The first table below looks at the demand for the QA Tester role in IT jobs advertised for the Wiltshire 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 21 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 Job Titles advertised for the Wiltshire region.

Location
3 months to
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Quality Assurance Tester
Rank 75 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Permanent jobs requiring a QA Tester 2 0 0
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Wiltshire 0.228% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.237% - -
Number of salaries quoted 2 0 0
Average salary £33,000 - -
UK excluding London average salary £34,000 £32,500 £29,500
% change year-on-year
+4.61% +10.16%
All Job Titles
Wiltshire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
843 950 1056
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Wiltshire 95.90% 93.97% 97.24%
Number of salaries quoted 758 813 962
Average salary £37,500 £36,000 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+4.16% +2.85%
90% offered a salary of more than £25,000 £23,000 £22,500
10% offered a salary of more than £55,000 £47,500 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +1.33%
QA Tester
South West

QA Tester
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Wiltshire 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 Wiltshire region.

Wiltshire QA Tester Salary Trend

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 Wiltshire region over the 3 months to 21 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
Swindon - 2 £33,000 -
QA Tester
South West

QA Tester
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Wiltshire 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 6 (100.00%) QA
2 4 (66.67%) Software Testing
3 3 (50.00%) ISTQB
3 3 (50.00%) SilkPerformer
3 3 (50.00%) HP
3 3 (50.00%) ISEB
3 3 (50.00%) Business Continuity
3 3 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
3 3 (50.00%) LoadRunner
3 3 (50.00%) Borland
3 3 (50.00%) SQL
3 3 (50.00%) V-Model
3 3 (50.00%) Waterfall
3 3 (50.00%) Usability Testing
3 3 (50.00%) Performance Testing
3 3 (50.00%) Test Management
3 3 (50.00%) HP Quality Center
4 2 (33.33%) Analytics
4 2 (33.33%) Marketing Analytics
4 2 (33.33%) HTML5
4 2 (33.33%) JSON
4 2 (33.33%) Test Strategy
4 2 (33.33%) Silverlight
4 2 (33.33%) C#
4 2 (33.33%) HTML
4 2 (33.33%) JavaScript
4 2 (33.33%) Web Services
4 2 (33.33%) E-Commerce
4 2 (33.33%) Scrum
4 2 (33.33%) Marketing

QA Tester
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Wiltshire 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 2 (33.33%) HTML5
1 2 (33.33%) JSON
1 2 (33.33%) Silverlight
1 2 (33.33%) HTML
1 2 (33.33%) Web Services
Development Applications
1 3 (50.00%) SilkPerformer
1 3 (50.00%) LoadRunner
2 1 (16.67%) QuickTest Pro
General
1 2 (33.33%) Marketing
2 1 (16.67%) Retail
2 1 (16.67%) Finance
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) EPoS
1 1 (16.67%) EFT
Operating Systems
1 1 (16.67%) UNIX
1 1 (16.67%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) Software Testing
2 3 (50.00%) Business Continuity
2 3 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 3 (50.00%) V-Model
2 3 (50.00%) Waterfall
2 3 (50.00%) Usability Testing
2 3 (50.00%) Performance Testing
2 3 (50.00%) Test Management
3 2 (33.33%) Analytics
3 2 (33.33%) Marketing Analytics
3 2 (33.33%) Test Strategy
3 2 (33.33%) E-Commerce
3 2 (33.33%) Scrum
4 1 (16.67%) Automated Testing
4 1 (16.67%) Manual Testing
Programming Languages
1 3 (50.00%) SQL
2 2 (33.33%) C#
2 2 (33.33%) JavaScript
3 1 (16.67%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 3 (50.00%) ISTQB
1 3 (50.00%) ISEB
2 1 (16.67%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (100.00%) QA
Systems Management
1 3 (50.00%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 3 (50.00%) HP
1 3 (50.00%) Borland
2 1 (16.67%) Sun
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