QA Contracts in the City of London
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for QA skills 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 over the 3 months to 17 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 of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 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
17 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Quality Assurance (QA)
Rank 55 51 54
Rank change year-on-year
-4 +3
Contract jobs citing QA 205 247 313
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 3.257% 3.175% 3.180%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 40.92% 34.07% 38.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 149 175 206
Average daily rate £425 £438 £475
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-2.85% -7.89%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £285 £288 £350
10% offered a daily rate of more than £550 £600 £625
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £350 £360
% change year-on-year
-7.14% -2.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 4
Average hourly rate - £12.50 £27.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -53.70%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £28.75 £17.50 £26.25
% change year-on-year
+64.28% -33.33%
All Quality Assurance & Compliance
City of London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Quality Assurance & Compliance category		 501 725 807
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 7.959% 9.319% 8.200%
Number of daily rates quoted 368 486 557
Average daily rate £450 £475 £500
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-5.26% -5.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £295 £300 £325
10% offered a daily rate of more than £550 £650 £650
UK excluding London average daily rate £340 £350 £375
% change year-on-year
-2.85% -6.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 31 14
Average hourly rate £135.00 £18.70 £19.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+621.92% -1.57%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £16.35 £29.00
% change year-on-year
+7.03% -43.62%
QA
London

QA
Jobs Demand Trend

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

City of London 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 City of London region.

City of London 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 City of London region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

City of London 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 City of London region.

City of London QA Hourly Rate Trend

QA
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London 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.

1 144 (34.53%) Finance
2 114 (27.34%) Banking
3 85 (20.38%) Agile Software Development
4 82 (19.66%) Java
5 78 (18.71%) Investment Banking
6 76 (18.23%) SQL
6 76 (18.23%) Selenium
7 58 (13.91%) .NET
8 55 (13.19%) Project Management
9 52 (12.47%) User Acceptance Testing
9 52 (12.47%) Cucumber
10 51 (12.23%) Derivative
11 49 (11.75%) Oracle
12 46 (11.03%) Test Automation
13 43 (10.31%) Microsoft
13 43 (10.31%) Scrum
14 42 (10.07%) C#
15 40 (9.592%) WebDriver
16 38 (9.113%) TDD
17 37 (8.873%) JIRA
18 35 (8.393%) SQL Server
18 35 (8.393%) BDD
19 34 (8.153%) E-Commerce
20 32 (7.674%) HTML
20 32 (7.674%) Ruby
21 31 (7.434%) UNIX
22 30 (7.194%) Configuration Management
22 30 (7.194%) Test Scripting
23 29 (6.954%) Windows
23 29 (6.954%) Change Management

