Test Management 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 Test Management skills in IT contracts advertised for the Berkshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Test Management over the 3 months to 20 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 Processes & Methodologies category 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
20 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Test Management
Rank 107 126 118
Rank change year-on-year
+19 -8
Contract jobs citing Test Management 12 11 10
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Berkshire 0.493% 0.359% 0.342%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.749% 0.574% 0.544%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 8 2
Average daily rate £398 £363 £268
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+9.57% +35.60%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £350 £311 £246
10% offered a daily rate of more than £515 £408 £290
UK excluding London average daily rate £375 £375 £400
% change year-on-year
- -6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £32.00 £32.25 £32.50
% change year-on-year
-0.77% -0.76%
All Processes & Methodologies
Berkshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category		 1603 1916 1838
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Berkshire 65.89% 62.51% 62.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 648 728 728
Average daily rate £388 £365 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+6.16% +4.28%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £265 £250 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £525 £500 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £363 £363 £375
% change year-on-year
- -3.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 38 65 74
Average hourly rate £17.00 £19.00 £31.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-10.52% -39.68%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.75 £11.00 £14.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £37.50 £50.00 £47.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £32.00 £25.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year
+28.00% -16.66%
Test Management
South East

Test Management
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Test Management across the Berkshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

Berkshire Test Management Jobs Demand Trend

Test Management
Daily Rate Trend

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

Berkshire Test Management Daily Rate Trend

Test Management
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Test Management across the Berkshire region over the 3 months to 20 May 2013.

Berkshire Test Management Daily Rate Histogram

Test Management
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Berkshire Test Management Hourly Rate Trend

Test Management
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Test Management within the Berkshire region over the 3 months to 20 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
Reading - 3 £350 -
Newbury - 2 £488 -
Slough -14 1 - -
Test Management
South East

Test Management
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Berkshire region citing Test Management 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 Test Management.

1 6 (40.00%) Telecoms
2 5 (33.33%) Test Strategy
3 4 (26.67%) Finance
4 3 (20.00%) ISEB
4 3 (20.00%) Project Management
4 3 (20.00%) Middleware
4 3 (20.00%) C
4 3 (20.00%) Oracle
4 3 (20.00%) SQL
4 3 (20.00%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (20.00%) Business Intelligence
4 3 (20.00%) User Acceptance Testing
4 3 (20.00%) QA
5 2 (13.33%) Oracle Fusion
5 2 (13.33%) Test Automation
5 2 (13.33%) Test Scripting
5 2 (13.33%) HP Quality Center
5 2 (13.33%) Analytics
5 2 (13.33%) JIRA
5 2 (13.33%) TDD
5 2 (13.33%) Degree
5 2 (13.33%) ESB
5 2 (13.33%) IBM
5 2 (13.33%) ERP
5 2 (13.33%) VMS
5 2 (13.33%) Python
5 2 (13.33%) Siebel
5 2 (13.33%) SOA
5 2 (13.33%) SAP
5 2 (13.33%) XML

Test Management
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Berkshire region citing Test Management 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 Test Management. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 3 (20.00%) Middleware
2 2 (13.33%) Oracle Fusion
2 2 (13.33%) .NET
2 2 (13.33%) XML
3 1 (6.667%) WAP
3 1 (6.667%) ASP.NET
3 1 (6.667%) Web Services
3 1 (6.667%) ASP.NET MVC
3 1 (6.667%) WCF
3 1 (6.667%) jQuery
3 1 (6.667%) WML
Application Platforms
1 2 (13.33%) ESB
2 1 (6.667%) Windows Azure
2 1 (6.667%) Apache
2 1 (6.667%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (6.667%) MS Office
1 1 (6.667%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (13.33%) Agresso
Communications & Networking
1 1 (6.667%) ATM
1 1 (6.667%) GPRS
1 1 (6.667%) GSM
1 1 (6.667%) UMTS
1 1 (6.667%) HTTP
1 1 (6.667%) DNS
1 1 (6.667%) SSL
1 1 (6.667%) Internet
1 1 (6.667%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (20.00%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (13.33%) SQL Server
3 1 (6.667%) Data Mining
Development Applications
1 2 (13.33%) JIRA
2 1 (6.667%) SpecFlow
2 1 (6.667%) Jenkins
2 1 (6.667%) Visual Studio
2 1 (6.667%) TestDirector
General
1 6 (40.00%) Telecoms
2 4 (26.67%) Finance
3 1 (6.667%) Banking
3 1 (6.667%) Billing
Job Titles
1 7 (46.67%) Test Manager
2 3 (20.00%) Developer
3 2 (13.33%) Analyst
3 2 (13.33%) Test Analyst
3 2 (13.33%) Analyst Developer
3 2 (13.33%) Automation Test Analyst
3 2 (13.33%) Test Leader
3 2 (13.33%) Automation Analyst
4 1 (6.667%) Defect Manager
4 1 (6.667%) Performance Test Leader
4 1 (6.667%) SQL Developer
4 1 (6.667%) Programmer
4 1 (6.667%) C++ Developer
4 1 (6.667%) Test Engineer
4 1 (6.667%) Project Manager
4 1 (6.667%) Programme Manager
Miscellaneous
1 2 (13.33%) Management Information System
2 1 (6.667%) IBM Mainframe
2 1 (6.667%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (6.667%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 2 (13.33%) Linux
1 2 (13.33%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (33.33%) Test Strategy
2 3 (20.00%) User Acceptance Testing
2 3 (20.00%) Business Intelligence
2 3 (20.00%) Project Management
3 2 (13.33%) ERP
3 2 (13.33%) SOA
3 2 (13.33%) GAP Analysis
3 2 (13.33%) Scrum
3 2 (13.33%) TDD
3 2 (13.33%) Analytics
3 2 (13.33%) Test Scripting
3 2 (13.33%) Test Automation
4 1 (6.667%) BDD
4 1 (6.667%) Manual Testing
4 1 (6.667%) System Testing
4 1 (6.667%) Root Cause Analysis
4 1 (6.667%) Automated Testing
4 1 (6.667%) Software Engineering
4 1 (6.667%) Software Testing
4 1 (6.667%) Security Testing
Programming Languages
1 3 (20.00%) C
1 3 (20.00%) SQL
2 2 (13.33%) Python
2 2 (13.33%) Shell Script
2 2 (13.33%) C#
3 1 (6.667%) C++
3 1 (6.667%) Java
3 1 (6.667%) Perl
3 1 (6.667%) PHP
Qualifications
1 3 (20.00%) ISEB
2 2 (13.33%) Degree
3 1 (6.667%) SC Cleared
3 1 (6.667%) Security Cleared
3 1 (6.667%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (6.667%) PRINCE2 Certification
3 1 (6.667%) ISEB Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (20.00%) QA
Systems Management
1 2 (13.33%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 3 (20.00%) Oracle
2 2 (13.33%) SAP
2 2 (13.33%) Siebel
2 2 (13.33%) IBM
3 1 (6.667%) Microsoft
3 1 (6.667%) JD Edwards
3 1 (6.667%) Sage
3 1 (6.667%) BT
3 1 (6.667%) Fujitsu
3 1 (6.667%) Infor
3 1 (6.667%) Cisco
3 1 (6.667%) PeopleSoft
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