Brentwood Software Tester Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for the Software Tester role in IT contracts within the Brentwood region compared to all other Job Titles we currently track. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Software Tester in their job title over the 3 months to 21 November 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Software Tester
Location Basingstoke Berkshire Birmingham Bournemouth Brentwood Buckinghamshire Burton-upon-Trent Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Channel Islands City of London Docklands, London Dorset East of England Edinburgh England Essex Glasgow Hampshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Liverpool London Merseyside Middlesex North West Oxfordshire Paisley Reading Renfrewshire Scotland South East South West Southampton Staffordshire Surrey UK Watford West Midlands Winchester	3 months to 21 Nov 2008	Same period last year
Rank	-	-
Rank change on same period last year	-
Matching contract IT job ads	0	0
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.000 %	0.000 %
As % of the category below	0.000 %	0.000 %
Daily rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum daily rate	-	-
Average daily rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£264	£263
% change on same period last year	+0.42 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum hourly rate	-	-
Average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£24.95	£25.59
% change on same period last year	-2.49 %
Job Titles Brentwood
Matching contract IT job ads	16	35
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.025 %	0.038 %
Daily rates quoted	9	14
Average minimum daily rate	£348	£400
Average daily rate	£353	£415
% change on same period last year	-14.86 %
Average maximum daily rate	£359	£430
UK excluding London average daily rate	£353	£351
% change on same period last year	+0.72 %
Hourly rates quoted	3	12
Average minimum hourly rate	£15.00	£38.08
Average hourly rate	£16.75	£38.17
% change on same period last year	-56.11 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£18.50	£38.25
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.37	£24.42
% change on same period last year	-4.31 %
Software Tester Essex

We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

Software Tester
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Software Tester across the Brentwood region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

Software Tester
Top 2 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 November 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Brentwood region that cited Software 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 Software Tester in their job title.

1 1 (100.00 %) Oracle 1 1 (100.00 %) User Acceptance Testing

Software Tester
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 November 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Brentwood region that cited Software 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 Software Tester in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Processes & Methodologies 1 1 (100.00 %) User Acceptance Testing

Vendors 1 1 (100.00 %) Oracle