The first table below looks at the demand for QA skills in IT jobs advertised for the Middlesex region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited QA over the 3 months to 24 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 Quality Assurance & Compliance category for the Middlesex region.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Quality Assurance (QA)
Rank 24 23 41
Rank change year-on-year
-1 +18
Permanent jobs citing QA 33 36 30
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Middlesex 6.334% 7.229% 4.267%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 50.00% 73.47% 52.63%
Number of salaries quoted 32 35 18
Average salary £47,500 £45,000 £45,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+5.55% -
90% offered a salary of more than £32,950 £38,500 £30,000
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £59,500 £85,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £37,500 £39,000
% change year-on-year
+1.33% -3.84%
All Quality Assurance & Compliance
Middlesex
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Quality Assurance & Compliance category
66 49 57
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Middlesex 12.67% 9.839% 8.108%
Number of salaries quoted 58 46 39
Average salary £47,500 £45,000 £45,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+5.55% -
90% offered a salary of more than £32,500 £37,500 £32,500
10% offered a salary of more than £70,000 £62,500 £67,500
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £41,000
% change year-on-year
- -2.43%
QA
South East

QA
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Middlesex 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 Middlesex region.

Middlesex QA Salary Trend

QA
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing QA across the Middlesex region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Middlesex QA Salary Histogram

QA
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Middlesex 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 21 (45.65%) Java
2 20 (43.48%) SQL
3 18 (39.13%) Microsoft
4 17 (36.96%) JavaScript
4 17 (36.96%) Web Services
4 17 (36.96%) Mathematics
5 16 (34.78%) Subversion
5 16 (34.78%) MS Project
5 16 (34.78%) MS Office
6 15 (32.61%) Visual Studio
6 15 (32.61%) SQL Server
6 15 (32.61%) C#
6 15 (32.61%) .NET
6 15 (32.61%) ASP.NET
6 15 (32.61%) SQLBase
6 15 (32.61%) Statistics
7 10 (21.74%) Project Management
7 10 (21.74%) C++
8 9 (19.57%) Scrum
9 8 (17.39%) Agile Software Development
9 8 (17.39%) VB
9 8 (17.39%) VBA
9 8 (17.39%) XML
10 7 (15.22%) Web Development
10 7 (15.22%) Team Foundation Server
11 5 (10.87%) OOD
11 5 (10.87%) HTTP
11 5 (10.87%) OO
11 5 (10.87%) Marketing
11 5 (10.87%) JIRA

QA
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Middlesex 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.

