The first table below looks at the demand for the QA Engineer role in IT contracts advertised for the Bristol 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 20 June 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 Bristol 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
20 Jun 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 Bristol - - -
As % of the Job Titles category - - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - £27.00
All Job Titles
Bristol
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
471 807 644
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Bristol 94.58% 93.84% 92.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 272 520 351
Average daily rate £333 £340 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-2.20% +4.61%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £195 £218 £213
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £451 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 33 39
Average hourly rate £16.00 £21.75 £15.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-26.43% +40.32%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.35 £12.75 £10.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £47.50 £35.00 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
QA Engineer
South West

QA Engineer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Bristol QA Engineer Jobs Demand Trend

QA Engineer
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing QA Engineer across the Bristol region.

Bristol QA Engineer Daily Rate Trend

QA Engineer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Bristol 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 2 (100.00%) QA
2 1 (50.00%) WATIR
2 1 (50.00%) Selenium
2 1 (50.00%) FitNesse
2 1 (50.00%) User Acceptance Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Web Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
2 1 (50.00%) Manual Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Kanban
2 1 (50.00%) RESTful
2 1 (50.00%) WebDriver
2 1 (50.00%) Cucumber
2 1 (50.00%) BDD
2 1 (50.00%) Hudson
2 1 (50.00%) Agile Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (50.00%) Java
2 1 (50.00%) PHP
2 1 (50.00%) SQL
2 1 (50.00%) Web Services
2 1 (50.00%) Linux
2 1 (50.00%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (50.00%) E-Commerce
2 1 (50.00%) ETL
2 1 (50.00%) Project Management
2 1 (50.00%) Scrum
2 1 (50.00%) Agile Software Development
2 1 (50.00%) TDD
2 1 (50.00%) Maven
2 1 (50.00%) Ruby

QA Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Bristol 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 (50.00%) RESTful
1 1 (50.00%) Web Services
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) WATIR
1 1 (50.00%) Selenium
1 1 (50.00%) FitNesse
1 1 (50.00%) WebDriver
1 1 (50.00%) Cucumber
1 1 (50.00%) Hudson
1 1 (50.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (50.00%) Maven
General
1 1 (50.00%) Marketing
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) User Acceptance Testing
1 1 (50.00%) Web Testing
1 1 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
1 1 (50.00%) Manual Testing
1 1 (50.00%) Kanban
1 1 (50.00%) BDD
1 1 (50.00%) Agile Testing
1 1 (50.00%) E-Commerce
1 1 (50.00%) ETL
1 1 (50.00%) Project Management
1 1 (50.00%) Scrum
1 1 (50.00%) Agile Software Development
1 1 (50.00%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Java
1 1 (50.00%) PHP
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
1 1 (50.00%) Ruby
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) QA