QA Leader Contracts in London
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for the QA Leader role in IT contracts advertised for the London region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited QA Leader in their job title over the 3 months to 23 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 Job Titles advertised for the London 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
23 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Quality Assurance Lead
Rank 371 389 407
Rank change year-on-year
+18 +18
Contract jobs requiring a QA Leader 6 21 28
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 0.028% 0.078% 0.089%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.030% 0.084% 0.096%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 16 20
Average daily rate £400 £425 £450
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-5.88% -5.55%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £264 £375 £413
10% offered a daily rate of more than £428 £538 £503
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £382 £375
% change year-on-year
-8.25% +1.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Job Titles
London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category		 19937 24898 29250
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 92.14% 92.45% 92.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 13430 16056 18793
Average daily rate £450 £440 £475
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+2.27% -7.36%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £275 £275 £300
10% offered a daily rate of more than £600 £600 £625
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 446 620 684
Average hourly rate £20.00 £20.00 £20.00
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.50 £12.50 £12.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £45.00 £41.00 £47.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
QA Leader
England

QA Leader
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing QA Leader across the London region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

London QA Leader Jobs Demand Trend

QA Leader
Daily Rate Trend

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

London QA Leader Daily Rate Trend

QA Leader
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing QA Leader across the London region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

London QA Leader Daily Rate Histogram

QA Leader
Hourly Rate Trend

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

London QA Leader Hourly Rate Trend

QA Leader
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing QA Leader within the London region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)		 Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year		 Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads		 Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months		 Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
City of London +18 2 £323 -35.50%
QA Leader
England

QA Leader
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London region that cited QA Leader in their job title 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 with QA Leader in their job title.

1 18 (100.00%) QA
2 9 (50.00%) Selenium
3 8 (44.44%) Automated Testing
4 6 (33.33%) BDD
4 6 (33.33%) Agile Software Development
4 6 (33.33%) Finance
4 6 (33.33%) Java
5 5 (27.78%) TestNG
5 5 (27.78%) WebDriver
5 5 (27.78%) JIRA
6 4 (22.22%) RESTful
6 4 (22.22%) Cucumber
6 4 (22.22%) Test Automation
6 4 (22.22%) Test Scripting
6 4 (22.22%) Continuous Integration
6 4 (22.22%) Maven
6 4 (22.22%) Project Management
6 4 (22.22%) JUnit
7 3 (16.67%) ISEB
8 2 (11.11%) Citrix
8 2 (11.11%) Thin Client
8 2 (11.11%) OpenVMS
8 2 (11.11%) Fortran
8 2 (11.11%) Business Intelligence
8 2 (11.11%) Microsoft
8 2 (11.11%) HP
8 2 (11.11%) MS Office
8 2 (11.11%) SQL
8 2 (11.11%) Oracle
8 2 (11.11%) C#

QA Leader
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London region that cited QA Leader in their job title 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 with QA Leader in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 4 (22.22%) RESTful
2 2 (11.11%) XML
2 2 (11.11%) MDX
Applications
1 2 (11.11%) MS Office
1 2 (11.11%) MS Excel
2 1 (5.556%) MS PowerPoint
2 1 (5.556%) MS Visio
2 1 (5.556%) MS Project
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (11.11%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (11.11%) Microsoft Analysis Services
2 1 (5.556%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 9 (50.00%) Selenium
2 5 (27.78%) TestNG
2 5 (27.78%) WebDriver
2 5 (27.78%) JIRA
3 4 (22.22%) Cucumber
3 4 (22.22%) Maven
3 4 (22.22%) JUnit
4 2 (11.11%) WatiN
5 1 (5.556%) Visual Studio
General
1 6 (33.33%) Finance
2 2 (11.11%) Publishing
3 1 (5.556%) Investment Banking
3 1 (5.556%) Banking
3 1 (5.556%) Back Office
Miscellaneous
1 2 (11.11%) Thin Client
1 2 (11.11%) Fat Client
2 1 (5.556%) iPad
2 1 (5.556%) Spread Betting
2 1 (5.556%) iPhone
2 1 (5.556%) Blackberry
Operating Systems
1 2 (11.11%) OpenVMS
1 2 (11.11%) Windows
1 2 (11.11%) Android
1 2 (11.11%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (44.44%) Automated Testing
2 6 (33.33%) BDD
2 6 (33.33%) Agile Software Development
3 4 (22.22%) Test Automation
3 4 (22.22%) Test Scripting
3 4 (22.22%) Continuous Integration
3 4 (22.22%) Project Management
4 2 (11.11%) Business Intelligence
4 2 (11.11%) Dimensional Modelling
4 2 (11.11%) Test Management
5 1 (5.556%) Test Strategy
5 1 (5.556%) Root Cause Analysis
5 1 (5.556%) Automation Testing
5 1 (5.556%) User Acceptance Testing
5 1 (5.556%) Performance Testing
5 1 (5.556%) Load Testing
5 1 (5.556%) Integration Testing
5 1 (5.556%) Scrum
5 1 (5.556%) TDD
5 1 (5.556%) Strategic Planning
Programming Languages
1 6 (33.33%) Java
2 2 (11.11%) Fortran
2 2 (11.11%) SQL
2 2 (11.11%) C#
2 2 (11.11%) C++
3 1 (5.556%) C
Qualifications
1 3 (16.67%) ISEB
2 1 (5.556%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (100.00%) QA
System Software
1 2 (11.11%) XenApp
1 2 (11.11%) XenDesktop
Vendors
1 2 (11.11%) Citrix
1 2 (11.11%) Microsoft
1 2 (11.11%) HP
1 2 (11.11%) Oracle
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