QA Contracts in Manchester
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for QA skills in IT contracts advertised for the Manchester region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited QA over the 3 months to 22 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 of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category for the Manchester 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
22 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Quality Assurance (QA)
Rank 60 71 44
Rank change year-on-year
+11 -27
Contract jobs citing QA 15 17 25
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Manchester 1.592% 1.295% 2.441%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 29.41% 18.28% 50.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 7 15
Average daily rate £125 £325 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-61.53% +8.33%
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £350 £360
% change year-on-year
-7.14% -2.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £26.75 £18.75 £28.25
% change year-on-year
+42.66% -33.62%
All Quality Assurance & Compliance
Manchester
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Quality Assurance & Compliance category		 51 93 50
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Manchester 5.414% 7.083% 4.883%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 18 20
Average daily rate £308 £190 £305
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+61.84% -37.70%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £125 £187 £246
10% offered a daily rate of more than £438 £396 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £375
% change year-on-year
- -6.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 8 6
Average hourly rate £17.75 £16.50 £12.38
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+7.57% +33.33%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £16.50 £11.68 £9.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £21.00 £18.50 £16.30
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £16.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -46.66%
QA
North West

QA
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Manchester QA Jobs Demand Trend

QA
Daily Rate Trend

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

Manchester QA Daily Rate Trend

QA
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing QA across the Manchester region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013.

Manchester QA Daily Rate Histogram

QA
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Manchester QA Hourly Rate Trend

QA
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Manchester 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 9 (27.27%) Finance
2 7 (21.21%) Data Management
2 7 (21.21%) Microsoft
3 6 (18.18%) Migration
4 5 (15.15%) MS Excel
4 5 (15.15%) SQL
4 5 (15.15%) SQL Server
4 5 (15.15%) ITIL
5 4 (12.12%) SharePoint
5 4 (12.12%) SAN
5 4 (12.12%) Project Management
5 4 (12.12%) Telecoms
5 4 (12.12%) Degree
6 3 (9.091%) User Acceptance Testing
6 3 (9.091%) SQL Server 2005
6 3 (9.091%) Data Migration
6 3 (9.091%) SQL Server 2008
6 3 (9.091%) LPAR
6 3 (9.091%) DLPAR
6 3 (9.091%) Legal
6 3 (9.091%) HACMP
6 3 (9.091%) Shell Script
6 3 (9.091%) Active Directory
6 3 (9.091%) Business Intelligence
6 3 (9.091%) UNIX
6 3 (9.091%) Windows
6 3 (9.091%) AIX
6 3 (9.091%) VBA
7 2 (6.061%) Test Automation
7 2 (6.061%) iPad

