The first table below looks at the demand for the QA Manager 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 Manager 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 Manager
Rank 365 405 415
Rank change year-on-year
+40 +10
Contract jobs requiring a QA Manager 12 5 20
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 0.055% 0.019% 0.063%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.060% 0.020% 0.068%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 5 14
Average daily rate £450 £350 £500
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+28.57% -30.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £388 £320 £450
10% offered a daily rate of more than £550 £426 £585
UK excluding London average daily rate £500 £450 £369
% change year-on-year
+11.11% +22.03%
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 Manager
England

QA Manager
Jobs Demand Trend

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

London QA Manager Jobs Demand Trend

QA Manager
Daily Rate Trend

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

London QA Manager Daily Rate Trend

QA Manager
Daily Rate Histogram

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

London QA Manager Daily Rate Histogram

QA Manager
Hourly Rate Trend

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

London QA Manager Hourly Rate Trend

QA Manager
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing QA Manager 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 - 4 £500 -
Hounslow - 1 - -
QA Manager
England

QA Manager
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 31 (100.00%) QA
2 16 (51.61%) Project Management
3 14 (45.16%) Scrum
3 14 (45.16%) Test Management
4 13 (41.94%) Fixed Income
4 13 (41.94%) IT Governance
4 13 (41.94%) CMMI
4 13 (41.94%) SOA
5 12 (38.71%) PRINCE2
5 12 (38.71%) UML
5 12 (38.71%) RUP
5 12 (38.71%) PMI
5 12 (38.71%) PMI Certification
6 11 (35.48%) Regression Testing
6 11 (35.48%) Performance Management
6 11 (35.48%) HP Quality Center
6 11 (35.48%) Process Improvement
7 10 (32.26%) Project Governance
7 10 (32.26%) Portfolio Management
7 10 (32.26%) COBIT
7 10 (32.26%) Six Sigma Black Belt
7 10 (32.26%) Equities
7 10 (32.26%) Programme Management
7 10 (32.26%) Risk Management
7 10 (32.26%) Niku
7 10 (32.26%) Configuration Management
7 10 (32.26%) QuickTest Pro
7 10 (32.26%) Microsoft
7 10 (32.26%) Six Sigma
7 10 (32.26%) MS Excel

QA Manager
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 3 (9.677%) XML
2 1 (3.226%) Middleware
Applications
1 10 (32.26%) MS Excel
1 10 (32.26%) MS Project
1 10 (32.26%) MS Visio
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.226%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.226%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (3.226%) DataStage
Development Applications
1 10 (32.26%) QuickTest Pro
2 6 (19.35%) JIRA
3 5 (16.13%) Selenium
4 3 (9.677%) WatiN
5 1 (3.226%) ClearQuest
5 1 (3.226%) Cucumber
General
1 7 (22.58%) Banking
2 5 (16.13%) Finance
3 4 (12.90%) Investment Banking
4 1 (3.226%) Telecoms
4 1 (3.226%) Online Betting
Miscellaneous
1 13 (41.94%) Fixed Income
2 12 (38.71%) PMI
3 10 (32.26%) Equities
4 1 (3.226%) Spread Betting
4 1 (3.226%) Online Banking
4 1 (3.226%) Online Gambling
Operating Systems
1 3 (9.677%) OpenVMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (51.61%) Project Management
2 14 (45.16%) Scrum
2 14 (45.16%) Test Management
3 13 (41.94%) IT Governance
3 13 (41.94%) CMMI
3 13 (41.94%) SOA
4 12 (38.71%) PRINCE2
4 12 (38.71%) UML
4 12 (38.71%) RUP
5 11 (35.48%) Regression Testing
5 11 (35.48%) Performance Management
5 11 (35.48%) Process Improvement
6 10 (32.26%) Project Governance
6 10 (32.26%) Portfolio Management
6 10 (32.26%) Programme Management
6 10 (32.26%) Risk Management
6 10 (32.26%) Configuration Management
6 10 (32.26%) Six Sigma
6 10 (32.26%) ITIL
7 5 (16.13%) Agile Software Development
Programming Languages
1 3 (9.677%) Fortran
1 3 (9.677%) C++
2 2 (6.452%) Java
Qualifications
1 12 (38.71%) PMI Certification
2 10 (32.26%) Six Sigma Black Belt
3 1 (3.226%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (100.00%) QA
2 10 (32.26%) COBIT
Systems Management
1 11 (35.48%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 10 (32.26%) Niku
1 10 (32.26%) Microsoft
2 4 (12.90%) Oracle
2 4 (12.90%) HP
3 1 (3.226%) Cognos