The first table below looks at the demand for QA skills in IT contracts advertised for the Nottingham region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited QA over the 3 months to 21 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 Nottingham 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
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Quality Assurance (QA)
Rank 27 22 22
Rank change year-on-year
-5 0
Contract jobs citing QA 11 8 6
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Nottingham 3.819% 3.571% 2.575%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 68.75% 47.06% 31.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 4 5
Average daily rate £375 £381 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-1.63% +17.48%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £308 £323 £235
10% offered a daily rate of more than £453 £396 £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £350 £363
% change year-on-year
-7.14% -3.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £26.75 £18.75 £26.25
% change year-on-year
+42.66% -28.57%
All Quality Assurance & Compliance
Nottingham
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Quality Assurance & Compliance category
16 17 19
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Nottingham 5.556% 7.589% 8.155%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 10 12
Average daily rate £375 £290 £287
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+29.31% +0.95%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £308 £290 £94
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £423 £378
UK excluding London average daily rate £345 £350 £375
% change year-on-year
-1.42% -6.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Average hourly rate - £30.00 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £16.35 £30.00
% change year-on-year
+7.03% -45.50%
QA
Nottinghamshire

QA
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Nottingham 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 Nottingham region.

Nottingham 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 Nottingham region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

Nottingham QA Daily Rate Histogram

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Hourly Rate Trend

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

Nottingham QA Hourly Rate Trend

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Nottingham 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 (30.00%) Finance
2 5 (25.00%) Software Testing
2 5 (25.00%) HTML
2 5 (25.00%) SQL
2 5 (25.00%) Oracle
2 5 (25.00%) XML
2 5 (25.00%) Oracle 10g
2 5 (25.00%) Uniface
2 5 (25.00%) Project Management
3 4 (20.00%) UNIX
3 4 (20.00%) Waterfall
3 4 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 3 (15.00%) ActionScript 2.0
4 3 (15.00%) Quality Management
4 3 (15.00%) Manual Testing
4 3 (15.00%) QMS
4 3 (15.00%) HTTPS
4 3 (15.00%) CSS
4 3 (15.00%) ActionScript
4 3 (15.00%) JavaScript
4 3 (15.00%) PMP
4 3 (15.00%) PMI Certification
5 2 (10.00%) PRINCE2
5 2 (10.00%) Cisco
5 2 (10.00%) Continuous Improvement
5 2 (10.00%) User Acceptance Testing
5 2 (10.00%) Unit Testing
5 2 (10.00%) Wi-Fi
5 2 (10.00%) Scrum
5 2 (10.00%) Product Management

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Nottingham 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 5 (25.00%) HTML
1 5 (25.00%) XML
2 3 (15.00%) CSS
Business Applications
1 1 (5.000%) VisionPLUS
1 1 (5.000%) Dynamics AX
Communications & Networking
1 3 (15.00%) HTTPS
2 2 (10.00%) Wi-Fi
3 1 (5.000%) NetScaler
3 1 (5.000%) FTP
3 1 (5.000%) TCP/IP
3 1 (5.000%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (25.00%) Oracle 10g
General
1 6 (30.00%) Finance
2 1 (5.000%) Banking
2 1 (5.000%) Manufacturing
2 1 (5.000%) Advertising
2 1 (5.000%) French Language
Job Titles
1 5 (25.00%) Uniface Developer
1 5 (25.00%) Developer
2 4 (20.00%) QA Leader
2 4 (20.00%) Test Leader
3 3 (15.00%) Project Manager
3 3 (15.00%) Test Manager
4 2 (10.00%) Consultant
4 2 (10.00%) Business Analyst
4 2 (10.00%) Tester
4 2 (10.00%) Lead Tester
4 2 (10.00%) Analyst
4 2 (10.00%) QA Tester
5 1 (5.000%) Network Infrastructure Manager
5 1 (5.000%) Infrastructure Manager
5 1 (5.000%) Test Consultant
5 1 (5.000%) Senior Test Manager
5 1 (5.000%) Network Project Manager
5 1 (5.000%) Functional Consultant
5 1 (5.000%) IT Project Manager
5 1 (5.000%) Network Manager
Miscellaneous
1 1 (5.000%) Computer Science
1 1 (5.000%) FMCG
1 1 (5.000%) Smart Meter
1 1 (5.000%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 4 (20.00%) UNIX
2 1 (5.000%) MVS
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (25.00%) Software Testing
1 5 (25.00%) Project Management
2 4 (20.00%) Waterfall
2 4 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 3 (15.00%) Quality Management
3 3 (15.00%) Manual Testing
3 3 (15.00%) QMS
4 2 (10.00%) PRINCE2
4 2 (10.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 2 (10.00%) User Acceptance Testing
4 2 (10.00%) Unit Testing
4 2 (10.00%) Scrum
4 2 (10.00%) Product Management
5 1 (5.000%) Integration Testing
5 1 (5.000%) Test Scripting
5 1 (5.000%) Performance Testing
5 1 (5.000%) Resource Management
5 1 (5.000%) Test Strategy
5 1 (5.000%) ERP
5 1 (5.000%) PRINCE
Programming Languages
1 5 (25.00%) SQL
1 5 (25.00%) Uniface
2 3 (15.00%) ActionScript 2.0
2 3 (15.00%) ActionScript
2 3 (15.00%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 3 (15.00%) PMP
1 3 (15.00%) PMI Certification
2 1 (5.000%) ISEB
Vendors
1 5 (25.00%) Oracle
2 2 (10.00%) Cisco
3 1 (5.000%) Microsoft
3 1 (5.000%) CheckPoint
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