The first table below looks at the demand for the Senior 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 Senior QA Test Analyst in their job title over the 3 months to 23 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
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Senior Quality Assurance Test Analyst
Rank 847 863 849
Rank change year-on-year
+16 -14
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior QA Test Analyst 15 35 24
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK 0.014% 0.029% 0.019%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.015% 0.031% 0.020%
Number of salaries quoted 15 35 24
Average salary £55,000 £40,000 £47,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+37.50% -15.78%
90% offered a salary of more than £39,400 £35,000 £45,000
10% offered a salary of more than £58,000 £49,000 £72,500
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £37,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year
+6.66% -16.66%
All Job Titles
UK
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
101523 114414 118763
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK 94.40% 94.78% 94.22%
Number of salaries quoted 84418 98091 100446
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 Test Analyst
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Senior QA Test Analyst Jobs Demand Trend

Senior QA Test Analyst
Salary Trend

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

Senior QA Test Analyst Salary Trend

Senior QA Test Analyst
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Senior QA Test Analyst over the 3 months to 23 May 2013 within the UK.

Senior QA Test Analyst Salary Histogram

Senior QA Test Analyst
Top 13 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Senior QA Test Analyst within the UK over the 3 months to 23 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 -1 10 £40,000 -
Scotland - 5 £55,000 -
Glasgow - 5 £55,000 -
London +28 4 £57,500 +27.77%
Yorkshire -8 4 £40,000 +14.28%
West Yorkshire -9 4 £40,000 +14.28%
Leeds -22 4 £40,000 +14.28%
South East -9 1 £39,000 -2.50%
Tyne and Wear - 1 £30,000 -
North East - 1 £30,000 -
Hampshire - 1 £39,000 -
Newcastle upon Tyne - 1 £30,000 -
Aldershot - 1 £39,000 -

Senior QA Test Analyst
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs within the UK that cited Senior 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 Senior QA Test Analyst in their job title.

1 37 (100.00%) QA
2 16 (43.24%) Selenium
3 15 (40.54%) Finance
4 14 (37.84%) Java
5 13 (35.14%) UNIX
5 13 (35.14%) Python
5 13 (35.14%) Automated Testing
6 12 (32.43%) .NET
7 11 (29.73%) Agile Software Development
7 11 (29.73%) Cucumber
8 8 (21.62%) Degree
8 8 (21.62%) Scrum
8 8 (21.62%) SQL
8 8 (21.62%) E-Commerce
9 7 (18.92%) OO
9 7 (18.92%) Ruby
9 7 (18.92%) TDD
9 7 (18.92%) BDD
10 6 (16.22%) JBehave
10 6 (16.22%) Windows
11 5 (13.51%) ASP.NET
11 5 (13.51%) ISEB
11 5 (13.51%) Derivative
11 5 (13.51%) User Acceptance Testing
12 4 (10.81%) Scala
12 4 (10.81%) User Stories
12 4 (10.81%) Linux
12 4 (10.81%) J2EE
12 4 (10.81%) C#
13 3 (8.108%) PHP

Senior QA Test Analyst
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs within the UK that cited Senior 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 Senior QA Test Analyst in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 12 (32.43%) .NET
2 5 (13.51%) ASP.NET
3 4 (10.81%) J2EE
4 2 (5.405%) Node.js
4 2 (5.405%) Gherkin
5 1 (2.703%) CSS
5 1 (2.703%) Middleware
5 1 (2.703%) CSS3
5 1 (2.703%) HTML5
Application Platforms
1 2 (5.405%) Apache
1 2 (5.405%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (2.703%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.703%) Internet
1 1 (2.703%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (8.108%) Big Data
2 2 (5.405%) Data Mining
2 2 (5.405%) SQL Server
3 1 (2.703%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 16 (43.24%) Selenium
2 11 (29.73%) Cucumber
3 6 (16.22%) JBehave
4 3 (8.108%) Jenkins
4 3 (8.108%) WebDriver
5 2 (5.405%) Team Foundation Server
5 2 (5.405%) JMeter
6 1 (2.703%) Concordion
6 1 (2.703%) FitNesse
General
1 15 (40.54%) Finance
2 2 (5.405%) Retail
2 2 (5.405%) Billing
2 2 (5.405%) Publishing
3 1 (2.703%) Law
3 1 (2.703%) Investment Banking
3 1 (2.703%) Banking
Miscellaneous
1 5 (13.51%) Derivative
2 3 (8.108%) Client/Server
2 3 (8.108%) Computer Science
3 2 (5.405%) Open Source
3 2 (5.405%) Equity Derivative
4 1 (2.703%) Replication
4 1 (2.703%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 13 (35.14%) UNIX
2 6 (16.22%) Windows
3 4 (10.81%) Linux
4 2 (5.405%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (35.14%) Automated Testing
2 11 (29.73%) Agile Software Development
3 8 (21.62%) Scrum
3 8 (21.62%) E-Commerce
4 7 (18.92%) OO
4 7 (18.92%) TDD
4 7 (18.92%) BDD
5 5 (13.51%) User Acceptance Testing
6 4 (10.81%) User Stories
7 3 (8.108%) Waterfall
7 3 (8.108%) Test Strategy
7 3 (8.108%) Test Automation
7 3 (8.108%) Manual Testing
7 3 (8.108%) V-Model
7 3 (8.108%) Security Testing
7 3 (8.108%) Web Testing
8 2 (5.405%) Test Scripting
8 2 (5.405%) Continuous Integration
8 2 (5.405%) Integration Testing
8 2 (5.405%) Usability Testing
Programming Languages
1 14 (37.84%) Java
2 13 (35.14%) Python
3 8 (21.62%) SQL
4 7 (18.92%) Ruby
5 4 (10.81%) Scala
5 4 (10.81%) C#
6 3 (8.108%) PHP
7 2 (5.405%) Shell Script
7 2 (5.405%) C++
7 2 (5.405%) JavaScript
7 2 (5.405%) VBA
8 1 (2.703%) Perl
Qualifications
1 8 (21.62%) Degree
2 5 (13.51%) ISEB
3 3 (8.108%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (100.00%) QA
2 3 (8.108%) PCI DSS
Vendors
1 3 (8.108%) Microsoft