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QA Contracts in the East Midlands
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills
Browse 15 QA job vacancies in the East Midlands

The first table below looks at the demand for QA skills in IT contracts advertised for the East Midlands region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited QA over the 3 months to 18 June 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 East Midlands 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
18 Jun 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Quality Assurance (QA)
Rank 53 34 49
Rank change year-on-year
-19 +15
Contract jobs citing QA 29 44 37
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the East Midlands 2.243% 3.264% 2.490%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 35.80% 44.00% 40.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 26 17
Average daily rate £350 £330 £450
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+6.06% -26.66%
UK excluding London average daily rate £330 £325 £375
% change year-on-year
+1.53% -13.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 0
Average hourly rate - £18.75 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.75 £23.75 £30.75
% change year-on-year
-29.46% -22.76%
All Quality Assurance & Compliance
East Midlands
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Quality Assurance & Compliance category		 81 100 92
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the East Midlands 6.265% 7.418% 6.191%
Number of daily rates quoted 37 51 51
Average daily rate £338 £355 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-4.92% -11.25%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £228 £200 £189
10% offered a daily rate of more than £485 £493 £468
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £375
% change year-on-year
- -6.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 10 5
Average hourly rate £35.50 £20.00 £12.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+77.50% +60.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.29 £12.50 £8.90
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £47.95 £40.00 £17.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £18.50 £16.72 £30.00
% change year-on-year
+10.64% -44.26%
QA
England

QA
Jobs Demand Trend

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

East Midlands QA Jobs Demand Trend

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Daily Rate Trend

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

East Midlands 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 East Midlands region over the 3 months to 18 June 2013.

East Midlands 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 East Midlands region.

East Midlands QA Hourly Rate Trend

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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 18 June 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)		 Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year		 Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads		 Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months		 Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year		 Find
Job
Vacancies
Nottinghamshire +4 11 £308 -8.88% 9
Northamptonshire 0 7 £500 +11.11% 1
Leicestershire -4 6 £325 +18.18% 2
Derbyshire +1 1 £475 +69.64% 2
Lincolnshire - - - - 1
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England

QA
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, 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 18 (32.73%) Finance
2 9 (16.36%) Stakeholder Management
2 9 (16.36%) Microsoft
3 8 (14.55%) Banking
4 7 (12.73%) Software Testing
4 7 (12.73%) Project Management
4 7 (12.73%) XML
4 7 (12.73%) ERP
5 6 (10.91%) UNIX
5 6 (10.91%) SQL
5 6 (10.91%) Retail
5 6 (10.91%) Scrum
6 5 (9.091%) Risk Management
6 5 (9.091%) HTML
6 5 (9.091%) Oracle
6 5 (9.091%) MS Excel
6 5 (9.091%) Oracle 10g
6 5 (9.091%) E-Commerce
6 5 (9.091%) QuickTest Pro
6 5 (9.091%) Uniface
6 5 (9.091%) Waterfall
7 4 (7.273%) BDD
7 4 (7.273%) Continuous Improvement
7 4 (7.273%) Automation Testing
7 4 (7.273%) WebSphere
7 4 (7.273%) Selenium
7 4 (7.273%) Manual Testing
7 4 (7.273%) HP Quality Center
7 4 (7.273%) ActionScript 2.0
7 4 (7.273%) HP

