Cambridge TestDirector Contracts

This section looks at the demand for HP TestDirector for Quality Center skills within the Cambridge region with a comparison to our Development Applications category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited TestDirector over the 3 months to 21 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

HP TestDirector for Quality Center
Location Aberdeen Abingdon Basildon Basingstoke Bath Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Bracknell Bradford Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Cheltenham Cheshire Chester City of London County Antrim Crawley Dartford Devon Docklands, London Dorset East Anglia East Midlands East of England Edinburgh England Essex Farnborough Gatwick Glasgow Gloucestershire Guildford Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harlow Havant Hertfordshire Kent Leeds Lincolnshire Liverpool London M4 Corridor Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Upon Tyne Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Plymouth Pudsey Reading Scotland Solihull Somerset South East South Wales South West St Albans Staffordshire Stevenage Surrey Swansea Swindon Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warrington Watford West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Wiltshire Windsor Wokingham York Yorkshire	3 months to 21 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	43	55
Rank change on same period last year	+12
Matching contract IT job ads	2	3
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.003 %	0.003 %
As % of the category below	4.082 %	3.529 %
Daily rates quoted	2	0
Average minimum daily rate	£275	-
Average daily rate	£294	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	£313	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£301	£317
% change on same period last year	-5.08 %
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	£37.78	£27.98
% change on same period last year	+35.04 %
Development Applications Cambridge
Matching contract IT job ads	49	85
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.065 %	0.085 %
Daily rates quoted	9	18
Average minimum daily rate	£280	£261
Average daily rate	£294	£270
% change on same period last year	+8.93 %
Average maximum daily rate	£309	£279
UK excluding London average daily rate	£326	£334
% change on same period last year	-2.26 %
Hourly rates quoted	4	8
Average minimum hourly rate	£34.17	£37.50
Average hourly rate	£35.83	£40.00
% change on same period last year	-10.41 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£37.50	£42.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£33.38	£33.52
% change on same period last year	-0.41 %
TestDirector 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 TestDirector across the Cambridge region as a proportion of the total demand within the Development Applications 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 TestDirector across the Cambridge region.

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Hourly Rate Trend

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

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Top 4 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Cambridge region citing TestDirector 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 TestDirector.

1 2 (100.00 %) LoadRunner 1 2 (100.00 %) Change Management 1 2 (100.00 %) Retail 1 2 (100.00 %) V-Model

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Cambridge region citing TestDirector 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 TestDirector. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Development Applications 1 2 (100.00 %) LoadRunner	General 1 2 (100.00 %) Retail
Job Titles 1 2 (100.00 %) Analyst 1 2 (100.00 %) Test Analyst	Processes & Methodologies 1 2 (100.00 %) Change Management 1 2 (100.00 %) V-Model