Midlands QA Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Quality Assurance (QA) skills within the Midlands region with a comparison to our Quality Assurance & Compliance category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited QA over the 3 months to 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Quality Assurance (QA)
Location Amersham Barnsley Basildon Basingstoke Belfast Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Blackpool Bournemouth Bracknell Bridgend Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Chatham Cheltenham Cheshire City of London Clapham Corsham County Antrim Coventry Crawley Croydon Derbyshire Docklands, London Dorset Durham East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex Eastleigh Edinburgh England Epsom Essex Farnborough Flintshire Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Godalming Guildford Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harlow Harrogate Harrow Hartlepool Havant Hayes Hertfordshire High Wycombe Horsham Hounslow 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 Northern Ireland Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Poole Portsmouth Reading Sale Sandwich Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton St Albans Staffordshire Stevenage Stirling Stockport Street Sunbury-on-Thames Surrey Swadlincote Swindon Telford Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Walsall Ware Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Wilmslow Wiltshire Windsor Worcester Worcestershire Worthing Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	64	59
Rank change on same period last year	-5
Matching contract IT job ads	11	26
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.015 %	0.026 %
As % of the category below	26.19 %	27.96 %
Daily rates quoted	2	6
Average minimum daily rate	£375	£313
Average daily rate	£388	£338
% change on same period last year	+14.81 %
Average maximum daily rate	£400	£363
UK excluding London average daily rate	£333	£338
% change on same period last year	-1.49 %
Hourly rates quoted	1	10
Average minimum hourly rate	£28.00	£27.30
Average hourly rate	£29.90	£27.65
% change on same period last year	+8.13 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£31.80	£28.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£29.07	£30.86
% change on same period last year	-5.79 %
Quality Assurance & Compliance Midlands
Matching contract IT job ads	42	93
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.056 %	0.094 %
Daily rates quoted	11	32
Average minimum daily rate	£471	£398
Average daily rate	£486	£427
% change on same period last year	+13.69 %
Average maximum daily rate	£500	£457
UK excluding London average daily rate	£368	£371
% change on same period last year	-0.67 %
Hourly rates quoted	2	18
Average minimum hourly rate	£26.50	£23.92
Average hourly rate	£28.20	£24.97
% change on same period last year	+12.91 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£29.90	£26.03
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.31	£24.73
% change on same period last year	-5.77 %
QA England

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 Midlands 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 Midlands region.

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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 Midlands region.

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Midlands 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 6 (21.43 %) Pharmaceutical 2 5 (17.86 %) Validation 2 5 (17.86 %) Project Management 2 5 (17.86 %) Oracle 3 4 (14.29 %) .NET 3 4 (14.29 %) C# 3 4 (14.29 %) SQL 3 4 (14.29 %) WebServices 3 4 (14.29 %) Oracle 10g 3 4 (14.29 %) ISEB 3 4 (14.29 %) TestDirector 3 4 (14.29 %) Risk Analysis 4 3 (10.71 %) Security Cleared 4 3 (10.71 %) Microsoft 4 3 (10.71 %) NHS

4 3 (10.71 %) Health 4 3 (10.71 %) PRINCE2 4 3 (10.71 %) HTML 4 3 (10.71 %) JavaScript 4 3 (10.71 %) SQL Server 5 2 (7.143 %) VB 5 2 (7.143 %) XML 5 2 (7.143 %) IIS 5 2 (7.143 %) Visual Studio 5 2 (7.143 %) ASP.NET 5 2 (7.143 %) CSS 5 2 (7.143 %) QuickTest Pro 5 2 (7.143 %) Sun 5 2 (7.143 %) Windows 5 2 (7.143 %) UML