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, 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 (12.73%) XML
2 5 (9.091%) HTML
3 4 (7.273%) WebSphere
4 3 (5.455%) CSS
5 2 (3.636%) COM
6 1 (1.818%) Middleware
6 1 (1.818%) Application Packaging
6 1 (1.818%) SAP PI
6 1 (1.818%) Gherkin
Application Platforms
1 4 (7.273%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.818%) MS Exchange
2 1 (1.818%) Exchange Server 2010
Applications
1 5 (9.091%) MS Excel
2 2 (3.636%) AutoCAD
2 2 (3.636%) MS PowerPoint
2 2 (3.636%) MS Project
3 1 (1.818%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 3 (5.455%) Dynamics AX
2 1 (1.818%) SAP ERP
2 1 (1.818%) SAP MM
2 1 (1.818%) SAP CRM
2 1 (1.818%) SAP Retail
Communications & Networking
1 4 (7.273%) HTTPS
2 2 (3.636%) Wi-Fi
3 1 (1.818%) NetScaler
3 1 (1.818%) Internet
3 1 (1.818%) Broadband
3 1 (1.818%) LAN
3 1 (1.818%) WAN
3 1 (1.818%) FTP
3 1 (1.818%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (9.091%) Oracle 10g
2 2 (3.636%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 2 (3.636%) SQL Server
3 1 (1.818%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (1.818%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 5 (9.091%) QuickTest Pro
2 4 (7.273%) Selenium
3 3 (5.455%) Cucumber
4 2 (3.636%) WebDriver
General
1 18 (32.73%) Finance
2 8 (14.55%) Banking
3 6 (10.91%) Retail
4 4 (7.273%) Legal
5 3 (5.455%) Advertising
6 2 (3.636%) Billing
7 1 (1.818%) French Language
7 1 (1.818%) Publishing
7 1 (1.818%) Manufacturing
7 1 (1.818%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 7 (12.73%) Tester
1 7 (12.73%) Analyst
1 7 (12.73%) Consultant
1 7 (12.73%) QA Manager
2 6 (10.91%) Quality Manager
3 5 (9.091%) Risk Manager
3 5 (9.091%) Uniface Developer
3 5 (9.091%) Developer
3 5 (9.091%) Project Manager
4 4 (7.273%) Test Manager
4 4 (7.273%) Test Leader
4 4 (7.273%) Agile Tester
5 3 (5.455%) QA Leader
5 3 (5.455%) Dynamics AX Consultant
5 3 (5.455%) Functional Consultant
6 2 (3.636%) Test Analyst
6 2 (3.636%) Business Analyst
6 2 (3.636%) Lead Tester
7 1 (1.818%) Network Infrastructure Project Manager
7 1 (1.818%) Governance Manager
Miscellaneous
1 2 (3.636%) SCADA
1 2 (3.636%) NHS
2 1 (1.818%) Mainframe
2 1 (1.818%) E-Learning
2 1 (1.818%) Computer Science
2 1 (1.818%) FMCG
2 1 (1.818%) Smart Meter
Operating Systems
1 6 (10.91%) UNIX
2 3 (5.455%) Windows
2 3 (5.455%) Windows Server 2008
3 1 (1.818%) Windows 7
3 1 (1.818%) MVS
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (16.36%) Stakeholder Management
2 7 (12.73%) Software Testing
2 7 (12.73%) ERP
2 7 (12.73%) Project Management
3 6 (10.91%) Scrum
4 5 (9.091%) Risk Management
4 5 (9.091%) E-Commerce
4 5 (9.091%) Waterfall
5 4 (7.273%) BDD
5 4 (7.273%) Manual Testing
5 4 (7.273%) Continuous Improvement
5 4 (7.273%) Automation Testing
5 4 (7.273%) Extreme Programming
5 4 (7.273%) Agile Software Development
5 4 (7.273%) TDD
6 3 (5.455%) User Acceptance Testing
6 3 (5.455%) Performance Testing
6 3 (5.455%) PRINCE2
6 3 (5.455%) Quality Management
6 3 (5.455%) Change Control
Programming Languages
1 6 (10.91%) SQL
2 5 (9.091%) Uniface
3 4 (7.273%) ActionScript 2.0
3 4 (7.273%) ActionScript
3 4 (7.273%) Java
4 3 (5.455%) JavaScript
5 1 (1.818%) ABAP
Qualifications
1 3 (5.455%) PMP
1 3 (5.455%) PMI Certification
2 2 (3.636%) Degree
2 2 (3.636%) HNC
2 2 (3.636%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.636%) ISO 9001
2 1 (1.818%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (5.455%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (7.273%) HP Quality Center
2 1 (1.818%) SCCM
Vendors
1 9 (16.36%) Microsoft
2 5 (9.091%) Oracle
3 4 (7.273%) SAP
3 4 (7.273%) HP
4 2 (3.636%) Siemens
4 2 (3.636%) Cisco
4 2 (3.636%) Allen-Bradley
5 1 (1.818%) CheckPoint
5 1 (1.818%) BT
Ecommerce System Tester - 6 month Contract - Nottingham
Nottingham, Nottinghamshire
ISEB or ISTQB qualified to foundation level. -Definition and creation of test scripts for internal QA and system testing purposes... -Good knowledge of Agile development techniques such as “...
IT Retail People Ltd
Rate: Unspecified
Posted: 17 June 2013
AX Functional Consultant
Lincolnshire, East Midlands
The company is currently at the design & data gathering phase and require a Consultant with a strong manufacturing background to assist with the next phase of the project...
Nigel Frank International
Rate: £450 - £475 per day
Posted: 13 June 2013
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