Oxfordshire QA Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Quality Assurance (QA) skills within the Oxfordshire 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	41	49
Rank change on same period last year	+8
Matching contract IT job ads	17	5
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.023 %	0.005 %
As % of the category below	53.13 %	31.25 %
Daily rates quoted	1	2
Average minimum daily rate	£180	£300
Average daily rate	£190	£325
% change on same period last year	-41.53 %
Average maximum daily rate	£200	£350
UK excluding London average daily rate	£333	£338
% change on same period last year	-1.49 %
Hourly rates quoted	5	0
Average minimum hourly rate	£31.60	-
Average hourly rate	£31.80	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	£32.00	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£29.07	£30.86
% change on same period last year	-5.79 %
Quality Assurance & Compliance Oxfordshire
Matching contract IT job ads	32	16
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.043 %	0.016 %
Daily rates quoted	2	3
Average minimum daily rate	£290	£267
Average daily rate	£295	£292
% change on same period last year	+1.14 %
Average maximum daily rate	£300	£317
UK excluding London average daily rate	£368	£371
% change on same period last year	-0.67 %
Hourly rates quoted	11	3
Average minimum hourly rate	£27.69	£10.66
Average hourly rate	£28.58	£12.07
% change on same period last year	+136.69 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£29.46	£13.49
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.31	£24.73
% change on same period last year	-5.77 %
QA South East

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 Oxfordshire 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 Oxfordshire 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 Oxfordshire region.

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Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing QA across the Oxfordshire region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008.

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Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing QA within the Oxfordshire region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
Bicester	-	4	-	-
Oxford	-1	3	£190	-41.53 %

QA South East

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Oxfordshire 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 7 (29.17 %) PRINCE2 1 7 (29.17 %) Economics 2 6 (25.00 %) Project Planning 2 6 (25.00 %) Security Cleared 3 5 (20.83 %) SC Cleared 3 5 (20.83 %) Matrix Management 4 4 (16.67 %) Siebel 4 4 (16.67 %) Microsoft 4 4 (16.67 %) PRINCE 5 3 (12.50 %) MS Excel 5 3 (12.50 %) MS Project 5 3 (12.50 %) ITIL 5 3 (12.50 %) Government 5 3 (12.50 %) Pharmaceutical 5 3 (12.50 %) Logistics

5 3 (12.50 %) BC Cleared 6 2 (8.333 %) Degree 6 2 (8.333 %) Content Management 6 2 (8.333 %) Penetration Testing 6 2 (8.333 %) Software Testing 6 2 (8.333 %) Use Case 6 2 (8.333 %) User Acceptance Testing 6 2 (8.333 %) Stress Testing 6 2 (8.333 %) Integration Testing 6 2 (8.333 %) System Testing 6 2 (8.333 %) Regression Testing 6 2 (8.333 %) XML 6 2 (8.333 %) MS Office 6 2 (8.333 %) E-Commerce 6 2 (8.333 %) GMP

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Oxfordshire 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 2 (8.333 %) XML 2 1 (4.167 %) .NET 2 1 (4.167 %) ASP.NET	Applications 1 3 (12.50 %) MS Project 1 3 (12.50 %) MS Excel 2 2 (8.333 %) MS Office
Database & Business Intelligence 1 1 (4.167 %) SQL Server	General 1 3 (12.50 %) Pharmaceutical 1 3 (12.50 %) Government 2 1 (4.167 %) Manufacturing
Job Titles 1 9 (37.50 %) Analyst 2 5 (20.83 %) Project Analyst 3 3 (12.50 %) Project Coordinator 3 3 (12.50 %) Siebel Business Analyst 3 3 (12.50 %) Coordinator 3 3 (12.50 %) Business Analyst 4 2 (8.333 %) Tester 4 2 (8.333 %) Project Manager 4 2 (8.333 %) Support Analyst 4 2 (8.333 %) Siebel Analyst 4 2 (8.333 %) Technical Specialist 4 2 (8.333 %) QA Tester 4 2 (8.333 %) Project Support Analyst 5 1 (4.167 %) Project Support Officer 5 1 (4.167 %) Project Officer 5 1 (4.167 %) Project Controller 5 1 (4.167 %) Systems Analyst 5 1 (4.167 %) Technical Architect 5 1 (4.167 %) Architect	Miscellaneous 1 7 (29.17 %) Economics
Processes & Methodologies 1 7 (29.17 %) PRINCE2 2 6 (25.00 %) Project Planning 2 6 (25.00 %) Security Cleared 3 5 (20.83 %) SC Cleared 3 5 (20.83 %) Matrix Management 4 4 (16.67 %) PRINCE 5 3 (12.50 %) Logistics 5 3 (12.50 %) BC Cleared 5 3 (12.50 %) ITIL 6 2 (8.333 %) Software Testing 6 2 (8.333 %) Content Management 6 2 (8.333 %) Penetration Testing 6 2 (8.333 %) Use Case 6 2 (8.333 %) User Acceptance Testing 6 2 (8.333 %) Stress Testing 6 2 (8.333 %) Integration Testing 6 2 (8.333 %) System Testing 6 2 (8.333 %) E-Commerce 6 2 (8.333 %) Regression Testing 7 1 (4.167 %) Validation	Programming Languages 1 1 (4.167 %) C# 1 1 (4.167 %) SQL 1 1 (4.167 %) Transact-SQL
Qualifications 1 2 (8.333 %) Degree 2 1 (4.167 %) PRINCE2 Practitioner 2 1 (4.167 %) PRINCE2 Certification	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 2 (8.333 %) GMP
Vendors 1 4 (16.67 %) Siebel 1 4 (16.67 %) Microsoft