The first table below looks at the demand for QA skills in IT jobs advertised for the Runcorn region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited QA over the 3 months to 21 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 Runcorn region.

Location
3 months to
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Quality Assurance (QA)
Rank - - 9
Permanent jobs citing QA 0 0 1
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Runcorn - - 4.545%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category - - 50.00%
Number of salaries quoted 0 0 1
Average salary - - £65,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £37,500 £39,000
% change year-on-year
+1.33% -3.84%
All Quality Assurance & Compliance
Runcorn
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Quality Assurance & Compliance category
9 0 2
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Runcorn 42.86% - 9.091%
Number of salaries quoted 9 0 2
Average salary £29,500 - £44,625
90% offered a salary of more than £22,000 - £28,325
10% offered a salary of more than £35,000 £60,925 -
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £41,000
% change year-on-year
- -2.43%
QA
Cheshire

QA
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Runcorn 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 Runcorn region.

Runcorn QA Salary Trend

QA
Top 20 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Runcorn 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 1 (100.00%) C#
1 1 (100.00%) C++
1 1 (100.00%) HTML
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (100.00%) PHP
1 1 (100.00%) Visual Studio
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) Client/Server
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) Sony
1 1 (100.00%) Games
1 1 (100.00%) Perforce
1 1 (100.00%) Maya
1 1 (100.00%) Scrum
1 1 (100.00%) Agile Software Development
1 1 (100.00%) TDD
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Mathematics
1 1 (100.00%) Lua
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Integration

QA
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Runcorn 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 1 (100.00%) HTML
Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Maya
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Visual Studio
General
1 1 (100.00%) Games
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Programmer
1 1 (100.00%) C++ Programmer
1 1 (100.00%) C# Programmer
1 1 (100.00%) Tools Programmer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Client/Server
1 1 (100.00%) Mathematics
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Scrum
1 1 (100.00%) Agile Software Development
1 1 (100.00%) TDD
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) C#
1 1 (100.00%) C++
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (100.00%) PHP
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) Lua
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) Sony
1 1 (100.00%) Perforce