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

Location
3 months to
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Senior Quality Assurance Engineer
Rank 767 818 792
Rank change year-on-year
+51 -26
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior QA Engineer 77 51 70
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in England 0.076% 0.045% 0.058%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.080% 0.047% 0.061%
Number of salaries quoted 66 44 42
Average salary £46,000 £44,000 £50,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+4.54% -12.00%
90% offered a salary of more than £39,250 £37,500 £37,500
10% offered a salary of more than £55,000 £62,750 £87,750
UK excluding London average salary £42,000 £37,500 £40,000
% change year-on-year
+12.00% -6.25%
All Job Titles
England
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
96088 107696 114482
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in England 94.37% 95.02% 94.23%
Number of salaries quoted 80815 93104 97727
Average salary £42,500 £42,500 £42,500
90% offered a salary of more than £27,000 £27,500 £26,000
10% offered a salary of more than £67,500 £72,500 £70,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,500 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-1.29% +2.66%
Senior QA Engineer
UK

Senior QA Engineer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

England 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 England region.

England 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 England region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

England Senior QA Engineer Salary Histogram

Senior QA Engineer
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Senior QA Engineer within the England region over the 3 months to 19 June 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
Find
Job
Vacancies
London +63 51 £50,000 -4.76% 4
South West +16 15 £42,000 +5.00% 1
South East +16 5 £42,500 -34.61% 4
East of England +5 3 £42,500 +37.09% 1
West Midlands - 2 £31,250 -
Yorkshire +1 1 £40,000 +6.66%
Senior QA Engineer
UK

Senior QA Engineer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the England 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.

1 173 (100.00%) QA
2 82 (47.40%) Selenium
2 82 (47.40%) SQL
3 75 (43.35%) Agile Software Development
4 65 (37.57%) Test Scripting
5 49 (28.32%) Java
6 47 (27.17%) E-Commerce
7 45 (26.01%) Scrum
8 40 (23.12%) TDD
8 40 (23.12%) Manual Testing
9 36 (20.81%) Automated Testing
10 35 (20.23%) C#
11 34 (19.65%) Cucumber
12 33 (19.08%) UNIX
12 33 (19.08%) Windows
13 32 (18.50%) Degree
14 31 (17.92%) User Acceptance Testing
15 30 (17.34%) soapUI
16 28 (16.18%) Data Warehouse
17 26 (15.03%) ETL
17 26 (15.03%) SOAP
18 25 (14.45%) TCP/IP
18 25 (14.45%) Microsoft
19 24 (13.87%) .NET
20 23 (13.29%) BDD
20 23 (13.29%) Marketing
21 22 (12.72%) Performance Testing
22 21 (12.14%) Automation Testing
23 20 (11.56%) ISEB
23 20 (11.56%) Project Management

