QA Engineer Contracts in London
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for the QA Engineer role in IT contracts advertised for the London 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 17 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 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
17 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Quality Assurance Engineer
Rank 337 389 406
Rank change year-on-year
+52 +17
Contract jobs requiring a QA Engineer 48 17 31
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 0.222% 0.063% 0.099%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.241% 0.069% 0.107%
Number of daily rates quoted 40 12 12
Average daily rate £388 £363 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+6.82% +20.91%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £318 £276 £229
10% offered a daily rate of more than £478 £470 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £326 £344 £313
% change year-on-year
-5.09% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.00 - £32.75
All Job Titles
London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category		 19929 24797 28916
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 92.30% 92.59% 92.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 13475 15993 18573
Average daily rate £450 £440 £475
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+2.27% -7.36%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £275 £275 £300
10% offered a daily rate of more than £600 £600 £625
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 450 606 683
Average hourly rate £20.00 £20.00 £20.00
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.50 £12.50 £12.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £47.50 £41.25 £47.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-5.40% -7.50%
QA Engineer
England

QA Engineer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

London 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 London region.

London 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 London region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

London 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 London region.

London QA Engineer Hourly Rate Trend

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 QA Engineer within the London region over the 3 months to 17 May 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
City of London +21 12 £375 -
Hounslow - 1 - -
QA Engineer
England

QA Engineer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London 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 97 (100.00%) QA
2 74 (76.29%) Selenium
3 56 (57.73%) Agile Software Development
3 56 (57.73%) Cucumber
4 51 (52.58%) WebDriver
5 46 (47.42%) Java
6 43 (44.33%) BDD
7 36 (37.11%) Finance
8 33 (34.02%) Ruby
9 29 (29.90%) TDD
10 24 (24.74%) Scrum
10 24 (24.74%) Test Automation
11 21 (21.65%) Automation Testing
11 21 (21.65%) .NET
12 19 (19.59%) E-Commerce
13 18 (18.56%) JIRA
14 17 (17.53%) Python
15 16 (16.49%) JavaScript
16 15 (15.46%) SQL
16 15 (15.46%) OO
16 15 (15.46%) Automated Testing
17 14 (14.43%) Banking
18 13 (13.40%) SpecFlow
19 12 (12.37%) Derivative
19 12 (12.37%) C#
20 11 (11.34%) Perl
20 11 (11.34%) Software Testing
20 11 (11.34%) Test Scripting
20 11 (11.34%) Continuous Integration
21 10 (10.31%) WATIR

