The first table below looks at the demand for the Quality Analyst 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 Quality Analyst in their job title over the 3 months to 21 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
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Quality Analyst
Rank 479 508 524
Rank change year-on-year
+29 +16
Contract jobs requiring a Quality Analyst 33 49 31
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 0.078% 0.092% 0.056%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.084% 0.099% 0.060%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 43 17
Average daily rate £305 £300 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+1.66% -14.28%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £194 £186 £295
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £500 £510
UK excluding London average daily rate £313 £318 £319
% change year-on-year
-1.57% -0.39%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
Average hourly rate - - £13.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - £13.50
All Job Titles
England
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
39141 49545 51375
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 92.52% 92.60% 92.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 22991 28027 28527
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 2036 2429 2720
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 £11.17 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £42.00 £40.00 £40.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
Quality Analyst
UK

Quality Analyst
Jobs Demand Trend

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

England Quality Analyst Jobs Demand Trend

Quality Analyst
Daily Rate Trend

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

England Quality Analyst Daily Rate Trend

Quality Analyst
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Quality Analyst across the England region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

England Quality Analyst Daily Rate Histogram

Quality Analyst
Hourly Rate Trend

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

England Quality Analyst Hourly Rate Trend

Quality Analyst
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Quality Analyst within the England region over the 3 months to 21 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 -9 12 £375 +25.00%
South East +31 10 £261 -5.00%
East Midlands - 4 £313 -
South West +25 2 £341 -9.06%
East of England +12 2 £218 -42.00%
Yorkshire +6 2 £245 -35.52%
Midlands - 1 £300 -
Quality Analyst
UK

Quality Analyst
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England region that cited Quality 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 Quality Analyst in their job title.

1 40 (59.70%) Data Quality
2 23 (34.33%) SQL
3 20 (29.85%) QA
4 18 (26.87%) Data Management
5 16 (23.88%) Finance
6 13 (19.40%) Data Analysis
6 13 (19.40%) MS Excel
6 13 (19.40%) Data Governance
7 11 (16.42%) T-SQL
7 11 (16.42%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 11 (16.42%) Banking
8 10 (14.93%) Migration
8 10 (14.93%) SQL Server
8 10 (14.93%) MS Office
8 10 (14.93%) CRM
9 9 (13.43%) Microsoft
10 8 (11.94%) Project Management
10 8 (11.94%) Data Warehouse
10 8 (11.94%) SAP
10 8 (11.94%) Data Migration
11 7 (10.45%) NHS
11 7 (10.45%) Validation
12 6 (8.955%) Data Modelling
12 6 (8.955%) Solvency II
12 6 (8.955%) SAP IS-U
12 6 (8.955%) SQL Server Analysis Services
13 5 (7.463%) ETL
13 5 (7.463%) Informatica
13 5 (7.463%) Siebel
13 5 (7.463%) Oracle

Quality Analyst
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England region that cited Quality 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 Quality Analyst in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (1.493%) .NET
1 1 (1.493%) CSS
1 1 (1.493%) XML
1 1 (1.493%) XSLT
1 1 (1.493%) HTML
1 1 (1.493%) DAO
Application Platforms
1 1 (1.493%) SharePoint
Applications
1 13 (19.40%) MS Excel
2 10 (14.93%) MS Office
3 5 (7.463%) MS Project
4 4 (5.970%) MS Visio
5 3 (4.478%) MS PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 6 (8.955%) SAP IS-U
2 5 (7.463%) SAP CRM
3 1 (1.493%) Dynamics CRM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (16.42%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 10 (14.93%) SQL Server
3 8 (11.94%) Data Warehouse
4 6 (8.955%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 2 (2.985%) MS Access
5 2 (2.985%) Oracle BI EE
6 1 (1.493%) SQL Server 2008
6 1 (1.493%) QlikView
6 1 (1.493%) EDMS
6 1 (1.493%) DataStage
6 1 (1.493%) Oracle Reports
6 1 (1.493%) MySQL
6 1 (1.493%) Crystal Reports
6 1 (1.493%) SQL Server 2005
6 1 (1.493%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 2 (2.985%) ERwin
1 2 (2.985%) Selenium
1 2 (2.985%) Team Foundation Server
2 1 (1.493%) Cucumber
2 1 (1.493%) TestComplete
2 1 (1.493%) ClearQuest
2 1 (1.493%) JIRA
General
1 16 (23.88%) Finance
2 11 (16.42%) Banking
3 4 (5.970%) Investment Banking
3 4 (5.970%) Retail
3 4 (5.970%) Pharmaceutical
4 2 (2.985%) Telecoms
4 2 (2.985%) Manufacturing
4 2 (2.985%) Publishing
4 2 (2.985%) Retail Banking
5 1 (1.493%) Financial Institution
Miscellaneous
1 7 (10.45%) NHS
2 4 (5.970%) Management Information System
3 2 (2.985%) Equities
3 2 (2.985%) Derivative
4 1 (1.493%) Reference Data
4 1 (1.493%) Computer Science
4 1 (1.493%) Smartcard
4 1 (1.493%) PMI
4 1 (1.493%) EPoS
4 1 (1.493%) Fixed Income
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (26.87%) Data Management
2 13 (19.40%) Data Analysis
2 13 (19.40%) Data Governance
3 10 (14.93%) Migration
3 10 (14.93%) CRM
4 8 (11.94%) Project Management
4 8 (11.94%) Data Migration
5 7 (10.45%) Validation
6 6 (8.955%) Data Modelling
7 5 (7.463%) ETL
8 4 (5.970%) CMMI
8 4 (5.970%) Change Management
8 4 (5.970%) Business Analysis
8 4 (5.970%) PRINCE2
8 4 (5.970%) Continuous Improvement
8 4 (5.970%) Change Control
9 3 (4.478%) System Testing
9 3 (4.478%) Performance Management
9 3 (4.478%) Unit Testing
9 3 (4.478%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 23 (34.33%) SQL
2 11 (16.42%) T-SQL
3 4 (5.970%) VB
4 3 (4.478%) PL/SQL
5 2 (2.985%) Java
5 2 (2.985%) VBA
6 1 (1.493%) C++
6 1 (1.493%) VB.NET
6 1 (1.493%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 3 (4.478%) Degree
2 2 (2.985%) ISEB
3 1 (1.493%) Security Cleared
3 1 (1.493%) CISSP
3 1 (1.493%) ITIL Certification
3 1 (1.493%) PMI Certification
3 1 (1.493%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 40 (59.70%) Data Quality
2 20 (29.85%) QA
3 6 (8.955%) Solvency II
4 2 (2.985%) TickIT
4 2 (2.985%) ISO 9001
4 2 (2.985%) Basel II
5 1 (1.493%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (1.493%) SLA
5 1 (1.493%) GxP
5 1 (1.493%) GAMP
5 1 (1.493%) ISO/IEC 27001
Systems Management
1 4 (5.970%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 9 (13.43%) Microsoft
2 8 (11.94%) SAP
3 5 (7.463%) Informatica
3 5 (7.463%) Siebel
3 5 (7.463%) Oracle
3 5 (7.463%) DataFlux
4 4 (5.970%) Business Objects
5 3 (4.478%) Trillium
6 2 (2.985%) HP
6 2 (2.985%) Salesforce.com
7 1 (1.493%) iSOFT
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