22%) Performance Test Engineer
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (77.78%) Load Testing
1 7 (77.78%) Web Application Development
1 7 (77.78%) MVC
2 2 (22.22%) Performance Testing
Programming Languages
1 9 (100.00%) JavaScript
2 7 (77.78%) Java
3 2 (22.22%) C
3 2 (22.22%) C++
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (100.00%) QA
Vendors
1 9 (100.00%) IBM
2 7 (77.78%) BEA
3 2 (22.22%) Micro Focus
3 2 (22.22%) Sybase
3 2 (22.22%) HP
Central London / West End
Experience in J2EE Web application development (AJAX, XML, JSP, JSF, Javascript, JPA, and Web Services) and deployment practices. Experience with J2EE Middleware (BEA WebLogic and IBM WebSphere), design...
4it Recruitment Ltd
Salary: Up to £65,000 per annum
Posted: 17 May 2013