The first table below looks at the demand for QA skills in IT jobs advertised for the Peterborough 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 Peterborough region.

Location
3 months to
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Quality Assurance (QA)
Rank 17 34 36
Rank change year-on-year
+17 +2
Permanent jobs citing QA 35 11 13
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Peterborough 9.804% 3.514% 4.377%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 57.38% 35.48% 52.00%
Number of salaries quoted 34 4 5
Average salary £47,500 £72,500 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-34.48% +93.33%
90% offered a salary of more than £24,000 £41,000 £37,000
10% offered a salary of more than £70,000 £72,500 £47,138
UK excluding London average salary £38,250 £37,500 £39,000
% change year-on-year
+2.00% -3.84%
All Quality Assurance & Compliance
Peterborough
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Quality Assurance & Compliance category
61 31 25
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Peterborough 17.09% 9.904% 8.418%
Number of salaries quoted 54 24 17
Average salary £33,750 £26,750 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+26.16% -33.12%
90% offered a salary of more than £22,500 £20,500 £30,000
10% offered a salary of more than £70,000 £55,000 £69,500
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £41,000
% change year-on-year
- -2.43%
QA
Cambridgeshire

QA
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Peterborough 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 Peterborough region.

Peterborough QA Salary Trend

QA
Salary Histogram

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

Peterborough QA Salary Histogram

QA
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Peterborough 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 20 (36.36%) Web Testing
2 19 (34.55%) Web Development
3 18 (32.73%) TDD
4 15 (27.27%) HTML
4 15 (27.27%) Automated Testing
4 15 (27.27%) WATIR
4 15 (27.27%) Selenium
4 15 (27.27%) Security Testing
4 15 (27.27%) Jasmine
5 13 (23.64%) CSS
5 13 (23.64%) E-Commerce
6 12 (21.82%) Microsoft
7 11 (20.00%) Windows
8 10 (18.18%) MS Excel
8 10 (18.18%) SQL
8 10 (18.18%) JavaScript
9 9 (16.36%) C#
10 8 (14.55%) SQL Server
10 8 (14.55%) jQuery
11 6 (10.91%) IIS
11 6 (10.91%) .NET
11 6 (10.91%) T-SQL
11 6 (10.91%) Project Management
12 5 (9.091%) Quality Management
12 5 (9.091%) VBScript
12 5 (9.091%) Photoshop
12 5 (9.091%) XML
12 5 (9.091%) Time Management
13 4 (7.273%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 4 (7.273%) SQL Server Reporting Services

QA
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Peterborough 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 15 (27.27%) HTML
2 13 (23.64%) CSS
3 8 (14.55%) jQuery
4 6 (10.91%) .NET
5 5 (9.091%) XML
6 4 (7.273%) ASP.NET
7 3 (5.455%) COM
7 3 (5.455%) Ajax
8 2 (3.636%) ASP
9 1 (1.818%) XHTML
9 1 (1.818%) HTML5
Application Platforms
1 6 (10.91%) IIS
2 2 (3.636%) CMS
2 2 (3.636%) SharePoint
Applications
1 10 (18.18%) MS Excel
2 5 (9.091%) Photoshop
3 3 (5.455%) Adobe Illustrator
3 3 (5.455%) InDesign
Business Applications
1 2 (3.636%) Temenos T24
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.636%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (14.55%) SQL Server
2 4 (7.273%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 4 (7.273%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 4 (7.273%) SQL Server Analysis Services
3 2 (3.636%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (3.636%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 15 (27.27%) WATIR
1 15 (27.27%) Selenium
1 15 (27.27%) Jasmine
2 3 (5.455%) LabVIEW
3 1 (1.818%) QuickTest Pro
3 1 (1.818%) Visual Studio
3 1 (1.818%) JIRA
3 1 (1.818%) PHPUnit
3 1 (1.818%) Git (software)
General
1 3 (5.455%) Retail
1 3 (5.455%) Finance
2 2 (3.636%) Retail Banking
2 2 (3.636%) Banking
2 2 (3.636%) Back Office
3 1 (1.818%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 17 (30.91%) QA Manager
2 13 (23.64%) QA Test Manager
2 13 (23.64%) Developer
2 13 (23.64%) Test Manager
3 9 (16.36%) Analyst
4 6 (10.91%) Web Developer
5 5 (9.091%) Designer
5 5 (9.091%) Web Designer
6 4 (7.273%) .NET Developer
6 4 (7.273%) C# Developer
6 4 (7.273%) Software Engineer
6 4 (7.273%) C# .NET Developer
7 3 (5.455%) QA Analyst
7 3 (5.455%) Transition Manager
7 3 (5.455%) Test Engineer
7 3 (5.455%) Software Test Engineer
7 3 (5.455%) PHP Developer
7 3 (5.455%) Implementation Analyst
7 3 (5.455%) Service Manager
8 2 (3.636%) Senior PHP Developer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (7.273%) Management Information System
2 3 (5.455%) Animation
3 2 (3.636%) Social Media
3 2 (3.636%) Mobile Banking
4 1 (1.818%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (1.818%) W3C
4 1 (1.818%) Firmware
4 1 (1.818%) Device Driver
Operating Systems
1 11 (20.00%) Windows
2 3 (5.455%) Windows XP
2 3 (5.455%) Windows 7
3 1 (1.818%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (36.36%) Web Testing
2 19 (34.55%) Web Development
3 18 (32.73%) TDD
4 15 (27.27%) Automated Testing
4 15 (27.27%) Security Testing
5 13 (23.64%) E-Commerce
6 6 (10.91%) Project Management
7 5 (9.091%) Quality Management
7 5 (9.091%) Time Management
8 4 (7.273%) Test Automation
8 4 (7.273%) User Acceptance Testing
8 4 (7.273%) Test Scripting
8 4 (7.273%) CRM
8 4 (7.273%) Regression Testing
9 3 (5.455%) Continuous Improvement
9 3 (5.455%) Service Delivery
9 3 (5.455%) ITIL
9 3 (5.455%) PRINCE2
9 3 (5.455%) Test Management
9 3 (5.455%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 10 (18.18%) SQL
1 10 (18.18%) JavaScript
2 9 (16.36%) C#
3 6 (10.91%) T-SQL
4 5 (9.091%) VBScript
5 4 (7.273%) C++
5 4 (7.273%) Shell Script
6 3 (5.455%) Embedded C
6 3 (5.455%) Embedded C++
6 3 (5.455%) PHP
6 3 (5.455%) Python
6 3 (5.455%) C
7 2 (3.636%) Java
8 1 (1.818%) VB
8 1 (1.818%) PHP5
Qualifications
1 3 (5.455%) ISEB
1 3 (5.455%) Degree
2 1 (1.818%) Six Sigma Black Belt
2 1 (1.818%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Vendors
1 12 (21.82%) Microsoft
2 3 (5.455%) Adobe
3 2 (3.636%) Temenos
4 1 (1.818%) HP
4 1 (1.818%) Zend
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