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QA Contracts in Milton Keynes
 
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 Milton Keynes region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited QA over the 3 months to 20 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 Milton Keynes 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
20 Jun 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Quality Assurance (QA)
Rank 51 54 59
Rank change year-on-year
+3 +5
Contract jobs citing QA 12 8 6
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Milton Keynes 1.967% 1.223% 0.951%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 22.64% 18.60% 12.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 2 2
Average daily rate £278 £340 £420
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-18.38% -19.04%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £204 £268 £404
10% offered a daily rate of more than £433 £412 £436
UK excluding London average daily rate £338 £325 £398
% change year-on-year
+3.84% -18.23%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.75 £27.25 £30.00
% change year-on-year
-38.52% -9.16%
All Quality Assurance & Compliance
Milton Keynes
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Quality Assurance & Compliance category		 53 43 50
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Milton Keynes 8.689% 6.575% 7.924%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 7 7
Average daily rate £415 £350 £225
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+18.57% +55.55%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £218 £301 £115
10% offered a daily rate of more than £725 £397 £440
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £388
% change year-on-year
- -9.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 18
Average hourly rate - £11.88 £14.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -15.17%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £18.00 £16.72 £30.00
% change year-on-year
+7.65% -44.26%
QA
Buckinghamshire

QA
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Milton Keynes 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 Milton Keynes region.

Milton Keynes 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 Milton Keynes region over the 3 months to 20 June 2013.

Milton Keynes 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 Milton Keynes region.

Milton Keynes QA Hourly Rate Trend

QA
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Milton Keynes 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 8 (36.36%) Oracle
2 7 (31.82%) Finance
3 6 (27.27%) SQL
3 6 (27.27%) HP
3 6 (27.27%) SC Cleared
3 6 (27.27%) DV Cleared
3 6 (27.27%) Security Cleared
4 5 (22.73%) HP Quality Center
5 4 (18.18%) .NET
5 4 (18.18%) MS Visio
5 4 (18.18%) UNIX
5 4 (18.18%) Windows
5 4 (18.18%) Windows 7
5 4 (18.18%) Banking
6 3 (13.64%) Cryptography
6 3 (13.64%) Firewall
6 3 (13.64%) NAS
6 3 (13.64%) Waterfall
6 3 (13.64%) Continuous Improvement
6 3 (13.64%) MS Excel
6 3 (13.64%) Windows NT
6 3 (13.64%) Client/Server
6 3 (13.64%) SQL Server
6 3 (13.64%) MS Project
6 3 (13.64%) ISEB
6 3 (13.64%) Citrix
6 3 (13.64%) SAN
6 3 (13.64%) Microsoft
6 3 (13.64%) Sun
6 3 (13.64%) OpenView

QA
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Milton Keynes 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 (18.18%) .NET
2 1 (4.545%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
2 1 (4.545%) WebSphere
2 1 (4.545%) WCF
Application Platforms
1 1 (4.545%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 4 (18.18%) MS Visio
2 3 (13.64%) MS Excel
2 3 (13.64%) MS Project
3 1 (4.545%) MS PowerPoint
3 1 (4.545%) Spreadsheet
Communications & Networking
1 3 (13.64%) Firewall
1 3 (13.64%) NAS
1 3 (13.64%) SAN
2 1 (4.545%) DHCP
2 1 (4.545%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (13.64%) SQL Server
2 1 (4.545%) Oracle 11g
Development Applications
1 2 (9.091%) Visual Studio
1 2 (9.091%) Team Foundation Server
2 1 (4.545%) QuickTest Pro
2 1 (4.545%) Selenium
General
1 7 (31.82%) Finance
2 4 (18.18%) Banking
3 3 (13.64%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 10 (45.45%) Analyst
2 6 (27.27%) Architect
2 6 (27.27%) Technical Architect
3 5 (22.73%) Test Analyst
4 3 (13.64%) Programme Analyst
4 3 (13.64%) Programme Office Analyst
5 2 (9.091%) Manual Test Analyst
5 2 (9.091%) Senior Manager
5 2 (9.091%) Test Manager
6 1 (4.545%) Senior QA Manager
6 1 (4.545%) Systems Administrator
6 1 (4.545%) Service Continuity Analyst
6 1 (4.545%) Testing Manager
6 1 (4.545%) Head of Testing
6 1 (4.545%) Project Manager
6 1 (4.545%) Business Analyst
6 1 (4.545%) Tester
6 1 (4.545%) Junior
6 1 (4.545%) Service Analyst
6 1 (4.545%) Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 3 (13.64%) Cryptography
1 3 (13.64%) Client/Server
2 1 (4.545%) N-Tier
Operating Systems
1 4 (18.18%) UNIX
1 4 (18.18%) Windows
1 4 (18.18%) Windows 7
2 3 (13.64%) Windows NT
3 1 (4.545%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (4.545%) Linux
3 1 (4.545%) OS/2
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (13.64%) Waterfall
1 3 (13.64%) Continuous Improvement
2 2 (9.091%) Scrum
2 2 (9.091%) Business Continuity
2 2 (9.091%) BCP
2 2 (9.091%) Test Strategy
2 2 (9.091%) Manual Testing
2 2 (9.091%) Test Scripting
2 2 (9.091%) Software Testing
2 2 (9.091%) User Acceptance Testing
2 2 (9.091%) Web Testing
3 1 (4.545%) Test Management
3 1 (4.545%) Enterprise Architecture
3 1 (4.545%) Continuous Integration
3 1 (4.545%) V-Model
3 1 (4.545%) Data Transformation
3 1 (4.545%) Agile Testing
3 1 (4.545%) ITIL
3 1 (4.545%) OO
3 1 (4.545%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (27.27%) SQL
2 1 (4.545%) VBA
2 1 (4.545%) C#
2 1 (4.545%) Perl
Qualifications
1 6 (27.27%) SC Cleared
1 6 (27.27%) DV Cleared
1 6 (27.27%) Security Cleared
2 3 (13.64%) ISEB
3 2 (9.091%) ISTQB
System Software
1 1 (4.545%) NFS
Systems Management
1 5 (22.73%) HP Quality Center
2 3 (13.64%) OpenView
2 3 (13.64%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 8 (36.36%) Oracle
2 6 (27.27%) HP
3 3 (13.64%) Citrix
3 3 (13.64%) Microsoft
3 3 (13.64%) Sun
3 3 (13.64%) StorageTek
4 1 (4.545%) SAP
4 1 (4.545%) Remedy
4 1 (4.545%) Red Hat
4 1 (4.545%) NetApp
Unix System Administrator
Milton Keynes, Thames Valley
UNIX SYSTEM ADMINISTRATOR (Linux OS)2 month contract Milton KeynesExperienced Unix system administrator with strong understanding of Linux operation system required to execute on migrations (servers and storage)...
Posted: 28 May 2013
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