QA Manager Contracts in England
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for the QA Manager role in IT contracts advertised for the England region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited QA Manager in their job title over the 3 months to 17 May 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 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
17 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Quality Assurance Manager
Rank 486 538 538
Rank change year-on-year
+52 0
Contract jobs requiring a QA Manager 24 20 34
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 0.058% 0.037% 0.060%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.062% 0.040% 0.065%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 14 22
Average daily rate £450 £413 £463
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+9.09% -10.81%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £383 £350 £323
10% offered a daily rate of more than £550 £493 £550
UK excluding London average daily rate £500 £450 £375
% change year-on-year
+11.11% +20.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Job Titles
England
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category		 38474 49443 52336
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 92.56% 92.67% 92.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 22637 27972 29016
Average daily rate £400 £400 £425
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -5.88%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £240 £245 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £575 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 2002 2393 2764
Average hourly rate £19.00 £19.00 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -5.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.15 £11.00 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £42.00 £40.00 £40.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-5.40% -7.50%
QA Manager
UK

QA Manager
Jobs Demand Trend

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

England QA Manager Jobs Demand Trend

QA Manager
Daily Rate Trend

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

England QA Manager Daily Rate Trend

QA Manager
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing QA Manager across the England region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

England QA Manager Daily Rate Histogram

QA Manager
Hourly Rate Trend

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

England QA Manager Hourly Rate Trend

QA Manager
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing QA Manager within the England region over the 3 months to 17 May 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
London +25 12 £400 +8.10%
East of England +17 5 £650 +73.33%
East Midlands +1 4 £525 +16.66%
South East - 2 £344 -
Yorkshire -5 1 £400 -
QA Manager
UK

QA Manager
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England region that cited QA Manager 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 Manager in their job title.

1 60 (100.00%) QA
2 19 (31.67%) Project Management
3 17 (28.33%) Test Management
4 16 (26.67%) SOA
5 15 (25.00%) Scrum
6 14 (23.33%) CMMI
6 14 (23.33%) Risk Management
6 14 (23.33%) HP Quality Center
7 13 (21.67%) IT Governance
7 13 (21.67%) Fixed Income
7 13 (21.67%) PRINCE2
8 12 (20.00%) UML
8 12 (20.00%) RUP
8 12 (20.00%) PMI
8 12 (20.00%) PMI Certification
8 12 (20.00%) Portfolio Management
9 11 (18.33%) Process Improvement
9 11 (18.33%) Performance Management
9 11 (18.33%) Banking
9 11 (18.33%) Quality Management
9 11 (18.33%) Configuration Management
9 11 (18.33%) Regression Testing
9 11 (18.33%) MS Excel
9 11 (18.33%) ITIL
9 11 (18.33%) QuickTest Pro
10 10 (16.67%) Microsoft
10 10 (16.67%) MS Visio
10 10 (16.67%) MS Project
10 10 (16.67%) Six Sigma
10 10 (16.67%) Niku

QA Manager
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England region that cited QA Manager 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 Manager in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 3 (5.000%) XML
2 1 (1.667%) Middleware
2 1 (1.667%) .NET
2 1 (1.667%) Web Services
Application Platforms
1 3 (5.000%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.667%) Documentum
Applications
1 11 (18.33%) MS Excel
2 10 (16.67%) MS Visio
2 10 (16.67%) MS Project
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.667%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.667%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (1.667%) DataStage
Development Applications
1 11 (18.33%) QuickTest Pro
2 6 (10.00%) JIRA
3 5 (8.333%) Selenium
4 3 (5.000%) WatiN
4 3 (5.000%) TestDirector
5 1 (1.667%) Visual Studio
5 1 (1.667%) ClearQuest
5 1 (1.667%) Cucumber
5 1 (1.667%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 11 (18.33%) Banking
2 9 (15.00%) Finance
3 4 (6.667%) Manufacturing
3 4 (6.667%) Investment Banking
4 3 (5.000%) Retail
4 3 (5.000%) Telecoms
5 2 (3.333%) Legal
5 2 (3.333%) Publishing
6 1 (1.667%) Games
6 1 (1.667%) Automotive
6 1 (1.667%) Online Betting
Miscellaneous
1 13 (21.67%) Fixed Income
2 12 (20.00%) PMI
3 10 (16.67%) Equities
4 2 (3.333%) Life Science
5 1 (1.667%) Online Gambling
5 1 (1.667%) Online Banking
5 1 (1.667%) Spread Betting
5 1 (1.667%) EPoS
5 1 (1.667%) E-Learning
Operating Systems
1 3 (5.000%) OpenVMS
2 1 (1.667%) Windows 7
2 1 (1.667%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (31.67%) Project Management
2 17 (28.33%) Test Management
3 16 (26.67%) SOA
4 15 (25.00%) Scrum
5 14 (23.33%) CMMI
5 14 (23.33%) Risk Management
6 13 (21.67%) PRINCE2
6 13 (21.67%) IT Governance
7 12 (20.00%) UML
7 12 (20.00%) RUP
7 12 (20.00%) Portfolio Management
8 11 (18.33%) Process Improvement
8 11 (18.33%) Performance Management
8 11 (18.33%) ITIL
8 11 (18.33%) Configuration Management
8 11 (18.33%) Regression Testing
8 11 (18.33%) Quality Management
9 10 (16.67%) Six Sigma
9 10 (16.67%) Programme Management
9 10 (16.67%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 3 (5.000%) C++
1 3 (5.000%) Fortran
2 2 (3.333%) Java
Qualifications
1 12 (20.00%) PMI Certification
2 10 (16.67%) Six Sigma Black Belt
3 4 (6.667%) Degree
3 4 (6.667%) HND
4 1 (1.667%) ISEB
4 1 (1.667%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 60 (100.00%) QA
2 10 (16.67%) COBIT
3 1 (1.667%) ISO 9001
Systems Management
1 14 (23.33%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 10 (16.67%) Microsoft
1 10 (16.67%) Niku
2 4 (6.667%) HP
2 4 (6.667%) Oracle
3 1 (1.667%) Cognos
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