Middlesex QA Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Quality Assurance (QA) skills within the Middlesex region with a comparison to our Quality Assurance & Compliance category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT job ads that have cited QA over the 3 months to 8 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Quality Assurance (QA)
Location Amersham Aylesbury Barnsley Basildon Basingstoke Bath Bedfordshire Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Bishop's Stortford Blackpool Bournemouth Bridgend Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Chatham Chelmsford Cheltenham Cheshire City of London Clapham Coventry Crawley Croydon Docklands, London Dorset Durham East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex Eastleigh Edinburgh England Epsom Essex Fareham Farnborough Flintshire Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Godalming Guildford Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Harrow Hartlepool Havant Hayes Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Home Counties Kent Knutsford Lancashire Leamington Spa Leatherhead Leeds Leicestershire Liverpool Livingston London M4 Corridor Maidstone Manchester Marlow Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Newton-le-Willows North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northumberland Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Poole Portsmouth Reading Sale Sandwich Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton St Albans Staffordshire Stevenage Stirling Stockport Street Sunbury-on-Thames Surrey Swindon Telford Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Wales Walsall Walton-on-Thames Ware Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Wiltshire Windsor Woking Worcestershire Worthing Yorkshire	3 months to 8 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	38	30
Rank change on same period last year	-8
Matching contract IT job ads	13	18
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.017 %	0.019 %
As % of the category below	39.39 %	52.94 %
Daily rates quoted	7	7
Average minimum daily rate	£303	£230
Average daily rate	£306	£265
% change on same period last year	+15.63 %
Average maximum daily rate	£310	£300
UK excluding London average daily rate	£333	£342
% change on same period last year	-2.56 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum hourly rate	-	-
Average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£27.94	£30.54
% change on same period last year	-8.49 %
Quality Assurance & Compliance Middlesex
Matching contract IT job ads	33	34
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.044 %	0.036 %
Daily rates quoted	12	13
Average minimum daily rate	£306	£247
Average daily rate	£326	£284
% change on same period last year	+14.75 %
Average maximum daily rate	£345	£320
UK excluding London average daily rate	£370	£376
% change on same period last year	-1.57 %
Hourly rates quoted	3	0
Average minimum hourly rate	£20.00	-
Average hourly rate	£21.08	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	£22.17	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.38	£24.60
% change on same period last year	-4.93 %
QA South East

We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing QA across the Middlesex region as a proportion of the total demand within the Quality Assurance & Compliance category.

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Daily Rate Trend

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

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Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing QA across the Middlesex region over the 3 months to 8 July 2008.

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Hourly Rate Trend

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

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 8 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Middlesex 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 (39.13 %) Government 1 9 (39.13 %) SC Cleared 1 9 (39.13 %) Security Cleared 2 6 (26.09 %) QMS 2 6 (26.09 %) Health 2 6 (26.09 %) Quality Management 3 3 (13.04 %) LoadRunner 3 3 (13.04 %) ITIL 3 3 (13.04 %) Business Objects 3 3 (13.04 %) BusinessObjects 4 2 (8.696 %) User Acceptance Testing 4 2 (8.696 %) PRINCE2 Practitioner 4 2 (8.696 %) PMI 4 2 (8.696 %) PRINCE2 4 2 (8.696 %) Project Management

5 1 (4.348 %) Red Hat 5 1 (4.348 %) Workflow 5 1 (4.348 %) Finance 5 1 (4.348 %) Games 5 1 (4.348 %) Programme Management 5 1 (4.348 %) Unix 5 1 (4.348 %) Windows 5 1 (4.348 %) Linux 5 1 (4.348 %) MCSE 5 1 (4.348 %) MS Excel 5 1 (4.348 %) Datawarehouse 5 1 (4.348 %) IMAP4 5 1 (4.348 %) POP3 5 1 (4.348 %) SMTP 5 1 (4.348 %) B2B

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 8 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Middlesex 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 Platforms 1 1 (4.348 %) Exchange Server 2000 1 1 (4.348 %) Exchange Server 2003 1 1 (4.348 %) Exchange Server 2007	Applications 1 1 (4.348 %) MS Excel 1 1 (4.348 %) MS Office 1 1 (4.348 %) MS PowerPoint
Communications & Networking 1 1 (4.348 %) IMAP4 1 1 (4.348 %) POP3 1 1 (4.348 %) SMTP	Database & Business Intelligence 1 3 (13.04 %) BusinessObjects 2 1 (4.348 %) Datawarehouse 2 1 (4.348 %) DB2
Development Applications 1 3 (13.04 %) LoadRunner 2 1 (4.348 %) WinRunner 2 1 (4.348 %) TestDirector 2 1 (4.348 %) QuickTest Pro	General 1 9 (39.13 %) Government 2 6 (26.09 %) Health 3 1 (4.348 %) Finance 3 1 (4.348 %) Games 3 1 (4.348 %) Auditing
Job Titles 1 14 (60.87 %) Analyst 2 7 (30.43 %) Test Analyst 3 6 (26.09 %) Quality Analyst 4 3 (13.04 %) Performance Analyst 4 3 (13.04 %) Performance Test Analyst 4 3 (13.04 %) Manual Test Analyst 5 2 (8.696 %) QA Engineer 5 2 (8.696 %) Project Manager 6 1 (4.348 %) Tester 6 1 (4.348 %) Programme Manager 6 1 (4.348 %) Software Engineer 6 1 (4.348 %) Test Manager 6 1 (4.348 %) QA Manager 6 1 (4.348 %) Test Engineer 6 1 (4.348 %) Operations Analyst 6 1 (4.348 %) Test Consultant 6 1 (4.348 %) Performance Engineer 6 1 (4.348 %) Consultant 6 1 (4.348 %) Quality Manager 6 1 (4.348 %) Programme Test Manager	Miscellaneous 1 2 (8.696 %) PMI 2 1 (4.348 %) STB 2 1 (4.348 %) Computer Science
Operating Systems 1 1 (4.348 %) Unix 1 1 (4.348 %) Windows 1 1 (4.348 %) Linux	Processes & Methodologies 1 9 (39.13 %) SC Cleared 1 9 (39.13 %) Security Cleared 2 6 (26.09 %) QMS 2 6 (26.09 %) Quality Management 3 3 (13.04 %) ITIL 4 2 (8.696 %) User Acceptance Testing 4 2 (8.696 %) PRINCE2 4 2 (8.696 %) Project Management 5 1 (4.348 %) Workflow 5 1 (4.348 %) Programme Management 5 1 (4.348 %) B2B 5 1 (4.348 %) Software Testing 5 1 (4.348 %) Statistical Analysis 5 1 (4.348 %) Test Scripting 5 1 (4.348 %) System Testing 5 1 (4.348 %) Performance Management 5 1 (4.348 %) Release Management
Qualifications 1 2 (8.696 %) PRINCE2 Practitioner 2 1 (4.348 %) MCSE 2 1 (4.348 %) ISEB 2 1 (4.348 %) Microsoft Certification 2 1 (4.348 %) Degree	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 1 (4.348 %) SLA
System Software 1 1 (4.348 %) Active Directory	Systems Management 1 1 (4.348 %) SCOM
Vendors 1 3 (13.04 %) Business Objects 2 1 (4.348 %) Red Hat