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QA Contracts in West Yorkshire
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills
Browse 28 QA job vacancies in West Yorkshire

The first table below looks at the demand for QA skills in IT contracts advertised for the West Yorkshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited QA over the 3 months to 19 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 of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category for the West Yorkshire 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
19 Jun 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Quality Assurance (QA)
Rank 59 53 49
Rank change year-on-year
-6 -4
Contract jobs citing QA 37 45 34
As % of all contract IT jobs located in West Yorkshire 2.697% 2.586% 2.833%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 35.24% 45.45% 47.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 18 21
Average daily rate £325 £313 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+4.00% -21.77%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £230 £219 £288
10% offered a daily rate of more than £400 £475 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £338 £325 £389
% change year-on-year
+3.84% -16.39%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 3
Average hourly rate £12.25 £15.50 £12.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-20.96% +29.16%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.25 £15.50 £11.85
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.25 £15.50 £18.40
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.75 £25.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year
-32.99% -16.66%
All Quality Assurance & Compliance
West Yorkshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Quality Assurance & Compliance category		 105 99 71
As % of all contract IT jobs located in West Yorkshire 7.653% 5.690% 5.917%
Number of daily rates quoted 50 44 40
Average daily rate £315 £365 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-13.69% -2.66%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £230 £214 £163
10% offered a daily rate of more than £428 £475 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £388
% change year-on-year
- -9.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 10 13
Average hourly rate £14.50 £12.50 £11.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+16.00% +13.63%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.75 £10.95 £7.47
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £16.90 £23.06 £18.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £18.25 £16.72 £30.00
% change year-on-year
+9.15% -44.26%
QA
Yorkshire

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Jobs Demand Trend

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

West Yorkshire QA Jobs Demand Trend

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Daily Rate Trend

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

West Yorkshire QA Daily Rate Trend

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Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing QA across the West Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

West Yorkshire QA Daily Rate Histogram

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Hourly Rate Trend

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

West Yorkshire QA Hourly Rate Trend

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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 West Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 19 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
Leeds -11 15 £288 -29.87% 19
Halifax +10 7 £375 -25.00% 1
Bradford +1 7 £319 +44.88% 3
Pudsey - 3 - -
Wakefield - - - - 2
Huddersfield - - - -
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Yorkshire

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Yorkshire 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 16 (21.05%) Finance
2 15 (19.74%) .NET
3 14 (18.42%) SQL
4 11 (14.47%) C#
4 11 (14.47%) Agile Software Development
5 10 (13.16%) Oracle
6 9 (11.84%) Management Information System
6 9 (11.84%) Selenium
6 9 (11.84%) User Acceptance Testing
7 8 (10.53%) Software Testing
7 8 (10.53%) Test Management
7 8 (10.53%) WebDriver
7 8 (10.53%) Migration
7 8 (10.53%) Retail
7 8 (10.53%) MS Office
7 8 (10.53%) Visual Studio
7 8 (10.53%) XML
7 8 (10.53%) Microsoft
8 7 (9.211%) Project Management
8 7 (9.211%) SOA
8 7 (9.211%) Scrum
9 6 (7.895%) Stakeholder Management
9 6 (7.895%) Business Intelligence
9 6 (7.895%) Configuration Management
9 6 (7.895%) PRINCE2
9 6 (7.895%) Windows
9 6 (7.895%) Manual Testing
9 6 (7.895%) Test Automation
10 5 (6.579%) HP Quality Center
10 5 (6.579%) JIRA

