The first table below looks at the demand for QA skills in IT jobs advertised for the Shropshire region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited QA over the 3 months to 24 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 Shropshire region.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Quality Assurance (QA)
Rank 29 29 27
Rank change year-on-year
0 -2
Permanent jobs citing QA 6 5 6
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Shropshire 2.727% 3.086% 3.846%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 23.08% 45.45% 50.00%
Number of salaries quoted 6 1 6
Average salary £45,000 £25,000 £67,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+80.00% -62.96%
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £37,500 £39,000
% change year-on-year
+1.33% -3.84%
All Quality Assurance & Compliance
Shropshire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Quality Assurance & Compliance category
26 11 12
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Shropshire 11.82% 6.790% 7.692%
Number of salaries quoted 11 6 11
Average salary £50,000 £27,000 £45,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+85.18% -40.00%
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £41,000
% change year-on-year
- -2.43%
QA
West Midlands

QA
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Shropshire 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 Shropshire region.

Shropshire QA Salary Trend

QA
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing QA within the Shropshire region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Telford -8 2 £43,750 -
QA
West Midlands

QA
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Shropshire 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 4 (40.00%) MS Excel
1 4 (40.00%) LAN
1 4 (40.00%) VoIP
1 4 (40.00%) WAN
1 4 (40.00%) VPN
1 4 (40.00%) DNS
1 4 (40.00%) Cisco
1 4 (40.00%) CCNP
1 4 (40.00%) Cisco Certification
1 4 (40.00%) Nokia
1 4 (40.00%) CheckPoint
1 4 (40.00%) ISA Server
1 4 (40.00%) McAfee
1 4 (40.00%) Firewall
1 4 (40.00%) VLAN
1 4 (40.00%) Cisco IOS
1 4 (40.00%) Cisco PIX
1 4 (40.00%) Cisco ASA
1 4 (40.00%) Riverbed
1 4 (40.00%) SolarWinds
1 4 (40.00%) SolarWinds Orion
1 4 (40.00%) IronPort
1 4 (40.00%) WAN Optimisation
2 3 (30.00%) Business Transformation
2 3 (30.00%) Test Scripting
2 3 (30.00%) Management Information System
2 3 (30.00%) MS Visio
3 2 (20.00%) C#
3 2 (20.00%) .NET
3 2 (20.00%) Finance

QA
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Shropshire 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 2 (20.00%) .NET
2 1 (10.00%) XML
Application Platforms
1 1 (10.00%) IIS
Applications
1 4 (40.00%) MS Excel
2 3 (30.00%) MS Visio
Communications & Networking
1 4 (40.00%) LAN
1 4 (40.00%) VoIP
1 4 (40.00%) WAN
1 4 (40.00%) VPN
1 4 (40.00%) DNS
1 4 (40.00%) Firewall
1 4 (40.00%) VLAN
1 4 (40.00%) Cisco IOS
1 4 (40.00%) Cisco PIX
1 4 (40.00%) Cisco ASA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (10.00%) SQL Server
1 1 (10.00%) Oracle 11g
Development Applications
1 1 (10.00%) SpecFlow
1 1 (10.00%) Selenium
General
1 2 (20.00%) Finance
2 1 (10.00%) Banking
Job Titles
1 4 (40.00%) Analyst
1 4 (40.00%) Network Engineer
2 3 (30.00%) Business Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) Senior Network Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Team Leader
3 1 (10.00%) Technical Manager
3 1 (10.00%) Network Team Leader
3 1 (10.00%) Technical Project Manager
3 1 (10.00%) Test Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) Technical Architect
3 1 (10.00%) Architect
3 1 (10.00%) Project Manager
Miscellaneous
1 3 (30.00%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (40.00%) WAN Optimisation
2 3 (30.00%) Business Transformation
2 3 (30.00%) Test Scripting
3 1 (10.00%) Agile Software Development
3 1 (10.00%) Regression Testing
3 1 (10.00%) PRINCE2
3 1 (10.00%) UML
3 1 (10.00%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 2 (20.00%) C#
2 1 (10.00%) COBOL
2 1 (10.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 4 (40.00%) CCNP
1 4 (40.00%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (10.00%) CCNA
2 1 (10.00%) ISEB
2 1 (10.00%) ISTQB
System Software
1 4 (40.00%) ISA Server
2 1 (10.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (40.00%) SolarWinds Orion
Vendors
1 4 (40.00%) Cisco
1 4 (40.00%) Nokia
1 4 (40.00%) CheckPoint
1 4 (40.00%) McAfee
1 4 (40.00%) Riverbed
1 4 (40.00%) SolarWinds
1 4 (40.00%) IronPort
2 1 (10.00%) Oracle
2 1 (10.00%) Microsoft