QA
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Manchester 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 2 (6.061%) .NET
1 2 (6.061%) Flash
2 1 (3.030%) HTML5
2 1 (3.030%) Spring MVC
2 1 (3.030%) GWT
2 1 (3.030%) jQuery
2 1 (3.030%) SAP Basis
2 1 (3.030%) Hibernate
2 1 (3.030%) Spring
2 1 (3.030%) Middleware
2 1 (3.030%) CSS
2 1 (3.030%) JSP
2 1 (3.030%) SOAP
2 1 (3.030%) Web Services
2 1 (3.030%) J2EE
2 1 (3.030%) HTML
Application Platforms
1 4 (12.12%) SharePoint
2 1 (3.030%) SharePoint 2010
2 1 (3.030%) SharePoint Server
2 1 (3.030%) MS Exchange
2 1 (3.030%) Tomcat
Applications
1 5 (15.15%) MS Excel
2 2 (6.061%) Photoshop
2 2 (6.061%) MS Office
2 2 (6.061%) Acrobat
2 2 (6.061%) Adobe Illustrator
2 2 (6.061%) InDesign
3 1 (3.030%) MS PowerPoint
3 1 (3.030%) InfoPath
3 1 (3.030%) MS Project
Business Applications
1 1 (3.030%) SAP FSCM
1 1 (3.030%) Dynamics CRM
Communications & Networking
1 4 (12.12%) SAN
2 1 (3.030%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (15.15%) SQL Server
2 3 (9.091%) SQL Server 2005
2 3 (9.091%) SQL Server 2008
3 1 (3.030%) SAP BI
3 1 (3.030%) MS Access
3 1 (3.030%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 2 (6.061%) Dreamweaver
2 1 (3.030%) Subversion
2 1 (3.030%) Eclipse
2 1 (3.030%) Hudson
2 1 (3.030%) PhoneGap
2 1 (3.030%) Jenkins
General
1 9 (27.27%) Finance
2 4 (12.12%) Telecoms
3 3 (9.091%) Legal
4 1 (3.030%) Publishing
4 1 (3.030%) Banking
Job Titles
1 11 (33.33%) Analyst
2 6 (18.18%) Technical Analyst
3 4 (12.12%) Developer
3 4 (12.12%) Administrator
4 3 (9.091%) SharePoint Developer
4 3 (9.091%) Operations Analyst
4 3 (9.091%) Technical Administrator
4 3 (9.091%) AIX Administrator
4 3 (9.091%) Systems Administrator
4 3 (9.091%) Storage Systems Administrator
5 2 (6.061%) Test Analyst
5 2 (6.061%) Coordinator
5 2 (6.061%) Trainer
5 2 (6.061%) Project Coordinator
5 2 (6.061%) IT Trainer
6 1 (3.030%) Senior SharePoint Developer
6 1 (3.030%) Technical Leader
6 1 (3.030%) Project Officer
6 1 (3.030%) Teradata DBA
6 1 (3.030%) UAT Test Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 3 (9.091%) LPAR
1 3 (9.091%) DLPAR
1 3 (9.091%) HACMP
2 2 (6.061%) iPad
2 2 (6.061%) Management Information System
2 2 (6.061%) E-Learning
3 1 (3.030%) iPhone
3 1 (3.030%) Statistics
3 1 (3.030%) Handset
3 1 (3.030%) Replication
3 1 (3.030%) Clustering
3 1 (3.030%) Blackberry
3 1 (3.030%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (3.030%) Mobile Banking
Operating Systems
1 3 (9.091%) UNIX
1 3 (9.091%) Windows
1 3 (9.091%) AIX
2 1 (3.030%) Android
2 1 (3.030%) Windows 7
2 1 (3.030%) Windows XP
2 1 (3.030%) Linux
2 1 (3.030%) Windows 2000
2 1 (3.030%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (21.21%) Data Management
2 6 (18.18%) Migration
3 5 (15.15%) ITIL
4 4 (12.12%) Project Management
5 3 (9.091%) User Acceptance Testing
5 3 (9.091%) Data Migration
5 3 (9.091%) Business Intelligence
6 2 (6.061%) Test Automation
6 2 (6.061%) CRM
6 2 (6.061%) Change Management
6 2 (6.061%) Network Design
6 2 (6.061%) TDD
6 2 (6.061%) Logistics
6 2 (6.061%) Test Scripting
6 2 (6.061%) Continuous Integration
6 2 (6.061%) Time Management
7 1 (3.030%) Software Testing
7 1 (3.030%) Load Testing
7 1 (3.030%) Security Testing
7 1 (3.030%) Integration Testing
Programming Languages
1 5 (15.15%) SQL
2 3 (9.091%) Shell Script
2 3 (9.091%) VBA
3 1 (3.030%) PowerShell
3 1 (3.030%) C
3 1 (3.030%) Java
3 1 (3.030%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 4 (12.12%) Degree
2 1 (3.030%) SC Cleared
2 1 (3.030%) Security Cleared
2 1 (3.030%) ISTQB
2 1 (3.030%) ISEB
2 1 (3.030%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.030%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (9.091%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (3.030%) OpenView Configuration Management
Vendors
1 7 (21.21%) Microsoft
2 2 (6.061%) SAP
2 2 (6.061%) Adobe
3 1 (3.030%) Remedy
3 1 (3.030%) Sage
3 1 (3.030%) HP
3 1 (3.030%) Dell
3 1 (3.030%) Citrix
3 1 (3.030%) Avaya
3 1 (3.030%) Oracle
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