QA Tester 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 Tester 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 Tester in their job title over the 3 months to 24 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
24 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Quality Assurance Tester
Rank 350 371 385
Rank change year-on-year
+21 +14
Contract jobs requiring a QA Tester 27 44 57
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 0.125% 0.163% 0.183%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.135% 0.177% 0.198%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 29 47
Average daily rate £348 £350 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-0.71% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £263 £200 £150
10% offered a daily rate of more than £550 £442 £403
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £350 £300
% change year-on-year
-7.14% +16.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Average hourly rate - - £112.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - £7.50
Search 17 QA Tester jobs in London
All Job Titles
London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category		 19942 24907 28750
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 92.08% 92.46% 92.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 13399 16045 18461
Average daily rate £450 £445 £475
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+1.12% -6.31%
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 450 624 677
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 Tester
England

QA Tester
Jobs Demand Trend

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

London QA Tester Jobs Demand Trend

QA Tester
Daily Rate Trend

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

London QA Tester Daily Rate Trend

QA Tester
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing QA Tester across the London region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

London QA Tester Daily Rate Histogram

QA Tester
Hourly Rate Trend

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

London QA Tester Hourly Rate Trend

QA Tester
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing QA Tester within the London region over the 3 months to 24 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 8 £313 -29.77%
QA Tester
England

QA Tester
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London region that cited QA Tester 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 Tester in their job title.

1 56 (100.00%) QA
2 17 (30.36%) Automated Testing
3 16 (28.57%) Selenium
4 14 (25.00%) Agile Software Development
5 12 (21.43%) Java
5 12 (21.43%) BDD
6 11 (19.64%) Cucumber
6 11 (19.64%) ISEB
6 11 (19.64%) Scrum
6 11 (19.64%) Banking
7 10 (17.86%) Investment Banking
7 10 (17.86%) TDD
7 10 (17.86%) Test Scripting
7 10 (17.86%) Continuous Integration
8 9 (16.07%) JIRA
8 9 (16.07%) Ruby
9 8 (14.29%) User Acceptance Testing
9 8 (14.29%) Equities
9 8 (14.29%) Finance
9 8 (14.29%) Regression Testing
9 8 (14.29%) Microsoft
9 8 (14.29%) C#
10 7 (12.50%) SQL
10 7 (12.50%) .NET
10 7 (12.50%) Manual Testing
10 7 (12.50%) WebDriver
10 7 (12.50%) Test Automation
10 7 (12.50%) Software Testing
10 7 (12.50%) Jenkins
11 6 (10.71%) Degree

