The first table below looks at the demand for the QA Engineer role in IT jobs advertised for the City of London 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 20 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 City of London region.

Location
3 months to
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Quality Assurance Engineer
Rank 278 296 299
Rank change year-on-year
+18 +3
Permanent jobs requiring a QA Engineer 39 27 23
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the City of London 0.335% 0.206% 0.152%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.361% 0.221% 0.163%
Number of salaries quoted 39 26 22
Average salary £45,000 £45,000 £45,000
90% offered a salary of more than £40,000 £35,000 £39,550
10% offered a salary of more than £65,000 £56,250 £49,750
UK excluding London average salary £35,000 £32,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
+7.69% -7.14%
All Job Titles
City of London
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
10798 12218 14109
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the City of London 92.81% 93.08% 93.52%
Number of salaries quoted 9316 11108 12688
Average salary £52,500 £52,500 £55,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
- -4.54%
90% offered a salary of more than £33,000 £32,500 £32,500
10% offered a salary of more than £75,000 £85,000 £80,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +1.33%
QA Engineer
London

QA Engineer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

City of London 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 City of London region.

City of London QA Engineer Salary Trend

QA Engineer
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing QA Engineer across the City of London region over the 3 months to 20 May 2013.

City of London QA Engineer Salary Histogram

QA Engineer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT jobs across the City of London 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 95 (100.00%) QA
2 66 (69.47%) Selenium
3 49 (51.58%) Cucumber
4 44 (46.32%) Agile Software Development
5 42 (44.21%) Java
5 42 (44.21%) SQL
6 30 (31.58%) Finance
6 30 (31.58%) Automated Testing
7 24 (25.26%) JavaScript
8 23 (24.21%) BDD
9 21 (22.11%) Scrum
10 20 (21.05%) C#
10 20 (21.05%) WebDriver
11 19 (20.00%) Degree
12 18 (18.95%) ISEB
12 18 (18.95%) Automation Testing
13 17 (17.89%) QuickTest Pro
13 17 (17.89%) FitNesse
14 15 (15.79%) Computer Science
14 15 (15.79%) Software Testing
14 15 (15.79%) .NET
14 15 (15.79%) SpecFlow
14 15 (15.79%) Test Automation
15 14 (14.74%) Open Source
15 14 (14.74%) Ruby
15 14 (14.74%) TDD
15 14 (14.74%) Test Scripting
16 13 (13.68%) Regression Testing
16 13 (13.68%) Games
16 13 (13.68%) HTML

