QA Engineer Contracts
 
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 across the UK. 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 currently tracked.

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 473 536 541
Rank change year-on-year
+63 +5
Contract jobs requiring a QA Engineer 68 29 45
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.147% 0.050% 0.073%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.159% 0.054% 0.078%
Number of daily rates quoted 50 18 16
Average daily rate £375 £363 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+3.37% +20.91%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £277 £282 £268
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £475 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £340 £350 £313
% change year-on-year
-2.85% +12.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 6
Average hourly rate £30.00 - £32.75
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.00 - £32.75
All Job Titles
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category		 42697 54001 57544
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 92.14% 92.51% 92.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 24521 29759 31287
Average daily rate £400 £400 £425
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -5.88%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £240 £240 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £575 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 2095 2581 2973
Average hourly rate £18.25 £18.50 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-1.35% -7.50%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.00 £11.00 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £41.88 £40.00 £41.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%

QA Engineer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

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 within the UK.

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 within the UK over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

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 within the UK.

QA Engineer Hourly Rate Trend

QA Engineer
Top 25 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 UK over the 3 months to 23 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
England +82 66 £375 +3.37%
London +58 43 £388 +3.33%
South East +30 16 £330 -5.71%
City of London +27 11 £375 -6.25%
Berkshire +19 6 £319 -1.92%
East of England +20 4 £360 +4.72%
Cambridgeshire +14 4 £360 +4.72%
Oxfordshire - 4 - -
Oxford - 4 - -
Basingstoke - 3 £330 -
Hampshire - 3 £330 -
Reading +14 2 £381 +8.92%
Cambridge +10 2 £340 -1.09%
Yorkshire -2 2 - -
Scotland - 2 £323 -
South Yorkshire - 2 - -
Glasgow - 2 £323 -
Brighton - 2 £225 -
Slough - 2 £315 -
Sheffield - 2 - -
East Sussex - 2 £225 -
Middlesex +11 1 £350 -6.66%
North East - 1 - -
Newbury - 1 £288 -
Hounslow - 1 - -

QA Engineer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK 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.

1 144 (100.00%) QA
2 91 (63.19%) Selenium
3 76 (52.78%) Agile Software Development
4 62 (43.06%) Cucumber
5 59 (40.97%) WebDriver
6 58 (40.28%) Java
7 55 (38.19%) BDD
8 41 (28.47%) TDD
9 39 (27.08%) Ruby
9 39 (27.08%) Finance
9 39 (27.08%) Scrum
10 36 (25.00%) Test Automation
11 29 (20.14%) SQL
11 29 (20.14%) .NET
11 29 (20.14%) Automation Testing
12 27 (18.75%) Software Testing
13 26 (18.06%) Automated Testing
13 26 (18.06%) C#
14 25 (17.36%) E-Commerce
15 21 (14.58%) Python
15 21 (14.58%) JIRA
16 20 (13.89%) Linux
17 18 (12.50%) Windows
17 18 (12.50%) WATIR
18 17 (11.81%) Test Scripting
18 17 (11.81%) Perl
19 16 (11.11%) JavaScript
19 16 (11.11%) Continuous Integration
19 16 (11.11%) SpecFlow
20 15 (10.42%) OO

