The first table below looks at the demand for the QA Leader role in IT jobs advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited QA Leader in their job title 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 Job Titles currently tracked.

Location
3 months to
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Quality Assurance Lead
Rank 760 752 740
Rank change year-on-year
-8 -12
Permanent jobs requiring a QA Leader 104 148 130
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK 0.096% 0.121% 0.106%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.101% 0.127% 0.113%
Number of salaries quoted 93 139 111
Average salary £50,000 £50,000 £50,000
90% offered a salary of more than £38,000 £40,500 £40,000
10% offered a salary of more than £70,000 £75,000 £72,500
UK excluding London average salary £42,500 £45,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year
-5.55% +5.88%
All Job Titles
UK
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
102708 116230 115193
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK 94.43% 94.76% 94.23%
Number of salaries quoted 85414 99672 97379
Average salary £42,500 £42,500 £42,500
90% offered a salary of more than £26,500 £27,500 £26,500
10% offered a salary of more than £67,500 £72,500 £70,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +1.33%

QA Leader
Jobs Demand Trend

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

QA Leader Jobs Demand Trend

QA Leader
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing QA Leader within the UK.

QA Leader Salary Trend

QA Leader
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing QA Leader over the 3 months to 22 May 2013 within the UK.

QA Leader Salary Histogram

QA Leader
Top 30 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing QA Leader within the UK over the 3 months to 22 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
England -14 97 £55,000 +10.00%
London +21 61 £60,000 +14.28%
City of London +26 15 £62,500 +4.16%
South East +4 12 £45,000 -14.28%
South West - 7 £55,000 -
West Yorkshire -1 6 £40,000 -1.23%
East of England -3 6 £40,000 -17.94%
Leeds -8 6 £40,000 -1.23%
Yorkshire -10 6 £40,000 -1.23%
North Wales - 6 £37,000 -
Deeside - 6 £37,000 -
Flintshire - 6 £37,000 -
Wales - 6 £37,000 -
Cambridgeshire +13 5 £40,000 -
West Midlands -5 5 £45,000 +50.00%
Cambridge - 5 £40,000 -
Surrey +19 4 £53,750 -2.27%
Oxfordshire -12 4 £45,000 +11.11%
Staffordshire - 4 £45,000 -
Dorset - 4 £60,000 -
Stoke-on-Trent - 4 £45,000 -
Bournemouth - 4 £60,000 -
Guildford - 3 £57,500 -
Berkshire -3 2 £46,250 -15.90%
Ealing - 2 - -
Hampshire +6 1 £45,000 +20.00%
Scotland -5 1 £45,000 -
Birmingham -12 1 £42,500 +41.66%
Suffolk -14 1 £35,000 -36.36%
Somerset - 1 £38,500 -

QA Leader
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs within the UK that cited QA Leader 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 Leader in their job title.

1 256 (100.00%) QA
2 70 (27.34%) Selenium
2 70 (27.34%) Java
3 64 (25.00%) Agile Software Development
3 64 (25.00%) Software Testing
4 62 (24.22%) Degree
5 59 (23.05%) SQL
6 53 (20.70%) Finance
7 52 (20.31%) Automated Testing
8 50 (19.53%) Test Strategy
9 48 (18.75%) TDD
9 48 (18.75%) Scrum
9 48 (18.75%) C#
10 46 (17.97%) ISEB
11 45 (17.58%) .NET
12 42 (16.41%) User Acceptance Testing
13 40 (15.63%) Test Automation
13 40 (15.63%) Apple iOS
14 39 (15.23%) Computer Science
15 37 (14.45%) WebDriver
15 37 (14.45%) Test Scripting
16 35 (13.67%) E-Commerce
17 34 (13.28%) Cucumber
18 32 (12.50%) UNIX
19 28 (10.94%) ISTQB
20 27 (10.55%) Linux
20 27 (10.55%) SQL Server
21 26 (10.16%) HTTP
21 26 (10.16%) Microsoft
21 26 (10.16%) Internet

