Slough QA Jobs

The table below looks at the demand for Quality Assurance (QA) skills within the Slough region with a comparison to our Quality Assurance & Compliance category. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited QA over the 3 months to 18 November 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Quality Assurance (QA)
Location Aberdeen Aberdeenshire Abingdon Addlestone Aldershot Atherstone Aylesbury Barnsley Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Bolton Bootle Borehamwood Bracknell Bradford Brentford Brighton Bristol Bromsgrove Buckingham Buckinghamshire Burnley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Carterton Chelmsford Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chester Chippenham City of London Clapham Colchester Congleton County Antrim Coventry Crawley Crewe Croydon Cwmbran Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorking East Anglia East Grinstead East Midlands East of England East Sussex Eastleigh Edenbridge Edinburgh England Epsom Essex Exeter Fareham Farnborough Farnham Feltham Fife Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Godalming Guildford Gwent Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Havant Hayes Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Home Counties Horsham Hove Hungerford Huntingdon Ipswich Isle of Man Kent Kingston Upon Thames Knutsford Lancashire Lancaster Leamington Spa Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Letchworth Lightwater Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston London Luton M4 Corridor Maidenhead Manchester March Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Nantwich New Malden Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Nuneaton Oldham Oxford Oxfordshire Paddington Perth and Kinross Peterborough Plymouth Portsmouth Potters Bar Preston Reading Redhill Reigate Rochester Rotherham Rugby Runcorn Saffron Walden Sale Salisbury Sandbach Scotland Sheffield Sittingbourne Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Stafford Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stirling Stockport Stoke-on-Trent Suffolk Surbiton Surrey Sussex Swadlincote Swansea Swindon Tadworth Taunton Tewkesbury Thame Thames Valley Tonbridge Torfaen Towcester Trowbridge Tunbridge Wells Twickenham Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Walsall Warminster Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Welwyn Garden City West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Weybridge Wigan Wiltshire Wimbledon Winchester Woking Wokingham Worcester Worcestershire Worksop Wrexham York Yorkshire	3 months to 18 Nov 2008	Same period last year
Rank	70	54
Rank change on same period last year	-16
Matching permanent IT job ads	12	32
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.008 %	0.014 %
As % of the category below	15.19 %	57.14 %
Salaries quoted	12	30
Average minimum salary	£35,500	£36,667
Average salary	£37,542	£40,317
% change on same period last year	-6.88 %
Average maximum salary	£39,583	£43,967
UK excluding London average salary	£37,959	£38,913
% change on same period last year	-2.45 %
Quality Assurance & Compliance Slough
Matching permanent IT job ads	79	56
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.051 %	0.025 %
Salaries quoted	77	51
Average minimum salary	£36,967	£37,821
Average salary	£39,371	£40,625
% change on same period last year	-3.08 %
Average maximum salary	£41,775	£43,429
UK excluding London average salary	£40,116	£39,773
% change on same period last year	+0.86 %
QA Berkshire

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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of permanent IT jobs citing QA across the Slough region as a proportion of the total demand within the Quality Assurance & Compliance category.

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Salary Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing QA across the Slough region.

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Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing QA across the Slough region over the 3 months to 18 November 2008.

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 November 2008, IT jobs across the Slough 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 13 (38.24 %) .NET 2 10 (29.41 %) Degree 3 9 (26.47 %) Windows XP 3 9 (26.47 %) Windows 4 8 (23.53 %) Windows Server 2003 4 8 (23.53 %) Configuration Management 4 8 (23.53 %) SQL Server 4 8 (23.53 %) IIS 5 7 (20.59 %) C# 5 7 (20.59 %) Microsoft 5 7 (20.59 %) Finance 6 6 (17.65 %) Test Scripting 7 5 (14.71 %) C++ 7 5 (14.71 %) Pensions 8 4 (11.76 %) VB.NET

8 4 (11.76 %) .NET Framework 8 4 (11.76 %) Migration 8 4 (11.76 %) Insurance 8 4 (11.76 %) Business Analysis 8 4 (11.76 %) MS Visio 8 4 (11.76 %) Project Management 9 3 (8.824 %) Siebel 10 2 (5.882 %) Agile Software Development 10 2 (5.882 %) Windows Vista 10 2 (5.882 %) Software Testing 10 2 (5.882 %) Marketing 10 2 (5.882 %) Management Information System 10 2 (5.882 %) Visual Studio 11 1 (2.941 %) SAP 11 1 (2.941 %) PRINCE2

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 November 2008, IT jobs across the Slough 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 13 (38.24 %) .NET 2 4 (11.76 %) .NET Framework 3 1 (2.941 %) Application Packaging	Application Platforms 1 8 (23.53 %) IIS
Applications 1 4 (11.76 %) MS Visio	Business Applications 1 1 (2.941 %) SAP HR
Database & Business Intelligence 1 8 (23.53 %) SQL Server	Development Applications 1 2 (5.882 %) Visual Studio
General 1 7 (20.59 %) Finance 2 5 (14.71 %) Pensions 3 4 (11.76 %) Insurance 4 2 (5.882 %) Marketing 5 1 (2.941 %) Health	Job Titles 1 18 (52.94 %) Analyst 2 11 (32.35 %) QA Analyst 3 6 (17.65 %) Business Analyst 4 4 (11.76 %) Software Manager 4 4 (11.76 %) Software Development Manager 4 4 (11.76 %) Development Manager 5 3 (8.824 %) Test Analyst 5 3 (8.824 %) QA Test Analyst 5 3 (8.824 %) Siebel Business Analyst 6 2 (5.882 %) Author 6 2 (5.882 %) Technical Author 6 2 (5.882 %) Senior Manager 7 1 (2.941 %) Quality Manager 7 1 (2.941 %) QA Manager 7 1 (2.941 %) Quality Engineer 7 1 (2.941 %) Consultant 7 1 (2.941 %) Deployment Analyst 7 1 (2.941 %) Radio Access Network Engineer 7 1 (2.941 %) Compliance Manager 7 1 (2.941 %) Senior QA Manager
Miscellaneous 1 2 (5.882 %) Management Information System	Operating Systems 1 9 (26.47 %) Windows XP 1 9 (26.47 %) Windows 2 8 (23.53 %) Windows Server 2003 3 2 (5.882 %) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies 1 8 (23.53 %) Configuration Management 2 6 (17.65 %) Test Scripting 3 4 (11.76 %) Migration 3 4 (11.76 %) Business Analysis 3 4 (11.76 %) Project Management 4 2 (5.882 %) Agile Software Development 4 2 (5.882 %) Software Testing 5 1 (2.941 %) PRINCE2 5 1 (2.941 %) Workflow 5 1 (2.941 %) Time Management 5 1 (2.941 %) SC Cleared 5 1 (2.941 %) Security Cleared 5 1 (2.941 %) Data Management 5 1 (2.941 %) Workflow Management 5 1 (2.941 %) Automated Testing	Programming Languages 1 7 (20.59 %) C# 2 5 (14.71 %) C++ 3 4 (11.76 %) VB.NET 4 1 (2.941 %) SQL 4 1 (2.941 %) VB
Qualifications 1 10 (29.41 %) Degree 2 1 (2.941 %) ISEB	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 1 (2.941 %) 21 CFR Part 11 1 1 (2.941 %) GCP 1 1 (2.941 %) ISO9001 1 1 (2.941 %) GxP 1 1 (2.941 %) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software 1 1 (2.941 %) Active Directory	Vendors 1 7 (20.59 %) Microsoft 2 3 (8.824 %) Siebel 3 1 (2.941 %) SAP