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

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Quality Assurance Engineer
Rank 386 336 377
Rank change year-on-year
-50 +41
Permanent jobs requiring a QA Engineer 47 104 47
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the South East 0.212% 0.437% 0.205%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.224% 0.459% 0.217%
Number of salaries quoted 46 96 40
Average salary £35,000 £34,000 £33,250
Average salary % change year-on-year
+2.94% +2.25%
90% offered a salary of more than £28,000 £30,000 £25,450
10% offered a salary of more than £43,750 £43,900 £42,500
UK excluding London average salary £35,000 £34,000 £35,000
% change year-on-year
+2.94% -2.85%
All Job Titles
South East
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
20978 22652 21667
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the South East 94.79% 95.25% 94.43%
Number of salaries quoted 17417 19544 18626
Average salary £40,000 £40,000 £40,000
90% offered a salary of more than £25,000 £26,500 £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
England

QA Engineer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

South East 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 South East region.

South East QA Engineer Salary Trend

QA Engineer
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing QA Engineer across the South East region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

South East QA Engineer Salary Histogram

QA Engineer
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing QA Engineer within the South East region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Surrey +9 13 £35,000 -46.15%
Berkshire -53 13 £35,000 +2.94%
Oxfordshire -13 7 £23,000 -29.23%
Hampshire -10 5 £34,000 +4.61%
Middlesex - 3 £31,500 -
East Sussex - 3 £37,500 -
Thames Valley - 2 £42,500 -
Buckinghamshire -9 1 £28,500 -28.75%
QA Engineer
England

QA Engineer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 151 (100.00%) QA
2 79 (52.32%) Agile Software Development
3 68 (45.03%) Software Testing
4 59 (39.07%) Test Scripting
5 54 (35.76%) Scrum
6 53 (35.10%) UNIX
7 47 (31.13%) Linux
8 42 (27.81%) ISEB
9 40 (26.49%) Degree
10 39 (25.83%) Windows
11 37 (24.50%) PHP
12 36 (23.84%) Perl
13 34 (22.52%) Selenium
14 31 (20.53%) C#
14 31 (20.53%) Java
15 29 (19.21%) ISTQB
16 28 (18.54%) Manual Testing
17 26 (17.22%) SQL
17 26 (17.22%) .NET
18 25 (16.56%) Telecoms
19 23 (15.23%) Automated Testing
20 21 (13.91%) Microsoft
21 20 (13.25%) VLAN
21 20 (13.25%) Computer Science
22 19 (12.58%) Performance Testing
22 19 (12.58%) TCP/IP
23 18 (11.92%) NFS
24 17 (11.26%) IPv6
24 17 (11.26%) Veritas
24 17 (11.26%) Legato

