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

Location
3 months to
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Quality Assurance Engineer
Rank 170 170 162
Rank change year-on-year
0 -8
Permanent jobs requiring a QA Engineer 6 12 5
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Hampshire 0.174% 0.308% 0.141%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.182% 0.321% 0.150%
Number of salaries quoted 6 12 4
Average salary £35,000 £33,750 £25,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+3.70% +35.00%
90% offered a salary of more than £30,500 £27,500 £20,800
10% offered a salary of more than £45,500 £40,650 £30,250
UK excluding London average salary £35,000 £32,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
+7.69% -7.14%
All Job Titles
Hampshire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
3293 3741 3342
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Hampshire 95.42% 96.14% 93.96%
Number of salaries quoted 2794 3282 2826
Average salary £39,000 £40,000 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-2.50% +6.66%
90% offered a salary of more than £24,000 £25,000 £25,000
10% offered a salary of more than £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +1.33%
QA Engineer
South East

QA Engineer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Hampshire 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 Hampshire region.

Hampshire QA Engineer Salary Trend

QA Engineer
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing QA Engineer across the Hampshire region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013.

Hampshire QA Engineer Salary Histogram

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 Hampshire 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
Basingstoke -10 3 £32,500 -13.33%
Portsmouth -1 2 £46,250 +12.80%
Farnborough +2 1 £35,000 -
Aldershot - 1 £35,000 -
QA Engineer
South East

QA Engineer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Hampshire 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 30 (100.00%) QA
2 15 (50.00%) Test Scripting
3 14 (46.67%) Linux
4 13 (43.33%) Software Testing
5 12 (40.00%) ISEB
6 10 (33.33%) SQL
6 10 (33.33%) MySQL
6 10 (33.33%) Degree
6 10 (33.33%) Scrum
7 9 (30.00%) UNIX
7 9 (30.00%) Perl
7 9 (30.00%) PHP
8 7 (23.33%) Extreme Programming
8 7 (23.33%) Telecoms
8 7 (23.33%) Information Security
8 7 (23.33%) Selenium
8 7 (23.33%) Performance Testing
8 7 (23.33%) CentOS
9 5 (16.67%) WebDriver
9 5 (16.67%) BDD
9 5 (16.67%) ISTQB
9 5 (16.67%) Automated Testing
9 5 (16.67%) Electronics
9 5 (16.67%) Java
9 5 (16.67%) .NET
9 5 (16.67%) Windows
10 4 (13.33%) Python
10 4 (13.33%) E-Commerce
10 4 (13.33%) C#
11 3 (10.00%) VB.NET

QA Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Hampshire 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 5 (16.67%) .NET
2 3 (10.00%) NHibernate
3 2 (6.667%) Gherkin
3 2 (6.667%) SOAP
3 2 (6.667%) J2EE
Application Platforms
1 3 (10.00%) MS Exchange
Applications
1 3 (10.00%) MS Office
2 1 (3.333%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 3 (10.00%) VLAN
2 2 (6.667%) LAN
3 1 (3.333%) TCP/IP
3 1 (3.333%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (33.33%) MySQL
2 3 (10.00%) SQL Server
3 1 (3.333%) Oracle 11g
Development Applications
1 7 (23.33%) Selenium
2 5 (16.67%) WebDriver
3 3 (10.00%) Visual Studio
3 3 (10.00%) Bugzilla
3 3 (10.00%) JIRA
3 3 (10.00%) ReSharper
3 3 (10.00%) Cucumber
4 2 (6.667%) WATIR
4 2 (6.667%) LabVIEW
4 2 (6.667%) QuickTest Pro
General
1 7 (23.33%) Telecoms
2 5 (16.67%) Electronics
Miscellaneous
1 3 (10.00%) Open Source
2 2 (6.667%) Derivative
2 2 (6.667%) APACS
2 2 (6.667%) EFT
Operating Systems
1 14 (46.67%) Linux
2 9 (30.00%) UNIX
3 7 (23.33%) CentOS
4 5 (16.67%) Windows
5 3 (10.00%) Windows XP
5 3 (10.00%) Windows Server 2008
6 2 (6.667%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (50.00%) Test Scripting
2 13 (43.33%) Software Testing
3 10 (33.33%) Scrum
4 7 (23.33%) Extreme Programming
4 7 (23.33%) Information Security
4 7 (23.33%) Performance Testing
5 5 (16.67%) BDD
5 5 (16.67%) Automated Testing
6 4 (13.33%) E-Commerce
7 3 (10.00%) OO
7 3 (10.00%) MVC
7 3 (10.00%) TDD
7 3 (10.00%) Pair Programming
7 3 (10.00%) Refactoring
7 3 (10.00%) Test Management
7 3 (10.00%) Continuous Integration
8 2 (6.667%) Agile Software Development
9 1 (3.333%) Test Automation
9 1 (3.333%) Manual Testing
Programming Languages
1 10 (33.33%) SQL
2 9 (30.00%) Perl
2 9 (30.00%) PHP
3 5 (16.67%) Java
4 4 (13.33%) Python
4 4 (13.33%) C#
5 3 (10.00%) VB.NET
5 3 (10.00%) Ruby
6 2 (6.667%) PowerShell
7 1 (3.333%) PL/SQL
7 1 (3.333%) Bash shell
Qualifications
1 12 (40.00%) ISEB
2 10 (33.33%) Degree
3 5 (16.67%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (100.00%) QA
System Software
1 3 (10.00%) Active Directory
2 2 (6.667%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (3.333%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 3 (10.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (6.667%) VMware
3 1 (3.333%) Oracle
3 1 (3.333%) HP