The first table below looks at the demand for QA skills in IT contracts advertised for the Woking 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 Woking 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 17 10 10
Rank change year-on-year
-7 0
Contract jobs citing QA 1 3 4
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Woking 1.449% 5.085% 8.696%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 50.00% 75.00% 57.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 1
Average daily rate £250 £280 £335
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-10.71% -16.41%
UK excluding London average daily rate £338 £325 £389
% change year-on-year
+3.84% -16.39%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.75 £25.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year
-32.99% -16.66%
All Quality Assurance & Compliance
Woking
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Quality Assurance & Compliance category
2 4 7
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Woking 2.899% 6.780% 15.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 4
Average daily rate £213 £280 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-24.10% -13.84%
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £388
% change year-on-year
- -9.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £18.25 £16.72 £30.00
% change year-on-year
+9.15% -44.26%
QA
Surrey

QA
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Woking 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 Woking region.

Woking QA Daily Rate Trend

QA
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Woking 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 3 (60.00%) C#
1 3 (60.00%) Visual Studio
1 3 (60.00%) XML
1 3 (60.00%) ISEB
1 3 (60.00%) Scrum
1 3 (60.00%) Software Testing
1 3 (60.00%) WPF
2 2 (40.00%) Team Foundation Server
2 2 (40.00%) BDD
2 2 (40.00%) SQL
3 1 (20.00%) ABAP
3 1 (20.00%) SQL Server
3 1 (20.00%) Business Objects
3 1 (20.00%) SAP
3 1 (20.00%) Java
3 1 (20.00%) Project Management
3 1 (20.00%) CRM
3 1 (20.00%) EAI
3 1 (20.00%) Business Intelligence
3 1 (20.00%) BusinessObjects
3 1 (20.00%) Workflow
3 1 (20.00%) Automotive
3 1 (20.00%) Law
3 1 (20.00%) Legal
3 1 (20.00%) Publishing
3 1 (20.00%) Migration
3 1 (20.00%) ISTQB
3 1 (20.00%) SAP Basis
3 1 (20.00%) SAP Implementation
3 1 (20.00%) System Testing

QA
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Woking 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 3 (60.00%) XML
1 3 (60.00%) WPF
2 1 (20.00%) SAP Basis
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) SQL Server
1 1 (20.00%) BusinessObjects
Development Applications
1 3 (60.00%) Visual Studio
2 2 (40.00%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 1 (20.00%) Automotive
1 1 (20.00%) Law
1 1 (20.00%) Legal
1 1 (20.00%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Analyst
1 3 (60.00%) Test Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) Test Analyst
3 1 (20.00%) Business Analyst
3 1 (20.00%) Tester
3 1 (20.00%) Systems Tester
3 1 (20.00%) QA Tester
3 1 (20.00%) QA Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) QA Analyst
3 1 (20.00%) Testing Analyst
3 1 (20.00%) Agile Test Analyst
3 1 (20.00%) Testing Engineer
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Scrum
1 3 (60.00%) Software Testing
2 2 (40.00%) BDD
3 1 (20.00%) Project Management
3 1 (20.00%) CRM
3 1 (20.00%) EAI
3 1 (20.00%) Business Intelligence
3 1 (20.00%) Workflow
3 1 (20.00%) Migration
3 1 (20.00%) SAP Implementation
3 1 (20.00%) System Testing
3 1 (20.00%) Data Migration
Programming Languages
1 3 (60.00%) C#
2 2 (40.00%) SQL
3 1 (20.00%) ABAP
3 1 (20.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 3 (60.00%) ISEB
2 1 (20.00%) ISTQB
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Business Objects
1 1 (20.00%) SAP