QA Engineer Contracts in the South East
 
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 South East 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 21 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 South East 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
21 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Quality Assurance Engineer
Rank 206 241 248
Rank change year-on-year
+35 +7
Contract jobs requiring a QA Engineer 14 4 5
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South East 0.177% 0.039% 0.049%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.191% 0.043% 0.053%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 2 0
Average daily rate £288 £338 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-14.81% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £326 £344 £313
% change year-on-year
-5.09% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 1
Average hourly rate £30.00 - £21.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.00 - £32.75
All Job Titles
South East
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category		 7336 9394 9506
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South East 92.60% 92.47% 92.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 3629 4201 4116
Average daily rate £350 £350 £355
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -1.40%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £205 £220 £215
10% offered a daily rate of more than £501 £500 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 587 724 798
Average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £21.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-2.77% -14.28%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.00 £11.38 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £39.00 £42.50 £42.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
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 South East region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

South East 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 South East region.

South East 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 South East region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

South East 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 South East region.

South East 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 South East region over the 3 months to 21 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
Berkshire +11 4 £288 -4.16%
Oxfordshire - 4 - -
Hampshire - 3 £330 -
East Sussex - 2 £225 -
Middlesex +4 1 £350 -6.66%
QA Engineer
England

QA Engineer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South East 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 31 (100.00%) QA
2 13 (41.94%) Software Testing
2 13 (41.94%) Agile Software Development
3 11 (35.48%) Scrum
3 11 (35.48%) SQL
4 10 (32.26%) C#
4 10 (32.26%) Automated Testing
4 10 (32.26%) Selenium
5 8 (25.81%) ISTQB
5 8 (25.81%) BDD
5 8 (25.81%) TDD
6 7 (22.58%) NUnit
6 7 (22.58%) Windows
6 7 (22.58%) Linux
6 7 (22.58%) Automation Testing
7 6 (19.35%) Java
7 6 (19.35%) Perl
7 6 (19.35%) .NET
7 6 (19.35%) MySQL
7 6 (19.35%) ISEB
7 6 (19.35%) MSTest
7 6 (19.35%) WatiN
7 6 (19.35%) WATIR
8 5 (16.13%) Test Scripting
8 5 (16.13%) Test Automation
8 5 (16.13%) Final Cut Pro
8 5 (16.13%) soapUI
8 5 (16.13%) Software AG
8 5 (16.13%) SOAP
8 5 (16.13%) Subversion

QA Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South East 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 6 (19.35%) .NET
2 5 (16.13%) soapUI
2 5 (16.13%) SOAP
3 4 (12.90%) ASP.NET
4 2 (6.452%) Web Services
4 2 (6.452%) XML
5 1 (3.226%) WPF
5 1 (3.226%) RESTful
Application Platforms
1 1 (3.226%) Drupal
Applications
1 5 (16.13%) Final Cut Pro
Business Applications
1 1 (3.226%) SAP Oil and Gas
Communications & Networking
1 2 (6.452%) Internet
1 2 (6.452%) TCP/IP
2 1 (3.226%) VLAN
2 1 (3.226%) NAS
2 1 (3.226%) IPv6
2 1 (3.226%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (19.35%) MySQL
2 2 (6.452%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 10 (32.26%) Selenium
2 7 (22.58%) NUnit
3 6 (19.35%) MSTest
3 6 (19.35%) WatiN
3 6 (19.35%) WATIR
4 5 (16.13%) Subversion
5 2 (6.452%) WebDriver
5 2 (6.452%) JIRA
5 2 (6.452%) QADirector
6 1 (3.226%) Team Foundation Server
6 1 (3.226%) Cucumber
6 1 (3.226%) Hudson
6 1 (3.226%) SpecFlow
6 1 (3.226%) Jenkins
6 1 (3.226%) JMeter
6 1 (3.226%) Maven
6 1 (3.226%) Visual Studio
6 1 (3.226%) QuickTest Pro
6 1 (3.226%) LoadRunner
General
1 2 (6.452%) Manufacturing
1 2 (6.452%) Games
2 1 (3.226%) Music
2 1 (3.226%) Marketing
2 1 (3.226%) Publishing
2 1 (3.226%) Finance
2 1 (3.226%) Law
2 1 (3.226%) Legal
2 1 (3.226%) Electronics
2 1 (3.226%) Telecoms
Miscellaneous
1 3 (9.677%) Mobile App
2 2 (6.452%) Social Media
2 2 (6.452%) iPad
2 2 (6.452%) iPhone
2 2 (6.452%) Computer Science
2 2 (6.452%) Online Games
3 1 (3.226%) Field-Programmable Gate Array
3 1 (3.226%) Open Source
3 1 (3.226%) SaaS
3 1 (3.226%) Mobile Games
3 1 (3.226%) DTV
Operating Systems
1 7 (22.58%) Windows
1 7 (22.58%) Linux
2 2 (6.452%) Apple iOS
2 2 (6.452%) Android
3 1 (3.226%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (41.94%) Software Testing
1 13 (41.94%) Agile Software Development
2 11 (35.48%) Scrum
3 10 (32.26%) Automated Testing
4 8 (25.81%) BDD
4 8 (25.81%) TDD
5 7 (22.58%) Automation Testing
6 5 (16.13%) Test Scripting
6 5 (16.13%) Test Automation
7 4 (12.90%) Test Strategy
7 4 (12.90%) Manual Testing
7 4 (12.90%) User Acceptance Testing
8 3 (9.677%) Load Testing
8 3 (9.677%) E-Commerce
8 3 (9.677%) Business Intelligence
9 2 (6.452%) Project Management
9 2 (6.452%) CRM
9 2 (6.452%) Information Management
9 2 (6.452%) Regression Testing
9 2 (6.452%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 11 (35.48%) SQL
2 10 (32.26%) C#
3 6 (19.35%) Java
3 6 (19.35%) Perl
4 2 (6.452%) Bash shell
4 2 (6.452%) Ruby
5 1 (3.226%) C++
Qualifications
1 8 (25.81%) ISTQB
2 6 (19.35%) ISEB
3 3 (9.677%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (100.00%) QA
2 1 (3.226%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 1 (3.226%) NFS
Systems Management
1 1 (3.226%) HP Quality Center
1 1 (3.226%) Legato
Vendors
1 5 (16.13%) Software AG
1 5 (16.13%) Sony
2 3 (9.677%) SAP
3 2 (6.452%) Salesforce.com
4 1 (3.226%) HP
4 1 (3.226%) Veritas
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