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QA Contracts in Oxford
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Hourly Rate Trend Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for QA skills in IT contracts advertised for the Oxford region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited QA over the 3 months to 18 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 Oxford 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
18 Jun 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Quality Assurance (QA)
Rank 32 24 21
Rank change year-on-year
-8 -3
Contract jobs citing QA 1 13 5
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Oxford 0.463% 4.063% 2.793%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 12.50% 65.00% 71.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 8 1
Average daily rate £400 £450 £225
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-11.11% +100.00%
UK excluding London average daily rate £330 £325 £375
% change year-on-year
+1.53% -13.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
Average hourly rate - £12.12 £17.55
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -30.96%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.75 £23.75 £30.75
% change year-on-year
-29.46% -22.76%
All Quality Assurance & Compliance
Oxford
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Quality Assurance & Compliance category		 8 20 7
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Oxford 3.704% 6.250% 3.911%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 9 1
Average daily rate £450 £400 £225
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+12.50% +77.77%
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £375
% change year-on-year
- -6.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 6 2
Average hourly rate - £16.09 £14.28
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- +12.69%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £18.50 £16.72 £30.00
% change year-on-year
+10.64% -44.26%
QA
Oxfordshire

QA
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Oxford 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 Oxford region.

Oxford 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 Oxford region.

Oxford QA Hourly Rate Trend

QA
Top 23 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Oxford 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 5 (62.50%) User Acceptance Testing
1 5 (62.50%) Test Strategy
2 4 (50.00%) Manual Testing
2 4 (50.00%) Test Automation
2 4 (50.00%) SAP
3 3 (37.50%) CRM
3 3 (37.50%) Business Intelligence
3 3 (37.50%) Workflow
3 3 (37.50%) SQL
4 2 (25.00%) Salesforce.com
4 2 (25.00%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (12.50%) E-Commerce
5 1 (12.50%) Documentum
5 1 (12.50%) Cognos
5 1 (12.50%) Project Management
5 1 (12.50%) Finance
5 1 (12.50%) Publishing
5 1 (12.50%) Stakeholder Management
5 1 (12.50%) SAP CRM
5 1 (12.50%) Content Management
5 1 (12.50%) Drupal
5 1 (12.50%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 1 (12.50%) Root Cause Analysis

QA
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Oxford 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 (12.50%) Documentum
1 1 (12.50%) Drupal
Business Applications
1 1 (12.50%) SAP CRM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (25.00%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (12.50%) SQL Server Analysis Services
General
1 1 (12.50%) Finance
1 1 (12.50%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 5 (62.50%) Software Engineer
1 5 (62.50%) Test Engineer
1 5 (62.50%) QA Engineer
2 4 (50.00%) Senior QA Engineer
2 4 (50.00%) Senior Software Engineer
2 4 (50.00%) Software Test Engineer
2 4 (50.00%) Senior Test Engineer
2 4 (50.00%) Senior Software Test Engineer
3 2 (25.00%) Developer
4 1 (12.50%) Analyst
4 1 (12.50%) Test Analyst
4 1 (12.50%) Web Developer
4 1 (12.50%) Quality Manager
4 1 (12.50%) QA Manager
4 1 (12.50%) Analyst Developer
4 1 (12.50%) Web Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) CRM Developer
4 1 (12.50%) QA Leader
4 1 (12.50%) SAP CRM Developer
4 1 (12.50%) QA Test Analyst
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (62.50%) User Acceptance Testing
1 5 (62.50%) Test Strategy
2 4 (50.00%) Manual Testing
2 4 (50.00%) Test Automation
3 3 (37.50%) Workflow
3 3 (37.50%) CRM
3 3 (37.50%) Business Intelligence
4 1 (12.50%) Project Management
4 1 (12.50%) E-Commerce
4 1 (12.50%) Stakeholder Management
4 1 (12.50%) Content Management
4 1 (12.50%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 3 (37.50%) SQL
Vendors
1 4 (50.00%) SAP
2 2 (25.00%) Salesforce.com
3 1 (12.50%) Cognos
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