QA Engineer Jobs
 
Demand Trend Salary Trend Salary Histogram Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for the QA Engineer role in IT jobs advertised across the UK. 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 17 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 currently tracked.

Location
 3 months to
17 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Quality Assurance Engineer
Rank 520 538 591
Rank change year-on-year
+18 +53
Permanent jobs requiring a QA Engineer 381 388 289
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK 0.353% 0.321% 0.234%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.374% 0.339% 0.248%
Number of salaries quoted 325 353 231
Average salary £40,000 £35,000 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+14.28% -6.66%
90% offered a salary of more than £30,000 £27,500 £27,500
10% offered a salary of more than £55,000 £47,500 £52,500
UK excluding London average salary £35,000 £32,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
+7.69% -7.14%
All Job Titles
UK
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category		 101791 114576 116360
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK 94.44% 94.74% 94.25%
Number of salaries quoted 84727 98303 98213
Average salary £42,500 £42,500 £42,500
90% offered a salary of more than £26,500 £27,000 £26,500
10% offered a salary of more than £67,500 £72,500 £70,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +1.33%

QA Engineer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

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 within the UK.

QA Engineer Salary Trend

QA Engineer
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing QA Engineer over the 3 months to 17 May 2013 within the UK.

QA Engineer Salary Histogram

QA Engineer
Top 30 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 UK over the 3 months to 17 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
England +1 360 £40,000 +14.28%
London +79 206 £45,000 +5.88%
South East -47 52 £35,000 +2.94%
East of England -2 44 £32,500 -13.33%
City of London +18 38 £45,000 -
South West +24 26 £35,000 +27.27%
Bristol - 18 £40,250 -
Cambridge -8 17 £37,500 +7.14%
Cambridgeshire -12 17 £37,500 -
Berkshire -46 17 £35,000 +2.94%
Hertfordshire +7 16 £32,500 -26.13%
Surrey +19 14 £35,000 -46.15%
Yorkshire -37 14 £40,000 +28.00%
Scotland +7 12 £24,000 -46.66%
Bedfordshire -3 10 £30,000 -
West Yorkshire -19 9 £40,000 +45.45%
Leeds -31 9 £40,000 +35.59%
Hampshire -2 8 £32,500 -7.14%
West Midlands -16 8 £35,000 +16.66%
Wiltshire +15 7 £33,000 -17.50%
Oxfordshire -9 7 £23,000 -29.23%
Livingston - 7 - -
West Lothian - 7 - -
Bedford -5 6 £30,000 -
Birmingham -22 6 £40,000 +33.33%
Newcastle upon Tyne - 6 £35,000 -
Hemel Hempstead - 6 £30,750 -
Borehamwood - 6 £32,500 -
North East - 6 £35,000 -
Tyne and Wear - 6 £35,000 -

QA Engineer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs within the UK 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.

1 897 (100.00%) QA
2 429 (47.83%) Selenium
3 376 (41.92%) Agile Software Development
4 306 (34.11%) Java
5 297 (33.11%) SQL
6 246 (27.42%) Scrum
7 242 (26.98%) Software Testing
8 239 (26.64%) Automated Testing
9 227 (25.31%) Test Scripting
10 211 (23.52%) Degree
11 192 (21.40%) C#
12 177 (19.73%) ISEB
13 171 (19.06%) Test Automation
14 163 (18.17%) E-Commerce
15 148 (16.50%) Cucumber
16 140 (15.61%) UNIX
17 135 (15.05%) Windows
18 133 (14.83%) Manual Testing
19 129 (14.38%) WebDriver
19 129 (14.38%) .NET
20 125 (13.94%) TDD
21 122 (13.60%) Linux
21 122 (13.60%) Performance Testing
22 118 (13.15%) Automation Testing
23 117 (13.04%) ISTQB
24 114 (12.71%) Finance
25 112 (12.49%) Regression Testing
26 107 (11.93%) Microsoft
27 104 (11.59%) QuickTest Pro
28 98 (10.93%) BDD

