West Lothian QA Jobs

The table below looks at the demand for Quality Assurance (QA) skills within the West Lothian region with a comparison to our Quality Assurance & Compliance category. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited QA over the 3 months to 15 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Aberdeenshire Abingdon Addlestone Aldershot Atherstone Aylesbury Banbury Barnsley Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Bolton Bootle Borehamwood Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentford Brighton Bristol Bromsgrove Buckingham Buckinghamshire Burnley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Chatham Chelmsford Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chester Chippenham City of London Clapham Colchester Congleton County Antrim Coventry Crawley Croydon Cwmbran Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorking Dorset Dundee East Anglia East Grinstead East Midlands East of England East Sussex Eastleigh Edenbridge Edinburgh Elland England Epsom Essex Exeter Fareham Farnborough Farnham Fife Gatwick Glasgow Glenrothes Gloucester Gloucestershire Godalming Greenock Guildford Gwent Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Hayes Hemel Hempstead Hereford Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Home Counties Horsham Hove Hungerford Huntingdon Ilford Inverclyde Ipswich Isle of Man Kent Kingston Upon Thames Knutsford Lancashire Lancaster Leamington Spa Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Letchworth Lightwater Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston London Loughborough M4 Corridor Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester March Marlow Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Midlothian Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Newton-le-Willows Norfolk North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Nuneaton Oldham Oxford Oxfordshire Paddington Perth and Kinross Peterborough Petersfield Portsmouth Potters Bar Preston Reading Redhill Reigate Rochester Rotherham Royston Rugby Runcorn Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Sittingbourne Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southam Southampton Southwark St Helens Stafford Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stirling Stockport Stoke-on-Trent Stroud Suffolk Sunderland Surbiton Surrey Sussex Swadlincote Swansea Swindon Tadworth Taunton Telford Thame Thames Valley Tonbridge Torfaen Trowbridge Tunbridge Wells Twickenham Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Wallingford Walsall Warminster Warrington Warwickshire Watford Welwyn Garden City West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Weybridge Wigan Wiltshire Wimbledon Winchester Woking Worcester Worcestershire Worksop Worthing Wrexham York Yorkshire	3 months to 15 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	37	44
Rank change on same period last year	+7
Matching permanent IT job ads	3	3
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.002 %	0.001 %
As % of the category below	15.79 %	17.65 %
Salaries quoted	3	1
Average minimum salary	£46,667	£55,000
Average salary	£48,333	£60,000
% change on same period last year	-19.44 %
Average maximum salary	£50,000	£65,000
UK excluding London average salary	£37,602	£38,902
% change on same period last year	-3.34 %
Quality Assurance & Compliance West Lothian
Matching permanent IT job ads	19	17
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.011 %	0.007 %
Salaries quoted	18	9
Average minimum salary	£28,222	£37,364
Average salary	£28,833	£41,000
% change on same period last year	-29.67 %
Average maximum salary	£29,444	£44,636
UK excluding London average salary	£39,862	£39,958
% change on same period last year	-0.23 %
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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of permanent IT jobs citing QA across the West Lothian region as a proportion of the total demand within the Quality Assurance & Compliance category.

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Salary Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing QA across the West Lothian region.

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Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing QA across the West Lothian region over the 3 months to 15 October 2008.

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Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing QA within the West Lothian region over the 3 months to 15 October 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Permanent IT Job Ads	Average Salary Last 3 Months	Average Salary % Change on Same Period Last Year
Livingston	+2	3	£48,333	-

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Top 8 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 15 October 2008, IT jobs across the West Lothian region citing QA 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 QA.

1 5 (83.33 %) LoadRunner 1 5 (83.33 %) QALoad 1 5 (83.33 %) Performance Testing 2 2 (33.33 %) Load Testing 3 1 (16.67 %) Pensions 3 1 (16.67 %) Degree 3 1 (16.67 %) Finance 3 1 (16.67 %) Health

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 15 October 2008, IT jobs across the West Lothian region citing QA 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 QA. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Development Applications 1 5 (83.33 %) LoadRunner 1 5 (83.33 %) QALoad	General 1 1 (16.67 %) Finance 1 1 (16.67 %) Health 1 1 (16.67 %) Pensions
Job Titles 1 3 (50.00 %) Tester 1 3 (50.00 %) Performance Tester 2 2 (33.33 %) Consultant	Processes & Methodologies 1 5 (83.33 %) Performance Testing 2 2 (33.33 %) Load Testing
Qualifications 1 1 (16.67 %) Degree