QA Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London 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 21 (21.65%) .NET
2 5 (5.155%) Gherkin
3 4 (4.124%) soapUI
3 4 (4.124%) J2EE
3 4 (4.124%) .NET Framework
3 4 (4.124%) SOAP
3 4 (4.124%) Web Services
4 3 (3.093%) Middleware
4 3 (3.093%) RESTful
5 2 (2.062%) HTML
5 2 (2.062%) REST
6 1 (1.031%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
6 1 (1.031%) Node.js
6 1 (1.031%) Bing Maps
6 1 (1.031%) Cocoa Touch
6 1 (1.031%) HTML5
6 1 (1.031%) ADO
6 1 (1.031%) FIX Protocol
6 1 (1.031%) WCF
6 1 (1.031%) WPF
Application Platforms
1 6 (6.186%) Confluence
2 3 (3.093%) Tomcat
2 3 (3.093%) CMS
3 1 (1.031%) ActiveMQ
3 1 (1.031%) Apache Solr
3 1 (1.031%) Apache
Applications
1 1 (1.031%) MS Office
1 1 (1.031%) MS Excel
1 1 (1.031%) Doxygen
Business Applications
1 4 (4.124%) SAP Oil and Gas
Communications & Networking
1 6 (6.186%) Internet
2 2 (2.062%) HTTP
3 1 (1.031%) TCP/IP
3 1 (1.031%) DMZ
3 1 (1.031%) DVB
3 1 (1.031%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (9.278%) SQL Server
2 1 (1.031%) DB2
2 1 (1.031%) Oracle Reports
2 1 (1.031%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (1.031%) RDBMS
2 1 (1.031%) Oracle 11g
2 1 (1.031%) Hadoop
2 1 (1.031%) Apache Cassandra
2 1 (1.031%) Big Data
2 1 (1.031%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 74 (76.29%) Selenium
2 56 (57.73%) Cucumber
3 51 (52.58%) WebDriver
4 18 (18.56%) JIRA
5 13 (13.40%) SpecFlow
6 10 (10.31%) WATIR
6 10 (10.31%) JUnit
7 9 (9.278%) QuickTest Pro
8 8 (8.247%) JBehave
9 7 (7.216%) FitNesse
9 7 (7.216%) TestNG
9 7 (7.216%) JMeter
10 5 (5.155%) SilkTest
10 5 (5.155%) Hudson
11 4 (4.124%) Subversion
12 3 (3.093%) Maven
12 3 (3.093%) NUnit
12 3 (3.093%) WatiN
12 3 (3.093%) Jenkins
13 2 (2.062%) RSpec
General
1 36 (37.11%) Finance
2 14 (14.43%) Banking
3 10 (10.31%) Games
4 9 (9.278%) Marketing
5 6 (6.186%) Telecoms
5 6 (6.186%) Investment Banking
6 4 (4.124%) Manufacturing
6 4 (4.124%) Electronics
7 2 (2.062%) Front Office
8 1 (1.031%) Advertising
Miscellaneous
1 12 (12.37%) Derivative
2 8 (8.247%) Open Source
3 4 (4.124%) DTV
4 3 (3.093%) iPad
4 3 (3.093%) Online Games
4 3 (3.093%) iPhone
4 3 (3.093%) Mobile App
5 2 (2.062%) Digital Media
5 2 (2.062%) Client/Server
5 2 (2.062%) N-Tier
5 2 (2.062%) Blackberry
5 2 (2.062%) Credit Derivative
6 1 (1.031%) Field-Programmable Gate Array
6 1 (1.031%) IPTV
6 1 (1.031%) E-Learning
6 1 (1.031%) Equities
6 1 (1.031%) STB
6 1 (1.031%) Visualisation
6 1 (1.031%) Social Network
6 1 (1.031%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 9 (9.278%) Linux
2 8 (8.247%) Windows
3 4 (4.124%) Apple iOS
4 3 (3.093%) UNIX
5 2 (2.062%) Android
6 1 (1.031%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (1.031%) Windows Mobile
Processes & Methodologies
1 56 (57.73%) Agile Software Development
2 43 (44.33%) BDD
3 29 (29.90%) TDD
4 24 (24.74%) Scrum
4 24 (24.74%) Test Automation
5 21 (21.65%) Automation Testing
6 19 (19.59%) E-Commerce
7 15 (15.46%) OO
7 15 (15.46%) Automated Testing
8 11 (11.34%) Software Testing
8 11 (11.34%) Test Scripting
8 11 (11.34%) Continuous Integration
9 9 (9.278%) User Stories
10 7 (7.216%) Regression Testing
11 6 (6.186%) Test Management
11 6 (6.186%) Performance Testing
11 6 (6.186%) Test Strategy
12 5 (5.155%) Software Engineering
12 5 (5.155%) Manual Testing
12 5 (5.155%) OOP
Programming Languages
1 46 (47.42%) Java
2 33 (34.02%) Ruby
3 17 (17.53%) Python
4 16 (16.49%) JavaScript
5 15 (15.46%) SQL
6 12 (12.37%) C#
7 11 (11.34%) Perl
8 7 (7.216%) C++
9 4 (4.124%) VB
10 2 (2.062%) Shell Script
11 1 (1.031%) Objective-C
11 1 (1.031%) Korn
11 1 (1.031%) Bourne shell
11 1 (1.031%) Bash shell
11 1 (1.031%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 7 (7.216%) ISEB
1 7 (7.216%) Degree
2 6 (6.186%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 97 (100.00%) QA
Systems Management
1 4 (4.124%) HP Quality Center
2 1 (1.031%) Puppet
2 1 (1.031%) Splunk
Vendors
1 7 (7.216%) Microsoft
2 4 (4.124%) SAP
3 3 (3.093%) HP
4 2 (2.062%) Apple
4 2 (2.062%) Oracle
5 1 (1.031%) Sybase
5 1 (1.031%) Fidessa
5 1 (1.031%) Telerik
5 1 (1.031%) Google
5 1 (1.031%) Atlassian
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