QA Test Analyst Jobs
 
Demand Trend Salary Trend Salary Histogram Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for the QA Test Analyst role in IT jobs advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited QA Test Analyst 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 Test Analyst
Rank 724 694 792
Rank change year-on-year
-30 +98
Permanent jobs requiring a QA Test Analyst 134 205 79
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK 0.124% 0.170% 0.064%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.132% 0.179% 0.068%
Number of salaries quoted 129 178 73
Average salary £40,000 £35,000 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+14.28% -6.66%
90% offered a salary of more than £30,000 £27,500 £28,400
10% offered a salary of more than £55,000 £47,500 £56,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £34,000 £32,500
% change year-on-year
+17.64% +4.61%
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 Test Analyst
Jobs Demand Trend

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

QA Test Analyst Jobs Demand Trend

QA Test Analyst
Salary Trend

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

QA Test Analyst Salary Trend

QA Test Analyst
Salary Histogram

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

QA Test Analyst Salary Histogram

QA Test Analyst
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 Test Analyst 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 -46 121 £40,000 +14.28%
London +14 71 £41,000 +9.33%
South East -16 23 £39,000 +14.70%
City of London +14 17 £40,000 -11.11%
Hampshire +12 13 £50,000 +81.81%
West Yorkshire -3 13 £40,000 +37.93%
Leeds -20 13 £40,000 +37.93%
Yorkshire -34 13 £40,000 +41.59%
Scotland - 11 £50,000 -
Glasgow - 10 £50,000 -
Basingstoke - 9 £50,000 -
North West -2 6 £35,000 +11.11%
East Sussex - 6 £27,750 -
Brighton - 6 £27,750 -
East of England -13 5 £34,000 +4.61%
Manchester -24 4 £35,000 +11.11%
Norwich +8 3 £34,000 +58.13%
Norfolk +3 3 £34,000 +58.13%
Wales +6 2 £30,500 +10.90%
South Wales +2 2 £30,500 +10.90%
Buckinghamshire -8 2 £32,250 -7.85%
Milton Keynes -13 2 £32,250 -7.85%
Bedfordshire -16 2 £40,000 +23.07%
Cheshire +3 1 £27,500 -6.77%
East Midlands 0 1 - -
Oxfordshire -14 1 £42,500 +30.76%
Berkshire -17 1 £33,500 -1.47%
North East - 1 £30,000 -
Merseyside - 1 £25,500 -
Warwickshire - 1 £27,500 -

QA Test Analyst
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 278 (100.00%) QA
2 116 (41.73%) Selenium
3 99 (35.61%) SQL
4 95 (34.17%) Agile Software Development
5 93 (33.45%) Finance
6 81 (29.14%) Java
7 78 (28.06%) Test Scripting
8 73 (26.26%) Automated Testing
9 69 (24.82%) .NET
10 68 (24.46%) ISEB
11 64 (23.02%) Test Automation
12 62 (22.30%) C#
13 52 (18.71%) Software Testing
14 48 (17.27%) Microsoft
15 47 (16.91%) Degree
16 43 (15.47%) User Acceptance Testing
17 40 (14.39%) ISTQB
17 40 (14.39%) E-Commerce
18 39 (14.03%) QuickTest Pro
18 39 (14.03%) Cucumber
19 37 (13.31%) BDD
19 37 (13.31%) SQL Server
20 36 (12.95%) WebDriver
21 35 (12.59%) Manual Testing
22 34 (12.23%) TDD
23 33 (11.87%) Windows
23 33 (11.87%) Python
24 31 (11.15%) MS Excel
25 30 (10.79%) Banking
26 29 (10.43%) XML

