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

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Quality Assurance Engineer
Rank 37 36 39
Rank change year-on-year
-1 +3
Permanent jobs requiring a QA Engineer 2 2 1
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Portsmouth 0.930% 0.990% 0.478%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.966% 1.031% 0.490%
Number of salaries quoted 2 2 0
Average salary £46,250 £33,000 -
Average salary % change year-on-year
+40.15% -
UK excluding London average salary £35,000 £34,000 £35,000
% change year-on-year
+2.94% -2.85%
All Job Titles
Portsmouth
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
207 194 204
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Portsmouth 96.28% 96.04% 97.61%
Number of salaries quoted 193 180 196
Average salary £37,500 £32,500 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+15.38% -7.14%
90% offered a salary of more than £22,500 £23,500 £24,500
10% offered a salary of more than £60,000 £47,500 £47,500
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +1.33%
QA Engineer
Hampshire

QA Engineer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Portsmouth 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 Portsmouth region.

Portsmouth QA Engineer Salary Trend

QA Engineer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Portsmouth 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%) Java
1 5 (100.00%) .NET
1 5 (100.00%) QA
1 5 (100.00%) Selenium
1 5 (100.00%) WebDriver
1 5 (100.00%) BDD
2 4 (80.00%) E-Commerce
3 3 (60.00%) MVC
3 3 (60.00%) Open Source
3 3 (60.00%) Cucumber
3 3 (60.00%) Performance Testing
3 3 (60.00%) Test Management
3 3 (60.00%) Test Scripting
3 3 (60.00%) Continuous Integration
3 3 (60.00%) Perl
3 3 (60.00%) PHP
3 3 (60.00%) VB.NET
3 3 (60.00%) MySQL
3 3 (60.00%) SQL Server
3 3 (60.00%) Visual Studio
3 3 (60.00%) Linux
3 3 (60.00%) OO
3 3 (60.00%) Python
3 3 (60.00%) Bugzilla
3 3 (60.00%) Scrum
3 3 (60.00%) TDD
3 3 (60.00%) Pair Programming
3 3 (60.00%) Ruby
3 3 (60.00%) Software Testing
3 3 (60.00%) NHibernate

QA Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Portsmouth 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%) .NET
2 3 (60.00%) NHibernate
3 2 (40.00%) Gherkin
3 2 (40.00%) J2EE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (60.00%) MySQL
1 3 (60.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (100.00%) Selenium
1 5 (100.00%) WebDriver
2 3 (60.00%) Cucumber
2 3 (60.00%) Visual Studio
2 3 (60.00%) Bugzilla
2 3 (60.00%) JIRA
2 3 (60.00%) ReSharper
3 2 (40.00%) LabVIEW
3 2 (40.00%) WATIR
3 2 (40.00%) QuickTest Pro
Miscellaneous
1 3 (60.00%) Open Source
Operating Systems
1 3 (60.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) BDD
2 4 (80.00%) E-Commerce
3 3 (60.00%) MVC
3 3 (60.00%) Performance Testing
3 3 (60.00%) Test Management
3 3 (60.00%) Test Scripting
3 3 (60.00%) Continuous Integration
3 3 (60.00%) OO
3 3 (60.00%) Scrum
3 3 (60.00%) TDD
3 3 (60.00%) Pair Programming
3 3 (60.00%) Software Testing
3 3 (60.00%) Refactoring
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) Java
2 3 (60.00%) Perl
2 3 (60.00%) PHP
2 3 (60.00%) VB.NET
2 3 (60.00%) Python
2 3 (60.00%) Ruby
2 3 (60.00%) C#
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (100.00%) QA