The first table below looks at the demand for the Senior 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 Senior QA 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
Senior Quality Assurance Analyst
Rank - 215 243
Contract jobs requiring a Senior QA Analyst 0 4 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London - 0.051% 0.020%
As % of the Job Titles category - 0.056% 0.022%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 2 1
Average daily rate - £388 £550
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -29.54%
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £425 £188
% change year-on-year
-17.64% +126.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
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%
Senior QA Analyst
London

Senior QA Analyst
Jobs Demand Trend

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

City of London Senior QA Analyst Jobs Demand Trend

Senior QA Analyst
Daily Rate Trend

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

City of London Senior QA Analyst Daily Rate Trend

Senior QA Analyst
Top 15 Related IT Skills

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

1 1 (100.00%) C#
1 1 (100.00%) .NET
1 1 (100.00%) RUP
1 1 (100.00%) E-Commerce
1 1 (100.00%) TestDirector
1 1 (100.00%) QuickTest Pro
1 1 (100.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
1 1 (100.00%) Agile Software Development
1 1 (100.00%) Automated Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Cost-Benefit Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) QA
1 1 (100.00%) WPF
1 1 (100.00%) HP Quality Center
1 1 (100.00%) Waterfall
1 1 (100.00%) Test Strategy

Senior QA 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 Senior 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 Senior QA Analyst in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (100.00%) .NET
1 1 (100.00%) WPF
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) TestDirector
1 1 (100.00%) QuickTest Pro
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) RUP
1 1 (100.00%) E-Commerce
1 1 (100.00%) Agile Software Development
1 1 (100.00%) Automated Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Cost-Benefit Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Waterfall
1 1 (100.00%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) C#
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) HP Quality Center