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

Location
3 months to
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Quality Assurance (QA)
Rank 39 42 59
Rank change year-on-year
+3 +17
Permanent jobs citing QA 47 23 16
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Oxford 4.594% 3.544% 2.033%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 52.22% 56.10% 48.48%
Number of salaries quoted 47 19 15
Average salary £55,000 £40,000 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+37.50% +6.66%
90% offered a salary of more than £30,000 £32,000 £25,600
10% offered a salary of more than £72,500 £44,200 £73,500
UK excluding London average salary £38,250 £37,500 £39,000
% change year-on-year
+2.00% -3.84%
All Quality Assurance & Compliance
Oxford
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Quality Assurance & Compliance category
90 41 33
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Oxford 8.798% 6.317% 4.193%
Number of salaries quoted 89 32 32
Average salary £42,500 £41,750 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+1.79% +11.33%
90% offered a salary of more than £24,000 £32,500 £23,800
10% offered a salary of more than £65,250 £60,000 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £41,000
% change year-on-year
- -2.43%
QA
Oxfordshire

QA
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Oxford 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 Oxford region.

Oxford QA Salary Trend

QA
Salary Histogram

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

Oxford QA Salary Histogram

QA
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Oxford 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 53 (47.75%) Oracle
2 33 (29.73%) Publishing
3 29 (26.13%) Business Intelligence
4 28 (25.23%) Degree
5 27 (24.32%) Selenium
5 27 (24.32%) Siebel
6 25 (22.52%) Software Engineering
7 23 (20.72%) Java
8 22 (19.82%) SOA
9 21 (18.92%) Oracle BI EE
9 21 (18.92%) Waterfall
10 20 (18.02%) ISEB
11 18 (16.22%) Agile Software Development
11 18 (16.22%) Finance
12 17 (15.32%) Business Transformation
13 15 (13.51%) CRM
13 15 (13.51%) Test Automation
13 15 (13.51%) Software Testing
14 14 (12.61%) Continuous Improvement
14 14 (12.61%) Python
15 13 (11.71%) Linux
15 13 (11.71%) Perl
15 13 (11.71%) SQL
15 13 (11.71%) QuickTest Pro
15 13 (11.71%) SLA
16 12 (10.81%) Resource Management
16 12 (10.81%) Statistics
16 12 (10.81%) Open Source
16 12 (10.81%) .NET
17 11 (9.910%) C#

