The first table below looks at the demand for the QA Engineer role in IT jobs advertised for the Bristol 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 19 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 Bristol region.

Location
3 months to
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Quality Assurance Engineer
Rank 102 114 117
Rank change year-on-year
+12 +3
Permanent jobs requiring a QA Engineer 17 1 2
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Bristol 1.008% 0.059% 0.107%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.040% 0.062% 0.115%
Number of salaries quoted 7 0 2
Average salary £40,000 - £32,500
UK excluding London average salary £35,000 £34,000 £35,000
% change year-on-year
+2.94% -2.85%
All Job Titles
Bristol
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
1634 1617 1736
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Bristol 96.86% 95.23% 92.98%
Number of salaries quoted 1431 1410 1439
Average salary £37,500 £36,000 £34,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+4.16% +5.88%
90% offered a salary of more than £24,000 £25,000 £22,500
10% offered a salary of more than £47,500 £50,000 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,500 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-1.29% +2.66%
QA Engineer
South West

QA Engineer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Bristol 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 Bristol region.

Bristol QA Engineer Salary Trend

QA Engineer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the Bristol 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 38 (100.00%) QA
2 31 (81.58%) SQL
3 24 (63.16%) Scrum
3 24 (63.16%) User Acceptance Testing
3 24 (63.16%) Marketing
3 24 (63.16%) Test Scripting
3 24 (63.16%) Manual Testing
3 24 (63.16%) Data Warehouse
3 24 (63.16%) ETL
4 23 (60.53%) Agile Software Development
5 20 (52.63%) Project Management
6 18 (47.37%) Management Information System
6 18 (47.37%) Legal
6 18 (47.37%) Kimball Methodology
7 9 (23.68%) C#
8 6 (15.79%) E-Commerce
8 6 (15.79%) Selenium
9 5 (13.16%) JSON
9 5 (13.16%) Test Automation
9 5 (13.16%) Web Services
9 5 (13.16%) Java
9 5 (13.16%) JavaScript
10 4 (10.53%) .NET
11 3 (7.895%) J2EE
11 3 (7.895%) Windows
11 3 (7.895%) LabVIEW
11 3 (7.895%) Microsoft
11 3 (7.895%) ASP.NET
11 3 (7.895%) QuickTest Pro
11 3 (7.895%) Analytics

QA Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the Bristol 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 5 (13.16%) JSON
1 5 (13.16%) Web Services
2 4 (10.53%) .NET
3 3 (7.895%) J2EE
3 3 (7.895%) ASP.NET
4 2 (5.263%) HTML5
4 2 (5.263%) soapUI
4 2 (5.263%) Silverlight
Communications & Networking
1 2 (5.263%) iSCSI
1 2 (5.263%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (63.16%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 6 (15.79%) Selenium
2 3 (7.895%) LabVIEW
2 3 (7.895%) QuickTest Pro
2 3 (7.895%) WebDriver
3 1 (2.632%) JUnit
3 1 (2.632%) JIRA
3 1 (2.632%) JBehave
3 1 (2.632%) Cucumber
General
1 24 (63.16%) Marketing
2 18 (47.37%) Legal
3 2 (5.263%) Finance
4 1 (2.632%) Advertising
4 1 (2.632%) Telecoms
Miscellaneous
1 18 (47.37%) Management Information System
2 1 (2.632%) Digital Media
Operating Systems
1 3 (7.895%) Windows
2 2 (5.263%) Linux
3 1 (2.632%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (63.16%) Scrum
1 24 (63.16%) User Acceptance Testing
1 24 (63.16%) Test Scripting
1 24 (63.16%) Manual Testing
1 24 (63.16%) ETL
2 23 (60.53%) Agile Software Development
3 20 (52.63%) Project Management
4 18 (47.37%) Kimball Methodology
5 6 (15.79%) E-Commerce
6 5 (13.16%) Test Automation
7 3 (7.895%) Analytics
7 3 (7.895%) Test Strategy
7 3 (7.895%) Marketing Analytics
8 2 (5.263%) System Testing
9 1 (2.632%) Automated Testing
9 1 (2.632%) Software Engineering
9 1 (2.632%) Programme Management
9 1 (2.632%) Web Testing
9 1 (2.632%) User Stories
9 1 (2.632%) BDD
Programming Languages
1 31 (81.58%) SQL
2 9 (23.68%) C#
3 5 (13.16%) Java
3 5 (13.16%) JavaScript
4 2 (5.263%) Ruby
4 2 (5.263%) Python
4 2 (5.263%) Perl
Qualifications
1 2 (5.263%) Degree
1 2 (5.263%) ISEB
2 1 (2.632%) Sun Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 38 (100.00%) QA
Vendors
1 3 (7.895%) Microsoft
Bristol, Avon
The team is Agile with a particular focus on TDD, BDD, Pair Programming, Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery. QA Automation Test Engineer Essential Experience: * Strong testing and automation...
TRG
Salary: £35000 - 40000 Per Annum Benefits
Posted: 16 June 2013
Bristol, South West
The team is Agile with a particular focus on TDD, BDD, Pair Programming, Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery. QA Automation Test Engineer Essential Experience: - Strong testing and automation...
TRG
Salary: 35000-40000 Per Annum Benefits
Posted: 16 June 2013