QA Contracts in Warwickshire
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Hourly Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for QA skills in IT contracts advertised for the Warwickshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited QA over the 3 months to 21 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 Warwickshire 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
21 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Quality Assurance (QA)
Rank 24 - 19
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing QA 6 0 8
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Warwickshire 2.857% - 3.846%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 37.50% - 50.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 2
Average daily rate £325 - £396
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £350 £363
% change year-on-year
-7.14% -3.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Average hourly rate - - £39.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £26.75 £18.75 £26.25
% change year-on-year
+42.66% -28.57%
All Quality Assurance & Compliance
Warwickshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Quality Assurance & Compliance category		 16 15 16
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Warwickshire 7.619% 6.048% 7.692%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 5 4
Average daily rate £325 £600 £396
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-45.83% +51.41%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £92 £297 £268
10% offered a daily rate of more than £550 £900 £419
UK excluding London average daily rate £345 £350 £375
% change year-on-year
-1.42% -6.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 2
Average hourly rate - £23.86 £25.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -4.56%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £16.35 £30.00
% change year-on-year
+7.03% -45.50%
QA
West Midlands

QA
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Warwickshire 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 Warwickshire region.

Warwickshire QA Daily Rate Trend

QA
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Warwickshire 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 Warwickshire region over the 3 months to 21 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
Kenilworth - 2 £325 -
Leamington Spa - 2 £325 -
Stratford-upon-Avon - 2 £325 -
Warwick - 2 £325 -
QA
West Midlands

QA
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Warwickshire 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 4 (40.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 3 (30.00%) ITIL
2 3 (30.00%) SLA
2 3 (30.00%) SQL Server
2 3 (30.00%) BCP
2 3 (30.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 3 (30.00%) Workflow
2 3 (30.00%) Service Management
2 3 (30.00%) Operations Management
2 3 (30.00%) Problem Management
3 2 (20.00%) Selenium
3 2 (20.00%) Finance
3 2 (20.00%) Migration
3 2 (20.00%) ISEB
3 2 (20.00%) QuickTest Pro
3 2 (20.00%) COBOL
3 2 (20.00%) HTML
3 2 (20.00%) SQL
3 2 (20.00%) VB
3 2 (20.00%) Oracle
3 2 (20.00%) Manual Testing
3 2 (20.00%) System Testing
3 2 (20.00%) Automated Testing
4 1 (10.00%) Test Strategy
4 1 (10.00%) Configuration Management
4 1 (10.00%) XML
4 1 (10.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 1 (10.00%) Content Management
4 1 (10.00%) Process Management
4 1 (10.00%) Change Management

QA
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Warwickshire 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 2 (20.00%) HTML
2 1 (10.00%) XML
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (30.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (20.00%) Selenium
1 2 (20.00%) QuickTest Pro
General
1 2 (20.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 3 (30.00%) Developer
1 3 (30.00%) Operations Manager
1 3 (30.00%) Service Manager
2 2 (20.00%) Systems Test Analyst
2 2 (20.00%) Analyst
2 2 (20.00%) Test Analyst
2 2 (20.00%) Systems Analyst
2 2 (20.00%) Service Operations Manager
3 1 (10.00%) Consultant
3 1 (10.00%) Test Manager
3 1 (10.00%) Programme Manager
3 1 (10.00%) Environment Manager
3 1 (10.00%) Programme Test Manager
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (40.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 3 (30.00%) ITIL
2 3 (30.00%) BCP
2 3 (30.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 3 (30.00%) Workflow
2 3 (30.00%) Service Management
2 3 (30.00%) Operations Management
2 3 (30.00%) Problem Management
3 2 (20.00%) Migration
3 2 (20.00%) Manual Testing
3 2 (20.00%) System Testing
3 2 (20.00%) Automated Testing
4 1 (10.00%) Test Strategy
4 1 (10.00%) Configuration Management
4 1 (10.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 1 (10.00%) Content Management
4 1 (10.00%) Process Management
4 1 (10.00%) Change Management
4 1 (10.00%) Matrix Management
4 1 (10.00%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 2 (20.00%) COBOL
1 2 (20.00%) SQL
1 2 (20.00%) VB
Qualifications
1 2 (20.00%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (30.00%) SLA
Vendors
1 2 (20.00%) Oracle
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