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Tester Contracts in Birmingham
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Hourly Rate Trend Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for the Tester 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 Tester in their job title over the 3 months to 19 June 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
19 Jun 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Tester
Rank 46 47 39
Rank change year-on-year
+1 -8
Contract jobs requiring a Tester 1 7 6
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Birmingham 0.207% 1.087% 1.163%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.223% 1.140% 1.316%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 3 3
Average daily rate - £238 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -20.83%
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £300 £275
% change year-on-year
+8.33% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Average hourly rate - - £5.93
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.00 £13.00 £24.00
% change year-on-year
+138.46% -45.83%
All Job Titles
Birmingham
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category		 449 614 456
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Birmingham 93.15% 95.34% 88.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 224 339 236
Average daily rate £350 £320 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+9.37% -1.53%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £240 £175 £187
10% offered a daily rate of more than £525 £440 £550
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 32 29
Average hourly rate £16.50 £17.50 £13.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-5.71% +29.62%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.00 £11.50 £10.59
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £37.00 £33.60 £127.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £19.94
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -9.72%
Tester
West Midlands

Tester
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Birmingham 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 Birmingham region.

Birmingham Tester Daily Rate Trend

Tester
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Birmingham Tester Hourly Rate Trend

Tester
Top 27 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Birmingham 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 6 (54.55%) User Acceptance Testing
2 5 (45.45%) System Testing
3 4 (36.36%) Integration Testing
3 4 (36.36%) Software Testing
3 4 (36.36%) QA
3 4 (36.36%) SQL
3 4 (36.36%) J2EE
3 4 (36.36%) Oracle
3 4 (36.36%) UNIX
3 4 (36.36%) Oracle Forms
3 4 (36.36%) Shell Script
3 4 (36.36%) Finance
4 3 (27.27%) ITIL
5 2 (18.18%) Performance Testing
5 2 (18.18%) Test Scripting
5 2 (18.18%) LoadRunner
5 2 (18.18%) Remedy
5 2 (18.18%) C
5 2 (18.18%) C++
6 1 (9.091%) SharePoint
6 1 (9.091%) MS Office
6 1 (9.091%) SAP
6 1 (9.091%) AS400
6 1 (9.091%) iSeries
6 1 (9.091%) SharePoint 2010
6 1 (9.091%) User Stories
6 1 (9.091%) Agile Software Development

Tester
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Birmingham 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 4 (36.36%) J2EE
Application Platforms
1 1 (9.091%) SharePoint
1 1 (9.091%) SharePoint 2010
Applications
1 1 (9.091%) MS Office
Development Applications
1 4 (36.36%) Oracle Forms
2 2 (18.18%) LoadRunner
General
1 4 (36.36%) Finance
Miscellaneous
1 1 (9.091%) AS400
1 1 (9.091%) iSeries
Operating Systems
1 4 (36.36%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (54.55%) User Acceptance Testing
2 5 (45.45%) System Testing
3 4 (36.36%) Integration Testing
3 4 (36.36%) Software Testing
4 3 (27.27%) ITIL
5 2 (18.18%) Performance Testing
5 2 (18.18%) Test Scripting
6 1 (9.091%) User Stories
6 1 (9.091%) Agile Software Development
Programming Languages
1 4 (36.36%) SQL
1 4 (36.36%) Shell Script
2 2 (18.18%) C
2 2 (18.18%) C++
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (36.36%) QA
Vendors
1 4 (36.36%) Oracle
2 2 (18.18%) Remedy
3 1 (9.091%) SAP
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