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QA Contracts in London

Browse 246 QA job vacancies in London

The first table below looks at the demand for QA skills 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 over the 3 months to 18 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 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.

3 months to
18 Jun 2013

Same period 2012

Same period 2011

Quality Assurance (QA)

Rank

Rank change year-on-year

-6

Contract jobs citing QA

786

844

1152

As % of all contract IT jobs located in London

3.408%

3.169%

3.661%

As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category

45.78%

41.68%

48.69%

Number of daily rates quoted

555

541

786

Average daily rate

£438

£425

£450

Average daily rate % change year-on-year

+2.94%

-5.55%

90% offered a daily rate of more than

£275

£262

10% offered a daily rate of more than

£584

£588

£598

UK excluding London average daily rate

£330

£325

£375

% change year-on-year

+1.53%

-13.33%

Number of hourly rates quoted

Average hourly rate

£27.00

£14.63

£37.50

Average hourly rate % change year-on-year

+84.61%

-61.00%

90% offered a hourly rate of more than

£21.65

£11.00

£16.90

10% offered a hourly rate of more than

£40.00

£22.00

£82.75

UK excluding London average hourly rate

£16.75

£23.75

£30.75

% change year-on-year

-29.46%

-22.76%

All Quality Assurance & Compliance
London

Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Quality Assurance & Compliance category

1717

2025

2366

As % of all contract IT jobs located in London

7.445%

7.604%

7.518%

Number of daily rates quoted

1191

1270

1587

Average daily rate

£450

£475

Average daily rate % change year-on-year

-5.26%

90% offered a daily rate of more than

£300

£283

£300

10% offered a daily rate of more than

£593

£625

UK excluding London average daily rate

£350

£375

% change year-on-year

-6.66%

Number of hourly rates quoted

Average hourly rate

£24.30

£17.87

£19.00

Average hourly rate % change year-on-year

+36.02%

-5.97%

90% offered a hourly rate of more than

£13.11

£11.00

£12.00

10% offered a hourly rate of more than

£52.60

£32.35

£50.00

UK excluding London average hourly rate

£18.50

£16.72

£30.00

% change year-on-year

+10.64%

-44.26%

QA
England

QA
Jobs Demand Trend

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

QA
Daily Rate Trend

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

QA
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing QA across the London region over the 3 months to 18 June 2013.

QA
Hourly Rate Trend

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

QA
Hourly Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing QA across the London region over the 3 months to 18 June 2013.

QA
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 London region over the 3 months to 18 June 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	Find Job Vacancies
City of London	-2	227	£425	-2.85%	68
Canary Wharf	+4	8	£342	-34.45%
Docklands, London	-4	7	£500	+25.00%
Hounslow	-8	4	£475	+35.32%	1
Harrow	-	2	-	-
Croydon	0	1	£225	-53.84%
Uxbridge	-3	1	£425	-15.84%
Bromley	-	1	-	-
Feltham	-	-	-	-
Wembley	-	-	-	-
Kingston Upon Thames	-	-	-	-
Twickenham	-	-	-	-
Ealing	-	-	-	-
Westminster	-	-	-	-
Paddington	-	-	-	-
Clapham	-	-	-	-
Hammersmith	-	-	-	-
QA England

QA
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London 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	430 (29.25%)	Finance
2	306 (20.82%)	Banking
3	296 (20.14%)	Agile Software Development
4	293 (19.93%)	Java
5	286 (19.46%)	SQL
6	237 (16.12%)	Project Management
7	227 (15.44%)	Selenium
8	190 (12.93%)	TDD
9	183 (12.45%)	Investment Banking
10	177 (12.04%)	.NET
10	177 (12.04%)	Microsoft
11	167 (11.36%)	Scrum
12	158 (10.75%)	BDD
13	155 (10.54%)	Cucumber
13	155 (10.54%)	User Acceptance Testing

