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QA Contracts in Edinburgh
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for QA skills in IT contracts advertised for the Edinburgh region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited QA over the 3 months to 19 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 Edinburgh 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
19 Jun 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Quality Assurance (QA)
Rank 41 53 53
Rank change year-on-year
+12 0
Contract jobs citing QA 21 11 19
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Edinburgh 2.313% 1.032% 1.426%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 53.85% 18.97% 29.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 9 8
Average daily rate £338 £360 £406
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-6.25% -11.38%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £320 £265 £296
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £422 £458
UK excluding London average daily rate £338 £325 £389
% change year-on-year
+3.84% -16.39%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.75 £25.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year
-32.99% -16.66%
All Quality Assurance & Compliance
Edinburgh
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Quality Assurance & Compliance category		 39 58 65
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Edinburgh 4.295% 5.441% 4.880%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 27 35
Average daily rate £350 £320 £450
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+9.37% -28.88%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £313 £257 £321
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £400 £532
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £388
% change year-on-year
- -9.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 1
Average hourly rate £11.07 - £12.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £18.25 £16.72 £30.00
% change year-on-year
+9.15% -44.26%
QA
Scotland

QA
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Edinburgh QA Jobs Demand Trend

QA
Daily Rate Trend

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

Edinburgh 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 Edinburgh region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

Edinburgh 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 Edinburgh region.

Edinburgh QA Hourly Rate Trend

QA
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Edinburgh 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 10 (41.67%) Finance
2 8 (33.33%) Banking
3 4 (16.67%) Data Management
3 4 (16.67%) HP Quality Center
4 2 (8.333%) Data Quality
4 2 (8.333%) Jenkins
4 2 (8.333%) Teradata
4 2 (8.333%) Zachman Framework
4 2 (8.333%) TOGAF
4 2 (8.333%) Performance Testing
4 2 (8.333%) Test Scripting
4 2 (8.333%) BPR
4 2 (8.333%) SQL
4 2 (8.333%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (8.333%) Oracle
4 2 (8.333%) DB2
4 2 (8.333%) MS Project
4 2 (8.333%) Eclipse
5 1 (4.167%) ISO 9000
5 1 (4.167%) PMP
5 1 (4.167%) PMI Certification
5 1 (4.167%) SAN
5 1 (4.167%) QuickTest Pro
5 1 (4.167%) Firmware
5 1 (4.167%) Internet
5 1 (4.167%) HACMP
5 1 (4.167%) Shell Script
5 1 (4.167%) MS Office
5 1 (4.167%) SOAP
5 1 (4.167%) Struts

QA
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Edinburgh 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 (4.167%) SOAP
1 1 (4.167%) Struts
1 1 (4.167%) XML
1 1 (4.167%) XSLT
1 1 (4.167%) J2EE
1 1 (4.167%) Struts2
1 1 (4.167%) Spring
1 1 (4.167%) JSON
1 1 (4.167%) Hibernate
1 1 (4.167%) Gherkin
1 1 (4.167%) Spring MVC
1 1 (4.167%) Google Maps API
1 1 (4.167%) REST
Applications
1 2 (8.333%) MS Project
2 1 (4.167%) MS Office
2 1 (4.167%) MS Visio
2 1 (4.167%) Spreadsheet
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.167%) SAN
1 1 (4.167%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (8.333%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (8.333%) DB2
2 1 (4.167%) GIS
2 1 (4.167%) Oracle BI EE
Development Applications
1 2 (8.333%) Jenkins
1 2 (8.333%) Eclipse
2 1 (4.167%) QuickTest Pro
2 1 (4.167%) Maven
2 1 (4.167%) Subversion
2 1 (4.167%) Selenium
2 1 (4.167%) FitNesse
2 1 (4.167%) JBehave
2 1 (4.167%) WebDriver
2 1 (4.167%) Cucumber
General
1 10 (41.67%) Finance
2 8 (33.33%) Banking
3 1 (4.167%) Investment Banking
3 1 (4.167%) Retail Banking
3 1 (4.167%) Retail
Job Titles
1 10 (41.67%) Analyst
2 5 (20.83%) Architect
3 4 (16.67%) Solutions Architect
3 4 (16.67%) Test Analyst
3 4 (16.67%) Test Architect
4 3 (12.50%) PMO Manager
5 2 (8.333%) Coordinator
5 2 (8.333%) Data Architect
5 2 (8.333%) Senior Analyst
5 2 (8.333%) Test Coordinator
5 2 (8.333%) Business Analyst
5 2 (8.333%) Tester
6 1 (4.167%) Senior Manager
6 1 (4.167%) Support Analyst
6 1 (4.167%) Applications Support
6 1 (4.167%) Configuration Manager
6 1 (4.167%) Administrator
6 1 (4.167%) AIX Administrator
6 1 (4.167%) Senior Applications Support Analyst
6 1 (4.167%) PMO Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 1 (4.167%) Firmware
1 1 (4.167%) HACMP
1 1 (4.167%) Management Information System
1 1 (4.167%) LPAR
1 1 (4.167%) DLPAR
1 1 (4.167%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.167%) UNIX
1 1 (4.167%) AIX
1 1 (4.167%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (16.67%) Data Management
2 2 (8.333%) Zachman Framework
2 2 (8.333%) TOGAF
2 2 (8.333%) Performance Testing
2 2 (8.333%) Test Scripting
2 2 (8.333%) BPR
3 1 (4.167%) ITIL
3 1 (4.167%) PRINCE2
3 1 (4.167%) Data Modelling
3 1 (4.167%) Configuration Management
3 1 (4.167%) Change Management
3 1 (4.167%) MVC
3 1 (4.167%) Manual Testing
3 1 (4.167%) Data Entry
3 1 (4.167%) Automated Testing
3 1 (4.167%) Enterprise Architecture
3 1 (4.167%) Project Planning
3 1 (4.167%) Programme Management
3 1 (4.167%) TDD
3 1 (4.167%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 2 (8.333%) SQL
2 1 (4.167%) Shell Script
2 1 (4.167%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (4.167%) PMP
1 1 (4.167%) PMI Certification
1 1 (4.167%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (8.333%) Data Quality
2 1 (4.167%) ISO 9000
Systems Management
1 4 (16.67%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 2 (8.333%) Teradata
1 2 (8.333%) Oracle
2 1 (4.167%) JBoss
2 1 (4.167%) Google
2 1 (4.167%) Cadis
2 1 (4.167%) thinkFolio
Test/Quality Assurance (QA) Solution Architect - Banking
Edinburgh, Midlothian
A global information technology company seek an experienced Test/Quality Assurance (QA) Solution Architect, ideally with banking industry experience. The brief for the Test/Quality Assurance (QA) Solution...
Coal IT Services
Rate: From £300 to £375 per annum
Posted: 13 June 2013
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