The first table below looks at the demand for the Senior 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 Senior 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
Senior Quality Assurance Engineer
Rank 423 436 419
Rank change year-on-year
+13 -17
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior QA Engineer 10 3 5
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the South East 0.045% 0.013% 0.022%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.048% 0.013% 0.023%
Number of salaries quoted 9 3 5
Average salary £42,500 £65,000 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-34.61% +73.33%
90% offered a salary of more than £35,000 £65,000 £34,100
10% offered a salary of more than £46,000 £65,000 £43,500
UK excluding London average salary £41,000 £37,500 £40,000
% change year-on-year
+9.33% -6.25%
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%
Senior QA Engineer
England

Senior QA Engineer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

South East Senior QA Engineer Jobs Demand Trend

Senior QA Engineer
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Senior QA Engineer across the South East region.

South East Senior QA Engineer Salary Trend

Senior QA Engineer
Salary Histogram

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

South East Senior QA Engineer Salary Histogram

Senior QA Engineer
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Senior 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
Berkshire - 4 £35,000 -
Oxfordshire - 3 £45,000 -
Surrey +6 2 £42,500 -34.61%
Thames Valley - 1 £50,000 -
Senior QA Engineer
England

Senior QA Engineer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the South East region that cited Senior 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 Senior QA Engineer in their job title.

1 26 (100.00%) QA
2 17 (65.38%) Agile Software Development
3 14 (53.85%) Windows
4 13 (50.00%) Degree
5 12 (46.15%) VLAN
5 12 (46.15%) UNIX
5 12 (46.15%) IPv6
5 12 (46.15%) NFS
5 12 (46.15%) TCP/IP
5 12 (46.15%) Veritas
5 12 (46.15%) Legato
6 10 (38.46%) Computer Science
6 10 (38.46%) Performance Testing
7 9 (34.62%) Test Scripting
7 9 (34.62%) C#
8 8 (30.77%) Java
8 8 (30.77%) SQL
9 7 (26.92%) Software Testing
9 7 (26.92%) Selenium
10 6 (23.08%) Product Management
11 4 (15.38%) Field-Programmable Gate Array
11 4 (15.38%) Microsoft
11 4 (15.38%) HP
11 4 (15.38%) ISEB
11 4 (15.38%) Hitachi
11 4 (15.38%) SQL Server
11 4 (15.38%) Test Automation
11 4 (15.38%) Manual Testing
11 4 (15.38%) System Testing
11 4 (15.38%) NAS

Senior 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 Senior 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 Senior QA Engineer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 3 (11.54%) .NET
1 3 (11.54%) Middleware
2 2 (7.692%) SOAP
2 2 (7.692%) ADO
2 2 (7.692%) soapUI
2 2 (7.692%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
2 2 (7.692%) WCF
2 2 (7.692%) Silverlight
3 1 (3.846%) REST
3 1 (3.846%) ASP.NET
3 1 (3.846%) LAMP
Application Platforms
1 2 (7.692%) ActiveMQ
2 1 (3.846%) CMS
Communications & Networking
1 12 (46.15%) VLAN
1 12 (46.15%) IPv6
1 12 (46.15%) TCP/IP
2 4 (15.38%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (15.38%) SQL Server
2 2 (7.692%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (7.692%) Oracle Reports
2 2 (7.692%) Oracle 11g
Development Applications
1 7 (26.92%) Selenium
2 3 (11.54%) FitNesse
2 3 (11.54%) Cucumber
3 2 (7.692%) SilkTest
3 2 (7.692%) Visual Studio
3 2 (7.692%) Team Foundation Server
3 2 (7.692%) JIRA
3 2 (7.692%) Concordion
3 2 (7.692%) WebDriver
General
1 3 (11.54%) Telecoms
2 1 (3.846%) Music
2 1 (3.846%) Electronics
2 1 (3.846%) Finance
2 1 (3.846%) Aerospace
2 1 (3.846%) Manufacturing
Miscellaneous
1 10 (38.46%) Computer Science
2 4 (15.38%) Field-Programmable Gate Array
3 2 (7.692%) Management Information System
3 2 (7.692%) Client/Server
3 2 (7.692%) N-Tier
4 1 (3.846%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (3.846%) Mathematics
4 1 (3.846%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 14 (53.85%) Windows
2 12 (46.15%) UNIX
3 2 (7.692%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (65.38%) Agile Software Development
2 10 (38.46%) Performance Testing
3 9 (34.62%) Test Scripting
4 7 (26.92%) Software Testing
5 6 (23.08%) Product Management
6 4 (15.38%) Test Automation
6 4 (15.38%) Manual Testing
6 4 (15.38%) System Testing
7 3 (11.54%) User Acceptance Testing
7 3 (11.54%) Scrum
8 2 (7.692%) Network Planning
8 2 (7.692%) Business Intelligence
8 2 (7.692%) SOA
8 2 (7.692%) Continuous Integration
9 1 (3.846%) Automation Testing
9 1 (3.846%) Project Planning
9 1 (3.846%) Web Development
9 1 (3.846%) Load Testing
9 1 (3.846%) QMS
9 1 (3.846%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 9 (34.62%) C#
2 8 (30.77%) Java
2 8 (30.77%) SQL
3 3 (11.54%) Python
4 1 (3.846%) Scala
4 1 (3.846%) PHP
Qualifications
1 13 (50.00%) Degree
2 4 (15.38%) ISEB
2 4 (15.38%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (100.00%) QA
System Software
1 12 (46.15%) NFS
Systems Management
1 12 (46.15%) Legato
2 4 (15.38%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 12 (46.15%) Veritas
2 4 (15.38%) Microsoft
2 4 (15.38%) HP
2 4 (15.38%) Hitachi
3 2 (7.692%) Telerik
3 2 (7.692%) Google
3 2 (7.692%) Oracle
3 2 (7.692%) Atlassian