QA Leader
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs within the UK that cited QA Leader 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 Leader in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 45 (17.58%) .NET
2 19 (7.422%) HTML
2 19 (7.422%) XML
3 14 (5.469%) ASP
4 12 (4.688%) Web Services
5 10 (3.906%) CSS
6 9 (3.516%) XML Schema
7 7 (2.734%) ASP.NET
8 6 (2.344%) .NET Framework
8 6 (2.344%) XML Messaging
9 4 (1.563%) REST
10 3 (1.172%) Middleware
10 3 (1.172%) J2EE
10 3 (1.172%) Ruby on Rails
11 2 (0.781%) FIX Protocol
11 2 (0.781%) soapUI
11 2 (0.781%) Flash
11 2 (0.781%) Swing
11 2 (0.781%) SOAP
11 2 (0.781%) XSLT
Application Platforms
1 3 (1.172%) CMS
1 3 (1.172%) IIS
2 1 (0.391%) Tomcat
2 1 (0.391%) Apache
2 1 (0.391%) SharePoint
Applications
1 21 (8.203%) MS Excel
2 4 (1.563%) MS PowerPoint
2 4 (1.563%) MS Visio
2 4 (1.563%) MS Project
2 4 (1.563%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 26 (10.16%) HTTP
1 26 (10.16%) Internet
2 1 (0.391%) HTTPS
2 1 (0.391%) BSS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (10.55%) SQL Server
2 11 (4.297%) Big Data
3 4 (1.563%) RDBMS
3 4 (1.563%) MySQL
4 3 (1.172%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (1.172%) Hadoop
5 1 (0.391%) DataStage
Development Applications
1 70 (27.34%) Selenium
2 37 (14.45%) WebDriver
3 34 (13.28%) Cucumber
4 22 (8.594%) JIRA
5 15 (5.859%) QuickTest Pro
6 12 (4.688%) LoadRunner
7 10 (3.906%) Xcode
8 8 (3.125%) FitNesse
8 8 (3.125%) JUnit
9 7 (2.734%) Eclipse
10 6 (2.344%) TestNG
11 5 (1.953%) JMeter
12 4 (1.563%) WatiN
13 3 (1.172%) Concordion
13 3 (1.172%) WATIR
14 2 (0.781%) Git (software)
14 2 (0.781%) SpecFlow
14 2 (0.781%) Robotium
14 2 (0.781%) TestDirector
14 2 (0.781%) Rational Robot
General
1 53 (20.70%) Finance
2 18 (7.031%) Banking
3 14 (5.469%) Front Office
4 9 (3.516%) Retail
5 6 (2.344%) Investment Banking
5 6 (2.344%) Legal
6 5 (1.953%) Games
6 5 (1.953%) Publishing
6 5 (1.953%) Back Office
6 5 (1.953%) Marketing
7 3 (1.172%) Telecoms
7 3 (1.172%) Law
8 1 (0.391%) Advertising
8 1 (0.391%) Wholesale Banking
Miscellaneous
1 39 (15.23%) Computer Science
2 22 (8.594%) Derivative
3 18 (7.031%) Mobile App
4 14 (5.469%) iPhone
4 14 (5.469%) iPad
5 12 (4.688%) Equity Derivative
5 12 (4.688%) Client/Server
5 12 (4.688%) Blackberry
6 11 (4.297%) Equities
7 8 (3.125%) Social Network
7 8 (3.125%) Cloud Computing
7 8 (3.125%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 6 (2.344%) Statistics
8 6 (2.344%) EPoS
9 5 (1.953%) N-Tier
9 5 (1.953%) Data Protection Act
10 4 (1.563%) Exotic Derivative
10 4 (1.563%) Open Source
11 3 (1.172%) Fixed Income
11 3 (1.172%) SWIFT
Operating Systems
1 40 (15.63%) Apple iOS
2 32 (12.50%) UNIX
3 27 (10.55%) Linux
4 18 (7.031%) Android
5 16 (6.250%) Windows
6 2 (0.781%) Windows Phone
6 2 (0.781%) Mac OS X
7 1 (0.391%) CentOS
7 1 (0.391%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 64 (25.00%) Agile Software Development
1 64 (25.00%) Software Testing
2 52 (20.31%) Automated Testing
3 50 (19.53%) Test Strategy
4 48 (18.75%) TDD
4 48 (18.75%) Scrum
5 42 (16.41%) User Acceptance Testing
6 40 (15.63%) Test Automation
7 37 (14.45%) Test Scripting
8 35 (13.67%) E-Commerce
9 26 (10.16%) BDD
10 25 (9.766%) System Testing
11 23 (8.984%) Test Management
12 15 (5.859%) B2C
12 15 (5.859%) Manual Testing
13 14 (5.469%) OO
14 13 (5.078%) Regression Testing
15 12 (4.688%) Performance Testing
16 11 (4.297%) Project Management
16 11 (4.297%) Security Testing
Programming Languages
1 70 (27.34%) Java
2 59 (23.05%) SQL
3 48 (18.75%) C#
4 14 (5.469%) C++
4 14 (5.469%) JavaScript
5 13 (5.078%) Python
5 13 (5.078%) Ruby
6 11 (4.297%) C
7 10 (3.906%) VBA
8 9 (3.516%) Objective-C
9 7 (2.734%) Perl
10 6 (2.344%) PHP
11 5 (1.953%) Shell Script
12 4 (1.563%) Tcl
12 4 (1.563%) VBScript
13 1 (0.391%) VB
13 1 (0.391%) XPath
Qualifications
1 62 (24.22%) Degree
2 46 (17.97%) ISEB
3 28 (10.94%) ISTQB
4 8 (3.125%) SC Cleared
4 8 (3.125%) Security Cleared
5 2 (0.781%) ISEB Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 256 (100.00%) QA
2 1 (0.391%) ISO 14001
2 1 (0.391%) 21 CFR Part 11
2 1 (0.391%) ISO 9001
2 1 (0.391%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 1 (0.391%) Active Directory
1 1 (0.391%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 11 (4.297%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 26 (10.16%) Microsoft
2 12 (4.688%) HP
3 5 (1.953%) Oracle
4 3 (1.172%) ATG
4 3 (1.172%) Fidessa
5 2 (0.781%) Telerik
5 2 (0.781%) IBM
5 2 (0.781%) SAP
6 1 (0.391%) Salesforce.com
6 1 (0.391%) VMware
6 1 (0.391%) Sybase
6 1 (0.391%) Citrix
6 1 (0.391%) Twitter
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