QA
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London 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 58 (13.91%) .NET
2 32 (7.674%) HTML
3 23 (5.516%) XML
4 18 (4.317%) CSS
5 15 (3.597%) Web Services
6 14 (3.357%) J2EE
7 10 (2.398%) Middleware
8 9 (2.158%) WebSphere
8 9 (2.158%) SOAP
8 9 (2.158%) HTML5
9 8 (1.918%) FIX Protocol
10 7 (1.679%) JSON
10 7 (1.679%) RESTful
11 6 (1.439%) jQuery
12 5 (1.199%) REST
12 5 (1.199%) Gherkin
12 5 (1.199%) .NET Framework
12 5 (1.199%) Ajax
12 5 (1.199%) Spring
12 5 (1.199%) Hibernate
Application Platforms
1 9 (2.158%) TIBCO EMS
2 8 (1.918%) Confluence
3 7 (1.679%) SharePoint
4 6 (1.439%) WebLogic
5 4 (0.959%) Apache
5 4 (0.959%) Tomcat
5 4 (0.959%) Windows Azure
6 3 (0.719%) Amazon EC2
6 3 (0.719%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 3 (0.719%) CMS
7 2 (0.480%) IIS
7 2 (0.480%) MS Exchange
7 2 (0.480%) Exchange Server 2010
7 2 (0.480%) TeamSite
8 1 (0.240%) WebSphere Application Server
8 1 (0.240%) Exchange Server 2013
8 1 (0.240%) SAS
8 1 (0.240%) Lotus Notes
8 1 (0.240%) MSMQ
8 1 (0.240%) MQSeries
Applications
1 24 (5.755%) MS Excel
2 19 (4.556%) MS Office
3 14 (3.357%) MS Project
4 11 (2.638%) MS Visio
5 7 (1.679%) MS PowerPoint
6 3 (0.719%) Photoshop
7 2 (0.480%) InfoPath
8 1 (0.240%) Spreadsheet
8 1 (0.240%) Adobe Illustrator
Business Applications
1 9 (2.158%) Summit
2 3 (0.719%) SAP Oil and Gas
3 2 (0.480%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.240%) Loan IQ
4 1 (0.240%) Cognos Business Intelligence
4 1 (0.240%) Google Analytics
4 1 (0.240%) SunGard Stream Clearvision
4 1 (0.240%) LatentZero
Communications & Networking
1 11 (2.638%) HTTP
2 10 (2.398%) SAN
3 8 (1.918%) Internet
4 6 (1.439%) TCP/IP
5 4 (0.959%) LAN
5 4 (0.959%) WAN
6 3 (0.719%) LDAP
7 2 (0.480%) VoIP
7 2 (0.480%) SMTP
7 2 (0.480%) Extranet
7 2 (0.480%) DNS
7 2 (0.480%) CTI
7 2 (0.480%) FTP
8 1 (0.240%) Intranet
8 1 (0.240%) SSL
8 1 (0.240%) Kerberos
8 1 (0.240%) Firewall
8 1 (0.240%) Wireless
8 1 (0.240%) BSS
8 1 (0.240%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (8.393%) SQL Server
2 24 (5.755%) Data Warehouse
3 8 (1.918%) MySQL
4 6 (1.439%) DB2
4 6 (1.439%) OLAP
5 5 (1.199%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 5 (1.199%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 5 (1.199%) Oracle 11g
6 4 (0.959%) SQL Server 2008
6 4 (0.959%) Oracle OLAP
6 4 (0.959%) Oracle Reports
6 4 (0.959%) Oracle 10g
7 3 (0.719%) RDBMS
7 3 (0.719%) Star Schema
7 3 (0.719%) Essbase
7 3 (0.719%) Data Mining
7 3 (0.719%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 3 (0.719%) Oracle BI EE
8 2 (0.480%) QlikView
8 2 (0.480%) OLTP
Development Applications
1 76 (18.23%) Selenium
2 52 (12.47%) Cucumber
3 40 (9.592%) WebDriver
4 37 (8.873%) JIRA
5 29 (6.954%) Subversion
6 28 (6.715%) QuickTest Pro
7 20 (4.796%) Git (software)
8 17 (4.077%) JUnit
9 15 (3.597%) WATIR
10 14 (3.357%) Jenkins
11 12 (2.878%) SpecFlow
11 12 (2.878%) Team Foundation Server
11 12 (2.878%) Maven
12 11 (2.638%) Visual Studio
12 11 (2.638%) TeamCity
13 7 (1.679%) FitNesse
14 6 (1.439%) TestNG
14 6 (1.439%) SilkTest
15 5 (1.199%) JMeter
15 5 (1.199%) Ant
General
1 144 (34.53%) Finance
2 114 (27.34%) Banking
3 78 (18.71%) Investment Banking
4 24 (5.755%) Front Office
5 15 (3.597%) Back Office
5 15 (3.597%) Financial Institution
6 13 (3.118%) Publishing
7 11 (2.638%) Retail
8 9 (2.158%) Games
8 9 (2.158%) Marketing
9 7 (1.679%) Telecoms
10 5 (1.199%) Advertising
11 4 (0.959%) Law
11 4 (0.959%) Legal
11 4 (0.959%) Manufacturing
11 4 (0.959%) Corporate Banking
12 3 (0.719%) Retail Banking
12 3 (0.719%) Electronics
12 3 (0.719%) Billing
13 2 (0.480%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 134 (32.13%) Analyst
2 59 (14.15%) Test Analyst
3 49 (11.75%) Developer
