The first table below looks at the demand for the QA Analyst role in IT contracts advertised for the Birmingham region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited QA Analyst in their job title over the 3 months to 24 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 advertised for the Birmingham 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Quality Assurance Analyst
Rank - - 47
Contract jobs requiring a QA Analyst 0 0 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Birmingham - - 0.390%
As % of the Job Titles category - - 0.430%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 2
Average daily rate - - £295
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £363 £260
% change year-on-year
-3.44% +39.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - £17.50
All Job Titles
Birmingham
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
409 588 465
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Birmingham 93.17% 94.69% 90.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 201 318 258
Average daily rate £340 £325 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+4.61% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £218 £183 £175
10% offered a daily rate of more than £494 £450 £525
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 35 28
Average hourly rate £16.38 £14.50 £13.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+12.93% +11.53%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £9.73 £11.00 £10.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £37.00 £33.30 £127.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
QA Analyst
West Midlands

QA Analyst
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing QA Analyst across the Birmingham region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

Birmingham QA Analyst Jobs Demand Trend

QA Analyst
Daily Rate Trend

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

Birmingham QA Analyst Daily Rate Trend

QA Analyst
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Birmingham QA Analyst Hourly Rate Trend

QA Analyst
Top 17 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Birmingham region that cited QA Analyst 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 contract IT job ads sampled with QA Analyst in their job title.

1 5 (100.00%) QA
2 3 (60.00%) User Acceptance Testing
2 3 (60.00%) Integration Testing
2 3 (60.00%) System Testing
2 3 (60.00%) Finance
2 3 (60.00%) SQL
2 3 (60.00%) J2EE
2 3 (60.00%) Oracle
2 3 (60.00%) UNIX
2 3 (60.00%) Oracle Forms
2 3 (60.00%) Shell Script
2 3 (60.00%) Software Testing
3 2 (40.00%) MS Office
3 2 (40.00%) Automated Testing
3 2 (40.00%) Mobile App
4 1 (20.00%) C
4 1 (20.00%) C++

QA Analyst
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Birmingham region that cited QA Analyst 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 contract IT job ads sampled with QA Analyst in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 3 (60.00%) J2EE
Applications
1 2 (40.00%) MS Office
Development Applications
1 3 (60.00%) Oracle Forms
General
1 3 (60.00%) Finance
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 3 (60.00%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) User Acceptance Testing
1 3 (60.00%) Integration Testing
1 3 (60.00%) System Testing
1 3 (60.00%) Software Testing
2 2 (40.00%) Automated Testing
Programming Languages
1 3 (60.00%) SQL
1 3 (60.00%) Shell Script
2 1 (20.00%) C
2 1 (20.00%) C++
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (100.00%) QA
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) Oracle