The first table below looks at the demand for QA skills in IT jobs advertised for the Somerset region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited QA over the 3 months to 18 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 Somerset region.

Location
3 months to
18 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Quality Assurance (QA)
Rank 52 47 46
Rank change year-on-year
-5 -1
Permanent jobs citing QA 14 12 17
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Somerset 2.171% 2.459% 3.250%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 20.29% 40.00% 53.13%
Number of salaries quoted 9 12 15
Average salary £35,000 £30,000 £27,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+16.66% +9.09%
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £40,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-5.00% -
All Quality Assurance & Compliance
Somerset
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Quality Assurance & Compliance category
69 30 32
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Somerset 10.70% 6.148% 6.119%
Number of salaries quoted 62 26 30
Average salary £35,000 £45,000 £30,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-22.22% +47.54%
90% offered a salary of more than £21,500 £28,000 £27,500
10% offered a salary of more than £52,500 £62,500 £60,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £41,000 £40,500
% change year-on-year
-2.43% +1.23%
QA
South West

QA
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Somerset 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 Somerset region.

Somerset QA Salary Trend

QA
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing QA across the Somerset region over the 3 months to 18 June 2013.

Somerset QA Salary Histogram

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 Somerset region over the 3 months to 18 June 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
Find
Job
Vacancies
Bath -3 5 £35,000 +16.66% 1
Templecombe - 4 - -
Street - 1 - -
Taunton - 1 £38,500 -
QA
South West

QA
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT jobs across the Somerset 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 18 (30.00%) Java
2 17 (28.33%) SQL
2 17 (28.33%) Continuous Integration
3 15 (25.00%) TDD
4 14 (23.33%) Degree
4 14 (23.33%) .NET
4 14 (23.33%) XML
5 13 (21.67%) Management Information System
5 13 (21.67%) Computer Science
6 12 (20.00%) Unit Testing
6 12 (20.00%) Hudson
6 12 (20.00%) Trapeze
6 12 (20.00%) SOAP
6 12 (20.00%) Web Services
6 12 (20.00%) Oracle
6 12 (20.00%) Ant
6 12 (20.00%) XML Schema
6 12 (20.00%) SLA
7 11 (18.33%) Microsoft
7 11 (18.33%) Finance
7 11 (18.33%) Automated Testing
8 10 (16.67%) Agile Software Development
8 10 (16.67%) Statistics
8 10 (16.67%) Resource Management
9 9 (15.00%) JavaScript
9 9 (15.00%) C++
10 8 (13.33%) UNIX
10 8 (13.33%) Linux
10 8 (13.33%) User Acceptance Testing
11 7 (11.67%) HTML

