The first table below looks at the demand for QA skills in IT jobs advertised for the Stockport 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 Stockport region.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Quality Assurance (QA)
Rank - 23 26
Permanent jobs citing QA 0 15 10
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Stockport - 7.500% 5.587%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category - 62.50% 76.92%
Number of salaries quoted 0 11 7
Average salary - £18,000 £20,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
- -10.00%
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £37,500 £39,000
% change year-on-year
+1.33% -3.84%
All Quality Assurance & Compliance
Stockport
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Quality Assurance & Compliance category
3 24 13
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Stockport 1.478% 12.00% 7.263%
Number of salaries quoted 1 20 10
Average salary £22,500 £30,000 £21,750
Average salary % change year-on-year
-25.00% +37.93%
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £41,000
% change year-on-year
- -2.43%
QA
Manchester

QA
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Stockport 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 Stockport region.

Stockport QA Salary Trend

QA
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Stockport 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 5 (100.00%) OO
2 3 (60.00%) J2EE
2 3 (60.00%) Degree
3 2 (40.00%) Cocoa
3 2 (40.00%) Xcode
3 2 (40.00%) Objective-C
3 2 (40.00%) Subversion
3 2 (40.00%) Ajax
3 2 (40.00%) JSON
3 2 (40.00%) SQLite
3 2 (40.00%) jQuery
3 2 (40.00%) Android
3 2 (40.00%) iPhone
3 2 (40.00%) Information Architecture
3 2 (40.00%) HTML5
3 2 (40.00%) Social Media
3 2 (40.00%) iPad
3 2 (40.00%) Apple iOS
3 2 (40.00%) iOS SDK
3 2 (40.00%) REST
3 2 (40.00%) Cocoa Touch
3 2 (40.00%) UIKit
3 2 (40.00%) Mobile App
3 2 (40.00%) MySQL
3 2 (40.00%) Java
3 2 (40.00%) JavaScript
3 2 (40.00%) PHP
3 2 (40.00%) SOAP
3 2 (40.00%) Web Services
3 2 (40.00%) XML

QA
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Stockport 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 3 (60.00%) J2EE
2 2 (40.00%) Cocoa
2 2 (40.00%) Ajax
2 2 (40.00%) JSON
2 2 (40.00%) jQuery
2 2 (40.00%) HTML5
2 2 (40.00%) iOS SDK
2 2 (40.00%) REST
2 2 (40.00%) Cocoa Touch
2 2 (40.00%) UIKit
2 2 (40.00%) SOAP
2 2 (40.00%) Web Services
2 2 (40.00%) XML
2 2 (40.00%) J2ME
3 1 (20.00%) EJB
Applications
1 1 (20.00%) MS Excel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (40.00%) SQLite
1 2 (40.00%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 2 (40.00%) Xcode
1 2 (40.00%) Subversion
1 2 (40.00%) Eclipse
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Developer
1 3 (60.00%) Applications Developer
2 2 (40.00%) Mobile Applications Developer
2 2 (40.00%) Mobile Developer
2 2 (40.00%) Analyst
2 2 (40.00%) Systems Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) iPhone
1 2 (40.00%) Social Media
1 2 (40.00%) iPad
1 2 (40.00%) Mobile App
2 1 (20.00%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 2 (40.00%) Android
1 2 (40.00%) Apple iOS
2 1 (20.00%) UNIX
2 1 (20.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) OO
2 2 (40.00%) Information Architecture
2 2 (40.00%) OOD
2 2 (40.00%) UML
3 1 (20.00%) Technical Architecture
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) Objective-C
1 2 (40.00%) Java
1 2 (40.00%) JavaScript
1 2 (40.00%) PHP
2 1 (20.00%) C++
Qualifications
1 3 (60.00%) Degree
2 1 (20.00%) HNC
2 1 (20.00%) HND