North East QA Jobs

This section looks at the demand for Quality Assurance (QA) skills within the North East 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 3 months to 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Altrincham Ascot Aylesbury Banbury Basingstoke Bath Bathgate Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Bideford Birmingham Bishop's Stortford Blackburn Borehamwood Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckingham Buckinghamshire Bury St Edmunds Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Chatham Cheadle Chelmsford Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chippenham Cirencester City of London Clapham Colchester Cornwall County Antrim Coventry Crawley Crewe Croydon Cumbria Cwmbran Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset Dundee Durham East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastleigh Edinburgh Egham Elland England Epsom Essex Exeter Fareham Farnborough Farnham Ferndown Fife Gatwick Glamorgan Glasgow Glenrothes Gloucester Gloucestershire Godalming Greenock Guildford Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harpenden Harrogate Harrow Hastings Hemel Hempstead Hereford Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Home Counties Horsham Hove Hull Hungerford Huntingdon Ilford Inverclyde Ipswich Kendal Kent Kingswinford Knutsford Lancashire Leamington Spa Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Letchworth Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston London Loughborough Luton Lymm Maidenhead Manchester Marlow Mayfield Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Newton-le-Willows Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northallerton Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Paddington Perth and Kinross Peterborough Petersfield Poole Portsmouth Preston Radlett Reading Redhill Rugby Runcorn Salford Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Sittingbourne Skipton Slough Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southam Southampton St Albans St Helens St Ives Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stirling Stockport Stockton-on-Tees Stowmarket Street Stroud Suffolk Sunderland Surbiton Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Tadworth Teddington Telford Thames Valley Tonbridge Torfaen Tunbridge Wells Twickenham Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Wallingford Waltham Cross Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Welwyn Garden City West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Weybridge Wigan Wiltshire Wimbledon Winchester Windsor Woking Wokingham Worcester Worcestershire Worksop Worthing Yeovil York Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	63	70
Rank change on same period last year	+7
Matching permanent IT job ads	26	16
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.014 %	0.007 %
As % of the category below	53.06 %	24.62 %
Salaries quoted	24	13
Average minimum salary	£40,333	£29,368
Average salary	£45,156	£31,842
% change on same period last year	+41.81 %
Average maximum salary	£49,979	£34,316
UK excluding London average salary	£37,346	£37,288
% change on same period last year	+0.15 %
Quality Assurance & Compliance North East
Matching permanent IT job ads	49	65
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.026 %	0.027 %
Salaries quoted	36	59
Average minimum salary	£36,238	£31,349
Average salary	£40,435	£32,895
% change on same period last year	+22.92 %
Average maximum salary	£44,631	£34,441
UK excluding London average salary	£39,410	£39,928
% change on same period last year	-1.29 %
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Demand Trend

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

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Salary Trend

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

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Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing QA across the North East region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008.

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Job Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing QA within the North East region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Permanent IT Job Ads	Average Salary Last 3 Months	Average Salary % Change on Same Period Last Year
Tyne and Wear	-8	7	£41,333	+25.60 %
Durham	+8	3	£28,917	-31.96 %

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT jobs across the North East 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 9 (26.47 %) Scrum 1 9 (26.47 %) Degree 2 8 (23.53 %) Agile Software Development 2 8 (23.53 %) PRINCE2 3 7 (20.59 %) SAP 3 7 (20.59 %) Quality Management 3 7 (20.59 %) Management Information System 3 7 (20.59 %) ION Trading 3 7 (20.59 %) Games 3 7 (20.59 %) Manual Testing 4 6 (17.65 %) Business Analysis 4 6 (17.65 %) Finance 4 6 (17.65 %) BPR 5 5 (14.71 %) Windows 6 4 (11.76 %) SAP HR

