QA Contracts in Halifax
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for QA skills in IT contracts advertised for the Halifax region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited QA 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 of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category for the Halifax 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 (QA)
Rank - 28 23
Contract jobs citing QA 0 3 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Halifax - 1.322% 0.820%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category - 23.08% 11.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 1 1
Average daily rate - £500 £450
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +11.11%
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £350 £360
% change year-on-year
-7.14% -2.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £26.00 £20.00 £32.75
% change year-on-year
+30.00% -38.93%
Search 1 QA jobs in Halifax
All Quality Assurance & Compliance
Halifax
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Quality Assurance & Compliance category		 11 13 9
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Halifax 9.167% 5.727% 7.377%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 11 9
Average daily rate £280 £365 £413
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-23.28% -11.51%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £294 £163
10% offered a daily rate of more than £507 £434 £475
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £375
% change year-on-year
- -6.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.75 £16.35 £30.50
% change year-on-year
+8.56% -46.39%
QA
West Yorkshire

QA
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Halifax 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 Halifax region.

Halifax QA Daily Rate Trend

QA
Top 22 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Halifax 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 4 (66.67%) SOA
1 4 (66.67%) IBM
1 4 (66.67%) Middleware
1 4 (66.67%) Management Information System
1 4 (66.67%) Stakeholder Management
1 4 (66.67%) Retail
2 2 (33.33%) User Acceptance Testing
2 2 (33.33%) SAP
2 2 (33.33%) SAP HR
3 1 (16.67%) Project Management
3 1 (16.67%) HP
3 1 (16.67%) ISEB
3 1 (16.67%) Regression Testing
3 1 (16.67%) Risk Management
3 1 (16.67%) SAP Payroll
3 1 (16.67%) Performance Testing
3 1 (16.67%) Test Management
3 1 (16.67%) HP Quality Center
3 1 (16.67%) Test Strategy
3 1 (16.67%) Critical Path Analysis
3 1 (16.67%) Project Planning
3 1 (16.67%) SAP HCM

QA
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Halifax 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.

Application Development
1 4 (66.67%) Middleware
Business Applications
1 2 (33.33%) SAP HR
2 1 (16.67%) SAP Payroll
2 1 (16.67%) SAP HCM
General
1 4 (66.67%) Retail
Job Titles
1 2 (33.33%) Consultant
2 1 (16.67%) SAP HR Consultant
2 1 (16.67%) SAP Consultant
2 1 (16.67%) Test Consultant
2 1 (16.67%) Test Leader
2 1 (16.67%) SAP Payroll Consultant
2 1 (16.67%) Payroll Consultant
2 1 (16.67%) SAP HR/Payroll Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 4 (66.67%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) SOA
1 4 (66.67%) Stakeholder Management
2 2 (33.33%) User Acceptance Testing
3 1 (16.67%) Project Management
3 1 (16.67%) Regression Testing
3 1 (16.67%) Risk Management
3 1 (16.67%) Performance Testing
3 1 (16.67%) Test Management
3 1 (16.67%) Test Strategy
3 1 (16.67%) Critical Path Analysis
3 1 (16.67%) Project Planning
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) ISEB
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 4 (66.67%) IBM
2 2 (33.33%) SAP
3 1 (16.67%) HP
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