The first table below looks at the demand for QA skills in IT jobs advertised for the Macclesfield region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited QA over the 3 months to 17 June 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 Quality Assurance & Compliance category for the Macclesfield region.

Location
3 months to
17 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Quality Assurance (QA)
Rank 33 30 32
Rank change year-on-year
-3 +2
Permanent jobs citing QA 12 7 11
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Macclesfield 5.854% 4.348% 5.189%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 100.00% 87.50% 73.33%
Number of salaries quoted 7 4 11
Average salary £38,500 £21,500 £67,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+79.06% -68.14%
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £40,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-5.00% -
All Quality Assurance & Compliance
Macclesfield
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Quality Assurance & Compliance category
12 8 15
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Macclesfield 5.854% 4.969% 7.075%
Number of salaries quoted 7 5 15
Average salary £38,500 £21,500 £67,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+79.06% -68.14%
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £41,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-2.43% +2.50%
QA
Cheshire

QA
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing QA across the Macclesfield region as a proportion of the total demand within the Quality Assurance & Compliance category.

Macclesfield QA Jobs Demand Trend

QA
Salary Trend

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

Macclesfield QA Salary Trend

QA
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 June 2013, IT jobs across the Macclesfield region citing QA 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 QA.

1 8 (42.11%) C
1 8 (42.11%) Java
1 8 (42.11%) Linux
1 8 (42.11%) UNIX
1 8 (42.11%) Shell Script
1 8 (42.11%) Telecoms
1 8 (42.11%) Handset
2 5 (26.32%) Degree
2 5 (26.32%) Computer Science
3 4 (21.05%) Internet
3 4 (21.05%) Replication
3 4 (21.05%) OLTP
3 4 (21.05%) RDBMS
3 4 (21.05%) SMTP
3 4 (21.05%) HTTP
3 4 (21.05%) TCP/IP
3 4 (21.05%) LDAP
3 4 (21.05%) SQL
3 4 (21.05%) SQL Server
3 4 (21.05%) IMAP
4 3 (15.79%) Ubuntu
4 3 (15.79%) CentOS
4 3 (15.79%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (15.79%) Bash shell
4 3 (15.79%) Red Hat
4 3 (15.79%) Solaris
4 3 (15.79%) Fedora
5 2 (10.53%) Project Management
5 2 (10.53%) Stakeholder Management
5 2 (10.53%) Business Intelligence

QA
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 June 2013, IT jobs across the Macclesfield region citing QA 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 QA. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Communications & Networking
1 4 (21.05%) SMTP
1 4 (21.05%) HTTP
1 4 (21.05%) TCP/IP
1 4 (21.05%) Internet
1 4 (21.05%) IMAP
1 4 (21.05%) LDAP
2 1 (5.263%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (21.05%) SQL Server
1 4 (21.05%) OLTP
1 4 (21.05%) RDBMS
2 2 (10.53%) Data Warehouse
General
1 8 (42.11%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 6 (31.58%) Support Engineer
1 6 (31.58%) Senior Support Engineer
2 5 (26.32%) Software Tester
2 5 (26.32%) Tester
3 4 (21.05%) Analyst
3 4 (21.05%) Applications Support
3 4 (21.05%) DBA
3 4 (21.05%) SQL Server DBA
3 4 (21.05%) SQL DBA
3 4 (21.05%) Applications Support Engineer
4 3 (15.79%) Test Analyst
4 3 (15.79%) Software Test Analyst
5 2 (10.53%) Senior Technical Support Engineer
5 2 (10.53%) Junior Software Tester
5 2 (10.53%) Senior Technical Engineer
5 2 (10.53%) Technical Support
5 2 (10.53%) Junior
5 2 (10.53%) Junior Tester
5 2 (10.53%) Senior Technical Support
5 2 (10.53%) Technical Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 8 (42.11%) Handset
2 5 (26.32%) Computer Science
3 4 (21.05%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 8 (42.11%) Linux
1 8 (42.11%) UNIX
2 3 (15.79%) Solaris
2 3 (15.79%) Fedora
2 3 (15.79%) Ubuntu
2 3 (15.79%) CentOS
2 3 (15.79%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (10.53%) ETL
1 2 (10.53%) Business Intelligence
1 2 (10.53%) Project Management
1 2 (10.53%) Stakeholder Management
1 2 (10.53%) Portfolio Management
1 2 (10.53%) Business Transformation
2 1 (5.263%) Product Management
Programming Languages
1 8 (42.11%) C
1 8 (42.11%) Java
1 8 (42.11%) Shell Script
2 4 (21.05%) SQL
3 3 (15.79%) Bash shell
Qualifications
1 5 (26.32%) Degree
Vendors
1 3 (15.79%) Red Hat
2 2 (10.53%) Business Objects