The first table below looks at the demand for QA skills in IT jobs advertised for the Thames Valley region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited QA over the 3 months to 17 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 Thames Valley region.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Quality Assurance (QA)
Rank 7 13 -
Rank change year-on-year
+6 -
Permanent jobs citing QA 3 1 0
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the Thames Valley 12.50% 2.041% -
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 100.00% 33.33% -
Number of salaries quoted 3 1 0
Average salary £50,000 £65,000 -
Average salary % change year-on-year
-23.07% -
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £37,500 £39,125
% change year-on-year
+1.33% -4.15%
All Quality Assurance & Compliance
Thames Valley
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Quality Assurance & Compliance category
3 3 0
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the Thames Valley 12.50% 6.122% -
Number of salaries quoted 3 2 0
Average salary £50,000 £70,000 -
Average salary % change year-on-year
-28.57% -
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £41,000
% change year-on-year
- -2.43%
QA
South East

QA
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Thames Valley 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 Thames Valley region.

Thames Valley QA Salary Trend

QA
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing QA across the Thames Valley region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

Thames Valley QA Salary Histogram

QA
Top 29 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Thames Valley 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 3 (75.00%) Telecoms
2 2 (50.00%) JMS
2 2 (50.00%) Test Scripting
2 2 (50.00%) Java
2 2 (50.00%) XML
2 2 (50.00%) Linux
2 2 (50.00%) Tomcat
2 2 (50.00%) Python
2 2 (50.00%) SLA
2 2 (50.00%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (25.00%) IPv6
3 1 (25.00%) HP
3 1 (25.00%) Veritas
3 1 (25.00%) Legato
3 1 (25.00%) Client/Server
3 1 (25.00%) UNIX
3 1 (25.00%) Windows
3 1 (25.00%) System Testing
3 1 (25.00%) NAS
3 1 (25.00%) Product Management
3 1 (25.00%) HP Quality Center
3 1 (25.00%) Agile Software Development
3 1 (25.00%) VLAN
3 1 (25.00%) Degree
3 1 (25.00%) User Acceptance Testing
3 1 (25.00%) Regression Testing
3 1 (25.00%) Risk Management
3 1 (25.00%) NFS
3 1 (25.00%) TCP/IP

QA
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Thames Valley 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 2 (50.00%) XML
1 2 (50.00%) JMS
Application Platforms
1 2 (50.00%) Tomcat
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) TCP/IP
1 1 (25.00%) IPv6
1 1 (25.00%) VLAN
1 1 (25.00%) NAS
General
1 3 (75.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Support Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Senior Support Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Test Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Systems Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Test Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Systems Test Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) QA Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (25.00%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 2 (50.00%) Linux
2 1 (25.00%) UNIX
2 1 (25.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Test Scripting
2 1 (25.00%) System Testing
2 1 (25.00%) Product Management
2 1 (25.00%) Regression Testing
2 1 (25.00%) Risk Management
2 1 (25.00%) Agile Software Development
2 1 (25.00%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) Java
1 2 (50.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (50.00%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) NFS
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Legato
1 1 (25.00%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) HP
1 1 (25.00%) Veritas