The first table below looks at the demand for the QA Test Analyst 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 Test Analyst in their job title over the 3 months to 20 June 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 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Quality Assurance Test Analyst
Rank 505 538 556
Rank change year-on-year
+33 +18
Contract jobs requiring a QA Test Analyst 36 41 34
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.074% 0.072% 0.055%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.080% 0.078% 0.059%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 17 18
Average daily rate £400 £375 £306
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+6.66% +22.44%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £248 £246 £275
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £470 £514
UK excluding London average daily rate £340 £275 £350
% change year-on-year
+23.63% -21.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Average hourly rate - £20.00 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £20.00 -
All Job Titles
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
45063 52855 57510
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 92.16% 92.46% 92.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 25972 29220 31540
Average daily rate £400 £400 £420
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -4.76%
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 2142 2525 2941
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 £41.77 £40.00 £42.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%

QA Test Analyst
Jobs Demand Trend

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

QA Test Analyst Jobs Demand Trend

QA Test Analyst
Daily Rate Trend

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

QA Test Analyst Daily Rate Trend

QA Test Analyst
Daily Rate Histogram

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

QA Test Analyst Daily Rate Histogram

QA Test Analyst
Hourly Rate Trend

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

QA Test Analyst Hourly Rate Trend

QA Test Analyst
Top 30 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing QA Test Analyst within the UK over the 3 months to 20 June 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
Find
Job
Vacancies
England +21 30 £406 +8.33% 16
London +14 22 £425 +4.61% 11
City of London -2 13 £425 +3.03% 3
South East +24 5 £288 -11.53% 2
Scotland - 5 £350 -
Brighton - 3 - -
East Sussex - 3 - -
Berkshire +11 2 £288 -23.33% 1
Glasgow - 2 £400 -
Wales +7 1 £350 +27.27%
South Wales 0 1 £350 +27.27%
South West - 1 - -
North West - 1 - - 1
Manchester - 1 - - 1
Newbury - 1 £288 -
Newcastle upon Tyne - - - -
Newport - - - -
Redditch - - - -
Reigate - - - -
Stratford-upon-Avon - - - -
Swansea - - - -
Warwick - - - -
Winchester - - - -
Woking - - - -
York - - - - 1
Gloucestershire - - - -
Hampshire - - - -
North Yorkshire - - - - 1
Suffolk - - - -
Surrey - - - - 1

QA Test Analyst
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 87 (100.00%) QA
2 36 (41.38%) SQL
3 27 (31.03%) Finance
4 18 (20.69%) Derivative
5 17 (19.54%) Selenium
6 16 (18.39%) Banking
7 15 (17.24%) .NET
7 15 (17.24%) Test Automation
8 14 (16.09%) Microsoft
8 14 (16.09%) Scrum
9 13 (14.94%) Software Testing
9 13 (14.94%) Regression Testing
10 12 (13.79%) ISEB
10 12 (13.79%) Agile Software Development
10 12 (13.79%) TDD
10 12 (13.79%) Credit Derivative
11 11 (12.64%) JIRA
11 11 (12.64%) C#
11 11 (12.64%) BDD
11 11 (12.64%) Manual Testing
12 10 (11.49%) Data Warehouse
12 10 (11.49%) QuickTest Pro
13 9 (10.34%) Risk Management
13 9 (10.34%) XML
13 9 (10.34%) UNIX
13 9 (10.34%) Investment Banking
13 9 (10.34%) Test Scripting
13 9 (10.34%) Performance Testing
13 9 (10.34%) Cucumber
14 8 (9.195%) HP Quality Center

