The first table below looks at the demand for QA skills in IT jobs advertised for the Stratford-upon-Avon region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited QA 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 of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category for the Stratford-upon-Avon region.

Location
3 months to
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Quality Assurance (QA)
Rank 5 11 -
Rank change year-on-year
+6 -
Permanent jobs citing QA 13 2 0
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Stratford-upon-Avon 22.81% 5.128% -
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 76.47% 40.00% -
Number of salaries quoted 13 2 0
Average salary £37,000 £37,000 -
UK excluding London average salary £38,250 £37,500 £39,000
% change year-on-year
+2.00% -3.84%
All Quality Assurance & Compliance
Stratford-upon-Avon
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Quality Assurance & Compliance category
17 5 1
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Stratford-upon-Avon 29.82% 12.82% 6.250%
Number of salaries quoted 17 5 1
Average salary £35,000 £65,000 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-46.15% +73.33%
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £41,000
% change year-on-year
- -2.43%
QA
Warwickshire

QA
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Stratford-upon-Avon 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 Stratford-upon-Avon region.

Stratford-upon-Avon QA Salary Trend

QA
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing QA across the Stratford-upon-Avon region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013.

Stratford-upon-Avon QA Salary Histogram

QA
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Stratford-upon-Avon 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 19 (95.00%) SQL
2 18 (90.00%) Finance
3 17 (85.00%) Automated Testing
3 17 (85.00%) Selenium
3 17 (85.00%) Manual Testing
4 11 (55.00%) SQL Server
5 10 (50.00%) Oracle
6 9 (45.00%) VB
6 9 (45.00%) HTML
6 9 (45.00%) UNIX
6 9 (45.00%) Windows
6 9 (45.00%) Windows 2000
7 8 (40.00%) User Acceptance Testing
8 4 (20.00%) ISEB
8 4 (20.00%) Release Management
9 3 (15.00%) Test Strategy
9 3 (15.00%) Test Scripting
10 2 (10.00%) Enterprise Data Management
10 2 (10.00%) Data Management
10 2 (10.00%) DB2
10 2 (10.00%) UML
10 2 (10.00%) Data Modelling
10 2 (10.00%) ETL
10 2 (10.00%) RDBMS
10 2 (10.00%) Data Quality
11 1 (5.000%) Product Management
11 1 (5.000%) C
11 1 (5.000%) Mathematics
11 1 (5.000%) Manufacturing
11 1 (5.000%) Electronics

QA
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Stratford-upon-Avon 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 9 (45.00%) HTML
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (55.00%) SQL Server
2 2 (10.00%) DB2
2 2 (10.00%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 17 (85.00%) Selenium
General
1 18 (90.00%) Finance
2 1 (5.000%) Manufacturing
2 1 (5.000%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 12 (60.00%) Test Analyst
1 12 (60.00%) Analyst
2 9 (45.00%) Tester
2 9 (45.00%) Systems Analyst
2 9 (45.00%) Systems Test Analyst
3 8 (40.00%) Systems Tester
4 5 (25.00%) QA Tester
5 4 (20.00%) Coordinator
5 4 (20.00%) Test Coordinator
6 3 (15.00%) UAT Test Analyst
6 3 (15.00%) UAT Analyst
7 1 (5.000%) Technology Manager
7 1 (5.000%) UAT Manager
7 1 (5.000%) UAT Test Manager
7 1 (5.000%) Architect
7 1 (5.000%) Test Manager
7 1 (5.000%) Data Modeller
7 1 (5.000%) QA Engineer
7 1 (5.000%) UAT Tester
7 1 (5.000%) Test Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (5.000%) Mathematics
Operating Systems
1 9 (45.00%) UNIX
1 9 (45.00%) Windows
1 9 (45.00%) Windows 2000
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (85.00%) Automated Testing
1 17 (85.00%) Manual Testing
2 8 (40.00%) User Acceptance Testing
3 4 (20.00%) Release Management
4 3 (15.00%) Test Strategy
4 3 (15.00%) Test Scripting
5 2 (10.00%) Enterprise Data Management
5 2 (10.00%) Data Management
5 2 (10.00%) UML
5 2 (10.00%) Data Modelling
5 2 (10.00%) ETL
6 1 (5.000%) Product Management
Programming Languages
1 19 (95.00%) SQL
2 9 (45.00%) VB
3 1 (5.000%) C
Qualifications
1 4 (20.00%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (10.00%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 10 (50.00%) Oracle