Hertfordshire QA Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Quality Assurance (QA) skills within the Hertfordshire 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 2 December 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Quality Assurance (QA)
Location Avon Basingstoke Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Braintree Brentford Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Burton-upon-Trent Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Channel Islands Chelmsford Cheltenham Cheshire Chester City of London County Antrim Coventry Cumbria Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset East Anglia East Grinstead East Midlands East of England East Sussex Eastleigh Edinburgh England Essex Fareham Farnborough Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire Hove Huddersfield Huntingdon Kent Lancashire Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool London M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Osterley Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Plymouth Portsmouth Preston Reading Rochester Salisbury Scotland Slough Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West Southampton Staffordshire Stevenage Stoke-on-Trent Stratford-upon-Avon Surrey Sussex Swindon Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warrington Warwickshire Watford West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Yeovil York Yorkshire	3 months to 2 Dec 2008	Same period last year
Rank	44	64
Rank change on same period last year	+20
Matching contract IT job ads	27	33
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.043 %	0.035 %
As % of the category below	42.86 %	30.56 %
Daily rates quoted	7	14
Average minimum daily rate	£337	£405
Average daily rate	£371	£458
% change on same period last year	-18.87 %
Average maximum daily rate	£406	£511
UK excluding London average daily rate	£362	£338
% change on same period last year	+7.18 %
Hourly rates quoted	5	2
Average minimum hourly rate	£29.00	£35.00
Average hourly rate	£31.60	£35.00
% change on same period last year	-9.71 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£34.20	£35.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£31.11	£27.96
% change on same period last year	+11.26 %
Quality Assurance & Compliance Hertfordshire
Matching contract IT job ads	63	108
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.101 %	0.116 %
Daily rates quoted	19	48
Average minimum daily rate	£332	£320
Average daily rate	£350	£342
% change on same period last year	+2.44 %
Average maximum daily rate	£368	£363
UK excluding London average daily rate	£370	£358
% change on same period last year	+3.62 %
Hourly rates quoted	9	13
Average minimum hourly rate	£30.21	£20.54
Average hourly rate	£32.49	£22.00
% change on same period last year	+47.66 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£34.76	£23.46
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£25.11	£23.27
% change on same period last year	+7.86 %
QA East of England

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 Hertfordshire 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 Hertfordshire 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 Hertfordshire region over the 3 months to 2 December 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 Hertfordshire 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 Hertfordshire region over the 3 months to 2 December 2008.

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Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing QA within the Hertfordshire region over the 3 months to 2 December 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
Stevenage	+8	9	-	-
Watford	+17	1	£315	-40.93 %

QA East of England

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 2 December 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Hertfordshire 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 16 (31.37 %) Windows 2 14 (27.45 %) Security Cleared 3 11 (21.57 %) VB 3 11 (21.57 %) Configuration Management 4 10 (19.61 %) Shell Script 4 10 (19.61 %) PowerShell 4 10 (19.61 %) Continuous Integration 5 9 (17.65 %) Retail 5 9 (17.65 %) .NET 6 8 (15.69 %) PRINCE2 6 8 (15.69 %) MS Excel 6 8 (15.69 %) ISO9001 6 8 (15.69 %) Project Management 7 7 (13.73 %) InstallShield 7 7 (13.73 %) Internet

7 7 (13.73 %) MS Office 7 7 (13.73 %) BC Cleared 8 5 (9.804 %) CMMI 8 5 (9.804 %) Citrix 8 5 (9.804 %) SC Cleared 9 4 (7.843 %) TestDirector 9 4 (7.843 %) Active Directory 9 4 (7.843 %) Lotus Notes 9 4 (7.843 %) Lotus 10 3 (5.882 %) MS Project 10 3 (5.882 %) Electronics 10 3 (5.882 %) Microsoft 10 3 (5.882 %) Java 10 3 (5.882 %) Automated Testing 10 3 (5.882 %) Software Engineering

