Test Analyst Contracts in Bedfordshire
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Hourly Rate Trend Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for the Test Analyst role in IT contracts advertised for the Bedfordshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Test Analyst 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 advertised for the Bedfordshire 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
24 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Test Analyst
Rank - 26 27
Contract jobs requiring a Test Analyst 0 6 15
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Bedfordshire - 2.206% 5.172%
As % of the Job Titles category - 2.381% 5.576%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 3 6
Average daily rate - £250 £330
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -24.24%
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £300 £300
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £25.00 £17.50 £27.50
% change year-on-year
+42.85% -36.36%
All Job Titles
Bedfordshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category		 182 252 269
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Bedfordshire 95.79% 92.65% 92.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 115 124 127
Average daily rate £350 £363 £323
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-3.44% +12.40%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £188 £225 £195
10% offered a daily rate of more than £520 £450 £475
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 14 12
Average hourly rate £20.70 £29.00 £13.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-28.63% +114.81%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £14.96 £12.00 £10.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £42.50 £42.50 £47.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
Test Analyst
East of England

Test Analyst
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Bedfordshire Test Analyst Jobs Demand Trend

Test Analyst
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Test Analyst across the Bedfordshire region.

Bedfordshire Test Analyst Daily Rate Trend

Test Analyst
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Bedfordshire Test Analyst Hourly Rate Trend

Test Analyst
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Bedfordshire region that cited 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 Test Analyst in their job title.

1 9 (81.82%) Test Scripting
2 8 (72.73%) FogBugz
2 8 (72.73%) ISEB
2 8 (72.73%) SQL
2 8 (72.73%) Bugzilla
2 8 (72.73%) ISTQB
3 6 (54.55%) Web Services
3 6 (54.55%) Client/Server
3 6 (54.55%) ETL
4 5 (45.45%) Data Warehouse
4 5 (45.45%) Test Automation
5 4 (36.36%) QA
5 4 (36.36%) Risk Analysis
5 4 (36.36%) User Acceptance Testing
6 2 (18.18%) Systems Analysis
6 2 (18.18%) Oracle EBS
6 2 (18.18%) Oracle
7 1 (9.091%) WebDriver
7 1 (9.091%) Digital Media
7 1 (9.091%) Oracle EBS R12
7 1 (9.091%) MS Office
7 1 (9.091%) .NET
7 1 (9.091%) Oracle Financials
7 1 (9.091%) MSMQ
7 1 (9.091%) MS Excel
7 1 (9.091%) C#
7 1 (9.091%) Microsoft
7 1 (9.091%) E-business
7 1 (9.091%) Finance
7 1 (9.091%) NUnit

Test Analyst
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Bedfordshire region that cited 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 Test Analyst in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 6 (54.55%) Web Services
2 1 (9.091%) .NET
Application Platforms
1 1 (9.091%) MSMQ
Applications
1 1 (9.091%) MS Office
1 1 (9.091%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (18.18%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (9.091%) Oracle EBS R12
2 1 (9.091%) Oracle Financials
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (45.45%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 8 (72.73%) FogBugz
1 8 (72.73%) Bugzilla
2 1 (9.091%) WebDriver
2 1 (9.091%) NUnit
2 1 (9.091%) Selenium
2 1 (9.091%) JIRA
General
1 1 (9.091%) Finance
Miscellaneous
1 6 (54.55%) Client/Server
2 1 (9.091%) Digital Media
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (81.82%) Test Scripting
2 6 (54.55%) ETL
3 5 (45.45%) Test Automation
4 4 (36.36%) Risk Analysis
4 4 (36.36%) User Acceptance Testing
5 2 (18.18%) Systems Analysis
6 1 (9.091%) E-business
6 1 (9.091%) Stress Testing
6 1 (9.091%) Test Management
Programming Languages
1 8 (72.73%) SQL
2 1 (9.091%) C#
Qualifications
1 8 (72.73%) ISEB
1 8 (72.73%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (36.36%) QA
Vendors
1 2 (18.18%) Oracle
2 1 (9.091%) Microsoft
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