QA Tester 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 Tester 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 Tester in their job title over the 3 months to 24 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
24 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Quality Assurance Tester
Rank 474 507 491
Rank change year-on-year
+33 -16
Contract jobs requiring a QA Tester 39 52 80
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 0.094% 0.097% 0.142%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.102% 0.105% 0.154%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 33 61
Average daily rate £350 £350 £320
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +9.37%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £280 £200 £150
10% offered a daily rate of more than £540 £437 £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £350 £300
% change year-on-year
-7.14% +16.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 4
Average hourly rate - - £10.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - £7.50
Search 29 QA Tester jobs in England
All Job Titles
England
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category		 38421 49352 52077
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 92.41% 92.53% 92.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 22588 27902 28893
Average daily rate £400 £400 £425
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -5.88%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £240 £246 £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 1983 2412 2765
Average hourly rate £19.00 £18.50 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+2.70% -7.50%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.21 £11.00 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £41.86 £40.00 £40.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
QA Tester
UK

QA Tester
Jobs Demand Trend

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

England QA Tester Jobs Demand Trend

QA Tester
Daily Rate Trend

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

England QA Tester Daily Rate Trend

QA Tester
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing QA Tester across the England region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

England QA Tester Daily Rate Histogram

QA Tester
Hourly Rate Trend

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

England QA Tester Hourly Rate Trend

QA Tester
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing QA Tester within the England region over the 3 months to 24 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 +21 27 £348 -0.71%
East of England +22 6 £370 -7.50%
South East +17 5 £325 -
East Midlands - 1 £363 -
QA Tester
UK

QA Tester
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England region that cited QA Tester 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 Tester in their job title.

1 77 (100.00%) QA
2 22 (28.57%) Automated Testing
3 19 (24.68%) Selenium
4 16 (20.78%) Agile Software Development
5 15 (19.48%) BDD
6 14 (18.18%) Test Scripting
6 14 (18.18%) C#
6 14 (18.18%) Java
7 13 (16.88%) SQL
7 13 (16.88%) .NET
7 13 (16.88%) ISEB
8 12 (15.58%) Microsoft
8 12 (15.58%) Scrum
8 12 (15.58%) Software Testing
8 12 (15.58%) Cucumber
9 11 (14.29%) Continuous Integration
9 11 (14.29%) User Acceptance Testing
9 11 (14.29%) TDD
9 11 (14.29%) Banking
10 10 (12.99%) Finance
10 10 (12.99%) Regression Testing
10 10 (12.99%) Investment Banking
10 10 (12.99%) Manual Testing
10 10 (12.99%) Test Automation
11 9 (11.69%) Ruby
11 9 (11.69%) JIRA
12 8 (10.39%) Degree
12 8 (10.39%) Equities
13 7 (9.091%) QuickTest Pro
13 7 (9.091%) WebDriver

