The first table below looks at the demand for the QA Engineer role in IT contracts advertised for the Sheffield 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 20 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 Sheffield 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
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Quality Assurance Engineer
Rank 22 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs requiring a QA Engineer 2 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Sheffield 1.342% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 1.471% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
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
Sheffield
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
136 133 144
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Sheffield 91.28% 95.68% 96.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 70 71 64
Average daily rate £300 £288 £320
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+4.34% -10.15%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £170 £175 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £500 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 8 22
Average hourly rate £12.44 £20.06 £34.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-37.98% -41.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £9.79 £11.33 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £32.50 £30.00 £60.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
QA Engineer
South Yorkshire

QA Engineer
Top 6 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Sheffield 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 2 (100.00%) SQL
1 2 (100.00%) MySQL
1 2 (100.00%) ISEB
1 2 (100.00%) Internet
1 2 (100.00%) QA
1 2 (100.00%) Manual Testing

QA Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Sheffield 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.

Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) MySQL
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Manual Testing
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) QA