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ISTQB Contracts in Berkshire
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for ISTQB in IT contracts advertised for the Berkshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited ISTQB 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 Qualifications for the Berkshire 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
International Software Testing Qualification Board (ISTQB)
Rank 107 118 125
Rank change year-on-year
+11 +7
Contract jobs citing ISTQB 14 20 5
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Berkshire 0.598% 0.631% 0.166%
As % of the Qualifications category 2.291% 2.732% 0.668%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 11 1
Average daily rate £400 £300 £275
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+33.33% +9.09%
UK excluding London average daily rate £330 £303 £344
% change year-on-year
+9.09% -12.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £25.00 £31.50 £16.50
% change year-on-year
-20.63% +90.90%
All Qualifications
Berkshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Qualifications category		 611 732 749
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Berkshire 26.10% 23.09% 24.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 235 272 271
Average daily rate £400 £350 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+14.28% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £213 £218 £200
10% offered a daily rate of more than £503 £450 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 6 44
Average hourly rate £18.50 £25.25 £16.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-26.73% +53.03%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £15.25 £10.85 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £36.25 £48.00 £45.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.00 £21.50 £24.00
% change year-on-year
+2.32% -10.41%
ISTQB
South East

ISTQB
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing ISTQB across the Berkshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Qualifications category.

Berkshire ISTQB Jobs Demand Trend

ISTQB
Daily Rate Trend

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

Berkshire ISTQB Daily Rate Trend

ISTQB
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Berkshire ISTQB Daily Rate Histogram

ISTQB
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Berkshire ISTQB Hourly Rate Trend

ISTQB
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing ISTQB within the Berkshire 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
Reading +14 8 £425 -
Bracknell -15 1 - -
Maidenhead - 1 £375 -
Newbury - - - - 1
Slough - - - -
ISTQB
South East

ISTQB
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Berkshire region citing ISTQB 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 ISTQB.

1 9 (60.00%) ISEB
2 6 (40.00%) SQL Server
2 6 (40.00%) Software Testing
2 6 (40.00%) Degree
2 6 (40.00%) Test Scripting
2 6 (40.00%) HP Quality Center
2 6 (40.00%) Test Automation
2 6 (40.00%) Test Strategy
3 5 (33.33%) REST
3 5 (33.33%) Cloud Computing
3 5 (33.33%) Performance Testing
3 5 (33.33%) Load Testing
3 5 (33.33%) Computer Science
3 5 (33.33%) Games
3 5 (33.33%) C#
3 5 (33.33%) Web Services
3 5 (33.33%) Visual Studio
4 4 (26.67%) C
4 4 (26.67%) Handset
5 3 (20.00%) HP
5 3 (20.00%) Shell Script
5 3 (20.00%) Automated Testing
5 3 (20.00%) SQL
5 3 (20.00%) SOAP
5 3 (20.00%) MS Excel
5 3 (20.00%) XML
5 3 (20.00%) UNIX
5 3 (20.00%) Microsoft
5 3 (20.00%) System Testing
5 3 (20.00%) Groovy

ISTQB
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Berkshire region citing ISTQB 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 ISTQB. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 5 (33.33%) REST
1 5 (33.33%) Web Services
2 3 (20.00%) SOAP
2 3 (20.00%) XML
2 3 (20.00%) soapUI
3 2 (13.33%) WCF
3 2 (13.33%) WebSphere
4 1 (6.667%) FIX Protocol
Application Platforms
1 3 (20.00%) Windows Azure
2 2 (13.33%) WebSphere Application Server
2 2 (13.33%) IIS
3 1 (6.667%) SharePoint Server
3 1 (6.667%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (20.00%) MS Excel
2 2 (13.33%) MS Visio
2 2 (13.33%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 1 (6.667%) Firewall
1 1 (6.667%) SIGTRAN
1 1 (6.667%) Cisco ICM
1 1 (6.667%) Broadband
1 1 (6.667%) GSM
1 1 (6.667%) UMTS
1 1 (6.667%) VoIP
1 1 (6.667%) TCP/IP
1 1 (6.667%) LTE
1 1 (6.667%) Unified Communications
1 1 (6.667%) 4G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (40.00%) SQL Server
2 3 (20.00%) DbVisualizer
3 2 (13.33%) Data Mining
4 1 (6.667%) SQL Server 2005
4 1 (6.667%) MS Access
Development Applications
1 5 (33.33%) Visual Studio
2 2 (13.33%) Cucumber
3 1 (6.667%) WinRunner
3 1 (6.667%) TestDirector
3 1 (6.667%) LoadRunner
3 1 (6.667%) JProfiler
General
1 5 (33.33%) Games
2 2 (13.33%) Telecoms
3 1 (6.667%) Back Office
3 1 (6.667%) Electronics
3 1 (6.667%) Retail
Job Titles
1 6 (40.00%) Analyst
1 6 (40.00%) Test Analyst
2 5 (33.33%) Development Engineer
2 5 (33.33%) Software Development Engineer
2 5 (33.33%) Software Engineer
3 3 (20.00%) Test Engineer
4 1 (6.667%) Test Manager
4 1 (6.667%) Desktop Analyst
4 1 (6.667%) Performance Engineer
4 1 (6.667%) Performance Test Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 5 (33.33%) Cloud Computing
1 5 (33.33%) Computer Science
2 4 (26.67%) Handset
3 2 (13.33%) Kinect
4 1 (6.667%) IVR
4 1 (6.667%) Statistics
4 1 (6.667%) EPoS
Operating Systems
1 3 (20.00%) UNIX
2 2 (13.33%) Windows
3 1 (6.667%) Windows Server 2003
3 1 (6.667%) Android
3 1 (6.667%) Windows Server 2008
3 1 (6.667%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (40.00%) Software Testing
1 6 (40.00%) Test Scripting
1 6 (40.00%) Test Automation
1 6 (40.00%) Test Strategy
2 5 (33.33%) Performance Testing
2 5 (33.33%) Load Testing
3 3 (20.00%) Automated Testing
3 3 (20.00%) System Testing
4 2 (13.33%) Game Development
4 2 (13.33%) Continuous Improvement
4 2 (13.33%) Software Architecture
4 2 (13.33%) Process Architecture
4 2 (13.33%) Waterfall
4 2 (13.33%) Web Testing
4 2 (13.33%) Code Coverage
4 2 (13.33%) Scrum
5 1 (6.667%) Validation
5 1 (6.667%) Migration
5 1 (6.667%) Agile Software Development
5 1 (6.667%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 5 (33.33%) C#
2 4 (26.67%) C
3 3 (20.00%) Shell Script
3 3 (20.00%) SQL
3 3 (20.00%) Groovy
4 2 (13.33%) C++
5 1 (6.667%) Java
Qualifications
1 9 (60.00%) ISEB
2 6 (40.00%) Degree
3 2 (13.33%) SC Cleared
3 2 (13.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.667%) QA
System Software
1 1 (6.667%) Active Directory
1 1 (6.667%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 6 (40.00%) HP Quality Center
2 1 (6.667%) Netcool
2 1 (6.667%) OpenView Configuration Management
Vendors
1 3 (20.00%) HP
1 3 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (6.667%) VMware
2 1 (6.667%) Cisco
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