Stirling QA Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Quality Assurance (QA) skills within the Stirling 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 21 November 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Quality Assurance (QA)
Location Avon Basingstoke Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Bracknell Braintree Brentford Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Burton-upon-Trent Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Channel Islands Chelmsford Cheltenham Cheshire Chester City of London County Antrim Coventry Cumbria Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset East Anglia East Grinstead East Midlands East of England East Sussex Eastleigh Edinburgh England Essex Fareham Farnborough Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Hertfordshire Hove Huddersfield Huntingdon Kent Lancashire Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Liverpool London M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Osterley Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Plymouth Portsmouth Preston Reading Rochester Salisbury Scotland Slough Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West Southampton Southend-on-Sea Staffordshire Stevenage Stirling Stoke-on-Trent Stratford-upon-Avon Surrey Sussex Swindon Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warrington Warwickshire Watford West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Wokingham Yeovil York Yorkshire	3 months to 21 Nov 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	£353	£338
% change on same period last year	+4.20 %
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	£30.13	£27.26
% change on same period last year	+10.52 %
Quality Assurance & Compliance Stirling
Matching contract IT job ads	0	0
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	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	£369	£357
% change on same period last year	+3.43 %
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	£24.30	£23.74
% change on same period last year	+2.35 %
QA Scotland

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.

QA
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing QA across the Stirling region as a proportion of the total demand within the Quality Assurance & Compliance category.

QA
Top 6 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 November 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Stirling 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 1 (100.00 %) Migration 1 1 (100.00 %) Data Analysis 1 1 (100.00 %) Capita 1 1 (100.00 %) Pensions 1 1 (100.00 %) Data Migration 1 1 (100.00 %) Data Mapping

QA
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 November 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Stirling 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 1 (100.00 %) Pensions	Job Titles 1 1 (100.00 %) Business Analyst 1 1 (100.00 %) Analyst
Processes & Methodologies 1 1 (100.00 %) Migration 1 1 (100.00 %) Data Analysis 1 1 (100.00 %) Data Migration 1 1 (100.00 %) Data Mapping	Vendors 1 1 (100.00 %) Capita