QA Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs within the UK 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
1 129 (14.38%) .NET
2 65 (7.246%) HTML
3 63 (7.023%) soapUI
4 60 (6.689%) SOAP
5 45 (5.017%) Web Services
6 39 (4.348%) CSS
7 35 (3.902%) Gherkin
8 32 (3.567%) J2EE
9 29 (3.233%) XML
10 16 (1.784%) Grails
11 13 (1.449%) ASP.NET
12 11 (1.226%) Flash
12 11 (1.226%) JSON
13 10 (1.115%) Natural Language Processing
14 9 (1.003%) XML Schema
15 7 (0.780%) HTML5
15 7 (0.780%) DOM
16 6 (0.669%) J2SE
16 6 (0.669%) .NET Framework
16 6 (0.669%) Java EE
Application Platforms
1 15 (1.672%) Tomcat
2 10 (1.115%) Apache
2 10 (1.115%) Confluence
3 8 (0.892%) IIS
4 6 (0.669%) Magento
5 5 (0.557%) Drupal
6 4 (0.446%) MS Exchange
7 3 (0.334%) CMS
7 3 (0.334%) SharePoint
8 2 (0.223%) ActiveMQ
9 1 (0.111%) Exchange Server 2003
9 1 (0.111%) Joomla!
9 1 (0.111%) WordPress
9 1 (0.111%) Apache Solr
Applications
1 56 (6.243%) MS Excel
2 17 (1.895%) MS Office
3 6 (0.669%) Photoshop
3 6 (0.669%) Adobe Illustrator
4 1 (0.111%) Final Cut Pro
Business Applications
1 4 (0.446%) Oracle EBS
1 4 (0.446%) Dynamics AX
2 1 (0.111%) SAP Oil and Gas
Communications & Networking
1 61 (6.800%) TCP/IP
2 49 (5.463%) Internet
3 43 (4.794%) HTTP
4 25 (2.787%) VLAN
5 22 (2.453%) IPv6
6 15 (1.672%) SMTP
6 15 (1.672%) LAN
7 14 (1.561%) LDAP
8 13 (1.449%) WAN
8 13 (1.449%) HTTPS
8 13 (1.449%) SSL
8 13 (1.449%) Firewall
9 12 (1.338%) DNS
10 11 (1.226%) GSM
10 11 (1.226%) UMTS
11 10 (1.115%) NAS
12 5 (0.557%) Wi-Fi
13 4 (0.446%) RIP
14 3 (0.334%) ZigBee
15 2 (0.223%) iSCSI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 47 (5.240%) SQL Server
2 25 (2.787%) Data Warehouse
3 23 (2.564%) MySQL
4 11 (1.226%) RDBMS
5 10 (1.115%) Text Mining
6 8 (0.892%) Big Data
7 7 (0.780%) HBase
7 7 (0.780%) SQL Server 2008
8 6 (0.669%) Apache Cassandra
8 6 (0.669%) NoSQL
9 5 (0.557%) SQL Server 2005
9 5 (0.557%) SQL Server 2000
9 5 (0.557%) Crystal Reports
10 4 (0.446%) MS Access
11 3 (0.334%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 3 (0.334%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 3 (0.334%) Oracle 11g
12 2 (0.223%) Oracle Reports
13 1 (0.111%) DB2
13 1 (0.111%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 429 (47.83%) Selenium
2 148 (16.50%) Cucumber
3 129 (14.38%) WebDriver
4 104 (11.59%) QuickTest Pro
5 65 (7.246%) JIRA
6 60 (6.689%) FitNesse
7 50 (5.574%) Team Foundation Server
7 50 (5.574%) JMeter
8 43 (4.794%) Visual Studio
9 41 (4.571%) JUnit
10 28 (3.122%) SpecFlow
11 25 (2.787%) LoadRunner
12 23 (2.564%) Jenkins
13 22 (2.453%) JBehave
14 20 (2.230%) RSpec
15 18 (2.007%) Subversion
16 14 (1.561%) Bugzilla
16 14 (1.561%) Maven
16 14 (1.561%) TestComplete
17 13 (1.449%) WATIR
General
1 114 (12.71%) Finance
2 69 (7.692%) Telecoms
3 58 (6.466%) Games
4 41 (4.571%) Marketing
5 29 (3.233%) Banking
6 25 (2.787%) Retail
7 22 (2.453%) Legal
8 20 (2.230%) Online Betting
9 19 (2.118%) Publishing
10 17 (1.895%) Electronics
11 10 (1.115%) Front Office
12 9 (1.003%) Financial Institution
12 9 (1.003%) Investment Banking
13 8 (0.892%) Pharmaceutical
13 8 (0.892%) Law
14 7 (0.780%) Polish Language
15 6 (0.669%) Music
15 6 (0.669%) Advertising
16 5 (0.557%) Multimedia
17 4 (0.446%) Back Office
Miscellaneous
1 82 (9.142%) Computer Science
2 64 (7.135%) Open Source
3 26 (2.899%) iPhone
4 23 (2.564%) iPad
5 19 (2.118%) Online Games
5 19 (2.118%) Client/Server
6 18 (2.007%) Management Information System
6 18 (2.007%) SaaS
7 16 (1.784%) Life Science
7 16 (1.784%) Derivative
8 12 (1.338%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 10 (1.115%) Grid Computing
