Birmingham QA Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Quality Assurance (QA) skills within the Birmingham 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 20 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Quality Assurance (QA)
Location Amersham Basildon Basingstoke Bath Belfast Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Bournemouth Bracknell Bridgend Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cheltenham Cheshire Chester City of London Clapham Corsham County Antrim Coventry Crawley Croydon Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset Durham East Midlands East of England Eastleigh Edinburgh England Epsom Essex Exeter Farnborough Flintshire Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Guildford Hammersmith Hampshire Harlow Harrogate Harrow Hartlepool Havant Hayes Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Horsham Hounslow Knutsford Lancashire Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Liverpool Livingston London M4 Corridor Maidenhead Manchester Marlow Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Newton-le-Willows Norfolk North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Poole Portsmouth Reading Reigate Sale Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Staffordshire Stevenage Stirling Sunbury-on-Thames Surrey Swadlincote Swindon Telford Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Ware Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wilmslow Wiltshire Windsor Wokingham Worcester Worcestershire York Yorkshire	3 months to 20 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	40	52
Rank change on same period last year	+12
Matching contract IT job ads	14	15
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.018 %	0.015 %
As % of the category below	28.00 %	33.33 %
Daily rates quoted	3	4
Average minimum daily rate	£283	£375
Average daily rate	£317	£400
% change on same period last year	-20.83 %
Average maximum daily rate	£350	£425
UK excluding London average daily rate	£353	£342
% change on same period last year	+3.19 %
Hourly rates quoted	1	4
Average minimum hourly rate	£45.00	£11.57
Average hourly rate	£45.00	£12.44
% change on same period last year	+261.73 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£45.00	£13.32
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£33.50	£30.98
% change on same period last year	+8.15 %
Quality Assurance & Compliance Birmingham
Matching contract IT job ads	50	45
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.066 %	0.045 %
Daily rates quoted	11	9
Average minimum daily rate	£311	£350
Average daily rate	£342	£375
% change on same period last year	-8.78 %
Average maximum daily rate	£373	£400
UK excluding London average daily rate	£380	£361
% change on same period last year	+5.17 %
Hourly rates quoted	3	20
Average minimum hourly rate	£35.00	£12.06
Average hourly rate	£35.67	£12.74
% change on same period last year	+180.03 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£36.33	£13.41
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£24.03	£24.95
% change on same period last year	-3.68 %
QA West Midlands

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.

QA
Demand Trend

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

QA
Daily Rate Trend

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

QA
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing QA across the Birmingham region over the 3 months to 20 August 2008.

QA
Hourly Rate Trend

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

QA
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Birmingham 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 7 (43.75 %) Performance Management 2 6 (37.50 %) Finance 2 6 (37.50 %) C 3 5 (31.25 %) SAP 4 3 (18.75 %) Business Objects 4 3 (18.75 %) Oracle 4 3 (18.75 %) PRINCE 4 3 (18.75 %) Cognos 4 3 (18.75 %) Hyperion 4 3 (18.75 %) BusinessObjects 4 3 (18.75 %) Stakeholder Management 5 2 (12.50 %) Insurance 5 2 (12.50 %) Pensions 5 2 (12.50 %) Balanced Scorecard 5 2 (12.50 %) WinRunner

5 2 (12.50 %) TestDirector 5 2 (12.50 %) LoadRunner 5 2 (12.50 %) Datawarehouse 5 2 (12.50 %) Business Intelligence 5 2 (12.50 %) RDBMS 5 2 (12.50 %) OLAP 5 2 (12.50 %) Java 5 2 (12.50 %) SQL 5 2 (12.50 %) UNIX 5 2 (12.50 %) Windows 5 2 (12.50 %) Oracle OLAP 5 2 (12.50 %) User Acceptance Testing 6 1 (6.250 %) Web Testing 6 1 (6.250 %) Apache 6 1 (6.250 %) RUP

QA
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Birmingham 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 1 (6.250 %) Struts 1 1 (6.250 %) J2EE 1 1 (6.250 %) Velocity	Application Platforms 1 1 (6.250 %) Apache 1 1 (6.250 %) WebLogic
Applications 1 1 (6.250 %) MS Excel 1 1 (6.250 %) MS Office	Database & Business Intelligence 1 3 (18.75 %) BusinessObjects 2 2 (12.50 %) Datawarehouse 2 2 (12.50 %) RDBMS 2 2 (12.50 %) OLAP 2 2 (12.50 %) Oracle OLAP
Development Applications 1 2 (12.50 %) WinRunner 1 2 (12.50 %) TestDirector 1 2 (12.50 %) LoadRunner 2 1 (6.250 %) Ant 2 1 (6.250 %) JUnit	General 1 6 (37.50 %) Finance 2 2 (12.50 %) Insurance 2 2 (12.50 %) Pensions 3 1 (6.250 %) Education 3 1 (6.250 %) Games
Job Titles 1 7 (43.75 %) Consultant 2 6 (37.50 %) Management Consultant 3 3 (18.75 %) Tester 3 3 (18.75 %) Analyst 3 3 (18.75 %) QA Tester 4 2 (12.50 %) QA Engineer 4 2 (12.50 %) Quality Analyst 4 2 (12.50 %) Software Tester 4 2 (12.50 %) QA Analyst 5 1 (6.250 %) Project Manager 5 1 (6.250 %) Business Analyst 5 1 (6.250 %) Programme Manager 5 1 (6.250 %) Developer 5 1 (6.250 %) Test Manager 5 1 (6.250 %) Test Analyst 5 1 (6.250 %) Web Developer 5 1 (6.250 %) Lead Developer 5 1 (6.250 %) QA Manager 5 1 (6.250 %) Business Consultant 5 1 (6.250 %) Change Manager	Operating Systems 1 2 (12.50 %) UNIX 1 2 (12.50 %) Windows
Processes & Methodologies 1 7 (43.75 %) Performance Management 2 3 (18.75 %) PRINCE 2 3 (18.75 %) Stakeholder Management 3 2 (12.50 %) Balanced Scorecard 3 2 (12.50 %) Business Intelligence 3 2 (12.50 %) User Acceptance Testing 4 1 (6.250 %) Web Testing 4 1 (6.250 %) RUP 4 1 (6.250 %) PRINCE2 4 1 (6.250 %) Project Management 4 1 (6.250 %) Risk Management 4 1 (6.250 %) Validation 4 1 (6.250 %) Quality Management 4 1 (6.250 %) Change Management 4 1 (6.250 %) Logistics 4 1 (6.250 %) Automated Testing 4 1 (6.250 %) Operations Management 4 1 (6.250 %) Software Testing	Programming Languages 1 6 (37.50 %) C 2 2 (12.50 %) Java 2 2 (12.50 %) SQL
Qualifications 1 1 (6.250 %) ISEB 1 1 (6.250 %) MBA 1 1 (6.250 %) CIPFA 1 1 (6.250 %) CIMA 1 1 (6.250 %) ISEB Practitioner	Vendors 1 5 (31.25 %) SAP 2 3 (18.75 %) Business Objects 2 3 (18.75 %) Oracle 2 3 (18.75 %) Cognos 2 3 (18.75 %) Hyperion 3 1 (6.250 %) Microsoft