Amersham QA Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Quality Assurance (QA) skills within the Amersham region with a comparison to our Quality Assurance & Compliance category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited QA over the 3 months to 10 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Quality Assurance (QA)
Location Amersham Avon Basingstoke Bath Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Bracknell Brentford Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Channel Islands Cheltenham Cheshire Chester City of London Corsham County Antrim Coventry Croydon Cumbria Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London East Anglia East Grinstead East Midlands East of England East Sussex Eastleigh Edinburgh England Essex Exeter Fareham Farnborough Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Guildford Hampshire Harlow Harrogate Havant Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire Horsham Hounslow Hove Huntingdon Kent Knutsford Lancashire Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Liverpool London M4 Corridor Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Marlow Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newport Norfolk North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Plymouth Portsmouth Preston Reading Reigate Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Slough Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southend-on-Sea Stevenage Stratford-upon-Avon Sunbury-on-Thames Surrey Swadlincote Swindon Thames Valley UK Uxbridge Wales Warrington Warwickshire Watford West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wilmslow Wiltshire Wokingham Worcester Worcestershire York Yorkshire	3 months to 10 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	5	-
Rank change on same period last year	-
Matching contract IT job ads	2	0
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.003 %	0.000 %
As % of the category below	100.00 %	0.000 %
Daily rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum daily rate	-	-
Average daily rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£358	£334
% change on same period last year	+7.11 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum hourly rate	-	-
Average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£30.60	£30.03
% change on same period last year	+1.91 %
Quality Assurance & Compliance Amersham
Matching contract IT job ads	2	6
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.003 %	0.006 %
Daily rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum daily rate	-	-
Average daily rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£372	£348
% change on same period last year	+6.91 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	4
Average minimum hourly rate	-	£39.17
Average hourly rate	-	£39.17
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	£39.17
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£25.12	£25.92
% change on same period last year	-3.07 %
QA Buckinghamshire

We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing QA across the Amersham region as a proportion of the total demand within the Quality Assurance & Compliance category.

QA
Top 11 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 10 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Amersham region citing QA also mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited QA.

1 3 (100.00 %) SQL 1 3 (100.00 %) Oracle 1 3 (100.00 %) MS Excel 1 3 (100.00 %) ISEB 1 3 (100.00 %) Software Testing 2 2 (66.67 %) Finance 2 2 (66.67 %) VB 3 1 (33.33 %) MS Access 3 1 (33.33 %) ISTQB 3 1 (33.33 %) Test Scripting 3 1 (33.33 %) C

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 10 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Amersham region citing QA also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited QA. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Applications 1 3 (100.00 %) MS Excel	Database & Business Intelligence 1 1 (33.33 %) MS Access
General 1 2 (66.67 %) Finance	Job Titles 1 3 (100.00 %) Analyst 1 3 (100.00 %) Test Analyst 2 2 (66.67 %) Senior Analyst 2 2 (66.67 %) Senior Test Analyst 2 2 (66.67 %) QA Analyst 3 1 (33.33 %) Senior QA Analyst 3 1 (33.33 %) Tester 3 1 (33.33 %) Senior Tester 3 1 (33.33 %) QA Test Analyst
Processes & Methodologies 1 3 (100.00 %) Software Testing 2 1 (33.33 %) Test Scripting	Programming Languages 1 3 (100.00 %) SQL 2 2 (66.67 %) VB 3 1 (33.33 %) C
Qualifications 1 3 (100.00 %) ISEB 2 1 (33.33 %) ISTQB	Vendors 1 3 (100.00 %) Oracle