The first table below looks at the demand for QA skills in IT contracts advertised for the Surrey region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited QA over the 3 months to 24 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 of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category for the Surrey 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Quality Assurance (QA)
Rank 57 41 68
Rank change year-on-year
-16 +27
Contract jobs citing QA 23 60 35
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Surrey 1.995% 3.724% 1.905%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 46.94% 50.85% 30.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 47 11
Average daily rate £350 £338 £335
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+3.70% +0.74%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £303 £250 £200
10% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £514 £475
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £350 £360
% change year-on-year
-7.14% -2.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
Average hourly rate - - £41.25
UK excluding London average hourly rate £26.00 £20.00 £32.75
% change year-on-year
+30.00% -38.93%
All Quality Assurance & Compliance
Surrey
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Quality Assurance & Compliance category
49 118 113
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Surrey 4.250% 7.325% 6.151%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 66 54
Average daily rate £390 £350 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+11.42% -12.50%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £294 £250 £248
10% offered a daily rate of more than £493 £522 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £375
% change year-on-year
- -6.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 7
Average hourly rate - £16.50 £30.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -45.00%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.75 £16.35 £30.50
% change year-on-year
+8.56% -46.39%
QA
South East

QA
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing QA across the Surrey region as a proportion of the total demand within the Quality Assurance & Compliance category.

Surrey QA Jobs Demand Trend

QA
Daily Rate Trend

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

Surrey QA Daily Rate Trend

QA
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing QA across the Surrey region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Surrey QA Daily Rate Histogram

QA
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing QA across the Surrey region.

Surrey QA Hourly Rate Trend

QA
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing QA within the Surrey region over the 3 months to 24 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
Guildford -8 5 - -
Woking +4 1 £250 -9.90%
Camberley -2 1 £300 +4.34%
Epsom - 1 £350 -
Redhill - 1 £338 -
QA
South East

QA
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Surrey 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 13 (18.31%) Telecoms
2 12 (16.90%) C#
3 11 (15.49%) SOA
3 11 (15.49%) Microsoft
3 11 (15.49%) Validation
4 10 (14.08%) SQL
4 10 (14.08%) Visual Studio
4 10 (14.08%) XML
4 10 (14.08%) Radio Access Network
5 8 (11.27%) .NET
5 8 (11.27%) 3G
5 8 (11.27%) 2G
6 7 (9.859%) Scrum
6 7 (9.859%) Project Management
6 7 (9.859%) ISEB
6 7 (9.859%) SAP
7 6 (8.451%) Ericsson
7 6 (8.451%) Python
7 6 (8.451%) Content Management
7 6 (8.451%) Workflow
7 6 (8.451%) Migration
7 6 (8.451%) Continuous Integration
7 6 (8.451%) PowerShell
7 6 (8.451%) Business Analysis
8 5 (7.042%) WPF
8 5 (7.042%) Team Foundation Server
8 5 (7.042%) MSBuild
8 5 (7.042%) Build Automation
8 5 (7.042%) Publishing
8 5 (7.042%) Finance

