The first table below looks at the demand for the QA Engineer role in IT contracts advertised for the Bedfordshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited QA Engineer 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 Bedfordshire region.

Note that daily contractor rates and hourly contractor rates are treated separately. When calculating average contractor rates, daily rates are not derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Location
3 months to
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Quality Assurance Engineer
Rank - - -
Contract jobs requiring a QA Engineer 0 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Bedfordshire - - -
As % of the Job Titles category - - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £326 £344 £313
% change year-on-year
-5.09% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.00 - £32.75
All Job Titles
Bedfordshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
180 259 270
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Bedfordshire 95.24% 92.83% 92.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 110 127 132
Average daily rate £350 £361 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-2.91% +10.92%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £189 £225 £195
10% offered a daily rate of more than £508 £450 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 19 12
Average hourly rate £20.70 £29.00 £13.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-28.63% +114.81%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £14.96 £12.00 £10.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £42.50 £42.50 £47.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
QA Engineer
East of England

QA Engineer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Bedfordshire QA Engineer Jobs Demand Trend

QA Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing QA Engineer across the Bedfordshire region.

Bedfordshire QA Engineer Hourly Rate Trend

QA Engineer
Top 14 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Bedfordshire region that cited QA Engineer 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 contract IT job ads sampled with QA Engineer in their job title.

1 1 (100.00%) C#
1 1 (100.00%) .NET
1 1 (100.00%) E-Commerce
1 1 (100.00%) CMS
1 1 (100.00%) Agile Software Development
1 1 (100.00%) TDD
1 1 (100.00%) Ruby
1 1 (100.00%) QA
1 1 (100.00%) Selenium
1 1 (100.00%) WebDriver
1 1 (100.00%) Cucumber
1 1 (100.00%) BDD
1 1 (100.00%) SpecFlow
1 1 (100.00%) Gherkin

QA Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Bedfordshire region that cited QA Engineer 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 contract IT job ads sampled with QA Engineer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (100.00%) .NET
1 1 (100.00%) Gherkin
Application Platforms
1 1 (100.00%) CMS
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Selenium
1 1 (100.00%) WebDriver
1 1 (100.00%) Cucumber
1 1 (100.00%) SpecFlow
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) E-Commerce
1 1 (100.00%) Agile Software Development
1 1 (100.00%) TDD
1 1 (100.00%) BDD
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) C#
1 1 (100.00%) Ruby
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) QA