The first table below looks at the demand for QA skills in IT contracts advertised for the Newbury region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited QA over the 3 months to 17 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 Newbury 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Quality Assurance (QA)
Rank 18 11 -
Rank change year-on-year
-7 -
Contract jobs citing QA 2 9 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Newbury 1.724% 7.627% -
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 50.00% 42.86% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 5 0
Average daily rate £294 £125 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+135.00% -
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 £28.75 £17.50 £26.25
% change year-on-year
+64.28% -33.33%
All Quality Assurance & Compliance
Newbury
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Quality Assurance & Compliance category
4 21 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Newbury 3.448% 17.80% 2.000%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 8 0
Average daily rate £300 £171 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+75.18% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £340 £350 £375
% change year-on-year
-2.85% -6.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
Average hourly rate £12.00 £11.50 -
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+4.34% -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £16.35 £29.00
% change year-on-year
+7.03% -43.62%
QA
Berkshire

QA
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Newbury 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 Newbury region.

Newbury QA Daily Rate Trend

QA
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Newbury QA Hourly Rate Trend

QA
Top 24 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Newbury 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 2 (50.00%) Project Management
1 2 (50.00%) QADirector
2 1 (25.00%) User Acceptance Testing
2 1 (25.00%) Test Scripting
2 1 (25.00%) Radio Access Network
2 1 (25.00%) HTML
2 1 (25.00%) SQL
2 1 (25.00%) VB.NET
2 1 (25.00%) .NET
2 1 (25.00%) Oracle
2 1 (25.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (25.00%) MS Office
2 1 (25.00%) ASP
2 1 (25.00%) XML
2 1 (25.00%) TOAD
2 1 (25.00%) ISEB
2 1 (25.00%) Ericsson
2 1 (25.00%) ESRI
2 1 (25.00%) ArcGIS
2 1 (25.00%) Regression Testing
2 1 (25.00%) Telecoms
2 1 (25.00%) Information Management
2 1 (25.00%) Software Testing
2 1 (25.00%) Requirements Analysis

QA
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Newbury 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 1 (25.00%) HTML
1 1 (25.00%) .NET
1 1 (25.00%) ASP
1 1 (25.00%) XML
Application Platforms
1 1 (25.00%) ArcGIS
Applications
1 1 (25.00%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) Radio Access Network
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) SQL Server
1 1 (25.00%) TOAD
Development Applications
1 2 (50.00%) QADirector
General
1 1 (25.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 1 (25.00%) Tester
1 1 (25.00%) Analyst
1 1 (25.00%) Test Analyst
1 1 (25.00%) Software Tester
1 1 (25.00%) Installations Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) QA Tester
1 1 (25.00%) Implementation Manager
1 1 (25.00%) QA Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) QA Test Analyst
1 1 (25.00%) QA Analyst
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Project Management
2 1 (25.00%) Regression Testing
2 1 (25.00%) Information Management
2 1 (25.00%) Software Testing
2 1 (25.00%) Requirements Analysis
2 1 (25.00%) User Acceptance Testing
2 1 (25.00%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) SQL
1 1 (25.00%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) ISEB
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Oracle
1 1 (25.00%) Ericsson
1 1 (25.00%) ESRI