QA
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Surrey 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 10 (14.08%) XML
2 8 (11.27%) .NET
3 5 (7.042%) WPF
3 5 (7.042%) HTML
4 4 (5.634%) WCF
5 3 (4.225%) .NET Framework
5 3 (4.225%) jQuery
5 3 (4.225%) SAP Basis
5 3 (4.225%) ASP.NET
6 2 (2.817%) CSS
6 2 (2.817%) XHTML
6 2 (2.817%) Silverlight
7 1 (1.408%) WF
7 1 (1.408%) ASP.NET MVC
7 1 (1.408%) WSDL
7 1 (1.408%) XML Schema
7 1 (1.408%) Web Services
7 1 (1.408%) XSLT
Application Platforms
1 3 (4.225%) SharePoint 2010
1 3 (4.225%) SharePoint
2 2 (2.817%) Oracle Application Server
2 2 (2.817%) CMS
2 2 (2.817%) SharePoint 2013
3 1 (1.408%) Oracle Coherence
3 1 (1.408%) ActiveMQ
3 1 (1.408%) IIS
3 1 (1.408%) Lotus Notes
3 1 (1.408%) Apache
Applications
1 5 (7.042%) MS Excel
2 3 (4.225%) MS PowerPoint
2 3 (4.225%) InfoPath
2 3 (4.225%) Photoshop
2 3 (4.225%) MS Office
3 1 (1.408%) MS Visio
3 1 (1.408%) MS Project
Business Applications
1 1 (1.408%) SAP MII
Communications & Networking
1 10 (14.08%) Radio Access Network
2 8 (11.27%) 3G
2 8 (11.27%) 2G
3 4 (5.634%) RNC
4 2 (2.817%) ATM
4 2 (2.817%) TCP/IP
4 2 (2.817%) Intranet
4 2 (2.817%) SS7
4 2 (2.817%) RANAP
4 2 (2.817%) NBAP
5 1 (1.408%) BSS
5 1 (1.408%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (7.042%) SQL Server
2 3 (4.225%) Oracle 11g
2 3 (4.225%) SQL Server 2008
2 3 (4.225%) BusinessObjects
2 3 (4.225%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (2.817%) Oracle Reports
3 2 (2.817%) Oracle BI EE
4 1 (1.408%) IBM InfoSphere
4 1 (1.408%) Oracle 10g
4 1 (1.408%) RDBMS
4 1 (1.408%) MySQL
4 1 (1.408%) Crystal Reports
Development Applications
1 10 (14.08%) Visual Studio
2 5 (7.042%) Team Foundation Server
2 5 (7.042%) MSBuild
2 5 (7.042%) Ant
3 4 (5.634%) TestDirector
3 4 (5.634%) Subversion
3 4 (5.634%) JIRA
4 2 (2.817%) QuickTest Pro
5 1 (1.408%) QADirector
5 1 (1.408%) Moq
5 1 (1.408%) NUnit
General
1 13 (18.31%) Telecoms
2 5 (7.042%) Publishing
2 5 (7.042%) Finance
3 4 (5.634%) Games
3 4 (5.634%) Marketing
4 3 (4.225%) Automotive
5 2 (2.817%) Financial Institution
6 1 (1.408%) Law
6 1 (1.408%) Legal
6 1 (1.408%) Manufacturing
6 1 (1.408%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 13 (18.31%) Analyst
2 9 (12.68%) Configuration Engineer
3 8 (11.27%) Business Analyst
4 7 (9.859%) Test Manager
5 6 (8.451%) Developer
6 5 (7.042%) Automation Engineer
6 5 (7.042%) Test Analyst
7 4 (5.634%) Test Engineer
7 4 (5.634%) Architect
8 3 (4.225%) SharePoint Developer
8 3 (4.225%) QA Manager
8 3 (4.225%) Solutions Architect
8 3 (4.225%) Quality Manager
8 3 (4.225%) Design Engineer
9 2 (2.817%) SAP Programme Manager
9 2 (2.817%) QA Analyst
9 2 (2.817%) Service Manager
9 2 (2.817%) Senior Analyst
9 2 (2.817%) Oracle DBA
9 2 (2.817%) Siebel Architect
Miscellaneous
1 5 (7.042%) Management Information System
2 2 (2.817%) Computer Science
3 1 (1.408%) Mathematics
3 1 (1.408%) Physics
3 1 (1.408%) Mobile App
3 1 (1.408%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 3 (4.225%) UNIX
2 2 (2.817%) Windows
3 1 (1.408%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (15.49%) SOA
1 11 (15.49%) Validation
2 7 (9.859%) Scrum
2 7 (9.859%) Project Management
3 6 (8.451%) Content Management
3 6 (8.451%) Workflow
3 6 (8.451%) Migration
3 6 (8.451%) Continuous Integration
3 6 (8.451%) Business Analysis
4 5 (7.042%) Build Automation
4 5 (7.042%) Agile Software Development
5 4 (5.634%) CRM
5 4 (5.634%) Business Intelligence
5 4 (5.634%) Automated Testing
5 4 (5.634%) Regression Testing
5 4 (5.634%) Continuous Improvement
5 4 (5.634%) Manual Testing
5 4 (5.634%) SAP Implementation
5 4 (5.634%) Software Testing
6 3 (4.225%) Integration Testing
Programming Languages
1 12 (16.90%) C#
2 10 (14.08%) SQL
3 6 (8.451%) Python
3 6 (8.451%) PowerShell
4 5 (7.042%) Java
4 5 (7.042%) C
5 3 (4.225%) JavaScript
5 3 (4.225%) ABAP
6 2 (2.817%) Perl
6 2 (2.817%) PL/SQL
6 2 (2.817%) Shell Script
7 1 (1.408%) XPath
7 1 (1.408%) sed
7 1 (1.408%) AWK
Qualifications
1 7 (9.859%) ISEB
2 3 (4.225%) Degree
3 2 (2.817%) ISTQB
4 1 (1.408%) HND
System Software
1 1 (1.408%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (5.634%) HP Quality Center
2 1 (1.408%) MOM
Vendors
1 11 (15.49%) Microsoft
2 7 (9.859%) SAP
3 6 (8.451%) Ericsson
4 4 (5.634%) Oracle
4 4 (5.634%) Business Objects
5 2 (2.817%) Siebel
5 2 (2.817%) Planview
6 1 (1.408%) Wonderware
6 1 (1.408%) WSO2
6 1 (1.408%) Perforce
6 1 (1.408%) Teradata
6 1 (1.408%) Nokia
6 1 (1.408%) Lotus
6 1 (1.408%) Adobe
6 1 (1.408%) IBM