Manual Testing Contracts in Buckinghamshire
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Hourly Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for Manual Testing skills in IT contracts advertised for the Buckinghamshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Manual Testing over the 3 months to 17 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 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
17 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Manual Testing
Rank 60 65 70
Rank change year-on-year
+5 +5
Contract jobs citing Manual Testing 5 10 5
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Buckinghamshire 0.635% 0.984% 0.472%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.909% 1.479% 0.769%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 4 1
Average daily rate £338 £425 £200
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-20.63% +112.62%
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £300 £250
% change year-on-year
+8.33% +20.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.00 - £23.75
All Processes & Methodologies
Buckinghamshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category		 550 676 650
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Buckinghamshire 69.80% 66.54% 61.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 340 316 268
Average daily rate £325 £325 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -7.14%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £188 £200 £196
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £425 £508
UK excluding London average daily rate £363 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
-0.68% -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 34 51
Average hourly rate £18.00 £15.00 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+20.00% -25.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.50 £10.58 £12.85
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £35.00 £18.50 £45.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.60 £25.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year
+26.40% -16.66%
Manual Testing
South East

Manual Testing
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Buckinghamshire Manual Testing Jobs Demand Trend

Manual Testing
Daily Rate Trend

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

Buckinghamshire Manual Testing Daily Rate Trend

Manual Testing
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Buckinghamshire Manual Testing Hourly Rate Trend

Manual Testing
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Manual Testing within the Buckinghamshire region over the 3 months to 17 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 2 £321 +43.09%
High Wycombe - 1 £338 -
Marlow - 1 - -
Manual Testing
South East

Manual Testing
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Buckinghamshire region citing Manual 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 Manual Testing.

1 5 (71.43%) Software Testing
1 5 (71.43%) User Acceptance Testing
2 4 (57.14%) Agile Software Development
2 4 (57.14%) Automation Testing
3 3 (42.86%) WPF
3 3 (42.86%) Team Foundation Server
3 3 (42.86%) XML
3 3 (42.86%) OO
3 3 (42.86%) C#
3 3 (42.86%) Automated Testing
3 3 (42.86%) Software Engineering
4 2 (28.57%) Test Scripting
4 2 (28.57%) HP Quality Center
4 2 (28.57%) Integration Testing
4 2 (28.57%) Web Testing
4 2 (28.57%) Finance
5 1 (14.29%) Scrum
5 1 (14.29%) Banking
5 1 (14.29%) Retail
5 1 (14.29%) SQL
5 1 (14.29%) .NET
5 1 (14.29%) ISEB
5 1 (14.29%) QuickTest Pro
5 1 (14.29%) Test Management
5 1 (14.29%) Incident Management
5 1 (14.29%) Retail Banking
5 1 (14.29%) Resource Management
5 1 (14.29%) Waterfall
5 1 (14.29%) Test Strategy
5 1 (14.29%) System Testing

Manual Testing
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Buckinghamshire region citing Manual 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 Manual Testing. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 3 (42.86%) XML
1 3 (42.86%) WPF
2 1 (14.29%) .NET
Development Applications
1 3 (42.86%) Team Foundation Server
2 1 (14.29%) QuickTest Pro
General
1 2 (28.57%) Finance
2 1 (14.29%) Banking
2 1 (14.29%) Retail
2 1 (14.29%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 2 (28.57%) Tester
1 2 (28.57%) Analyst
1 2 (28.57%) Test Analyst
1 2 (28.57%) Software Tester
2 1 (14.29%) Software Development Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Manual Test Analyst
2 1 (14.29%) Functional Tester
2 1 (14.29%) Development Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Automation Tester
2 1 (14.29%) Test Manager
2 1 (14.29%) Software Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Developer
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (71.43%) User Acceptance Testing
1 5 (71.43%) Software Testing
2 4 (57.14%) Automation Testing
2 4 (57.14%) Agile Software Development
3 3 (42.86%) Automated Testing
3 3 (42.86%) Software Engineering
3 3 (42.86%) OO
4 2 (28.57%) Integration Testing
4 2 (28.57%) Web Testing
4 2 (28.57%) Test Scripting
5 1 (14.29%) System Testing
5 1 (14.29%) Test Automation
5 1 (14.29%) Waterfall
5 1 (14.29%) Test Strategy
5 1 (14.29%) Incident Management
5 1 (14.29%) Resource Management
5 1 (14.29%) Test Management
5 1 (14.29%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 3 (42.86%) C#
2 1 (14.29%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) ISEB
Systems Management
1 2 (28.57%) HP Quality Center
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