9 10 (1.115%) Chemistry
9 10 (1.115%) Enterprise Software
10 9 (1.003%) Field-Programmable Gate Array
11 8 (0.892%) N-Tier
11 8 (0.892%) Mobile App
12 7 (0.780%) Psychology
13 6 (0.669%) Mathematics
13 6 (0.669%) Cloud Computing
Operating Systems
1 140 (15.61%) UNIX
2 135 (15.05%) Windows
3 122 (13.60%) Linux
4 36 (4.013%) Android
4 36 (4.013%) Apple iOS
5 19 (2.118%) Windows Vista
6 13 (1.449%) Windows Server 2008
7 12 (1.338%) Windows XP
8 9 (1.003%) Windows Server 2003
8 9 (1.003%) CentOS
8 9 (1.003%) Windows Phone
9 8 (0.892%) Solaris
10 6 (0.669%) Windows 7
11 4 (0.446%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 3 (0.334%) AIX
13 1 (0.111%) Windows 2000
Processes & Methodologies
1 376 (41.92%) Agile Software Development
2 246 (27.42%) Scrum
3 242 (26.98%) Software Testing
4 239 (26.64%) Automated Testing
5 227 (25.31%) Test Scripting
6 171 (19.06%) Test Automation
7 163 (18.17%) E-Commerce
8 133 (14.83%) Manual Testing
9 125 (13.94%) TDD
10 122 (13.60%) Performance Testing
11 118 (13.15%) Automation Testing
12 112 (12.49%) Regression Testing
13 98 (10.93%) BDD
14 87 (9.699%) Continuous Integration
15 86 (9.588%) System Testing
16 83 (9.253%) User Stories
17 80 (8.919%) Integration Testing
18 71 (7.915%) OO
19 69 (7.692%) Unit Testing
20 66 (7.358%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 306 (34.11%) Java
2 297 (33.11%) SQL
3 192 (21.40%) C#
4 87 (9.699%) JavaScript
5 78 (8.696%) Python
6 71 (7.915%) Perl
7 69 (7.692%) Ruby
8 68 (7.581%) PHP
9 48 (5.351%) C++
9 48 (5.351%) C
10 19 (2.118%) T-SQL
11 18 (2.007%) Groovy
12 16 (1.784%) VBScript
12 16 (1.784%) VB
13 10 (1.115%) VB.NET
14 9 (1.003%) Shell Script
14 9 (1.003%) Lua
15 8 (0.892%) Tcl
16 5 (0.557%) ActionScript
17 4 (0.446%) VB6
Qualifications
1 211 (23.52%) Degree
2 177 (19.73%) ISEB
3 117 (13.04%) ISTQB
4 25 (2.787%) Postgraduate
5 7 (0.780%) MCSA
5 7 (0.780%) Microsoft Certification
6 3 (0.334%) Security Cleared
7 2 (0.223%) PhD
8 1 (0.111%) ISEB Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 897 (100.00%) QA
2 2 (0.223%) PCI DSS
3 1 (0.111%) Basel III
3 1 (0.111%) ISO 9000
3 1 (0.111%) ISO 9001
3 1 (0.111%) Basel II
3 1 (0.111%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 25 (2.787%) Active Directory
2 23 (2.564%) NFS
3 16 (1.784%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 55 (6.132%) HP Quality Center
2 17 (1.895%) Legato
Vendors
1 107 (11.93%) Microsoft
2 35 (3.902%) HP
3 26 (2.899%) Oracle
4 20 (2.230%) Cisco
5 17 (1.895%) Veritas
6 16 (1.784%) VMware
7 9 (1.003%) Nokia
8 7 (0.780%) Nortel
8 7 (0.780%) Avaya
9 6 (0.669%) Adobe
9 6 (0.669%) Google
9 6 (0.669%) Facebook
10 5 (0.557%) ATG
10 5 (0.557%) Sun
11 4 (0.446%) Hitachi
12 3 (0.334%) Borland
12 3 (0.334%) AccuRev
13 2 (0.223%) hybris
13 2 (0.223%) Telerik
13 2 (0.223%) Acunetix
Quality Assurance/Test Engineer
East London
We are currently looking for an intelligent and motivated individual to join our quality assurance team. Responsibilities include: - Taking part in QA processes, testing existing and new product...
Retain International
Salary: Unspecified Competitive
Posted: 14 May 2013
Test Analyst / QA Engineer - (Manual, Automation, Selenium, Webdriver)
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
QA Engineer - 6 month fixed term contract
Sheffield, South Yorkshire
Key skills for this role include; - Good manual testing experience - Good database knowledge - MYSQL/SQL - Good understanding of internet technologies and of the quality assurance industry - Working knowledge...
