Coventry QA Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Quality Assurance (QA) skills within the Coventry region with a comparison to our Quality Assurance & Compliance category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited QA over the 3 months to 10 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Quality Assurance (QA)
Location Amersham Avon Basingstoke Bath Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Bracknell Brentford Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Channel Islands Cheltenham Cheshire Chester City of London Corsham County Antrim Coventry Croydon Cumbria Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London East Anglia East Grinstead East Midlands East of England East Sussex Eastleigh Edinburgh England Essex Exeter Fareham Farnborough Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Guildford Hampshire Harlow Harrogate Havant Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire Horsham Hounslow Hove Huntingdon Kent Knutsford Lancashire Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Liverpool London M4 Corridor Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Marlow Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newport Norfolk North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Plymouth Portsmouth Preston Reading Reigate Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Slough Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southend-on-Sea Stevenage Stratford-upon-Avon Sunbury-on-Thames Surrey Swadlincote Swindon Thames Valley UK Uxbridge Wales Warrington Warwickshire Watford West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wilmslow Wiltshire Wokingham Worcester Worcestershire York Yorkshire	3 months to 10 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	23	31
Rank change on same period last year	+8
Matching contract IT job ads	7	2
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.010 %	0.002 %
As % of the category below	63.64 %	16.67 %
Daily rates quoted	4	0
Average minimum daily rate	£369	-
Average daily rate	£386	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	£404	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£358	£334
% change on same period last year	+7.11 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum hourly rate	-	-
Average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£30.60	£30.03
% change on same period last year	+1.91 %
Quality Assurance & Compliance Coventry
Matching contract IT job ads	11	12
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.015 %	0.012 %
Daily rates quoted	4	7
Average minimum daily rate	£369	£208
Average daily rate	£386	£215
% change on same period last year	+79.29 %
Average maximum daily rate	£404	£223
UK excluding London average daily rate	£372	£348
% change on same period last year	+6.91 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum hourly rate	-	-
Average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£25.12	£25.92
% change on same period last year	-3.07 %
QA West Midlands

We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing QA across the Coventry region as a proportion of the total demand within the Quality Assurance & Compliance category.

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Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing QA across the Coventry region.

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Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing QA across the Coventry region over the 3 months to 10 October 2008.

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Hourly Rate Trend

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

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 10 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Coventry 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 6 (50.00 %) Government 2 5 (41.67 %) Data Modelling 3 4 (33.33 %) Education 4 3 (25.00 %) Business Objects 4 3 (25.00 %) BusinessObjects 5 2 (16.67 %) PRINCE2 5 2 (16.67 %) Data Architecture 5 2 (16.67 %) ETL 5 2 (16.67 %) Change Management 6 1 (8.333 %) Management Information System 6 1 (8.333 %) Finance 6 1 (8.333 %) e-GIF 6 1 (8.333 %) UML 6 1 (8.333 %) C# 6 1 (8.333 %) SQL

6 1 (8.333 %) .NET 6 1 (8.333 %) MS Project 6 1 (8.333 %) MS Office 6 1 (8.333 %) ASP.NET 6 1 (8.333 %) XML 6 1 (8.333 %) Service Management 6 1 (8.333 %) ISEB 6 1 (8.333 %) Information Management 6 1 (8.333 %) Automated Testing 6 1 (8.333 %) Insurance 6 1 (8.333 %) Local Government 6 1 (8.333 %) Software Testing 6 1 (8.333 %) Pensions 6 1 (8.333 %) Project Planning 6 1 (8.333 %) Use Case

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 10 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Coventry 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 1 (8.333 %) .NET 1 1 (8.333 %) ASP.NET 1 1 (8.333 %) XML 1 1 (8.333 %) Hibernate	Applications 1 1 (8.333 %) MS Project 1 1 (8.333 %) MS Office
Database & Business Intelligence 1 3 (25.00 %) BusinessObjects 2 2 (16.67 %) ETL	General 1 6 (50.00 %) Government 2 4 (33.33 %) Education 3 1 (8.333 %) Finance 3 1 (8.333 %) Insurance 3 1 (8.333 %) Local Government 3 1 (8.333 %) Pensions
Job Titles 1 4 (33.33 %) Data Manager 2 2 (16.67 %) Analyst 3 1 (8.333 %) Test Manager 3 1 (8.333 %) Technical Architect 3 1 (8.333 %) Consultant 3 1 (8.333 %) Development Manager 3 1 (8.333 %) Systems Manager 3 1 (8.333 %) Data Analyst 3 1 (8.333 %) .NET Developer 3 1 (8.333 %) C# Developer 3 1 (8.333 %) Business Consultant 3 1 (8.333 %) ASP.NET Developer 3 1 (8.333 %) Programme Planner 3 1 (8.333 %) Business Manager 3 1 (8.333 %) C#/ASP.NET Developer 3 1 (8.333 %) Architect 3 1 (8.333 %) Business Analyst 3 1 (8.333 %) Developer	Miscellaneous 1 1 (8.333 %) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies 1 5 (41.67 %) Data Modelling 2 2 (16.67 %) PRINCE2 2 2 (16.67 %) Data Architecture 2 2 (16.67 %) Change Management 3 1 (8.333 %) Information Management 3 1 (8.333 %) Automated Testing 3 1 (8.333 %) Software Testing 3 1 (8.333 %) Project Planning 3 1 (8.333 %) Use Case 3 1 (8.333 %) User Acceptance Testing 3 1 (8.333 %) Test Scripting 3 1 (8.333 %) System Testing 3 1 (8.333 %) UML 3 1 (8.333 %) e-GIF 3 1 (8.333 %) Service Management	Programming Languages 1 1 (8.333 %) C# 1 1 (8.333 %) SQL
Qualifications 1 1 (8.333 %) ISEB	Vendors 1 3 (25.00 %) Business Objects