QA Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the South East 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 26 (17.22%) .NET
2 4 (2.649%) SOAP
3 3 (1.987%) NHibernate
3 3 (1.987%) Middleware
3 3 (1.987%) J2EE
4 2 (1.325%) soapUI
4 2 (1.325%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
4 2 (1.325%) Gherkin
4 2 (1.325%) WCF
4 2 (1.325%) Silverlight
4 2 (1.325%) ADO
4 2 (1.325%) LAMP
5 1 (0.662%) WinForms
5 1 (0.662%) ASP.NET
5 1 (0.662%) WPF
5 1 (0.662%) REST
Application Platforms
1 4 (2.649%) Drupal
2 3 (1.987%) MS Exchange
3 2 (1.325%) ActiveMQ
4 1 (0.662%) CMS
4 1 (0.662%) IIS
Applications
1 6 (3.974%) MS Excel
2 3 (1.987%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 20 (13.25%) VLAN
2 19 (12.58%) TCP/IP
3 17 (11.26%) IPv6
4 11 (7.285%) UMTS
4 11 (7.285%) GSM
5 10 (6.623%) NAS
6 3 (1.987%) Wi-Fi
6 3 (1.987%) ZigBee
7 2 (1.325%) LAN
8 1 (0.662%) DNS
8 1 (0.662%) CHAP
8 1 (0.662%) LDAP
8 1 (0.662%) Radio Access Network
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (7.947%) MySQL
2 7 (4.636%) SQL Server
3 4 (2.649%) MS Access
4 3 (1.987%) Oracle 11g
5 2 (1.325%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (1.325%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 34 (22.52%) Selenium
2 16 (10.60%) WebDriver
3 12 (7.947%) Team Foundation Server
4 8 (5.298%) JIRA
5 7 (4.636%) Cucumber
6 5 (3.311%) Visual Studio
7 3 (1.987%) Bugzilla
7 3 (1.987%) QuickTest Pro
7 3 (1.987%) ReSharper
7 3 (1.987%) FitNesse
8 2 (1.325%) Concordion
8 2 (1.325%) WATIR
8 2 (1.325%) LabVIEW
8 2 (1.325%) SilkTest
9 1 (0.662%) Maven
9 1 (0.662%) JMeter
9 1 (0.662%) LoadRunner
9 1 (0.662%) TestComplete
9 1 (0.662%) Hudson
General
1 25 (16.56%) Telecoms
2 11 (7.285%) Electronics
3 4 (2.649%) Finance
3 4 (2.649%) Aerospace
4 3 (1.987%) Games
5 2 (1.325%) Manufacturing
6 1 (0.662%) Music
Miscellaneous
1 20 (13.25%) Computer Science
2 7 (4.636%) Enterprise Software
3 4 (2.649%) Field-Programmable Gate Array
4 3 (1.987%) Client/Server
4 3 (1.987%) Mathematics
4 3 (1.987%) Embedded Systems
4 3 (1.987%) Social Media
4 3 (1.987%) Open Source
5 2 (1.325%) SaaS
5 2 (1.325%) Cloud Computing
5 2 (1.325%) N-Tier
5 2 (1.325%) EFT
5 2 (1.325%) APACS
5 2 (1.325%) Management Information System
5 2 (1.325%) Derivative
6 1 (0.662%) Replication
6 1 (0.662%) Online Games
Operating Systems
1 53 (35.10%) UNIX
2 47 (31.13%) Linux
3 39 (25.83%) Windows
4 7 (4.636%) CentOS
5 4 (2.649%) Windows Server 2008
5 4 (2.649%) Windows Vista
6 3 (1.987%) Windows XP
7 2 (1.325%) Windows 7
7 2 (1.325%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.662%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 79 (52.32%) Agile Software Development
2 68 (45.03%) Software Testing
3 59 (39.07%) Test Scripting
4 54 (35.76%) Scrum
5 28 (18.54%) Manual Testing
6 23 (15.23%) Automated Testing
7 19 (12.58%) Performance Testing
8 16 (10.60%) OO
8 16 (10.60%) Regression Testing
9 14 (9.272%) Test Automation
10 11 (7.285%) Product Management
10 11 (7.285%) Continuous Improvement
11 9 (5.960%) System Testing
12 8 (5.298%) Automation Testing
13 7 (4.636%) Extreme Programming
13 7 (4.636%) Information Security
13 7 (4.636%) Continuous Integration
13 7 (4.636%) User Acceptance Testing
14 6 (3.974%) Test Strategy
14 6 (3.974%) Test Management
Programming Languages
1 37 (24.50%) PHP
2 36 (23.84%) Perl
3 31 (20.53%) C#
3 31 (20.53%) Java
4 26 (17.22%) SQL
5 10 (6.623%) Python
6 4 (2.649%) Ruby
7 3 (1.987%) Embedded C
7 3 (1.987%) Assembly Language
7 3 (1.987%) VB.NET
7 3 (1.987%) C
7 3 (1.987%) C++
8 2 (1.325%) Bash shell
8 2 (1.325%) PowerShell
9 1 (0.662%) PL/SQL
9 1 (0.662%) Scala
Qualifications
1 42 (27.81%) ISEB
2 40 (26.49%) Degree
3 29 (19.21%) ISTQB
4 4 (2.649%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 151 (100.00%) QA
2 1 (0.662%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (0.662%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 18 (11.92%) NFS
2 3 (1.987%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.325%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 17 (11.26%) Legato
2 11 (7.285%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 21 (13.91%) Microsoft
2 17 (11.26%) Veritas
3 10 (6.623%) HP
4 9 (5.960%) Nokia
5 4 (2.649%) Hitachi
6 3 (1.987%) Oracle
7 2 (1.325%) Twitter
7 2 (1.325%) Atlassian
7 2 (1.325%) VMware
7 2 (1.325%) Google
7 2 (1.325%) Telerik
Reading, Berkshire
Responsible for test automation within QA . Create, execute and maintain automated test scripts . Implement automation tests using Selenium Webdriver . Implement automation service tests using SoapU or JMeter . Exposure...
Evolution Recruitment Solutions
Salary: 40000
Posted: 20 May 2013
Middlesex
A leading communications organisation in the Defence sector are looking for a Quality Assurance Engineer to join a busy area of their business. This is a great opportunity...
Spectrum IT Recruitment (South) Ltd
Salary: £28000 - £35000 per annum
Posted: 21 May 2013
Surrey
Senior QA Engineer/E-commerce/Agile/IT Systems/Web/Non-Functional Testing. International E-commerce organisation are in need of a QA Engineer to join an established testing...
Coal IT Services
Salary: From £45,000 to £50,000 per annum
Posted: 17 May 2013
Bracknell, Berkshire
This is a fantastic opportunity to join a leading digital broadcast organisation, near Bracknell, as a Validation Engineer. You will be fully responsible for the validation activities within...
set2recruit
Posted: 17 May 2013
Berkshire
Senior QA TEST... Technical Skills & Experience Essential skills; - Good understanding of current Microsoft technologies: SQL Server (2005/2008), Windows 2008, 2003, XP, Windows 7, .NET (v2 / 3.5),...
North Point Recruitment
Salary: £35000 per annum
Posted: 22 May 2013
Basingstoke, Hampshire
Maintain and act on Metrics for QA related activities. * Support continual update and improvements of the QMS to include for example supply chain management processes, and operations metrics... *...
Connectus
Salary: £20000 - £30000 per annum
Posted: 23 May 2013