The first table below looks at the demand for the QA Analyst role in IT contracts advertised for the City of London 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 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 Job Titles advertised for the City of London 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 Analyst
Rank 192 185 234
Rank change year-on-year
-7 +49
Contract jobs requiring a QA Analyst 18 27 17
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 0.265% 0.349% 0.170%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.287% 0.381% 0.185%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 16 11
Average daily rate £425 £394 £543
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.93% -27.41%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £387 £275 £275
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £438 £565
UK excluding London average daily rate £335 £363 £325
% change year-on-year
-7.58% +11.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £20.00 £17.50
% change year-on-year
- +14.28%
All Job Titles
City of London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
6270 7082 9182
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 92.48% 91.49% 91.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 4641 5158 6680
Average daily rate £450 £450 £500
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -10.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £285 £285 £315
10% offered a daily rate of more than £600 £625 £650
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 155 170 217
Average hourly rate £20.00 £20.00 £20.00
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.50 £12.15 £12.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £51.90 £41.85 £43.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £19.94
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -9.72%
QA Analyst
London

QA Analyst
Jobs Demand Trend

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

City of London 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 City of London region.

City of London QA Analyst Daily Rate Trend

QA Analyst
Daily Rate Histogram

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

City of London QA Analyst Daily Rate Histogram

QA Analyst
Hourly Rate Trend

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

City of London QA Analyst Hourly Rate Trend

QA Analyst
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London 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 31 (100.00%) QA
2 17 (54.84%) SQL
3 15 (48.39%) Finance
4 12 (38.71%) Derivative
4 12 (38.71%) QuickTest Pro
4 12 (38.71%) Test Automation
5 11 (35.48%) Credit Derivative
6 10 (32.26%) Investment Banking
6 10 (32.26%) Banking
6 10 (32.26%) .NET
7 9 (29.03%) Microsoft
7 9 (29.03%) Regression Testing
8 8 (25.81%) TDD
9 7 (22.58%) Java
10 6 (19.35%) TCP/IP
10 6 (19.35%) Oracle
10 6 (19.35%) SQL Server
10 6 (19.35%) Agile Software Development
10 6 (19.35%) Performance Testing
10 6 (19.35%) Stress Testing
10 6 (19.35%) PowerShell
10 6 (19.35%) Analytics
11 5 (16.13%) Risk Analytics
11 5 (16.13%) Basel III
11 5 (16.13%) Credit Risk
11 5 (16.13%) Market Risk
11 5 (16.13%) Front Office
11 5 (16.13%) Risk Management
11 5 (16.13%) TIBCO EMS
11 5 (16.13%) JIRA

QA Analyst
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London 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 10 (32.26%) .NET
2 2 (6.452%) XML
2 2 (6.452%) XSLT
2 2 (6.452%) Drools
3 1 (3.226%) WPF
3 1 (3.226%) JNI
3 1 (3.226%) MSMQ
3 1 (3.226%) HTML
3 1 (3.226%) CSS
Application Platforms
1 5 (16.13%) TIBCO EMS
2 2 (6.452%) Confluence
3 1 (3.226%) CMS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (19.35%) TCP/IP
2 1 (3.226%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (19.35%) SQL Server
2 5 (16.13%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 12 (38.71%) QuickTest Pro
2 5 (16.13%) JIRA
3 4 (12.90%) Selenium
3 4 (12.90%) Cucumber
4 2 (6.452%) JUnit
4 2 (6.452%) Visual Studio
4 2 (6.452%) Subversion
4 2 (6.452%) Git (software)
5 1 (3.226%) Visual Studio Team System
5 1 (3.226%) Team Foundation Server
5 1 (3.226%) WebDriver
5 1 (3.226%) TestDirector
General
1 15 (48.39%) Finance
2 10 (32.26%) Investment Banking
2 10 (32.26%) Banking
3 5 (16.13%) Front Office
4 2 (6.452%) Legal
4 2 (6.452%) Telecoms
Miscellaneous
1 12 (38.71%) Derivative
2 11 (35.48%) Credit Derivative
3 5 (16.13%) Credit Risk
3 5 (16.13%) Market Risk
4 1 (3.226%) Fixed Income
4 1 (3.226%) Wiki
4 1 (3.226%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 4 (12.90%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (38.71%) Test Automation
2 9 (29.03%) Regression Testing
3 8 (25.81%) TDD
4 6 (19.35%) Agile Software Development
4 6 (19.35%) Performance Testing
4 6 (19.35%) Stress Testing
4 6 (19.35%) Analytics
5 5 (16.13%) Risk Analytics
5 5 (16.13%) Risk Management
5 5 (16.13%) Data Modelling
6 4 (12.90%) Automated Testing
6 4 (12.90%) Scrum
6 4 (12.90%) BDD
6 4 (12.90%) Manual Testing
6 4 (12.90%) Automation Testing
7 3 (9.677%) Test Scripting
7 3 (9.677%) E-Commerce
8 2 (6.452%) User Acceptance Testing
8 2 (6.452%) Test Strategy
9 1 (3.226%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 17 (54.84%) SQL
2 7 (22.58%) Java
3 6 (19.35%) PowerShell
4 3 (9.677%) C#
5 2 (6.452%) Shell Script
6 1 (3.226%) Ruby
6 1 (3.226%) Python
6 1 (3.226%) VBScript
6 1 (3.226%) VB
Qualifications
1 1 (3.226%) ISTQB
1 1 (3.226%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (100.00%) QA
2 5 (16.13%) Basel III
Systems Management
1 3 (9.677%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 9 (29.03%) Microsoft
2 6 (19.35%) Oracle
3 5 (16.13%) TIBCO
4 2 (6.452%) HP
5 1 (3.226%) Sybase
City of London
My Client, a leading investment bank, is looking for a Quality Assurance Test Analyst to join their team. Candidate should have good knowledge of/experience with:- - Performing analysis...
Huxley Associates
Posted: 19 June 2013