Could do witha bit of advice!

I am in the process of being made redundant by my current employer. I have been a support engineer for a company that makes software for the oil and gas industry, and have just over 5 years service. I have a BEng in Electronic Engineering too.

I've been offered a job as a Junior QS, the pay is about £5-6K less than my current pay (which is fucked anyway :crY, but I've heard that it's a good job to have, and the pay can rise astronomically with experience

I guess I have a few questions:

Is it a decent job to be in?
Is there much work out there?
What training should I be looking at getting them to provide for me (qualifications etc)

Cheers!!

Neil.