The first table below looks at the demand for QA skills in IT jobs advertised for the Woking region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited QA over the 3 months to 17 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 Woking region.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Quality Assurance (QA)
Rank 49 43 57
Rank change year-on-year
-6 +14
Permanent jobs citing QA 6 12 6
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Woking 1.600% 2.810% 1.319%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 11.54% 21.82% 28.57%
Number of salaries quoted 6 11 6
Average salary £52,500 £45,000 £27,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+16.66% +63.63%
90% offered a salary of more than £30,500 £31,500 £25,250
10% offered a salary of more than £67,500 £55,000 £32,500
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £37,500 £39,125
% change year-on-year
+1.33% -4.15%
All Quality Assurance & Compliance
Woking
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Quality Assurance & Compliance category
52 55 21
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Woking 13.87% 12.88% 4.615%
Number of salaries quoted 47 41 21
Average salary £48,750 £42,500 £27,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+14.70% +54.54%
90% offered a salary of more than £26,500 £30,300 £24,400
10% offered a salary of more than £69,500 £40,000 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £41,000
% change year-on-year
- -2.43%
QA
Surrey

QA
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Woking 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 Woking region.

Woking QA Salary Trend

QA
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing QA across the Woking region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

Woking QA Salary Histogram

QA
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Woking 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 14 (87.50%) Degree
2 8 (50.00%) SQL
2 8 (50.00%) MySQL
2 8 (50.00%) Linux
2 8 (50.00%) Information Security
3 7 (43.75%) Scrum
3 7 (43.75%) Extreme Programming
3 7 (43.75%) PHP
3 7 (43.75%) Test Scripting
3 7 (43.75%) Software Testing
3 7 (43.75%) CentOS
3 7 (43.75%) Marketing
4 6 (37.50%) ISEB
4 6 (37.50%) Perl
4 6 (37.50%) UNIX
5 5 (31.25%) Project Management
6 4 (25.00%) Retail
7 2 (12.50%) Web Design
7 2 (12.50%) Intranet
7 2 (12.50%) CMS
7 2 (12.50%) HTML
8 1 (6.250%) Windows
8 1 (6.250%) Photoshop
8 1 (6.250%) CSS
8 1 (6.250%) XML
8 1 (6.250%) DOM
8 1 (6.250%) CODA
8 1 (6.250%) EPoS
8 1 (6.250%) W3C
8 1 (6.250%) Fireworks

QA
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Woking 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 2 (12.50%) HTML
2 1 (6.250%) CSS
2 1 (6.250%) XML
2 1 (6.250%) DOM
2 1 (6.250%) LAMP
2 1 (6.250%) CodeIgniter
2 1 (6.250%) Kohana
2 1 (6.250%) RESTful
2 1 (6.250%) Sass
2 1 (6.250%) LESS
Application Platforms
1 2 (12.50%) CMS
2 1 (6.250%) Joomla!
2 1 (6.250%) Drupal
2 1 (6.250%) WordPress
2 1 (6.250%) Apache
2 1 (6.250%) SharePoint
2 1 (6.250%) ColdFusion
Applications
1 1 (6.250%) Photoshop
1 1 (6.250%) Fireworks
1 1 (6.250%) Adobe Illustrator
Communications & Networking
1 2 (12.50%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (50.00%) MySQL
General
1 7 (43.75%) Marketing
2 4 (25.00%) Retail
3 1 (6.250%) Finance
Job Titles
1 7 (43.75%) QA Engineer
2 4 (25.00%) IT Director
2 4 (25.00%) IT Manager
3 2 (12.50%) Developer
4 1 (6.250%) Web Developer
4 1 (6.250%) Web Designer
4 1 (6.250%) PHP Developer
4 1 (6.250%) Implementation Manager
4 1 (6.250%) Support Manager
4 1 (6.250%) IT Support Manager
4 1 (6.250%) Front-End Developer
4 1 (6.250%) Front-End Web Developer
4 1 (6.250%) IT Assistant
4 1 (6.250%) IT Support
4 1 (6.250%) Designer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (6.250%) EPoS
1 1 (6.250%) W3C
1 1 (6.250%) Statistics
1 1 (6.250%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 8 (50.00%) Linux
2 7 (43.75%) CentOS
3 6 (37.50%) UNIX
4 1 (6.250%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (50.00%) Information Security
2 7 (43.75%) Scrum
2 7 (43.75%) Extreme Programming
2 7 (43.75%) Software Testing
2 7 (43.75%) Test Scripting
3 5 (31.25%) Project Management
4 2 (12.50%) Web Design
5 1 (6.250%) MVC
5 1 (6.250%) Agile Software Development
5 1 (6.250%) Content Management
5 1 (6.250%) Automated Testing
5 1 (6.250%) Time Management
5 1 (6.250%) Test Automation
5 1 (6.250%) Continuous Improvement
5 1 (6.250%) Graceful Degradation
5 1 (6.250%) E-Commerce
Programming Languages
1 8 (50.00%) SQL
2 7 (43.75%) PHP
3 6 (37.50%) Perl
4 1 (6.250%) CFML
4 1 (6.250%) XPath
4 1 (6.250%) PHP5
Qualifications
1 14 (87.50%) Degree
2 6 (37.50%) ISEB
Vendors
1 1 (6.250%) CODA
1 1 (6.250%) Fujitsu
Woking, South East
Job title: Application Support AnalystLocation: WokingExperience & Knowledge of the Application Support Analyst - Minimum of 3 years supporting and administrating windows-based 3rd party applications in a production environment -...
Brightred Resourcing
Salary: £35,000 - £40,000 per year
Posted: 10 May 2013
Woking, Surrey
Minimum of 3 years supporting and administrating windows-based 3rd party applications in a production environment - Minimum 3 year troubleshooting and testing 3rd party applications and project deployments -...
Brightred Resourcing Limited
Salary: £40,000 per annum
Posted: 17 May 2013