The first table below looks at the demand for System Testing skills in IT contracts advertised for the Brighton region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited System 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 Brighton 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
System Testing
Rank 27 31 -
Rank change year-on-year
+4 -
Contract jobs citing System Testing 1 4 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Brighton 0.676% 1.563% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.877% 2.210% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 0
Average daily rate £525 £350 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+50.00% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £326
% change year-on-year
- -0.15%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.00 £30.00 £27.25
% change year-on-year
- +10.09%
All Processes & Methodologies
Brighton
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
114 181 93
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Brighton 77.03% 70.70% 67.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 60 90 52
Average daily rate £364 £400 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-9.06% +6.66%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £238 £225 £275
10% offered a daily rate of more than £535 £525 £438
UK excluding London average daily rate £365 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
- -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 6 3
Average hourly rate £32.50 £22.00 £45.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+47.72% -51.11%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.00 £25.00 £29.50
% change year-on-year
+20.00% -15.25%
System Testing
East Sussex

System Testing
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Brighton 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 Brighton region.

Brighton System Testing Daily Rate Trend

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 Brighton region.

Brighton System Testing Hourly Rate Trend

System Testing
Top 22 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Brighton 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 2 (100.00%) ISEB
1 2 (100.00%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (50.00%) Web Services
2 1 (50.00%) Workflow
2 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (50.00%) Scrum
2 1 (50.00%) Banking
2 1 (50.00%) ISEB Practitioner
2 1 (50.00%) Content Management
2 1 (50.00%) Penetration Testing
2 1 (50.00%) ISTQB
2 1 (50.00%) FitNesse
2 1 (50.00%) Credit Risk
2 1 (50.00%) User Acceptance Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Performance Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Test Management
2 1 (50.00%) Data Integration
2 1 (50.00%) Sitecore CMS
2 1 (50.00%) Sitecore
2 1 (50.00%) Cucumber
2 1 (50.00%) User Stories

System Testing
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Brighton 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 1 (50.00%) Web Services
Application Platforms
1 1 (50.00%) Sitecore CMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) FitNesse
1 1 (50.00%) Cucumber
General
1 1 (50.00%) Banking
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Test Manager
1 1 (50.00%) Test Leader
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Credit Risk
1 1 (50.00%) Data Integration
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Workflow
1 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (50.00%) Scrum
1 1 (50.00%) Content Management
1 1 (50.00%) Penetration Testing
1 1 (50.00%) User Acceptance Testing
1 1 (50.00%) Performance Testing
1 1 (50.00%) Test Management
1 1 (50.00%) User Stories
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) ISEB
2 1 (50.00%) ISEB Practitioner
2 1 (50.00%) ISTQB
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Sitecore