QA Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK 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 29 (20.14%) .NET
2 9 (6.250%) soapUI
2 9 (6.250%) SOAP
3 8 (5.556%) Web Services
4 7 (4.861%) RESTful
5 6 (4.167%) Gherkin
6 4 (2.778%) ASP.NET
6 4 (2.778%) J2EE
6 4 (2.778%) .NET Framework
6 4 (2.778%) REST
7 3 (2.083%) WPF
7 3 (2.083%) Middleware
7 3 (2.083%) XML
8 2 (1.389%) HTML
8 2 (1.389%) iOS SDK
9 1 (0.694%) Bing Maps
9 1 (0.694%) Cocoa Touch
9 1 (0.694%) FIX Protocol
9 1 (0.694%) Silverlight
9 1 (0.694%) Grails
Application Platforms
1 6 (4.167%) Confluence
2 5 (3.472%) CMS
3 3 (2.083%) Tomcat
4 1 (0.694%) Drupal
4 1 (0.694%) ActiveMQ
4 1 (0.694%) Apache Solr
Applications
1 5 (3.472%) Final Cut Pro
2 2 (1.389%) MS Office
3 1 (0.694%) Doxygen
3 1 (0.694%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 5 (3.472%) SAP Oil and Gas
Communications & Networking
1 10 (6.944%) Internet
2 3 (2.083%) TCP/IP
3 2 (1.389%) HTTP
4 1 (0.694%) Wireshark
4 1 (0.694%) VLAN
4 1 (0.694%) NAS
4 1 (0.694%) DVB
4 1 (0.694%) IPv6
4 1 (0.694%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (6.944%) SQL Server
2 9 (6.250%) MySQL
3 4 (2.778%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (0.694%) Big Data
4 1 (0.694%) Oracle 11g
4 1 (0.694%) Apache Cassandra
4 1 (0.694%) Hadoop
4 1 (0.694%) DB2
4 1 (0.694%) Oracle Reports
4 1 (0.694%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 91 (63.19%) Selenium
2 62 (43.06%) Cucumber
3 59 (40.97%) WebDriver
4 21 (14.58%) JIRA
5 18 (12.50%) WATIR
6 16 (11.11%) SpecFlow
7 11 (7.639%) QuickTest Pro
8 10 (6.944%) JUnit
8 10 (6.944%) NUnit
9 9 (6.250%) FitNesse
9 9 (6.250%) WatiN
9 9 (6.250%) JBehave
10 8 (5.556%) JMeter
10 8 (5.556%) Hudson
10 8 (5.556%) Subversion
11 7 (4.861%) TestNG
12 6 (4.167%) MSTest
12 6 (4.167%) Maven
12 6 (4.167%) Jenkins
13 5 (3.472%) SilkTest
General
1 39 (27.08%) Finance
2 15 (10.42%) Games
3 13 (9.028%) Banking
4 11 (7.639%) Marketing
5 7 (4.861%) Telecoms
5 7 (4.861%) Manufacturing
6 6 (4.167%) Electronics
6 6 (4.167%) Investment Banking
7 2 (1.389%) Front Office
7 2 (1.389%) Publishing
8 1 (0.694%) Retail
8 1 (0.694%) Music
8 1 (0.694%) Advertising
8 1 (0.694%) Law
8 1 (0.694%) Legal
Miscellaneous
1 12 (8.333%) Derivative
2 8 (5.556%) Open Source
3 6 (4.167%) Mobile App
4 5 (3.472%) Online Games
4 5 (3.472%) iPad
4 5 (3.472%) iPhone
4 5 (3.472%) DTV
5 4 (2.778%) Computer Science
6 2 (1.389%) Client/Server
6 2 (1.389%) N-Tier
6 2 (1.389%) Blackberry
6 2 (1.389%) E-Learning
6 2 (1.389%) Social Media
6 2 (1.389%) Field-Programmable Gate Array
6 2 (1.389%) Credit Derivative
6 2 (1.389%) Digital Media
7 1 (0.694%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (0.694%) Social Network
7 1 (0.694%) STB
7 1 (0.694%) IPTV
Operating Systems
1 20 (13.89%) Linux
2 18 (12.50%) Windows
3 8 (5.556%) Apple iOS
4 6 (4.167%) Android
5 4 (2.778%) UNIX
6 3 (2.083%) Windows Mobile
7 2 (1.389%) Windows XP
7 2 (1.389%) Mac OS X
7 2 (1.389%) Windows 7
8 1 (0.694%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 76 (52.78%) Agile Software Development
2 55 (38.19%) BDD
3 41 (28.47%) TDD
4 39 (27.08%) Scrum
5 36 (25.00%) Test Automation
6 29 (20.14%) Automation Testing
7 27 (18.75%) Software Testing
8 26 (18.06%) Automated Testing
9 25 (17.36%) E-Commerce
10 17 (11.81%) Test Scripting
11 16 (11.11%) Continuous Integration
12 15 (10.42%) OO
13 12 (8.333%) Manual Testing
14 11 (7.639%) Regression Testing
15 10 (6.944%) User Acceptance Testing
15 10 (6.944%) Test Strategy
16 9 (6.250%) User Stories
16 9 (6.250%) Business Intelligence
17 8 (5.556%) Test Management
18 7 (4.861%) Performance Testing
Programming Languages
1 58 (40.28%) Java
2 39 (27.08%) Ruby
3 29 (20.14%) SQL
4 26 (18.06%) C#
5 21 (14.58%) Python
6 17 (11.81%) Perl
7 16 (11.11%) JavaScript
8 11 (7.639%) C++
9 4 (2.778%) VB
10 3 (2.083%) Objective-C
10 3 (2.083%) C
11 2 (1.389%) PHP
11 2 (1.389%) Bash shell
12 1 (0.694%) Scala
12 1 (0.694%) Shell Script
12 1 (0.694%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 15 (10.42%) ISEB
2 14 (9.722%) ISTQB
3 12 (8.333%) Degree
4 1 (0.694%) SC Cleared
4 1 (0.694%) Security Cleared
4 1 (0.694%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 144 (100.00%) QA
2 1 (0.694%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (0.694%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 1 (0.694%) NFS
Systems Management
1 5 (3.472%) HP Quality Center
2 1 (0.694%) Splunk
2 1 (0.694%) Legato
Vendors
1 7 (4.861%) SAP
1 7 (4.861%) Microsoft
2 5 (3.472%) Sony
2 5 (3.472%) Software AG
3 4 (2.778%) HP
4 2 (1.389%) Apple
4 2 (1.389%) Oracle
4 2 (1.389%) Salesforce.com
5 1 (0.694%) Atlassian
5 1 (0.694%) Telerik
5 1 (0.694%) Google
5 1 (0.694%) Sybase
5 1 (0.694%) Veritas
5 1 (0.694%) Fidessa
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