The first table below looks at the demand for the QA Tester role in IT jobs advertised for the West Midlands region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited QA Tester in their job title 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 Job Titles advertised for the West Midlands region.

Location
3 months to
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Quality Assurance Tester
Rank 191 190 165
Rank change year-on-year
-1 -25
Permanent jobs requiring a QA Tester 11 4 5
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the West Midlands 0.209% 0.084% 0.116%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.219% 0.088% 0.121%
Number of salaries quoted 11 4 5
Average salary £37,000 £24,375 £21,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+51.79% +13.37%
UK excluding London average salary £34,000 £32,000 £30,000
% change year-on-year
+6.25% +6.66%
All Job Titles
West Midlands
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
5030 4566 4118
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the West Midlands 95.37% 95.50% 95.13%
Number of salaries quoted 4188 4010 3490
Average salary £37,500 £37,500 £37,500
90% offered a salary of more than £25,000 £25,000 £23,000
10% offered a salary of more than £55,000 £60,000 £58,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,500 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-1.29% +2.66%
QA Tester
England

QA Tester
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing QA Tester across the West Midlands region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

West Midlands QA Tester Jobs Demand Trend

QA Tester
Salary Trend

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

West Midlands QA Tester Salary Trend

QA Tester
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing QA Tester across the West Midlands region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

West Midlands QA Tester Salary Histogram

QA Tester
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing QA Tester within the West Midlands region over the 3 months to 19 June 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
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Job
Vacancies
Warwickshire +9 6 £37,000 +5.71%
Worcestershire - 5 £37,000 -
Birmingham -11 3 £21,500 -9.47%
Coventry - 1 £52,500 -
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England

QA Tester
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the West Midlands region that cited QA Tester 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 QA Tester in their job title.

1 20 (100.00%) QA
2 18 (90.00%) Automated Testing
3 17 (85.00%) Selenium
3 17 (85.00%) Manual Testing
3 17 (85.00%) SQL Server
4 9 (45.00%) Finance
4 9 (45.00%) HTML
4 9 (45.00%) SQL
4 9 (45.00%) VB
4 9 (45.00%) Oracle
4 9 (45.00%) UNIX
4 9 (45.00%) Windows
4 9 (45.00%) Windows 2000
5 8 (40.00%) JBoss
5 8 (40.00%) Tomcat
5 8 (40.00%) Java
5 8 (40.00%) SOAP
5 8 (40.00%) JMS
5 8 (40.00%) Eclipse
5 8 (40.00%) Firmware
5 8 (40.00%) Spring
5 8 (40.00%) Maven
5 8 (40.00%) Agile Software Development
5 8 (40.00%) ActiveMQ
5 8 (40.00%) Subversion
5 8 (40.00%) Hibernate
5 8 (40.00%) JMX
5 8 (40.00%) MVC
5 8 (40.00%) SQL Server 2008
5 8 (40.00%) TeamCity

QA Tester
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the West Midlands region that cited QA Tester 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 QA Tester in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 9 (45.00%) HTML
2 8 (40.00%) SOAP
2 8 (40.00%) JMS
2 8 (40.00%) Spring
2 8 (40.00%) ActiveMQ
2 8 (40.00%) Hibernate
2 8 (40.00%) JMX
2 8 (40.00%) Java EE
2 8 (40.00%) Ajax
2 8 (40.00%) Spring MVC
Application Platforms
1 8 (40.00%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (5.000%) MS Excel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (85.00%) SQL Server
2 8 (40.00%) SQL Server 2008
2 8 (40.00%) SQL Server 2005
2 8 (40.00%) JasperReports
Development Applications
1 17 (85.00%) Selenium
2 8 (40.00%) Eclipse
2 8 (40.00%) Maven
2 8 (40.00%) Subversion
2 8 (40.00%) TeamCity
2 8 (40.00%) Apache Continuum
2 8 (40.00%) FitNesse
General
1 9 (45.00%) Finance
Miscellaneous
1 8 (40.00%) Firmware
Operating Systems
1 9 (45.00%) UNIX
1 9 (45.00%) Windows
1 9 (45.00%) Windows 2000
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (90.00%) Automated Testing
2 17 (85.00%) Manual Testing
3 8 (40.00%) Agile Software Development
3 8 (40.00%) MVC
4 1 (5.000%) Project Management
4 1 (5.000%) Software Testing
4 1 (5.000%) User Acceptance Testing
4 1 (5.000%) Test Scripting
4 1 (5.000%) Business Transformation
Programming Languages
1 9 (45.00%) SQL
1 9 (45.00%) VB
2 8 (40.00%) Java
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (100.00%) QA
Vendors
1 9 (45.00%) Oracle
2 8 (40.00%) JBoss
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