QA Engineer Contracts in the South West
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Hourly Rate Trend Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for the QA Engineer role in IT contracts advertised for the South West 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 23 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 West 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
23 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Quality Assurance Engineer
Rank - - 125
Contract jobs requiring a QA Engineer 0 0 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South West - - 0.070%
As % of the Job Titles category - - 0.074%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 2
Average daily rate - - £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £340 £350 £313
% change year-on-year
-2.85% +12.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.00 - £32.75
All Job Titles
South West
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category		 1891 3019 2707
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South West 94.08% 93.04% 94.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 1135 1811 1344
Average daily rate £350 £375 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-6.66% +7.14%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £230 £200
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £500 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 136 187 244
Average hourly rate £15.30 £22.50 £22.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-32.00% +2.27%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £10.00 £12.80 £12.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £42.50 £38.00 £40.00
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 West region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

South West 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 West region.

South West QA Engineer Daily Rate Trend

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 West region.

South West QA Engineer Hourly Rate Trend

QA Engineer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South West 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 3 (100.00%) QA
2 2 (66.67%) WATIR
2 2 (66.67%) Selenium
2 2 (66.67%) FitNesse
2 2 (66.67%) Agile Software Development
2 2 (66.67%) TDD
2 2 (66.67%) Maven
2 2 (66.67%) Java
2 2 (66.67%) PHP
2 2 (66.67%) Web Services
2 2 (66.67%) Linux
2 2 (66.67%) E-Commerce
2 2 (66.67%) Scrum
2 2 (66.67%) Ruby
2 2 (66.67%) Web Testing
2 2 (66.67%) Continuous Integration
2 2 (66.67%) Kanban
2 2 (66.67%) RESTful
2 2 (66.67%) WebDriver
2 2 (66.67%) Cucumber
2 2 (66.67%) BDD
2 2 (66.67%) Hudson
2 2 (66.67%) Agile Testing
2 2 (66.67%) Jenkins
3 1 (33.33%) Manual Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Marketing
3 1 (33.33%) ETL
3 1 (33.33%) Project Management
3 1 (33.33%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (33.33%) SQL

QA Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South West 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 2 (66.67%) Web Services
1 2 (66.67%) RESTful
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) WATIR
1 2 (66.67%) Selenium
1 2 (66.67%) FitNesse
1 2 (66.67%) Maven
1 2 (66.67%) WebDriver
1 2 (66.67%) Cucumber
1 2 (66.67%) Hudson
1 2 (66.67%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (33.33%) Marketing
Operating Systems
1 2 (66.67%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Agile Software Development
1 2 (66.67%) TDD
1 2 (66.67%) E-Commerce
1 2 (66.67%) Scrum
1 2 (66.67%) Web Testing
1 2 (66.67%) Continuous Integration
1 2 (66.67%) Kanban
1 2 (66.67%) BDD
1 2 (66.67%) Agile Testing
2 1 (33.33%) Manual Testing
2 1 (33.33%) ETL
2 1 (33.33%) Project Management
2 1 (33.33%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Java
1 2 (66.67%) PHP
1 2 (66.67%) Ruby
2 1 (33.33%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (100.00%) QA
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