QA Test Analyst
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 15 (17.24%) .NET
2 9 (10.34%) XML
3 4 (4.598%) HTML
3 4 (4.598%) JSON
3 4 (4.598%) MDX
4 3 (3.448%) CSS
4 3 (3.448%) XML Schema
4 3 (3.448%) RESTful
5 2 (2.299%) Drools
5 2 (2.299%) XSLT
5 2 (2.299%) Ruby on Rails
6 1 (1.149%) FIX Protocol
6 1 (1.149%) .NET Framework
6 1 (1.149%) JNI
6 1 (1.149%) SOAP
6 1 (1.149%) Web Services
6 1 (1.149%) soapUI
Application Platforms
1 5 (5.747%) TIBCO EMS
2 3 (3.448%) Confluence
3 2 (2.299%) SharePoint 2010
3 2 (2.299%) SharePoint
4 1 (1.149%) Oracle Coherence
4 1 (1.149%) CMS
4 1 (1.149%) Drupal
Applications
1 2 (2.299%) MS PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (2.299%) SunGard APT
Communications & Networking
1 6 (6.897%) TCP/IP
2 2 (2.299%) Broadband
3 1 (1.149%) Internet
3 1 (1.149%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (11.49%) Data Warehouse
2 8 (9.195%) SQL Server
3 4 (4.598%) Microsoft Analysis Services
4 1 (1.149%) RDBMS
4 1 (1.149%) TOAD
Development Applications
1 17 (19.54%) Selenium
2 11 (12.64%) JIRA
3 10 (11.49%) QuickTest Pro
4 9 (10.34%) Cucumber
5 6 (6.897%) FitNesse
6 5 (5.747%) SpecFlow
7 4 (4.598%) WebDriver
7 4 (4.598%) Maven
8 3 (3.448%) Subversion
8 3 (3.448%) Ant
8 3 (3.448%) Visual Studio
8 3 (3.448%) Jenkins
9 2 (2.299%) Team Foundation Server
9 2 (2.299%) Git (software)
9 2 (2.299%) QADirector
9 2 (2.299%) TestComplete
9 2 (2.299%) Eclipse
9 2 (2.299%) JUnit
9 2 (2.299%) LoadRunner
10 1 (1.149%) TestDirector
General
1 27 (31.03%) Finance
2 16 (18.39%) Banking
3 9 (10.34%) Investment Banking
4 6 (6.897%) Front Office
5 4 (4.598%) Law
5 4 (4.598%) Telecoms
6 2 (2.299%) Legal
6 2 (2.299%) Games
7 1 (1.149%) Retail
7 1 (1.149%) Publishing
7 1 (1.149%) Back Office
Miscellaneous
1 18 (20.69%) Derivative
2 12 (13.79%) Credit Derivative
3 5 (5.747%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 5 (5.747%) Credit Risk
3 5 (5.747%) Market Risk
4 4 (4.598%) Mobile App
4 4 (4.598%) Open Source
5 3 (3.448%) Statistics
5 3 (3.448%) Equities
6 2 (2.299%) Digital Media
6 2 (2.299%) Client/Server
6 2 (2.299%) Management Information System
6 2 (2.299%) Mathematics
6 2 (2.299%) Physics
6 2 (2.299%) Computer Science
7 1 (1.149%) Equity Derivative
7 1 (1.149%) Blackberry
7 1 (1.149%) Data Integration
7 1 (1.149%) Social Media
7 1 (1.149%) Social Gaming
Operating Systems
1 9 (10.34%) UNIX
2 4 (4.598%) Linux
3 2 (2.299%) Apple iOS
3 2 (2.299%) Android
3 2 (2.299%) Windows
4 1 (1.149%) Windows Mobile
4 1 (1.149%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (17.24%) Test Automation
2 14 (16.09%) Scrum
3 13 (14.94%) Software Testing
3 13 (14.94%) Regression Testing
4 12 (13.79%) Agile Software Development
4 12 (13.79%) TDD
5 11 (12.64%) BDD
5 11 (12.64%) Manual Testing
6 9 (10.34%) Risk Management
6 9 (10.34%) Test Scripting
6 9 (10.34%) Performance Testing
7 8 (9.195%) User Acceptance Testing
8 7 (8.046%) Data Modelling
8 7 (8.046%) Stress Testing
8 7 (8.046%) Integration Testing
8 7 (8.046%) Analytics
9 6 (6.897%) E-Commerce
9 6 (6.897%) Asset Management
10 5 (5.747%) Automated Testing
10 5 (5.747%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 36 (41.38%) SQL
2 11 (12.64%) C#
3 7 (8.046%) Java
4 6 (6.897%) PowerShell
4 6 (6.897%) Ruby
5 5 (5.747%) Shell Script
6 4 (4.598%) JavaScript
7 3 (3.448%) XPath
7 3 (3.448%) Python
8 2 (2.299%) Bash shell
9 1 (1.149%) Objective-C
9 1 (1.149%) PHP
9 1 (1.149%) Delphi
9 1 (1.149%) VBScript
9 1 (1.149%) VB
9 1 (1.149%) VBA
Qualifications
1 12 (13.79%) ISEB
2 5 (5.747%) ISTQB
3 1 (1.149%) Degree
3 1 (1.149%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 87 (100.00%) QA
2 5 (5.747%) Basel III
Systems Management
1 8 (9.195%) HP Quality Center
2 1 (1.149%) SCCM
2 1 (1.149%) SCOM
Vendors
1 14 (16.09%) Microsoft
2 8 (9.195%) Oracle
3 6 (6.897%) HP
4 5 (5.747%) TIBCO
5 2 (2.299%) Sitecore
5 2 (2.299%) Sun
5 2 (2.299%) SunGard
6 1 (1.149%) Sage
6 1 (1.149%) SAP
City of London
My Client, a leading investment bank, is looking for a Quality Assurance Test Analyst to join their team. Candidate should have good knowledge of/experience with:- - Performing analysis...
Huxley Associates
Posted: 19 June 2013
London
Title: QA / Automation Test Analyst Key Skills: Agile / Scrum experience Test Automation experience .Net / C# experience (Dot Net)Test Driven Development / TDD / BDD / DDD Any experience with (SpecFlow)...
Huxley Associates
Rate: £350 - £450 per day
Posted: 11 June 2013
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