QA Leader Contracts
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for the QA Leader role in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited QA Leader in their job title over the 3 months to 20 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 currently tracked.

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
20 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Quality Assurance Lead
Rank 524 529 555
Rank change year-on-year
+5 +26
Contract jobs requiring a QA Leader 9 44 33
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.019% 0.075% 0.055%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.021% 0.081% 0.059%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 35 26
Average daily rate £363 £413 £425
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-12.12% -2.94%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £277 £345 £350
10% offered a daily rate of more than £416 £495 £488
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £388 £375
% change year-on-year
-9.67% +3.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Job Titles
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category		 42921 54032 55868
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 92.24% 92.62% 92.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 24602 29796 30366
Average daily rate £400 £400 £425
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -5.88%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £238 £240 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £575 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 2138 2561 2889
Average hourly rate £18.53 £18.75 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-1.20% -6.25%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.00 £11.00 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £41.74 £40.00 £41.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%

QA Leader
Jobs Demand Trend

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

QA Leader Jobs Demand Trend

QA Leader
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing QA Leader within the UK.

QA Leader Daily Rate Trend

QA Leader
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing QA Leader within the UK over the 3 months to 20 May 2013.

QA Leader Daily Rate Histogram

QA Leader
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing QA Leader within the UK.

QA Leader Hourly Rate Trend

QA Leader
Top 13 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing QA Leader within the UK over the 3 months to 20 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
England +29 9 £363 -12.12%
London +1 5 £400 -5.88%
South East +21 2 £338 -10.11%
City of London +15 2 £323 -14.00%
East Midlands -6 1 £363 -6.45%
Nottinghamshire -8 1 £363 -6.45%
Nottingham -11 1 £363 -7.93%
Oxford - 1 £325 -
Dorset - 1 - -
Middlesex - 1 £350 -
Oxfordshire - 1 £325 -
South West - 1 - -
Bournemouth - 1 - -

QA Leader
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK that cited QA Leader 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 Leader in their job title.

1 29 (100.00%) QA
2 10 (34.48%) Selenium
3 9 (31.03%) Finance
4 8 (27.59%) Java
4 8 (27.59%) Agile Software Development
4 8 (27.59%) Automated Testing
5 6 (20.69%) Software Testing
5 6 (20.69%) WebDriver
5 6 (20.69%) BDD
6 5 (17.24%) Project Management
6 5 (17.24%) TestNG
6 5 (17.24%) Test Automation
6 5 (17.24%) JIRA
6 5 (17.24%) Test Scripting
6 5 (17.24%) Manual Testing
7 4 (13.79%) Continuous Integration
7 4 (13.79%) Maven
7 4 (13.79%) RESTful
7 4 (13.79%) Cucumber
7 4 (13.79%) ISEB
7 4 (13.79%) SQL
7 4 (13.79%) JUnit
7 4 (13.79%) UNIX
7 4 (13.79%) HTTPS
8 3 (10.34%) C++
8 3 (10.34%) Windows
8 3 (10.34%) ActionScript
8 3 (10.34%) Oracle
8 3 (10.34%) Test Strategy
8 3 (10.34%) ActionScript 2.0

QA Leader
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK that cited QA Leader 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 Leader in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 4 (13.79%) RESTful
2 2 (6.897%) XML
3 1 (3.448%) ODBC
3 1 (3.448%) Middleware
3 1 (3.448%) MDX
3 1 (3.448%) JDBC
3 1 (3.448%) Web Services
Application Platforms
1 1 (3.448%) WebLogic
Applications
1 2 (6.897%) MS Project
1 2 (6.897%) MS Office
1 2 (6.897%) MS Excel
2 1 (3.448%) MS Visio
2 1 (3.448%) MS PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (3.448%) VisionPLUS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (13.79%) HTTPS
2 1 (3.448%) FTP
2 1 (3.448%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (6.897%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (3.448%) TOAD
2 1 (3.448%) Microsoft Analysis Services
2 1 (3.448%) SQL Server Analysis Services
2 1 (3.448%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 10 (34.48%) Selenium
2 6 (20.69%) WebDriver
3 5 (17.24%) TestNG
3 5 (17.24%) JIRA
4 4 (13.79%) Maven
4 4 (13.79%) Cucumber
4 4 (13.79%) JUnit
5 2 (6.897%) WatiN
6 1 (3.448%) JProfiler
6 1 (3.448%) Visual Studio
6 1 (3.448%) TestDirector
6 1 (3.448%) QuickTest Pro
6 1 (3.448%) LoadRunner
6 1 (3.448%) JProbe
6 1 (3.448%) Introscope
6 1 (3.448%) JMeter
General
1 9 (31.03%) Finance
2 2 (6.897%) Manufacturing
2 2 (6.897%) Publishing
2 2 (6.897%) Banking
3 1 (3.448%) Investment Banking
3 1 (3.448%) Marketing
3 1 (3.448%) Pharmaceutical
3 1 (3.448%) Back Office
Miscellaneous
1 2 (6.897%) Fat Client
1 2 (6.897%) Thin Client
2 1 (3.448%) Blackberry
2 1 (3.448%) Spread Betting
2 1 (3.448%) iPhone
2 1 (3.448%) Open Source
2 1 (3.448%) iPad
2 1 (3.448%) SWIFT
Operating Systems
1 4 (13.79%) UNIX
2 3 (10.34%) Windows
3 2 (6.897%) OpenVMS
3 2 (6.897%) Android
3 2 (6.897%) Apple iOS
4 1 (3.448%) Solaris
4 1 (3.448%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (27.59%) Agile Software Development
1 8 (27.59%) Automated Testing
2 6 (20.69%) Software Testing
2 6 (20.69%) BDD
3 5 (17.24%) Manual Testing
3 5 (17.24%) Test Automation
3 5 (17.24%) Test Scripting
3 5 (17.24%) Project Management
4 4 (13.79%) Continuous Integration
5 3 (10.34%) Test Management
5 3 (10.34%) User Acceptance Testing
5 3 (10.34%) Test Strategy
6 2 (6.897%) Root Cause Analysis
6 2 (6.897%) Load Testing
6 2 (6.897%) Business Intelligence
6 2 (6.897%) SOA
6 2 (6.897%) Scrum
7 1 (3.448%) Risk Assessment
7 1 (3.448%) TDD
7 1 (3.448%) Requirements Analysis
Programming Languages
1 8 (27.59%) Java
2 4 (13.79%) SQL
3 3 (10.34%) ActionScript
3 3 (10.34%) C++
3 3 (10.34%) ActionScript 2.0
4 2 (6.897%) Fortran
4 2 (6.897%) C
5 1 (3.448%) C#
5 1 (3.448%) VB
5 1 (3.448%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 4 (13.79%) ISEB
2 2 (6.897%) Degree
3 1 (3.448%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (100.00%) QA
2 1 (3.448%) GMP
System Software
1 2 (6.897%) XenApp
1 2 (6.897%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 2 (6.897%) HP Quality Center
2 1 (3.448%) HP SiteScope
Vendors
1 3 (10.34%) Oracle
1 3 (10.34%) HP
2 2 (6.897%) Citrix
2 2 (6.897%) Microsoft
3 1 (3.448%) SAP
3 1 (3.448%) Cognos
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