QA Manager 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 Manager 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 Manager in their job title 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 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
24 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Quality Assurance Manager
Rank 502 566 547
Rank change year-on-year
+64 -19
Contract jobs requiring a QA Manager 27 18 37
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.058% 0.031% 0.061%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.063% 0.033% 0.065%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 12 24
Average daily rate £500 £375 £450
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+33.33% -16.66%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £380 £350 £306
10% offered a daily rate of more than £550 £474 £550
UK excluding London average daily rate £500 £450 £369
% change year-on-year
+11.11% +22.03%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
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UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category		 42733 53947 56601
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 92.11% 92.50% 92.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 24507 29722 30764
Average daily rate £400 £400 £425
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -5.88%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £240 £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 2112 2572 2930
Average hourly rate £18.50 £18.50 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -7.50%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.00 £11.00 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £41.50 £40.00 £41.38
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%

QA Manager
Jobs Demand Trend

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

QA Manager Jobs Demand Trend

QA Manager
Daily Rate Trend

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

QA Manager Daily Rate Trend

QA Manager
Daily Rate Histogram

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

QA Manager Daily Rate Histogram

QA Manager
Hourly Rate Trend

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

QA Manager Hourly Rate Trend

QA Manager
Top 22 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing QA Manager within the UK 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
England +53 25 £500 +33.33%
London +45 12 £450 +28.57%
East of England +21 5 £650 +73.33%
Cambridgeshire +15 4 - -
Northamptonshire +12 4 £525 +16.66%
East Midlands -4 4 £525 +16.66%
City of London - 4 £500 -
Northampton +7 2 £500 +11.11%
South East - 2 £344 -
West Yorkshire -2 1 £400 -
Yorkshire -3 1 £400 -
South West - 1 - -
Oxfordshire - 1 £288 -
Hertfordshire - 1 £650 -
Dorset - 1 - -
Milton Keynes - 1 £400 -
Buckinghamshire - 1 £400 -
Watford - 1 £650 -
Oxford - 1 £288 -
Hounslow - 1 - -
Bradford - 1 £400 -
Bournemouth - 1 - -

QA Manager
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK that cited QA Manager 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 Manager in their job title.

1 63 (100.00%) QA
2 19 (30.16%) Project Management
3 18 (28.57%) Test Management
4 16 (25.40%) SOA
5 15 (23.81%) HP Quality Center
5 15 (23.81%) Scrum
6 14 (22.22%) Risk Management
6 14 (22.22%) CMMI
7 13 (20.63%) PRINCE2
7 13 (20.63%) Fixed Income
7 13 (20.63%) IT Governance
8 12 (19.05%) Banking
8 12 (19.05%) Portfolio Management
8 12 (19.05%) UML
8 12 (19.05%) RUP
8 12 (19.05%) QuickTest Pro
8 12 (19.05%) PMI
8 12 (19.05%) PMI Certification
9 11 (17.46%) Regression Testing
9 11 (17.46%) Configuration Management
9 11 (17.46%) MS Excel
9 11 (17.46%) ITIL
9 11 (17.46%) Performance Management
9 11 (17.46%) Software Testing
9 11 (17.46%) Finance
9 11 (17.46%) Process Improvement
10 10 (15.87%) Project Governance
10 10 (15.87%) Equities
10 10 (15.87%) Programme Management
10 10 (15.87%) Six Sigma Black Belt

QA Manager
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK that cited QA Manager 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 Manager in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 3 (4.762%) XML
2 2 (3.175%) Middleware
3 1 (1.587%) ODBC
3 1 (1.587%) .NET
3 1 (1.587%) JDBC
3 1 (1.587%) Web Services
Application Platforms
1 3 (4.762%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.587%) Documentum
2 1 (1.587%) WebLogic
Applications
1 11 (17.46%) MS Excel
2 10 (15.87%) MS Project
2 10 (15.87%) MS Visio
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.175%) HTTP
2 1 (1.587%) FTP
2 1 (1.587%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.587%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (1.587%) TOAD
1 1 (1.587%) DataStage
Development Applications
1 12 (19.05%) QuickTest Pro
2 6 (9.524%) JIRA
3 5 (7.937%) Selenium
4 3 (4.762%) WatiN
4 3 (4.762%) TestDirector
5 1 (1.587%) JProfiler
5 1 (1.587%) Cucumber
5 1 (1.587%) Team Foundation Server
5 1 (1.587%) JProbe
5 1 (1.587%) Introscope
5 1 (1.587%) Visual Studio
5 1 (1.587%) LoadRunner
5 1 (1.587%) ClearQuest
General
1 12 (19.05%) Banking
2 11 (17.46%) Finance
3 4 (6.349%) Investment Banking
4 3 (4.762%) Retail
4 3 (4.762%) Telecoms
4 3 (4.762%) Manufacturing
5 2 (3.175%) Publishing
5 2 (3.175%) Legal
6 1 (1.587%) Online Betting
6 1 (1.587%) Automotive
6 1 (1.587%) Games
6 1 (1.587%) Pharmaceutical
Miscellaneous
1 13 (20.63%) Fixed Income
2 12 (19.05%) PMI
3 10 (15.87%) Equities
4 2 (3.175%) Life Science
5 1 (1.587%) Online Gambling
5 1 (1.587%) Spread Betting
5 1 (1.587%) Pharmacovigilance
5 1 (1.587%) SWIFT
5 1 (1.587%) Online Banking
5 1 (1.587%) E-Learning
5 1 (1.587%) EPoS
Operating Systems
1 3 (4.762%) OpenVMS
2 2 (3.175%) Windows
3 1 (1.587%) Windows 7
3 1 (1.587%) Solaris
3 1 (1.587%) Linux
3 1 (1.587%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (30.16%) Project Management
2 18 (28.57%) Test Management
3 16 (25.40%) SOA
4 15 (23.81%) Scrum
5 14 (22.22%) Risk Management
5 14 (22.22%) CMMI
6 13 (20.63%) PRINCE2
6 13 (20.63%) IT Governance
7 12 (19.05%) Portfolio Management
7 12 (19.05%) UML
7 12 (19.05%) RUP
8 11 (17.46%) Regression Testing
8 11 (17.46%) Configuration Management
8 11 (17.46%) ITIL
8 11 (17.46%) Performance Management
8 11 (17.46%) Software Testing
8 11 (17.46%) Process Improvement
9 10 (15.87%) Project Governance
9 10 (15.87%) Programme Management
9 10 (15.87%) Six Sigma
Programming Languages
1 4 (6.349%) C++
2 3 (4.762%) Java
2 3 (4.762%) Fortran
3 1 (1.587%) SQL
3 1 (1.587%) VB
3 1 (1.587%) C
3 1 (1.587%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 12 (19.05%) PMI Certification
2 10 (15.87%) Six Sigma Black Belt
3 3 (4.762%) Degree
3 3 (4.762%) HND
4 2 (3.175%) ISEB
5 1 (1.587%) ISTQB
5 1 (1.587%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 63 (100.00%) QA
2 10 (15.87%) COBIT
3 1 (1.587%) GCP
3 1 (1.587%) ISO 9001
Systems Management
1 15 (23.81%) HP Quality Center
2 1 (1.587%) HP SiteScope
Vendors
1 10 (15.87%) Niku
1 10 (15.87%) Microsoft
2 5 (7.937%) HP
2 5 (7.937%) Oracle
3 1 (1.587%) Cognos
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