Hampshire QA Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Quality Assurance (QA) skills within the Hampshire region with a comparison to our Quality Assurance & Compliance category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited QA over the 3 months to 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Quality Assurance (QA)
Location Amersham Barnsley Basildon Basingstoke Belfast Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Blackpool Bournemouth Bracknell Bridgend Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Chatham Cheltenham Cheshire City of London Clapham Corsham County Antrim Coventry Crawley Croydon Derbyshire Docklands, London Dorset Durham East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex Eastleigh Edinburgh England Epsom Essex Farnborough Flintshire Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Godalming Guildford Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harlow Harrogate Harrow Hartlepool Havant Hayes Hertfordshire High Wycombe Horsham Hounslow Kent Knutsford Lancashire Leamington Spa Leatherhead Leeds Leicestershire Liverpool Livingston London M4 Corridor Maidstone Manchester Marlow Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Newton-le-Willows North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northern Ireland Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Poole Portsmouth Reading Sale Sandwich Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton St Albans Staffordshire Stevenage Stirling Stockport Street Sunbury-on-Thames Surrey Swadlincote Swindon Telford Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Walsall Ware Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Wilmslow Wiltshire Windsor Worcester Worcestershire Worthing Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	78	76
Rank change on same period last year	-2
Matching contract IT job ads	28	50
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.037 %	0.051 %
As % of the category below	20.74 %	36.23 %
Daily rates quoted	12	11
Average minimum daily rate	£262	£329
Average daily rate	£273	£340
% change on same period last year	-19.65 %
Average maximum daily rate	£284	£350
UK excluding London average daily rate	£333	£338
% change on same period last year	-1.49 %
Hourly rates quoted	5	10
Average minimum hourly rate	£24.80	£26.82
Average hourly rate	£26.60	£28.45
% change on same period last year	-6.51 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£28.40	£30.09
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£29.07	£30.86
% change on same period last year	-5.79 %
Quality Assurance & Compliance Hampshire
Matching contract IT job ads	135	138
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.180 %	0.140 %
Daily rates quoted	61	34
Average minimum daily rate	£386	£320
Average daily rate	£409	£328
% change on same period last year	+24.81 %
Average maximum daily rate	£432	£336
UK excluding London average daily rate	£368	£371
% change on same period last year	-0.67 %
Hourly rates quoted	16	38
Average minimum hourly rate	£23.18	£25.58
Average hourly rate	£24.26	£26.67
% change on same period last year	-9.00 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£25.35	£27.75
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.31	£24.73
% change on same period last year	-5.77 %
QA South East

We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing QA across the Hampshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Quality Assurance & Compliance category.

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Daily Rate Trend

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

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Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing QA across the Hampshire region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008.

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Hourly Rate Trend

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

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Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing QA across the Hampshire region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008.

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Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing QA within the Hampshire region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
Havant	-	6	£189	-
Southampton	-5	5	£295	-8.05 %
Basingstoke	+24	5	£313	-3.84 %
Farnborough	+6	2	-	-
Portsmouth	-3	2	-	-
Eastleigh	-1	1	£295	-1.66 %

QA South East

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Hampshire 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 18 (23.68 %) Java 2 15 (19.74 %) Linux 3 13 (17.11 %) Microsoft 4 11 (14.47 %) UNIX 5 10 (13.16 %) Telecoms 5 10 (13.16 %) Windows 6 8 (10.53 %) Agile Software Development 7 7 (9.211 %) Retail 8 6 (7.895 %) Finance 8 6 (7.895 %) Wireless 8 6 (7.895 %) Oracle 8 6 (7.895 %) Lotus Notes 8 6 (7.895 %) Lotus 8 6 (7.895 %) Test Scripting 8 6 (7.895 %) Security Cleared

9 5 (6.579 %) Tivoli 9 5 (6.579 %) Tivoli Storage Manager 9 5 (6.579 %) ISO9001 9 5 (6.579 %) HP 9 5 (6.579 %) Cisco 9 5 (6.579 %) Novell 9 5 (6.579 %) C 9 5 (6.579 %) Clustering 10 4 (5.263 %) Oracle EBS 10 4 (5.263 %) Government 10 4 (5.263 %) MS Office 10 4 (5.263 %) VSS/SourceSafe 10 4 (5.263 %) AIX 10 4 (5.263 %) Solaris 10 4 (5.263 %) ISEB