14	141 (9.592%)	Oracle
15	137 (9.320%)	E-Commerce
16	124 (8.435%)	WebDriver
17	120 (8.163%)	Test Automation
18	119 (8.095%)	C#
19	118 (8.027%)	Automated Testing
20	117 (7.959%)	Ruby
21	115 (7.823%)	PRINCE2
22	113 (7.687%)	SQL Server
23	112 (7.619%)	JavaScript
24	111 (7.551%)	Degree
25	107 (7.279%)	JIRA
26	105 (7.143%)	Derivative
27	101 (6.871%)	UNIX
28	99 (6.735%)	HTML

QA
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London 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	177 (12.04%)	.NET
2	99 (6.735%)	HTML
3	95 (6.463%)	XML
4	76 (5.170%)	Web Services
5	73 (4.966%)	CSS
6	52 (3.537%)	REST
7	50 (3.401%)	J2EE
8	41 (2.789%)	SOAP
9	39 (2.653%)	JSON
10	38 (2.585%)	WebSphere
11	33 (2.245%)	HTML5
12	32 (2.177%)	ASP.NET
13	31 (2.109%)	.NET Framework
14	28 (1.905%)	XSLT
15	26 (1.769%)	Spring
16	25 (1.701%)	Hibernate
17	22 (1.497%)	Middleware
17	22 (1.497%)	JSP
18	20 (1.361%)	jQuery
19	19 (1.293%)	RESTful

Application Platforms
1	49 (3.333%)	SharePoint
2	26 (1.769%)	Confluence
3	24 (1.633%)	Tomcat
4	22 (1.497%)	CMS
5	20 (1.361%)	Apache
5	20 (1.361%)	WebLogic
5	20 (1.361%)	TIBCO EMS
6	19 (1.293%)	MS Exchange
7	15 (1.020%)	IIS
8	12 (0.816%)	Exchange Server 2010
9	11 (0.748%)	ESB
10	9 (0.612%)	WebSphere Application Server
10	9 (0.612%)	Exchange Server 2013
11	8 (0.544%)	MQSeries
11	8 (0.544%)	BizTalk Server
12	7 (0.476%)	WebSphere Message Broker
12	7 (0.476%)	Windows Azure
13	6 (0.408%)	Drupal
14	5 (0.340%)	Oracle SOA Suite
14	5 (0.340%)	Amazon EC2

Applications
1	88 (5.986%)	MS Excel
2	69 (4.694%)	MS Office
3	57 (3.878%)	MS Project
4	44 (2.993%)	MS Visio
5	24 (1.633%)	MS PowerPoint
6	18 (1.224%)	Photoshop
7	7 (0.476%)	Adobe Illustrator
8	5 (0.340%)	Mingle
9	4 (0.272%)	Spreadsheet
10	2 (0.136%)	InfoPath
10	2 (0.136%)	Adobe Captivate
10	2 (0.136%)	Open Workbench
11	1 (0.068%)	InDesign
11	1 (0.068%)	Doxygen
11	1 (0.068%)	Office 365

Business Applications
1	15 (1.020%)	Summit
2	7 (0.476%)	Dynamics CRM
3	5 (0.340%)	SAP Oil and Gas
3	5 (0.340%)	Google Analytics
3	5 (0.340%)	SAP HR
3	5 (0.340%)	Endur
4	4 (0.272%)	SAP QM
4	4 (0.272%)	Aligne
4	4 (0.272%)	ZaiNet
5	3 (0.204%)	Cognos Business Intelligence
5	3 (0.204%)	Dynamics AX
5	3 (0.204%)	Oracle EBS R12
5	3 (0.204%)	SAP HCM
5	3 (0.204%)	Oracle EBS
5	3 (0.204%)	WebTrends
5	3 (0.204%)	Oracle BPM
6	2 (0.136%)	Hyperion Planning
6	2 (0.136%)	Infor M3
6	2 (0.136%)	Lawson
6	2 (0.136%)	Movex

