Avon QA Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Quality Assurance (QA) skills within the Avon 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 8 January 2009 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Quality Assurance (QA)
Location Avon Basingstoke Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Bolton Braintree Brighton Bristol Buckingham Buckinghamshire Burton-upon-Trent Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Channel Islands Chelmsford Cheshire City of London County Antrim Coventry Cumbria Dagenham Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh England Essex Farnborough Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Hammersmith Hampshire Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire Huddersfield Jersey Kent Lancashire Leeds Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool London M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes New Malden Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Osterley Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Plymouth Portsmouth Reading Rochester Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Slough Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Staffordshire Stevenage Stoke-on-Trent Surrey Sussex Swindon Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warrington Warwickshire West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Yeovil Yorkshire	3 months to 8 Jan 2009	Same period last year
Rank	4	12
Rank change on same period last year	+8
Matching contract IT job ads	1	1
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.002 %	0.001 %
As % of the category below	100.00 %	33.33 %
Daily rates quoted	1	0
Average minimum daily rate	£200	-
Average daily rate	£250	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	£300	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£354	£354
% change on same period last year	+0.04 %
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	£29.94	£26.94
% change on same period last year	+11.16 %
Quality Assurance & Compliance Avon
Matching contract IT job ads	1	3
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.002 %	0.004 %
Daily rates quoted	1	2
Average minimum daily rate	£200	£450
Average daily rate	£250	£450
% change on same period last year	-44.44 %
Average maximum daily rate	£300	£450
UK excluding London average daily rate	£371	£370
% change on same period last year	+0.19 %
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	£22.03	£20.11
% change on same period last year	+9.55 %
QA South West

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 Avon region as a proportion of the total demand within the Quality Assurance & Compliance category.

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Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing QA across the Avon region.

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Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing QA across the Avon region.

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Top 6 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 8 January 2009, IT contractor jobs across the Avon 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 1 (33.33 %) PRINCE2 1 1 (33.33 %) NHS 1 1 (33.33 %) Project Management 1 1 (33.33 %) Finance 1 1 (33.33 %) Military 1 1 (33.33 %) Requirements Analysis

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 8 January 2009, IT contractor jobs across the Avon 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.

General 1 1 (33.33 %) Finance 1 1 (33.33 %) Military	Job Titles 1 1 (33.33 %) Project Manager 1 1 (33.33 %) Software Engineer 1 1 (33.33 %) Development Manager 1 1 (33.33 %) Quality Manager 1 1 (33.33 %) Test Engineer 1 1 (33.33 %) Software Test Engineer
Miscellaneous 1 1 (33.33 %) NHS	Processes & Methodologies 1 1 (33.33 %) PRINCE2 1 1 (33.33 %) Project Management 1 1 (33.33 %) Requirements Analysis