QA Contracts in Basingstoke
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Hourly Rate Trend Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for QA skills in IT contracts advertised for the Basingstoke region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited QA over the 3 months to 21 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 of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category for the Basingstoke region.

Note that daily contractor rates and hourly contractor rates are treated separately. When calculating average contractor rates, daily rates are not derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Location
 3 months to
21 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Quality Assurance (QA)
Rank 36 25 29
Rank change year-on-year
-11 +4
Contract jobs citing QA 8 2 3
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Basingstoke 3.738% 1.087% 1.230%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 50.00% 13.33% 16.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 1
Average daily rate £330 £394 £475
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-16.19% -17.10%
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £350 £363
% change year-on-year
-7.14% -3.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
Average hourly rate £30.00 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £26.75 £18.75 £26.25
% change year-on-year
+42.66% -28.57%
All Quality Assurance & Compliance
Basingstoke
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Quality Assurance & Compliance category		 16 15 18
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Basingstoke 7.477% 8.152% 7.377%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 7 10
Average daily rate £388 £370 £385
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+4.72% -3.89%
UK excluding London average daily rate £345 £350 £375
% change year-on-year
-1.42% -6.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 4
Average hourly rate £23.13 - £13.54
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £17.31 - £11.76
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £30.00 - £29.61
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £16.35 £30.00
% change year-on-year
+7.03% -45.50%
QA
Hampshire

QA
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing QA across the Basingstoke region as a proportion of the total demand within the Quality Assurance & Compliance category.

Basingstoke QA Jobs Demand Trend

QA
Daily Rate Trend

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

Basingstoke QA Daily Rate Trend

QA
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Basingstoke QA Hourly Rate Trend

QA
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Basingstoke 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 9 (64.29%) Java
2 6 (42.86%) soapUI
3 5 (35.71%) WebDriver
3 5 (35.71%) Final Cut Pro
3 5 (35.71%) ISTQB
3 5 (35.71%) Selenium
3 5 (35.71%) ISEB
3 5 (35.71%) Software AG
3 5 (35.71%) Sony
3 5 (35.71%) SOAP
4 4 (28.57%) C#
4 4 (28.57%) Software Testing
4 4 (28.57%) TDD
4 4 (28.57%) BDD
4 4 (28.57%) SpecFlow
5 3 (21.43%) WATIR
5 3 (21.43%) FitNesse
5 3 (21.43%) WCF
5 3 (21.43%) C
5 3 (21.43%) Unit Testing
5 3 (21.43%) Integration Testing
5 3 (21.43%) System Testing
5 3 (21.43%) Team Foundation Server
5 3 (21.43%) BizTalk Server
5 3 (21.43%) TickIT
5 3 (21.43%) C++
5 3 (21.43%) HTML
5 3 (21.43%) JavaScript
5 3 (21.43%) Perl
5 3 (21.43%) SQL

QA
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Basingstoke 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.

Application Development
1 6 (42.86%) soapUI
2 5 (35.71%) SOAP
3 3 (21.43%) WCF
3 3 (21.43%) HTML
3 3 (21.43%) .NET
3 3 (21.43%) XML
4 1 (7.143%) RESTful
4 1 (7.143%) Web Services
Application Platforms
1 3 (21.43%) BizTalk Server
2 1 (7.143%) Exchange Server 2003
2 1 (7.143%) MS Exchange
2 1 (7.143%) Exchange Server 2010
Applications
1 5 (35.71%) Final Cut Pro
2 3 (21.43%) MS Office
2 3 (21.43%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (7.143%) SAP Oil and Gas
Development Applications
1 5 (35.71%) WebDriver
1 5 (35.71%) Selenium
2 4 (28.57%) SpecFlow
3 3 (21.43%) WATIR
3 3 (21.43%) FitNesse
3 3 (21.43%) Team Foundation Server
4 2 (14.29%) NUnit
5 1 (7.143%) Maven
5 1 (7.143%) Firebug
5 1 (7.143%) Fiddler
5 1 (7.143%) JMeter
5 1 (7.143%) Jenkins
5 1 (7.143%) Hudson
5 1 (7.143%) Cucumber
General
1 1 (7.143%) Marketing
1 1 (7.143%) Electronics
1 1 (7.143%) Telecoms
1 1 (7.143%) Finance
1 1 (7.143%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 6 (42.86%) Analyst
1 6 (42.86%) QA Engineer
2 4 (28.57%) Test Analyst
3 3 (21.43%) Test Team Leader
3 3 (21.43%) Team Leader
4 2 (14.29%) Support Analyst
4 2 (14.29%) QA Analyst
4 2 (14.29%) Quality Analyst
5 1 (7.143%) Process Analyst
5 1 (7.143%) Test Engineer
5 1 (7.143%) Software Test Engineer
5 1 (7.143%) Project Analyst
5 1 (7.143%) Test Specialist
5 1 (7.143%) Infrastructure Manager
5 1 (7.143%) Project Manager
5 1 (7.143%) Software Engineer
5 1 (7.143%) Consultant
5 1 (7.143%) Infrastructure Project Manager
5 1 (7.143%) Process Consultant
5 1 (7.143%) Automation Specialist
Miscellaneous
1 1 (7.143%) DTV
1 1 (7.143%) SaaS
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (28.57%) Software Testing
1 4 (28.57%) TDD
1 4 (28.57%) BDD
2 3 (21.43%) Unit Testing
2 3 (21.43%) Integration Testing
2 3 (21.43%) System Testing
2 3 (21.43%) SOA
3 1 (7.143%) Agile Software Development
3 1 (7.143%) Digital Marketing
3 1 (7.143%) Kanban
3 1 (7.143%) Web Testing
3 1 (7.143%) Continuous Integration
3 1 (7.143%) Business Intelligence
3 1 (7.143%) E-Commerce
3 1 (7.143%) Risk Management
3 1 (7.143%) Migration
3 1 (7.143%) Scrum
3 1 (7.143%) Programme Management
3 1 (7.143%) Project Management
3 1 (7.143%) Agile Testing
Programming Languages
1 9 (64.29%) Java
2 4 (28.57%) C#
3 3 (21.43%) C
3 3 (21.43%) C++
3 3 (21.43%) JavaScript
3 3 (21.43%) Perl
3 3 (21.43%) SQL
3 3 (21.43%) Python
4 1 (7.143%) Ruby
4 1 (7.143%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 5 (35.71%) ISTQB
1 5 (35.71%) ISEB
2 2 (14.29%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (21.43%) TickIT
1 3 (21.43%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 1 (7.143%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 5 (35.71%) Software AG
1 5 (35.71%) Sony
2 3 (21.43%) Microsoft
3 1 (7.143%) SAP
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