QA
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Oxford 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 12 (10.81%) .NET
2 11 (9.910%) ASP.NET
3 6 (5.405%) XML
4 5 (4.505%) CSS
5 4 (3.604%) HTML5
6 3 (2.703%) Ajax
6 3 (2.703%) RESTful
6 3 (2.703%) Memcached
6 3 (2.703%) Web Services
6 3 (2.703%) HTML
6 3 (2.703%) LAMP
7 2 (1.802%) Hibernate
7 2 (1.802%) Spring
7 2 (1.802%) Swing
7 2 (1.802%) RSS
7 2 (1.802%) Struts
7 2 (1.802%) XML Schema
7 2 (1.802%) REST
7 2 (1.802%) Ext JS
7 2 (1.802%) JSON
Application Platforms
1 10 (9.009%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 3 (2.703%) Apache
3 2 (1.802%) CMS
3 2 (1.802%) Amazon EMR
3 2 (1.802%) Amazon SQS
3 2 (1.802%) Amazon AWS
4 1 (0.901%) WebLogic
4 1 (0.901%) Oracle Workflow
Business Applications
1 11 (9.910%) Oracle EBS
2 6 (5.405%) Oracle Applications
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.703%) SMTP
1 3 (2.703%) DNS
2 1 (0.901%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (18.92%) Oracle BI EE
2 9 (8.108%) Oracle Reports
2 9 (8.108%) SQL Server
3 5 (4.505%) MongoDB
3 5 (4.505%) Data Warehouse
3 5 (4.505%) MySQL
4 2 (1.802%) DB2
4 2 (1.802%) Amazon DynamoDB
4 2 (1.802%) NoSQL
4 2 (1.802%) Hadoop
5 1 (0.901%) SQL Server 2008
5 1 (0.901%) SQL Server 2012
5 1 (0.901%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 27 (24.32%) Selenium
2 13 (11.71%) QuickTest Pro
3 11 (9.910%) LoadRunner
3 11 (9.910%) WATIR
4 8 (7.207%) JUnit
4 8 (7.207%) Jenkins
4 8 (7.207%) PEAR
5 5 (4.505%) Cucumber
6 4 (3.604%) WebDriver
6 4 (3.604%) FitNesse
7 3 (2.703%) Subversion
8 2 (1.802%) Concordion
9 1 (0.901%) TestComplete
9 1 (0.901%) Rational Robot
General
1 33 (29.73%) Publishing
2 18 (16.22%) Finance
3 3 (2.703%) Music
3 3 (2.703%) Pharmaceutical
3 3 (2.703%) Games
4 2 (1.802%) Banking
5 1 (0.901%) Legal
Job Titles
1 17 (15.32%) Analyst
2 16 (14.41%) Test Engineer
3 13 (11.71%) Test Analyst
3 13 (11.71%) Software Manager
4 12 (10.81%) Software Engineer
4 12 (10.81%) DBA
5 9 (8.108%) Tester
5 9 (8.108%) QA Manager
6 8 (7.207%) Test Manager
6 8 (7.207%) Software Tester
6 8 (7.207%) Automation Engineer
6 8 (7.207%) Test Automation Engineer
7 7 (6.306%) Software Test Engineer
7 7 (6.306%) QA Tester
8 6 (5.405%) Engineering Manager
8 6 (5.405%) Developer
8 6 (5.405%) Technical Manager
8 6 (5.405%) Oracle Applications DBA
8 6 (5.405%) Oracle DBA
8 6 (5.405%) Manual Tester
Miscellaneous
1 12 (10.81%) Statistics
1 12 (10.81%) Open Source
2 5 (4.505%) Mathematics
3 3 (2.703%) Life Science
3 3 (2.703%) SaaS
3 3 (2.703%) Social Gaming
4 2 (1.802%) Mainframe
4 2 (1.802%) Taxonomies
4 2 (1.802%) Ontologies
5 1 (0.901%) Computer Science
5 1 (0.901%) Digital Media
5 1 (0.901%) Mobile App
5 1 (0.901%) N-Tier
5 1 (0.901%) Management Information System
5 1 (0.901%) Handset
Operating Systems
1 13 (11.71%) Linux
2 11 (9.910%) UNIX
3 10 (9.009%) Windows
4 4 (3.604%) Apple iOS
4 4 (3.604%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (26.13%) Business Intelligence
2 25 (22.52%) Software Engineering
3 22 (19.82%) SOA
4 21 (18.92%) Waterfall
5 18 (16.22%) Agile Software Development
6 17 (15.32%) Business Transformation
7 15 (13.51%) CRM
7 15 (13.51%) Test Automation
7 15 (13.51%) Software Testing
8 14 (12.61%) Continuous Improvement
9 12 (10.81%) Resource Management
10 11 (9.910%) ETL
10 11 (9.910%) Test Management
11 8 (7.207%) Penetration Testing
11 8 (7.207%) Manual Testing
12 7 (6.306%) Validation
13 6 (5.405%) Web Development
14 5 (4.505%) Security Testing
14 5 (4.505%) E-Commerce
14 5 (4.505%) E-business
Programming Languages
1 23 (20.72%) Java
2 14 (12.61%) Python
3 13 (11.71%) Perl
3 13 (11.71%) SQL
4 11 (9.910%) C#
5 8 (7.207%) C++
6 5 (4.505%) JavaScript
7 4 (3.604%) C
8 3 (2.703%) Ruby
8 3 (2.703%) PHP
9 2 (1.802%) PL/SQL
9 2 (1.802%) Delphi
10 1 (0.901%) VB
Qualifications
1 28 (25.23%) Degree
2 20 (18.02%) ISEB
3 2 (1.802%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (11.71%) SLA
2 6 (5.405%) GAMP
2 6 (5.405%) ISO 9001
3 3 (2.703%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (2.703%) GxP
4 2 (1.802%) Dublin Core
Systems Management
1 11 (9.910%) HP Quality Center
2 3 (2.703%) Nagios
Vendors
1 53 (47.75%) Oracle
2 27 (24.32%) Siebel
3 11 (9.910%) Hyperion
4 4 (3.604%) SAP
4 4 (3.604%) Salesforce.com
5 3 (2.703%) Perforce
6 2 (1.802%) IBM
6 2 (1.802%) TIBCO
6 2 (1.802%) Compuware
6 2 (1.802%) HP
7 1 (0.901%) Microsoft
7 1 (0.901%) PeopleSoft
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