The first table below looks at the demand for the Senior QA Test Analyst 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 Senior QA Test Analyst 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
Senior Quality Assurance Test Analyst
Rank - 410 439
Contract jobs requiring a Senior QA Test Analyst 0 5 3
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London - 0.019% 0.010%
As % of the Job Titles category - 0.020% 0.010%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 4 0
Average daily rate - £400 -
UK excluding London average daily rate £230 - -
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
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%
Senior QA Test Analyst
England

Senior QA Test Analyst
Jobs Demand Trend

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

London Senior QA Test Analyst Jobs Demand Trend

Senior QA Test Analyst
Daily Rate Trend

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

London Senior QA Test Analyst Daily Rate Trend

Senior QA Test Analyst
Top 22 Related IT Skills

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

1 2 (100.00%) QA
2 1 (50.00%) Cost-Benefit Analysis
2 1 (50.00%) Software Testing
2 1 (50.00%) WPF
2 1 (50.00%) HP Quality Center
2 1 (50.00%) Waterfall
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (50.00%) Test Strategy
2 1 (50.00%) User Stories
2 1 (50.00%) Content Management
2 1 (50.00%) Automated Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Scrum
2 1 (50.00%) Agile Software Development
2 1 (50.00%) C#
2 1 (50.00%) SQL
2 1 (50.00%) .NET
2 1 (50.00%) UNIX
2 1 (50.00%) RUP
2 1 (50.00%) E-Commerce
2 1 (50.00%) TestDirector
2 1 (50.00%) QuickTest Pro
2 1 (50.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)

Senior QA Test Analyst
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 1 (50.00%) WPF
1 1 (50.00%) .NET
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) TestDirector
1 1 (50.00%) QuickTest Pro
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Cost-Benefit Analysis
1 1 (50.00%) Software Testing
1 1 (50.00%) Waterfall
1 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (50.00%) Test Strategy
1 1 (50.00%) User Stories
1 1 (50.00%) Content Management
1 1 (50.00%) Automated Testing
1 1 (50.00%) Scrum
1 1 (50.00%) Agile Software Development
1 1 (50.00%) RUP
1 1 (50.00%) E-Commerce
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) C#
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) HP Quality Center