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

Location
3 months to
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Quality Assurance (QA)
Rank 77 28 77
Rank change year-on-year
-49 +49
Permanent jobs citing QA 33 109 35
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in West Sussex 2.285% 7.162% 2.479%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 26.40% 55.61% 27.78%
Number of salaries quoted 27 55 32
Average salary £45,000 £45,000 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +28.57%
90% offered a salary of more than £32,500 £30,000 £26,500
10% offered a salary of more than £65,000 £51,000 £50,500
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £40,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-5.00% -
All Quality Assurance & Compliance
West Sussex
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Quality Assurance & Compliance category
125 196 126
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in West Sussex 8.657% 12.88% 8.924%
Number of salaries quoted 93 130 112
Average salary £45,000 £50,000 £36,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-10.00% +36.98%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,500 £30,000 £26,500
10% offered a salary of more than £71,000 £60,000 £60,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £41,153 £41,000
% change year-on-year
-2.80% +0.37%
QA
South East

QA
Jobs Demand Trend

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

West Sussex 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 Sussex region.

West Sussex QA Salary Trend

QA
Salary Histogram

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

West Sussex QA Salary Histogram

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 Sussex 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
Find
Job
Vacancies
Crawley -38 11 £57,500 +17.34% 1
East Grinstead +4 4 £45,000 -
Gatwick -16 2 £49,000 -2.00%
Horsham +5 1 £52,500 +16.66%
QA
South East

QA
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the West Sussex 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 17 (28.33%) Degree
2 13 (21.67%) Oracle
2 13 (21.67%) WebLogic
2 13 (21.67%) ERP
3 11 (18.33%) SOA
3 11 (18.33%) DNS
3 11 (18.33%) Business Intelligence
3 11 (18.33%) B2B
3 11 (18.33%) BizTalk Server
3 11 (18.33%) OLAP
3 11 (18.33%) CRM
3 11 (18.33%) SharePoint
3 11 (18.33%) Management Information System
3 11 (18.33%) Computer Science
3 11 (18.33%) Oracle OLAP
3 11 (18.33%) Capacity Planning
4 10 (16.67%) Enterprise Architecture
4 10 (16.67%) CSS
4 10 (16.67%) HTML
5 9 (15.00%) JavaScript
5 9 (15.00%) Resource Management
6 8 (13.33%) .NET
6 8 (13.33%) ASP.NET
6 8 (13.33%) Finance
7 7 (11.67%) CMS
7 7 (11.67%) Linux
7 7 (11.67%) ISEB
7 7 (11.67%) HTML5
8 6 (10.00%) Web Development
8 6 (10.00%) Project Management

