The first table below looks at the demand for the QA Analyst role in IT contracts advertised for the Scotland region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited QA Analyst in their job title 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 Job Titles advertised for the Scotland 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 Analyst
Rank 117 - 115
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs requiring a QA Analyst 5 0 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Scotland 0.202% - 0.037%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.218% - 0.039%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 1
Average daily rate £350 - £338
UK excluding London average daily rate £345 £350 £300
% change year-on-year
-1.42% +16.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - £17.50
All Job Titles
Scotland
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
2294 2481 2577
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Scotland 92.80% 93.87% 94.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 1106 1208 1272
Average daily rate £350 £338 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+3.70% -3.57%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £215 £245
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £450 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 59 111 95
Average hourly rate £15.50 £21.50 £15.29
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-27.90% +40.61%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.00 £10.00 £9.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £40.00 £33.00 £37.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
QA Analyst
UK

QA Analyst
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing QA Analyst across the Scotland region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

Scotland QA Analyst Jobs Demand Trend

QA Analyst
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing QA Analyst across the Scotland region.

Scotland QA Analyst Daily Rate Trend

QA Analyst
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing QA Analyst within the Scotland region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Glasgow - 2 £400 -
West Lothian - 1 - -
QA Analyst
UK

QA Analyst
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Scotland region that cited QA Analyst in their job title 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 with QA Analyst in their job title.

1 6 (100.00%) SQL
1 6 (100.00%) QA
2 5 (83.33%) FitNesse
3 4 (66.67%) Maven
4 3 (50.00%) Selenium
4 3 (50.00%) XPath
4 3 (50.00%) JSON
4 3 (50.00%) Agile Software Development
4 3 (50.00%) TDD
4 3 (50.00%) Ant
4 3 (50.00%) XML
4 3 (50.00%) UNIX
4 3 (50.00%) XML Schema
4 3 (50.00%) Manual Testing
4 3 (50.00%) RESTful
4 3 (50.00%) Open Source
4 3 (50.00%) Cucumber
4 3 (50.00%) BDD
4 3 (50.00%) Jenkins
4 3 (50.00%) User Stories
4 3 (50.00%) Scrum
5 2 (33.33%) TestComplete
5 2 (33.33%) Continuous Integration
5 2 (33.33%) QuickTest Pro
5 2 (33.33%) Oracle
5 2 (33.33%) Eclipse
6 1 (16.67%) C#
6 1 (16.67%) Java
6 1 (16.67%) Shell Script
6 1 (16.67%) Sun

QA Analyst
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Scotland region that cited QA Analyst in their job title 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 with QA Analyst in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 3 (50.00%) JSON
1 3 (50.00%) XML
1 3 (50.00%) XML Schema
1 3 (50.00%) RESTful
2 1 (16.67%) .NET
Application Platforms
1 1 (16.67%) Oracle Coherence
Development Applications
1 5 (83.33%) FitNesse
2 4 (66.67%) Maven
3 3 (50.00%) Selenium
3 3 (50.00%) Ant
3 3 (50.00%) Cucumber
3 3 (50.00%) Jenkins
4 2 (33.33%) TestComplete
4 2 (33.33%) QuickTest Pro
4 2 (33.33%) Eclipse
5 1 (16.67%) Subversion
5 1 (16.67%) Hudson
General
1 1 (16.67%) Banking
1 1 (16.67%) Finance
1 1 (16.67%) Investment Banking
Miscellaneous
1 3 (50.00%) Open Source
2 1 (16.67%) Derivative
2 1 (16.67%) Equity Derivative
Operating Systems
1 3 (50.00%) UNIX
2 1 (16.67%) Solaris
2 1 (16.67%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (50.00%) Agile Software Development
1 3 (50.00%) TDD
1 3 (50.00%) Manual Testing
1 3 (50.00%) BDD
1 3 (50.00%) User Stories
1 3 (50.00%) Scrum
2 2 (33.33%) Continuous Integration
3 1 (16.67%) Regression Testing
3 1 (16.67%) Risk Management
3 1 (16.67%) Automated Testing
3 1 (16.67%) Software Testing
3 1 (16.67%) Test Automation
3 1 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 6 (100.00%) SQL
2 3 (50.00%) XPath
3 1 (16.67%) C#
3 1 (16.67%) Java
3 1 (16.67%) Shell Script
3 1 (16.67%) VB
3 1 (16.67%) VBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (100.00%) QA
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) Oracle
2 1 (16.67%) Sun