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

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Quality Assurance Engineer
Rank - 61 68
Permanent jobs requiring a QA Engineer 0 2 6
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Oxford - 0.312% 0.751%
As % of the Job Titles category - 0.322% 0.772%
Number of salaries quoted 0 2 6
Average salary - £32,500 £32,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +1.56%
UK excluding London average salary £35,000 £32,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
+7.69% -7.14%
All Job Titles
Oxford
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
959 621 777
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Oxford 94.58% 96.73% 97.25%
Number of salaries quoted 827 548 708
Average salary £42,500 £40,000 £41,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+6.25% -3.61%
90% offered a salary of more than £26,500 £27,500 £25,000
10% offered a salary of more than £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +1.33%
QA Engineer
Oxfordshire

QA Engineer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Oxford 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 Oxford region.

Oxford QA Engineer Salary Trend

QA Engineer
Top 13 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Oxford 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 1 (100.00%) C#
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
1 1 (100.00%) .NET
1 1 (100.00%) ASP.NET
1 1 (100.00%) ISEB
1 1 (100.00%) ISTQB
1 1 (100.00%) Music
1 1 (100.00%) Web Development
1 1 (100.00%) QA
1 1 (100.00%) Selenium
1 1 (100.00%) FitNesse
1 1 (100.00%) Cucumber

QA Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Oxford 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 1 (100.00%) .NET
1 1 (100.00%) ASP.NET
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Selenium
1 1 (100.00%) FitNesse
1 1 (100.00%) Cucumber
General
1 1 (100.00%) Music
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) C#
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) ISEB
1 1 (100.00%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) QA