Quality Engineer Contracts
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Hourly Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for the Quality 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 Quality Engineer in their job title over the 3 months to 17 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
17 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Quality Engineer
Rank 525 568 569
Rank change year-on-year
+43 +1
Contract jobs requiring a Quality Engineer 5 10 19
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.011% 0.017% 0.031%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.012% 0.019% 0.033%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 2 1
Average daily rate £323 £200 £260
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+61.25% -23.07%
UK excluding London average daily rate £301 £200 -
% change year-on-year
+50.62% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 10
Average hourly rate £42.50 - £29.25
UK excluding London average hourly rate £42.50 - £32.50
All Job Titles
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category		 42797 53993 56874
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 92.24% 92.65% 92.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 24561 29781 30909
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 2134 2552 2929
Average hourly rate £18.50 £19.00 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-2.63% -5.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.00 £11.00 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £41.50 £40.00 £41.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-5.40% -7.50%

Quality Engineer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Quality Engineer Jobs Demand Trend

Quality Engineer
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Quality Engineer within the UK.

Quality Engineer Daily Rate Trend

Quality Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Quality Engineer within the UK.

Quality Engineer Hourly Rate Trend

Quality Engineer
Top 11 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Quality Engineer within the UK over the 3 months to 17 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 +45 4 £311 +55.62%
London +21 1 £343 -40.43%
South East +21 1 £280 -
City of London +12 1 £343 -40.43%
East of England - 1 - -
Scotland - 1 £323 -
North East - 1 - -
Glasgow - 1 £323 -
Berkshire - 1 £280 -
Bedfordshire - 1 - -
Slough - 1 £280 -

Quality Engineer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK that cited Quality 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 Quality Engineer in their job title.

1 16 (94.12%) QA
2 6 (35.29%) Manufacturing
3 5 (29.41%) SQL
4 4 (23.53%) HNC
4 4 (23.53%) CRM
4 4 (23.53%) Pharmaceutical
4 4 (23.53%) Quality Management
4 4 (23.53%) CAPA
5 3 (17.65%) Test Automation
5 3 (17.65%) Security Cleared
5 3 (17.65%) Degree
5 3 (17.65%) Microsoft
5 3 (17.65%) ISO 9001
5 3 (17.65%) Business Intelligence
5 3 (17.65%) SQL Server
5 3 (17.65%) .NET
6 2 (11.76%) C#
6 2 (11.76%) ITIL
6 2 (11.76%) MS Excel
6 2 (11.76%) ISEB
6 2 (11.76%) Configuration Management
6 2 (11.76%) Finance
6 2 (11.76%) Aerospace
6 2 (11.76%) CMMI
6 2 (11.76%) Regression Testing
6 2 (11.76%) Banking
6 2 (11.76%) Investment Banking
6 2 (11.76%) Software Engineering
6 2 (11.76%) Software Testing
6 2 (11.76%) Derivative

Quality Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK that cited Quality 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 Quality Engineer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 3 (17.65%) .NET
2 1 (5.882%) XML
2 1 (5.882%) .NET Framework
2 1 (5.882%) WPF
2 1 (5.882%) HTML
Application Platforms
1 2 (11.76%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (11.76%) MS Excel
2 1 (5.882%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.882%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (17.65%) SQL Server
2 1 (5.882%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (5.882%) RDBMS
2 1 (5.882%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 1 (5.882%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 1 (5.882%) SQL Server 2008
2 1 (5.882%) Business Intelligence Development Studio
2 1 (5.882%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 2 (11.76%) JIRA
1 2 (11.76%) Selenium
2 1 (5.882%) WebDriver
2 1 (5.882%) SpecFlow
2 1 (5.882%) Visual Studio
General
1 6 (35.29%) Manufacturing
2 4 (23.53%) Pharmaceutical
3 2 (11.76%) Finance
3 2 (11.76%) Aerospace
3 2 (11.76%) Banking
3 2 (11.76%) Investment Banking
4 1 (5.882%) Marketing
4 1 (5.882%) Retail
4 1 (5.882%) Electronics
Miscellaneous
1 2 (11.76%) Derivative
2 1 (5.882%) Social Network
2 1 (5.882%) Digital Media
2 1 (5.882%) N-Tier
2 1 (5.882%) Management Information System
2 1 (5.882%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.882%) UNIX
1 1 (5.882%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (23.53%) Quality Management
1 4 (23.53%) CRM
1 4 (23.53%) CAPA
2 3 (17.65%) Test Automation
2 3 (17.65%) Business Intelligence
3 2 (11.76%) Configuration Management
3 2 (11.76%) QMS
3 2 (11.76%) ITIL
3 2 (11.76%) BDD
3 2 (11.76%) CMMI
3 2 (11.76%) Regression Testing
3 2 (11.76%) Software Engineering
3 2 (11.76%) Software Testing
4 1 (5.882%) User Acceptance Testing
4 1 (5.882%) Performance Testing
4 1 (5.882%) Integration Testing
4 1 (5.882%) Test Management
4 1 (5.882%) Test Scripting
4 1 (5.882%) Manual Testing
4 1 (5.882%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 5 (29.41%) SQL
2 2 (11.76%) C#
3 1 (5.882%) C++
3 1 (5.882%) Java
3 1 (5.882%) JavaScript
3 1 (5.882%) Perl
3 1 (5.882%) T-SQL
3 1 (5.882%) VB
3 1 (5.882%) Python
3 1 (5.882%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 4 (23.53%) HNC
2 3 (17.65%) Degree
2 3 (17.65%) Security Cleared
3 2 (11.76%) ISTQB
3 2 (11.76%) ISEB
4 1 (5.882%) ITIL Certification
4 1 (5.882%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (94.12%) QA
2 3 (17.65%) ISO 9001
3 1 (5.882%) ISO/IEC 27001
Systems Management
1 1 (5.882%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 3 (17.65%) Microsoft
2 1 (5.882%) HP
2 1 (5.882%) Oracle
2 1 (5.882%) Sybase
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