The Bridge Ltd
Salary: £30,000 p/a
Posted: 13 May 2013
Senior QA Engineer (Java development, Automation, Selenium) - Berks
Berkshire
Enterprise Software solutions company are looking for a talented and experienced QA Engineer with strong Automation experience and solid Java development skills and background... You will have a...
Arden Resourcing Limited
Salary: From £45,000 to £55,000 per annum + Benefits and Bonus
Posted: 16 May 2013
QA Engineer - C#, Selenium, Webdriver - London - up to £50k
London
You will develop and execute test plans, configure and support the test environments and work to extend test automation using selenium webdriver... You must also possess experience of...
The People Network
Salary: £40000 - £50000 per annum + Bonus, Stock, Pension, Health, Life
Posted: 15 May 2013
QA Automation Engineer - Web Systems / Agile
South East London
QA Automation Engineer required with proven background in Automated QA or Software Developer in Test for web systems with test automation such as Cucumber, Robot Framework, Selenium for...
Opus Resourcing Ltd
Salary: £40000 - £50000 per annum + Bens + Bonus + Training
Posted: 15 May 2013
QA Tester / Automation Engineer
South West London
An experienced QA Tester / Automation Engineer is required to join the development team, to take ownership of the development and maintenance of the core testing infrastructure... This is...
Blue Glue
Salary: From £45,000 to £55,000 per annum
Posted: 17 May 2013
Automation QA Engineer, TDD, Central London, 50k
London
You should have really strong Automation testing experience including excellent understanding of Java or C# or Scala (or a comparable language) to truly understand the code... Java or...
GCS IT Recruitment Specialists
Salary: £40000 - £50000 per annum + benefits
Posted: 13 May 2013
QA Engineer
London
Further technologies you will be getting your hands dirty with include: -Selenium -Thorough knowledge of eCommerce -RHEL / CentOS -Agile / SCRUM -Continuous Integration / Continuous Delivery -Scripting / Programming (Java or...
Austin Fraser
Salary: £35000.00 - £40000.00 per annum + Benefits
Posted: 17 May 2013
QA Engineer Mobile Team
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
Senior QA Engineer
Stafford, Staffordshire
Testing, ISEB, SQL, SSAS, NHS Senior Software Test Analyst - My client, a market leading and forward thinking company in their sector are currently looking for a Senior Software...
Spring Technology
Salary: £30000.00 per annum + Plus benefits
Posted: 13 May 2013
QA Test Engineer
Cambridge, Cambridgeshire
My client is look for software tester with experience of .Net, C#.Net, Visual Basic and nUnit... Key Skills: List of key skills for the role; ISEB, ISTQB,...
Cooper Lomaz Recruitment Ltd
Salary: £30k - 35k per year
Posted: 15 May 2013
Senior QA Engineer
East London
Exciting opportunity for an enthusiastic Internet Test Engineer to join an award-winning start-up during its rapid growth phase.In the last year, my client have conceived...
Energize Recruitment Solutions Ltd
Salary: £35000 - £40000 per annum
Posted: 23 April 2013
Quality Assurance Engineer
Cambridge, East Anglia
Quality Assurance Engineer £35-45k, Cambridge One of our largest clients are looking for a QA Engineer to join their development team which works on making the development...
Fulcrum Telecom
Salary: £35000 - £45000 per annum + benefits
Posted: 1 May 2013
Test Analyst / QA Engineer (ISEB / ISTQB)
Poole, Dorset
Any experience of C / C++, PHP, JavaScript, XML, HTML, Python or Java would be of particular interest. Skills required for the role of Test Analyst / QA Engineer: Scripting...
