The first table below looks at the demand for the QA Analyst role in IT contracts advertised for the Brighton 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 Brighton 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 23 34 -
Rank change year-on-year
+11 -
Contract jobs requiring a QA Analyst 5 1 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Brighton 3.378% 0.391% -
As % of the Job Titles category 3.546% 0.398% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 0
Average daily rate £300 £300 -
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
Brighton
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
141 251 131
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Brighton 95.27% 98.05% 95.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 65 118 74
Average daily rate £350 £380 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-7.89% +1.33%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £210 £200 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £525 £488 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 14 8
Average hourly rate £15.00 £23.00 £13.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-34.78% +70.37%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £14.09 £13.20 £10.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £23.00 £175.00 £20.20
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
QA Analyst
East Sussex

QA Analyst
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Brighton 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 Brighton region.

Brighton QA Analyst Daily Rate Trend

QA Analyst
Top 27 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Brighton 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 2 (40.00%) Agile Software Development
2 2 (40.00%) TDD
2 2 (40.00%) Microsoft Analysis Services
2 2 (40.00%) Automated Testing
2 2 (40.00%) SpecFlow
2 2 (40.00%) Gherkin
2 2 (40.00%) ASP.NET MVC 4
2 2 (40.00%) Selenium
2 2 (40.00%) jQuery
2 2 (40.00%) User Acceptance Testing
2 2 (40.00%) Performance Testing
2 2 (40.00%) Dimensional Modelling
2 2 (40.00%) ASP.NET MVC
2 2 (40.00%) Scrum
2 2 (40.00%) MVC
2 2 (40.00%) JavaScript
2 2 (40.00%) SQL
2 2 (40.00%) .NET
2 2 (40.00%) ASP.NET
2 2 (40.00%) CSS
2 2 (40.00%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (40.00%) Business Intelligence
2 2 (40.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (40.00%) MDX
3 1 (20.00%) Games
3 1 (20.00%) Social Gaming

QA Analyst
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Brighton 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 2 (40.00%) Gherkin
1 2 (40.00%) ASP.NET MVC 4
1 2 (40.00%) jQuery
1 2 (40.00%) ASP.NET MVC
1 2 (40.00%) .NET
1 2 (40.00%) ASP.NET
1 2 (40.00%) CSS
1 2 (40.00%) MDX
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft Analysis Services
1 2 (40.00%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 2 (40.00%) SpecFlow
1 2 (40.00%) Selenium
General
1 1 (20.00%) Games
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Social Gaming
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (40.00%) Agile Software Development
1 2 (40.00%) TDD
1 2 (40.00%) Automated Testing
1 2 (40.00%) User Acceptance Testing
1 2 (40.00%) Performance Testing
1 2 (40.00%) Dimensional Modelling
1 2 (40.00%) Scrum
1 2 (40.00%) MVC
1 2 (40.00%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) JavaScript
1 2 (40.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (100.00%) QA
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft