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

Location
3 months to
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Quality Assurance Engineer
Rank 88 91 -
Rank change year-on-year
+3 -
Permanent jobs requiring a QA Engineer 3 2 0
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Nottingham 0.313% 0.186% -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.328% 0.200% -
Number of salaries quoted 3 2 0
Average salary £32,500 £29,000 -
Average salary % change year-on-year
+12.06% -
UK excluding London average salary £35,000 £34,000 £35,000
% change year-on-year
+2.94% -2.85%
All Job Titles
Nottingham
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
914 1001 1140
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Nottingham 95.21% 93.29% 96.12%
Number of salaries quoted 801 887 903
Average salary £35,000 £35,000 £35,000
90% offered a salary of more than £25,000 £22,500 £22,500
10% offered a salary of more than £52,500 £50,000 £50,500
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +1.33%
QA Engineer
Nottinghamshire

QA Engineer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Nottingham 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 Nottingham region.

Nottingham QA Engineer Salary Trend

QA Engineer
Top 21 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Nottingham 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 5 (100.00%) UNIX
1 5 (100.00%) TestDirector
1 5 (100.00%) Finance
1 5 (100.00%) FIX Protocol
1 5 (100.00%) QA
1 5 (100.00%) HP Quality Center
2 4 (80.00%) Software Testing
2 4 (80.00%) Test Scripting
2 4 (80.00%) ISEB
2 4 (80.00%) SQL
3 3 (60.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 3 (60.00%) Test Automation
4 1 (20.00%) Automation Testing
4 1 (20.00%) Manual Testing
4 1 (20.00%) System Testing
4 1 (20.00%) CheckPoint
4 1 (20.00%) Java
4 1 (20.00%) Oracle
4 1 (20.00%) Integration Testing
4 1 (20.00%) Test Management
4 1 (20.00%) ISEB Practitioner

QA Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Nottingham 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 (100.00%) FIX Protocol
Development Applications
1 5 (100.00%) TestDirector
General
1 5 (100.00%) Finance
Miscellaneous
1 3 (60.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 5 (100.00%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Software Testing
1 4 (80.00%) Test Scripting
2 3 (60.00%) Test Automation
3 1 (20.00%) Automation Testing
3 1 (20.00%) Manual Testing
3 1 (20.00%) System Testing
3 1 (20.00%) Integration Testing
3 1 (20.00%) Test Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (80.00%) SQL
2 1 (20.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 4 (80.00%) ISEB
2 1 (20.00%) ISEB Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (100.00%) QA
Systems Management
1 5 (100.00%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) CheckPoint
1 1 (20.00%) Oracle