The first table below looks at the demand for System Testing skills in IT contracts advertised for the Cambridge region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited System Testing over the 3 months to 20 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 Cambridge 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
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
System Testing
Rank 38 45 32
Rank change year-on-year
+7 -13
Contract jobs citing System Testing 1 4 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cambridge 0.298% 0.964% 0.412%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.535% 1.802% 0.714%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 1 0
Average daily rate - £57 -
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 0
Average hourly rate £51.50 £56.50 -
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-8.84% -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.00 £30.00 £27.75
% change year-on-year
- +8.10%
All Processes & Methodologies
Cambridge
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
187 222 140
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cambridge 55.65% 53.49% 57.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 102 109 85
Average daily rate £350 £350 £350
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £274 £267
10% offered a daily rate of more than £429 £550 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £363 £363 £375
% change year-on-year
- -3.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 19 19
Average hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £31.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-5.88% +34.92%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £34.75 £37.50 £13.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £42.50 £57.20 £45.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £32.00 £25.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year
+28.00% -16.66%
System Testing
Cambridgeshire

System Testing
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Cambridge System Testing Jobs Demand Trend

System Testing
Daily Rate Trend

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

Cambridge System Testing Daily Rate Trend

System Testing
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Cambridge System Testing Hourly Rate Trend

System Testing
Top 14 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cambridge region citing System 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 System Testing.

1 3 (100.00%) C#
1 3 (100.00%) UNIX
1 3 (100.00%) Windows
1 3 (100.00%) Python
1 3 (100.00%) SNMP
1 3 (100.00%) Internet
1 3 (100.00%) Shell Script
1 3 (100.00%) Validation
1 3 (100.00%) Cryptography
1 3 (100.00%) VLAN
1 3 (100.00%) Embedded Software Development
2 1 (33.33%) Project Management
2 1 (33.33%) WebSphere
2 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared

System Testing
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 1 (33.33%) WebSphere
Communications & Networking
1 3 (100.00%) SNMP
1 3 (100.00%) Internet
1 3 (100.00%) VLAN
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Software Engineer
1 2 (66.67%) Test Engineer
1 2 (66.67%) Software Test Engineer
1 2 (66.67%) Integration Engineer
1 2 (66.67%) Software Integration Engineer
1 2 (66.67%) Test and Integration Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Integration Consultant
2 1 (33.33%) Test Consultant
2 1 (33.33%) Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 3 (100.00%) Cryptography
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) UNIX
1 3 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Validation
1 3 (100.00%) Embedded Software Development
2 1 (33.33%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) C#
1 3 (100.00%) Python
1 3 (100.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared