Test Leader Contracts in Birmingham
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for the Test Leader role in IT contracts advertised for the Birmingham region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Test Leader in their job title 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 Job Titles advertised 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
Test Lead
Rank 39 48 44
Rank change year-on-year
+9 -4
Contract jobs requiring a Test Leader 4 5 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Birmingham 0.913% 0.816% 0.200%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.976% 0.859% 0.218%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 2 1
Average daily rate £350 £308 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+13.82% -18.00%
UK excluding London average daily rate £330 £325 £375
% change year-on-year
+1.53% -13.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.00 - £42.50
All Job Titles
Birmingham
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category		 410 582 458
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Birmingham 93.61% 94.94% 91.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 207 316 257
Average daily rate £340 £325 £340
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+4.61% -4.41%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £188 £181
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £450 £525
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 39 31
Average hourly rate £16.25 £14.00 £13.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+16.07% +7.69%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £9.50 £9.16 £10.20
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £37.00 £33.00 £115.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-5.40% -7.50%
Test Leader
West Midlands

Test Leader
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Birmingham Test Leader Jobs Demand Trend

Test Leader
Daily Rate Trend

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

Birmingham Test Leader Daily Rate Trend

Test Leader
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Birmingham region that cited Test Leader 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 Test Leader in their job title.

1 3 (33.33%) Finance
1 3 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
1 3 (33.33%) SAP
1 3 (33.33%) JD Edwards
2 2 (22.22%) ERP
2 2 (22.22%) ISEB
2 2 (22.22%) Software Testing
2 2 (22.22%) Degree
2 2 (22.22%) Manual Testing
2 2 (22.22%) User Acceptance Testing
2 2 (22.22%) Infrastructure Management
3 1 (11.11%) Test Management
3 1 (11.11%) System Testing
3 1 (11.11%) Time Management
3 1 (11.11%) SC Cleared
3 1 (11.11%) Security Cleared
3 1 (11.11%) Smart Meter
3 1 (11.11%) HP Quality Center
3 1 (11.11%) Test Strategy
3 1 (11.11%) Computer Science
3 1 (11.11%) QA
3 1 (11.11%) Selenium
3 1 (11.11%) Requirements Analysis
3 1 (11.11%) Agile Software Development
3 1 (11.11%) SAP CRM
3 1 (11.11%) TestDirector
3 1 (11.11%) QuickTest Pro
3 1 (11.11%) IBM
3 1 (11.11%) Configuration Management
3 1 (11.11%) Project Management

Test Leader
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Birmingham region that cited Test Leader 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 Test Leader in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Business Applications
1 1 (11.11%) SAP CRM
Development Applications
1 1 (11.11%) TestDirector
1 1 (11.11%) QuickTest Pro
1 1 (11.11%) Selenium
General
1 3 (33.33%) Finance
Miscellaneous
1 1 (11.11%) Mainframe
1 1 (11.11%) Computer Science
1 1 (11.11%) Smart Meter
Operating Systems
1 1 (11.11%) Windows
1 1 (11.11%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
2 2 (22.22%) ERP
2 2 (22.22%) Software Testing
2 2 (22.22%) User Acceptance Testing
2 2 (22.22%) Manual Testing
2 2 (22.22%) Infrastructure Management
3 1 (11.11%) CRM
3 1 (11.11%) System Testing
3 1 (11.11%) Time Management
3 1 (11.11%) Test Strategy
3 1 (11.11%) Test Management
3 1 (11.11%) Requirements Analysis
3 1 (11.11%) Configuration Management
3 1 (11.11%) Project Management
3 1 (11.11%) Agile Software Development
Programming Languages
1 1 (11.11%) JavaScript
1 1 (11.11%) SQL
1 1 (11.11%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 2 (22.22%) ISEB
1 2 (22.22%) Degree
2 1 (11.11%) SC Cleared
2 1 (11.11%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (11.11%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (11.11%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 3 (33.33%) SAP
1 3 (33.33%) JD Edwards
2 1 (11.11%) Oracle
2 1 (11.11%) IBM
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