The first table below looks at the demand for the QA Analyst role in IT jobs advertised for the Manchester region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited QA Analyst in their job title over the 3 months to 17 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 Manchester region.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Quality Assurance Analyst
Rank 183 159 166
Rank change year-on-year
-24 +7
Permanent jobs requiring a QA Analyst 11 16 7
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Manchester 0.271% 0.441% 0.177%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.284% 0.457% 0.185%
Number of salaries quoted 11 12 6
Average salary £33,000 £31,500 £30,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+4.76% +5.00%
90% offered a salary of more than £29,000 £29,100 £27,500
10% offered a salary of more than £35,000 £32,400 £31,250
UK excluding London average salary £35,000 £34,000 £32,500
% change year-on-year
+2.94% +4.61%
All Job Titles
Manchester
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
3875 3500 3791
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Manchester 95.49% 96.53% 96.07%
Number of salaries quoted 3350 3122 3469
Average salary £35,000 £35,000 £35,000
90% offered a salary of more than £23,500 £23,000 £21,500
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +1.33%
QA Analyst
North West

QA Analyst
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Manchester QA Analyst Jobs Demand Trend

QA Analyst
Salary Trend

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

Manchester QA Analyst Salary Trend

QA Analyst
Top 20 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Manchester region that cited QA 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 Analyst in their job title.

1 14 (100.00%) .NET
1 14 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 14 (100.00%) QA
2 9 (64.29%) Degree
2 9 (64.29%) Software Testing
2 9 (64.29%) SQL Server 2005
2 9 (64.29%) Manual Testing
2 9 (64.29%) TestComplete
2 9 (64.29%) SQL Server 2008
2 9 (64.29%) Enterprise Software
2 9 (64.29%) ISEB
3 7 (50.00%) Client/Server
4 5 (35.71%) C#
4 5 (35.71%) ASP.NET
4 5 (35.71%) Regression Testing
4 5 (35.71%) Agile Software Development
4 5 (35.71%) Selenium
4 5 (35.71%) User Acceptance Testing
4 5 (35.71%) Test Scripting
5 4 (28.57%) Automated Testing

QA Analyst
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Manchester region that cited QA 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 Analyst in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 14 (100.00%) .NET
2 5 (35.71%) ASP.NET
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (100.00%) SQL Server
2 9 (64.29%) SQL Server 2005
2 9 (64.29%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 9 (64.29%) TestComplete
2 5 (35.71%) Selenium
Miscellaneous
1 9 (64.29%) Enterprise Software
2 7 (50.00%) Client/Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (64.29%) Software Testing
1 9 (64.29%) Manual Testing
2 5 (35.71%) User Acceptance Testing
2 5 (35.71%) Test Scripting
2 5 (35.71%) Regression Testing
2 5 (35.71%) Agile Software Development
3 4 (28.57%) Automated Testing
Programming Languages
1 5 (35.71%) C#
Qualifications
1 9 (64.29%) ISEB
1 9 (64.29%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (100.00%) QA