QA
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the West Sussex 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 10 (16.67%) CSS
1 10 (16.67%) HTML
2 8 (13.33%) .NET
2 8 (13.33%) ASP.NET
3 7 (11.67%) HTML5
4 6 (10.00%) XML
5 5 (8.333%) XHTML
6 4 (6.667%) jQuery
7 3 (5.000%) Ajax
7 3 (5.000%) Symfony
8 2 (3.333%) Apache Flex
8 2 (3.333%) Cairngorm
8 2 (3.333%) RESTful
8 2 (3.333%) BlazeDS
8 2 (3.333%) Node.js
8 2 (3.333%) Parsley
8 2 (3.333%) JSON
8 2 (3.333%) SOAP
8 2 (3.333%) Web Services
8 2 (3.333%) Spring
Application Platforms
1 13 (21.67%) WebLogic
2 11 (18.33%) BizTalk Server
2 11 (18.33%) SharePoint
3 7 (11.67%) CMS
4 5 (8.333%) Umbraco
5 2 (3.333%) Documentum
6 1 (1.667%) MS Exchange
Applications
1 5 (8.333%) MS Office
2 3 (5.000%) MS Excel
3 1 (1.667%) MS Project
Business Applications
1 2 (3.333%) Oracle BPM
Communications & Networking
1 11 (18.33%) DNS
2 1 (1.667%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (18.33%) OLAP
1 11 (18.33%) Oracle OLAP
2 5 (8.333%) MySQL
3 2 (3.333%) Oracle 8/8i
4 1 (1.667%) Big Data
4 1 (1.667%) Redis
Development Applications
1 3 (5.000%) JIRA
1 3 (5.000%) PHPUnit
2 2 (3.333%) FlexUnit
2 2 (3.333%) Selenium
2 2 (3.333%) Subversion
2 2 (3.333%) Maven
3 1 (1.667%) LabVIEW
3 1 (1.667%) Visual Studio
3 1 (1.667%) SpecFlow
3 1 (1.667%) Git (software)
3 1 (1.667%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 8 (13.33%) Finance
2 5 (8.333%) Retail
3 2 (3.333%) Marketing
4 1 (1.667%) Manufacturing
4 1 (1.667%) Publishing
4 1 (1.667%) Electronics
4 1 (1.667%) Back Office
4 1 (1.667%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 11 (18.33%) Architect
1 11 (18.33%) Developer
1 11 (18.33%) Solutions Architect
2 9 (15.00%) Analyst
2 9 (15.00%) Tester
3 6 (10.00%) .NET Developer
4 5 (8.333%) Senior Web Developer
4 5 (8.333%) Delivery Manager
4 5 (8.333%) Senior .NET Developer
4 5 (8.333%) Test Analyst
4 5 (8.333%) Web Developer
4 5 (8.333%) Senior Developer
4 5 (8.333%) Programme Manager
4 5 (8.333%) Project Manager
5 4 (6.667%) Test Leader
5 4 (6.667%) Senior Manager
5 4 (6.667%) Senior Project Manager
6 3 (5.000%) Senior Programme Manager
6 3 (5.000%) Applications Tester
6 3 (5.000%) Systems Tester
Miscellaneous
1 11 (18.33%) Management Information System
1 11 (18.33%) Computer Science
2 2 (3.333%) Open Source
2 2 (3.333%) Credit Risk
3 1 (1.667%) Mathematics
Operating Systems
1 7 (11.67%) Linux
2 3 (5.000%) Windows
3 2 (3.333%) UNIX
4 1 (1.667%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (21.67%) ERP
2 11 (18.33%) SOA
2 11 (18.33%) Business Intelligence
2 11 (18.33%) B2B
2 11 (18.33%) CRM
2 11 (18.33%) Capacity Planning
3 10 (16.67%) Enterprise Architecture
4 9 (15.00%) Resource Management
5 6 (10.00%) Web Development
5 6 (10.00%) Project Management
5 6 (10.00%) Supplier Management
6 5 (8.333%) Business Analysis
6 5 (8.333%) Programme Office Management
6 5 (8.333%) MVC
6 5 (8.333%) RUP
6 5 (8.333%) PRINCE
6 5 (8.333%) Matrix Management
6 5 (8.333%) Load Testing
6 5 (8.333%) Software Architecture
6 5 (8.333%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 9 (15.00%) JavaScript
2 6 (10.00%) SQL
3 4 (6.667%) PHP
3 4 (6.667%) Java
4 3 (5.000%) C++
5 2 (3.333%) ActionScript 3.0
5 2 (3.333%) C#
5 2 (3.333%) ActionScript
6 1 (1.667%) C
Qualifications
1 17 (28.33%) Degree
2 7 (11.67%) ISEB
3 6 (10.00%) ISTQB
4 2 (3.333%) SC Cleared
4 2 (3.333%) Security Cleared
5 1 (1.667%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (1.667%) PRINCE2 Certification
5 1 (1.667%) APMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.667%) ISO 9001
1 1 (1.667%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (1.667%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 13 (21.67%) Oracle
2 4 (6.667%) Microsoft
3 3 (5.000%) Zend
4 2 (3.333%) Seapine
4 2 (3.333%) webMethods
5 1 (1.667%) Google
5 1 (1.667%) VMware
5 1 (1.667%) SAP
5 1 (1.667%) Symantec
5 1 (1.667%) Citrix
5 1 (1.667%) Informatica
5 1 (1.667%) Cisco
5 1 (1.667%) IBM
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