System Testing Contracts in Birmingham
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for System Testing skills in IT contracts advertised for the Birmingham region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited System Testing over the 3 months to 17 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 Birmingham 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
17 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
System Testing
Rank 39 - 44
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing System Testing 4 0 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Birmingham 0.913% - 0.200%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.351% - 0.347%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
Average daily rate £325 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
Average hourly rate £37.00 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.00 £30.00 £27.75
% change year-on-year
- +8.10%
All Processes & Methodologies
Birmingham
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category		 296 374 288
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Birmingham 67.58% 61.01% 57.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 155 203 181
Average daily rate £350 £330 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+6.06% -5.71%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £238 £227 £175
10% offered a daily rate of more than £471 £525 £490
UK excluding London average daily rate £363 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
-0.68% -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 20 10
Average hourly rate £32.50 £15.00 £14.25
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+116.66% +5.26%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.00 £12.00 £10.99
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £119.80 £34.40 £127.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.60 £25.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year
+26.40% -16.66%
System Testing
West Midlands

System Testing
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Birmingham System Testing Jobs Demand Trend

System Testing
Daily Rate Trend

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

Birmingham System Testing Daily Rate Trend

System Testing
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing System Testing across the Birmingham region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

Birmingham System Testing Daily Rate Histogram

System Testing
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Birmingham System Testing Hourly Rate Trend

System Testing
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Birmingham region citing System Testing 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 System Testing.

1 6 (75.00%) SQL
2 5 (62.50%) Oracle
2 5 (62.50%) UNIX
2 5 (62.50%) Shell Script
2 5 (62.50%) Finance
2 5 (62.50%) QA
2 5 (62.50%) User Acceptance Testing
3 4 (50.00%) Integration Testing
3 4 (50.00%) Software Testing
3 4 (50.00%) J2EE
3 4 (50.00%) Oracle Forms
4 3 (37.50%) C
5 2 (25.00%) C++
5 2 (25.00%) CRM
6 1 (12.50%) VPN
6 1 (12.50%) Microsoft
6 1 (12.50%) Active Directory
6 1 (12.50%) TestDirector
6 1 (12.50%) NHS
6 1 (12.50%) Intranet
6 1 (12.50%) MS Excel
6 1 (12.50%) Windows
6 1 (12.50%) AIX
6 1 (12.50%) JavaScript
6 1 (12.50%) C#
6 1 (12.50%) SQL Server
6 1 (12.50%) SAP
6 1 (12.50%) .NET
6 1 (12.50%) Migration
6 1 (12.50%) SAP CRM

System Testing
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Birmingham region citing System Testing 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 System Testing. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 4 (50.00%) J2EE
2 1 (12.50%) .NET
Applications
1 1 (12.50%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (12.50%) SAP CRM
1 1 (12.50%) Dynamics CRM
Communications & Networking
1 1 (12.50%) VPN
1 1 (12.50%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (12.50%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (50.00%) Oracle Forms
2 1 (12.50%) TestDirector
General
1 5 (62.50%) Finance
Job Titles
1 5 (62.50%) Tester
2 4 (50.00%) Analyst
2 4 (50.00%) Systems Tester
3 3 (37.50%) Systems Analyst
3 3 (37.50%) QA Analyst
4 1 (12.50%) SAP Test Analyst
4 1 (12.50%) Manual Test Analyst
4 1 (12.50%) SAP Tester
4 1 (12.50%) SAP Analyst
4 1 (12.50%) Test Leader
4 1 (12.50%) CRM Analyst
4 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Solutions Architect
4 1 (12.50%) Solutions Architect
4 1 (12.50%) Manual Tester
4 1 (12.50%) IT Project Manager
4 1 (12.50%) Test Analyst
4 1 (12.50%) Architect
4 1 (12.50%) Project Manager
Miscellaneous
1 1 (12.50%) NHS
1 1 (12.50%) Mainframe
1 1 (12.50%) Embedded Systems
Operating Systems
1 5 (62.50%) UNIX
2 1 (12.50%) Windows
2 1 (12.50%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (62.50%) User Acceptance Testing
2 4 (50.00%) Integration Testing
2 4 (50.00%) Software Testing
3 2 (25.00%) CRM
4 1 (12.50%) Project Management
4 1 (12.50%) Migration
4 1 (12.50%) Technical Architecture
4 1 (12.50%) Data Migration
4 1 (12.50%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 6 (75.00%) SQL
2 5 (62.50%) Shell Script
3 3 (37.50%) C
4 2 (25.00%) C++
5 1 (12.50%) JavaScript
5 1 (12.50%) C#
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (62.50%) QA
System Software
1 1 (12.50%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (12.50%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 5 (62.50%) Oracle
2 1 (12.50%) SAP
2 1 (12.50%) Microsoft
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