The first table below looks at the demand for the QA Engineer role in IT jobs advertised for the Surrey 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 23 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 Surrey region.

Location
3 months to
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Quality Assurance Engineer
Rank 207 225 206
Rank change year-on-year
+18 -19
Permanent jobs requiring a QA Engineer 13 11 9
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Surrey 0.248% 0.184% 0.166%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.260% 0.192% 0.175%
Number of salaries quoted 13 5 9
Average salary £35,000 £65,000 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-46.15% +73.33%
90% offered a salary of more than £30,500 £38,000 £25,500
10% offered a salary of more than £42,200 £65,000 £42,500
UK excluding London average salary £35,000 £34,000 £35,000
% change year-on-year
+2.94% -2.85%
All Job Titles
Surrey
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
5001 5729 5136
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Surrey 95.24% 95.93% 94.55%
Number of salaries quoted 4038 5010 4499
Average salary £42,500 £45,000 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-5.55% +12.50%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,500 £28,000 £25,000
10% offered a salary of more than £60,000 £57,500 £65,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +1.33%
QA Engineer
South East

QA Engineer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Surrey 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 Surrey region.

Surrey QA Engineer Salary Trend

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 Surrey region over the 3 months to 23 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
Leatherhead - 5 £35,000 -
Guildford - 1 £41,000 -
QA Engineer
South East

QA Engineer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Surrey 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 59 (100.00%) QA
2 51 (86.44%) Software Testing
3 39 (66.10%) Linux
4 37 (62.71%) Agile Software Development
5 36 (61.02%) Test Scripting
6 34 (57.63%) PHP
7 33 (55.93%) Scrum
8 32 (54.24%) UNIX
8 32 (54.24%) Perl
9 14 (23.73%) C#
10 13 (22.03%) OO
10 13 (22.03%) Degree
11 12 (20.34%) Automated Testing
11 12 (20.34%) Selenium
11 12 (20.34%) SQL
11 12 (20.34%) .NET
12 10 (16.95%) Java
12 10 (16.95%) ISEB
12 10 (16.95%) Manual Testing
12 10 (16.95%) Continuous Improvement
13 9 (15.25%) MySQL
14 7 (11.86%) Extreme Programming
14 7 (11.86%) Information Security
14 7 (11.86%) CentOS
15 6 (10.17%) Software Engineering
15 6 (10.17%) Enterprise Software
16 5 (8.475%) Test Strategy
16 5 (8.475%) Test Automation
17 4 (6.780%) Computer Science
17 4 (6.780%) Web Testing

QA Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Surrey 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 12 (20.34%) .NET
2 2 (3.390%) LAMP
2 2 (3.390%) ADO
2 2 (3.390%) SOAP
2 2 (3.390%) WCF
2 2 (3.390%) Silverlight
2 2 (3.390%) soapUI
2 2 (3.390%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
3 1 (1.695%) J2EE
Application Platforms
1 2 (3.390%) ActiveMQ
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (15.25%) MySQL
2 2 (3.390%) Oracle Reports
2 2 (3.390%) Oracle 11g
Development Applications
1 12 (20.34%) Selenium
2 4 (6.780%) WebDriver
3 2 (3.390%) SilkTest
3 2 (3.390%) JIRA
General
1 3 (5.085%) Telecoms
1 3 (5.085%) Finance
Miscellaneous
1 6 (10.17%) Enterprise Software
2 4 (6.780%) Computer Science
3 2 (3.390%) Client/Server
3 2 (3.390%) N-Tier
3 2 (3.390%) Mathematics
3 2 (3.390%) Cloud Computing
3 2 (3.390%) SaaS
Operating Systems
1 39 (66.10%) Linux
2 32 (54.24%) UNIX
3 7 (11.86%) CentOS
4 2 (3.390%) Windows
4 2 (3.390%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (86.44%) Software Testing
2 37 (62.71%) Agile Software Development
3 36 (61.02%) Test Scripting
4 33 (55.93%) Scrum
5 13 (22.03%) OO
6 12 (20.34%) Automated Testing
7 10 (16.95%) Manual Testing
7 10 (16.95%) Continuous Improvement
8 7 (11.86%) Extreme Programming
8 7 (11.86%) Information Security
9 6 (10.17%) Software Engineering
10 5 (8.475%) Test Strategy
10 5 (8.475%) Test Automation
11 4 (6.780%) Web Testing
12 3 (5.085%) Automation Testing
13 2 (3.390%) Regression Testing
13 2 (3.390%) SOA
13 2 (3.390%) RAD
13 2 (3.390%) User Acceptance Testing
13 2 (3.390%) Performance Testing
Programming Languages
1 34 (57.63%) PHP
2 32 (54.24%) Perl
3 14 (23.73%) C#
4 12 (20.34%) SQL
5 10 (16.95%) Java
6 3 (5.085%) Python
7 2 (3.390%) C++
Qualifications
1 13 (22.03%) Degree
2 10 (16.95%) ISEB
3 2 (3.390%) ISTQB
4 1 (1.695%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 59 (100.00%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (1.695%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 2 (3.390%) Microsoft
1 2 (3.390%) Oracle
1 2 (3.390%) Atlassian
1 2 (3.390%) Google
1 2 (3.390%) Telerik
Leatherhead, Surrey
On the automation side, the test environment focused on Selenium Webdriver in-depth knowledge of this, in addition to having worked in a C# / .Net environment is an...
ARC IT Recruitment Ltd
Salary: £35000 Per Annum
Posted: 17 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