Test Strategy 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 Strategy 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 Strategy over the 3 months to 21 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
21 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Test Strategy
Rank 93 117 112
Rank change year-on-year
+24 -5
Contract jobs citing Test Strategy 32 18 16
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Berkshire 1.296% 0.577% 0.546%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.972% 0.916% 0.872%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 8 6
Average daily rate £375 £363 £413
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+3.44% -12.12%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £239 £288 £289
10% offered a daily rate of more than £485 £480 £725
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £389 £390
% change year-on-year
-9.96% -0.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Average hourly rate - - £35.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £40.00 £37.00 £31.00
% change year-on-year
+8.10% +19.35%
All Processes & Methodologies
Berkshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category		 1623 1964 1835
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Berkshire 65.71% 62.95% 62.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 654 743 727
Average daily rate £388 £370 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+4.72% +5.71%
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 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
-0.68% -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 38 63 74
Average hourly rate £17.00 £19.00 £33.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-10.52% -42.42%
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 £31.50 £25.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year
+26.00% -16.66%
Test Strategy
South East

Test Strategy
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Berkshire Test Strategy Jobs Demand Trend

Test Strategy
Daily Rate Trend

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

Berkshire Test Strategy Daily Rate Trend

Test Strategy
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Test Strategy across the Berkshire region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

Berkshire Test Strategy Daily Rate Histogram

Test Strategy
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Berkshire Test Strategy Hourly Rate Trend

Test Strategy
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Test Strategy within the Berkshire region over the 3 months to 21 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 +15 10 £325 -27.77%
Bracknell - 3 £450 -
Newbury +1 2 £500 -
Slough -12 1 - -
Test Strategy
South East

Test Strategy
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Berkshire region citing Test Strategy 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 Strategy.

1 15 (31.25%) Telecoms
2 12 (25.00%) SQL Server
3 10 (20.83%) C#
3 10 (20.83%) Finance
4 8 (16.67%) Business Intelligence
5 7 (14.58%) SQL
5 7 (14.58%) Test Automation
6 6 (12.50%) Cloud Computing
6 6 (12.50%) Games
6 6 (12.50%) Load Testing
6 6 (12.50%) Visual Studio
6 6 (12.50%) Data Warehouse
6 6 (12.50%) Oracle
6 6 (12.50%) Cisco
7 5 (10.42%) Microsoft
7 5 (10.42%) ETL
7 5 (10.42%) ERP
7 5 (10.42%) Test Management
7 5 (10.42%) QA
7 5 (10.42%) SIGTRAN
7 5 (10.42%) Software Testing
7 5 (10.42%) ISTQB
7 5 (10.42%) Degree
7 5 (10.42%) Migration
7 5 (10.42%) Ab Initio
7 5 (10.42%) Teradata
7 5 (10.42%) Digital Media
8 4 (8.333%) REST
8 4 (8.333%) Apple iOS
8 4 (8.333%) Windows Azure

