The first table below looks at the demand for the Senior QA Analyst role in IT jobs advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Senior QA Analyst in their job title over the 3 months to 24 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Senior Quality Assurance Analyst
Rank 797 796 811
Rank change year-on-year
-1 +15
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior QA Analyst 65 103 70
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK 0.060% 0.085% 0.056%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.064% 0.090% 0.060%
Number of salaries quoted 64 99 62
Average salary £50,000 £45,000 £47,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+11.11% -5.26%
90% offered a salary of more than £35,000 £37,000 £38,650
10% offered a salary of more than £60,000 £57,500 £72,500
UK excluding London average salary £35,000 £40,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year
-12.50% -11.11%
All Job Titles
UK
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
102035 114410 117207
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK 94.41% 94.80% 94.20%
Number of salaries quoted 84835 98106 99148
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%

Senior QA Analyst
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Senior QA Analyst Jobs Demand Trend

Senior QA Analyst
Salary Trend

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

Senior QA Analyst Salary Trend

Senior QA Analyst
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Senior QA Analyst over the 3 months to 24 May 2013 within the UK.

Senior QA Analyst Salary Histogram

Senior QA 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 Senior QA Analyst within the UK over the 3 months to 24 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 -18 60 £47,500 +5.55%
London +17 34 £55,000 +22.22%
South East -1 10 £35,000 -12.50%
South West - 6 £36,250 -
Berkshire +5 5 £35,000 -26.31%
Glasgow - 5 £55,000 -
Scotland - 5 £55,000 -
Yorkshire 0 4 £40,000 +14.28%
West Yorkshire -6 4 £40,000 +14.28%
Leeds -17 4 £40,000 +14.28%
Somerset - 4 £35,000 -
Oxfordshire - 4 £35,000 -
Bath - 4 £35,000 -
City of London -2 3 £50,000 +5.26%
Hertfordshire +11 2 £34,500 -31.00%
East of England 0 2 £34,500 -13.75%
Reading -2 2 £35,000 -26.31%
Dorset - 2 £55,000 -
Bournemouth - 2 £55,000 -
North West +4 1 £31,000 +6.89%
Hampshire -4 1 £39,000 -
East Midlands -6 1 £30,500 -23.75%
Nottinghamshire -7 1 £30,500 -23.75%
Nottingham -8 1 £30,500 -23.75%
West Midlands - 1 £52,500 -
Tyne and Wear - 1 £30,000 -
North East - 1 £30,000 -
Docklands, London - 1 £37,500 -
Cheshire - 1 £31,000 -
Witney - 1 £35,000 -

Senior QA Analyst
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs within the UK that cited Senior QA 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 Senior QA Analyst in their job title.

1 110 (100.00%) QA
2 58 (52.73%) Selenium
3 44 (40.00%) Agile Software Development
4 42 (38.18%) .NET
5 36 (32.73%) Java
5 36 (32.73%) SQL
6 34 (30.91%) Automation Testing
7 32 (29.09%) C#
8 29 (26.36%) Software Testing
9 27 (24.55%) Automated Testing
10 26 (23.64%) TDD
11 25 (22.73%) BDD
12 24 (21.82%) Cucumber
12 24 (21.82%) ISEB
13 22 (20.00%) E-Commerce
14 21 (19.09%) Windows
14 21 (19.09%) Microsoft
14 21 (19.09%) Finance
15 20 (18.18%) Scalability Testing
16 19 (17.27%) SQL Server
17 17 (15.45%) LoadRunner
17 17 (15.45%) Test Scripting
18 16 (14.55%) Integration Testing
18 16 (14.55%) UNIX
18 16 (14.55%) Banking
18 16 (14.55%) Derivative
18 16 (14.55%) User Acceptance Testing
19 15 (13.64%) Degree
19 15 (13.64%) Scrum
19 15 (13.64%) Manual Testing

