QA Contracts in Bracknell
 
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 Bracknell region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited QA over the 3 months to 23 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 Bracknell 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
23 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Quality Assurance (QA)
Rank 35 19 15
Rank change year-on-year
-16 -4
Contract jobs citing QA 4 6 11
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Bracknell 1.674% 3.947% 6.548%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 26.67% 60.00% 73.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 6
Average daily rate £450 £255 £288
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+76.47% -11.30%
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 £26.00 £18.75 £32.50
% change year-on-year
+38.66% -42.30%
All Quality Assurance & Compliance
Bracknell
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Quality Assurance & Compliance category		 15 10 15
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Bracknell 6.276% 6.579% 8.929%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 6 7
Average daily rate £165 £350 £450
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-52.85% -22.22%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £152 £255 £142
10% offered a daily rate of more than £222 £400 £1,000
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £375
% change year-on-year
- -6.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 1
Average hourly rate £14.50 - £36.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £16.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -46.66%
QA
Berkshire

QA
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Bracknell 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 Bracknell region.

Bracknell 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 Bracknell region.

Bracknell QA Hourly Rate Trend

QA
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Bracknell 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 (53.85%) NFS
1 7 (53.85%) TCP/IP
1 7 (53.85%) Agile Software Development
1 7 (53.85%) Field-Programmable Gate Array
2 6 (46.15%) Degree
3 5 (38.46%) Test Scripting
3 5 (38.46%) Project Management
4 4 (30.77%) Client/Server
4 4 (30.77%) FTP
4 4 (30.77%) UNIX
4 4 (30.77%) Python
4 4 (30.77%) C
4 4 (30.77%) C++
4 4 (30.77%) UML
4 4 (30.77%) OO
4 4 (30.77%) Embedded Systems
4 4 (30.77%) Computer Science
5 3 (23.08%) Retail
5 3 (23.08%) System Testing
5 3 (23.08%) NAS
5 3 (23.08%) Product Management
5 3 (23.08%) HP Quality Center
5 3 (23.08%) Windows
5 3 (23.08%) Veritas
5 3 (23.08%) Legato
5 3 (23.08%) HP
6 2 (15.38%) Data Modelling
6 2 (15.38%) SAN
6 2 (15.38%) E-Commerce
6 2 (15.38%) Microsoft

QA
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Bracknell 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 Platforms
1 1 (7.692%) SAS
Applications
1 2 (15.38%) MS Project
Communications & Networking
1 7 (53.85%) TCP/IP
2 4 (30.77%) FTP
3 3 (23.08%) NAS
4 2 (15.38%) SAN
5 1 (7.692%) VLAN
5 1 (7.692%) IPv6
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.692%) Base SAS
General
1 3 (23.08%) Retail
Job Titles
1 4 (30.77%) Software Engineer
2 3 (23.08%) Project Manager
3 2 (15.38%) Business Analyst
3 2 (15.38%) Analyst
3 2 (15.38%) Business Systems Analyst
3 2 (15.38%) Systems Analyst
3 2 (15.38%) Storage Engineer
3 2 (15.38%) Test Engineer
4 1 (7.692%) Senior Tester
4 1 (7.692%) Systems Developer
4 1 (7.692%) QA Tester
4 1 (7.692%) QA Engineer
4 1 (7.692%) SAS Developer
4 1 (7.692%) Systems Tester
4 1 (7.692%) Developer
4 1 (7.692%) Senior QA Engineer
4 1 (7.692%) Senior QA Tester
4 1 (7.692%) UML Business Analyst
4 1 (7.692%) Tester
Miscellaneous
1 7 (53.85%) Field-Programmable Gate Array
2 4 (30.77%) Client/Server
2 4 (30.77%) Embedded Systems
2 4 (30.77%) Computer Science
3 1 (7.692%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 4 (30.77%) UNIX
2 3 (23.08%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (53.85%) Agile Software Development
2 5 (38.46%) Test Scripting
2 5 (38.46%) Project Management
3 4 (30.77%) UML
3 4 (30.77%) OO
4 3 (23.08%) System Testing
4 3 (23.08%) Product Management
5 2 (15.38%) Data Modelling
5 2 (15.38%) E-Commerce
5 2 (15.38%) RUP
5 2 (15.38%) DSDM
5 2 (15.38%) PRINCE2
5 2 (15.38%) Waterfall
5 2 (15.38%) Use Case
5 2 (15.38%) User Acceptance Testing
5 2 (15.38%) Scrum
6 1 (7.692%) HOOD
6 1 (7.692%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 4 (30.77%) Python
1 4 (30.77%) C
1 4 (30.77%) C++
2 1 (7.692%) Bash shell
Qualifications
1 6 (46.15%) Degree
2 1 (7.692%) ISEB
System Software
1 7 (53.85%) NFS
Systems Management
1 3 (23.08%) HP Quality Center
1 3 (23.08%) Legato
2 1 (7.692%) SCOM
Vendors
1 3 (23.08%) Veritas
1 3 (23.08%) HP
2 2 (15.38%) Microsoft
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