Communications & Networking
1	55 (3.741%)	Internet
2	31 (2.109%)	HTTP
3	22 (1.497%)	LAN
3	22 (1.497%)	SAN
4	19 (1.293%)	WAN
5	17 (1.156%)	TCP/IP
6	12 (0.816%)	VoIP
7	11 (0.748%)	Firewall
7	11 (0.748%)	VLAN
8	10 (0.680%)	SMTP
9	9 (0.612%)	FTP
9	9 (0.612%)	DNS
9	9 (0.612%)	Intranet
10	8 (0.544%)	VPN
10	8 (0.544%)	DHCP
11	7 (0.476%)	Kerberos
12	6 (0.408%)	NAS
13	5 (0.340%)	LDAP
13	5 (0.340%)	Wi-Fi
13	5 (0.340%)	Extranet

Database & Business Intelligence
1	113 (7.687%)	SQL Server
2	59 (4.014%)	Data Warehouse
3	33 (2.245%)	MySQL
4	27 (1.837%)	SQL Server 2008
5	26 (1.769%)	SQL Server Reporting Services
6	22 (1.497%)	SQL Server Integration Services
7	21 (1.429%)	Oracle 11g
8	18 (1.224%)	OLAP
9	17 (1.156%)	Oracle 10g
10	16 (1.088%)	SQL Server Analysis Services
10	16 (1.088%)	Oracle BI EE
11	15 (1.020%)	RDBMS
12	14 (0.952%)	Oracle Reports
12	14 (0.952%)	SQL Server 2005
13	13 (0.884%)	DB2
13	13 (0.884%)	Oracle OLAP
14	9 (0.612%)	MongoDB
14	9 (0.612%)	Oracle 8/8i
14	9 (0.612%)	Data Mining
15	8 (0.544%)	Star Schema

Development Applications
1	227 (15.44%)	Selenium
2	155 (10.54%)	Cucumber
3	124 (8.435%)	WebDriver
4	107 (7.279%)	JIRA
5	76 (5.170%)	QuickTest Pro
6	75 (5.102%)	Subversion
7	58 (3.946%)	JUnit
8	48 (3.265%)	Maven
9	46 (3.129%)	Jenkins
10	45 (3.061%)	Git (software)
11	40 (2.721%)	SpecFlow
12	35 (2.381%)	Team Foundation Server
12	35 (2.381%)	Visual Studio
13	33 (2.245%)	Hudson
14	29 (1.973%)	FitNesse
15	27 (1.837%)	WATIR
16	24 (1.633%)	TestNG
17	22 (1.497%)	TeamCity
17	22 (1.497%)	JMeter
18	21 (1.429%)	Ant

General
1	430 (29.25%)	Finance
2	306 (20.82%)	Banking
3	183 (12.45%)	Investment Banking
4	80 (5.442%)	Front Office
5	68 (4.626%)	Retail
6	41 (2.789%)	Publishing
7	39 (2.653%)	Marketing
8	38 (2.585%)	Telecoms
9	37 (2.517%)	Back Office
10	34 (2.313%)	Games
11	28 (1.905%)	Legal
12	25 (1.701%)	Law
13	19 (1.293%)	Multimedia
14	14 (0.952%)	Advertising
15	13 (0.884%)	Manufacturing
16	12 (0.816%)	Retail Banking
17	11 (0.748%)	Billing
17	11 (0.748%)	Financial Institution
18	8 (0.544%)	Electronics
19	7 (0.476%)	General Ledger

