East Midlands QA Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Quality Assurance (QA) skills within the East Midlands 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 21 November 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Quality Assurance (QA)
Location Avon Basingstoke Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Bracknell Braintree Brentford Brighton Bristol 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 Eastleigh Edinburgh England Essex Fareham Farnborough Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Hertfordshire Hove Huddersfield Huntingdon Kent Lancashire Leeds Leicester Leicestershire 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 Slough Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West Southampton Southend-on-Sea Staffordshire Stevenage Stoke-on-Trent Stratford-upon-Avon Surrey Sussex Swindon Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warrington Warwickshire Watford West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Wokingham Yeovil York Yorkshire	3 months to 21 Nov 2008	Same period last year
Rank	74	79
Rank change on same period last year	+5
Matching contract IT job ads	13	15
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.020 %	0.016 %
As % of the category below	30.95 %	22.73 %
Daily rates quoted	2	2
Average minimum daily rate	£253	£275
Average daily rate	£270	£288
% change on same period last year	-6.08 %
Average maximum daily rate	£288	£300
UK excluding London average daily rate	£353	£338
% change on same period last year	+4.20 %
Hourly rates quoted	2	0
Average minimum hourly rate	£33.50	-
Average hourly rate	£34.75	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	£36.00	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£30.13	£27.26
% change on same period last year	+10.52 %
Quality Assurance & Compliance East Midlands
Matching contract IT job ads	42	66
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.066 %	0.071 %
Daily rates quoted	8	13
Average minimum daily rate	£314	£289
Average daily rate	£338	£309
% change on same period last year	+9.51 %
Average maximum daily rate	£363	£329
UK excluding London average daily rate	£369	£357
% change on same period last year	+3.43 %
Hourly rates quoted	13	13
Average minimum hourly rate	£20.20	£10.43
Average hourly rate	£20.85	£10.70
% change on same period last year	+94.88 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£21.50	£10.97
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£24.30	£23.74
% change on same period last year	+2.35 %
QA England

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 East Midlands 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 East Midlands 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 East Midlands region.

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Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing QA across the East Midlands region over the 3 months to 21 November 2008.

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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 East Midlands region over the 3 months to 21 November 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
Nottinghamshire	+9	5	£270	-6.08 %
Derbyshire	+9	3	-	-
Leicestershire	+9	2	-	-

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 November 2008, IT contractor jobs across the East Midlands 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 12 (36.36 %) Windows 2 9 (27.27 %) UML 2 9 (27.27 %) Oracle 2 9 (27.27 %) Oracle 10g 3 7 (21.21 %) Windows Server 2003 3 7 (21.21 %) .NET 3 7 (21.21 %) ISO9001 3 7 (21.21 %) Degree 4 6 (18.18 %) C 4 6 (18.18 %) C++ 5 5 (15.15 %) HTML 5 5 (15.15 %) C# 5 5 (15.15 %) JavaScript 5 5 (15.15 %) VB 5 5 (15.15 %) Crystal Reports

5 5 (15.15 %) Visual Studio 5 5 (15.15 %) ASP.NET 5 5 (15.15 %) OO 5 5 (15.15 %) OOD 5 5 (15.15 %) Project Management 5 5 (15.15 %) Software Engineering 5 5 (15.15 %) AJAX 6 4 (12.12 %) Multithreading 6 4 (12.12 %) Subversion 6 4 (12.12 %) Finance 6 4 (12.12 %) Microsoft 6 4 (12.12 %) Swing 6 4 (12.12 %) J2SE 6 4 (12.12 %) Java RMI 6 4 (12.12 %) JDBC