4 36 (8.633%) Business Analyst
4 36 (8.633%) QA Engineer
4 36 (8.633%) QA Analyst
5 34 (8.153%) Tester
6 20 (4.796%) Test Manager
6 20 (4.796%) QA Test Analyst
7 19 (4.556%) Project Manager
8 14 (3.357%) QA Tester
9 10 (2.398%) Test Engineer
9 10 (2.398%) Data Analyst
9 10 (2.398%) Consultant
10 9 (2.158%) QA Manager
10 9 (2.158%) Technical Leader
11 8 (1.918%) Technical Analyst
11 8 (1.918%) Senior Developer
11 8 (1.918%) Automation Tester
11 8 (1.918%) Automation Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 51 (12.23%) Derivative
2 16 (3.837%) Fixed Income
3 14 (3.357%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 13 (3.118%) Management Information System
5 12 (2.878%) Credit Derivative
5 12 (2.878%) Credit Risk
6 11 (2.638%) Open Source
7 10 (2.398%) Computer Science
8 8 (1.918%) Market Risk
9 7 (1.679%) Clustering
10 6 (1.439%) Reference Data
11 5 (1.199%) Mathematics
11 5 (1.199%) E-Learning
11 5 (1.199%) Equities
11 5 (1.199%) Digital Media
11 5 (1.199%) Mobile App
12 4 (0.959%) Learning Management System
12 4 (0.959%) PaaS
13 3 (0.719%) Social Media
13 3 (0.719%) Cloud Computing
Operating Systems
1 31 (7.434%) UNIX
2 29 (6.954%) Windows
3 26 (6.235%) Linux
4 9 (2.158%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 8 (1.918%) Apple iOS
6 6 (1.439%) Android
6 6 (1.439%) Solaris
7 5 (1.199%) Windows Server 2008
8 4 (0.959%) Windows Server 2003
9 3 (0.719%) Debian
9 3 (0.719%) Windows 7
9 3 (0.719%) Windows Server 2012
10 2 (0.480%) Windows XP
11 1 (0.240%) VMS
11 1 (0.240%) OpenVMS
11 1 (0.240%) Windows 8
Processes & Methodologies
1 85 (20.38%) Agile Software Development
2 55 (13.19%) Project Management
3 52 (12.47%) User Acceptance Testing
4 46 (11.03%) Test Automation
5 43 (10.31%) Scrum
6 38 (9.113%) TDD
7 35 (8.393%) BDD
8 34 (8.153%) E-Commerce
9 30 (7.194%) Configuration Management
9 30 (7.194%) Test Scripting
10 29 (6.954%) Change Management
11 28 (6.715%) Automated Testing
12 24 (5.755%) Risk Management
12 24 (5.755%) Automation Testing
13 22 (5.276%) OO
14 21 (5.036%) UML
14 21 (5.036%) Business Analysis
15 20 (4.796%) Regression Testing
15 20 (4.796%) Performance Testing
16 19 (4.556%) Release Management
Programming Languages
1 82 (19.66%) Java
2 76 (18.23%) SQL
3 42 (10.07%) C#
4 32 (7.674%) Ruby
5 28 (6.715%) JavaScript
6 23 (5.516%) C++
7 18 (4.317%) Perl
8 16 (3.837%) Python
9 13 (3.118%) PHP
10 8 (1.918%) PL/SQL
11 7 (1.679%) VB
11 7 (1.679%) VBA
11 7 (1.679%) PowerShell
12 6 (1.439%) C
13 5 (1.199%) Bash shell
14 4 (0.959%) VBScript
14 4 (0.959%) Shell Script
15 3 (0.719%) XAML
15 3 (0.719%) T-SQL
15 3 (0.719%) Jython
Qualifications
1 27 (6.475%) ISEB
2 25 (5.995%) Degree
3 13 (3.118%) Security Cleared
4 11 (2.638%) ISTQB
5 10 (2.398%) SC Cleared
6 4 (0.959%) PRINCE2 Certification
6 4 (0.959%) DV Cleared
7 2 (0.480%) BC Cleared
7 2 (0.480%) Sun Certification
7 2 (0.480%) ITIL Certification
7 2 (0.480%) PMI Certification
7 2 (0.480%) ACCA
7 2 (0.480%) CIMA
8 1 (0.240%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 1 (0.240%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (0.240%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.240%) HND
8 1 (0.240%) MCSE
8 1 (0.240%) CCNA
8 1 (0.240%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (2.398%) Basel III
2 4 (0.959%) ISO 9000
3 2 (0.480%) SLA
3 2 (0.480%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.240%) ISO 9001
4 1 (0.240%) FATCA
System Software
1 13 (3.118%) Active Directory
2 4 (0.959%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (0.719%) Microsoft Virtual Server
3 3 (0.719%) vCloud
4 2 (0.480%) vSphere
4 2 (0.480%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.240%) XenApp
5 1 (0.240%) XenDesktop
5 1 (0.240%) Veritas Cluster Server
5 1 (0.240%) Oracle RAC
5 1 (0.240%) VMware ESX