Application Development
1 17 (36.96%) Web Services
2 15 (32.61%) .NET
2 15 (32.61%) ASP.NET
3 8 (17.39%) XML
4 4 (8.696%) JSON
4 4 (8.696%) Hibernate
4 4 (8.696%) XSD
5 3 (6.522%) EDI
5 3 (6.522%) OpenGL
5 3 (6.522%) J2EE
5 3 (6.522%) JSP
5 3 (6.522%) OpenGL ES
6 2 (4.348%) Ehcache
6 2 (4.348%) GWT
6 2 (4.348%) Ajax
6 2 (4.348%) Spring
6 2 (4.348%) JDBC
6 2 (4.348%) SOAP
6 2 (4.348%) WSDL
7 1 (2.174%) EDIFACT
Application Platforms
1 3 (6.522%) BizTalk Server
1 3 (6.522%) Apache
2 2 (4.348%) nginx
3 1 (2.174%) MS Exchange
3 1 (2.174%) Tomcat
3 1 (2.174%) SharePoint
3 1 (2.174%) CMS
3 1 (2.174%) MS Project Server
Applications
1 16 (34.78%) MS Project
1 16 (34.78%) MS Office
2 1 (2.174%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (6.522%) Dynamics AX
1 3 (6.522%) SAP Oil and Gas
2 1 (2.174%) SAP SD
2 1 (2.174%) Dynamics CRM
Communications & Networking
1 5 (10.87%) HTTP
2 4 (8.696%) ADSL
2 4 (8.696%) Broadband
2 4 (8.696%) Wi-Fi
3 3 (6.522%) Unified Communications
4 2 (4.348%) DNS
5 1 (2.174%) Intranet
5 1 (2.174%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (32.61%) SQL Server
1 15 (32.61%) SQLBase
2 1 (2.174%) MySQL
2 1 (2.174%) Oracle 11g
Development Applications
1 16 (34.78%) Subversion
2 15 (32.61%) Visual Studio
3 7 (15.22%) Team Foundation Server
4 5 (10.87%) JIRA
4 5 (10.87%) Selenium
5 2 (4.348%) Hudson
5 2 (4.348%) Maven
5 2 (4.348%) Ant
6 1 (2.174%) Jenkins
General
1 5 (10.87%) Marketing
2 4 (8.696%) Telecoms
3 3 (6.522%) Aerospace
4 2 (4.348%) Billing
4 2 (4.348%) Legal
4 2 (4.348%) Advertising
4 2 (4.348%) Electronics
4 2 (4.348%) Finance
5 1 (2.174%) Back Office
5 1 (2.174%) Games
Job Titles
1 22 (47.83%) Developer
2 15 (32.61%) Programmer
3 8 (17.39%) .NET Developer
3 8 (17.39%) VBA Developer
3 8 (17.39%) .NET Programmer
4 7 (15.22%) SQL Developer
4 7 (15.22%) SQL Server Developer
4 7 (15.22%) SQL Programmer
5 6 (13.04%) Senior Developer
5 6 (13.04%) Analyst
6 5 (10.87%) Product Manager
7 4 (8.696%) Test Specialist
8 3 (6.522%) Quality Engineer
8 3 (6.522%) Tester
8 3 (6.522%) QA Engineer
8 3 (6.522%) Solutions Analyst
8 3 (6.522%) SAP Analyst
8 3 (6.522%) iOS Developer
8 3 (6.522%) Senior iOS Developer
9 2 (4.348%) QA Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 17 (36.96%) Mathematics
2 15 (32.61%) Statistics
3 4 (8.696%) Computer Science
4 3 (6.522%) Streaming Video
4 3 (6.522%) Mobile App
4 3 (6.522%) iPad
5 2 (4.348%) Social Media
5 2 (4.348%) Management Information System
6 1 (2.174%) Digital Media
6 1 (2.174%) Inversion of Control
6 1 (2.174%) Video on Demand
Operating Systems
1 3 (6.522%) Windows
1 3 (6.522%) Solaris
1 3 (6.522%) Apple iOS
2 2 (4.348%) Windows 7
2 2 (4.348%) Linux
2 2 (4.348%) UNIX
3 1 (2.174%) Fedora
3 1 (2.174%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (21.74%) Project Management
2 9 (19.57%) Scrum
3 8 (17.39%) Agile Software Development
4 7 (15.22%) Web Development
5 5 (10.87%) OOD
5 5 (10.87%) OO
5 5 (10.87%) Unit Testing
5 5 (10.87%) User Stories
6 3 (6.522%) B2B
6 3 (6.522%) Continuous Integration
7 2 (4.348%) Analytics
7 2 (4.348%) Load Testing
7 2 (4.348%) Multithreading
7 2 (4.348%) Manual Testing
7 2 (4.348%) Business Analysis
7 2 (4.348%) Software Engineering
7 2 (4.348%) SEO
8 1 (2.174%) MVC
8 1 (2.174%) CRM
8 1 (2.174%) PRINCE2
Programming Languages
1 21 (45.65%) Java
2 20 (43.48%) SQL
3 17 (36.96%) JavaScript
4 15 (32.61%) C#
5 10 (21.74%) C++
6 8 (17.39%) VB
6 8 (17.39%) VBA
7 3 (6.522%) PHP
7 3 (6.522%) Objective-C
8 2 (4.348%) Bash shell
8 2 (4.348%) Perl
Qualifications
1 4 (8.696%) Security Cleared
1 4 (8.696%) Degree
2 1 (2.174%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 1 (2.174%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (4.348%) Nagios
2 1 (2.174%) Puppet
Vendors
1 18 (39.13%) Microsoft
2 4 (8.696%) Oracle
3 3 (6.522%) Red Hat
3 3 (6.522%) SAP
4 1 (2.174%) VMware
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