Bristol QA Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Quality Assurance (QA) skills within the Bristol 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 29 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 Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cheltenham Cheshire Chester City of London Corsham County Antrim Coventry Crawley Croydon Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset Durham East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex Eastleigh Edinburgh England Epsom Essex Exeter Farnborough Flintshire Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Guildford Hampshire Harlow Harrogate Hartlepool Havant Hayes Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Horsham Hounslow Hove Kent Knutsford Lancashire Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Liverpool London M4 Corridor Maidenhead Maidstone 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 Southend-on-Sea Staffordshire Stevenage Stirling Sunbury-on-Thames Surrey Swadlincote Swindon Telford Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Ware Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wilmslow Wiltshire Wokingham Worcester Worcestershire York Yorkshire	3 months to 29 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	54	65
Rank change on same period last year	+11
Matching contract IT job ads	6	9
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.008 %	0.009 %
As % of the category below	25.00 %	23.08 %
Daily rates quoted	2	4
Average minimum daily rate	£125	£272
Average daily rate	£163	£303
% change on same period last year	-46.32 %
Average maximum daily rate	£200	£334
UK excluding London average daily rate	£352	£340
% change on same period last year	+3.54 %
Hourly rates quoted	1	2
Average minimum hourly rate	£15.00	£27.50
Average hourly rate	£20.00	£29.00
% change on same period last year	-31.03 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£25.00	£30.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£31.38	£31.84
% change on same period last year	-1.46 %
Quality Assurance & Compliance Bristol
Matching contract IT job ads	24	39
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.032 %	0.039 %
Daily rates quoted	13	12
Average minimum daily rate	£372	£257
Average daily rate	£437	£268
% change on same period last year	+62.96 %
Average maximum daily rate	£502	£280
UK excluding London average daily rate	£382	£358
% change on same period last year	+6.72 %
Hourly rates quoted	3	13
Average minimum hourly rate	£13.33	£21.15
Average hourly rate	£15.33	£22.62
% change on same period last year	-32.19 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£17.33	£24.08
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.39	£25.63
% change on same period last year	-8.73 %
QA South West

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.

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Demand Trend

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

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Daily Rate Trend

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

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Hourly Rate Trend

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

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Top 28 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 29 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Bristol 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 2 (16.67 %) Internet 1 2 (16.67 %) Agile Software Development 1 2 (16.67 %) Automated Testing 1 2 (16.67 %) Web Testing 2 1 (8.333 %) Test Management 2 1 (8.333 %) Test Scripting 2 1 (8.333 %) System Testing 2 1 (8.333 %) Security Cleared 2 1 (8.333 %) User Acceptance Testing 2 1 (8.333 %) Information Management 2 1 (8.333 %) Insurance 2 1 (8.333 %) WAI 2 1 (8.333 %) Data Management 2 1 (8.333 %) Service Delivery 2 1 (8.333 %) Management Information System

2 1 (8.333 %) Telecoms 2 1 (8.333 %) Games 2 1 (8.333 %) Programme Office Management 2 1 (8.333 %) HTML 2 1 (8.333 %) MS Office 2 1 (8.333 %) Visual Studio 2 1 (8.333 %) XML 2 1 (8.333 %) ITIL 2 1 (8.333 %) MS Visio 2 1 (8.333 %) Microsoft 2 1 (8.333 %) ISEB 2 1 (8.333 %) ITIL Certification 2 1 (8.333 %) W3C

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 29 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Bristol 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 (8.333 %) HTML 1 1 (8.333 %) XML	Applications 1 1 (8.333 %) MS Office 1 1 (8.333 %) MS Visio
Communications & Networking 1 2 (16.67 %) Internet	Development Applications 1 1 (8.333 %) Visual Studio
General 1 1 (8.333 %) Telecoms 1 1 (8.333 %) Games 1 1 (8.333 %) Insurance	Job Titles 1 3 (25.00 %) Analyst 2 2 (16.67 %) Test Manager 2 2 (16.67 %) Test Analyst 2 2 (16.67 %) Coordinator 2 2 (16.67 %) QA Tester 2 2 (16.67 %) QA Test Analyst 2 2 (16.67 %) QA Analyst 2 2 (16.67 %) Tester 2 2 (16.67 %) Web Tester 3 1 (8.333 %) Quality Analyst 3 1 (8.333 %) Programme Coordinator 3 1 (8.333 %) Software Manager 3 1 (8.333 %) Software Test Manager 3 1 (8.333 %) QA Test Manager 3 1 (8.333 %) Delivery Manager 3 1 (8.333 %) Project Manager 3 1 (8.333 %) Business Analyst 3 1 (8.333 %) Project Leader 3 1 (8.333 %) QA Manager 3 1 (8.333 %) Services Delivery Manager
Miscellaneous 1 1 (8.333 %) W3C 1 1 (8.333 %) Management Information System	Processes & Methodologies 1 2 (16.67 %) Agile Software Development 1 2 (16.67 %) Web Testing 1 2 (16.67 %) Automated Testing 2 1 (8.333 %) User Acceptance Testing 2 1 (8.333 %) Test Management 2 1 (8.333 %) Test Scripting 2 1 (8.333 %) System Testing 2 1 (8.333 %) Security Cleared 2 1 (8.333 %) Data Management 2 1 (8.333 %) Information Management 2 1 (8.333 %) ITIL 2 1 (8.333 %) Service Delivery 2 1 (8.333 %) Programme Office Management
Qualifications 1 1 (8.333 %) ISEB 1 1 (8.333 %) ITIL Certification	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 1 (8.333 %) WAI
Vendors 1 1 (8.333 %) Microsoft