The first table below looks at the demand for the QA Manager role in IT jobs advertised for the South East region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited QA Manager in their job title over the 3 months to 22 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 Job Titles advertised for the South East region.

Location
3 months to
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Quality Assurance Manager
Rank 403 413 397
Rank change year-on-year
+10 -16
Permanent jobs requiring a QA Manager 32 31 28
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the South East 0.144% 0.128% 0.124%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.152% 0.135% 0.132%
Number of salaries quoted 32 27 28
Average salary £45,000 £52,000 £45,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-13.46% +15.55%
90% offered a salary of more than £42,500 £47,350 £41,750
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £56,150 £55,750
UK excluding London average salary £48,000 £47,589 £45,000
% change year-on-year
+0.86% +5.75%
All Job Titles
South East
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
21074 22975 21253
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the South East 94.88% 95.23% 94.43%
Number of salaries quoted 17479 19844 18264
Average salary £40,000 £40,000 £40,000
90% offered a salary of more than £25,000 £26,500 £25,000
10% offered a salary of more than £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +1.33%
QA Manager
England

QA Manager
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing QA Manager across the South East region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

South East QA Manager Jobs Demand Trend

QA Manager
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing QA Manager across the South East region.

South East QA Manager Salary Trend

QA Manager
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing QA Manager across the South East region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013.

South East QA Manager Salary Histogram

QA Manager
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing QA Manager within the South East region over the 3 months to 22 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
Hampshire +15 14 £45,000 -14.28%
Surrey +23 11 £48,000 +12.94%
Berkshire -12 4 £45,000 -13.46%
Oxfordshire - 4 £52,500 -
Kent - 1 £47,500 -
QA Manager
England

QA Manager
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the South East region that cited QA Manager in their job title 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 with QA Manager in their job title.

1 60 (100.00%) QA
2 23 (38.33%) Software Testing
3 18 (30.00%) Test Scripting
4 13 (21.67%) ISEB
4 13 (21.67%) SQL Server
5 12 (20.00%) SQL
6 10 (16.67%) Finance
6 10 (16.67%) Selenium
7 9 (15.00%) Degree
7 9 (15.00%) ISO 9001
7 9 (15.00%) Microsoft
8 8 (13.33%) C#
8 8 (13.33%) Java
8 8 (13.33%) CMMI
8 8 (13.33%) ISEB Practitioner
9 7 (11.67%) Law
10 6 (10.00%) Quality Management
10 6 (10.00%) Regression Testing
10 6 (10.00%) ITIL
10 6 (10.00%) GAMP
10 6 (10.00%) Test Management
10 6 (10.00%) Penetration Testing
10 6 (10.00%) Agile Software Development
11 5 (8.333%) ISO/IEC 27001
11 5 (8.333%) Cucumber
11 5 (8.333%) Test Strategy
11 5 (8.333%) Manual Testing
11 5 (8.333%) Oracle
11 5 (8.333%) Business Intelligence
11 5 (8.333%) QuickTest Pro

QA Manager
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the South East region that cited QA Manager in their job title 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 with QA Manager in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 2 (3.333%) .NET
1 2 (3.333%) J2EE
1 2 (3.333%) ASP.NET
2 1 (1.667%) WebSphere
2 1 (1.667%) COM
2 1 (1.667%) Middleware
Application Platforms
1 1 (1.667%) WebSphere MQ
Applications
1 5 (8.333%) MS Office
2 1 (1.667%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (3.333%) SAP ERP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.667%) VoIP
1 1 (1.667%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (21.67%) SQL Server
2 2 (3.333%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (3.333%) MySQL
2 2 (3.333%) Oracle BI EE
Development Applications
1 10 (16.67%) Selenium
2 5 (8.333%) Cucumber
2 5 (8.333%) QuickTest Pro
3 4 (6.667%) FitNesse
3 4 (6.667%) Concordion
4 1 (1.667%) TestPartner
4 1 (1.667%) Maven
4 1 (1.667%) SilkPerformer
4 1 (1.667%) QALoad
4 1 (1.667%) SpecFlow
4 1 (1.667%) JBehave
4 1 (1.667%) jMock
4 1 (1.667%) EasyMock
4 1 (1.667%) WinRunner
4 1 (1.667%) Ant
4 1 (1.667%) JUnit
4 1 (1.667%) LoadRunner
General
1 10 (16.67%) Finance
2 7 (11.67%) Law
3 3 (5.000%) Pharmaceutical
4 2 (3.333%) Electronics
4 2 (3.333%) Manufacturing
4 2 (3.333%) Retail
5 1 (1.667%) Banking
5 1 (1.667%) Music
5 1 (1.667%) Advertising
Miscellaneous
1 3 (5.000%) Life Science
1 3 (5.000%) SaaS
1 3 (5.000%) Mobile App
2 2 (3.333%) Open Source
3 1 (1.667%) Mathematics
Operating Systems
1 3 (5.000%) Android
1 3 (5.000%) Windows
1 3 (5.000%) Linux
1 3 (5.000%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (38.33%) Software Testing
2 18 (30.00%) Test Scripting
3 8 (13.33%) CMMI
4 6 (10.00%) Quality Management
4 6 (10.00%) Regression Testing
4 6 (10.00%) ITIL
4 6 (10.00%) Test Management
4 6 (10.00%) Penetration Testing
4 6 (10.00%) Agile Software Development
5 5 (8.333%) Test Strategy
5 5 (8.333%) Manual Testing
5 5 (8.333%) Business Intelligence
5 5 (8.333%) Configuration Management
6 4 (6.667%) Validation
6 4 (6.667%) Scrum
6 4 (6.667%) Document Management
7 3 (5.000%) Change Management
7 3 (5.000%) Test Automation
7 3 (5.000%) Continuous Integration
7 3 (5.000%) QMS
Programming Languages
1 12 (20.00%) SQL
2 8 (13.33%) C#
2 8 (13.33%) Java
3 3 (5.000%) VB
4 1 (1.667%) Scala
4 1 (1.667%) Perl
4 1 (1.667%) Python
Qualifications
1 13 (21.67%) ISEB
2 9 (15.00%) Degree
3 8 (13.33%) ISEB Practitioner
4 3 (5.000%) ISTQB
5 2 (3.333%) ITIL Certification
6 1 (1.667%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 60 (100.00%) QA
2 9 (15.00%) ISO 9001
3 6 (10.00%) GAMP
4 5 (8.333%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (5.000%) GxP
6 1 (1.667%) COBIT
Vendors
1 9 (15.00%) Microsoft
2 5 (8.333%) Oracle
3 2 (3.333%) Siebel
3 2 (3.333%) SAP
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Experience in any of the following is desirable: AGILE, SCRUM, Black Box testing, Linux Centos, MySQL, SQL Query language, PHP/ PERL/Unix Shell scripting, Testing experience within Cloud/...
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Salary: From £40,000 to £50,000 per annum
Posted: 21 May 2013