QA Manager Jobs
 
Demand Trend Salary Trend Salary Histogram Job Locations Related Skills

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

Location
 3 months to
17 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Quality Assurance Manager
Rank 622 730 605
Rank change year-on-year
+108 -125
Permanent jobs requiring a QA Manager 238 167 275
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK 0.221% 0.138% 0.223%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.234% 0.146% 0.236%
Number of salaries quoted 210 146 224
Average salary £55,000 £50,000 £52,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+10.00% -4.76%
90% offered a salary of more than £42,500 £40,000 £42,500
10% offered a salary of more than £75,000 £67,000 £87,500
UK excluding London average salary £50,000 £47,589 £45,000
% change year-on-year
+5.06% +5.75%
All Job Titles
UK
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category		 101791 114576 116360
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK 94.44% 94.74% 94.25%
Number of salaries quoted 84727 98303 98213
Average salary £42,500 £42,500 £42,500
90% offered a salary of more than £26,500 £27,000 £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 Manager
Jobs Demand Trend

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

QA Manager Jobs Demand Trend

QA Manager
Salary Trend

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

QA Manager Salary Trend

QA Manager
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing QA Manager over the 3 months to 17 May 2013 within the UK.

QA Manager Salary Histogram

QA Manager
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 Manager within the UK over the 3 months to 17 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 +104 226 £55,000 +10.00%
London +77 125 £60,000 +14.28%
South East +10 30 £45,000 -12.62%
East of England +6 25 £70,000 +68.67%
Cambridgeshire +17 23 £70,000 +4.47%
North East +27 22 £50,000 +127.27%
Tyne and Wear - 19 £50,000 -
Newcastle upon Tyne - 18 £50,000 -
Yorkshire -10 16 £45,000 -12.19%
Peterborough - 14 £70,000 -
Hampshire +9 13 £45,000 -14.28%
West Yorkshire +6 12 £43,500 -20.90%
City of London +3 11 £62,500 +38.88%
Scotland -4 11 £42,500 -5.55%
Surrey +22 9 £48,000 +12.94%
Leeds -12 8 £42,000 -16.00%
Glasgow - 8 £42,500 -
Aldershot - 7 £42,500 -
Halifax - 5 £47,500 -
Berkshire -6 4 £45,000 -12.62%
Fareham - 4 £45,000 -
Oxfordshire - 4 £52,500 -
South West +6 3 £65,000 +23.80%
Edinburgh -8 3 - -
North Yorkshire - 3 £50,000 -
North West +2 2 £46,250 -7.50%
Slough -1 2 £45,000 -5.26%
Hertfordshire -2 2 £40,000 -3.61%
West Midlands -17 2 £45,500 -9.00%
Dorset - 2 £50,000 -

QA Manager
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs within the UK that cited QA Manager 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 Manager in their job title.

1 430 (100.00%) QA
2 110 (25.58%) Agile Software Development
3 108 (25.12%) Selenium
4 96 (22.33%) TDD
5 94 (21.86%) ISEB
6 90 (20.93%) Automated Testing
7 82 (19.07%) Software Testing
8 68 (15.81%) ISTQB
9 65 (15.12%) Security Testing
10 63 (14.65%) Finance
11 62 (14.42%) E-Commerce
12 56 (13.02%) SQL
12 56 (13.02%) Linux
13 51 (11.86%) Java
13 51 (11.86%) Test Scripting
14 50 (11.63%) User Acceptance Testing
15 48 (11.16%) Degree
15 48 (11.16%) Windows
16 46 (10.70%) Web Testing
16 46 (10.70%) Test Management
17 44 (10.23%) Test Strategy
18 42 (9.767%) Automation Testing
19 41 (9.535%) Test Automation
19 41 (9.535%) WATIR
19 41 (9.535%) FitNesse
20 40 (9.302%) Jasmine
21 37 (8.605%) Scrum
22 33 (7.674%) Cucumber
23 32 (7.442%) Stakeholder Management
24 31 (7.209%) Open Source

