The first table below looks at the demand for the Quality Analyst role in IT jobs advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Quality 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 Analyst
Rank 798 792 783
Rank change year-on-year
-6 -9
Permanent jobs requiring a Quality Analyst 60 104 88
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK 0.056% 0.086% 0.071%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.059% 0.091% 0.076%
Number of salaries quoted 50 82 71
Average salary £40,000 £40,000 £32,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +23.07%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,700 £24,000 £24,000
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £56,750 £67,500
UK excluding London average salary £35,000 £37,500 £31,750
% change year-on-year
-6.66% +18.11%
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%

Quality Analyst
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Quality Analyst Jobs Demand Trend

Quality Analyst
Salary Trend

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

Quality Analyst Salary Trend

Quality Analyst
Salary Histogram

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

Quality Analyst Salary Histogram

Quality 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 Quality 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 -12 56 £40,000 -
London +11 34 £42,500 -10.52%
City of London +18 16 £40,000 -60.00%
South East -6 9 £32,500 -13.33%
South West +11 7 £35,000 -
Bath - 5 £35,000 -
Somerset - 5 £35,000 -
Scotland - 4 £50,000 -
Surrey +12 3 £40,000 -
North West 0 3 £32,800 -2.81%
Manchester -21 3 £32,800 -18.00%
Glasgow - 3 £50,000 -
Croydon - 3 £42,500 -
Chertsey +10 2 £32,500 -
East Sussex +1 2 £38,500 +10.00%
West Yorkshire 0 2 £40,000 +90.47%
Brighton -3 2 £38,500 +10.00%
Yorkshire -18 2 £40,000 +90.47%
Milton Keynes - 2 £27,250 -
Buckinghamshire - 2 £27,250 -
Wales +6 1 £27,500 -
South Wales +2 1 £27,500 -
Bristol 0 1 £27,500 -
Hampshire 0 1 £23,500 -2.08%
West Midlands -24 1 £52,500 +40.00%
Wiltshire - 1 £42,500 -
West Sussex - 1 £44,000 -
Newport - 1 £27,500 -
Leeds - 1 £40,000 -
Guildford - 1 £47,500 -

Quality Analyst
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 60 (65.22%) QA
2 37 (40.22%) SQL
3 32 (34.78%) Finance
4 24 (26.09%) Data Quality
5 23 (25.00%) Selenium
6 21 (22.83%) Automated Testing
7 18 (19.57%) Java
7 18 (19.57%) Agile Software Development
8 16 (17.39%) ISEB
9 15 (16.30%) Project Management
10 14 (15.22%) .NET
10 14 (15.22%) Test Automation
11 13 (14.13%) User Acceptance Testing
11 13 (14.13%) QuickTest Pro
11 13 (14.13%) Shell Script
11 13 (14.13%) Degree
12 12 (13.04%) Data Management
12 12 (13.04%) Banking
13 11 (11.96%) Quality Management
13 11 (11.96%) Test Scripting
14 10 (10.87%) Scrum
15 9 (9.783%) Web Development
15 9 (9.783%) Windows
15 9 (9.783%) Investment Banking
15 9 (9.783%) Manual Testing
16 8 (8.696%) Computer Science
16 8 (8.696%) Data Governance
16 8 (8.696%) E-Commerce
16 8 (8.696%) Software Testing
16 8 (8.696%) ISTQB

