Scotland QA Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Quality Assurance (QA) skills within the Scotland 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	87	93
Rank change on same period last year	+6
Matching contract IT job ads	13	35
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.017 %	0.035 %
As % of the category below	22.41 %	33.98 %
Daily rates quoted	5	6
Average minimum daily rate	£383	£333
Average daily rate	£417	£356
% change on same period last year	+16.95 %
Average maximum daily rate	£450	£379
UK excluding London average daily rate	£333	£338
% change on same period last year	-1.49 %
Hourly rates quoted	1	1
Average minimum hourly rate	£40.00	£12.00
Average hourly rate	£42.50	£12.00
% change on same period last year	+254.16 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£45.00	£12.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£29.07	£30.86
% change on same period last year	-5.79 %
Quality Assurance & Compliance Scotland
Matching contract IT job ads	58	103
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.077 %	0.104 %
Daily rates quoted	21	17
Average minimum daily rate	£262	£324
Average daily rate	£286	£347
% change on same period last year	-17.58 %
Average maximum daily rate	£309	£369
UK excluding London average daily rate	£368	£371
% change on same period last year	-0.67 %
Hourly rates quoted	10	5
Average minimum hourly rate	£22.54	£23.29
Average hourly rate	£23.98	£24.26
% change on same period last year	-1.13 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£25.43	£25.23
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.31	£24.73
% change on same period last year	-5.77 %
QA UK

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 Scotland 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 Scotland region.

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Daily Rate Histogram

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

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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 Scotland region.

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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 Scotland 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
Glasgow	+10	8	£400	+17.43 %
Edinburgh	+1	2	£500	+29.03 %
Stirling	-	1	-	-
West Lothian	-	1	-	-

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Scotland 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 15 (38.46 %) Finance 2 5 (12.82 %) Java 2 5 (12.82 %) SQL Server 3 4 (10.26 %) Oracle 3 4 (10.26 %) MS Excel 3 4 (10.26 %) Quality Management 3 4 (10.26 %) GIS 3 4 (10.26 %) TestDirector 3 4 (10.26 %) Project Management 3 4 (10.26 %) Test Scripting 4 3 (7.692 %) Change Management 4 3 (7.692 %) ClearQuest 4 3 (7.692 %) VB 4 3 (7.692 %) PVCS 5 2 (5.128 %) UNIX

5 2 (5.128 %) XML 5 2 (5.128 %) SQL 5 2 (5.128 %) MS Access 5 2 (5.128 %) IBM 5 2 (5.128 %) SQL Server 2000 5 2 (5.128 %) QuickTest Pro 5 2 (5.128 %) WinRunner 5 2 (5.128 %) ESRI 5 2 (5.128 %) ArcGIS 5 2 (5.128 %) Financial Institution 5 2 (5.128 %) GAP Analysis 5 2 (5.128 %) Management Information System 5 2 (5.128 %) Banking 5 2 (5.128 %) Information Management 5 2 (5.128 %) Data Analysis

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Scotland 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 (5.128 %) XML 1 2 (5.128 %) WebSphere 2 1 (2.564 %) WebServices 2 1 (2.564 %) FpML 2 1 (2.564 %) ISPF	Application Platforms 1 2 (5.128 %) ArcGIS 2 1 (2.564 %) ESB 2 1 (2.564 %) WebSphere Message Broker 2 1 (2.564 %) WebSphere MQ
Applications 1 4 (10.26 %) MS Excel 2 1 (2.564 %) MS Visio 2 1 (2.564 %) CA Clarity 2 1 (2.564 %) MS Project 2 1 (2.564 %) MS Office	Database & Business Intelligence 1 5 (12.82 %) SQL Server 2 4 (10.26 %) GIS 3 2 (5.128 %) SQL Server 2000 3 2 (5.128 %) MS Access 4 1 (2.564 %) RDBMS 4 1 (2.564 %) DB2
Development Applications 1 4 (10.26 %) TestDirector 2 3 (7.692 %) PVCS 2 3 (7.692 %) ClearQuest 3 2 (5.128 %) QARun 3 2 (5.128 %) WinRunner 3 2 (5.128 %) QuickTest Pro 4 1 (2.564 %) LoadRunner	General 1 15 (38.46 %) Finance 2 2 (5.128 %) Financial Institution 2 2 (5.128 %) Banking 2 2 (5.128 %) Pensions 3 1 (2.564 %) Retail 3 1 (2.564 %) Investment Banking 3 1 (2.564 %) Pharmaceutical 3 1 (2.564 %) Government 3 1 (2.564 %) Manufacturing
Job Titles 1 13 (33.33 %) Analyst 2 8 (20.51 %) Consultant 3 4 (10.26 %) Test Analyst 3 4 (10.26 %) QA Analyst 3 4 (10.26 %) Quality Analyst 4 3 (7.692 %) Project Manager 5 2 (5.128 %) Business Analyst 5 2 (5.128 %) Junior 5 2 (5.128 %) Software Engineer 5 2 (5.128 %) Coordinator 5 2 (5.128 %) Process Consultant 5 2 (5.128 %) Process Analyst 5 2 (5.128 %) Process Engineer 5 2 (5.128 %) Junior Data Analyst 5 2 (5.128 %) Software Consultant 5 2 (5.128 %) Data Analyst 5 2 (5.128 %) Test Engineer 5 2 (5.128 %) Junior Analyst 6 1 (2.564 %) Technical Specialist 6 1 (2.564 %) QA Tester	Miscellaneous 1 2 (5.128 %) Management Information System 2 1 (2.564 %) E-Learning 2 1 (2.564 %) Mainframe
Operating Systems 1 2 (5.128 %) UNIX 2 1 (2.564 %) Windows 2 1 (2.564 %) OS/390	Processes & Methodologies 1 4 (10.26 %) Project Management 1 4 (10.26 %) Quality Management 1 4 (10.26 %) Test Scripting 2 3 (7.692 %) Change Management 3 2 (5.128 %) GAP Analysis 3 2 (5.128 %) System Testing 3 2 (5.128 %) Programme Management 3 2 (5.128 %) Information Management 3 2 (5.128 %) Data Analysis 4 1 (2.564 %) Systems Analysis 4 1 (2.564 %) Software Testing 4 1 (2.564 %) Problem Management 4 1 (2.564 %) User Acceptance Testing 4 1 (2.564 %) Performance Testing 4 1 (2.564 %) CMMI 4 1 (2.564 %) Service Delivery 4 1 (2.564 %) ITIL 4 1 (2.564 %) PRINCE2 4 1 (2.564 %) UML 4 1 (2.564 %) CRM
Programming Languages 1 5 (12.82 %) Java 2 3 (7.692 %) VB 3 2 (5.128 %) SQL 4 1 (2.564 %) JCL	Qualifications 1 2 (5.128 %) CSQA 2 1 (2.564 %) MCP 2 1 (2.564 %) ISEB 2 1 (2.564 %) Microsoft Certification 2 1 (2.564 %) CNA 2 1 (2.564 %) Novell Certification 2 1 (2.564 %) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 1 (2.564 %) GMP	Vendors 1 4 (10.26 %) Oracle 2 2 (5.128 %) ESRI 2 2 (5.128 %) IBM 3 1 (2.564 %) Microsoft 3 1 (2.564 %) HP 3 1 (2.564 %) Citrix 3 1 (2.564 %) BMC 3 1 (2.564 %) CA 3 1 (2.564 %) Novell 3 1 (2.564 %) Capita 3 1 (2.564 %) Progress