The first table below looks at the demand for the QA Test 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 Test Analyst in their job title 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 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
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Quality Assurance Test Analyst
Rank 186 204 236
Rank change year-on-year
+18 +32
Contract jobs requiring a QA Test Analyst 13 15 9
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 0.205% 0.191% 0.090%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.221% 0.208% 0.098%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 6 3
Average daily rate £425 £388 £275
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+9.67% +40.90%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £403 £338 £255
10% offered a daily rate of more than £458 £478 £295
UK excluding London average daily rate £345 £350 £300
% change year-on-year
-1.42% +16.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - £20.00
All Job Titles
City of London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
5876 7201 9157
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 92.51% 91.48% 91.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 4326 5182 6677
Average daily rate £450 £450 £500
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -10.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £288 £275 £325
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 136 179 197
Average hourly rate £20.00 £20.00 £19.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- +2.56%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.50 £12.50 £12.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £135.00 £41.25 £41.38
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
QA Test Analyst
London

QA Test Analyst
Jobs Demand Trend

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

City of London QA Test Analyst Jobs Demand Trend

QA Test Analyst
Daily Rate Trend

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

City of London QA Test Analyst Daily Rate Trend

QA Test Analyst
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region that cited QA Test 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 Test Analyst in their job title.

1 21 (100.00%) QA
2 13 (61.90%) SQL
3 11 (52.38%) Derivative
4 10 (47.62%) Credit Derivative
4 10 (47.62%) Finance
5 9 (42.86%) Test Automation
6 8 (38.10%) Microsoft
6 8 (38.10%) QuickTest Pro
6 8 (38.10%) .NET
7 7 (33.33%) Investment Banking
7 7 (33.33%) TDD
7 7 (33.33%) Banking
8 5 (23.81%) Credit Risk
8 5 (23.81%) Market Risk
8 5 (23.81%) PowerShell
8 5 (23.81%) TIBCO EMS
8 5 (23.81%) Performance Testing
8 5 (23.81%) Stress Testing
8 5 (23.81%) Oracle
8 5 (23.81%) SQL Server
8 5 (23.81%) Data Warehouse
8 5 (23.81%) Data Modelling
8 5 (23.81%) TCP/IP
8 5 (23.81%) TIBCO
8 5 (23.81%) Regression Testing
8 5 (23.81%) Front Office
8 5 (23.81%) Risk Management
8 5 (23.81%) Basel III
8 5 (23.81%) Risk Analytics
8 5 (23.81%) Analytics

QA Test Analyst
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region that cited QA Test 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 Test Analyst in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 8 (38.10%) .NET
2 2 (9.524%) XML
2 2 (9.524%) XSLT
2 2 (9.524%) Drools
3 1 (4.762%) WPF
3 1 (4.762%) JNI
3 1 (4.762%) HTML
Application Platforms
1 5 (23.81%) TIBCO EMS
2 3 (14.29%) Confluence
3 1 (4.762%) CMS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (23.81%) TCP/IP
2 1 (4.762%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (23.81%) SQL Server
1 5 (23.81%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 8 (38.10%) QuickTest Pro
2 4 (19.05%) JIRA
3 3 (14.29%) Git (software)
3 3 (14.29%) Subversion
4 2 (9.524%) JUnit
4 2 (9.524%) Visual Studio
4 2 (9.524%) Selenium
5 1 (4.762%) Visual Studio Team System
5 1 (4.762%) Team Foundation Server
5 1 (4.762%) TestDirector
5 1 (4.762%) Cucumber
General
1 10 (47.62%) Finance
2 7 (33.33%) Investment Banking
2 7 (33.33%) Banking
3 5 (23.81%) Front Office
4 1 (4.762%) Telecoms
Miscellaneous
1 11 (52.38%) Derivative
2 10 (47.62%) Credit Derivative
3 5 (23.81%) Credit Risk
3 5 (23.81%) Market Risk
4 1 (4.762%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 2 (9.524%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (42.86%) Test Automation
2 7 (33.33%) TDD
3 5 (23.81%) Performance Testing
3 5 (23.81%) Stress Testing
3 5 (23.81%) Data Modelling
3 5 (23.81%) Regression Testing
3 5 (23.81%) Risk Management
3 5 (23.81%) Risk Analytics
3 5 (23.81%) Analytics
4 3 (14.29%) Scrum
4 3 (14.29%) Automation Testing
5 2 (9.524%) BDD
5 2 (9.524%) Agile Software Development
6 1 (4.762%) Integration Testing
6 1 (4.762%) Web Testing
6 1 (4.762%) Manual Testing
6 1 (4.762%) User Acceptance Testing
6 1 (4.762%) Automated Testing
6 1 (4.762%) Cost-Benefit Analysis
6 1 (4.762%) RUP
Programming Languages
1 13 (61.90%) SQL
2 5 (23.81%) PowerShell
3 3 (14.29%) C#
3 3 (14.29%) Java
4 2 (9.524%) Shell Script
5 1 (4.762%) JavaScript
5 1 (4.762%) PHP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (100.00%) QA
2 5 (23.81%) Basel III
Systems Management
1 1 (4.762%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 8 (38.10%) Microsoft
2 5 (23.81%) Oracle
2 5 (23.81%) TIBCO
3 2 (9.524%) HP
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