QA Tester
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England region that cited QA Tester 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 Tester in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 13 (16.88%) .NET
2 4 (5.195%) RESTful
2 4 (5.195%) HTML
2 4 (5.195%) MDX
3 3 (3.896%) .NET Framework
3 3 (3.896%) CSS
3 3 (3.896%) SOAP
3 3 (3.896%) Web Services
3 3 (3.896%) XML
4 2 (2.597%) iOS SDK
4 2 (2.597%) Flash
4 2 (2.597%) JSP
4 2 (2.597%) Servlets
4 2 (2.597%) Hibernate
4 2 (2.597%) Ajax
5 1 (1.299%) Ruby on Rails
5 1 (1.299%) ASP.NET
5 1 (1.299%) XSLT
5 1 (1.299%) Gherkin
5 1 (1.299%) soapUI
Application Platforms
1 3 (3.896%) MSMQ
2 2 (2.597%) Confluence
3 1 (1.299%) CMS
3 1 (1.299%) ArcGIS
3 1 (1.299%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 4 (5.195%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (1.299%) VisionPLUS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.597%) TCP/IP
2 1 (1.299%) VLAN
2 1 (1.299%) Wi-Fi
2 1 (1.299%) HTTPS
2 1 (1.299%) IPv6
2 1 (1.299%) HTTP
2 1 (1.299%) 3G
2 1 (1.299%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (7.792%) SQL Server
2 4 (5.195%) Data Warehouse
2 4 (5.195%) Microsoft Analysis Services
3 1 (1.299%) SQL Server 2005
3 1 (1.299%) MySQL
3 1 (1.299%) TOAD
3 1 (1.299%) RDBMS
3 1 (1.299%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 19 (24.68%) Selenium
2 12 (15.58%) Cucumber
3 9 (11.69%) JIRA
4 7 (9.091%) QuickTest Pro
4 7 (9.091%) WebDriver
4 7 (9.091%) Jenkins
5 6 (7.792%) SpecFlow
5 6 (7.792%) Team Foundation Server
5 6 (7.792%) Visual Studio
6 4 (5.195%) Maven
7 3 (3.896%) WATIR
8 2 (2.597%) Visual Studio Team System
8 2 (2.597%) TestNG
8 2 (2.597%) WatiN
8 2 (2.597%) TestDirector
8 2 (2.597%) LoadRunner
8 2 (2.597%) JUnit
9 1 (1.299%) Xcode
9 1 (1.299%) JMeter
9 1 (1.299%) Redmine
General
1 11 (14.29%) Banking
2 10 (12.99%) Finance
2 10 (12.99%) Investment Banking
3 5 (6.494%) Games
4 2 (2.597%) Publishing
5 1 (1.299%) Marketing
5 1 (1.299%) Retail
5 1 (1.299%) Front Office
5 1 (1.299%) Law
5 1 (1.299%) Legal
Miscellaneous
1 8 (10.39%) Equities
2 4 (5.195%) Derivative
3 3 (3.896%) Computer Science
3 3 (3.896%) Mobile App
4 2 (2.597%) Online Games
4 2 (2.597%) Equity Derivative
5 1 (1.299%) Field-Programmable Gate Array
5 1 (1.299%) Credit Derivative
5 1 (1.299%) Handset
5 1 (1.299%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 1 (1.299%) Digital Media
5 1 (1.299%) iPad
5 1 (1.299%) Open Source
5 1 (1.299%) SaaS
5 1 (1.299%) iPhone
Operating Systems
1 6 (7.792%) Windows
2 4 (5.195%) Apple iOS
2 4 (5.195%) Android
2 4 (5.195%) UNIX
3 3 (3.896%) Linux
3 3 (3.896%) Mac OS X
4 2 (2.597%) Windows 7
4 2 (2.597%) Windows XP
4 2 (2.597%) Windows Mobile
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (28.57%) Automated Testing
2 16 (20.78%) Agile Software Development
3 15 (19.48%) BDD
4 14 (18.18%) Test Scripting
5 12 (15.58%) Scrum
5 12 (15.58%) Software Testing
6 11 (14.29%) Continuous Integration
6 11 (14.29%) User Acceptance Testing
6 11 (14.29%) TDD
7 10 (12.99%) Regression Testing
7 10 (12.99%) Manual Testing
7 10 (12.99%) Test Automation
8 6 (7.792%) Business Intelligence
9 5 (6.494%) RUP
9 5 (6.494%) E-Commerce
9 5 (6.494%) Automation Testing
10 4 (5.195%) Analytics
10 4 (5.195%) Waterfall
10 4 (5.195%) Dimensional Modelling
10 4 (5.195%) Web Testing
Programming Languages
1 14 (18.18%) C#
1 14 (18.18%) Java
2 13 (16.88%) SQL
3 9 (11.69%) Ruby
4 5 (6.494%) Perl
4 5 (6.494%) Python
5 3 (3.896%) C
5 3 (3.896%) PHP
6 2 (2.597%) Shell Script
6 2 (2.597%) VB
6 2 (2.597%) JavaScript
6 2 (2.597%) C++
6 2 (2.597%) ActionScript
6 2 (2.597%) Objective-C
7 1 (1.299%) VB.NET
7 1 (1.299%) T-SQL
7 1 (1.299%) ActionScript 3.0
7 1 (1.299%) ActionScript 2.0
7 1 (1.299%) Bash shell
Qualifications
1 13 (16.88%) ISEB
2 8 (10.39%) Degree
3 5 (6.494%) ISTQB
4 1 (1.299%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 77 (100.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (1.299%) NFS
Systems Management
1 5 (6.494%) HP Quality Center
2 1 (1.299%) Legato
2 1 (1.299%) Splunk
Vendors
1 12 (15.58%) Microsoft
2 5 (6.494%) HP
3 3 (3.896%) Sybase
3 3 (3.896%) Sitecore
4 1 (1.299%) Omniture
4 1 (1.299%) Yahoo!
4 1 (1.299%) Google
4 1 (1.299%) SAP
4 1 (1.299%) Oracle
4 1 (1.299%) ESRI
4 1 (1.299%) Veritas
Freelance Senior QA Tester
London
This is a great opportunity for a Senior QA Tester to work with a top digital agency on an initial 3 month basis. You will be part of...
Purple Consultancy
Rate: £330 per day
Posted: 24 May 2013
QA Tester
Hertfordshire, South East
My client, a blue chip based in Hertfordshire, require 2 x Agile QA's for a new team to work on a fast paced agile project.
Mint
Rate: £400 - £600 per day
Posted: 25 May 2013
Senior QA Tester - London - Contract
London
Quality Assurance Analyst - London - 6 Months. A Senior Quality Assurance Analyst is required to work as part of a fast paced development team within a large publishing company...
Harvey Nash plc
Rate: £350 - £375 per day
Posted: 22 May 2013
QA /Tester
London
Major plc ( Financial services/media) in the city is looking for a QA/Tester with the following experience: Good experience working with C#/BDD/Specflow important... Agile (Scrum/...
Mark Two People Ltd
Rate: From £350 to £400 per day
Posted: 22 May 2013
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