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Yorkshire 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 15 (19.74%) .NET
2 8 (10.53%) XML
3 4 (5.263%) Middleware
3 4 (5.263%) HTML
3 4 (5.263%) Web Services
4 3 (3.947%) Gherkin
4 3 (3.947%) REST
4 3 (3.947%) Java EE
4 3 (3.947%) SOAP
4 3 (3.947%) ASP
4 3 (3.947%) LAMP
5 2 (2.632%) ASP.NET
5 2 (2.632%) WPF
6 1 (1.316%) soapUI
6 1 (1.316%) WCF
6 1 (1.316%) Ajax
6 1 (1.316%) SAP Basis
Application Platforms
1 5 (6.579%) SharePoint
2 4 (5.263%) Apache
3 3 (3.947%) SharePoint 2010
3 3 (3.947%) ESB
4 1 (1.316%) IIS
Applications
1 8 (10.53%) MS Office
2 5 (6.579%) MS Excel
3 1 (1.316%) MS PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (1.316%) SAP FSCM
Communications & Networking
1 4 (5.263%) HTTP
1 4 (5.263%) SAN
1 4 (5.263%) Internet
2 1 (1.316%) DVB
2 1 (1.316%) RTSP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (5.263%) SQL Server
2 3 (3.947%) Oracle BI EE
2 3 (3.947%) MySQL
3 2 (2.632%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (1.316%) Oracle 11g
4 1 (1.316%) SQL Server 2005
4 1 (1.316%) Oracle 8/8i
4 1 (1.316%) Oracle Reports
4 1 (1.316%) SAP BI
4 1 (1.316%) PowerCenter
4 1 (1.316%) MS Access
4 1 (1.316%) MOLAP
4 1 (1.316%) RDBMS
4 1 (1.316%) ROLAP
4 1 (1.316%) Star Schema
4 1 (1.316%) GIS
4 1 (1.316%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 9 (11.84%) Selenium
2 8 (10.53%) WebDriver
2 8 (10.53%) Visual Studio
3 5 (6.579%) JIRA
4 3 (3.947%) SpecFlow
4 3 (3.947%) TeamCity
4 3 (3.947%) Cucumber
4 3 (3.947%) MSI
5 2 (2.632%) NUnit
5 2 (2.632%) Visual Studio Team System
6 1 (1.316%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 16 (21.05%) Finance
2 8 (10.53%) Retail
3 5 (6.579%) Banking
4 3 (3.947%) Online Betting
4 3 (3.947%) Games
5 1 (1.316%) Pharmaceutical
5 1 (1.316%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 24 (31.58%) Analyst
2 11 (14.47%) Architect
3 10 (13.16%) Test Analyst
4 9 (11.84%) Solutions Architect
5 7 (9.211%) Business Analyst
6 6 (7.895%) Tester
7 5 (6.579%) Developer
7 5 (6.579%) Test Manager
8 4 (5.263%) AIX Administrator
8 4 (5.263%) Administrator
8 4 (5.263%) Quality Manager
8 4 (5.263%) QA Manager
9 3 (3.947%) Agile Tester
9 3 (3.947%) Project Manager
9 3 (3.947%) Technical Architect
9 3 (3.947%) QA Analyst
9 3 (3.947%) QA Test Analyst
9 3 (3.947%) Contracts Manager
10 2 (2.632%) Release Manager
10 2 (2.632%) Change Manager
Miscellaneous
1 9 (11.84%) Management Information System
2 4 (5.263%) HACMP
2 4 (5.263%) LPAR
2 4 (5.263%) DLPAR
3 3 (3.947%) Enterprise Software
3 3 (3.947%) Clustering
4 2 (2.632%) IVR
5 1 (1.316%) Data Conversion
5 1 (1.316%) Video on Demand
5 1 (1.316%) Statistics
5 1 (1.316%) Online Banking
5 1 (1.316%) Credit Risk
5 1 (1.316%) IPTV
5 1 (1.316%) Computer Science
5 1 (1.316%) CMDB
5 1 (1.316%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 6 (7.895%) Windows
2 5 (6.579%) UNIX
3 4 (5.263%) AIX
3 4 (5.263%) Linux
4 1 (1.316%) CentOS
4 1 (1.316%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (14.47%) Agile Software Development
2 9 (11.84%) User Acceptance Testing
3 8 (10.53%) Software Testing
3 8 (10.53%) Test Management
3 8 (10.53%) Migration
4 7 (9.211%) Project Management
4 7 (9.211%) SOA
4 7 (9.211%) Scrum
5 6 (7.895%) Stakeholder Management
5 6 (7.895%) Business Intelligence
5 6 (7.895%) Configuration Management
5 6 (7.895%) PRINCE2
5 6 (7.895%) Manual Testing
5 6 (7.895%) Test Automation
6 5 (6.579%) UML
7 4 (5.263%) Quality Management
7 4 (5.263%) Performance Testing
7 4 (5.263%) Release Management
7 4 (5.263%) Technical Architecture
7 4 (5.263%) Integration Testing
Programming Languages
1 14 (18.42%) SQL
2 11 (14.47%) C#
3 5 (6.579%) PHP
3 5 (6.579%) VB
4 4 (5.263%) Shell Script
5 3 (3.947%) VBA
5 3 (3.947%) Java
6 2 (2.632%) VB6
6 2 (2.632%) VB.NET
6 2 (2.632%) T-SQL
7 1 (1.316%) PL/SQL
7 1 (1.316%) C
Qualifications
1 3 (3.947%) ISEB
1 3 (3.947%) ITIL Certification
2 1 (1.316%) SC Cleared
2 1 (1.316%) Security Cleared
2 1 (1.316%) ISTQB
2 1 (1.316%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.947%) ISO 9001
2 1 (1.316%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.316%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 3 (3.947%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (6.579%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 10 (13.16%) Oracle
2 8 (10.53%) Microsoft
3 4 (5.263%) IBM
4 3 (3.947%) VMware
5 2 (2.632%) HP
6 1 (1.316%) SAP
6 1 (1.316%) Informatica
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