The first table below looks at the demand for the Senior QA Engineer role in IT contracts advertised for the England region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Senior QA Engineer in their job title over the 3 months to 17 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 England 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
17 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Senior Quality Assurance Engineer
Rank 519 558 556
Rank change year-on-year
+39 -2
Contract jobs requiring a Senior QA Engineer 2 1 5
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 0.005% 0.002% 0.009%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.005% 0.002% 0.010%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 2
Average daily rate £375 £375 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -6.25%
UK excluding London average daily rate £375 £375 £400
% change year-on-year
- -6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Job Titles
England
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
40498 49125 52134
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 92.47% 92.59% 92.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 23977 27830 29104
Average daily rate £400 £400 £425
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -5.88%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £240 £243 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £575 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 2009 2439 2772
Average hourly rate £19.00 £18.75 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+1.33% -6.25%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.50 £11.34 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £42.00 £40.00 £41.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
Senior QA Engineer
UK

Senior QA Engineer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

England Senior QA Engineer Jobs Demand Trend

Senior QA Engineer
Daily Rate Trend

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

England Senior QA Engineer Daily Rate Trend

Senior QA Engineer
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Senior QA Engineer within the England region over the 3 months to 17 June 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Find
Job
Vacancies
South East - 2 £375 - 2
South West - - - -
West Midlands - - - -
East of England - - - - 1
London - - - - 3
Yorkshire - - - -
Senior QA Engineer
UK

Senior QA Engineer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England region that cited Senior 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 Senior QA Engineer in their job title.

1 9 (100.00%) QA
2 7 (77.78%) Test Automation
3 6 (66.67%) User Acceptance Testing
4 5 (55.56%) Manual Testing
5 4 (44.44%) SQL
5 4 (44.44%) Test Strategy
6 3 (33.33%) Data Warehouse
6 3 (33.33%) Java
7 2 (22.22%) Salesforce.com
7 2 (22.22%) Workflow
7 2 (22.22%) Business Intelligence
7 2 (22.22%) Python
7 2 (22.22%) CRM
7 2 (22.22%) SAP
7 2 (22.22%) UNIX
7 2 (22.22%) Windows
7 2 (22.22%) Selenium
7 2 (22.22%) Agile Software Development
8 1 (11.11%) Automated Testing
8 1 (11.11%) Doxygen
8 1 (11.11%) Field-Programmable Gate Array
8 1 (11.11%) Software Testing
8 1 (11.11%) Ubuntu
8 1 (11.11%) VLAN
8 1 (11.11%) Marketing
8 1 (11.11%) Degree
8 1 (11.11%) Computer Science
8 1 (11.11%) Test Scripting
8 1 (11.11%) Continuous Integration
8 1 (11.11%) System Testing

Senior QA Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England region that cited Senior 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 Senior QA Engineer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (11.11%) REST
Application Platforms
1 1 (11.11%) CMS
Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Doxygen
Communications & Networking
1 1 (11.11%) TCP/IP
1 1 (11.11%) IPv6
1 1 (11.11%) VLAN
1 1 (11.11%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (33.33%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (11.11%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (22.22%) Selenium
2 1 (11.11%) TestComplete
2 1 (11.11%) WebDriver
2 1 (11.11%) Hudson
2 1 (11.11%) Jenkins
2 1 (11.11%) JUnit
2 1 (11.11%) QuickTest Pro
General
1 1 (11.11%) Marketing
Miscellaneous
1 1 (11.11%) Field-Programmable Gate Array
1 1 (11.11%) Computer Science
1 1 (11.11%) Mobile App
1 1 (11.11%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 2 (22.22%) UNIX
1 2 (22.22%) Windows
2 1 (11.11%) Linux
2 1 (11.11%) SUSE
2 1 (11.11%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (77.78%) Test Automation
2 6 (66.67%) User Acceptance Testing
3 5 (55.56%) Manual Testing
4 4 (44.44%) Test Strategy
5 2 (22.22%) CRM
5 2 (22.22%) Business Intelligence
5 2 (22.22%) Workflow
5 2 (22.22%) Agile Software Development
6 1 (11.11%) Automated Testing
6 1 (11.11%) Software Testing
6 1 (11.11%) Project Management
6 1 (11.11%) ETL
6 1 (11.11%) Automation Testing
6 1 (11.11%) Product Management
6 1 (11.11%) System Testing
6 1 (11.11%) Test Scripting
6 1 (11.11%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 4 (44.44%) SQL
2 3 (33.33%) Java
3 2 (22.22%) Python
4 1 (11.11%) Bash shell
Qualifications
1 1 (11.11%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (100.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (11.11%) NFS
Systems Management
1 1 (11.11%) Legato
1 1 (11.11%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 2 (22.22%) SAP
1 2 (22.22%) Salesforce.com
2 1 (11.11%) HP
2 1 (11.11%) Veritas
London
QA Engineer: Tester / Test Analyst / Quality Assurance / Agile / Performance / Functional / Non-functional / UAT / Manual / Automation / Software / Development / Test Cases / Test Scripts / JavaScript / CSS / HTML5 / Silenium / Web Driver / I...
Rullion IT Plus
Rate: £450 - £500 per annum
Posted: 14 June 2013
Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire
Senior contract QA Engineer required with extensive experience of automated testing in perl. Skills required: Test Analysis and design Expert perl knowledge, Strong Linux knowledge, Strong TCP/IP...
Intelligent Recruitment
Rate: From £350 to £420 per day Superb rate, contract to run for initial 6 m
Posted: 12 June 2013
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