The first table below looks at the demand for the Senior QA Engineer role in IT contracts advertised for the Oxford 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 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 Oxford 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
Senior Quality Assurance Engineer
Rank 30 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs requiring a Senior QA Engineer 4 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Oxford 1.709% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 1.778% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
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
Oxford
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
225 322 158
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Oxford 96.15% 96.99% 94.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 131 182 81
Average daily rate £340 £350 £315
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-2.85% +11.11%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £243 £225 £183
10% offered a daily rate of more than £463 £500 £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 41 23
Average hourly rate £15.00 £12.50 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+20.00% -37.50%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
Senior QA Engineer
Oxfordshire

Senior QA Engineer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Oxford Senior QA Engineer Jobs Demand Trend

Senior QA Engineer
Top 12 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Oxford 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 4 (100.00%) QA
1 4 (100.00%) User Acceptance Testing
1 4 (100.00%) Manual Testing
1 4 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 4 (100.00%) Test Strategy
2 2 (50.00%) Workflow
2 2 (50.00%) SQL
2 2 (50.00%) SAP
2 2 (50.00%) CRM
2 2 (50.00%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
2 2 (50.00%) Salesforce.com

Senior QA Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Oxford 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.

Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) Data Warehouse
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) User Acceptance Testing
1 4 (100.00%) Manual Testing
1 4 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 4 (100.00%) Test Strategy
2 2 (50.00%) Workflow
2 2 (50.00%) CRM
2 2 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (100.00%) QA
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) SAP
1 2 (50.00%) Salesforce.com