Bristol Software Testing Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Software Testing skills within the Bristol region with a comparison to our Processes & Methodologies category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Software Testing over the 3 months to 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Software Testing
Location Aberdeen Abingdon Amersham Basingstoke Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Bournemouth Bradford Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cheshire City of London County Antrim Coventry Crawley Devon Docklands, London Dorset East Midlands East of England England Essex Exeter Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Guildford Hampshire Havant Hertfordshire Lancashire Leatherhead Leeds Leicestershire London Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newport North East North West Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxfordshire Peterborough Pontypool Reading Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Skelmersdale Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Staines Surrey Swindon Thames Valley Torfaen UK Uxbridge Wales Warrington West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Wirral Worcester Worcestershire Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	45	56
Rank change on same period last year	+11
Matching contract IT job ads	13	15
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.017 %	0.015 %
As % of the category below	2.915 %	2.679 %
Daily rates quoted	9	2
Average minimum daily rate	£261	£235
Average daily rate	£283	£248
% change on same period last year	+14.47 %
Average maximum daily rate	£306	£260
UK excluding London average daily rate	£304	£318
% change on same period last year	-4.30 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	8
Average minimum hourly rate	-	£20.88
Average hourly rate	-	£23.38
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	£25.88
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£26.67	£30.03
% change on same period last year	-11.17 %
Processes & Methodologies Bristol
Matching contract IT job ads	446	560
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.594 %	0.567 %
Daily rates quoted	163	228
Average minimum daily rate	£349	£348
Average daily rate	£375	£366
% change on same period last year	+2.61 %
Average maximum daily rate	£401	£383
UK excluding London average daily rate	£380	£376
% change on same period last year	+1.21 %
Hourly rates quoted	66	77
Average minimum hourly rate	£29.07	£28.08
Average hourly rate	£30.28	£30.94
% change on same period last year	-2.13 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£31.49	£33.80
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£29.33	£30.16
% change on same period last year	-2.72 %
Software Testing South West

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.

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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Software Testing across the Bristol region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

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Daily Rate Trend

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

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Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Software Testing across the Bristol region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008.

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Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Software Testing across the Bristol region.

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Bristol 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 10 (62.50 %) ISEB 2 6 (37.50 %) Test Scripting 3 5 (31.25 %) C# 4 4 (25.00 %) SQL Server 4 4 (25.00 %) LoadRunner 4 4 (25.00 %) OpenVMS 4 4 (25.00 %) Microsoft 4 4 (25.00 %) HP 4 4 (25.00 %) Compaq 4 4 (25.00 %) Unit Testing 4 4 (25.00 %) Regression Testing 4 4 (25.00 %) Equities 4 4 (25.00 %) FitNesse 5 3 (18.75 %) User Acceptance Testing 5 3 (18.75 %) Degree

5 3 (18.75 %) SQL 6 2 (12.50 %) SAP 6 2 (12.50 %) PRINCE2 6 2 (12.50 %) UNIX 6 2 (12.50 %) CRM 6 2 (12.50 %) Broadband 6 2 (12.50 %) VMS 6 2 (12.50 %) C 6 2 (12.50 %) SQL Server 2000 6 2 (12.50 %) Middleware 6 2 (12.50 %) PRINCE2 Certification 6 2 (12.50 %) TestDirector 6 2 (12.50 %) QuickTest Pro 6 2 (12.50 %) Billing 6 2 (12.50 %) SQL Server 2005

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Bristol 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 2 (12.50 %) Middleware 2 1 (6.250 %) .NET	Communications & Networking 1 2 (12.50 %) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence 1 4 (25.00 %) SQL Server 2 2 (12.50 %) SQL Server 2000 2 2 (12.50 %) SQL Server 2005 3 1 (6.250 %) Datawarehouse	Development Applications 1 4 (25.00 %) LoadRunner 1 4 (25.00 %) FitNesse 2 2 (12.50 %) TestDirector 2 2 (12.50 %) QuickTest Pro 3 1 (6.250 %) Ant
General 1 2 (12.50 %) Telecoms 1 2 (12.50 %) Billing 2 1 (6.250 %) Multimedia	Job Titles 1 7 (43.75 %) Tester 1 7 (43.75 %) Analyst 2 4 (25.00 %) Analyst Programmer 2 4 (25.00 %) Programmer 2 4 (25.00 %) Technical Tester 3 3 (18.75 %) Test Analyst 4 2 (12.50 %) Manual Test Analyst 4 2 (12.50 %) SAP Manager 4 2 (12.50 %) SAP Test Manager 4 2 (12.50 %) Test Manager 5 1 (6.250 %) Software Engineer 5 1 (6.250 %) Developer 5 1 (6.250 %) UAT Tester 5 1 (6.250 %) Manual Tester
Miscellaneous 1 4 (25.00 %) Equities	Operating Systems 1 4 (25.00 %) OpenVMS 2 2 (12.50 %) VMS 2 2 (12.50 %) UNIX 3 1 (6.250 %) Windows 3 1 (6.250 %) Linux
Processes & Methodologies 1 6 (37.50 %) Test Scripting 2 4 (25.00 %) Regression Testing 2 4 (25.00 %) Unit Testing 3 3 (18.75 %) User Acceptance Testing 4 2 (12.50 %) Integration Testing 4 2 (12.50 %) Test Management 4 2 (12.50 %) PRINCE2 4 2 (12.50 %) CRM 5 1 (6.250 %) OOD 5 1 (6.250 %) UML 5 1 (6.250 %) Validation 5 1 (6.250 %) Manual Testing	Programming Languages 1 5 (31.25 %) C# 2 3 (18.75 %) SQL 3 2 (12.50 %) C 4 1 (6.250 %) VB 4 1 (6.250 %) Python 4 1 (6.250 %) C++ 4 1 (6.250 %) Java 4 1 (6.250 %) Perl
Qualifications 1 10 (62.50 %) ISEB 2 3 (18.75 %) Degree 3 2 (12.50 %) PRINCE2 Certification	Vendors 1 4 (25.00 %) Microsoft 1 4 (25.00 %) HP 1 4 (25.00 %) Compaq 2 2 (12.50 %) SAP