6 4 (11.76 %) Microsoft 6 4 (11.76 %) Software Testing 7 3 (8.824 %) Firewall 7 3 (8.824 %) Legal 7 3 (8.824 %) Education 7 3 (8.824 %) Citrix 7 3 (8.824 %) Microsoft Certification 7 3 (8.824 %) LAN 7 3 (8.824 %) VoIP 7 3 (8.824 %) WAN 7 3 (8.824 %) SAP SD 7 3 (8.824 %) Linux 7 3 (8.824 %) Windows 2000 7 3 (8.824 %) MS Excel 7 3 (8.824 %) C

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT jobs across the North East 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 Platforms 1 1 (2.941 %) SAS	Applications 1 3 (8.824 %) MS Excel 2 2 (5.882 %) MS Office 3 1 (2.941 %) MS Visio
Business Applications 1 4 (11.76 %) SAP HR 2 3 (8.824 %) SAP SD	Communications & Networking 1 3 (8.824 %) LAN 1 3 (8.824 %) VoIP 1 3 (8.824 %) WAN 1 3 (8.824 %) Firewall 2 1 (2.941 %) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence 1 1 (2.941 %) Data Mining 1 1 (2.941 %) ETL 1 1 (2.941 %) Data Cleansing	General 1 7 (20.59 %) Games 2 6 (17.65 %) Finance 3 3 (8.824 %) Education 3 3 (8.824 %) Legal 4 1 (2.941 %) Telecoms 4 1 (2.941 %) Marketing 4 1 (2.941 %) Online Games 4 1 (2.941 %) Government 4 1 (2.941 %) Health
Job Titles 1 8 (23.53 %) Consultant 2 7 (20.59 %) Development Manager 2 7 (20.59 %) SAP Consultant 3 4 (11.76 %) SAP HR Consultant 3 4 (11.76 %) SAP HCM Consultant 4 3 (8.824 %) C++ Programmer 4 3 (8.824 %) SAP SD Consultant 4 3 (8.824 %) Programmer 4 3 (8.824 %) Author 4 3 (8.824 %) Technical Author 5 2 (5.882 %) Analyst 5 2 (5.882 %) Technical Project Manager 5 2 (5.882 %) Project Manager 5 2 (5.882 %) Technical Manager 6 1 (2.941 %) Delivery Manager 6 1 (2.941 %) SAS Consultant 6 1 (2.941 %) Trainee 6 1 (2.941 %) Senior Producer 6 1 (2.941 %) Tester 6 1 (2.941 %) Test Manager	Miscellaneous 1 7 (20.59 %) Management Information System
Operating Systems 1 5 (14.71 %) Windows 2 3 (8.824 %) Linux 2 3 (8.824 %) Windows 2000 2 3 (8.824 %) UNIX	Processes & Methodologies 1 9 (26.47 %) Scrum 2 8 (23.53 %) Agile Software Development 2 8 (23.53 %) PRINCE2 3 7 (20.59 %) Quality Management 3 7 (20.59 %) Manual Testing 4 6 (17.65 %) BPR 4 6 (17.65 %) Business Analysis 5 4 (11.76 %) Software Testing 6 2 (5.882 %) Release Management 6 2 (5.882 %) Project Management 7 1 (2.941 %) Data Modelling 7 1 (2.941 %) Business Intelligence 7 1 (2.941 %) Process Management 7 1 (2.941 %) Service Delivery 7 1 (2.941 %) Change Management 7 1 (2.941 %) Disaster Recovery 7 1 (2.941 %) Test Management 7 1 (2.941 %) Asset Management 7 1 (2.941 %) Data Analysis 7 1 (2.941 %) ITIL
Programming Languages 1 3 (8.824 %) C 1 3 (8.824 %) C++	Qualifications 1 9 (26.47 %) Degree 2 3 (8.824 %) Microsoft Certification 2 3 (8.824 %) MCP 2 3 (8.824 %) HND 3 2 (5.882 %) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 1 (2.941 %) Sarbanes-Oxley 1 1 (2.941 %) COBIT	Vendors 1 7 (20.59 %) SAP 1 7 (20.59 %) ION Trading 2 4 (11.76 %) Microsoft 3 3 (8.824 %) Citrix