QA Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT jobs across the City of London 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 15 (15.79%) .NET
2 13 (13.68%) HTML
3 7 (7.368%) CSS
4 6 (6.316%) Gherkin
5 5 (5.263%) DOM
5 5 (5.263%) J2SE
5 5 (5.263%) Apache Flex
6 4 (4.211%) soapUI
7 3 (3.158%) .NET Framework
7 3 (3.158%) SOAP
8 2 (2.105%) XML
8 2 (2.105%) QuickFIX
8 2 (2.105%) Middleware
9 1 (1.053%) Lucene
9 1 (1.053%) Spring
9 1 (1.053%) RESTful
9 1 (1.053%) HTML5
9 1 (1.053%) Flash
9 1 (1.053%) Web Services
9 1 (1.053%) COM
Application Platforms
1 4 (4.211%) Confluence
2 3 (3.158%) Tomcat
3 1 (1.053%) Apache Solr
Applications
1 7 (7.368%) MS Excel
2 1 (1.053%) Final Cut Pro
Communications & Networking
1 12 (12.63%) HTTP
2 2 (2.105%) BSS
3 1 (1.053%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (6.316%) SQL Server
2 1 (1.053%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (1.053%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (1.053%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 1 (1.053%) SQL Server 2005
2 1 (1.053%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 1 (1.053%) SQL Server 2008
2 1 (1.053%) Apache Hive
2 1 (1.053%) HBase
Development Applications
1 66 (69.47%) Selenium
2 49 (51.58%) Cucumber
3 20 (21.05%) WebDriver
4 17 (17.89%) FitNesse
4 17 (17.89%) QuickTest Pro
5 15 (15.79%) SpecFlow
6 13 (13.68%) JBehave
7 10 (10.53%) JUnit
7 10 (10.53%) JMeter
7 10 (10.53%) JIRA
8 8 (8.421%) RSpec
9 6 (6.316%) WATIR
9 6 (6.316%) jMock
9 6 (6.316%) JSUnit
10 4 (4.211%) Team Foundation Server
10 4 (4.211%) Subversion
11 3 (3.158%) Maven
11 3 (3.158%) Visual Studio
11 3 (3.158%) Hudson
12 2 (2.105%) PHPUnit
General
1 30 (31.58%) Finance
2 13 (13.68%) Games
3 9 (9.474%) Banking
4 6 (6.316%) Investment Banking
5 4 (4.211%) Financial Institution
6 2 (2.105%) Telecoms
7 1 (1.053%) Front Office
7 1 (1.053%) Publishing
Miscellaneous
1 15 (15.79%) Computer Science
2 14 (14.74%) Open Source
3 7 (7.368%) Derivative
4 6 (6.316%) Online Games
5 5 (5.263%) iPhone
6 3 (3.158%) iPad
7 1 (1.053%) Social Gaming
7 1 (1.053%) Digital Media
7 1 (1.053%) Video Editing
7 1 (1.053%) Blog
7 1 (1.053%) Social Network
7 1 (1.053%) Client/Server
7 1 (1.053%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 1 (1.053%) Equities
7 1 (1.053%) IPTV
Operating Systems
1 9 (9.474%) Windows
2 6 (6.316%) UNIX
3 5 (5.263%) Linux
4 4 (4.211%) Android
5 1 (1.053%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (46.32%) Agile Software Development
2 30 (31.58%) Automated Testing
3 23 (24.21%) BDD
4 21 (22.11%) Scrum
5 18 (18.95%) Automation Testing
6 15 (15.79%) Test Automation
6 15 (15.79%) Software Testing
7 14 (14.74%) Test Scripting
7 14 (14.74%) TDD
8 13 (13.68%) Regression Testing
9 12 (12.63%) OO
10 10 (10.53%) E-Commerce
11 9 (9.474%) Performance Testing
11 9 (9.474%) User Stories
12 8 (8.421%) OOP
13 7 (7.368%) System Testing
14 6 (6.316%) Load Testing
14 6 (6.316%) Integration Testing
15 5 (5.263%) Web Application Development
15 5 (5.263%) Manual Testing
Programming Languages
1 42 (44.21%) Java
1 42 (44.21%) SQL
2 24 (25.26%) JavaScript
3 20 (21.05%) C#
4 14 (14.74%) Ruby
5 9 (9.474%) Python
6 8 (8.421%) C
7 5 (5.263%) Lua
8 4 (4.211%) ActionScript
8 4 (4.211%) Perl
9 3 (3.158%) PeopleCode
10 2 (2.105%) VBScript
10 2 (2.105%) VB
10 2 (2.105%) PHP
10 2 (2.105%) C++
11 1 (1.053%) T-SQL
11 1 (1.053%) Bash shell
Qualifications
1 19 (20.00%) Degree
2 18 (18.95%) ISEB
3 11 (11.58%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 95 (100.00%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (1.053%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 11 (11.58%) Microsoft
2 5 (5.263%) Facebook
3 4 (4.211%) Google
4 1 (1.053%) Wall Street Systems
4 1 (1.053%) Foundry
4 1 (1.053%) Oracle
4 1 (1.053%) Sybase
City, London
You will define the QA and test processes including building continuous integration processes (Hudson, Jenkins); an automated test framework (Selenium or similar) and develop test scripts within a...
Client Server
Salary: £45k to £55k + benefits
Posted: 14 May 2013