Job Titles
1	419 (28.50%)	Analyst
2	193 (13.13%)	Developer
3	182 (12.38%)	Test Analyst
4	115 (7.823%)	Tester
5	112 (7.619%)	Business Analyst
6	109 (7.415%)	QA Analyst
7	89 (6.054%)	QA Engineer
8	84 (5.714%)	Project Manager
9	79 (5.374%)	Architect
10	60 (4.082%)	QA Test Analyst
11	52 (3.537%)	QA Tester
12	49 (3.333%)	Test Manager
13	46 (3.129%)	Solutions Architect
14	44 (2.993%)	Senior Analyst
15	43 (2.925%)	Consultant
15	43 (2.925%)	Test Engineer
16	41 (2.789%)	Java Developer
17	29 (1.973%)	Data Analyst
17	29 (1.973%)	QA Manager
18	28 (1.905%)	Designer

Miscellaneous
1	105 (7.143%)	Derivative
2	61 (4.150%)	Fixed Income
3	52 (3.537%)	Equities
4	47 (3.197%)	Foreign Exchange (FX)
4	47 (3.197%)	Open Source
5	44 (2.993%)	Computer Science
6	39 (2.653%)	Management Information System
7	38 (2.585%)	Mobile App
8	35 (2.381%)	Digital Media
9	31 (2.109%)	iPhone
10	28 (1.905%)	iPad
11	22 (1.497%)	Credit Risk
12	20 (1.361%)	Data Integration
12	20 (1.361%)	Credit Derivative
13	18 (1.224%)	Social Media
14	15 (1.020%)	PMI
14	15 (1.020%)	Market Risk
15	14 (0.952%)	Statistics
15	14 (0.952%)	Cloud Computing
16	13 (0.884%)	Blackberry

Operating Systems
1	101 (6.871%)	UNIX
2	96 (6.531%)	Windows
3	93 (6.327%)	Linux
4	46 (3.129%)	Apple iOS
5	45 (3.061%)	Android
6	25 (1.701%)	Windows Server 2008
7	19 (1.293%)	Windows Server 2003
8	16 (1.088%)	Windows Server 2012
9	14 (0.952%)	Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10	13 (0.884%)	Solaris
10	13 (0.884%)	Windows XP
11	11 (0.748%)	Windows 7
12	9 (0.612%)	Windows 8
13	6 (0.408%)	Debian
14	5 (0.340%)	Windows Phone
15	4 (0.272%)	Windows Mobile
15	4 (0.272%)	AIX
16	3 (0.204%)	Windows 2000
16	3 (0.204%)	OpenVMS
17	2 (0.136%)	CentOS

Processes & Methodologies
1	296 (20.14%)	Agile Software Development
2	237 (16.12%)	Project Management
3	190 (12.93%)	TDD
4	167 (11.36%)	Scrum
5	158 (10.75%)	BDD
6	155 (10.54%)	User Acceptance Testing
7	137 (9.320%)	E-Commerce
8	120 (8.163%)	Test Automation
9	118 (8.027%)	Automated Testing
10	115 (7.823%)	PRINCE2
11	95 (6.463%)	Continuous Integration
12	94 (6.395%)	Test Scripting
12	94 (6.395%)	Configuration Management
13	86 (5.850%)	UML
14	82 (5.578%)	Software Testing
15	81 (5.510%)	Regression Testing
16	80 (5.442%)	Change Management
16	80 (5.442%)	Stakeholder Management
16	80 (5.442%)	Automation Testing
17	76 (5.170%)	ITIL

Programming Languages
1	293 (19.93%)	Java
2	286 (19.46%)	SQL
3	119 (8.095%)	C#
4	117 (7.959%)	Ruby
5	112 (7.619%)	JavaScript
6	61 (4.150%)	Perl
7	58 (3.946%)	Python
8	53 (3.605%)	C++
9	32 (2.177%)	PL/SQL
10	29 (1.973%)	Shell Script
11	25 (1.701%)	VBA
12	22 (1.497%)	PHP
13	21 (1.429%)	T-SQL
13	21 (1.429%)	PowerShell
14	20 (1.361%)	VB
15	15 (1.020%)	XAML
16	14 (0.952%)	Bash shell
17	13 (0.884%)	Groovy
17	13 (0.884%)	Objective-C
17	13 (0.884%)	C

