The first table below looks at the demand for Test Management 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 Test Management over the 3 months to 21 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
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Test Management
Rank 25 - 24
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing Test Management 2 0 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Brighton 1.408% - 0.769%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.923% - 1.124%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 1
Average daily rate £325 - £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £375 £375 £400
% change year-on-year
- -6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £32.00 £32.25 £32.50
% change year-on-year
-0.77% -0.76%
All Processes & Methodologies
Brighton
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
104 180 89
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Brighton 73.24% 70.59% 68.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 56 89 49
Average daily rate £350 £400 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-12.50% +6.66%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £225 £275
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £525 £425
UK excluding London average daily rate £363 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
-0.68% -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 4 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 £31.50 £25.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year
+26.00% -16.66%
Test Management
East Sussex

Test Management
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Brighton Test Management Jobs Demand Trend

Test Management
Daily Rate Trend

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

Brighton Test Management Daily Rate Trend

Test Management
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Test Management across the Brighton region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

Brighton Test Management Daily Rate Histogram

Test Management
Top 19 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Brighton region citing Test Management 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 Test Management.

1 2 (100.00%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (50.00%) ETL
2 1 (50.00%) ISEB
2 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (50.00%) Agile Software Development
2 1 (50.00%) Banking
2 1 (50.00%) Data Mart
2 1 (50.00%) ISTQB
2 1 (50.00%) Credit Risk
2 1 (50.00%) User Acceptance Testing
2 1 (50.00%) System Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Team Foundation Server
2 1 (50.00%) Test Automation
2 1 (50.00%) HP Quality Center
2 1 (50.00%) MSTest
2 1 (50.00%) SQL
2 1 (50.00%) Oracle
2 1 (50.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (50.00%) DB2

Test Management
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Brighton region citing Test Management 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 Test Management. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (50.00%) Data Mart
2 1 (50.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (50.00%) DB2
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Team Foundation Server
1 1 (50.00%) MSTest
General
1 1 (50.00%) Banking
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Test Manager
1 1 (50.00%) Test Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Credit Risk
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) ETL
1 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (50.00%) Agile Software Development
1 1 (50.00%) User Acceptance Testing
1 1 (50.00%) System Testing
1 1 (50.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) ISEB
1 1 (50.00%) ISTQB
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle