The first table below looks at the demand for the QA Engineer role in IT contracts advertised for the South Yorkshire 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 June 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 Yorkshire 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 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Quality Assurance Engineer
Rank 33 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs requiring a QA Engineer 3 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in South Yorkshire 1.158% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 1.224% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - £27.00
All Job Titles
South Yorkshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
245 266 266
As % of all contract IT jobs located in South Yorkshire 94.59% 95.34% 94.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 140 138 180
Average daily rate £300 £320 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-6.25% -1.53%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £170 £165 £203
10% offered a daily rate of more than £468 £500 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 27 21
Average hourly rate £37.50 £22.00 £42.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+70.45% -48.23%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.44 £10.60 £13.10
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £50.00 £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
Yorkshire

QA Engineer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

South Yorkshire QA Engineer Jobs Demand 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 Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 20 June 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
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Job
Vacancies
Sheffield - 3 - - 1
QA Engineer
Yorkshire

QA Engineer
Top 6 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South Yorkshire 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%) SQL
1 3 (100.00%) MySQL
1 3 (100.00%) ISEB
1 3 (100.00%) Internet
1 3 (100.00%) QA
1 3 (100.00%) Manual Testing

QA Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South Yorkshire 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 3 (100.00%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (100.00%) MySQL
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Manual Testing
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (100.00%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (100.00%) QA
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