The first table below looks at the demand for WAI skills in IT jobs advertised for the South West region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited WAI 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 South West region.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI)
Rank 215 212 211
Rank change year-on-year
-3 -1
Permanent jobs citing WAI 1 3 5
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the South West 0.019% 0.054% 0.083%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 0.180% 0.609% 0.940%
Number of salaries quoted 1 3 5
Average salary £32,500 £50,000 £36,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-35.00% +38.88%
UK excluding London average salary £35,000 £37,500 £32,500
% change year-on-year
-6.66% +15.38%
All Quality Assurance & Compliance
South West
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Quality Assurance & Compliance category
557 493 532
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the South West 10.62% 8.907% 8.817%
Number of salaries quoted 464 422 442
Average salary £40,000 £37,500 £39,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+6.66% -5.06%
90% offered a salary of more than £25,000 £25,000 £24,750
10% offered a salary of more than £71,500 £65,000 £57,500
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £41,000
% change year-on-year
- -2.43%
WAI
England

WAI
Jobs Demand Trend

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

South West WAI Jobs Demand Trend

WAI
Salary Trend

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

South West WAI Salary Trend

WAI
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing WAI within the South West 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
Bristol - 1 £32,500 -
WAI
England

WAI
Top 20 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the South West region citing WAI 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 WAI.

1 4 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 4 (100.00%) CSS
1 4 (100.00%) W3C
1 4 (100.00%) HTML
2 3 (75.00%) Ajax
2 3 (75.00%) WCAG
2 3 (75.00%) Drupal
2 3 (75.00%) Linux
2 3 (75.00%) Apache
2 3 (75.00%) Flash
2 3 (75.00%) XHTML
2 3 (75.00%) PHP
2 3 (75.00%) ActionScript
2 3 (75.00%) MySQL
3 2 (50.00%) New Media
4 1 (25.00%) Java
4 1 (25.00%) jQuery
4 1 (25.00%) Finance
4 1 (25.00%) Agile Software Development
4 1 (25.00%) E-Commerce

WAI
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the South West region citing WAI 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 WAI. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 4 (100.00%) CSS
1 4 (100.00%) HTML
2 3 (75.00%) Ajax
2 3 (75.00%) Flash
2 3 (75.00%) XHTML
3 1 (25.00%) jQuery
Application Platforms
1 3 (75.00%) Drupal
1 3 (75.00%) Apache
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (75.00%) MySQL
General
1 1 (25.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) Developer
2 3 (75.00%) PHP Developer
3 2 (50.00%) Senior Developer
3 2 (50.00%) Drupal Developer
3 2 (50.00%) PHP Drupal Developer
4 1 (25.00%) Technical Developer
4 1 (25.00%) UI Programmer
4 1 (25.00%) UI Developer
4 1 (25.00%) Senior UI Developer
4 1 (25.00%) Lead Developer
4 1 (25.00%) Technical Leader
4 1 (25.00%) Senior PHP Developer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (100.00%) W3C
2 2 (50.00%) New Media
Operating Systems
1 3 (75.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (25.00%) Agile Software Development
1 1 (25.00%) E-Commerce
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) JavaScript
2 3 (75.00%) PHP
2 3 (75.00%) ActionScript
3 1 (25.00%) Java
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (75.00%) WCAG