QA Manager
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs within the UK that cited QA Manager 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 Manager in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 26 (6.047%) .NET
2 22 (5.116%) XML
3 21 (4.884%) HTML
4 17 (3.953%) CSS
5 16 (3.721%) Flash
6 14 (3.256%) LAMP
7 10 (2.326%) ASP.NET
8 7 (1.628%) X-Windows
9 3 (0.698%) HTML5
9 3 (0.698%) COM
9 3 (0.698%) J2EE
10 1 (0.233%) Middleware
10 1 (0.233%) Web Services
10 1 (0.233%) CSS3
10 1 (0.233%) WebSphere
Application Platforms
1 18 (4.186%) IIS
2 8 (1.860%) Apache
3 6 (1.395%) Tomcat
4 3 (0.698%) CMS
5 2 (0.465%) Exchange Server 2003
5 2 (0.465%) SharePoint Server
5 2 (0.465%) MS Exchange
6 1 (0.233%) WebSphere MQ
Applications
1 10 (2.326%) MS Office
2 7 (1.628%) MS Excel
3 2 (0.465%) MS Project
Business Applications
1 4 (0.930%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.465%) SAP ERP
2 2 (0.465%) Temenos T24
3 1 (0.233%) ION MarketView
Communications & Networking
1 27 (6.279%) TCP/IP
2 22 (5.116%) HTTP
3 14 (3.256%) Internet
4 3 (0.698%) SMTP
5 2 (0.465%) Wireless
6 1 (0.233%) Wi-Fi
6 1 (0.233%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (4.419%) SQL Server
2 6 (1.395%) Oracle Reports
3 4 (0.930%) Data Warehouse
3 4 (0.930%) Big Data
4 3 (0.698%) MySQL
5 2 (0.465%) Oracle BI EE
5 2 (0.465%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 108 (25.12%) Selenium
2 41 (9.535%) FitNesse
2 41 (9.535%) WATIR
3 40 (9.302%) Jasmine
4 33 (7.674%) Cucumber
5 22 (5.116%) Concordion
6 20 (4.651%) QuickTest Pro
7 19 (4.419%) JIRA
8 18 (4.186%) Maven
8 18 (4.186%) Ant
8 18 (4.186%) SpecFlow
8 18 (4.186%) JBehave
9 11 (2.558%) WebDriver
9 11 (2.558%) Redmine
10 6 (1.395%) Sahi
10 6 (1.395%) Xcode
11 5 (1.163%) LoadRunner
11 5 (1.163%) ClearQuest
11 5 (1.163%) Rational Robot
12 3 (0.698%) RSpec
General
1 63 (14.65%) Finance
2 25 (5.814%) Banking
3 11 (2.558%) Law
4 9 (2.093%) Investment Banking
5 8 (1.860%) Retail
5 8 (1.860%) Marketing
6 7 (1.628%) Manufacturing
7 6 (1.395%) Pharmaceutical
7 6 (1.395%) Games
8 5 (1.163%) Telecoms
9 4 (0.930%) Front Office
10 3 (0.698%) Back Office
10 3 (0.698%) Electronics
10 3 (0.698%) Legal
10 3 (0.698%) Japanese Language
11 2 (0.465%) Retail Banking
11 2 (0.465%) Publishing
12 1 (0.233%) Music
12 1 (0.233%) Wholesale Banking
12 1 (0.233%) Multimedia
Miscellaneous
1 31 (7.209%) Open Source
2 16 (3.721%) Derivative
3 13 (3.023%) Equity Derivative
4 12 (2.791%) Computer Science
4 12 (2.791%) Client/Server
5 10 (2.326%) Mobile App
6 9 (2.093%) Video on Demand
6 9 (2.093%) Equities
7 8 (1.860%) Social Media
8 6 (1.395%) SaaS
8 6 (1.395%) Enterprise Software
8 6 (1.395%) Blackberry
9 5 (1.163%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 5 (1.163%) Digital Media
10 4 (0.930%) Mathematics
10 4 (0.930%) Replication
10 4 (0.930%) Fixed Income
11 3 (0.698%) Life Science
11 3 (0.698%) FMCG
12 2 (0.465%) Handset
Operating Systems
1 56 (13.02%) Linux
2 48 (11.16%) Windows
3 22 (5.116%) Mac OS X
4 20 (4.651%) Apple iOS
5 19 (4.419%) Android
6 8 (1.860%) UNIX
