The first table below looks at the demand for the Systems Tester role in IT contracts advertised for the Cambridge region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Systems Tester in their job title 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 Job Titles advertised 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
System Tester
Rank - - 31
Contract jobs requiring a Systems Tester 0 0 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cambridge - - 0.400%
As % of the Job Titles category - - 0.408%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £315 £201 £281
% change year-on-year
+57.10% -28.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Average hourly rate - - £19.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £29.56 £13.70 £28.25
% change year-on-year
+115.72% -51.50%
All Job Titles
Cambridge
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
307 393 245
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cambridge 89.77% 94.02% 98.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 145 198 124
Average daily rate £350 £310 £313
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+12.90% -0.80%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £200 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £425 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 47 51 47
Average hourly rate £35.00 £36.25 £13.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-3.44% +168.51%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.75 £10.38 £11.78
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £50.00 £52.50 £37.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-5.40% -7.50%
Systems Tester
Cambridgeshire

Systems Tester
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Cambridge Systems Tester Jobs Demand Trend

Systems Tester
Daily Rate Trend

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

Cambridge Systems Tester Daily Rate Trend

Systems Tester
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Cambridge Systems Tester Hourly Rate Trend

Systems Tester
Top 10 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cambridge region that cited Systems 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 Systems Tester in their job title.

1 1 (100.00%) C#
1 1 (100.00%) UNIX
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) SNMP
1 1 (100.00%) Internet
1 1 (100.00%) Shell Script
1 1 (100.00%) Validation
1 1 (100.00%) Cryptography
1 1 (100.00%) VLAN
1 1 (100.00%) Embedded Software Development

Systems Tester
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cambridge region that cited Systems 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 Systems Tester in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) SNMP
1 1 (100.00%) Internet
1 1 (100.00%) VLAN
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Cryptography
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Validation
1 1 (100.00%) Embedded Software Development
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) C#
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) Shell Script