Senior QA Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the England 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 30 (17.34%) soapUI
2 26 (15.03%) SOAP
3 24 (13.87%) .NET
4 13 (7.514%) Gherkin
5 7 (4.046%) Web Services
6 5 (2.890%) JSON
6 5 (2.890%) Middleware
7 4 (2.312%) Silverlight
8 3 (1.734%) REST
8 3 (1.734%) XML
9 2 (1.156%) ActiveMQ
9 2 (1.156%) ADO
9 2 (1.156%) .NET Framework
9 2 (1.156%) WCF
9 2 (1.156%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
9 2 (1.156%) HTML5
10 1 (0.578%) Natural Language Processing
10 1 (0.578%) ASP.NET
10 1 (0.578%) HTML
10 1 (0.578%) Spring
Application Platforms
1 15 (8.671%) Apache
1 15 (8.671%) Tomcat
2 3 (1.734%) Confluence
3 1 (0.578%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.578%) CMS
Applications
1 8 (4.624%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 25 (14.45%) TCP/IP
2 12 (6.936%) VLAN
2 12 (6.936%) IPv6
3 10 (5.780%) SMTP
4 6 (3.468%) HTTP
5 4 (2.312%) NAS
6 3 (1.734%) LDAP
6 3 (1.734%) SSL
6 3 (1.734%) HTTPS
6 3 (1.734%) DNS
6 3 (1.734%) LAN
6 3 (1.734%) WAN
6 3 (1.734%) Firewall
7 2 (1.156%) Internet
8 1 (0.578%) UTRAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (16.18%) Data Warehouse
2 12 (6.936%) SQL Server
3 3 (1.734%) Apache Cassandra
3 3 (1.734%) NoSQL
3 3 (1.734%) HBase
3 3 (1.734%) Big Data
3 3 (1.734%) SQL Server 2008
3 3 (1.734%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 3 (1.734%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 2 (1.156%) Oracle Reports
4 2 (1.156%) Oracle 11g
4 2 (1.156%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 1 (0.578%) SQL Server 2005
5 1 (0.578%) RDBMS
5 1 (0.578%) Text Mining
Development Applications
1 82 (47.40%) Selenium
2 34 (19.65%) Cucumber
3 19 (10.98%) JMeter
3 19 (10.98%) QuickTest Pro
3 19 (10.98%) WebDriver
4 16 (9.249%) FitNesse
5 12 (6.936%) Visual Studio
6 11 (6.358%) Team Foundation Server
7 10 (5.780%) JIRA
8 9 (5.202%) JUnit
9 7 (4.046%) Jenkins
10 5 (2.890%) WATIR
11 4 (2.312%) Bugzilla
12 3 (1.734%) TestNG
12 3 (1.734%) Maven
13 2 (1.156%) LoadRunner
13 2 (1.156%) SilkTest
13 2 (1.156%) WebLOAD
13 2 (1.156%) Concordion
13 2 (1.156%) JBehave
General
1 23 (13.29%) Marketing
2 19 (10.98%) Legal
3 14 (8.092%) Publishing
4 10 (5.780%) Finance
5 9 (5.202%) Retail
6 7 (4.046%) Games
7 5 (2.890%) Telecoms
8 3 (1.734%) Banking
8 3 (1.734%) Investment Banking
9 2 (1.156%) Front Office
10 1 (0.578%) Electronics
10 1 (0.578%) Aerospace
10 1 (0.578%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.578%) Pharmaceutical
Miscellaneous
1 20 (11.56%) Management Information System
2 11 (6.358%) Computer Science
3 7 (4.046%) Open Source
4 6 (3.468%) Psychology
5 4 (2.312%) Derivative
5 4 (2.312%) Field-Programmable Gate Array
5 4 (2.312%) SaaS
6 2 (1.156%) N-Tier
6 2 (1.156%) Client/Server
6 2 (1.156%) NHS
6 2 (1.156%) Mathematics
6 2 (1.156%) Life Science
7 1 (0.578%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (0.578%) Mobile App
7 1 (0.578%) Blog
7 1 (0.578%) Chemistry
7 1 (0.578%) IPTV
7 1 (0.578%) Grid Computing
7 1 (0.578%) Equities
7 1 (0.578%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 33 (19.08%) UNIX
1 33 (19.08%) Windows
2 10 (5.780%) Windows Vista
3 7 (4.046%) Linux
4 6 (3.468%) Windows Server 2003
4 6 (3.468%) Windows XP
4 6 (3.468%) Windows Server 2008
5 3 (1.734%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 75 (43.35%) Agile Software Development
2 65 (37.57%) Test Scripting
3 47 (27.17%) E-Commerce
4 45 (26.01%) Scrum
5 40 (23.12%) TDD
5 40 (23.12%) Manual Testing
6 36 (20.81%) Automated Testing
7 31 (17.92%) User Acceptance Testing
8 26 (15.03%) ETL
9 23 (13.29%) BDD
10 22 (12.72%) Performance Testing
11 21 (12.14%) Automation Testing
12 20 (11.56%) Project Management
13 19 (10.98%) Integration Testing
14 18 (10.40%) Unit Testing
14 18 (10.40%) Kimball Methodology
15 14 (8.092%) System Testing
15 14 (8.092%) Test Automation
15 14 (8.092%) Domain-Driven Design
16 13 (7.514%) Security Testing
Programming Languages
1 82 (47.40%) SQL
2 49 (28.32%) Java
3 35 (20.23%) C#
4 9 (5.202%) T-SQL
5 8 (4.624%) JavaScript
5 8 (4.624%) Python
6 6 (3.468%) Perl
7 4 (2.312%) Scala
8 3 (1.734%) Ruby
9 2 (1.156%) C
9 2 (1.156%) C++
9 2 (1.156%) VBScript
10 1 (0.578%) VB
10 1 (0.578%) PHP
Qualifications
1 32 (18.50%) Degree
2 20 (11.56%) ISEB
3 7 (4.046%) ISTQB
4 6 (3.468%) Microsoft Certification
4 6 (3.468%) MCSA
5 1 (0.578%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 173 (100.00%) QA
System Software
1 12 (6.936%) NFS
2 10 (5.780%) VMware Infrastructure
3 9 (5.202%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 12 (6.936%) Legato
2 11 (6.358%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 25 (14.45%) Microsoft
2 12 (6.936%) Veritas
3 10 (5.780%) VMware
3 10 (5.780%) HP
4 4 (2.312%) Hitachi
4 4 (2.312%) Oracle
5 3 (1.734%) Cisco
6 2 (1.156%) Telerik
6 2 (1.156%) Google
6 2 (1.156%) Atlassian
7 1 (0.578%) Fidessa
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