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

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Quality Assurance Engineer
Rank - 84 68
Permanent jobs requiring a QA Engineer 0 5 3
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Southampton - 0.543% 0.481%
As % of the Job Titles category - 0.557% 0.500%
Number of salaries quoted 0 5 3
Average salary - £27,500 £25,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +10.00%
UK excluding London average salary £35,000 £34,000 £35,000
% change year-on-year
+2.94% -2.85%
All Job Titles
Southampton
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
815 898 600
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Southampton 97.72% 97.61% 96.15%
Number of salaries quoted 743 840 543
Average salary £37,500 £38,000 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-1.31% +8.57%
90% offered a salary of more than £23,500 £22,500 £23,000
10% offered a salary of more than £60,000 £60,000 £50,000
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 Southampton region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

Southampton 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 Southampton region.

Southampton QA Engineer Salary Trend

QA Engineer
Top 17 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Southampton 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%) PL/SQL
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle
1 1 (100.00%) UNIX
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) TCP/IP
1 1 (100.00%) DNS
1 1 (100.00%) HP
1 1 (100.00%) ISEB
1 1 (100.00%) Software Testing
1 1 (100.00%) QA
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle 11g
1 1 (100.00%) Test Scripting
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) HP Quality Center
1 1 (100.00%) Bash shell

QA Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) TCP/IP
1 1 (100.00%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle 11g
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) UNIX
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Software Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Test Scripting
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) PL/SQL
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) Bash shell
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle
1 1 (100.00%) HP