Qualifications
1	111 (7.551%)	Degree
2	95 (6.463%)	ISEB
3	47 (3.197%)	ISTQB
4	31 (2.109%)	Security Cleared
5	21 (1.429%)	PMI Certification
6	19 (1.293%)	PRINCE2 Certification
7	16 (1.088%)	SC Cleared
8	11 (0.748%)	Six Sigma Black Belt
9	10 (0.680%)	PRINCE2 Practitioner
9	10 (0.680%)	ITIL Certification
10	8 (0.544%)	Cisco Certification
10	8 (0.544%)	DV Cleared
11	7 (0.476%)	MBA
12	6 (0.408%)	PMP
13	5 (0.340%)	CCNA
14	3 (0.204%)	CCIE
14	3 (0.204%)	Microsoft Certification
14	3 (0.204%)	CIMA
15	2 (0.136%)	Sun Certification
15	2 (0.136%)	ACCA

Quality Assurance & Compliance
1	21 (1.429%)	PCI DSS
2	11 (0.748%)	Basel III
3	10 (0.680%)	COBIT
4	4 (0.272%)	ISO 9000
5	3 (0.204%)	SLA
6	2 (0.136%)	ISO 9001
7	1 (0.068%)	Sarbanes-Oxley
7	1 (0.068%)	ISO 8583
7	1 (0.068%)	21 CFR Part 11
7	1 (0.068%)	FATCA

System Software
1	30 (2.041%)	Active Directory
2	16 (1.088%)	Hyper-V
3	9 (0.612%)	Oracle RAC
3	9 (0.612%)	VMware Infrastructure
4	8 (0.544%)	Microsoft Virtual Server
4	8 (0.544%)	NFS
5	7 (0.476%)	XenApp
6	6 (0.408%)	XenDesktop
6	6 (0.408%)	Microsoft App-V
7	5 (0.340%)	vCloud
8	2 (0.136%)	Terminal Services
8	2 (0.136%)	Veritas Volume Manager
8	2 (0.136%)	Veritas File System
8	2 (0.136%)	vSphere
9	1 (0.068%)	Shibboleth
9	1 (0.068%)	VMware ESXi
9	1 (0.068%)	VMware ESX

Systems Management
1	73 (4.966%)	HP Quality Center
2	13 (0.884%)	SCVMM
3	12 (0.816%)	Puppet
4	10 (0.680%)	SCOM
5	9 (0.612%)	Backup Exec
5	9 (0.612%)	BladeLogic
6	8 (0.544%)	WSUS
6	8 (0.544%)	SCCM
6	8 (0.544%)	Systems Management Server (SMS)
7	7 (0.476%)	Nagios
8	5 (0.340%)	MOM
9	4 (0.272%)	HP SiteScope
10	3 (0.204%)	Symantec Enterprise Vault
10	3 (0.204%)	Data Guard
11	2 (0.136%)	Zenoss
11	2 (0.136%)	Splunk
11	2 (0.136%)	OpenView
11	2 (0.136%)	AppDNA
12	1 (0.068%)	Tivoli
12	1 (0.068%)	Tivoli Monitoring

Vendors
1	177 (12.04%)	Microsoft
2	141 (9.592%)	Oracle
3	59 (4.014%)	HP
4	36 (2.449%)	IBM
5	33 (2.245%)	SAP
6	26 (1.769%)	Informatica
7	25 (1.701%)	Sybase
8	23 (1.565%)	TIBCO
9	20 (1.361%)	VMware
10	19 (1.293%)	Adobe
11	17 (1.156%)	ATG
12	16 (1.088%)	Siebel
13	14 (0.952%)	Citrix
13	14 (0.952%)	Salesforce.com
13	14 (0.952%)	Symantec
14	13 (0.884%)	Sun
14	13 (0.884%)	Sitecore
15	12 (0.816%)	JBoss
15	12 (0.816%)	Business Objects
15	12 (0.816%)	Red Hat

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