7 2 (0.465%) Windows XP
7 2 (0.465%) Windows Server 2008
7 2 (0.465%) Windows Server 2003
7 2 (0.465%) Windows Vista
8 1 (0.233%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 110 (25.58%) Agile Software Development
2 96 (22.33%) TDD
3 90 (20.93%) Automated Testing
4 82 (19.07%) Software Testing
5 65 (15.12%) Security Testing
6 62 (14.42%) E-Commerce
7 51 (11.86%) Test Scripting
8 50 (11.63%) User Acceptance Testing
9 46 (10.70%) Web Testing
9 46 (10.70%) Test Management
10 44 (10.23%) Test Strategy
11 42 (9.767%) Automation Testing
12 41 (9.535%) Test Automation
13 37 (8.605%) Scrum
14 32 (7.442%) Stakeholder Management
15 30 (6.977%) Performance Testing
16 29 (6.744%) Regression Testing
16 29 (6.744%) BDD
17 27 (6.279%) Unit Testing
18 25 (5.814%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 56 (13.02%) SQL
2 51 (11.86%) Java
3 16 (3.721%) JavaScript
3 16 (3.721%) C#
4 11 (2.558%) C
5 10 (2.326%) Shell Script
6 8 (1.860%) PHP
7 7 (1.628%) Bash shell
8 6 (1.395%) sed
8 6 (1.395%) AWK
8 6 (1.395%) VB
9 4 (0.930%) Ruby
10 3 (0.698%) Objective-C
11 2 (0.465%) Scala
11 2 (0.465%) C++
12 1 (0.233%) Perl
12 1 (0.233%) Python
Qualifications
1 94 (21.86%) ISEB
2 68 (15.81%) ISTQB
3 48 (11.16%) Degree
4 16 (3.721%) Security Cleared
5 11 (2.558%) ISEB Practitioner
6 9 (2.093%) SC Cleared
7 2 (0.465%) PRINCE2 Certification
7 2 (0.465%) ITIL Certification
8 1 (0.233%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.233%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 430 (100.00%) QA
2 19 (4.419%) ISO 9001
3 18 (4.186%) SLA
4 6 (1.395%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 6 (1.395%) GAMP
5 4 (0.930%) TickIT
6 3 (0.698%) GxP
7 1 (0.233%) GMP
7 1 (0.233%) ISO 9000
7 1 (0.233%) COBIT
7 1 (0.233%) BS25999
System Software
1 3 (0.698%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (0.465%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.233%) ISA Server
Systems Management
1 15 (3.488%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 27 (6.279%) Microsoft
2 13 (3.023%) Oracle
3 6 (1.395%) ATG
3 6 (1.395%) Facebook
4 5 (1.163%) IBM
4 5 (1.163%) Telerik
5 4 (0.930%) Twitter
6 3 (0.698%) VMware
6 3 (0.698%) Sybase
6 3 (0.698%) HP
7 2 (0.465%) Temenos
7 2 (0.465%) SAP
7 2 (0.465%) Siebel
8 1 (0.233%) Cognizant
8 1 (0.233%) Bloomberg
8 1 (0.233%) ION Trading
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Posted: 27 April 2013
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Salary: From £45,000 to £50,000 per annum
Posted: 14 May 2013
QA Manager
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Salary: From £45,000 to £55,000 per annum
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Salary: From £45,000 to £50,000 per annum
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Salary: From £35,000 to £40,000 per annum
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My global banking client, a Tier 1 investment bank and one of the biggest and most successful names in the industry, has a rare opportunity for a Test...
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