The first table below looks at the demand for the QA Engineer role in IT jobs advertised for the Newbury 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 24 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 Newbury region.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Quality Assurance Engineer
Rank 52 31 48
Rank change year-on-year
-21 +17
Permanent jobs requiring a QA Engineer 3 34 1
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Newbury 0.870% 6.538% 0.293%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.920% 7.054% 0.318%
Number of salaries quoted 3 34 1
Average salary £32,500 £33,250 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-2.25% -5.00%
UK excluding London average salary £35,000 £34,000 £35,000
% change year-on-year
+2.94% -2.85%
All Job Titles
Newbury
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
326 482 314
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Newbury 94.49% 92.69% 92.08%
Number of salaries quoted 305 447 257
Average salary £37,000 £35,000 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+5.71% -12.50%
90% offered a salary of more than £23,000 £30,000 £26,000
10% offered a salary of more than £52,500 £55,000 £55,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +1.33%
QA Engineer
Berkshire

QA Engineer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Newbury 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 Newbury region.

Newbury QA Engineer Salary Trend

QA Engineer
Top 18 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Newbury 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 11 (100.00%) Windows
1 11 (100.00%) Telecoms
1 11 (100.00%) Agile Software Development
1 11 (100.00%) QA
2 10 (90.91%) ISTQB
2 10 (90.91%) Regression Testing
2 10 (90.91%) Scrum
2 10 (90.91%) ISEB
2 10 (90.91%) GSM
2 10 (90.91%) UMTS
3 9 (81.82%) Nokia
3 9 (81.82%) Manual Testing
4 6 (54.55%) Team Foundation Server
4 6 (54.55%) Microsoft
5 4 (36.36%) Windows Vista
6 1 (9.091%) TestComplete
6 1 (9.091%) Test Automation
6 1 (9.091%) MS Excel

QA Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Newbury 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.

Applications
1 1 (9.091%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 10 (90.91%) GSM
1 10 (90.91%) UMTS
Development Applications
1 6 (54.55%) Team Foundation Server
2 1 (9.091%) TestComplete
General
1 11 (100.00%) Telecoms
Operating Systems
1 11 (100.00%) Windows
2 4 (36.36%) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (100.00%) Agile Software Development
2 10 (90.91%) Regression Testing
2 10 (90.91%) Scrum
3 9 (81.82%) Manual Testing
4 1 (9.091%) Test Automation
Qualifications
1 10 (90.91%) ISTQB
1 10 (90.91%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (100.00%) QA
Vendors
1 9 (81.82%) Nokia
2 6 (54.55%) Microsoft