The first table below looks at the demand for WAI skills in IT jobs advertised for the West Yorkshire region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited WAI over the 3 months to 24 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 Yorkshire region.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI)
Rank 169 160 153
Rank change year-on-year
-9 -7
Permanent jobs citing WAI 5 11 1
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in West Yorkshire 0.138% 0.345% 0.033%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 1.057% 3.459% 0.472%
Number of salaries quoted 5 10 1
Average salary £28,500 £32,500 £25,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-12.30% +30.00%
UK excluding London average salary £35,000 £37,500 £32,500
% change year-on-year
-6.66% +15.38%
All Quality Assurance & Compliance
West Yorkshire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Quality Assurance & Compliance category
473 318 212
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in West Yorkshire 13.01% 9.978% 7.074%
Number of salaries quoted 375 278 179
Average salary £35,014 £37,000 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-5.36% +5.71%
90% offered a salary of more than £22,000 £23,000 £23,300
10% offered a salary of more than £52,500 £50,000 £45,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £41,000
% change year-on-year
- -2.43%
WAI
Yorkshire

WAI
Jobs Demand Trend

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

West Yorkshire WAI Jobs Demand Trend

WAI
Salary Trend

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

West Yorkshire WAI Salary Trend

WAI
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing WAI within the West Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 24 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
Bradford - 4 £28,500 -
Leeds -22 1 £27,500 -12.00%
WAI
Yorkshire

WAI
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the West Yorkshire region citing WAI 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 WAI.

1 6 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 6 (100.00%) PHP
1 6 (100.00%) HTML
1 6 (100.00%) CSS
1 6 (100.00%) SEO
2 5 (83.33%) jQuery
3 4 (66.67%) C#
3 4 (66.67%) Web Development
3 4 (66.67%) Degree
3 4 (66.67%) WPF
3 4 (66.67%) .NET
3 4 (66.67%) SQL Server
3 4 (66.67%) IIS
3 4 (66.67%) MS Office
3 4 (66.67%) Visual Studio
3 4 (66.67%) ASP.NET
4 2 (33.33%) CMS
4 2 (33.33%) W3C
4 2 (33.33%) Java
4 2 (33.33%) Symfony
4 2 (33.33%) Zend
4 2 (33.33%) Drupal
4 2 (33.33%) Subversion
4 2 (33.33%) WordPress
4 2 (33.33%) Smarty
4 2 (33.33%) HTML5
4 2 (33.33%) CSS3
4 2 (33.33%) Semantic HTML
5 1 (16.67%) Adobe Illustrator
5 1 (16.67%) Web Design

WAI
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the West Yorkshire region citing WAI 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 WAI. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 6 (100.00%) HTML
1 6 (100.00%) CSS
2 5 (83.33%) jQuery
3 4 (66.67%) WPF
3 4 (66.67%) .NET
3 4 (66.67%) ASP.NET
4 2 (33.33%) Symfony
4 2 (33.33%) Smarty
4 2 (33.33%) HTML5
4 2 (33.33%) CSS3
4 2 (33.33%) Semantic HTML
Application Platforms
1 4 (66.67%) IIS
2 2 (33.33%) CMS
2 2 (33.33%) Drupal
2 2 (33.33%) WordPress
Applications
1 4 (66.67%) MS Office
2 1 (16.67%) Adobe Illustrator
2 1 (16.67%) Photoshop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (66.67%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (66.67%) Visual Studio
2 2 (33.33%) Subversion
Job Titles
1 6 (100.00%) Developer
1 6 (100.00%) Front-End Developer
2 2 (33.33%) Web Developer
2 2 (33.33%) Front-End Web Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Lead Developer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) W3C
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) SEO
2 4 (66.67%) Web Development
3 1 (16.67%) Web Design
Programming Languages
1 6 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 6 (100.00%) PHP
2 4 (66.67%) C#
3 2 (33.33%) Java
Qualifications
1 4 (66.67%) Degree
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) Zend
Leeds, West Yorkshire
Knowledge of modern W3C Web Standards, HTML/XHTML & CSS best practices... *Interest in emerging web standards such as HTML5, WAI-ARIA, and CSS3... *Adobe Photoshop/Fireworks and image...
Spring Technology
Salary: £20000.00 - £30000.00 per annum
Posted: 20 May 2013