The first table below looks at the demand for the Tester role in IT contracts advertised for the Berkshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Tester 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 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Tester
Rank 82 100 71
Rank change year-on-year
+18 -29
Contract jobs requiring a Tester 38 35 59
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Berkshire 1.587% 1.113% 1.983%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.743% 1.218% 2.197%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 18 22
Average daily rate £363 £275 £263
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+31.81% +4.76%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £235 £170 £210
10% offered a daily rate of more than £377 £390 £345
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £310 £275
% change year-on-year
+4.83% +12.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 4
Average hourly rate £34.00 £7.50 £22.38
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+353.33% -66.48%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £29.00 £19.50 £20.50
% change year-on-year
+48.71% -4.87%
All Job Titles
Berkshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
2180 2874 2686
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Berkshire 91.02% 91.38% 90.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 900 1030 1019
Average daily rate £360 £350 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+2.85% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £200 £225 £200
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £476 £475
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 118 128 184
Average hourly rate £26.00 £19.00 £27.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+36.84% -30.90%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £14.00 £11.50 £10.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £35.00 £45.00 £45.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
Tester
South East

Tester
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Berkshire Tester Jobs Demand Trend

Tester
Daily Rate Trend

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

Berkshire Tester Daily Rate Trend

Tester
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Tester across the Berkshire region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Berkshire Tester Daily Rate Histogram

Tester
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Berkshire Tester Hourly Rate Trend

Tester
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Tester within the Berkshire region over the 3 months to 24 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
Bracknell - 14 - -
Reading +11 5 £338 +21.62%
Maidenhead - 3 £265 -
Newbury - 1 £300 -
Wokingham - 1 £160 -
Tester
South East

Tester
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 23 (33.82%) Windows
2 20 (29.41%) SQL
3 17 (25.00%) Oracle
4 16 (23.53%) Security Cleared
5 15 (22.06%) SC Cleared
5 15 (22.06%) SQL Server
6 14 (20.59%) .NET
6 14 (20.59%) Test Scripting
7 13 (19.12%) Test Automation
8 12 (17.65%) HP
8 12 (17.65%) Migration
8 12 (17.65%) Selenium
9 11 (16.18%) C#
10 10 (14.71%) Microsoft
10 10 (14.71%) LoadRunner
10 10 (14.71%) Agile Software Development
10 10 (14.71%) VMware
11 9 (13.24%) Java
12 8 (11.76%) Regression Testing
12 8 (11.76%) Automated Testing
12 8 (11.76%) VMware Infrastructure
12 8 (11.76%) Windows Server 2008
12 8 (11.76%) Manual Testing
12 8 (11.76%) HP Quality Center
13 7 (10.29%) QA
13 7 (10.29%) Visual Studio
13 7 (10.29%) Oracle 8/8i
14 6 (8.824%) Tomcat
14 6 (8.824%) IIS
14 6 (8.824%) Active Directory

