The first table below looks at the demand for QA skills in IT jobs advertised for the West Lothian region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited QA over the 3 months to 22 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 of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category for the West Lothian region.

Location
3 months to
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Quality Assurance (QA)
Rank 25 - 22
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Permanent jobs citing QA 7 0 27
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in West Lothian 6.306% - 9.030%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 38.89% - 48.21%
Number of salaries quoted 0 0 12
Average salary - - £40,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,250 £37,500 £39,000
% change year-on-year
+2.00% -3.84%
All Quality Assurance & Compliance
West Lothian
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Quality Assurance & Compliance category
18 9 56
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in West Lothian 16.22% 7.143% 18.73%
Number of salaries quoted 7 3 36
Average salary £33,000 £35,000 £39,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-5.71% -10.25%
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £41,000
% change year-on-year
- -2.43%
QA
Scotland

QA
Jobs Demand Trend

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

West Lothian QA Jobs Demand Trend

QA
Salary Trend

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

West Lothian QA Salary Trend

QA
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 22 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
Livingston - 6 - -
QA
Scotland

QA
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, 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 13 (72.22%) Degree
2 12 (66.67%) XML
3 9 (50.00%) XML Schema
3 9 (50.00%) QuickTest Pro
3 9 (50.00%) Selenium
3 9 (50.00%) FitNesse
3 9 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
3 9 (50.00%) Test Automation
3 9 (50.00%) Scrum
3 9 (50.00%) Agile Software Development
3 9 (50.00%) TDD
3 9 (50.00%) Software Testing
3 9 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 9 (50.00%) User Stories
4 8 (44.44%) IBM
4 8 (44.44%) Oracle
4 8 (44.44%) Windows
5 7 (38.89%) Linux
6 6 (33.33%) Firmware
6 6 (33.33%) Service Delivery
6 6 (33.33%) Change Management
6 6 (33.33%) Incident Management
6 6 (33.33%) Customer Engagement
6 6 (33.33%) Infrastructure Management
7 5 (27.78%) Analytics
7 5 (27.78%) Symmetrix DMX
7 5 (27.78%) Data Protection
7 5 (27.78%) NAS
7 5 (27.78%) Brocade
7 5 (27.78%) Cisco

QA
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, 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.

Application Development
1 12 (66.67%) XML
2 9 (50.00%) XML Schema
3 3 (16.67%) WebSphere
3 3 (16.67%) J2EE
3 3 (16.67%) JDBC
3 3 (16.67%) SOAP
3 3 (16.67%) Web Services
3 3 (16.67%) JMS
3 3 (16.67%) WSDL
4 1 (5.556%) Dojo
Application Platforms
1 3 (16.67%) WebSphere Process Server
1 3 (16.67%) WebSphere Portal
1 3 (16.67%) WebSphere Message Broker
1 3 (16.67%) WebSphere MQ
Business Applications
1 1 (5.556%) Oracle BPM
Communications & Networking
1 5 (27.78%) NAS
1 5 (27.78%) SAN
2 1 (5.556%) Wi-Fi
2 1 (5.556%) Broadband
Development Applications
1 9 (50.00%) QuickTest Pro
1 9 (50.00%) Selenium
1 9 (50.00%) FitNesse
General
1 1 (5.556%) Billing
Job Titles
1 9 (50.00%) Agile Tester
1 9 (50.00%) QA Engineer
1 9 (50.00%) Tester
2 6 (33.33%) Technical Leader
3 3 (16.67%) Developer
Miscellaneous
1 6 (33.33%) Firmware
2 5 (27.78%) Symmetrix DMX
2 5 (27.78%) Replication
2 5 (27.78%) Symmetrix
3 2 (11.11%) Management Information System
4 1 (5.556%) DTV
Operating Systems
1 8 (44.44%) Windows
2 7 (38.89%) Linux
3 5 (27.78%) UNIX
4 3 (16.67%) AIX
4 3 (16.67%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
1 9 (50.00%) Test Automation
1 9 (50.00%) Scrum
1 9 (50.00%) Agile Software Development
1 9 (50.00%) TDD
1 9 (50.00%) Software Testing
1 9 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 9 (50.00%) User Stories
2 6 (33.33%) Service Delivery
2 6 (33.33%) Change Management
2 6 (33.33%) Incident Management
2 6 (33.33%) Customer Engagement
2 6 (33.33%) Infrastructure Management
3 5 (27.78%) Analytics
3 5 (27.78%) Data Protection
3 5 (27.78%) Disaster Recovery
4 3 (16.67%) Performance Testing
4 3 (16.67%) SOA
5 2 (11.11%) BPEL
6 1 (5.556%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (27.78%) SQL
2 3 (16.67%) XPath
2 3 (16.67%) Java
Qualifications
1 13 (72.22%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.556%) SLA
System Software
1 4 (22.22%) Oracle RMAN
Systems Management
1 5 (27.78%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 8 (44.44%) IBM
1 8 (44.44%) Oracle
2 5 (27.78%) Brocade
2 5 (27.78%) Cisco
2 5 (27.78%) Microsoft
2 5 (27.78%) Sun
2 5 (27.78%) EMC
2 5 (27.78%) NetApp
2 5 (27.78%) StorageTek
3 4 (22.22%) Symantec
4 1 (5.556%) Lombardi