The first table below looks at the demand for the QA Engineer role in IT jobs advertised for the Cambridgeshire 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 22 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 Cambridgeshire region.

Location
3 months to
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Quality Assurance Engineer
Rank 126 125 141
Rank change year-on-year
-1 +16
Permanent jobs requiring a QA Engineer 17 27 6
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Cambridgeshire 0.652% 0.926% 0.203%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.685% 0.964% 0.213%
Number of salaries quoted 17 18 4
Average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +7.14%
UK excluding London average salary £35,000 £32,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
+7.69% -7.14%
All Job Titles
Cambridgeshire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
2483 2801 2815
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Cambridgeshire 95.28% 96.06% 95.39%
Number of salaries quoted 2219 2367 2507
Average salary £38,500 £39,000 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-1.28% +11.42%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,500 £27,500 £25,000
10% offered a salary of more than £55,000 £48,900 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +1.33%
QA Engineer
East of England

QA Engineer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Cambridgeshire 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 Cambridgeshire region.

Cambridgeshire QA Engineer Salary Trend

QA Engineer
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing QA Engineer within the Cambridgeshire region over the 3 months to 22 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Cambridge +3 17 £37,500 +7.14%
QA Engineer
East of England

QA Engineer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Cambridgeshire 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 54 (100.00%) QA
2 49 (90.74%) Software Testing
3 42 (77.78%) Degree
4 24 (44.44%) Postgraduate
5 20 (37.04%) ISEB
6 19 (35.19%) C#
6 19 (35.19%) ISTQB
7 14 (25.93%) HTML
7 14 (25.93%) JavaScript
7 14 (25.93%) CSS
8 13 (24.07%) Java
8 13 (24.07%) C++
9 12 (22.22%) C
9 12 (22.22%) Performance Testing
9 12 (22.22%) User Stories
10 11 (20.37%) Games
11 10 (18.52%) Web Services
12 9 (16.67%) Grid Computing
12 9 (16.67%) Natural Language Processing
12 9 (16.67%) Text Mining
12 9 (16.67%) Chemistry
12 9 (16.67%) Life Science
13 8 (14.81%) Selenium
13 8 (14.81%) Agile Software Development
13 8 (14.81%) Linux
14 7 (12.96%) Adobe
14 7 (12.96%) Adobe Illustrator
14 7 (12.96%) Windows
14 7 (12.96%) .NET
14 7 (12.96%) Photoshop

QA Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Cambridgeshire 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 14 (25.93%) HTML
1 14 (25.93%) CSS
2 10 (18.52%) Web Services
3 9 (16.67%) Natural Language Processing
4 7 (12.96%) .NET
Applications
1 7 (12.96%) Adobe Illustrator
1 7 (12.96%) Photoshop
2 6 (11.11%) MS Office
3 3 (5.556%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 4 (7.407%) RIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (16.67%) Text Mining
Development Applications
1 8 (14.81%) Selenium
2 7 (12.96%) NUnit
3 6 (11.11%) TestComplete
4 5 (9.259%) QuickTest Pro
General
1 11 (20.37%) Games
2 1 (1.852%) Telecoms
2 1 (1.852%) Finance
2 1 (1.852%) Pharmaceutical
2 1 (1.852%) Banking
Miscellaneous
1 9 (16.67%) Grid Computing
1 9 (16.67%) Chemistry
1 9 (16.67%) Life Science
2 1 (1.852%) Firmware
2 1 (1.852%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 8 (14.81%) Linux
2 7 (12.96%) Windows
3 5 (9.259%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (90.74%) Software Testing
2 12 (22.22%) Performance Testing
2 12 (22.22%) User Stories
3 8 (14.81%) Agile Software Development
4 5 (9.259%) Test Scripting
5 4 (7.407%) Multithreading
5 4 (7.407%) Project Management
6 3 (5.556%) Manual Testing
7 2 (3.704%) Web Testing
7 2 (3.704%) Web Usability
7 2 (3.704%) Automation Testing
8 1 (1.852%) Scrum
8 1 (1.852%) E-Commerce
8 1 (1.852%) Automated Testing
Programming Languages
1 19 (35.19%) C#
2 14 (25.93%) JavaScript
3 13 (24.07%) Java
3 13 (24.07%) C++
4 12 (22.22%) C
5 5 (9.259%) VB
6 2 (3.704%) Python
6 2 (3.704%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 42 (77.78%) Degree
2 24 (44.44%) Postgraduate
3 20 (37.04%) ISEB
4 19 (35.19%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 54 (100.00%) QA
Vendors
1 7 (12.96%) Adobe
2 6 (11.11%) Microsoft
Cambridge, East Anglia
Quality Assurance Engineer £35-45k, Cambridge One of our largest clients are looking for a QA Engineer to join their development team which works on making the development...
Fulcrum Telecom
Salary: £35000 - £45000 per annum + benefits
Posted: 1 May 2013
Cambridge, Cambridgeshire
QA Engineer - Software QA, Linux, IP, Wi-Fi, Mobile. A fantastic opportunity for an experienced Software QA professional with mobile software knowledge to get involved in technical Android...
Anderson Lamb
Salary: From £30,000 to £50,000 per annum plus benefits package
Posted: 21 May 2013