Tester
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 14 (20.59%) .NET
2 5 (7.353%) REST
3 4 (5.882%) HTML
4 3 (4.412%) XML
4 3 (4.412%) J2EE
5 2 (2.941%) SOAP
5 2 (2.941%) Web Services
5 2 (2.941%) WCF
5 2 (2.941%) Ajax
5 2 (2.941%) jQuery
6 1 (1.471%) soapUI
6 1 (1.471%) .NET Framework
6 1 (1.471%) JSON
6 1 (1.471%) WPF
6 1 (1.471%) Silverlight
6 1 (1.471%) ADO.NET
6 1 (1.471%) ASP.NET
6 1 (1.471%) COM
Application Platforms
1 6 (8.824%) Tomcat
1 6 (8.824%) IIS
2 1 (1.471%) Windows Azure
2 1 (1.471%) ArcGIS
2 1 (1.471%) CMS
2 1 (1.471%) Lotus Notes
Applications
1 4 (5.882%) MS Excel
2 1 (1.471%) Spreadsheet
2 1 (1.471%) MS PowerPoint
2 1 (1.471%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 5 (7.353%) Oracle EBS
2 4 (5.882%) Oracle SCM
3 3 (4.412%) Agresso
4 2 (2.941%) SAP HCM
Communications & Networking
1 6 (8.824%) LAN
1 6 (8.824%) WAN
2 2 (2.941%) VoIP
2 2 (2.941%) BSS
3 1 (1.471%) NAS
3 1 (1.471%) VLAN
3 1 (1.471%) Wireshark
3 1 (1.471%) Cisco IOS
3 1 (1.471%) HTTP
3 1 (1.471%) TCP/IP
3 1 (1.471%) IPv6
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (22.06%) SQL Server
2 7 (10.29%) Oracle 8/8i
3 3 (4.412%) TOAD
4 2 (2.941%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 1 (1.471%) Oracle BI EE
5 1 (1.471%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (1.471%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (1.471%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 12 (17.65%) Selenium
2 10 (14.71%) LoadRunner
3 7 (10.29%) Visual Studio
4 6 (8.824%) Team Foundation Server
5 5 (7.353%) WebDriver
5 5 (7.353%) QuickTest Pro
6 2 (2.941%) TestComplete
7 1 (1.471%) QADirector
General
1 6 (8.824%) Telecoms
2 5 (7.353%) Finance
2 5 (7.353%) Retail
3 1 (1.471%) Billing
3 1 (1.471%) Manufacturing
3 1 (1.471%) Pharmaceutical
Miscellaneous
1 2 (2.941%) Client/Server
1 2 (2.941%) Computer Science
1 2 (2.941%) Mobile App
2 1 (1.471%) Smart Meter
2 1 (1.471%) Open Source
2 1 (1.471%) IBM Mainframe
2 1 (1.471%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (1.471%) Smartphone
2 1 (1.471%) e-Health
2 1 (1.471%) Field-Programmable Gate Array
2 1 (1.471%) Replication
2 1 (1.471%) APACS
2 1 (1.471%) EPoS
2 1 (1.471%) EMV
2 1 (1.471%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 23 (33.82%) Windows
2 8 (11.76%) Windows Server 2008
3 6 (8.824%) Windows Server 2003
3 6 (8.824%) Windows XP
3 6 (8.824%) Windows 7
4 5 (7.353%) UNIX
5 3 (4.412%) Windows Phone
5 3 (4.412%) Windows Phone 8
6 2 (2.941%) Apple iOS
6 2 (2.941%) Android
7 1 (1.471%) Windows Phone 7
7 1 (1.471%) Ubuntu
7 1 (1.471%) SUSE
7 1 (1.471%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (20.59%) Test Scripting
2 13 (19.12%) Test Automation
3 12 (17.65%) Migration
4 10 (14.71%) Agile Software Development
5 8 (11.76%) Regression Testing
5 8 (11.76%) Automated Testing
5 8 (11.76%) Manual Testing
6 5 (7.353%) Data Migration
6 5 (7.353%) User Acceptance Testing
6 5 (7.353%) Performance Testing
6 5 (7.353%) Integration Testing
6 5 (7.353%) Non-Functional Testing
6 5 (7.353%) Automation Testing
6 5 (7.353%) Business Continuity
6 5 (7.353%) ERP
7 4 (5.882%) Web Testing
8 3 (4.412%) System Testing
8 3 (4.412%) Business Intelligence
9 2 (2.941%) TDD
9 2 (2.941%) Data Management
Programming Languages
1 20 (29.41%) SQL
2 11 (16.18%) C#
3 9 (13.24%) Java
4 1 (1.471%) Bash shell
4 1 (1.471%) Objective-C
4 1 (1.471%) XAML
4 1 (1.471%) Python
4 1 (1.471%) VB
4 1 (1.471%) VB.NET
4 1 (1.471%) JavaScript
4 1 (1.471%) C++
Qualifications
1 16 (23.53%) Security Cleared
2 15 (22.06%) SC Cleared
3 4 (5.882%) Degree
4 3 (4.412%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (10.29%) QA
2 1 (1.471%) ISO 8583
System Software
1 8 (11.76%) VMware Infrastructure
2 6 (8.824%) Active Directory
2 6 (8.824%) VMware ESX
3 2 (2.941%) vCloud
4 1 (1.471%) VMware Workstation
4 1 (1.471%) NFS
Systems Management
1 8 (11.76%) HP Quality Center
2 1 (1.471%) Legato
Vendors
1 17 (25.00%) Oracle
2 12 (17.65%) HP
3 10 (14.71%) Microsoft
3 10 (14.71%) VMware
4 3 (4.412%) Siebel
4 3 (4.412%) NetApp
5 2 (2.941%) SAP
6 1 (1.471%) ESRI
6 1 (1.471%) Cisco
6 1 (1.471%) IBM
6 1 (1.471%) CA
6 1 (1.471%) Empirix
6 1 (1.471%) Informatica
6 1 (1.471%) Veritas
6 1 (1.471%) Lotus