The first table below looks at the demand for the Senior 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 Senior QA Engineer in their job title over the 3 months to 24 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Senior Quality Assurance Engineer
Rank 310 318 329
Rank change year-on-year
+8 +11
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior QA Engineer 11 5 2
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the City of London 0.094% 0.038% 0.013%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.102% 0.041% 0.014%
Number of salaries quoted 11 5 2
Average salary £47,500 £55,000 £45,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-13.63% +22.22%
UK excluding London average salary £41,000 £37,500 £40,000
% change year-on-year
+9.33% -6.25%
All Job Titles
City of London
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
10837 12171 14447
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the City of London 92.90% 93.16% 93.65%
Number of salaries quoted 9335 11069 13022
Average salary £52,500 £52,500 £55,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
- -4.54%
90% offered a salary of more than £32,500 £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%
Senior QA Engineer
London

Senior QA Engineer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

City of London Senior QA Engineer Jobs Demand Trend

Senior QA Engineer
Salary Trend

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

City of London Senior QA Engineer Salary Trend

Senior QA Engineer
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Senior QA Engineer across the City of London region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

City of London Senior QA Engineer Salary Histogram

Senior QA Engineer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the City of London region that cited Senior 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 Senior QA Engineer in their job title.

1 17 (100.00%) QA
2 15 (88.24%) Selenium
3 12 (70.59%) TDD
3 12 (70.59%) SQL
4 11 (64.71%) Java
5 8 (47.06%) Automation Testing
6 7 (41.18%) FitNesse
7 6 (35.29%) Automated Testing
7 6 (35.29%) Cucumber
7 6 (35.29%) Agile Software Development
8 5 (29.41%) QuickTest Pro
8 5 (29.41%) Games
8 5 (29.41%) Scrum
8 5 (29.41%) OOP
8 5 (29.41%) OO
8 5 (29.41%) E-Commerce
8 5 (29.41%) WebDriver
8 5 (29.41%) WATIR
8 5 (29.41%) Test Scripting
9 4 (23.53%) Unit Testing
9 4 (23.53%) soapUI
9 4 (23.53%) MS Excel
9 4 (23.53%) Microsoft
10 3 (17.65%) Visual Studio
10 3 (17.65%) SOAP
10 3 (17.65%) Gherkin
10 3 (17.65%) User Stories
10 3 (17.65%) Integration Testing
10 3 (17.65%) Team Foundation Server
11 2 (11.76%) BDD

Senior QA Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the City of London region that cited Senior 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 Senior QA Engineer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 4 (23.53%) soapUI
2 3 (17.65%) SOAP
2 3 (17.65%) Gherkin
3 2 (11.76%) XML
3 2 (11.76%) Middleware
4 1 (5.882%) Spring
4 1 (5.882%) HTML
Applications
1 4 (23.53%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.882%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.882%) SQL Server Reporting Services
1 1 (5.882%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (5.882%) SQL Server
1 1 (5.882%) SQL Server 2008
1 1 (5.882%) SQL Server 2005
1 1 (5.882%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 15 (88.24%) Selenium
2 7 (41.18%) FitNesse
3 6 (35.29%) Cucumber
4 5 (29.41%) QuickTest Pro
4 5 (29.41%) WebDriver
4 5 (29.41%) WATIR
5 3 (17.65%) Visual Studio
5 3 (17.65%) Team Foundation Server
6 1 (5.882%) LoadRunner
6 1 (5.882%) JMeter
6 1 (5.882%) JUnit
6 1 (5.882%) TestNG
6 1 (5.882%) WebLOAD
General
1 5 (29.41%) Games
Miscellaneous
1 1 (5.882%) Open Source
1 1 (5.882%) IPTV
1 1 (5.882%) Blog
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (70.59%) TDD
2 8 (47.06%) Automation Testing
3 6 (35.29%) Automated Testing
3 6 (35.29%) Agile Software Development
4 5 (29.41%) Scrum
4 5 (29.41%) OOP
4 5 (29.41%) OO
4 5 (29.41%) E-Commerce
4 5 (29.41%) Test Scripting
5 4 (23.53%) Unit Testing
6 3 (17.65%) User Stories
6 3 (17.65%) Integration Testing
7 2 (11.76%) BDD
7 2 (11.76%) E-business
8 1 (5.882%) ETL
8 1 (5.882%) Business Intelligence
8 1 (5.882%) Kanban
8 1 (5.882%) Release Management
8 1 (5.882%) User Acceptance Testing
8 1 (5.882%) Performance Testing
Programming Languages
1 12 (70.59%) SQL
2 11 (64.71%) Java
3 1 (5.882%) Python
3 1 (5.882%) JavaScript
3 1 (5.882%) Perl
3 1 (5.882%) C#
3 1 (5.882%) T-SQL
3 1 (5.882%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 1 (5.882%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (100.00%) QA
Vendors
1 4 (23.53%) Microsoft