The first table below looks at the demand for QA skills in IT contracts advertised for the Fareham 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 Fareham 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 - - 11
Contract jobs citing QA 0 0 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Fareham - - 4.167%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category - - 66.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 2
Average daily rate - - £210
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
Fareham
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Quality Assurance & Compliance category
5 0 3
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Fareham 17.86% - 6.250%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 3
Average daily rate - - £213
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £388
% change year-on-year
- -9.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Average hourly rate £32.50 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £18.25 £16.72 £30.00
% change year-on-year
+9.15% -44.26%
QA
Hampshire

QA
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Fareham 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 Fareham region.

Fareham QA Daily Rate Trend

QA
Top 26 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Fareham 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 6 (85.71%) MS Access
1 6 (85.71%) Validation
1 6 (85.71%) Migration
1 6 (85.71%) Retail
1 6 (85.71%) Data Migration
1 6 (85.71%) Data Cleansing
1 6 (85.71%) Data Validation
2 5 (71.43%) Performance Improvement
2 5 (71.43%) Oracle APEX
2 5 (71.43%) Oracle 11g
2 5 (71.43%) Data Modelling
2 5 (71.43%) PL/SQL
2 5 (71.43%) SQL
2 5 (71.43%) Oracle
2 5 (71.43%) Oracle Forms
2 5 (71.43%) Oracle Reports
3 1 (14.29%) Data Analysis
3 1 (14.29%) Supplier Management
3 1 (14.29%) MS Excel
3 1 (14.29%) Workflow
3 1 (14.29%) Unit Testing
3 1 (14.29%) Test Management
3 1 (14.29%) Test Strategy
3 1 (14.29%) Root Cause Analysis
3 1 (14.29%) Data Transformation
3 1 (14.29%) Guidewire

QA
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Fareham 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.

Applications
1 1 (14.29%) MS Excel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (85.71%) MS Access
2 5 (71.43%) Oracle 11g
2 5 (71.43%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 5 (71.43%) Oracle APEX
1 5 (71.43%) Oracle Forms
General
1 6 (85.71%) Retail
Job Titles
1 5 (71.43%) Data Analyst
1 5 (71.43%) Analyst
2 4 (57.14%) Data Migration Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Oracle Database Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Oracle Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Database Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Test Manager
3 1 (14.29%) Developer
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (85.71%) Validation
1 6 (85.71%) Migration
1 6 (85.71%) Data Migration
1 6 (85.71%) Data Cleansing
1 6 (85.71%) Data Validation
2 5 (71.43%) Performance Improvement
2 5 (71.43%) Data Modelling
3 1 (14.29%) Data Analysis
3 1 (14.29%) Supplier Management
3 1 (14.29%) Workflow
3 1 (14.29%) Unit Testing
3 1 (14.29%) Test Management
3 1 (14.29%) Test Strategy
3 1 (14.29%) Root Cause Analysis
3 1 (14.29%) Data Transformation
Programming Languages
1 5 (71.43%) PL/SQL
1 5 (71.43%) SQL
Vendors
1 5 (71.43%) Oracle
2 1 (14.29%) Guidewire