Quality Analyst
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 14 (15.22%) .NET
2 2 (2.174%) J2EE
2 2 (2.174%) ASP
2 2 (2.174%) ASP.NET
2 2 (2.174%) HTML
2 2 (2.174%) soapUI
3 1 (1.087%) Web Services
3 1 (1.087%) XML
3 1 (1.087%) ODBC
Application Platforms
1 4 (4.348%) Apache
2 1 (1.087%) SAS
Applications
1 4 (4.348%) MS Office
2 2 (2.174%) MS Excel
3 1 (1.087%) MS Visio
3 1 (1.087%) MS PowerPoint
Communications & Networking
1 5 (5.435%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (4.348%) MySQL
2 3 (3.261%) SQL Server
3 2 (2.174%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (2.174%) RDBMS
4 1 (1.087%) Oracle BI EE
4 1 (1.087%) Data Mining
4 1 (1.087%) Oracle 8/8i
4 1 (1.087%) Oracle 9i
4 1 (1.087%) MS Access
Development Applications
1 23 (25.00%) Selenium
2 13 (14.13%) QuickTest Pro
3 5 (5.435%) FitNesse
3 5 (5.435%) Jenkins
4 4 (4.348%) Cucumber
4 4 (4.348%) JMeter
5 3 (3.261%) Git (software)
6 2 (2.174%) Hudson
6 2 (2.174%) WATIR
7 1 (1.087%) SpecFlow
7 1 (1.087%) Team Foundation Server
7 1 (1.087%) TestComplete
7 1 (1.087%) Subversion
7 1 (1.087%) TestPartner
7 1 (1.087%) SilkTest
7 1 (1.087%) ERwin
7 1 (1.087%) VSS/SourceSafe
7 1 (1.087%) ClearCase
7 1 (1.087%) TestDirector
General
1 32 (34.78%) Finance
2 12 (13.04%) Banking
3 9 (9.783%) Investment Banking
4 7 (7.609%) Retail
5 5 (5.435%) Law
6 4 (4.348%) Arabic Language
6 4 (4.348%) Games
7 2 (2.174%) Russian Language
7 2 (2.174%) Front Office
7 2 (2.174%) Electronics
8 1 (1.087%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (1.087%) Back Office
8 1 (1.087%) Manufacturing
8 1 (1.087%) Advertising
8 1 (1.087%) Marketing
Miscellaneous
1 8 (8.696%) Computer Science
2 7 (7.609%) Derivative
3 5 (5.435%) Client/Server
4 4 (4.348%) Mobile App
5 2 (2.174%) Mathematics
5 2 (2.174%) Statistics
5 2 (2.174%) N-Tier
5 2 (2.174%) EPoS
6 1 (1.087%) Management Information System
6 1 (1.087%) iPhone
6 1 (1.087%) iPad
6 1 (1.087%) Digital Media
6 1 (1.087%) Spread Betting
Operating Systems
1 9 (9.783%) Windows
2 7 (7.609%) Linux
2 7 (7.609%) UNIX
3 3 (3.261%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (22.83%) Automated Testing
2 18 (19.57%) Agile Software Development
3 15 (16.30%) Project Management
4 14 (15.22%) Test Automation
5 13 (14.13%) User Acceptance Testing
6 12 (13.04%) Data Management
7 11 (11.96%) Quality Management
7 11 (11.96%) Test Scripting
8 10 (10.87%) Scrum
9 9 (9.783%) Web Development
9 9 (9.783%) Manual Testing
10 8 (8.696%) Data Governance
10 8 (8.696%) Software Testing
10 8 (8.696%) Data Analysis
10 8 (8.696%) E-Commerce
11 7 (7.609%) OO
11 7 (7.609%) Root Cause Analysis
12 6 (6.522%) Performance Testing
12 6 (6.522%) OOP
12 6 (6.522%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 37 (40.22%) SQL
2 18 (19.57%) Java
3 13 (14.13%) Shell Script
4 5 (5.435%) Python
4 5 (5.435%) C#
5 3 (3.261%) VB
5 3 (3.261%) VBA
6 2 (2.174%) VBScript
6 2 (2.174%) Delphi
6 2 (2.174%) JavaScript
6 2 (2.174%) Perl
Qualifications
1 16 (17.39%) ISEB
2 13 (14.13%) Degree
3 8 (8.696%) ISTQB
4 3 (3.261%) CSQA
5 2 (2.174%) SC Cleared
5 2 (2.174%) Security Cleared
6 1 (1.087%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 60 (65.22%) QA
2 24 (26.09%) Data Quality
3 3 (3.261%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 1 (1.087%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 6 (6.522%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 7 (7.609%) Oracle
2 3 (3.261%) Microsoft
3 2 (2.174%) Sybase
3 2 (2.174%) Informatica
3 2 (2.174%) Trillium
3 2 (2.174%) DataFlux
4 1 (1.087%) VMware
4 1 (1.087%) Business Objects
4 1 (1.087%) SunGard
4 1 (1.087%) HP
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Salary: £250.00 per annum
Posted: 24 April 2013
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Key words: QTP, HP Quality Centre, System/ Regression Testing, SQL, VB Script, Shell Spripting... You will have a solid degree in a computing, mathematics or finance and between...
Aston Carter
Salary: £35000 - £42000 per annum + Bonus and Benefits
Posted: 15 May 2013
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