Senior QA Analyst
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs within the UK that cited Senior QA 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 Senior QA Analyst in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 42 (38.18%) .NET
2 9 (8.182%) Silverlight
3 7 (6.364%) Web Services
4 6 (5.455%) COM
4 6 (5.455%) J2EE
5 5 (4.545%) ASP.NET
5 5 (4.545%) XML
6 3 (2.727%) Gherkin
6 3 (2.727%) soapUI
7 2 (1.818%) HTML
7 2 (1.818%) Node.js
7 2 (1.818%) REST
8 1 (0.909%) HTML5
8 1 (0.909%) CSS3
8 1 (0.909%) LAMP
8 1 (0.909%) Middleware
8 1 (0.909%) WSH
8 1 (0.909%) CSS
8 1 (0.909%) SOAP
Application Platforms
1 2 (1.818%) Apache
1 2 (1.818%) Tomcat
2 1 (0.909%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (4.545%) MS Excel
2 2 (1.818%) MS Office
3 1 (0.909%) Spreadsheet
Communications & Networking
1 8 (7.273%) HTTP
2 2 (1.818%) Internet
3 1 (0.909%) Intranet
3 1 (0.909%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (17.27%) SQL Server
2 11 (10.00%) SQL Server 2008
3 9 (8.182%) SQL Server 2005
4 5 (4.545%) Big Data
5 4 (3.636%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (1.818%) Data Mining
6 2 (1.818%) MySQL
6 2 (1.818%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 2 (1.818%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 1 (0.909%) Oracle 11g
Development Applications
1 58 (52.73%) Selenium
2 24 (21.82%) Cucumber
3 17 (15.45%) LoadRunner
4 12 (10.91%) QuickTest Pro
4 12 (10.91%) FitNesse
5 11 (10.00%) JIRA
6 9 (8.182%) JMeter
6 9 (8.182%) WinRunner
7 6 (5.455%) Rational Robot
7 6 (5.455%) JBehave
7 6 (5.455%) WebDriver
7 6 (5.455%) TestComplete
8 5 (4.545%) Jenkins
9 4 (3.636%) Team Foundation Server
10 3 (2.727%) SpecFlow
11 2 (1.818%) Visual Studio
11 2 (1.818%) VSS/SourceSafe
11 2 (1.818%) WATIR
11 2 (1.818%) Hudson
12 1 (0.909%) Concordion
General
1 21 (19.09%) Finance
2 16 (14.55%) Banking
3 6 (5.455%) Investment Banking
4 4 (3.636%) Marketing
4 4 (3.636%) Publishing
5 3 (2.727%) Retail
6 2 (1.818%) Billing
7 1 (0.909%) Law
7 1 (0.909%) Financial Institution
Miscellaneous
1 16 (14.55%) Derivative
2 13 (11.82%) Open Source
3 11 (10.00%) Equities
3 11 (10.00%) EPoS
4 10 (9.091%) Digital Media
5 9 (8.182%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 9 (8.182%) Enterprise Software
6 6 (5.455%) Computer Science
6 6 (5.455%) Mobile App
7 3 (2.727%) iPad
7 3 (2.727%) iPhone
7 3 (2.727%) Replication
7 3 (2.727%) Client/Server
8 2 (1.818%) Equity Derivative
8 2 (1.818%) SWIFT
9 1 (0.909%) SaaS
9 1 (0.909%) Credit Risk
9 1 (0.909%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 21 (19.09%) Windows
2 16 (14.55%) UNIX
3 9 (8.182%) Windows Vista
3 9 (8.182%) Windows 7
3 9 (8.182%) Windows Server 2008
4 6 (5.455%) Linux
5 2 (1.818%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (40.00%) Agile Software Development
2 34 (30.91%) Automation Testing
3 29 (26.36%) Software Testing
4 27 (24.55%) Automated Testing
5 26 (23.64%) TDD
6 25 (22.73%) BDD
7 22 (20.00%) E-Commerce
8 20 (18.18%) Scalability Testing
9 17 (15.45%) Test Scripting
10 16 (14.55%) Integration Testing
10 16 (14.55%) User Acceptance Testing
11 15 (13.64%) Scrum
11 15 (13.64%) Manual Testing
12 14 (12.73%) Test Automation
13 10 (9.091%) Test Strategy
14 9 (8.182%) OO
14 9 (8.182%) Continuous Improvement
14 9 (8.182%) ATDD
14 9 (8.182%) Agile Testing
14 9 (8.182%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 36 (32.73%) Java
1 36 (32.73%) SQL
2 32 (29.09%) C#
3 13 (11.82%) Python
4 9 (8.182%) VB
5 8 (7.273%) Ruby
6 4 (3.636%) JavaScript
6 4 (3.636%) Scala
7 3 (2.727%) PHP
8 2 (1.818%) Perl
8 2 (1.818%) C++
8 2 (1.818%) VBA
8 2 (1.818%) Shell Script
9 1 (0.909%) Tcl
9 1 (0.909%) T-SQL
9 1 (0.909%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 24 (21.82%) ISEB
2 15 (13.64%) Degree
3 12 (10.91%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 110 (100.00%) QA
2 3 (2.727%) PCI DSS
Systems Management
1 13 (11.82%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 21 (19.09%) Microsoft
2 6 (5.455%) Oracle
3 5 (4.545%) HP
4 2 (1.818%) Fidessa
5 1 (0.909%) Acunetix
5 1 (0.909%) Atlassian
5 1 (0.909%) Informatica
London
Senior QA Analyst Essential Experience: - Strong software testing experience working within an Agile software development environment - Strong automation experience using Selenium Webdriver in Java - Strong experience in Open...
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Salary: 45000-55000 Per Annum Bonus, benefits
Posted: 29 April 2013