ISTQB Contracts in Cambridgeshire
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for ISTQB in IT contracts advertised for the Cambridgeshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited ISTQB over the 3 months to 22 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 Qualifications for the Cambridgeshire 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
22 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
International Software Testing Qualification Board (ISTQB)
Rank 45 62 46
Rank change year-on-year
+17 -16
Contract jobs citing ISTQB 6 3 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cambridgeshire 1.095% 0.429% 0.386%
As % of the Qualifications category 5.455% 2.308% 2.381%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 2 2
Average daily rate £345 £344 £238
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+0.36% +44.73%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £315 £319 £224
10% offered a daily rate of more than £393 £369 £252
UK excluding London average daily rate £330 £301 £325
% change year-on-year
+9.54% -7.30%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.00 £31.50 £16.50
% change year-on-year
-4.76% +90.90%
All Qualifications
Cambridgeshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Qualifications category		 110 130 84
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cambridgeshire 20.07% 18.57% 16.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 51 70 32
Average daily rate £313 £290 £255
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.75% +13.72%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £260 £160 £200
10% offered a daily rate of more than £400 £518 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 21 22
Average hourly rate £35.00 £16.00 £13.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+118.75% +23.07%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £15.70 £11.86 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £38.10 £47.50 £18.75
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.00 £22.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year
-2.22% -10.00%
ISTQB
East of England

ISTQB
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing ISTQB across the Cambridgeshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Qualifications category.

Cambridgeshire ISTQB Jobs Demand Trend

ISTQB
Daily Rate Trend

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

Cambridgeshire ISTQB Daily Rate Trend

ISTQB
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing ISTQB within the Cambridgeshire region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)		 Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year		 Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads		 Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months		 Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Cambridge +16 6 £345 +0.36%
ISTQB
East of England

ISTQB
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cambridgeshire region citing ISTQB 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 ISTQB.

1 10 (83.33%) ISEB
2 8 (66.67%) Software Testing
3 6 (50.00%) QA
4 5 (41.67%) Automated Testing
4 5 (41.67%) Test Scripting
4 5 (41.67%) Test Automation
5 4 (33.33%) Scrum
5 4 (33.33%) SQL
6 3 (25.00%) Oracle
6 3 (25.00%) ITIL
6 3 (25.00%) PRINCE2
6 3 (25.00%) Java
6 3 (25.00%) E-Commerce
6 3 (25.00%) Degree
6 3 (25.00%) Resource Management
6 3 (25.00%) Test Strategy
6 3 (25.00%) Performance Management
6 3 (25.00%) Security Testing
7 2 (16.67%) Oracle EBS R12
7 2 (16.67%) WebDriver
7 2 (16.67%) User Acceptance Testing
7 2 (16.67%) Selenium
7 2 (16.67%) JIRA
7 2 (16.67%) Oracle Reports
8 1 (8.333%) Oracle Financials
8 1 (8.333%) SOAP
8 1 (8.333%) XML
8 1 (8.333%) Finance
8 1 (8.333%) Microsoft
8 1 (8.333%) HP

ISTQB
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cambridgeshire region citing ISTQB 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 ISTQB. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (8.333%) SOAP
1 1 (8.333%) XML
1 1 (8.333%) soapUI
Business Applications
1 2 (16.67%) Oracle EBS R12
2 1 (8.333%) Oracle Financials
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (16.67%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 2 (16.67%) WebDriver
1 2 (16.67%) Selenium
1 2 (16.67%) JIRA
General
1 1 (8.333%) Finance
Job Titles
1 4 (33.33%) Test Manager
2 3 (25.00%) Test Analyst
2 3 (25.00%) Analyst
2 3 (25.00%) Software Manager
2 3 (25.00%) Software Test Manager
2 3 (25.00%) Test Leader
3 2 (16.67%) Tester
4 1 (8.333%) Software Engineer
4 1 (8.333%) Test Engineer
4 1 (8.333%) Senior Tester
4 1 (8.333%) Software Test Engineer
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (66.67%) Software Testing
2 5 (41.67%) Automated Testing
2 5 (41.67%) Test Scripting
2 5 (41.67%) Test Automation
3 4 (33.33%) Scrum
4 3 (25.00%) ITIL
4 3 (25.00%) PRINCE2
4 3 (25.00%) E-Commerce
4 3 (25.00%) Resource Management
4 3 (25.00%) Test Strategy
4 3 (25.00%) Performance Management
4 3 (25.00%) Security Testing
5 2 (16.67%) User Acceptance Testing
6 1 (8.333%) Matrix Management
6 1 (8.333%) Performance Testing
6 1 (8.333%) Load Testing
6 1 (8.333%) Waterfall
6 1 (8.333%) Unit Testing
6 1 (8.333%) Web Testing
6 1 (8.333%) Test Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (33.33%) SQL
2 3 (25.00%) Java
3 1 (8.333%) C#
Qualifications
1 10 (83.33%) ISEB
2 3 (25.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (50.00%) QA
Vendors
1 3 (25.00%) Oracle
2 1 (8.333%) Microsoft
2 1 (8.333%) HP
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