Understanding Recruitment
Salary: £26000 - £32000 per annum + Benefits
Posted: 16 May 2013
QA Engineer - Mobile Products
Cambridge, Cambridgeshire
QA Engineer - Software QA, Linux, IP, Wi-Fi, Mobile. A fantastic opportunity for an experienced Software QA professional with mobile software knowledge to get involved in technical Android...
Anderson Lamb
Salary: From £30,000 to £50,000 per annum plus benefits package
Posted: 13 May 2013
Senior QA Engineer/Analyst ? Webdriver, Java, Agile, TDD, Continuous Integration, Selenium
London
Senior QA Analyst Essential Experience: - Strong software testing experience working within an Agile software development environment - Strong automation experience using Selenium Webdriver in Java - Strong experience in Open...
TRG
Salary: 45000-55000 Per Annum Bonus, benefits
Posted: 29 April 2013
Quality Assurance Engineer
London
Job Title: QA Engineer... The role As a Quality Assurance Engineer with my client, you'll be required to qualify workflows, verify that bugs are fixed, design test...
Apollo Solutions
Salary: £25000 - £30000 per annum + Excellent Benefits
Posted: 15 May 2013
QA Developer/ Developer in Test/ QA Engineer
City, London
Key Skills: QA Engineer, Automated Testing, Ruby, LUA, Selenium, Cucumber, SQL, Agile... *Knowledge of some of the following technologies (or equivalents): Ruby, LUA, Java, Flex, Actionscript, Selenium, Cucumber,...
Aston Carter
Salary: £40000 - £60000 per annum + Bonus and Benefits
Posted: 13 May 2013
Validation Engineer / QA Engineer
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
Senior QA Engineer
South West
Venn Group... Senior QA Engineer Where: North Bristol Contract Type: Permanent Notice: Immediate Our client, a global software provider, require a highly skilled QA Engineer to join their...
Venn Group
Salary: £40000 - 50000 Per Annum
Posted: 17 May 2013
QA Test Engineer (Selenium, QTP, Hands on Experience)
Glasgow, Lanarkshire
Our application suite is used by analysts both across the globe and across various lines of business, including Equities, Credit, Fixed Income and Economics... Testing tools - QC, QTP...
FPSG Connect
Salary: £30000 - £55000 per annum + Pension, Healthcare + Bous
Posted: 15 May 2013
QA Test Engineer / Senior Tester - Start-up
London
You will define the QA and test processes including building continuous integration processes (Hudson, Jenkins); an automated test framework (Selenium or similar) and develop test scripts within a...
Client Server
Salary: £45k to £55k + benefits
Posted: 14 May 2013
QA Test Engineer / Senior Tester - Start-up
City, London
You will define the QA and test processes including building continuous integration processes (Hudson, Jenkins); an automated test framework (Selenium or similar) and develop test scripts within a...
Client Server
Salary: £45k to £55k + benefits
Posted: 14 May 2013
QA Engineer
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: 17 May 2013
QA Engineer + need C#
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: 17 May 2013
QA Engineer / Software Tester - ISEB - Stafford
Stafford, Staffordshire
Quality Assurance Engineer - Software tester - QA Analyst - ISEB... Experience across QA - functional testing, automation, manual testing. ISEB Foundation. Desirable: Experience with SQL Server Analysis Services, SQL Server Reporting...
Deanslist Limited
Salary: From £25,000 to £32,000 per annum + bonus + benefits
Posted: 17 May 2013
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