The first table below looks at the demand for the QA Engineer role in IT jobs advertised for the Guildford 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 21 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 Guildford region.

Location
3 months to
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Quality Assurance Engineer
Rank 83 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Permanent jobs requiring a QA Engineer 2 0 0
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Guildford 0.221% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.226% - -
Number of salaries quoted 2 0 0
Average salary £38,000 - -
UK excluding London average salary £35,000 £34,000 £35,000
% change year-on-year
+2.94% -2.85%
All Job Titles
Guildford
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
885 697 430
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Guildford 97.68% 97.08% 98.40%
Number of salaries quoted 741 672 400
Average salary £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +6.66%
90% offered a salary of more than £24,500 £27,500 £25,000
10% offered a salary of more than £60,000 £51,500 £57,500
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +1.33%
QA Engineer
Surrey

QA Engineer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Guildford 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 Guildford region.

Guildford QA Engineer Salary Trend

QA Engineer
Top 24 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Guildford 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 9 (100.00%) QA
2 7 (77.78%) Test Scripting
2 7 (77.78%) Software Testing
2 7 (77.78%) Degree
2 7 (77.78%) CentOS
2 7 (77.78%) SQL
2 7 (77.78%) MySQL
2 7 (77.78%) Linux
2 7 (77.78%) Scrum
2 7 (77.78%) Extreme Programming
2 7 (77.78%) Information Security
3 6 (66.67%) ISEB
3 6 (66.67%) UNIX
3 6 (66.67%) Perl
3 6 (66.67%) PHP
4 2 (22.22%) Java
4 2 (22.22%) Automated Testing
5 1 (11.11%) .NET
5 1 (11.11%) J2EE
5 1 (11.11%) OO
5 1 (11.11%) Python
5 1 (11.11%) Test Automation
5 1 (11.11%) HP Quality Center
5 1 (11.11%) Security Cleared

QA Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Guildford 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 1 (11.11%) .NET
1 1 (11.11%) J2EE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (77.78%) MySQL
Operating Systems
1 7 (77.78%) CentOS
1 7 (77.78%) Linux
2 6 (66.67%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (77.78%) Test Scripting
1 7 (77.78%) Software Testing
1 7 (77.78%) Scrum
1 7 (77.78%) Extreme Programming
1 7 (77.78%) Information Security
2 2 (22.22%) Automated Testing
3 1 (11.11%) OO
3 1 (11.11%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 7 (77.78%) SQL
2 6 (66.67%) Perl
2 6 (66.67%) PHP
3 2 (22.22%) Java
4 1 (11.11%) Python
Qualifications
1 7 (77.78%) Degree
2 6 (66.67%) ISEB
3 1 (11.11%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (100.00%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (11.11%) HP Quality Center