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Midlands 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 4 (14.29 %) WebServices 1 4 (14.29 %) .NET 2 3 (10.71 %) HTML 3 2 (7.143 %) ASP.NET 3 2 (7.143 %) CSS 3 2 (7.143 %) XML 3 2 (7.143 %) WinForms 3 2 (7.143 %) AJAX 3 2 (7.143 %) .NET Framework 3 2 (7.143 %) WCF 4 1 (3.571 %) Silverlight	Application Platforms 1 2 (7.143 %) IIS 1 2 (7.143 %) BizTalk Server
Applications 1 1 (3.571 %) MS Project 1 1 (3.571 %) MS Excel	Business Applications 1 1 (3.571 %) Teamcenter
Database & Business Intelligence 1 4 (14.29 %) Oracle 10g 2 3 (10.71 %) SQL Server 3 2 (7.143 %) SQL Server 2005 4 1 (3.571 %) Oracle OLAP 4 1 (3.571 %) SQL Server Analysis Services 4 1 (3.571 %) SQL Server 2000 4 1 (3.571 %) Microsoft Analysis Services 4 1 (3.571 %) OLAP 4 1 (3.571 %) Oracle 8/8i 4 1 (3.571 %) Oracle 9i 4 1 (3.571 %) RDBMS	Development Applications 1 4 (14.29 %) TestDirector 2 2 (7.143 %) QuickTest Pro 2 2 (7.143 %) NUnit 2 2 (7.143 %) Visual Studio 2 2 (7.143 %) Oracle Forms 3 1 (3.571 %) Oracle Designer 10g
General 1 6 (21.43 %) Pharmaceutical 2 3 (10.71 %) Health 3 2 (7.143 %) Manufacturing 3 2 (7.143 %) Aerospace 3 2 (7.143 %) Automotive 4 1 (3.571 %) Government 4 1 (3.571 %) Games 4 1 (3.571 %) Auditing	Job Titles 1 6 (21.43 %) Analyst 2 4 (14.29 %) Programme Manager 3 3 (10.71 %) Developer 3 3 (10.71 %) Architect 3 3 (10.71 %) Test Analyst 3 3 (10.71 %) Programme Office Manager 3 3 (10.71 %) Tester 4 2 (7.143 %) QA Engineer 4 2 (7.143 %) QA Test Analyst 4 2 (7.143 %) QA Analyst 4 2 (7.143 %) Systems Analyst 4 2 (7.143 %) Technical Architect 4 2 (7.143 %) Systems Designer 4 2 (7.143 %) Project Manager 4 2 (7.143 %) Test Manager 4 2 (7.143 %) .NET Developer 5 1 (3.571 %) Test Engineer 5 1 (3.571 %) Technical Analyst 5 1 (3.571 %) DBA 5 1 (3.571 %) Solutions Architect
Miscellaneous 1 3 (10.71 %) NHS	Operating Systems 1 2 (7.143 %) Windows 2 1 (3.571 %) Solaris 2 1 (3.571 %) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies 1 5 (17.86 %) Project Management 1 5 (17.86 %) Validation 2 4 (14.29 %) Risk Analysis 3 3 (10.71 %) PRINCE2 3 3 (10.71 %) Security Cleared 4 2 (7.143 %) UML 4 2 (7.143 %) Use Case 4 2 (7.143 %) Stakeholder Management 4 2 (7.143 %) Systems Analysis 5 1 (3.571 %) Software Testing 5 1 (3.571 %) PLM 5 1 (3.571 %) Unit Testing 5 1 (3.571 %) Test Management 5 1 (3.571 %) SC Cleared 5 1 (3.571 %) Migration 5 1 (3.571 %) Quality Management 5 1 (3.571 %) Change Management 5 1 (3.571 %) Risk Management	Programming Languages 1 4 (14.29 %) C# 1 4 (14.29 %) SQL 2 3 (10.71 %) JavaScript 3 2 (7.143 %) VB 4 1 (3.571 %) VB6 4 1 (3.571 %) Java
Qualifications 1 4 (14.29 %) ISEB 2 1 (3.571 %) PRINCE2 Certification	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 1 (3.571 %) GMP 1 1 (3.571 %) GLP 1 1 (3.571 %) ISO9000 1 1 (3.571 %) ISO9001
Vendors 1 5 (17.86 %) Oracle 2 3 (10.71 %) Microsoft 3 2 (7.143 %) Sun 4 1 (3.571 %) Sony