The first table below looks at the demand for the QA Analyst role in IT contracts advertised for the East of England region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited QA Analyst in their job title over the 3 months to 20 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 Job Titles advertised for the East of England 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
20 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Quality Assurance Analyst
Rank 110 132 123
Rank change year-on-year
+22 -9
Contract jobs requiring a QA Analyst 8 3 5
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the East of England 0.356% 0.101% 0.179%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.379% 0.107% 0.190%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 3 4
Average daily rate £350 £395 £351
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-11.39% +12.69%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £325 £379 £236
10% offered a daily rate of more than £365 £395 £385
UK excluding London average daily rate £335 £363 £319
% change year-on-year
-7.58% +13.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £20.00 £17.50
% change year-on-year
- +14.28%
All Job Titles
East of England
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
2110 2795 2629
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the East of England 93.94% 93.76% 93.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 1072 1314 1180
Average daily rate £340 £338 £340
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+0.74% -0.73%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £200 £185 £175
10% offered a daily rate of more than £468 £463 £475
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 245 317 322
Average hourly rate £26.00 £22.50 £17.25
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+15.55% +30.43%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.00 £11.50 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £42.50 £40.00 £37.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
QA Analyst
England

QA Analyst
Jobs Demand Trend

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

East of England QA Analyst Jobs Demand Trend

QA Analyst
Daily Rate Trend

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

East of England QA Analyst Daily Rate Trend

QA Analyst
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing QA Analyst across the East of England region.

East of England QA Analyst Hourly Rate Trend

QA Analyst
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing QA Analyst within the East of England region over the 3 months to 20 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
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Job
Vacancies
Cambridgeshire - 7 £350 -
Hertfordshire - - - -
Suffolk - - - -
Bedfordshire - - - - 1
QA Analyst
England

QA Analyst
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the East of England region that cited 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 QA Analyst in their job title.

1 19 (100.00%) QA
2 10 (52.63%) ISEB
3 8 (42.11%) HP
3 8 (42.11%) SQL
3 8 (42.11%) HP Quality Center
4 7 (36.84%) Finance
4 7 (36.84%) Test Scripting
4 7 (36.84%) User Acceptance Testing
5 5 (26.32%) Agile Software Development
5 5 (26.32%) Integration Testing
6 4 (21.05%) Test Automation
6 4 (21.05%) Mingle
6 4 (21.05%) Workflow
6 4 (21.05%) Change Management
6 4 (21.05%) SharePoint
6 4 (21.05%) E-Commerce
7 3 (15.79%) Data Warehouse
7 3 (15.79%) Web Services
7 3 (15.79%) Migration
8 2 (10.53%) ISTQB
8 2 (10.53%) Test Management
8 2 (10.53%) Risk Analysis
8 2 (10.53%) Bugzilla
8 2 (10.53%) ETL
8 2 (10.53%) Business Intelligence
8 2 (10.53%) Client/Server
8 2 (10.53%) SQL Server
8 2 (10.53%) FogBugz
9 1 (5.263%) Automation Testing
9 1 (5.263%) BDD

QA Analyst
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the East of England region that cited 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 QA Analyst in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 3 (15.79%) Web Services
2 1 (5.263%) ASP.NET
2 1 (5.263%) .NET
2 1 (5.263%) iOS SDK
Application Platforms
1 4 (21.05%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (21.05%) Mingle
2 1 (5.263%) MS Excel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (15.79%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (10.53%) SQL Server
3 1 (5.263%) OLAP
3 1 (5.263%) SQL Server Analysis Services
3 1 (5.263%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 1 (5.263%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 2 (10.53%) Bugzilla
1 2 (10.53%) FogBugz
2 1 (5.263%) JMeter
2 1 (5.263%) Selenium
2 1 (5.263%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 7 (36.84%) Finance
Miscellaneous
1 2 (10.53%) Client/Server
2 1 (5.263%) Computer Science
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.263%) Apple iOS
1 1 (5.263%) Windows XP
1 1 (5.263%) Windows
1 1 (5.263%) Linux
1 1 (5.263%) Mac OS X
1 1 (5.263%) Android
1 1 (5.263%) Windows 7
1 1 (5.263%) Windows Mobile
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (36.84%) Test Scripting
1 7 (36.84%) User Acceptance Testing
2 5 (26.32%) Agile Software Development
2 5 (26.32%) Integration Testing
3 4 (21.05%) Test Automation
3 4 (21.05%) Workflow
3 4 (21.05%) Change Management
3 4 (21.05%) E-Commerce
4 3 (15.79%) Migration
5 2 (10.53%) Test Management
5 2 (10.53%) Risk Analysis
5 2 (10.53%) ETL
5 2 (10.53%) Business Intelligence
6 1 (5.263%) Automation Testing
6 1 (5.263%) BDD
6 1 (5.263%) CRM
6 1 (5.263%) Validation
6 1 (5.263%) Regression Testing
6 1 (5.263%) Use Case
6 1 (5.263%) System Testing
Programming Languages
1 8 (42.11%) SQL
2 1 (5.263%) C
2 1 (5.263%) C#
2 1 (5.263%) C++
2 1 (5.263%) Java
2 1 (5.263%) Python
2 1 (5.263%) Objective-C
Qualifications
1 10 (52.63%) ISEB
2 2 (10.53%) ISTQB
3 1 (5.263%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (100.00%) QA
2 1 (5.263%) Data Quality
Systems Management
1 8 (42.11%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 8 (42.11%) HP
2 1 (5.263%) Microsoft
2 1 (5.263%) Sun
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