The first table below looks at the demand for QA skills in IT jobs advertised for the Sevenoaks region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited QA over the 3 months to 19 June 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 Sevenoaks region.

Location
3 months to
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Quality Assurance (QA)
Rank 5 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Permanent jobs citing QA 2 0 0
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Sevenoaks 12.50% - -
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 100.00% - -
Number of salaries quoted 2 0 0
Average salary £46,250 - -
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £40,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-5.00% -
All Quality Assurance & Compliance
Sevenoaks
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Quality Assurance & Compliance category
2 1 0
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Sevenoaks 12.50% 25.00% -
Number of salaries quoted 2 1 0
Average salary £46,250 £30,500 -
Average salary % change year-on-year
+51.63% -
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £41,153 £41,000
% change year-on-year
-2.80% +0.37%
QA
Kent

QA
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Sevenoaks 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 Sevenoaks region.

Sevenoaks QA Salary Trend

QA
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the Sevenoaks 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 10 (100.00%) Linux
1 10 (100.00%) Information Security
2 9 (90.00%) MySQL
3 8 (80.00%) PHP
3 8 (80.00%) SQL
3 8 (80.00%) Scrum
3 8 (80.00%) Degree
3 8 (80.00%) Software Testing
3 8 (80.00%) CentOS
4 7 (70.00%) Test Scripting
4 7 (70.00%) Extreme Programming
4 7 (70.00%) Perl
4 7 (70.00%) UNIX
4 7 (70.00%) ISEB
5 2 (20.00%) Change Management
5 2 (20.00%) VoIP
6 1 (10.00%) Test Automation
6 1 (10.00%) RESTful
6 1 (10.00%) Asterisk PBX
6 1 (10.00%) SaaS
6 1 (10.00%) FreeSWITCH
6 1 (10.00%) OpenSIPS
6 1 (10.00%) Trac
6 1 (10.00%) MVC
6 1 (10.00%) LAMP
6 1 (10.00%) Shell Script
6 1 (10.00%) RTP
6 1 (10.00%) Apache
6 1 (10.00%) XML
6 1 (10.00%) DOM

QA
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the Sevenoaks 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 (10.00%) RESTful
1 1 (10.00%) FreeSWITCH
1 1 (10.00%) LAMP
1 1 (10.00%) XML
1 1 (10.00%) DOM
1 1 (10.00%) Kohana
1 1 (10.00%) CodeIgniter
Application Platforms
1 1 (10.00%) Apache
Communications & Networking
1 2 (20.00%) VoIP
2 1 (10.00%) Asterisk PBX
2 1 (10.00%) RTP
2 1 (10.00%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (90.00%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Trac
1 1 (10.00%) Subversion
Job Titles
1 7 (70.00%) QA Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) QA Manager
3 1 (10.00%) Developer
3 1 (10.00%) PHP Developer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (10.00%) SaaS
Operating Systems
1 10 (100.00%) Linux
2 8 (80.00%) CentOS
3 7 (70.00%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (100.00%) Information Security
2 8 (80.00%) Scrum
2 8 (80.00%) Software Testing
3 7 (70.00%) Test Scripting
3 7 (70.00%) Extreme Programming
4 2 (20.00%) Change Management
5 1 (10.00%) Test Automation
5 1 (10.00%) MVC
5 1 (10.00%) Agile Software Development
5 1 (10.00%) Automated Testing
Programming Languages
1 8 (80.00%) PHP
1 8 (80.00%) SQL
2 7 (70.00%) Perl
3 1 (10.00%) Shell Script
3 1 (10.00%) XPath
3 1 (10.00%) PHP5
Qualifications
1 8 (80.00%) Degree
2 7 (70.00%) ISEB
System Software
1 1 (10.00%) OpenSIPS