Derbyshire QA Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Quality Assurance (QA) skills within the Derbyshire 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 5 December 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Quality Assurance (QA)
Location Avon Basingstoke Belfast Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Braintree Brentford Brighton Bristol Buckingham Buckinghamshire Burton-upon-Trent Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Channel Islands Chelmsford Cheltenham Cheshire Chester City of London County Antrim Coventry Cumbria Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset East Anglia East Grinstead East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh England Essex Fareham Farnborough Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire Huddersfield Huntingdon Kent Lancashire Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool London M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Osterley Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Plymouth Portsmouth Preston Reading Rochester Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Slough Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Staffordshire Stevenage Stoke-on-Trent Stratford-upon-Avon Surrey Sussex Swindon Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warrington Warwickshire Watford West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Yeovil York Yorkshire	3 months to 5 Dec 2008	Same period last year
Rank	24	37
Rank change on same period last year	+13
Matching contract IT job ads	5	5
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.008 %	0.005 %
As % of the category below	62.50 %	45.45 %
Daily rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum daily rate	-	-
Average daily rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£363	£337
% change on same period last year	+7.69 %
Hourly rates quoted	1	0
Average minimum hourly rate	£37.00	-
Average hourly rate	£37.00	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	£37.00	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£31.55	£27.80
% change on same period last year	+13.48 %
Quality Assurance & Compliance Derbyshire
Matching contract IT job ads	8	11
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.013 %	0.012 %
Daily rates quoted	0	1
Average minimum daily rate	-	£300
Average daily rate	-	£316
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	£332
UK excluding London average daily rate	£370	£357
% change on same period last year	+3.56 %
Hourly rates quoted	2	1
Average minimum hourly rate	£23.13	£15.00
Average hourly rate	£23.13	£17.50
% change on same period last year	+32.15 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£23.13	£20.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£24.86	£22.78
% change on same period last year	+9.12 %
QA East 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 Derbyshire 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 Derbyshire region.

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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 Derbyshire region.

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Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing QA within the Derbyshire region over the 3 months to 5 December 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
Derby	+9	4	-	-

QA East Midlands

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Top 11 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 5 December 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Derbyshire 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 4 (66.67 %) Project Management 2 3 (50.00 %) PLM 2 3 (50.00 %) Manufacturing 3 2 (33.33 %) Degree 4 1 (16.67 %) Chartered Engineer 4 1 (16.67 %) Extreme Programming 4 1 (16.67 %) Logistics 4 1 (16.67 %) Marketing 4 1 (16.67 %) Construction 4 1 (16.67 %) ISO9001 4 1 (16.67 %) Internet

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 5 December 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Derbyshire 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.

Communications & Networking 1 1 (16.67 %) Internet	General 1 3 (50.00 %) Manufacturing 2 1 (16.67 %) Marketing 2 1 (16.67 %) Construction
Job Titles 1 3 (50.00 %) Systems Engineer 2 1 (16.67 %) Design Engineer 2 1 (16.67 %) Mechanical Design Engineer 2 1 (16.67 %) Mechanical Engineer	Processes & Methodologies 1 4 (66.67 %) Project Management 2 3 (50.00 %) PLM 3 1 (16.67 %) Logistics 3 1 (16.67 %) Extreme Programming
Qualifications 1 2 (33.33 %) Degree 2 1 (16.67 %) Chartered Engineer	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 1 (16.67 %) ISO9001