QA
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT jobs across the Somerset 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 14 (23.33%) .NET
1 14 (23.33%) XML
2 12 (20.00%) XML Schema
2 12 (20.00%) SOAP
2 12 (20.00%) Web Services
3 7 (11.67%) HTML
4 6 (10.00%) JSP
4 6 (10.00%) Hibernate
4 6 (10.00%) Spring
4 6 (10.00%) Ajax
4 6 (10.00%) jQuery
4 6 (10.00%) Google Maps API
4 6 (10.00%) Ext JS
4 6 (10.00%) JSTL
4 6 (10.00%) Bing Maps
5 5 (8.333%) ASP.NET
6 3 (5.000%) CSS
7 2 (3.333%) WinForms
8 1 (1.667%) NHibernate
8 1 (1.667%) Oracle Fusion
Application Platforms
1 3 (5.000%) MS Exchange
2 2 (3.333%) Lync
3 1 (1.667%) Orchard CMS
3 1 (1.667%) CMS
Applications
1 3 (5.000%) MS Excel
2 1 (1.667%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 5 (8.333%) Oracle Applications
Communications & Networking
1 4 (6.667%) DNS
1 4 (6.667%) MPLS
1 4 (6.667%) Internet
2 3 (5.000%) EIGRP
2 3 (5.000%) IPsec
2 3 (5.000%) OSPF
2 3 (5.000%) BGP
2 3 (5.000%) SSL
2 3 (5.000%) VPN
2 3 (5.000%) ISDN
2 3 (5.000%) Ethernet
2 3 (5.000%) HTTP
3 2 (3.333%) PPP
3 2 (3.333%) LAN
3 2 (3.333%) WAN
3 2 (3.333%) DHCP
3 2 (3.333%) ADSL
3 2 (3.333%) DSL
3 2 (3.333%) VLAN
3 2 (3.333%) VRRP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (10.00%) RDBMS
2 5 (8.333%) Oracle BI EE
2 5 (8.333%) Oracle Reports
3 1 (1.667%) Oracle 8/8i
3 1 (1.667%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (1.667%) Oracle ODI
3 1 (1.667%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 12 (20.00%) Ant
1 12 (20.00%) Hudson
2 6 (10.00%) JUnit
2 6 (10.00%) Visual Studio
2 6 (10.00%) Selenium
2 6 (10.00%) jMock
3 4 (6.667%) Rational DOORS
3 4 (6.667%) Rational Rose
3 4 (6.667%) QuickTest Pro
3 4 (6.667%) Rational Rhapsody
4 3 (5.000%) WebDriver
5 2 (3.333%) Cucumber
5 2 (3.333%) FitNesse
5 2 (3.333%) Rational Robot
6 1 (1.667%) NUnit
6 1 (1.667%) Subversion
6 1 (1.667%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 1 (1.667%) TeamCity
6 1 (1.667%) Moq
General
1 11 (18.33%) Finance
2 7 (11.67%) Telecoms
3 4 (6.667%) Electronics
3 4 (6.667%) Military
4 1 (1.667%) Games
Job Titles
1 13 (21.67%) Tester
1 13 (21.67%) Developer
2 12 (20.00%) Analyst
2 12 (20.00%) Software Developer
3 11 (18.33%) DBA
3 11 (18.33%) QA Tester
4 9 (15.00%) QA Analyst
5 7 (11.67%) Senior QA Analyst
5 7 (11.67%) Senior QA Tester
5 7 (11.67%) Senior Tester
5 7 (11.67%) Quality Analyst
5 7 (11.67%) Senior Analyst
6 5 (8.333%) Oracle DBA
6 5 (8.333%) Oracle Applications DBA
6 5 (8.333%) Team Leader
7 4 (6.667%) Test Analyst
7 4 (6.667%) Software Team Leader
8 3 (5.000%) QA Leader
8 3 (5.000%) 3rd Line Support
9 2 (3.333%) Customer Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 13 (21.67%) Management Information System
1 13 (21.67%) Computer Science
2 10 (16.67%) Statistics
3 3 (5.000%) EPoS
4 2 (3.333%) Client/Server
5 1 (1.667%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 1 (1.667%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 8 (13.33%) UNIX
1 8 (13.33%) Linux
2 3 (5.000%) Windows
3 1 (1.667%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (28.33%) Continuous Integration
2 15 (25.00%) TDD
3 12 (20.00%) Unit Testing
4 11 (18.33%) Automated Testing
5 10 (16.67%) Resource Management
5 10 (16.67%) Agile Software Development
6 8 (13.33%) User Acceptance Testing
7 7 (11.67%) Data Modelling
8 6 (10.00%) Waterfall
8 6 (10.00%) Network Management
9 5 (8.333%) ITIL
9 5 (8.333%) E-Commerce
9 5 (8.333%) Project Management
10 4 (6.667%) Process Management
10 4 (6.667%) CMMI
10 4 (6.667%) Validation
10 4 (6.667%) Scrum
10 4 (6.667%) Product Management
10 4 (6.667%) Requirements Management
10 4 (6.667%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 18 (30.00%) Java
2 17 (28.33%) SQL
3 9 (15.00%) JavaScript
3 9 (15.00%) C++
4 4 (6.667%) C#
5 3 (5.000%) PowerShell
6 2 (3.333%) C
6 2 (3.333%) Delphi
6 2 (3.333%) VB.NET
7 1 (1.667%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 14 (23.33%) Degree
2 6 (10.00%) ISEB
3 3 (5.000%) Cisco Certification
3 3 (5.000%) CCNP
3 3 (5.000%) CCIP
3 3 (5.000%) CCNA
4 1 (1.667%) CCDP
4 1 (1.667%) ITIL Certification
4 1 (1.667%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (20.00%) SLA
2 4 (6.667%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 3 (5.000%) Active Directory
1 3 (5.000%) Terminal Services
1 3 (5.000%) Hyper-V
1 3 (5.000%) XenServer
1 3 (5.000%) XenDesktop
Vendors
1 12 (20.00%) Oracle
1 12 (20.00%) Trapeze
2 11 (18.33%) Microsoft
3 6 (10.00%) JBoss
3 6 (10.00%) Cisco
3 6 (10.00%) Google
4 3 (5.000%) SonicWALL
4 3 (5.000%) Symantec
4 3 (5.000%) Citrix
5 2 (3.333%) IBM
5 2 (3.333%) VMware
5 2 (3.333%) Telerik
6 1 (1.667%) Teradata
6 1 (1.667%) Foundry
6 1 (1.667%) Cognos
6 1 (1.667%) Juniper
6 1 (1.667%) Red Hat
6 1 (1.667%) CheckPoint
Bath, South West
Enhance the testing processes for the .NET WinForms, ASP .NET andDelphisystems. Assist in greatly increasing the automated testing coverage... Operate as part of the agile development team... 5+...
Computer Futures
Salary: £40000 - £41000 per annum + Pension
Posted: 7 June 2013