QA Engineer Contracts in Cambridge
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for the QA Engineer role in IT contracts advertised for the Cambridge 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 22 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 Cambridge 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
22 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Quality Assurance Engineer
Rank 35 47 31
Rank change year-on-year
+12 -16
Contract jobs requiring a QA Engineer 2 2 3
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cambridge 0.595% 0.467% 1.195%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.662% 0.495% 1.224%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 0
Average daily rate £340 £344 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-1.09% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £330 £350 £313
% change year-on-year
-5.71% +12.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
Average hourly rate - - £33.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.00 - £32.75
All Job Titles
Cambridge
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category		 302 404 245
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cambridge 89.88% 94.39% 97.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 141 198 133
Average daily rate £340 £310 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+9.67% +3.33%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £230 £200 £240
10% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £413 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 49 59 43
Average hourly rate £37.25 £35.00 £13.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+6.42% +159.25%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £14.00 £10.25 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £50.00 £52.50 £34.70
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
QA Engineer
Cambridgeshire

QA Engineer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Cambridge 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 Cambridge region.

Cambridge QA Engineer Daily Rate Trend

QA Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing QA Engineer across the Cambridge region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013.

Cambridge QA Engineer Daily Rate Histogram

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 Cambridge region.

Cambridge QA Engineer Hourly Rate Trend

QA Engineer
Top 17 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cambridge 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 3 (100.00%) QA
2 2 (66.67%) Test Automation
3 1 (33.33%) Augmented Reality
3 1 (33.33%) Game Development
3 1 (33.33%) User Acceptance Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Integration Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Test Management
3 1 (33.33%) Continuous Integration
3 1 (33.33%) C
3 1 (33.33%) C++
3 1 (33.33%) Windows
3 1 (33.33%) Python
3 1 (33.33%) Publishing
3 1 (33.33%) Games
3 1 (33.33%) E-Learning
3 1 (33.33%) Agile Software Development
3 1 (33.33%) Software Testing

QA Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cambridge 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.

General
1 1 (33.33%) Publishing
1 1 (33.33%) Games
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Augmented Reality
1 1 (33.33%) E-Learning
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Test Automation
2 1 (33.33%) Game Development
2 1 (33.33%) User Acceptance Testing
2 1 (33.33%) Integration Testing
2 1 (33.33%) Test Management
2 1 (33.33%) Continuous Integration
2 1 (33.33%) Agile Software Development
2 1 (33.33%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) C
1 1 (33.33%) C++
1 1 (33.33%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (100.00%) QA
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