QA Test Analyst
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 69 (24.82%) .NET
2 29 (10.43%) XML
3 21 (7.554%) ASP.NET
4 18 (6.475%) Web Services
5 9 (3.237%) HTML
5 9 (3.237%) .NET Framework
6 7 (2.518%) SOAP
7 6 (2.158%) Gherkin
8 5 (1.799%) ASP.NET MVC
9 4 (1.439%) CSS
9 4 (1.439%) J2EE
9 4 (1.439%) FIX Protocol
9 4 (1.439%) Middleware
10 3 (1.079%) XSD
10 3 (1.079%) WSDL
11 2 (0.719%) XML Schema
11 2 (0.719%) OAuth
11 2 (0.719%) ASP
11 2 (0.719%) Node.js
11 2 (0.719%) REST
Application Platforms
1 3 (1.079%) SharePoint
2 2 (0.719%) ColdFusion
2 2 (0.719%) Apache
2 2 (0.719%) Tomcat
2 2 (0.719%) Confluence
3 1 (0.360%) IIS
3 1 (0.360%) CMS
Applications
1 31 (11.15%) MS Excel
2 18 (6.475%) MS Office
3 3 (1.079%) MS Project
4 2 (0.719%) S-PLUS
5 1 (0.360%) MS Visio
Communications & Networking
1 15 (5.396%) HTTP
2 7 (2.518%) Internet
3 2 (0.719%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.360%) LDAP
4 1 (0.360%) Broadband
4 1 (0.360%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (13.31%) SQL Server
2 8 (2.878%) MySQL
3 5 (1.799%) Big Data
4 2 (0.719%) DB2
4 2 (0.719%) Data Mining
4 2 (0.719%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 2 (0.719%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 2 (0.719%) QlikView
4 2 (0.719%) SQL Server 2008
5 1 (0.360%) RDBMS
5 1 (0.360%) SQL Server 2000
5 1 (0.360%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (0.360%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 116 (41.73%) Selenium
2 39 (14.03%) QuickTest Pro
2 39 (14.03%) Cucumber
3 36 (12.95%) WebDriver
4 22 (7.914%) FitNesse
5 20 (7.194%) JIRA
6 12 (4.317%) Team Foundation Server
6 12 (4.317%) SpecFlow
7 7 (2.518%) WATIR
7 7 (2.518%) Visual Studio
7 7 (2.518%) JMeter
8 6 (2.158%) JBehave
9 5 (1.799%) JUnit
10 4 (1.439%) Concordion
11 3 (1.079%) Jenkins
11 3 (1.079%) Subversion
11 3 (1.079%) Eclipse
12 2 (0.719%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 2 (0.719%) TestComplete
13 1 (0.360%) TeamCity
General
1 93 (33.45%) Finance
2 30 (10.79%) Banking
3 16 (5.755%) Law
4 14 (5.036%) Investment Banking
5 8 (2.878%) Front Office
6 7 (2.518%) Telecoms
7 6 (2.158%) Marketing
7 6 (2.158%) Retail
8 5 (1.799%) Publishing
9 4 (1.439%) Games
9 4 (1.439%) Arabic Language
9 4 (1.439%) Financial Institution
10 3 (1.079%) Back Office
10 3 (1.079%) Legal
11 2 (0.719%) Advertising
11 2 (0.719%) Russian Language
11 2 (0.719%) Billing
12 1 (0.360%) Pharmaceutical
Miscellaneous
1 17 (6.115%) Derivative
2 16 (5.755%) Client/Server
3 15 (5.396%) Computer Science
4 14 (5.036%) Open Source
4 14 (5.036%) Mobile App
5 11 (3.957%) Enterprise Software
6 8 (2.878%) SaaS
6 8 (2.878%) Equities
7 7 (2.518%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 7 (2.518%) Hedge funds
8 6 (2.158%) Credit Derivative
9 5 (1.799%) Management Information System
9 5 (1.799%) Equity Derivative
9 5 (1.799%) Statistics
10 4 (1.439%) iPhone
11 3 (1.079%) Smartphone
12 2 (0.719%) Streaming Video
12 2 (0.719%) Replication
12 2 (0.719%) Online Games
13 1 (0.360%) iSeries
Operating Systems
1 33 (11.87%) Windows
2 22 (7.914%) UNIX
3 19 (6.835%) Linux
4 6 (2.158%) Android
5 3 (1.079%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.719%) Mac OS X
7 1 (0.360%) Windows Mobile
7 1 (0.360%) Windows Phone
7 1 (0.360%) Windows Phone 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 95 (34.17%) Agile Software Development
2 78 (28.06%) Test Scripting
3 73 (26.26%) Automated Testing
4 64 (23.02%) Test Automation
5 52 (18.71%) Software Testing
6 43 (15.47%) User Acceptance Testing
7 40 (14.39%) E-Commerce
8 37 (13.31%) BDD
9 35 (12.59%) Manual Testing
10 34 (12.23%) TDD
11 26 (9.353%) Automation Testing
12 24 (8.633%) Regression Testing
13 23 (8.273%) OO
13 23 (8.273%) User Stories
14 22 (7.914%) OOP
14 22 (7.914%) Scrum
15 21 (7.554%) Performance Testing
16 18 (6.475%) Test Strategy
17 17 (6.115%) Continuous Integration
18 13 (4.676%) V-Model
Programming Languages
1 99 (35.61%) SQL
2 81 (29.14%) Java
3 62 (22.30%) C#
4 33 (11.87%) Python
5 26 (9.353%) C++
6 25 (8.993%) Ruby
7 20 (7.194%) VBScript
8 18 (6.475%) JavaScript
9 16 (5.755%) Perl
9 16 (5.755%) VB
10 11 (3.957%) C
11 6 (2.158%) VBA
12 5 (1.799%) PHP
13 4 (1.439%) Scala
14 3 (1.079%) PowerShell
14 3 (1.079%) Shell Script
15 2 (0.719%) MATLAB
15 2 (0.719%) R
16 1 (0.360%) Objective-C
16 1 (0.360%) F#
Qualifications
1 68 (24.46%) ISEB
2 47 (16.91%) Degree
3 40 (14.39%) ISTQB
4 3 (1.079%) CSQA
5 1 (0.360%) Security Cleared
5 1 (0.360%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 278 (100.00%) QA
2 4 (1.439%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 1 (0.360%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 12 (4.317%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 48 (17.27%) Microsoft
2 15 (5.396%) Oracle
3 9 (3.237%) HP
4 4 (1.439%) Sybase
5 3 (1.079%) ATG
6 2 (0.719%) Google
6 2 (0.719%) Cadis
6 2 (0.719%) Hyperion
7 1 (0.360%) TOWER Software
7 1 (0.360%) VMware
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Salary: £45000 - £55000 per annum + benefits & bonus
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Newbury, Thames Valley
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Salary: £3000 - £3500 per annum + Benefit
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South East London
Understanding of networking TCP/IP and SQL Server. Experience with a scripting or programming language (C#, C++, Java, Python, Ruby) This is an excellent opportunity to establish your...
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Salary: £35k to £40k + bonus (c15%) + benefits
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QA Test Analyst / Tester - Graduate / Junior
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As a QA Test Analyst / Technical Tester you will test newly developed software, existing software upgrades and deployments to ensure quality is maintained; including manual testing (exploratory, negative...
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Salary: £35k to £40k + bonus (c15%) + benefits
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