5 1 (0.240%) Microsoft App-V
5 1 (0.240%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 15 (3.597%) HP Quality Center
2 4 (0.959%) Puppet
3 1 (0.240%) Red Hat Spacewalk
3 1 (0.240%) AppDNA
3 1 (0.240%) Tivoli
3 1 (0.240%) Tivoli Monitoring
3 1 (0.240%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
3 1 (0.240%) Backup Exec
3 1 (0.240%) WSUS
3 1 (0.240%) SCCM
3 1 (0.240%) SCOM
3 1 (0.240%) SCVMM
3 1 (0.240%) Data Guard
Vendors
1 49 (11.75%) Oracle
2 43 (10.31%) Microsoft
3 19 (4.556%) HP
4 12 (2.878%) Informatica
5 11 (2.638%) Sybase
6 9 (2.158%) TIBCO
7 8 (1.918%) VMware
8 7 (1.679%) Red Hat
9 6 (1.439%) CommVault
9 6 (1.439%) Business Objects
9 6 (1.439%) EMC
10 4 (0.959%) SAP
10 4 (0.959%) Thunderhead
11 3 (0.719%) Remedy
11 3 (0.719%) Citrix
11 3 (0.719%) Adobe
11 3 (0.719%) Murex
11 3 (0.719%) DevExpress
11 3 (0.719%) Teradata
11 3 (0.719%) Syncfusion
Information Analyst
City of London
Information AnalystLondon£200 per dayMy client, a vibrant public sector organisation based in London, has an exciting opportunity for an Information Analyst to join their team.The post...
Hays Specialist Recruitment Ltd
Rate: £200.00 - £250.00 per day
Posted: 10 May 2013
CONTRACT Test Automation Developer / Test Analyst
City of London
Our client an Investment Bank requires a TEST AUTOMATION DEVELOPER / TEST ANALYST on a contractual basis. You will be joining the successful Front Office Equities team... Responsibilities The...
Huxley Associates
Rate: £400 - £550 per day
Posted: 15 May 2013
ASP.Net MVC Developer
City, London
Work closely with the QA team and support the system testing. * Produce documented & tested software for delivery to the QA team * Participate in design and code reviews Experience...
Aston Carter
Salary: £400 - £500 per day
Posted: 16 May 2013
.Net Software Engineer (XNA, Kinect, WPF)
City of London
Promote good software engineering practices (e.g. test driven development, performance in design)... Net, C#, WPF, XNA, Microsoft Xbox 360, Kinect, Surface devices HTML, CSS, JavaScript, JQuery API'...
Salt
Rate: £500 - £600 per day
Posted: 17 May 2013
Technical Test Engineer
City, London
Experience of testing .NET applications and MS-Windows, MS-Excel and Microsoft Technologies. - Experience with Jira, Confluence... - Programming/Scripting experience (Python, PERL)... - Experience with Splunk. - Networking concepts (TCP/...
Hydrogen Group
Rate: £400.00 - £450.00 per day
Posted: 16 May 2013
Rationalisation Project Manager (estates rationalisation)
City of London
This role will manage the project to deliver the reduction in the client's services by rationalising the operating locations.The candidate should have experience of managing the...
Sand Resources
Rate: £400 - £500 per day
Posted: 9 May 2013
Configuration Analyst (Service Delivery, ITIL, SDLC)
City of London
Service Transition/Configuration Analyst Role:*Work with the IS Configuration & Release Manager to establish and refine repeatable, structure processes and procedures for management of Service Transition processes.*Responsible...
Sand Resources
Rate: £250 - £300 per day
Posted: 15 May 2013
Ruby QA Framework Developer
City, London
Report results from any automated testing back to QA lead on a regular basis... * Experience of the Ruby on Rails environment... * Habitual use TDD and BDD techniques including...
Engage PSG
Posted: 14 May 2013
Programme Planner
City of London
templates) Plan QA MSP Support Progress Tracking & Reporting Coaching Project Managers /Project Planners Work with the Head of Programme Delivery Programme and Project Managers To help ensure they...
WorldPay
Posted: 17 May 2013
Investment Bank UX Designer/Business Analyst
City, London
