Windsor QA Jobs

This section looks at the demand for Quality Assurance (QA) skills within the Windsor region with a comparison to our Quality Assurance & Compliance category. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited QA over the 3 months to 24 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Quality Assurance (QA)
Location Altrincham Ascot Aylesbury Banbury Basingstoke Bath Bathgate Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Bideford Birmingham Bishop's Stortford Blackburn Borehamwood Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckingham Buckinghamshire Bury St Edmunds Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Chatham Cheadle Chelmsford Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chippenham Cirencester City of London Clapham Colchester Cornwall County Antrim Coventry Crawley Crewe Croydon Cumbria Cwmbran Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset Dundee Durham East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastleigh Edinburgh Egham Elland England Epsom Essex Exeter Fareham Farnborough Farnham Ferndown Fife Gatwick Glamorgan Glasgow Glenrothes Gloucester Gloucestershire Godalming Greenock Guildford Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harpenden Harrogate Harrow Hastings Hemel Hempstead Hereford Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Home Counties Horsham Hove Hull Hungerford Huntingdon Ilford Inverclyde Ipswich Kendal Kent Kingswinford Knutsford Lancashire Leamington Spa Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Letchworth Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston London Loughborough Luton Lymm M4 Corridor Maidenhead Manchester Marlow Mayfield Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Newton-le-Willows Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northallerton Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Paddington Perth and Kinross Peterborough Petersfield Poole Portsmouth Preston Radlett Reading Redhill Rugby Runcorn Salford Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Sittingbourne Skipton Slough Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southam Southampton St Albans St Helens St Ives Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stirling Stockport Stockton-on-Tees Stowmarket Street Stroud Suffolk Sunderland Surbiton Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Tadworth Teddington Telford Thames Valley Tonbridge Torfaen Tunbridge Wells Twickenham Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Waltham Cross Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Welwyn Garden City West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Weybridge Wigan Wiltshire Wimbledon Winchester Windsor Woking Wokingham Worcester Worcestershire Worksop Worthing Yeovil York Yorkshire	3 months to 24 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	31	37
Rank change on same period last year	+6
Matching permanent IT job ads	7	3
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.004 %	0.001 %
As % of the category below	17.07 %	50.00 %
Salaries quoted	3	0
Average minimum salary	£32,333	-
Average salary	£34,500	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum salary	£36,667	-
UK excluding London average salary	£37,338	£37,279
% change on same period last year	+0.15 %
Quality Assurance & Compliance Windsor
Matching permanent IT job ads	41	6
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.022 %	0.002 %
Salaries quoted	18	3
Average minimum salary	£43,111	£41,667
Average salary	£49,833	£50,167
% change on same period last year	-0.66 %
Average maximum salary	£56,556	£58,667
UK excluding London average salary	£39,355	£39,963
% change on same period last year	-1.52 %
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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of permanent IT jobs citing QA across the Windsor region as a proportion of the total demand within the Quality Assurance & Compliance category.

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Salary Trend

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

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Top 19 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 July 2008, IT jobs across the Windsor 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 21 (87.50 %) Java 1 21 (87.50 %) Mapinfo 2 13 (54.17 %) .NET 3 11 (45.83 %) Service Delivery 3 11 (45.83 %) Test Scripting 4 10 (41.67 %) UNIX 4 10 (41.67 %) Windows 5 2 (8.333 %) C# 5 2 (8.333 %) C++ 5 2 (8.333 %) Finance 6 1 (4.167 %) Project Management 6 1 (4.167 %) Migration 6 1 (4.167 %) VB 6 1 (4.167 %) VB.NET 6 1 (4.167 %) Microsoft

6 1 (4.167 %) ISEB 6 1 (4.167 %) Automated Testing 6 1 (4.167 %) .NET Framework 6 1 (4.167 %) Degree

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 July 2008, IT jobs across the Windsor 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 13 (54.17 %) .NET 2 1 (4.167 %) .NET Framework	General 1 2 (8.333 %) Finance
Job Titles 1 11 (45.83 %) Senior Consultant 1 11 (45.83 %) Consultant 2 10 (41.67 %) Quality Engineer 2 10 (41.67 %) QA Engineer 2 10 (41.67 %) Radio Access Network Engineer 3 2 (8.333 %) Author 3 2 (8.333 %) Technical Author 4 1 (4.167 %) Development Manager 4 1 (4.167 %) Software Manager 4 1 (4.167 %) Software Development Manager	Operating Systems 1 10 (41.67 %) UNIX 1 10 (41.67 %) Windows
Processes & Methodologies 1 11 (45.83 %) Service Delivery 1 11 (45.83 %) Test Scripting 2 1 (4.167 %) Project Management 2 1 (4.167 %) Migration 2 1 (4.167 %) Automated Testing	Programming Languages 1 21 (87.50 %) Java 2 2 (8.333 %) C# 2 2 (8.333 %) C++ 3 1 (4.167 %) VB 3 1 (4.167 %) VB.NET
Qualifications 1 1 (4.167 %) ISEB 1 1 (4.167 %) Degree	Vendors 1 21 (87.50 %) Mapinfo 2 1 (4.167 %) Microsoft