QA Contracts in Bournemouth
 
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 Bournemouth region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited QA over the 3 months to 17 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 Bournemouth 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
17 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Quality Assurance (QA)
Rank 17 19 17
Rank change year-on-year
+2 -2
Contract jobs citing QA 7 7 13
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Bournemouth 6.422% 4.795% 8.333%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 46.67% 35.00% 50.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 6 8
Average daily rate £411 £375 £329
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+9.60% +14.06%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £343 £320 £274
10% offered a daily rate of more than £417 £410 £399
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £350 £360
% change year-on-year
-7.14% -2.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £28.75 £17.50 £26.25
% change year-on-year
+64.28% -33.33%
All Quality Assurance & Compliance
Bournemouth
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Quality Assurance & Compliance category		 15 20 26
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Bournemouth 13.76% 13.70% 16.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 13 10
Average daily rate £360 £475 £329
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-24.21% +44.48%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £128 £292 £275
10% offered a daily rate of more than £631 £475 £391
UK excluding London average daily rate £340 £350 £375
% change year-on-year
-2.85% -6.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 0
Average hourly rate - £13.00 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £16.35 £29.00
% change year-on-year
+7.03% -43.62%
QA
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QA
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Bournemouth 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 Bournemouth region.

Bournemouth 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 Bournemouth region.

Bournemouth QA Hourly Rate Trend

QA
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Bournemouth 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 5 (35.71%) Microsoft
1 5 (35.71%) Internet
1 5 (35.71%) Finance
1 5 (35.71%) Banking
2 4 (28.57%) Legal
2 4 (28.57%) User Acceptance Testing
2 4 (28.57%) SQL
2 4 (28.57%) Data Mining
2 4 (28.57%) Reference Data
3 3 (21.43%) Change Control
3 3 (21.43%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 3 (21.43%) Oracle
3 3 (21.43%) Project Management
3 3 (21.43%) MS Excel
3 3 (21.43%) Resource Management
3 3 (21.43%) Investment Banking
3 3 (21.43%) MS PowerPoint
3 3 (21.43%) Stakeholder Management
3 3 (21.43%) Risk Management
4 2 (14.29%) Agile Software Development
4 2 (14.29%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 2 (14.29%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 2 (14.29%) Degree
4 2 (14.29%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 2 (14.29%) Linux
4 2 (14.29%) LoadRunner
4 2 (14.29%) Java
4 2 (14.29%) PL/SQL
4 2 (14.29%) UNIX
4 2 (14.29%) SWIFT

QA
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Bournemouth 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 (7.143%) JDBC
1 1 (7.143%) ODBC
1 1 (7.143%) Middleware
1 1 (7.143%) Spring
1 1 (7.143%) Spring MVC
1 1 (7.143%) Spring Integration
Application Platforms
1 1 (7.143%) WebLogic
Applications
1 3 (21.43%) MS Excel
1 3 (21.43%) MS PowerPoint
Communications & Networking
1 5 (35.71%) Internet
2 1 (7.143%) FTP
2 1 (7.143%) HTTP
2 1 (7.143%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (28.57%) Data Mining
2 2 (14.29%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 2 (14.29%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 2 (14.29%) SQL Server Analysis Services
3 1 (7.143%) TOAD
Development Applications
1 2 (14.29%) LoadRunner
2 1 (7.143%) JProbe
2 1 (7.143%) Introscope
2 1 (7.143%) JProfiler
2 1 (7.143%) TestDirector
2 1 (7.143%) QuickTest Pro
General
1 5 (35.71%) Finance
1 5 (35.71%) Banking
2 4 (28.57%) Legal
3 3 (21.43%) Investment Banking
4 1 (7.143%) Wholesale Banking
Job Titles
1 4 (28.57%) Analyst
2 3 (21.43%) Project Manager
2 3 (21.43%) Developer
3 2 (14.29%) Test Analyst
3 2 (14.29%) Analyst Developer
4 1 (7.143%) IT Project Manager
4 1 (7.143%) QA Tester
4 1 (7.143%) QA Test Analyst
4 1 (7.143%) Senior Java Developer
4 1 (7.143%) Business Intelligence Analyst
4 1 (7.143%) QA Analyst
4 1 (7.143%) Business Intelligence Developer
4 1 (7.143%) Quality Analyst
4 1 (7.143%) Designer
4 1 (7.143%) Senior Designer
4 1 (7.143%) QA Leader
4 1 (7.143%) Business Developer
4 1 (7.143%) Senior Developer
4 1 (7.143%) Java Developer
4 1 (7.143%) Business Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 4 (28.57%) Reference Data
2 2 (14.29%) SWIFT
Operating Systems
1 2 (14.29%) UNIX
1 2 (14.29%) Linux
2 1 (7.143%) Windows
2 1 (7.143%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (28.57%) User Acceptance Testing
2 3 (21.43%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 3 (21.43%) Change Control
2 3 (21.43%) Resource Management
2 3 (21.43%) Project Management
2 3 (21.43%) Risk Management
2 3 (21.43%) Stakeholder Management
3 2 (14.29%) Agile Software Development
4 1 (7.143%) Software Testing
4 1 (7.143%) Scrum
4 1 (7.143%) MVC
4 1 (7.143%) PRINCE2
4 1 (7.143%) E-Commerce
4 1 (7.143%) Business Intelligence
4 1 (7.143%) Test Strategy
4 1 (7.143%) Unit Testing
4 1 (7.143%) Test Management
4 1 (7.143%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 4 (28.57%) SQL
2 2 (14.29%) Java
2 2 (14.29%) PL/SQL
3 1 (7.143%) C
3 1 (7.143%) C++
3 1 (7.143%) VBScript
3 1 (7.143%) VB
3 1 (7.143%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 2 (14.29%) Degree
2 1 (7.143%) ISEB
2 1 (7.143%) ISTQB
Systems Management
1 2 (14.29%) HP Quality Center
2 1 (7.143%) HP SiteScope
Vendors
1 5 (35.71%) Microsoft
2 3 (21.43%) Oracle
3 1 (7.143%) HP
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