The first table below looks at the demand for the QA Engineer role in IT contracts advertised for the Buckinghamshire 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 24 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 Buckinghamshire 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
24 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 Buckinghamshire - - -
As % of the Job Titles category - - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £340 £350 £313
% change year-on-year
-2.85% +12.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.00 - £32.75
All Job Titles
Buckinghamshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
749 913 1015
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Buckinghamshire 92.47% 93.55% 95.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 409 393 383
Average daily rate £315 £318 £339
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-0.78% -6.27%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £181 £165 £175
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £425 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 73 67 109
Average hourly rate £13.50 £14.50 £14.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-6.89% +3.57%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.06 £11.50 £10.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £27.00 £35.00 £23.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
QA Engineer
South East

QA Engineer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Buckinghamshire 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 Buckinghamshire region.

Buckinghamshire QA Engineer Daily Rate Trend

QA Engineer
Top 24 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Buckinghamshire 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 7 (100.00%) SQL
1 7 (100.00%) C#
1 7 (100.00%) Scrum
1 7 (100.00%) TDD
1 7 (100.00%) Selenium
1 7 (100.00%) QA
1 7 (100.00%) Automation Testing
2 6 (85.71%) Agile Software Development
2 6 (85.71%) WATIR
2 6 (85.71%) WatiN
2 6 (85.71%) MSTest
2 6 (85.71%) BDD
2 6 (85.71%) NUnit
2 6 (85.71%) .NET
2 6 (85.71%) MySQL
2 6 (85.71%) Windows
2 6 (85.71%) Linux
3 5 (71.43%) Subversion
3 5 (71.43%) Automated Testing
3 5 (71.43%) Software Testing
3 5 (71.43%) Perl
4 4 (57.14%) ASP.NET
5 1 (14.29%) QuickTest Pro
5 1 (14.29%) LoadRunner

QA Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Buckinghamshire 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 6 (85.71%) .NET
2 4 (57.14%) ASP.NET
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (85.71%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 7 (100.00%) Selenium
2 6 (85.71%) WATIR
2 6 (85.71%) WatiN
2 6 (85.71%) MSTest
2 6 (85.71%) NUnit
3 5 (71.43%) Subversion
4 1 (14.29%) QuickTest Pro
4 1 (14.29%) LoadRunner
Operating Systems
1 6 (85.71%) Windows
1 6 (85.71%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) Scrum
1 7 (100.00%) TDD
1 7 (100.00%) Automation Testing
2 6 (85.71%) Agile Software Development
2 6 (85.71%) BDD
3 5 (71.43%) Automated Testing
3 5 (71.43%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 7 (100.00%) SQL
1 7 (100.00%) C#
2 5 (71.43%) Perl
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (100.00%) QA