The first table below looks at the demand for the QA Tester role in IT jobs advertised for the Surrey region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited QA Tester in their job title over the 3 months to 23 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 Surrey region.

Location
3 months to
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Quality Assurance Tester
Rank 219 219 209
Rank change year-on-year
0 -10
Permanent jobs requiring a QA Tester 1 17 6
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Surrey 0.019% 0.285% 0.110%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.020% 0.297% 0.117%
Number of salaries quoted 1 17 6
Average salary £33,500 £52,500 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-36.19% +50.00%
UK excluding London average salary £33,500 £32,500 £30,000
% change year-on-year
+3.07% +8.33%
All Job Titles
Surrey
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
5001 5729 5136
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Surrey 95.24% 95.93% 94.55%
Number of salaries quoted 4038 5010 4499
Average salary £42,500 £45,000 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-5.55% +12.50%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,500 £28,000 £25,000
10% offered a salary of more than £60,000 £57,500 £65,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +1.33%
QA Tester
South East

QA Tester
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Surrey QA Tester Jobs Demand Trend

QA Tester
Salary Trend

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

Surrey QA Tester Salary Trend

QA Tester
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Surrey region that cited QA Tester 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 Tester in their job title.

1 10 (100.00%) QA
2 7 (70.00%) Test Automation
2 7 (70.00%) Agile Software Development
3 6 (60.00%) OO
3 6 (60.00%) Java
3 6 (60.00%) .NET
3 6 (60.00%) Computer Science
4 5 (50.00%) Software Testing
4 5 (50.00%) C#
4 5 (50.00%) SQL
4 5 (50.00%) Finance
5 4 (40.00%) RAD
5 4 (40.00%) C++
5 4 (40.00%) Degree
5 4 (40.00%) Mathematics
5 4 (40.00%) Test Strategy
6 3 (30.00%) Python
7 2 (20.00%) Windows
7 2 (20.00%) Regression Testing
7 2 (20.00%) Selenium
7 2 (20.00%) Microsoft
7 2 (20.00%) Cloud Computing
7 2 (20.00%) Continuous Integration
7 2 (20.00%) Automation Testing
8 1 (10.00%) Bing Maps
8 1 (10.00%) Manual Testing
8 1 (10.00%) Performance Management
8 1 (10.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (10.00%) LTE
8 1 (10.00%) Product Management

QA Tester
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Surrey region that cited QA Tester 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 Tester in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 6 (60.00%) .NET
2 1 (10.00%) Bing Maps
2 1 (10.00%) soapUI
2 1 (10.00%) WCF
2 1 (10.00%) Silverlight
2 1 (10.00%) Google Maps API
2 1 (10.00%) .NET Framework
2 1 (10.00%) SOAP
Applications
1 1 (10.00%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 1 (10.00%) LTE
1 1 (10.00%) UMTS
1 1 (10.00%) FTP
1 1 (10.00%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (10.00%) Oracle 11g
1 1 (10.00%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 2 (20.00%) Selenium
2 1 (10.00%) JIRA
2 1 (10.00%) SilkTest
General
1 5 (50.00%) Finance
2 1 (10.00%) Telecoms
Miscellaneous
1 6 (60.00%) Computer Science
2 4 (40.00%) Mathematics
3 2 (20.00%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (10.00%) Client/Server
4 1 (10.00%) N-Tier
Operating Systems
1 2 (20.00%) Windows
2 1 (10.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (10.00%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (70.00%) Test Automation
1 7 (70.00%) Agile Software Development
2 6 (60.00%) OO
3 5 (50.00%) Software Testing
4 4 (40.00%) RAD
4 4 (40.00%) Test Strategy
5 2 (20.00%) Regression Testing
5 2 (20.00%) Continuous Integration
5 2 (20.00%) Automation Testing
6 1 (10.00%) Manual Testing
6 1 (10.00%) Performance Management
6 1 (10.00%) Product Management
6 1 (10.00%) Performance Testing
6 1 (10.00%) Scrum
6 1 (10.00%) Network Planning
6 1 (10.00%) Automated Testing
6 1 (10.00%) OOD
6 1 (10.00%) SOA
Programming Languages
1 6 (60.00%) Java
2 5 (50.00%) C#
2 5 (50.00%) SQL
3 4 (40.00%) C++
4 3 (30.00%) Python
5 1 (10.00%) Perl
Qualifications
1 4 (40.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (100.00%) QA
Vendors
1 2 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (10.00%) Atlassian
2 1 (10.00%) Google
2 1 (10.00%) Telerik
2 1 (10.00%) Oracle