The first table below looks at the demand for QA skills in IT contracts advertised for the Leeds region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited QA over the 3 months to 20 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 Leeds 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
20 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Quality Assurance (QA)
Rank 62 57 32
Rank change year-on-year
-5 -25
Contract jobs citing QA 15 19 28
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Leeds 1.868% 1.898% 4.154%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 27.78% 36.54% 62.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 11 20
Average daily rate £288 £410 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-29.87% +2.56%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £240 £250 £286
10% offered a daily rate of more than £391 £475 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £338 £325 £398
% change year-on-year
+3.84% -18.23%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 3
Average hourly rate £12.25 - £12.00
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.25 - £11.85
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.25 - £18.40
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.75 £27.25 £30.00
% change year-on-year
-38.52% -9.16%
All Quality Assurance & Compliance
Leeds
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Quality Assurance & Compliance category
54 52 45
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Leeds 6.725% 5.195% 6.677%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 27 25
Average daily rate £325 £395 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-17.72% +5.33%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £233 £212 £275
10% offered a daily rate of more than £400 £475 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £388
% change year-on-year
- -9.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 7 9
Average hourly rate £13.50 £12.00 £11.91
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+12.50% +0.77%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.50 £10.80 £6.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £15.10 £32.80 £20.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £18.00 £16.72 £30.00
% change year-on-year
+7.65% -44.26%
QA
West Yorkshire

QA
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Leeds 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 Leeds region.

Leeds QA Daily Rate Trend

QA
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing QA across the Leeds region over the 3 months to 20 June 2013.

Leeds QA Daily Rate Histogram

QA
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Leeds QA Hourly Rate Trend

QA
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Leeds 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 13 (31.71%) .NET
2 12 (29.27%) SQL
3 11 (26.83%) C#
4 10 (24.39%) Agile Software Development
5 9 (21.95%) Selenium
6 8 (19.51%) WebDriver
6 8 (19.51%) Oracle
6 8 (19.51%) Visual Studio
7 7 (17.07%) MS Office
7 7 (17.07%) XML
7 7 (17.07%) Microsoft
8 6 (14.63%) Manual Testing
8 6 (14.63%) User Acceptance Testing
8 6 (14.63%) Scrum
8 6 (14.63%) Software Testing
9 5 (12.20%) JIRA
9 5 (12.20%) Test Automation
9 5 (12.20%) Project Management
9 5 (12.20%) Finance
9 5 (12.20%) Windows
9 5 (12.20%) SharePoint
9 5 (12.20%) VB
10 4 (9.756%) HTML
10 4 (9.756%) PHP
10 4 (9.756%) MS Excel
10 4 (9.756%) HTTP
10 4 (9.756%) Performance Testing
10 4 (9.756%) Test Management
10 4 (9.756%) Continuous Integration
11 3 (7.317%) Integration Testing

QA
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Leeds 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 13 (31.71%) .NET
2 7 (17.07%) XML
3 4 (9.756%) HTML
4 3 (7.317%) Java EE
4 3 (7.317%) SOAP
4 3 (7.317%) Web Services
4 3 (7.317%) ASP
4 3 (7.317%) LAMP
4 3 (7.317%) REST
4 3 (7.317%) Gherkin
5 2 (4.878%) WPF
6 1 (2.439%) WCF
6 1 (2.439%) SAP Basis
6 1 (2.439%) ASP.NET
Application Platforms
1 5 (12.20%) SharePoint
2 3 (7.317%) SharePoint 2010
2 3 (7.317%) ESB
2 3 (7.317%) Apache
Applications
1 7 (17.07%) MS Office
2 4 (9.756%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (2.439%) SAP FSCM
Communications & Networking
1 4 (9.756%) HTTP
2 3 (7.317%) Internet
3 1 (2.439%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (7.317%) SQL Server
1 3 (7.317%) MySQL
2 1 (2.439%) Oracle BI EE
2 1 (2.439%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 1 (2.439%) SQL Server 2005
2 1 (2.439%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (2.439%) Oracle 8/8i
2 1 (2.439%) PowerCenter
2 1 (2.439%) SAP BI
Development Applications
1 9 (21.95%) Selenium
2 8 (19.51%) WebDriver
2 8 (19.51%) Visual Studio
3 5 (12.20%) JIRA
4 3 (7.317%) TeamCity
4 3 (7.317%) MSI
4 3 (7.317%) Cucumber
4 3 (7.317%) SpecFlow
5 2 (4.878%) NUnit
5 2 (4.878%) Visual Studio Team System
6 1 (2.439%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 5 (12.20%) Finance
2 3 (7.317%) Online Betting
2 3 (7.317%) Games
3 1 (2.439%) Telecoms
3 1 (2.439%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 13 (31.71%) Analyst
2 7 (17.07%) Test Analyst
2 7 (17.07%) Solutions Architect
2 7 (17.07%) Architect
3 6 (14.63%) Tester
4 5 (12.20%) Developer
5 3 (7.317%) Agile Tester
5 3 (7.317%) QA Analyst
5 3 (7.317%) QA Test Analyst
5 3 (7.317%) Technical Architect
6 2 (4.878%) Project Manager
6 2 (4.878%) Test Manager
6 2 (4.878%) QA Manager
6 2 (4.878%) Performance Analyst
6 2 (4.878%) QA Test Manager
7 1 (2.439%) PMO Analyst
7 1 (2.439%) PMO Manager
7 1 (2.439%) Data Warehouse Test Analyst
7 1 (2.439%) SQL Server DBA
7 1 (2.439%) SAP Basis Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 3 (7.317%) Clustering
1 3 (7.317%) Enterprise Software
2 2 (4.878%) IVR
3 1 (2.439%) LPAR
3 1 (2.439%) DLPAR
3 1 (2.439%) Statistics
3 1 (2.439%) Management Information System
3 1 (2.439%) HACMP
Operating Systems
1 5 (12.20%) Windows
2 3 (7.317%) Linux
3 2 (4.878%) UNIX
4 1 (2.439%) Windows XP
4 1 (2.439%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (24.39%) Agile Software Development
2 6 (14.63%) Manual Testing
2 6 (14.63%) User Acceptance Testing
2 6 (14.63%) Scrum
2 6 (14.63%) Software Testing
3 5 (12.20%) Test Automation
3 5 (12.20%) Project Management
4 4 (9.756%) Performance Testing
4 4 (9.756%) Test Management
4 4 (9.756%) Continuous Integration
5 3 (7.317%) Integration Testing
5 3 (7.317%) Test Scripting
5 3 (7.317%) Network Load Balancing
5 3 (7.317%) Technical Architecture
5 3 (7.317%) Content Management
5 3 (7.317%) Automated Testing
5 3 (7.317%) Unified Process
5 3 (7.317%) SOA
5 3 (7.317%) Migration
5 3 (7.317%) Agile Testing
Programming Languages
1 12 (29.27%) SQL
2 11 (26.83%) C#
3 5 (12.20%) VB
4 4 (9.756%) PHP
5 3 (7.317%) Java
6 2 (4.878%) VB.NET
6 2 (4.878%) VBA
6 2 (4.878%) T-SQL
6 2 (4.878%) VB6
7 1 (2.439%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 2 (4.878%) ISEB
2 1 (2.439%) SC Cleared
2 1 (2.439%) Security Cleared
2 1 (2.439%) Degree
2 1 (2.439%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.439%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 3 (7.317%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (4.878%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 8 (19.51%) Oracle
2 7 (17.07%) Microsoft
3 3 (7.317%) VMware
4 2 (4.878%) HP
5 1 (2.439%) SAP
5 1 (2.439%) Informatica