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Hampshire 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 2 (2.632 %) HTML 1 2 (2.632 %) J2EE 2 1 (1.316 %) ArcObjects 2 1 (1.316 %) .NET	Application Platforms 1 6 (7.895 %) Lotus Notes 2 1 (1.316 %) ArcGIS 2 1 (1.316 %) ArcSDE 2 1 (1.316 %) Oracle Spatial
Applications 1 4 (5.263 %) MS Office 2 3 (3.947 %) MS Excel 2 3 (3.947 %) MS Project 3 2 (2.632 %) Spreadsheet	Business Applications 1 4 (5.263 %) Oracle EBS 2 1 (1.316 %) MAXIMO 2 1 (1.316 %) SAP SD
Communications & Networking 1 6 (7.895 %) Wireless 2 1 (1.316 %) GPRS 2 1 (1.316 %) Internet	Database & Business Intelligence 1 3 (3.947 %) Oracle 8/8i 1 3 (3.947 %) SQL Server 2 1 (1.316 %) DB2 2 1 (1.316 %) MS Access 2 1 (1.316 %) Datawarehouse 2 1 (1.316 %) SAP BI
Development Applications 1 4 (5.263 %) VSS/SourceSafe 2 3 (3.947 %) WinRunner 2 3 (3.947 %) MSI 3 2 (2.632 %) Bugzilla 3 2 (2.632 %) Selenium 3 2 (2.632 %) TestDirector 4 1 (1.316 %) QuickTest Pro 4 1 (1.316 %) LoadRunner 4 1 (1.316 %) LSMW	General 1 10 (13.16 %) Telecoms 2 7 (9.211 %) Retail 3 6 (7.895 %) Finance 4 4 (5.263 %) Government 5 3 (3.947 %) Manufacturing 6 2 (2.632 %) Pharmaceutical 6 2 (2.632 %) Aerospace 6 2 (2.632 %) Education 6 2 (2.632 %) Electronics 7 1 (1.316 %) FMCG 7 1 (1.316 %) Electric 7 1 (1.316 %) Financial Institution 7 1 (1.316 %) Banking
Job Titles 1 25 (32.89 %) Analyst 2 21 (27.63 %) QA Analyst 3 11 (14.47 %) Test Analyst 4 9 (11.84 %) QA Test Analyst 5 6 (7.895 %) Tester 5 6 (7.895 %) Quality Analyst 6 5 (6.579 %) QA Engineer 7 4 (5.263 %) Radio Access Network Engineer 7 4 (5.263 %) Release Manager 8 3 (3.947 %) Quality Engineer 8 3 (3.947 %) Project Coordinator 8 3 (3.947 %) Team Leader 8 3 (3.947 %) Software Engineer 8 3 (3.947 %) Developer 8 3 (3.947 %) Coordinator 8 3 (3.947 %) Applications Packager 9 2 (2.632 %) Quality Manager 9 2 (2.632 %) Support Analyst 9 2 (2.632 %) Project Manager 9 2 (2.632 %) QA Tester	Miscellaneous 1 5 (6.579 %) Clustering 2 1 (1.316 %) Client/Server
Operating Systems 1 15 (19.74 %) Linux 2 11 (14.47 %) UNIX 3 10 (13.16 %) Windows 4 4 (5.263 %) AIX 4 4 (5.263 %) Solaris 4 4 (5.263 %) zOS 5 3 (3.947 %) NetWare 6 1 (1.316 %) Windows NT	Processes & Methodologies 1 8 (10.53 %) Agile Software Development 2 6 (7.895 %) Test Scripting 2 6 (7.895 %) Security Cleared 3 4 (5.263 %) SC Cleared 3 4 (5.263 %) Release Management 4 3 (3.947 %) User Acceptance Testing 4 3 (3.947 %) Automated Testing 4 3 (3.947 %) Software Engineering 4 3 (3.947 %) Regression Testing 4 3 (3.947 %) PRINCE2 4 3 (3.947 %) ERP 4 3 (3.947 %) PRINCE 4 3 (3.947 %) Test Management 5 2 (2.632 %) Code Coverage 5 2 (2.632 %) Project Management 5 2 (2.632 %) Data Modelling 5 2 (2.632 %) Service Delivery 5 2 (2.632 %) Change Management 5 2 (2.632 %) Performance Testing 5 2 (2.632 %) Unit Testing
Programming Languages 1 18 (23.68 %) Java 2 5 (6.579 %) C 3 3 (3.947 %) VB 4 2 (2.632 %) VBA 4 2 (2.632 %) Assembly Language 4 2 (2.632 %) Perl 4 2 (2.632 %) SQL 5 1 (1.316 %) VBScript 5 1 (1.316 %) ABAP	Qualifications 1 4 (5.263 %) ISEB 1 4 (5.263 %) Degree 2 3 (3.947 %) HND 3 2 (2.632 %) PRINCE2 Certification 4 1 (1.316 %) HNC
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 5 (6.579 %) ISO9001 2 1 (1.316 %) Basel II 2 1 (1.316 %) ISO12207 2 1 (1.316 %) ISO15504 2 1 (1.316 %) ISO9000	Systems Management 1 5 (6.579 %) Tivoli 1 5 (6.579 %) Tivoli Storage Manager 2 1 (1.316 %) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors 1 13 (17.11 %) Microsoft 2 6 (7.895 %) Oracle 2 6 (7.895 %) Lotus 3 5 (6.579 %) HP 3 5 (6.579 %) Cisco 3 5 (6.579 %) Novell 4 2 (2.632 %) Ericsson 4 2 (2.632 %) SAP 5 1 (1.316 %) Sun 5 1 (1.316 %) ESRI 5 1 (1.316 %) MKS 5 1 (1.316 %) Computacenter