The first table below looks at the demand for the Senior Tester role in IT contracts advertised for the Buckinghamshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Senior Tester in their job title 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 Job Titles advertised 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
Senior Tester
Rank 66 - 77
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Tester 2 0 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Buckinghamshire 0.247% - 0.094%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.267% - 0.099%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 1
Average daily rate £325 - £325
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £315 £300
% change year-on-year
+11.11% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Job Titles
Buckinghamshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
749 913 1015
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Buckinghamshire 92.47% 93.55% 95.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 409 393 383
Average daily rate £315 £318 £339
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-0.78% -6.27%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £181 £165 £175
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £425 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 73 67 109
Average hourly rate £13.50 £14.50 £14.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-6.89% +3.57%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.06 £11.50 £10.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £27.00 £35.00 £23.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
Senior Tester
South East

Senior Tester
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Buckinghamshire Senior Tester Jobs Demand Trend

Senior Tester
Daily Rate Trend

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

Buckinghamshire Senior Tester Daily Rate Trend

Senior Tester
Top 13 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Buckinghamshire region that cited Senior 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 Senior Tester in their job title.

1 1 (50.00%) Finance
1 1 (50.00%) Scrum
1 1 (50.00%) Banking
1 1 (50.00%) Retail
1 1 (50.00%) Automated Testing
1 1 (50.00%) Software Testing
1 1 (50.00%) Retail Banking
1 1 (50.00%) QA
1 1 (50.00%) Team Foundation Server
1 1 (50.00%) C#
1 1 (50.00%) Visual Studio
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (50.00%) QuickTest Pro

Senior Tester
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Buckinghamshire region that cited Senior 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 Senior Tester in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Team Foundation Server
1 1 (50.00%) Visual Studio
1 1 (50.00%) QuickTest Pro
General
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
1 1 (50.00%) Banking
1 1 (50.00%) Retail
1 1 (50.00%) Retail Banking
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Scrum
1 1 (50.00%) Automated Testing
1 1 (50.00%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) C#
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft