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

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Quality Assurance Engineer
Rank 138 107 -
Rank change year-on-year
-31 -
Permanent jobs requiring a QA Engineer 9 22 0
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Leeds 0.342% 1.050% -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.357% 1.079% -
Number of salaries quoted 4 22 0
Average salary £40,000 £29,500 -
Average salary % change year-on-year
+35.59% -
UK excluding London average salary £35,000 £32,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
+7.69% -7.14%
All Job Titles
Leeds
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
2522 2038 1772
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Leeds 95.97% 97.28% 97.15%
Number of salaries quoted 2057 1764 1516
Average salary £35,000 £35,000 £33,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +6.06%
90% offered a salary of more than £24,000 £24,000 £24,000
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £50,000 £49,750
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +1.33%
QA Engineer
West Yorkshire

QA Engineer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Leeds 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 Leeds region.

Leeds QA Engineer Salary Trend

QA Engineer
Top 26 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Leeds 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 22 (100.00%) QA
2 16 (72.73%) User Acceptance Testing
3 14 (63.64%) Automated Testing
3 14 (63.64%) Java
3 14 (63.64%) .NET
4 8 (36.36%) ISEB
5 6 (27.27%) Legal
5 6 (27.27%) Scrum
5 6 (27.27%) Waterfall
5 6 (27.27%) ISTQB
5 6 (27.27%) HP Quality Center
5 6 (27.27%) V-Model
6 4 (18.18%) Team Foundation Server
6 4 (18.18%) Test Scripting
6 4 (18.18%) Software Testing
6 4 (18.18%) Dynamics AX
6 4 (18.18%) LoadRunner
6 4 (18.18%) Practice Management
6 4 (18.18%) Visual Studio
6 4 (18.18%) RAD
6 4 (18.18%) ERP
7 2 (9.091%) HP
7 2 (9.091%) Regression Testing
7 2 (9.091%) Validation
7 2 (9.091%) Release Management
7 2 (9.091%) Agile Software Development

QA Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Leeds 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 14 (63.64%) .NET
Business Applications
1 4 (18.18%) Dynamics AX
Development Applications
1 4 (18.18%) Visual Studio
1 4 (18.18%) LoadRunner
1 4 (18.18%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 6 (27.27%) Legal
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (72.73%) User Acceptance Testing
2 14 (63.64%) Automated Testing
3 6 (27.27%) Scrum
3 6 (27.27%) V-Model
3 6 (27.27%) Waterfall
4 4 (18.18%) Test Scripting
4 4 (18.18%) Software Testing
4 4 (18.18%) RAD
4 4 (18.18%) ERP
4 4 (18.18%) Practice Management
5 2 (9.091%) Validation
5 2 (9.091%) Regression Testing
5 2 (9.091%) Release Management
5 2 (9.091%) Agile Software Development
Programming Languages
1 14 (63.64%) Java
Qualifications
1 8 (36.36%) ISEB
2 6 (27.27%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (100.00%) QA
Systems Management
1 6 (27.27%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 2 (9.091%) HP