The first table below looks at the demand for the QA Engineer role in IT jobs advertised for the Hemel Hempstead 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 17 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 Hemel Hempstead region.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Quality Assurance Engineer
Rank 32 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Permanent jobs requiring a QA Engineer 6 0 0
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Hemel Hempstead 2.703% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 2.885% - -
Number of salaries quoted 6 0 0
Average salary £30,750 - -
UK excluding London average salary £35,000 £32,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
+7.69% -7.14%
All Job Titles
Hemel Hempstead
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
208 217 170
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Hemel Hempstead 93.69% 99.09% 97.70%
Number of salaries quoted 200 211 152
Average salary £35,000 £33,000 £36,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+6.06% -9.58%
90% offered a salary of more than £21,500 £22,500 £24,500
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £45,000 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +1.33%
QA Engineer
Hertfordshire

QA Engineer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Hemel Hempstead 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 Hemel Hempstead region.

Hemel Hempstead QA Engineer Salary Trend

QA Engineer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Hemel Hempstead 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 12 (100.00%) SQL
1 12 (100.00%) ISEB
1 12 (100.00%) Software Testing
1 12 (100.00%) ISTQB
1 12 (100.00%) QA
2 10 (83.33%) System Testing
2 10 (83.33%) Regression Testing
3 7 (58.33%) JMeter
3 7 (58.33%) Selenium
3 7 (58.33%) Load Testing
3 7 (58.33%) Automated Testing
3 7 (58.33%) Avaya
3 7 (58.33%) QuickTest Pro
3 7 (58.33%) Cisco
3 7 (58.33%) Nortel
4 5 (41.67%) JavaScript
4 5 (41.67%) PHP
4 5 (41.67%) XML
4 5 (41.67%) Python
4 5 (41.67%) C
4 5 (41.67%) C++
4 5 (41.67%) HTML
4 5 (41.67%) HP Quality Center
4 5 (41.67%) Automation Testing
5 3 (25.00%) Java
6 2 (16.67%) PhD
6 2 (16.67%) Data Modelling
6 2 (16.67%) Project Management
6 2 (16.67%) Information Security
6 2 (16.67%) Speech Recognition

QA Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Hemel Hempstead 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 (41.67%) HTML
1 5 (41.67%) XML
Development Applications
1 7 (58.33%) QuickTest Pro
1 7 (58.33%) JMeter
1 7 (58.33%) Selenium
Miscellaneous
1 2 (16.67%) Speech Recognition
1 2 (16.67%) Computer Science
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (100.00%) Software Testing
2 10 (83.33%) System Testing
2 10 (83.33%) Regression Testing
3 7 (58.33%) Load Testing
3 7 (58.33%) Automated Testing
4 5 (41.67%) Automation Testing
5 2 (16.67%) Information Security
5 2 (16.67%) Data Modelling
5 2 (16.67%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 12 (100.00%) SQL
2 5 (41.67%) Python
2 5 (41.67%) C
2 5 (41.67%) C++
2 5 (41.67%) JavaScript
2 5 (41.67%) PHP
3 3 (25.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 12 (100.00%) ISEB
1 12 (100.00%) ISTQB
2 2 (16.67%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (100.00%) QA
Systems Management
1 5 (41.67%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 7 (58.33%) Cisco
1 7 (58.33%) Nortel
1 7 (58.33%) Avaya