QA Tester
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London region that cited QA Tester 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 Tester in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 7 (12.50%) .NET
2 4 (7.143%) RESTful
3 3 (5.357%) HTML
3 3 (5.357%) CSS
4 2 (3.571%) MDX
4 2 (3.571%) Ajax
4 2 (3.571%) JSP
4 2 (3.571%) Servlets
4 2 (3.571%) SOAP
4 2 (3.571%) Web Services
4 2 (3.571%) Flash
4 2 (3.571%) Hibernate
5 1 (1.786%) ASP.NET
5 1 (1.786%) Ruby on Rails
5 1 (1.786%) .NET Framework
5 1 (1.786%) HTML5
5 1 (1.786%) Gherkin
Application Platforms
1 3 (5.357%) MSMQ
2 2 (3.571%) Confluence
3 1 (1.786%) CMS
3 1 (1.786%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 2 (3.571%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.786%) Wi-Fi
1 1 (1.786%) 3G
1 1 (1.786%) HTTP
1 1 (1.786%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (5.357%) SQL Server
2 2 (3.571%) Microsoft Analysis Services
2 2 (3.571%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (1.786%) RDBMS
3 1 (1.786%) MySQL
3 1 (1.786%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 16 (28.57%) Selenium
2 11 (19.64%) Cucumber
3 9 (16.07%) JIRA
4 7 (12.50%) WebDriver
4 7 (12.50%) Jenkins
5 6 (10.71%) QuickTest Pro
6 5 (8.929%) Visual Studio
6 5 (8.929%) Team Foundation Server
7 4 (7.143%) SpecFlow
7 4 (7.143%) Maven
8 3 (5.357%) WATIR
9 2 (3.571%) TestNG
9 2 (3.571%) Visual Studio Team System
9 2 (3.571%) JUnit
9 2 (3.571%) TestDirector
10 1 (1.786%) Xcode
10 1 (1.786%) JMeter
10 1 (1.786%) PHPUnit
10 1 (1.786%) TeamCity
10 1 (1.786%) Redmine
General
1 11 (19.64%) Banking
2 10 (17.86%) Investment Banking
3 8 (14.29%) Finance
4 2 (3.571%) Publishing
5 1 (1.786%) Law
5 1 (1.786%) Legal
5 1 (1.786%) Games
5 1 (1.786%) Front Office
5 1 (1.786%) Marketing
5 1 (1.786%) Retail
Miscellaneous
1 8 (14.29%) Equities
2 4 (7.143%) Derivative
3 3 (5.357%) Mobile App
4 2 (3.571%) Equity Derivative
5 1 (1.786%) Handset
5 1 (1.786%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 1 (1.786%) Credit Derivative
5 1 (1.786%) Open Source
5 1 (1.786%) SaaS
5 1 (1.786%) iPhone
5 1 (1.786%) Computer Science
5 1 (1.786%) Digital Media
5 1 (1.786%) iPad
Operating Systems
1 2 (3.571%) Apple iOS
1 2 (3.571%) Android
1 2 (3.571%) UNIX
1 2 (3.571%) Windows
2 1 (1.786%) Mac OS X
2 1 (1.786%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (30.36%) Automated Testing
2 14 (25.00%) Agile Software Development
3 12 (21.43%) BDD
4 11 (19.64%) Scrum
5 10 (17.86%) TDD
5 10 (17.86%) Test Scripting
5 10 (17.86%) Continuous Integration
6 8 (14.29%) User Acceptance Testing
6 8 (14.29%) Regression Testing
7 7 (12.50%) Manual Testing
7 7 (12.50%) Test Automation
7 7 (12.50%) Software Testing
8 5 (8.929%) RUP
8 5 (8.929%) E-Commerce
8 5 (8.929%) Automation Testing
9 4 (7.143%) Waterfall
9 4 (7.143%) Analytics
10 3 (5.357%) Project Management
10 3 (5.357%) ITIL
10 3 (5.357%) PRINCE2
Programming Languages
1 12 (21.43%) Java
2 9 (16.07%) Ruby
3 8 (14.29%) C#
4 7 (12.50%) SQL
5 5 (8.929%) Perl
6 3 (5.357%) Python
6 3 (5.357%) PHP
7 2 (3.571%) VB
7 2 (3.571%) Shell Script
8 1 (1.786%) C
8 1 (1.786%) ActionScript
8 1 (1.786%) JavaScript
8 1 (1.786%) ActionScript 3.0
Qualifications
1 11 (19.64%) ISEB
2 6 (10.71%) Degree
3 5 (8.929%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 56 (100.00%) QA
Systems Management
1 2 (3.571%) HP Quality Center
2 1 (1.786%) Splunk
Vendors
1 8 (14.29%) Microsoft
2 3 (5.357%) Sybase
2 3 (5.357%) Sitecore
3 1 (1.786%) Omniture
3 1 (1.786%) Yahoo!
3 1 (1.786%) Google
Senior QA Tester - London - Contract
London
Quality Assurance Analyst - London - 6 Months. A Senior Quality Assurance Analyst is required to work as part of a fast paced development team within a large publishing company...
Harvey Nash plc
Rate: £350 - £375 per day
Posted: 22 May 2013
QA /Tester
London
Major plc ( Financial services/media) in the city is looking for a QA/Tester with the following experience: Good experience working with C#/BDD/Specflow important... Agile (Scrum/...
Mark Two People Ltd
Rate: From £350 to £400 per day
Posted: 22 May 2013
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