Poole QA Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Quality Assurance (QA) skills within the Poole 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 5 September 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Quality Assurance (QA)
Location Amersham Basildon Basingstoke Bath Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Bournemouth Bracknell Bridgend Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cheltenham Cheshire Chester City of London Corsham County Antrim Coventry Crawley Croydon Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset Durham East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex Eastleigh Edinburgh England Epsom Essex Exeter Farnborough Flintshire Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Guildford Hampshire Harlow Harrogate Hartlepool Havant Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Horsham Hounslow Hove Kent Knutsford Lancashire Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Liverpool London M4 Corridor Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Marlow Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Newton-le-Willows Norfolk North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Reading Reigate Sale Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southend-on-Sea Staffordshire Stevenage Stirling Sunbury-on-Thames Surrey Swadlincote Swindon Telford Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Ware Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wilmslow Wiltshire Wokingham Worcester Worcestershire York Yorkshire	3 months to 5 Sep 2008	Same period last year
Rank	-	-
Rank change on same period last year	-
Matching contract IT job ads	0	0
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.000 %	0.000 %
As % of the category below	0.000 %	0.000 %
Daily rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum daily rate	-	-
Average daily rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£352	£336
% change on same period last year	+4.58 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum hourly rate	-	-
Average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£31.70	£30.50
% change on same period last year	+3.93 %
Quality Assurance & Compliance Poole
Matching contract IT job ads	11	7
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.015 %	0.007 %
Daily rates quoted	5	2
Average minimum daily rate	£260	£420
Average daily rate	£296	£420
% change on same period last year	-29.52 %
Average maximum daily rate	£332	£420
UK excluding London average daily rate	£378	£354
% change on same period last year	+6.75 %
Hourly rates quoted	2	0
Average minimum hourly rate	£17.00	-
Average hourly rate	£18.50	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	£20.00	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.82	£25.74
% change on same period last year	-7.48 %
QA Dorset

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 Poole 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 Poole 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 Poole region.

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Top 7 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 5 September 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Poole 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 (100.00 %) Finance 2 1 (50.00 %) Stakeholder Management 2 1 (50.00 %) Banking 2 1 (50.00 %) Supplier Management 2 1 (50.00 %) Pensions 2 1 (50.00 %) Matrix Management 2 1 (50.00 %) Project Management

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 5 September 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Poole 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.

General 1 2 (100.00 %) Finance 2 1 (50.00 %) Banking 2 1 (50.00 %) Pensions	Job Titles 1 1 (50.00 %) Project Manager
Processes & Methodologies 1 1 (50.00 %) Project Management 1 1 (50.00 %) Stakeholder Management 1 1 (50.00 %) Supplier Management 1 1 (50.00 %) Matrix Management