The first table below looks at the demand for Section 508 skills in IT jobs advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Section 508 over the 3 months to 19 June 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.

Location
3 months to
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Section 508 Amendment to the Rehabilitation Act of 1973
Rank - - 871
Permanent jobs citing Section 508 0 0 11
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK - - 0.009%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category - - 0.105%
Number of salaries quoted 0 0 11
Average salary - - £43,500
UK excluding London average salary - - £47,500
All Quality Assurance & Compliance
UK
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Quality Assurance & Compliance category
10793 11106 10461
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK 9.908% 9.215% 8.149%
Number of salaries quoted 8747 9114 8659
Average salary £45,000 £45,000 £45,000
90% offered a salary of more than £27,844 £28,000 £28,800
10% offered a salary of more than £70,000 £70,000 £72,500
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £41,153 £41,000
% change year-on-year
-2.80% +0.37%

Section 508
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing Section 508 within the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the Quality Assurance & Compliance category.

Section 508 Jobs Demand Trend

Section 508
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Section 508 within the UK.

Section 508 Salary Trend

Section 508
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs within the UK citing Section 508 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 Section 508.

1 7 (100.00%) Degree
2 5 (71.43%) W3C
3 4 (57.14%) Microsoft
3 4 (57.14%) Customer Insight
4 3 (42.86%) Infrastructure Management
4 3 (42.86%) Lync
4 3 (42.86%) Strategic Planning
4 3 (42.86%) Information Security
4 3 (42.86%) WCAG
4 3 (42.86%) WAI
4 3 (42.86%) Risk Analysis
4 3 (42.86%) Risk Management
4 3 (42.86%) Data Protection
4 3 (42.86%) MS Excel
4 3 (42.86%) SharePoint
4 3 (42.86%) ASP.NET
4 3 (42.86%) CSS
4 3 (42.86%) MS Office
4 3 (42.86%) C
4 3 (42.86%) JavaScript
4 3 (42.86%) .NET
4 3 (42.86%) XML
4 3 (42.86%) DOM
5 2 (28.57%) XSLT
5 2 (28.57%) HTML
5 2 (28.57%) Photoshop
5 2 (28.57%) PHP
5 2 (28.57%) ActionScript
5 2 (28.57%) Flash
5 2 (28.57%) XHTML

Section 508
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs within the UK citing Section 508 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 Section 508. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 3 (42.86%) ASP.NET
1 3 (42.86%) CSS
1 3 (42.86%) .NET
1 3 (42.86%) XML
1 3 (42.86%) DOM
2 2 (28.57%) XSLT
2 2 (28.57%) HTML
2 2 (28.57%) Flash
2 2 (28.57%) XHTML
2 2 (28.57%) JSP
2 2 (28.57%) ASP
3 1 (14.29%) ASP.NET MVC
3 1 (14.29%) Ajax
3 1 (14.29%) .NET Framework
3 1 (14.29%) Web Services
Application Platforms
1 3 (42.86%) Lync
1 3 (42.86%) SharePoint
2 1 (14.29%) CMS
2 1 (14.29%) Umbraco
Applications
1 3 (42.86%) MS Excel
1 3 (42.86%) MS Office
2 2 (28.57%) Photoshop
2 2 (28.57%) Fireworks
Communications & Networking
1 1 (14.29%) Intranet
1 1 (14.29%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (14.29%) SQL Server 2008
1 1 (14.29%) SQL Server 2005
1 1 (14.29%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (28.57%) Selenium
2 1 (14.29%) Cucumber
2 1 (14.29%) WatiN
2 1 (14.29%) QADirector
2 1 (14.29%) WATIR
2 1 (14.29%) NUnit
2 1 (14.29%) Subversion
2 1 (14.29%) Visual Studio
General
1 1 (14.29%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) Compliance Specialist
1 3 (42.86%) Developer
2 2 (28.57%) Front-End Developer
3 1 (14.29%) .NET Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Software Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Software Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 5 (71.43%) W3C
2 2 (28.57%) Graphic Design
2 2 (28.57%) Animation
3 1 (14.29%) Social Media
3 1 (14.29%) Open Source
3 1 (14.29%) Blog
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (57.14%) Customer Insight
2 3 (42.86%) Infrastructure Management
2 3 (42.86%) Strategic Planning
2 3 (42.86%) Information Security
2 3 (42.86%) Risk Analysis
2 3 (42.86%) Risk Management
2 3 (42.86%) Data Protection
3 2 (28.57%) Information Architecture
4 1 (14.29%) Web Accessibility
4 1 (14.29%) Test Automation
4 1 (14.29%) Product Management
4 1 (14.29%) Unit Testing
4 1 (14.29%) Test Scripting
4 1 (14.29%) System Testing
4 1 (14.29%) Agile Software Development
4 1 (14.29%) TDD
4 1 (14.29%) Automated Testing
4 1 (14.29%) MVC
4 1 (14.29%) UML
4 1 (14.29%) OOP
Programming Languages
1 3 (42.86%) C
1 3 (42.86%) JavaScript
2 2 (28.57%) PHP
2 2 (28.57%) ActionScript
2 2 (28.57%) ActionScript 3.0
3 1 (14.29%) Ada
3 1 (14.29%) C#
Qualifications
1 7 (100.00%) Degree
2 1 (14.29%) MCTS
2 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (14.29%) MCSD
2 1 (14.29%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (42.86%) WCAG
1 3 (42.86%) WAI
2 2 (28.57%) QA
Vendors
1 4 (57.14%) Microsoft
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