QA Jobs in the North East

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North East with a requirement for QA skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited QA over the 3 months to 25 June 2017 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

Quality Assurance (QA) England / North East
Location	3 months to 25 Jun 2017	Same period 2016	Same period 2015
Rank	46	40	75
Rank change year-on-year	-6	+35
Permanent jobs citing QA	24	45	15
As % of all permanent IT jobs advertised in the North East	4.29%	5.69%	1.93%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category	27.27%	48.91%	23.08%
Number of salaries quoted	23	41	8
Median salary	£35,000	£65,000	£35,500
Median salary % change year-on-year	-46.15%	+83.09%
90% offered a salary of more than	£30,000	£30,000	£28,500
10% offered a salary of more than	£45,800	£70,000	£50,000
UK excluding London median salary	£42,500	£42,500	£40,500
% change year-on-year	-	+4.93%

QA is in the quality assurance and compliance skills category. The next table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in the North East with a requirement for quality assurance and compliance skills.

Quality Assurance & Compliance Skills North East
Permanent job vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance and compliance skills	88	92	65
As % of all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the North East	15.71%	11.63%	8.34%
Number of salaries quoted	76	85	53
Median salary	£41,500	£40,000	£35,000
Median salary % change year-on-year	+3.75%	+14.28%
90% offered a salary of more than	£25,900	£27,500	£23,400
10% offered a salary of more than	£67,500	£51,500	£69,000
UK excluding London median salary	£45,000	£45,000	£42,500
% change year-on-year	-	+5.88%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the North East

The job posting trend of jobs advertised in the North East citing QA as a proportion of all permanent or contract IT jobs with a match in the Quality Assurance & Compliance category.

Job vacancy trend for QA in the North East

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Salary Trend in the North East

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing QA in the North East.

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Salary Histogram in the North East

The salary distribution of IT jobs citing QA in the North East over the 3 months to 25 June 2017.

Salary histogram for QA in the North East

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Job Locations in the North East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing QA within the North East region over the 3 months to 25 June 2017. 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	Rank Change on Same Period Last Year	Matching Permanent IT Job Ads	Median Salary Last 3 Months	Median Salary % Change on Same Period Last Year	Live Job Vacancies
Tyne and Wear	+6	19	£36,500	-39.16%	11
Durham	-6	5	£33,500	-51.27%	2
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Top 30 Co-occurring IT Skills in the North East

For the 6 months to 25 June 2017, IT jobs citing QA also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number co-occurrences and its proportion to all job ads across the North East region with a requirement for QA.

1	29 (61.70%)	Agile Software Development
2	20 (42.55%)	Test Automation
3	19 (40.43%)	Java
4	13 (27.66%)	Project Management
5	12 (25.53%)	Software Testing
6	11 (23.40%)	Selenium
6	11 (23.40%)	Web Services
7	10 (21.28%)	Scrum
7	10 (21.28%)	Test Strategy
7	10 (21.28%)	Functional Testing
8	9 (19.15%)	User Stories
8	9 (19.15%)	Continuous Integration
8	9 (19.15%)	Regression Testing
8	9 (19.15%)	SQL
9	8 (17.02%)	Automotive

9	8 (17.02%)	TDD
9	8 (17.02%)	Manual Testing
9	8 (17.02%)	Test Scripting
10	7 (14.89%)	BDD
10	7 (14.89%)	SDLC
10	7 (14.89%)	Business Analysis
10	7 (14.89%)	PHP
11	6 (12.77%)	JavaScript
11	6 (12.77%)	C#
11	6 (12.77%)	User Acceptance Testing
12	5 (10.64%)	Linux
12	5 (10.64%)	Enterprise Software
12	5 (10.64%)	Continuous Improvement
12	5 (10.64%)	Process Improvement
12	5 (10.64%)	System Testing

