The first table below looks at the demand for the QA Engineer role in IT jobs advertised for the Bedford region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs 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 Bedford region.

Location
3 months to
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Quality Assurance Engineer
Rank 44 40 -
Rank change year-on-year
-4 -
Permanent jobs requiring a QA Engineer 5 2 0
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Bedford 2.008% 1.000% -
As % of the Job Titles category 2.058% 1.026% -
Number of salaries quoted 5 2 0
Average salary £30,000 £30,000 -
UK excluding London average salary £35,000 £34,000 £35,000
% change year-on-year
+2.94% -2.85%
All Job Titles
Bedford
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
243 195 166
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Bedford 97.59% 97.50% 99.40%
Number of salaries quoted 237 185 161
Average salary £42,500 £41,000 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+3.65% +9.33%
90% offered a salary of more than £29,500 £25,000 £26,500
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £50,000 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +1.33%
QA Engineer
Bedfordshire

QA Engineer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Bedford QA Engineer Jobs Demand Trend

QA Engineer
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing QA Engineer across the Bedford region.

Bedford QA Engineer Salary Trend

QA Engineer
Top 22 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Bedford 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 IT job ads sampled with QA Engineer in their job title.

1 7 (100.00%) MS Excel
1 7 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 7 (100.00%) ISEB
1 7 (100.00%) Agile Software Development
1 7 (100.00%) Software Testing
1 7 (100.00%) ISTQB
1 7 (100.00%) QA
2 4 (57.14%) Wiki
2 4 (57.14%) System Testing
2 4 (57.14%) Visual Studio Team System
2 4 (57.14%) TestComplete
2 4 (57.14%) JIRA
2 4 (57.14%) SQL Server
2 4 (57.14%) Crystal Reports
2 4 (57.14%) XML
2 4 (57.14%) Automation Testing
3 3 (42.86%) .NET
3 3 (42.86%) Regression Testing
3 3 (42.86%) Automated Testing
3 3 (42.86%) Team Foundation Server
3 3 (42.86%) Software Architecture
4 2 (28.57%) Visual Studio

QA Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Bedford 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 IT job ads sampled with QA Engineer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 4 (57.14%) XML
2 3 (42.86%) .NET
Applications
1 7 (100.00%) MS Excel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (57.14%) SQL Server
1 4 (57.14%) Crystal Reports
Development Applications
1 4 (57.14%) Visual Studio Team System
1 4 (57.14%) TestComplete
1 4 (57.14%) JIRA
2 3 (42.86%) Team Foundation Server
3 2 (28.57%) Visual Studio
Miscellaneous
1 4 (57.14%) Wiki
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) Agile Software Development
1 7 (100.00%) Software Testing
2 4 (57.14%) System Testing
2 4 (57.14%) Automation Testing
3 3 (42.86%) Regression Testing
3 3 (42.86%) Automated Testing
3 3 (42.86%) Software Architecture
Qualifications
1 7 (100.00%) ISEB
1 7 (100.00%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (100.00%) QA
Vendors
1 7 (100.00%) Microsoft