Tester Contracts in Bristol
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Hourly Rate Trend Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for the Tester role in IT contracts advertised for the Bristol region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Tester in their job title over the 3 months to 23 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 Job Titles advertised for the Bristol 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
23 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Tester
Rank 47 60 49
Rank change year-on-year
+13 -11
Contract jobs requiring a Tester 5 5 7
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Bristol 0.978% 0.598% 1.070%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.027% 0.640% 1.136%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 5 4
Average daily rate £305 £325 £383
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-6.15% -15.03%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £293 £253 £337
10% offered a daily rate of more than £311 £340 £397
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £300 £275
% change year-on-year
+8.33% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £29.00 £27.75 £20.50
% change year-on-year
+4.50% +35.36%
All Job Titles
Bristol
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category		 487 781 616
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Bristol 95.30% 93.42% 94.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 282 523 334
Average daily rate £338 £350 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-3.57% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £230 £218 £220
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £453 £475
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 37 37 40
Average hourly rate £13.50 £21.00 £16.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-35.71% +31.25%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £9.00 £15.00 £10.80
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £42.50 £35.75 £42.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
Tester
South West

Tester
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Tester across the Bristol region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

Bristol Tester Jobs Demand Trend

Tester
Daily Rate Trend

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

Bristol Tester Daily Rate Trend

Tester
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Bristol Tester Hourly Rate Trend

Tester
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Bristol region that cited 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 Tester in their job title.

1 8 (61.54%) SQL
1 8 (61.54%) ISEB
1 8 (61.54%) QA
2 7 (53.85%) User Acceptance Testing
2 7 (53.85%) Test Scripting
3 6 (46.15%) System Testing
4 5 (38.46%) Test Management
4 5 (38.46%) Software Testing
5 4 (30.77%) ISEB Practitioner
6 3 (23.08%) Data Warehouse
6 3 (23.08%) Microsoft
6 3 (23.08%) Finance
7 2 (15.38%) ISTQB
7 2 (15.38%) MS Excel
7 2 (15.38%) Banking
7 2 (15.38%) SAP
7 2 (15.38%) Mainframe
7 2 (15.38%) Change Control
7 2 (15.38%) Test Strategy
8 1 (7.692%) User Stories
8 1 (7.692%) Usability Testing
8 1 (7.692%) Scalability Testing
8 1 (7.692%) WebDriver
8 1 (7.692%) SaaS
8 1 (7.692%) Software Architecture
8 1 (7.692%) Cucumber
8 1 (7.692%) NHS
8 1 (7.692%) Data Security
8 1 (7.692%) COM
8 1 (7.692%) Web Services

Tester
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Bristol region that cited 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 Tester in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (7.692%) COM
1 1 (7.692%) Web Services
Applications
1 2 (15.38%) MS Excel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (23.08%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (7.692%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (7.692%) WebDriver
1 1 (7.692%) Cucumber
1 1 (7.692%) WATIR
1 1 (7.692%) Selenium
1 1 (7.692%) FitNesse
General
1 3 (23.08%) Finance
2 2 (15.38%) Banking
3 1 (7.692%) Legal
Miscellaneous
1 2 (15.38%) Mainframe
2 1 (7.692%) SaaS
2 1 (7.692%) NHS
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (53.85%) User Acceptance Testing
1 7 (53.85%) Test Scripting
2 6 (46.15%) System Testing
3 5 (38.46%) Test Management
3 5 (38.46%) Software Testing
4 2 (15.38%) Change Control
4 2 (15.38%) Test Strategy
5 1 (7.692%) User Stories
5 1 (7.692%) Usability Testing
5 1 (7.692%) Scalability Testing
5 1 (7.692%) Software Architecture
5 1 (7.692%) Data Security
5 1 (7.692%) UML
5 1 (7.692%) Agile Software Development
5 1 (7.692%) Automated Testing
5 1 (7.692%) Systems Analysis
5 1 (7.692%) Business Analysis
Programming Languages
1 8 (61.54%) SQL
2 1 (7.692%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 8 (61.54%) ISEB
2 4 (30.77%) ISEB Practitioner
3 2 (15.38%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (61.54%) QA
Vendors
1 3 (23.08%) Microsoft
2 2 (15.38%) SAP
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