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Co-occurring IT Skills in the North East by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same job type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
Applications
Business Applications
Cloud Services
Communications & Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
Development Applications
General
Job Titles
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
Miscellaneous
Operating Systems
Processes & Methodologies
Programming Languages
Qualifications
Quality Assurance & Compliance
System Software
Systems Management
Vendors

Application Platforms
1	3 (6.38%)	CMS
2	1 (2.13%)	Sitecore CMS

Applications
1	3 (6.38%)	MS Visio
2	1 (2.13%)	Microsoft Project

Business Applications
1	1 (2.13%)	Dynamics CRM
1	1 (2.13%)	Magento
1	1 (2.13%)	Shopify
1	1 (2.13%)	Siebel CRM

Cloud Services
1	2 (4.26%)	Amazon AWS
1	2 (4.26%)	SaaS
2	1 (2.13%)	Amazon CloudWatch
2	1 (2.13%)	Amazon EC2
2	1 (2.13%)	Amazon S3
2	1 (2.13%)	AWS CloudFormation
2	1 (2.13%)	Microsoft Azure

Communications & Networking
1	2 (4.26%)	TCP/IP
2	1 (2.13%)	802.15
2	1 (2.13%)	FTP
2	1 (2.13%)	HTTP
2	1 (2.13%)	SSH
2	1 (2.13%)	SSL
2	1 (2.13%)	ZigBee

Database & Business Intelligence
1	1 (2.13%)	BusinessObjects
1	1 (2.13%)	phpMyAdmin
1	1 (2.13%)	Relational Database
1	1 (2.13%)	SQL Server

Development Applications
1	11 (23.40%)	Selenium
2	4 (8.51%)	Git (software)
2	4 (8.51%)	WebDriver
3	3 (6.38%)	Cucumber
3	3 (6.38%)	Jenkins
3	3 (6.38%)	JIRA
4	2 (4.26%)	CircleCI
4	2 (4.26%)	Gatling
4	2 (4.26%)	Ranorex
4	2 (4.26%)	Xcode
5	1 (2.13%)	Appium
5	1 (2.13%)	Atlassian Bamboo
5	1 (2.13%)	GitLab
5	1 (2.13%)	JUnit
5	1 (2.13%)	Maven
5	1 (2.13%)	NUnit
5	1 (2.13%)	Octopus Deploy
5	1 (2.13%)	Sonatype Nexus
5	1 (2.13%)	Subversion
5	1 (2.13%)	TeamCity

General
1	8 (17.02%)	Automotive
2	2 (4.26%)	Advertising
2	2 (4.26%)	Finance
2	2 (4.26%)	Legal
2	2 (4.26%)	Marketing
3	1 (2.13%)	Electronics
3	1 (2.13%)	Games
3	1 (2.13%)	Law
3	1 (2.13%)	Manufacturing
3	1 (2.13%)	Retail

Job Titles
1	12 (25.53%)	Analyst
2	8 (17.02%)	Tester
3	7 (14.89%)	QA Engineer
3	7 (14.89%)	QA Manager
3	7 (14.89%)	QA Tester
4	6 (12.77%)	Test Analyst
5	5 (10.64%)	Architect
5	5 (10.64%)	Systems Analyst
6	4 (8.51%)	Java Architect
6	4 (8.51%)	Java Software Architect
6	4 (8.51%)	QA Automation Engineer
6	4 (8.51%)	QA Test Manager
6	4 (8.51%)	Senior Analyst
6	4 (8.51%)	Senior Manager
6	4 (8.51%)	Senior QA Manager
6	4 (8.51%)	Senior Test Manager
6	4 (8.51%)	Software Architect
6	4 (8.51%)	Test Manager
7	3 (6.38%)	Selenium Test Analyst
8	2 (4.26%)	Senior Automation Test Analyst

Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1	11 (23.40%)	Web Services
2	4 (8.51%)	.NET
2	4 (8.51%)	REST
3	3 (6.38%)	SOAP
4	2 (4.26%)	HTML
4	2 (4.26%)	JSON
4	2 (4.26%)	WPF
4	2 (4.26%)	XML
4	2 (4.26%)	XML Messaging
5	1 (2.13%)	.NET Framework
5	1 (2.13%)	ADO.NET
5	1 (2.13%)	AngularJS
5	1 (2.13%)	ASP.NET
5	1 (2.13%)	ASP.NET Web API
5	1 (2.13%)	CSS
5	1 (2.13%)	Dapper ORM
5	1 (2.13%)	Entity Framework
5	1 (2.13%)	HTML5
5	1 (2.13%)	NHibernate
5	1 (2.13%)	Symfony

Miscellaneous
1	5 (10.64%)	Enterprise Software
2	4 (8.51%)	Analytical Skills
2	4 (8.51%)	NHS
3	3 (6.38%)	Mobile App
4	2 (4.26%)	iPad
4	2 (4.26%)	iPhone
5	1 (2.13%)	Data Protection Act
5	1 (2.13%)	Embedded Systems
5	1 (2.13%)	Private Cloud

Operating Systems
1	5 (10.64%)	Linux
2	3 (6.38%)	Android
2	3 (6.38%)	Unix
3	1 (2.13%)	Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3	1 (2.13%)	Windows
3	1 (2.13%)	Windows Embedded Compact

Processes & Methodologies
1	29 (61.70%)	Agile Software Development
2	20 (42.55%)	Test Automation
3	13 (27.66%)	Project Management
4	12 (25.53%)	Software Testing
5	10 (21.28%)	Functional Testing
5	10 (21.28%)	Scrum
5	10 (21.28%)	Test Strategy
6	9 (19.15%)	Continuous Integration
6	9 (19.15%)	Regression Testing
6	9 (19.15%)	User Stories
7	8 (17.02%)	Manual Testing
7	8 (17.02%)	TDD
7	8 (17.02%)	Test Scripting
8	7 (14.89%)	BDD
8	7 (14.89%)	Business Analysis
8	7 (14.89%)	SDLC
9	6 (12.77%)	User Acceptance Testing
10	5 (10.64%)	Continuous Improvement
10	5 (10.64%)	Process Improvement
10	5 (10.64%)	System Testing

Programming Languages
1	19 (40.43%)	Java
2	9 (19.15%)	SQL
3	7 (14.89%)	PHP
4	6 (12.77%)	C#
4	6 (12.77%)	JavaScript
5	4 (8.51%)	Python
6	2 (4.26%)	C
6	2 (4.26%)	Ruby
7	1 (2.13%)	C++
7	1 (2.13%)	Embedded C
7	1 (2.13%)	Perl
7	1 (2.13%)	Scala
7	1 (2.13%)	Tcl

Qualifications
1	4 (8.51%)	ISEB
2	2 (4.26%)	Degree
2	2 (4.26%)	ISTQB
2	2 (4.26%)	ISTQB Foundation Certification
3	1 (2.13%)	HNC

Quality Assurance & Compliance
1	2 (4.26%)	PMO
2	1 (2.13%)	ISO 14001
2	1 (2.13%)	ISO 22301
2	1 (2.13%)	ISO 9000
2	1 (2.13%)	ISO 9001
2	1 (2.13%)	ISO/IEC 20000
2	1 (2.13%)	ISO/IEC 27001
2	1 (2.13%)	P3O
2	1 (2.13%)	WCAG

System Software
1	2 (4.26%)	Docker
2	1 (2.13%)	Firmware

Systems Management
1	1 (2.13%)	Ansible
1	1 (2.13%)	cPanel
1	1 (2.13%)	Plesk
1	1 (2.13%)	Puppet
1	1 (2.13%)	Terraform

Vendors
1	4 (8.51%)	Oracle
2	2 (4.26%)	Microsoft
3	1 (2.13%)	Alteryx
3	1 (2.13%)	Blue Prism
3	1 (2.13%)	Dynatrace
3	1 (2.13%)	Informatica
3	1 (2.13%)	Siebel
3	1 (2.13%)	Sitecore
3	1 (2.13%)	Tableau