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 November 2008, IT contractor jobs across the East Midlands 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 7 (21.21 %) .NET 2 5 (15.15 %) ASP.NET 2 5 (15.15 %) HTML 2 5 (15.15 %) AJAX 3 4 (12.12 %) Swing 3 4 (12.12 %) J2SE 3 4 (12.12 %) Java RMI 3 4 (12.12 %) JDBC 4 1 (3.030 %) XML	Application Platforms 1 1 (3.030 %) Apache
Business Applications 1 1 (3.030 %) SAP HR 1 1 (3.030 %) SAP R/3	Communications & Networking 1 1 (3.030 %) VoIP 1 1 (3.030 %) Ethernet 1 1 (3.030 %) Internet 1 1 (3.030 %) SS7 1 1 (3.030 %) Q.931
Database & Business Intelligence 1 9 (27.27 %) Oracle 10g 2 5 (15.15 %) Crystal Reports 3 4 (12.12 %) SQL Server 4 3 (9.091 %) Oracle Reports 5 2 (6.061 %) GIS 6 1 (3.030 %) SAP BW 6 1 (3.030 %) MySQL	Development Applications 1 5 (15.15 %) Visual Studio 2 4 (12.12 %) Subversion 2 4 (12.12 %) Ant
General 1 4 (12.12 %) Finance 2 3 (9.091 %) Banking 3 2 (6.061 %) Health 3 2 (6.061 %) 3D Graphics 4 1 (3.030 %) Telecoms 4 1 (3.030 %) Manufacturing 4 1 (3.030 %) Publishing 4 1 (3.030 %) Construction 4 1 (3.030 %) Retail 4 1 (3.030 %) Retail Banking 4 1 (3.030 %) Marketing	Job Titles 1 6 (18.18 %) Developer 2 4 (12.12 %) Java Developer 2 4 (12.12 %) Software Engineer 3 3 (9.091 %) Analyst 3 3 (9.091 %) Test Manager 4 2 (6.061 %) Architect 4 2 (6.061 %) Project Manager 4 2 (6.061 %) Tester 4 2 (6.061 %) Programme Manager 4 2 (6.061 %) Technical Architect 4 2 (6.061 %) C# Developer 4 2 (6.061 %) Infrastructure Specialist 4 2 (6.061 %) QA Engineer 5 1 (3.030 %) Mechanical Design Engineer 5 1 (3.030 %) Mechanical Engineer 5 1 (3.030 %) Java Software Developer 5 1 (3.030 %) SAP Manager 5 1 (3.030 %) SAP Test Manager 5 1 (3.030 %) Project Consultant 5 1 (3.030 %) NHS Project Manager
Miscellaneous 1 4 (12.12 %) Multithreading 2 3 (9.091 %) PMI 3 2 (6.061 %) NHS 3 2 (6.061 %) Mainframe 3 2 (6.061 %) Mathematics 4 1 (3.030 %) N-Tier 4 1 (3.030 %) Device Driver	Operating Systems 1 12 (36.36 %) Windows 2 7 (21.21 %) Windows Server 2003 3 2 (6.061 %) Linux 4 1 (3.030 %) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies 1 9 (27.27 %) UML 2 5 (15.15 %) OO 2 5 (15.15 %) Project Management 2 5 (15.15 %) Software Engineering 2 5 (15.15 %) OOD 3 3 (9.091 %) Test Scripting 3 3 (9.091 %) Risk Management 4 2 (6.061 %) Agile Software Development 4 2 (6.061 %) PRINCE2 4 2 (6.061 %) Software Testing 4 2 (6.061 %) Project Planning 5 1 (3.030 %) Technical Architecture 5 1 (3.030 %) Resource Management 5 1 (3.030 %) Performance Testing 5 1 (3.030 %) Load Testing 5 1 (3.030 %) Stress Testing 5 1 (3.030 %) Security Cleared 5 1 (3.030 %) Business Intelligence 5 1 (3.030 %) Information Management 5 1 (3.030 %) Data Analysis	Programming Languages 1 6 (18.18 %) C 1 6 (18.18 %) C++ 2 5 (15.15 %) C# 2 5 (15.15 %) JavaScript 2 5 (15.15 %) VB 3 4 (12.12 %) Java 4 2 (6.061 %) SQL 5 1 (3.030 %) PHP
Qualifications 1 7 (21.21 %) Degree 2 3 (9.091 %) HNC 3 1 (3.030 %) ISEB 3 1 (3.030 %) PRINCE2 Practitioner 3 1 (3.030 %) Chartered Engineer	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 7 (21.21 %) ISO9001 2 1 (3.030 %) Sarbanes-Oxley 2 1 (3.030 %) ISO9000
System Software 1 2 (6.061 %) Active Directory 2 1 (3.030 %) VMware Infrastructure	Vendors 1 9 (27.27 %) Oracle 2 4 (12.12 %) Microsoft 3 2 (6.061 %) Sun 3 2 (6.061 %) HP 3 2 (6.061 %) Intel 3 2 (6.061 %) Citrix 3 2 (6.061 %) SAP 4 1 (3.030 %) IBM 4 1 (3.030 %) VMware