The first table below looks at the demand for the Quality Engineer role in IT contracts advertised for the City of London region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Quality 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 City of London 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 Engineer
Rank 202 217 244
Rank change year-on-year
+15 +27
Contract jobs requiring a Quality Engineer 1 1 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 0.016% 0.013% 0.010%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.017% 0.014% 0.011%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 0
Average daily rate £343 £575 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-40.43% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £301 - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £42.50 - £31.25
All Job Titles
City of London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
5894 7192 8993
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 92.40% 91.44% 91.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 4333 5169 6545
Average daily rate £450 £450 £500
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -10.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £285 £275 £325
10% offered a daily rate of more than £600 £625 £650
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 138 186 197
Average hourly rate £20.00 £20.00 £19.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- +2.56%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.50 £12.50 £12.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £133.00 £41.28 £41.38
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
Quality Engineer
London

Quality Engineer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

City of London Quality Engineer Jobs Demand Trend

Quality Engineer
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Quality Engineer across the City of London region.

City of London Quality Engineer Daily Rate Trend

Quality Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Quality Engineer across the City of London region.

City of London Quality Engineer Hourly Rate Trend

Quality Engineer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region that cited Quality 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 Quality Engineer in their job title.

1 4 (100.00%) SQL
1 4 (100.00%) QA
2 3 (75.00%) .NET
2 3 (75.00%) SQL Server
3 2 (50.00%) C#
3 2 (50.00%) Regression Testing
3 2 (50.00%) Finance
3 2 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
3 2 (50.00%) Microsoft
3 2 (50.00%) ISEB
3 2 (50.00%) Investment Banking
3 2 (50.00%) Banking
3 2 (50.00%) Derivative
3 2 (50.00%) ISTQB
3 2 (50.00%) Degree
3 2 (50.00%) JIRA
3 2 (50.00%) Test Automation
3 2 (50.00%) Confluence
4 1 (25.00%) BDD
4 1 (25.00%) Test Strategy
4 1 (25.00%) Digital Media
4 1 (25.00%) Root Cause Analysis
4 1 (25.00%) Business Intelligence Development Studio
4 1 (25.00%) SpecFlow
4 1 (25.00%) WebDriver
4 1 (25.00%) .NET Framework
4 1 (25.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 1 (25.00%) Automated Testing
4 1 (25.00%) Software Testing
4 1 (25.00%) SQL Server Integration Services

Quality Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region that cited Quality 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 Quality Engineer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 3 (75.00%) .NET
2 1 (25.00%) .NET Framework
2 1 (25.00%) WPF
2 1 (25.00%) HTML
2 1 (25.00%) XML
Application Platforms
1 2 (50.00%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (25.00%) MS Excel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (75.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (25.00%) Business Intelligence Development Studio
2 1 (25.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 1 (25.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 1 (25.00%) SQL Server 2008
2 1 (25.00%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 2 (50.00%) JIRA
2 1 (25.00%) SpecFlow
2 1 (25.00%) WebDriver
2 1 (25.00%) Selenium
2 1 (25.00%) Visual Studio
General
1 2 (50.00%) Finance
1 2 (50.00%) Investment Banking
1 2 (50.00%) Banking
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Derivative
2 1 (25.00%) Digital Media
2 1 (25.00%) Social Network
2 1 (25.00%) Replication
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Regression Testing
1 2 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) Test Automation
2 1 (25.00%) BDD
2 1 (25.00%) Test Strategy
2 1 (25.00%) Root Cause Analysis
2 1 (25.00%) Automated Testing
2 1 (25.00%) Software Testing
2 1 (25.00%) Agile Software Development
2 1 (25.00%) TDD
2 1 (25.00%) Pair Programming
2 1 (25.00%) User Acceptance Testing
2 1 (25.00%) Performance Testing
2 1 (25.00%) Integration Testing
2 1 (25.00%) Manual Testing
2 1 (25.00%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) SQL
2 2 (50.00%) C#
3 1 (25.00%) T-SQL
3 1 (25.00%) C++
3 1 (25.00%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) ISEB
1 2 (50.00%) ISTQB
1 2 (50.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (100.00%) QA
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft