ISTQB Contracts in Buckinghamshire
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for ISTQB in IT contracts advertised for the Buckinghamshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited ISTQB 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 Qualifications for the Buckinghamshire 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
International Software Testing Qualification Board (ISTQB)
Rank 64 68 76
Rank change year-on-year
+4 +8
Contract jobs citing ISTQB 4 7 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Buckinghamshire 0.494% 0.717% 0.187%
As % of the Qualifications category 1.860% 3.571% 0.844%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 5 1
Average daily rate £400 £320 £355
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+25.00% -9.85%
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £300 £325
% change year-on-year
+8.33% -7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.50 £31.50 £16.50
% change year-on-year
-12.69% +90.90%
All Qualifications
Buckinghamshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Qualifications category		 215 196 237
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Buckinghamshire 26.54% 20.08% 22.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 112 77 104
Average daily rate £300 £255 £340
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+17.64% -25.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £215 £113 £142
10% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £401 £525
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 14 19
Average hourly rate £18.73 £15.75 £16.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+18.92% -4.54%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £10.65 £10.70 £9.46
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £27.08 £50.00 £30.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.00 £22.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year
-2.22% -10.00%
ISTQB
South East

ISTQB
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing ISTQB across the Buckinghamshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Qualifications category.

Buckinghamshire ISTQB Jobs Demand Trend

ISTQB
Daily Rate Trend

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

Buckinghamshire ISTQB Daily Rate Trend

ISTQB
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing ISTQB within the Buckinghamshire region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)		 Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year		 Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads		 Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months		 Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Milton Keynes +6 1 - -
Iver - 1 £300 -
ISTQB
South East

ISTQB
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Buckinghamshire region citing ISTQB 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 ISTQB.

1 6 (85.71%) ISEB
2 3 (42.86%) HP
2 3 (42.86%) SQL
2 3 (42.86%) XML
2 3 (42.86%) ITIL
2 3 (42.86%) HP Quality Center
3 2 (28.57%) Test Management
3 2 (28.57%) BusinessObjects Web Intelligence
3 2 (28.57%) Performance Management
3 2 (28.57%) ISEB Practitioner
3 2 (28.57%) BPEL4WS
3 2 (28.57%) Workflow
3 2 (28.57%) BODI
3 2 (28.57%) Fault Management
3 2 (28.57%) User Acceptance Testing
3 2 (28.57%) Test Strategy
3 2 (28.57%) Data Quality
3 2 (28.57%) Oracle Reports
3 2 (28.57%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (28.57%) WSDL
3 2 (28.57%) Business Intelligence
3 2 (28.57%) JavaScript
3 2 (28.57%) Oracle
3 2 (28.57%) Business Objects
3 2 (28.57%) SOAP
3 2 (28.57%) BusinessObjects
3 2 (28.57%) CMMI
3 2 (28.57%) Stakeholder Management
3 2 (28.57%) Oracle Workflow
4 1 (14.29%) VMware

ISTQB
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Buckinghamshire region citing ISTQB 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 ISTQB. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 3 (42.86%) XML
2 2 (28.57%) BPEL4WS
2 2 (28.57%) WSDL
2 2 (28.57%) SOAP
3 1 (14.29%) Web Services
3 1 (14.29%) CSS
3 1 (14.29%) HTML
Application Platforms
1 2 (28.57%) Oracle Workflow
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (28.57%) BusinessObjects Web Intelligence
1 2 (28.57%) BODI
1 2 (28.57%) Oracle Reports
1 2 (28.57%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (28.57%) BusinessObjects
2 1 (14.29%) MySQL
General
1 1 (14.29%) Retail
1 1 (14.29%) Telecoms
1 1 (14.29%) Finance
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) Analyst
1 3 (42.86%) Test Analyst
2 2 (28.57%) Test Leader
3 1 (14.29%) Technical Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Test Specialist
3 1 (14.29%) Technical Test Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Support Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Integration Test Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Integration Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Operations Engineer
Operating Systems
1 1 (14.29%) Windows
1 1 (14.29%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (42.86%) ITIL
2 2 (28.57%) Test Management
2 2 (28.57%) Performance Management
2 2 (28.57%) Workflow
2 2 (28.57%) Fault Management
2 2 (28.57%) User Acceptance Testing
2 2 (28.57%) Test Strategy
2 2 (28.57%) Business Intelligence
2 2 (28.57%) CMMI
2 2 (28.57%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (14.29%) Programme Management
3 1 (14.29%) PRINCE2
3 1 (14.29%) Business Transformation
3 1 (14.29%) Integration Testing
3 1 (14.29%) BPEL
3 1 (14.29%) V-Model
3 1 (14.29%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 3 (42.86%) SQL
2 2 (28.57%) JavaScript
3 1 (14.29%) Perl
3 1 (14.29%) PHP
Qualifications
1 6 (85.71%) ISEB
2 2 (28.57%) ISEB Practitioner
3 1 (14.29%) Security Cleared
3 1 (14.29%) APMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (28.57%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (14.29%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (42.86%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 3 (42.86%) HP
2 2 (28.57%) Oracle
2 2 (28.57%) Business Objects
3 1 (14.29%) VMware
3 1 (14.29%) Capita
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