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 2 December 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Hertfordshire 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 9 (17.65 %) .NET 2 1 (1.961 %) CSS 2 1 (1.961 %) SOAP 2 1 (1.961 %) WebServices 2 1 (1.961 %) XHTML 2 1 (1.961 %) SAP XI 2 1 (1.961 %) SAP Basis 2 1 (1.961 %) AJAX 2 1 (1.961 %) SAP PI 2 1 (1.961 %) HTML	Application Platforms 1 4 (7.843 %) Lotus Notes
Applications 1 8 (15.69 %) MS Excel 2 7 (13.73 %) MS Office 3 3 (5.882 %) MS Project	Business Applications 1 1 (1.961 %) SAP CRM
Communications & Networking 1 7 (13.73 %) Internet	Database & Business Intelligence 1 1 (1.961 %) DB2 1 1 (1.961 %) SAP BW
Development Applications 1 7 (13.73 %) InstallShield 2 4 (7.843 %) TestDirector 3 2 (3.922 %) LoadRunner 4 1 (1.961 %) WinRunner 4 1 (1.961 %) QuickTest Pro 4 1 (1.961 %) JMeter 4 1 (1.961 %) Selenium 4 1 (1.961 %) FitNesse	General 1 9 (17.65 %) Retail 2 3 (5.882 %) Electronics 3 2 (3.922 %) Aerospace 3 2 (3.922 %) Government 3 2 (3.922 %) Manufacturing 4 1 (1.961 %) Games 4 1 (1.961 %) Electric 4 1 (1.961 %) Auditing 4 1 (1.961 %) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles 1 7 (13.73 %) Software Engineer 2 6 (11.76 %) Quality Engineer 3 5 (9.804 %) QA Engineer 3 5 (9.804 %) Consultant 4 4 (7.843 %) Analyst 5 3 (5.882 %) IT Consultant 5 3 (5.882 %) Process Consultant 5 3 (5.882 %) Senior Analyst 5 3 (5.882 %) Radio Access Network Engineer 6 2 (3.922 %) Test Consultant 6 2 (3.922 %) Senior QA Analyst 6 2 (3.922 %) QA Analyst 6 2 (3.922 %) Release Manager 6 2 (3.922 %) Test Analyst 6 2 (3.922 %) Developer 6 2 (3.922 %) Project Manager 6 2 (3.922 %) Tester 7 1 (1.961 %) Test Manager 7 1 (1.961 %) Java Developer 7 1 (1.961 %) Systems Tester	Miscellaneous 1 1 (1.961 %) French Language
Operating Systems 1 16 (31.37 %) Windows 2 2 (3.922 %) UNIX	Processes & Methodologies 1 14 (27.45 %) Security Cleared 2 11 (21.57 %) Configuration Management 3 10 (19.61 %) Continuous Integration 4 8 (15.69 %) Project Management 4 8 (15.69 %) PRINCE2 5 7 (13.73 %) BC Cleared 6 5 (9.804 %) SC Cleared 6 5 (9.804 %) CMMI 7 3 (5.882 %) Validation 7 3 (5.882 %) Automated Testing 7 3 (5.882 %) Software Engineering 7 3 (5.882 %) Test Management 8 2 (3.922 %) Test Scripting 8 2 (3.922 %) Performance Testing 8 2 (3.922 %) Risk Management 8 2 (3.922 %) Quality Management 9 1 (1.961 %) RUP 9 1 (1.961 %) CRM 9 1 (1.961 %) Six Sigma 9 1 (1.961 %) Web Testing
Programming Languages 1 11 (21.57 %) VB 2 10 (19.61 %) Shell Script 2 10 (19.61 %) PowerShell 3 3 (5.882 %) Java 4 1 (1.961 %) JavaScript 4 1 (1.961 %) SQL 4 1 (1.961 %) C 4 1 (1.961 %) C# 4 1 (1.961 %) C++ 4 1 (1.961 %) ABAP	Qualifications 1 3 (5.882 %) Degree 2 2 (3.922 %) HNC 3 1 (1.961 %) HND 3 1 (1.961 %) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 8 (15.69 %) ISO9001 2 2 (3.922 %) TickIT 3 1 (1.961 %) ISO14001	System Software 1 4 (7.843 %) Active Directory
Vendors 1 5 (9.804 %) Citrix 2 4 (7.843 %) Lotus 3 3 (5.882 %) Microsoft 4 1 (1.961 %) SAP 4 1 (1.961 %) JDA