The first table below looks at the demand for the Senior QA 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 Senior QA Analyst in their job title 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 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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Senior Quality Assurance Analyst
Rank 517 529 566
Rank change year-on-year
+12 +37
Contract jobs requiring a Senior QA Analyst 15 16 14
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 0.035% 0.030% 0.024%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.037% 0.033% 0.026%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 8 5
Average daily rate £445 £400 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+11.25% +23.07%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £220 £393 £233
10% offered a daily rate of more than £550 £439 £475
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 - £244
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
40014 49001 53004
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 92.47% 92.53% 92.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 23687 27821 29587
Average daily rate £400 £400 £425
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -5.88%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £240 £240 £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 1959 2399 2806
Average hourly rate £19.00 £18.68 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+1.74% -6.62%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.50 £11.25 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £42.20 £40.00 £41.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £19.94
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -9.72%
Senior QA Analyst
UK

Senior QA Analyst
Jobs Demand Trend

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

England Senior QA Analyst Jobs Demand Trend

Senior QA Analyst
Daily Rate Trend

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

England Senior QA Analyst Daily Rate Trend

Senior QA Analyst
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Senior QA Analyst across the England region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

England Senior QA Analyst Daily Rate Histogram

Senior 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 Senior QA Analyst within the England region over the 3 months to 19 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
Find
Job
Vacancies
London +20 10 £475 +18.75% 1
East of England - 4 £350 -
Yorkshire - - - -
North East - - - -
South West - - - -
West Midlands - - - -
Senior QA Analyst
UK

Senior QA Analyst
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England region that cited Senior 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 Senior QA Analyst in their job title.

1 19 (100.00%) QA
2 13 (68.42%) SQL
3 8 (42.11%) .NET
3 8 (42.11%) C#
3 8 (42.11%) JavaScript
3 8 (42.11%) SQL Server
3 8 (42.11%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 8 (42.11%) Microsoft
3 8 (42.11%) Equities
3 8 (42.11%) Finance
3 8 (42.11%) JIRA
4 7 (36.84%) Confluence
4 7 (36.84%) Test Automation
4 7 (36.84%) Regression Testing
4 7 (36.84%) Front Office
4 7 (36.84%) Derivative
4 7 (36.84%) .NET Framework
4 7 (36.84%) Performance Testing
5 6 (31.58%) Agile Software Development
6 5 (26.32%) E-Commerce
7 4 (21.05%) ISEB
7 4 (21.05%) Workflow
7 4 (21.05%) SharePoint
7 4 (21.05%) Change Management
7 4 (21.05%) Scrum
7 4 (21.05%) Mingle
8 3 (15.79%) HP Quality Center
8 3 (15.79%) Software Testing
8 3 (15.79%) Project Management
8 3 (15.79%) UNIX

Senior QA Analyst
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England region that cited Senior 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 Senior QA Analyst in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 8 (42.11%) .NET
2 7 (36.84%) .NET Framework
3 2 (10.53%) CSS
3 2 (10.53%) HTML
4 1 (5.263%) WPF
4 1 (5.263%) WebSphere
Application Platforms
1 7 (36.84%) Confluence
2 4 (21.05%) SharePoint
3 1 (5.263%) WebLogic
Applications
1 4 (21.05%) Mingle
2 1 (5.263%) MS PowerPoint
2 1 (5.263%) MS Excel
2 1 (5.263%) MS Visio
2 1 (5.263%) MS Project
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (42.11%) SQL Server
2 1 (5.263%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 8 (42.11%) JIRA
2 2 (10.53%) QuickTest Pro
2 2 (10.53%) Selenium
3 1 (5.263%) TestDirector
3 1 (5.263%) LoadRunner
General
1 8 (42.11%) Finance
2 7 (36.84%) Front Office
3 1 (5.263%) Investment Banking
3 1 (5.263%) Banking
Miscellaneous
1 8 (42.11%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
1 8 (42.11%) Equities
2 7 (36.84%) Derivative
3 1 (5.263%) Mobile App
3 1 (5.263%) Fixed Income
3 1 (5.263%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 3 (15.79%) UNIX
2 1 (5.263%) Apple iOS
2 1 (5.263%) Android
2 1 (5.263%) Windows
2 1 (5.263%) Solaris
2 1 (5.263%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (36.84%) Test Automation
1 7 (36.84%) Regression Testing
1 7 (36.84%) Performance Testing
2 6 (31.58%) Agile Software Development
3 5 (26.32%) E-Commerce
4 4 (21.05%) Workflow
4 4 (21.05%) Change Management
4 4 (21.05%) Scrum
5 3 (15.79%) Software Testing
5 3 (15.79%) Project Management
6 2 (10.53%) CMMI
6 2 (10.53%) RUP
6 2 (10.53%) Content Management
6 2 (10.53%) High Availability
6 2 (10.53%) Continuous Improvement
6 2 (10.53%) User Stories
7 1 (5.263%) Automation Testing
7 1 (5.263%) Waterfall
7 1 (5.263%) Test Strategy
7 1 (5.263%) Automated Testing
Programming Languages
1 13 (68.42%) SQL
2 8 (42.11%) C#
2 8 (42.11%) JavaScript
3 1 (5.263%) Java
3 1 (5.263%) PHP
Qualifications
1 4 (21.05%) ISEB
2 1 (5.263%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (100.00%) QA
Systems Management
1 3 (15.79%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 8 (42.11%) Microsoft
2 2 (10.53%) HP
3 1 (5.263%) VMware
3 1 (5.263%) Oracle
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