The first table below looks at the demand for QA skills in IT contracts advertised for the Cheshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited QA over the 3 months to 19 June 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 Cheshire 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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Quality Assurance (QA)
Rank 55 55 64
Rank change year-on-year
0 +9
Contract jobs citing QA 12 12 9
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cheshire 1.655% 1.472% 0.966%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 35.29% 19.67% 15.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 8 7
Average daily rate £313 £350 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-10.71% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £188 £255 £281
10% offered a daily rate of more than £395 £387 £585
UK excluding London average daily rate £338 £325 £389
% change year-on-year
+3.84% -16.39%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.75 £25.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year
-32.99% -16.66%
All Quality Assurance & Compliance
Cheshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Quality Assurance & Compliance category
34 61 58
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cheshire 4.690% 7.485% 6.223%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 38 30
Average daily rate £325 £300 £250
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+8.33% +20.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £140 £277 £80
10% offered a daily rate of more than £370 £396 £375
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £388
% change year-on-year
- -9.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 12
Average hourly rate - £14.00 £17.75
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -21.12%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £18.25 £16.72 £30.00
% change year-on-year
+9.15% -44.26%
QA
North West

QA
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Cheshire 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 Cheshire region.

Cheshire QA Daily Rate Trend

QA
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing QA across the Cheshire region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

Cheshire QA Daily Rate Histogram

QA
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Cheshire QA Hourly Rate Trend

QA
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing QA within the Cheshire region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Find
Job
Vacancies
Knutsford -7 1 - - 1
Chester - 1 - - 2
Warrington - 1 - - 4
Wilmslow - - - -
Crewe - - - -
Macclesfield - - - -
Northwich - - - -
QA
North West

QA
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cheshire 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 8 (30.77%) UNIX
1 8 (30.77%) Migration
2 7 (26.92%) IBM
3 6 (23.08%) SAN
3 6 (23.08%) Windows
3 6 (23.08%) AIX
3 6 (23.08%) Oracle
3 6 (23.08%) Brocade
3 6 (23.08%) User Acceptance Testing
3 6 (23.08%) Change Control
4 5 (19.23%) Capacity Planning
4 5 (19.23%) Banking
4 5 (19.23%) Project Management
4 5 (19.23%) Shell Script
4 5 (19.23%) Hitachi
4 5 (19.23%) Tivoli Storage Manager
5 4 (15.38%) Finance
5 4 (15.38%) PRINCE2
5 4 (15.38%) MS Excel
5 4 (15.38%) Windows XP
6 3 (11.54%) Windows 7
6 3 (11.54%) Software Packaging
6 3 (11.54%) Microsoft App-V
6 3 (11.54%) Business Continuity
6 3 (11.54%) Information Security
6 3 (11.54%) Supplier Management
6 3 (11.54%) Microsoft
6 3 (11.54%) HP
6 3 (11.54%) ISEB
6 3 (11.54%) SQL

QA
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cheshire 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 3 (11.54%) Software Packaging
2 2 (7.692%) ASP.NET
2 2 (7.692%) XML
2 2 (7.692%) HTML
2 2 (7.692%) .NET
2 2 (7.692%) Application Packaging
3 1 (3.846%) SAP Business Workflow
3 1 (3.846%) Web Dynpro
3 1 (3.846%) WebSphere
3 1 (3.846%) JMS
3 1 (3.846%) WebSphere MQ
3 1 (3.846%) Middleware
Application Platforms
1 2 (7.692%) Magento
2 1 (3.846%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (15.38%) MS Excel
2 3 (11.54%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 1 (3.846%) SAP BPC
1 1 (3.846%) SAP GRC
1 1 (3.846%) SAP CO
1 1 (3.846%) SAP FI/CO
1 1 (3.846%) SAP HR
1 1 (3.846%) SAP SD
1 1 (3.846%) SAP FI
1 1 (3.846%) SAP MM
1 1 (3.846%) SAP PS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (23.08%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (7.692%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (11.54%) MSI
2 2 (7.692%) InstallShield
2 2 (7.692%) AdminStudio
2 2 (7.692%) Visual Studio
2 2 (7.692%) Wise Package Studio
General
1 5 (19.23%) Banking
2 4 (15.38%) Finance
Job Titles
1 8 (30.77%) Analyst
2 5 (19.23%) Migration Engineer
3 4 (15.38%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 4 (15.38%) AIX Engineer
4 3 (11.54%) Security Manager
4 3 (11.54%) Security Project Manager
4 3 (11.54%) Applications Packager
4 3 (11.54%) Project Manager
4 3 (11.54%) Business Analyst
4 3 (11.54%) Test Analyst
5 2 (7.692%) Developer
5 2 (7.692%) Data Analyst
6 1 (3.846%) Information Security Project Manager
6 1 (3.846%) Service Transition Manager
6 1 (3.846%) Business Data Analyst
6 1 (3.846%) Virtualisation Consultant
6 1 (3.846%) Project Coordinator
6 1 (3.846%) ABAP Developer
6 1 (3.846%) Storage Administrator
6 1 (3.846%) Information Manager
Miscellaneous
1 1 (3.846%) Management Information System
1 1 (3.846%) HACMP
Operating Systems
1 8 (30.77%) UNIX
2 6 (23.08%) Windows
2 6 (23.08%) AIX
3 4 (15.38%) Windows XP
4 3 (11.54%) Windows 7
5 1 (3.846%) Tru64
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (30.77%) Migration
2 6 (23.08%) User Acceptance Testing
2 6 (23.08%) Change Control
3 5 (19.23%) Capacity Planning
3 5 (19.23%) Project Management
4 4 (15.38%) PRINCE2
5 3 (11.54%) Business Continuity
5 3 (11.54%) Information Security
5 3 (11.54%) Supplier Management
5 3 (11.54%) Risk Management
5 3 (11.54%) Workflow
5 3 (11.54%) Change Management
6 2 (7.692%) Validation
6 2 (7.692%) ITIL
6 2 (7.692%) Resource Management
6 2 (7.692%) Web Development
6 2 (7.692%) E-Commerce
6 2 (7.692%) Stakeholder Management
6 2 (7.692%) Test Management
6 2 (7.692%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 5 (19.23%) Shell Script
2 3 (11.54%) SQL
3 2 (7.692%) VBScript
4 1 (3.846%) Java
4 1 (3.846%) Perl
4 1 (3.846%) VB
4 1 (3.846%) ABAP
Qualifications
1 3 (11.54%) ISEB
2 2 (7.692%) Degree
2 2 (7.692%) ISTQB
2 2 (7.692%) Security Cleared
3 1 (3.846%) SC Cleared
3 1 (3.846%) PMP
3 1 (3.846%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.846%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (3.846%) COBIT
1 1 (3.846%) ISO 9000
1 1 (3.846%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 3 (11.54%) Microsoft App-V
2 1 (3.846%) PowerHA
Systems Management
1 5 (19.23%) Tivoli Storage Manager
2 2 (7.692%) HP Quality Center
3 1 (3.846%) SCCM
Vendors
1 7 (26.92%) IBM
2 6 (23.08%) Oracle
2 6 (23.08%) Brocade
3 5 (19.23%) Hitachi
4 3 (11.54%) Microsoft
4 3 (11.54%) HP
5 1 (3.846%) Open Text
5 1 (3.846%) AppSense
5 1 (3.846%) Citrix
5 1 (3.846%) Adobe
5 1 (3.846%) CA
5 1 (3.846%) SAP
5 1 (3.846%) NetApp
5 1 (3.846%) TIBCO
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