The first table below looks at the demand for Software Testing skills in IT contracts advertised for the Bradford region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Software Testing 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 of the Processes & Methodologies category for the Bradford 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
Software Testing
Rank 21 26 23
Rank change year-on-year
+5 -3
Contract jobs citing Software Testing 6 1 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Bradford 3.922% 0.667% 0.855%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.825% 1.042% 1.205%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
Average daily rate £320 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £313 £300 £316
% change year-on-year
+4.16% -5.13%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.00 £18.50 £32.00
% change year-on-year
+62.16% -42.18%
All Processes & Methodologies
Bradford
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
103 96 83
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Bradford 67.32% 64.00% 70.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 48 30 17
Average daily rate £300 £213 £205
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+41.17% +3.65%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £213 £150 £188
10% offered a daily rate of more than £415 £450 £315
UK excluding London average daily rate £365 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
- -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 3 0
Average hourly rate £12.42 £32.50 -
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-61.78% -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.00 £25.00 £29.50
% change year-on-year
+20.00% -15.25%
Software Testing
West Yorkshire

Software Testing
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Bradford Software Testing Jobs Demand Trend

Software Testing
Daily Rate Trend

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

Bradford Software Testing Daily Rate Trend

Software Testing
Top 22 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Bradford region citing Software 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 Software Testing.

1 4 (66.67%) Retail
1 4 (66.67%) Waterfall
2 3 (50.00%) User Acceptance Testing
2 3 (50.00%) RAD
2 3 (50.00%) ISEB
2 3 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 3 (50.00%) Banking
2 3 (50.00%) ISTQB
2 3 (50.00%) Retail Banking
3 2 (33.33%) QA
3 2 (33.33%) Finance
3 2 (33.33%) Change Control
4 1 (16.67%) Test Management
4 1 (16.67%) Test Automation
4 1 (16.67%) Knowledge Management
4 1 (16.67%) Agile Software Development
4 1 (16.67%) Management Information System
4 1 (16.67%) QuickTest Pro
4 1 (16.67%) HP
4 1 (16.67%) VBScript
4 1 (16.67%) VB
4 1 (16.67%) Web Services

Software Testing
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Bradford region citing Software 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 Software Testing. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (16.67%) Web Services
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) QuickTest Pro
General
1 4 (66.67%) Retail
2 3 (50.00%) Banking
2 3 (50.00%) Retail Banking
3 2 (33.33%) Finance
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Test Leader
1 3 (50.00%) Test Manager
2 1 (16.67%) UAT Manager
2 1 (16.67%) UAT Test Manager
2 1 (16.67%) Test Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) Waterfall
2 3 (50.00%) User Acceptance Testing
2 3 (50.00%) RAD
2 3 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 2 (33.33%) Change Control
4 1 (16.67%) Test Management
4 1 (16.67%) Test Automation
4 1 (16.67%) Knowledge Management
4 1 (16.67%) Agile Software Development
Programming Languages
1 1 (16.67%) VBScript
1 1 (16.67%) VB
Qualifications
1 3 (50.00%) ISEB
1 3 (50.00%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (33.33%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (16.67%) HP