This role offers the successful candidate full ownership of several significant projects within the team and so requires the ability and demonstrable previous experience of working with users,...
Thomson Keene Associates
Rate: £500 - £600 per day
Posted: 15 May 2013
JBOSS/TIBCO EMS Java Consultant
City, London
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a skilled JBOSS/TIBCO EMS Java Consultant to join a global investment bank as part of their Equity Finance IT group... Candidates...
Aston Carter
Rate: £550 - £600 per day
Posted: 13 May 2013
PMO Analyst
City of London
The Role.Assurance of the quality of project delivery by assisting and consulting Project Managers in developing project documents, plans, and ensuring a holistic review of project information...
Rate: £290.00 - £375.00 per day
Posted: 16 May 2013
PMO Analyst
City, London
Project quality assurance: project schedules and plans, cost estimates, risk / issue logs, resource requirements and Checking for consistency of PM Approach, alignment to corporate standards and best practice.....
QUANTICA
Rate: £290.00 - £375.00 per day
Posted: 15 May 2013
QA Developer / Tier 1 Investment Bank -£650/pd LDN
City of London
QA Developer Quantitative London Tier 1 Investment Bank Finance Risk My Tier 1 investment Banking Client based in the City of London is looking for a Quantitative Developer...
Huxley Associates
Rate: £500 - £650 per day
Posted: 15 May 2013
IT Project Manager Energy Trading
City, London
Identifies resources needed and assigns individual responsibilities Effectively applies appropriate methodology and enforces project standards Manages the day-to-day operational and tactical aspects of delivering multiple or...
QUANTICA
Rate: £500 - £600 per day
Posted: 14 May 2013
IT Project Manager Energy Trading
City of London
Our client is one of the world's largest Energy Production & Energy Trading companies, trading on Gas, LNG, Power & Carbon is looking for an IT Project Manager for...
Rate: £500 - £600 per day
Posted: 15 May 2013
Test Manager - Credit Risk
City of London
An opportunity has arisen to work for a leading retail bank to work within a Credit risk project; they are urgently looking to recruit a Test Manager. You...
Hays Specialist Recruitment
Rate: £400.00 - £450.00 per annum
Posted: 27 April 2013
AX Functional/Finance Consultant
City of London
The company is currently at the design & data gathering phase and require a Consultant with a strong finance background to assist with the next phase of the project...
Nigel Frank International
Rate: £450 - £475 per day
Posted: 15 May 2013
Technical Delivery Manager
City of London
The Role Plan, organise, lead, and control projects or services, or both, in order to deliver the infrastructure solutions for the business to the quality required, within agreed...
WorldPay
Posted: 17 May 2013
Commercial Assurance Manager
City, London
Working with the Supplier to achieve Reporting on a regular basis the status of Suppliers deliverables. Provide initial Programme assessments of any commercial implications in variances in projects...
Experis IT
Rate: £500 - £625 per day
Posted: 14 May 2013
RQA Framework Lead
City of London
FRAMEWORK, QUALITY ASSURANCE, END-TO-END SOURCING, SUPPLIER MANAGEMENT FRAMEWORK, SOURCING POLICY My client, a leading Retail Bank based in London requires a high level interim to complete...
Huxley Associates
Rate: £500 - £550 per day
Posted: 15 May 2013
ALM Test ManagerBanking-Contract-London
City of London
Other responsibilities will involve: Conducting performance reviews, Maintaining and improving testing roles, Facilitating development, Evaluating training and development needs, Managing tests, Minimizing budget expenditure on tests , Developing testing...
Real Staffing
Rate: £600 - £700 per day
Posted: 15 May 2013
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