Cambridge Test Analyst Contracts

This section looks at the demand for the Test Analyst role in IT contracts within the Cambridge region compared to all other Job Titles we currently track. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Test Analyst in their job title over the 3 months to 29 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Test Analyst
Location Aberdeen Abingdon Amersham Atherstone Basingstoke Bedfordshire Berkshire Birmingham Blackpool Bournemouth Bracknell Bridgend Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Chippenham City of London Coventry Crawley Croydon Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorking Dorset Durham East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh England Essex Farnham Gatwick Glasgow Gloucestershire Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harlow Harrogate Hertfordshire High Wycombe Home Counties Hove Kent Kingston Upon Thames Lancashire Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston London M4 Corridor Manchester Marlow Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Petersfield Plymouth Pontypool Portsmouth Pudsey Reading Runcorn Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Sidcup Skelmersdale Slough Solihull Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southend-on-Sea Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Telford Thames Valley Torfaen Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warrington Warwickshire Watford West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Wiltshire Windsor Worcester Worcestershire Worthing York Yorkshire	3 months to 29 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	35	53
Rank change on same period last year	+18
Matching contract IT job ads	8	6
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.011 %	0.006 %
As % of the category below	2.192 %	1.033 %
Daily rates quoted	4	2
Average minimum daily rate	£294	£190
Average daily rate	£301	£213
% change on same period last year	+41.47 %
Average maximum daily rate	£308	£235
UK excluding London average daily rate	£285	£293
% change on same period last year	-2.77 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum hourly rate	-	-
Average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£32.81	£31.46
% change on same period last year	+4.29 %
Job Titles Cambridge
Matching contract IT job ads	365	581
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.486 %	0.580 %
Daily rates quoted	79	128
Average minimum daily rate	£297	£316
Average daily rate	£320	£331
% change on same period last year	-3.40 %
Average maximum daily rate	£343	£346
UK excluding London average daily rate	£356	£355
% change on same period last year	+0.30 %
Hourly rates quoted	70	82
Average minimum hourly rate	£18.63	£28.17
Average hourly rate	£20.74	£29.70
% change on same period last year	-30.16 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£22.86	£31.23
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.79	£25.66
% change on same period last year	-7.31 %
Test Analyst Cambridgeshire

We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Test Analyst across the Cambridge region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

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Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Test Analyst across the Cambridge region.

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Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Test Analyst across the Cambridge region over the 3 months to 29 August 2008.

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Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Test Analyst across the Cambridge region.

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 29 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Cambridge region that cited Test Analyst 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 Test Analyst in their job title.

1 5 (31.25 %) GIS 2 4 (25.00 %) Windows 2 4 (25.00 %) Performance Testing 3 3 (18.75 %) Automated Testing 3 3 (18.75 %) Subversion 3 3 (18.75 %) Client/Server 3 3 (18.75 %) ISEB 3 3 (18.75 %) QuickTest Pro 3 3 (18.75 %) Rational Robot 4 2 (12.50 %) LoadRunner 4 2 (12.50 %) ClearQuest 4 2 (12.50 %) Agile Software Development 4 2 (12.50 %) Retail 4 2 (12.50 %) Magik 4 2 (12.50 %) Smallworld

4 2 (12.50 %) Change Management 4 2 (12.50 %) JMeter 4 2 (12.50 %) TestDirector 4 2 (12.50 %) Windows XP 4 2 (12.50 %) Linux 4 2 (12.50 %) JBoss 4 2 (12.50 %) Python 4 2 (12.50 %) Java 4 2 (12.50 %) C# 4 2 (12.50 %) WebSphere Application Server 4 2 (12.50 %) WebSphere 4 2 (12.50 %) Windows Vista 4 2 (12.50 %) Software Testing 4 2 (12.50 %) Test Scripting 4 2 (12.50 %) V-Model

Test Analyst
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 29 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Cambridge region that cited Test Analyst 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 Test Analyst in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 2 (12.50 %) WebSphere 2 1 (6.250 %) J2EE	Application Platforms 1 2 (12.50 %) WebSphere Application Server 1 2 (12.50 %) JBoss 1 2 (12.50 %) Smallworld
Database & Business Intelligence 1 5 (31.25 %) GIS	Development Applications 1 3 (18.75 %) QuickTest Pro 1 3 (18.75 %) Rational Robot 1 3 (18.75 %) Subversion 2 2 (12.50 %) JMeter 2 2 (12.50 %) LoadRunner 2 2 (12.50 %) ClearQuest 2 2 (12.50 %) TestDirector 2 2 (12.50 %) Rational Functional Tester 3 1 (6.250 %) Ant 3 1 (6.250 %) JUnit 3 1 (6.250 %) CruiseControl 3 1 (6.250 %) Selenium
General 1 2 (12.50 %) Retail 2 1 (6.250 %) Government	Miscellaneous 1 3 (18.75 %) Client/Server 2 1 (6.250 %) PKI
Operating Systems 1 4 (25.00 %) Windows 2 2 (12.50 %) Linux 2 2 (12.50 %) Windows XP 2 2 (12.50 %) Windows Vista 3 1 (6.250 %) UNIX	Processes & Methodologies 1 4 (25.00 %) Performance Testing 2 3 (18.75 %) Automated Testing 3 2 (12.50 %) Software Testing 3 2 (12.50 %) Change Management 3 2 (12.50 %) Test Scripting 3 2 (12.50 %) Agile Software Development 3 2 (12.50 %) V-Model 4 1 (6.250 %) Security Cleared 4 1 (6.250 %) Scrum 4 1 (6.250 %) Resource Management
Programming Languages 1 2 (12.50 %) C# 1 2 (12.50 %) Java 1 2 (12.50 %) Python 1 2 (12.50 %) Magik 2 1 (6.250 %) C++ 2 1 (6.250 %) C	Qualifications 1 3 (18.75 %) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 1 (6.250 %) QA