Test Strategy
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Berkshire region citing Test Strategy 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 Strategy. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 4 (8.333%) REST
1 4 (8.333%) Web Services
1 4 (8.333%) .NET
1 4 (8.333%) HTML
2 3 (6.250%) XML
3 2 (4.167%) soapUI
3 2 (4.167%) CSS3
3 2 (4.167%) HTML5
3 2 (4.167%) JSON
3 2 (4.167%) WCF
3 2 (4.167%) CSS
3 2 (4.167%) SOAP
3 2 (4.167%) J2EE
4 1 (2.083%) Middleware
4 1 (2.083%) WAP
4 1 (2.083%) WML
4 1 (2.083%) FIX Protocol
4 1 (2.083%) Oracle Fusion
Application Platforms
1 4 (8.333%) Windows Azure
2 2 (4.167%) CMS
2 2 (4.167%) Joomla!
2 2 (4.167%) IIS
3 1 (2.083%) Apache
3 1 (2.083%) Drupal
Applications
1 4 (8.333%) MS Visio
2 3 (6.250%) MS Excel
3 1 (2.083%) MS Project
3 1 (2.083%) MS PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 3 (6.250%) Agresso
Communications & Networking
1 5 (10.42%) SIGTRAN
2 4 (8.333%) INAP
2 4 (8.333%) SS7
3 3 (6.250%) HTTP
3 3 (6.250%) Wireshark
4 2 (4.167%) Cisco ICM
4 2 (4.167%) 4G
4 2 (4.167%) Radio Access Network
4 2 (4.167%) GPRS
4 2 (4.167%) VoIP
4 2 (4.167%) ISUP
4 2 (4.167%) 3G
5 1 (2.083%) DSL
5 1 (2.083%) Internet
5 1 (2.083%) DNS
5 1 (2.083%) SSL
5 1 (2.083%) GSM
5 1 (2.083%) UMTS
5 1 (2.083%) ADSL
5 1 (2.083%) ATM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (25.00%) SQL Server
2 6 (12.50%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (6.250%) Data Mining
4 1 (2.083%) SQL Server 2005
Development Applications
1 6 (12.50%) Visual Studio
2 2 (4.167%) Team Foundation Server
2 2 (4.167%) Selenium
2 2 (4.167%) LoadRunner
3 1 (2.083%) TestDirector
General
1 15 (31.25%) Telecoms
2 10 (20.83%) Finance
3 6 (12.50%) Games
4 3 (6.250%) Billing
5 1 (2.083%) Spanish Language
5 1 (2.083%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 14 (29.17%) Test Manager
2 9 (18.75%) Architect
3 7 (14.58%) Solutions Architect
4 6 (12.50%) Designer
4 6 (12.50%) Test Leader
4 6 (12.50%) Development Engineer
4 6 (12.50%) Software Development Engineer
4 6 (12.50%) Software Engineer
5 4 (8.333%) Analyst
6 3 (6.250%) Test Analyst
6 3 (6.250%) Technical Architect
6 3 (6.250%) Technical Solutions Architect
7 2 (4.167%) Business Solution Architect
7 2 (4.167%) Consultant
7 2 (4.167%) Technical Project Manager
7 2 (4.167%) Business Architect
7 2 (4.167%) Technical Manager
7 2 (4.167%) Network Architect
7 2 (4.167%) Developer
7 2 (4.167%) Project Manager
Miscellaneous
1 6 (12.50%) Cloud Computing
2 5 (10.42%) Digital Media
3 4 (8.333%) Computer Science
4 3 (6.250%) Smart Meter
5 2 (4.167%) Kinect
5 2 (4.167%) Open Source
5 2 (4.167%) Management Information System
5 2 (4.167%) Replication
5 2 (4.167%) Client/Server
6 1 (2.083%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 4 (8.333%) Apple iOS
1 4 (8.333%) Windows
2 2 (4.167%) Android
3 1 (2.083%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (16.67%) Business Intelligence
2 7 (14.58%) Test Automation
3 6 (12.50%) Load Testing
4 5 (10.42%) ETL
4 5 (10.42%) ERP
4 5 (10.42%) Test Management
4 5 (10.42%) Software Testing
4 5 (10.42%) Migration
5 4 (8.333%) Root Cause Analysis
5 4 (8.333%) User Acceptance Testing
5 4 (8.333%) Project Management
6 3 (6.250%) Performance Testing
6 3 (6.250%) Test Scripting
6 3 (6.250%) Unit Testing
6 3 (6.250%) Agile Software Development
6 3 (6.250%) Process Management
6 3 (6.250%) System Testing
7 2 (4.167%) Performance Management
7 2 (4.167%) Data Architecture
7 2 (4.167%) Data Cleansing
Programming Languages
1 10 (20.83%) C#
2 7 (14.58%) SQL
3 4 (8.333%) C++
4 3 (6.250%) Java
4 3 (6.250%) C
5 2 (4.167%) Objective-C
5 2 (4.167%) PHP
5 2 (4.167%) VB
5 2 (4.167%) JavaScript
6 1 (2.083%) Perl
Qualifications
1 5 (10.42%) ISTQB
1 5 (10.42%) Degree
2 2 (4.167%) CISA
2 2 (4.167%) CISM
2 2 (4.167%) ISEB
2 2 (4.167%) CISSP
3 1 (2.083%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (2.083%) CIMA
3 1 (2.083%) SC Cleared
3 1 (2.083%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (10.42%) QA
2 2 (4.167%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 1 (2.083%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (4.167%) HP Quality Center
1 2 (4.167%) Cisco CUCM
Vendors
1 6 (12.50%) Oracle
1 6 (12.50%) Cisco
2 5 (10.42%) Microsoft
2 5 (10.42%) Ab Initio
2 5 (10.42%) Teradata
3 2 (4.167%) Siebel
4 1 (2.083%) IBM
4 1 (2.083%) VMware
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