Tester Contracts in Cardiff
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Hourly Rate Trend Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for the Tester role in IT contracts advertised for the Cardiff region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Tester in their job title over the 3 months to 24 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 Cardiff 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
24 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Tester
Rank 27 26 33
Rank change year-on-year
-1 +7
Contract jobs requiring a Tester 2 9 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cardiff 1.087% 4.000% 0.826%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.170% 4.206% 0.866%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 6 1
Average daily rate £238 £201 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+18.45% -38.30%
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £310 £275
% change year-on-year
+4.83% +12.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £29.00 £19.50 £20.50
% change year-on-year
+48.71% -4.87%
All Job Titles
Cardiff
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category		 171 214 231
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cardiff 92.93% 95.11% 95.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 104 127 140
Average daily rate £365 £328 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+11.45% +0.76%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £213 £175 £117
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £500 £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 9 8
Average hourly rate £17.60 £14.25 £19.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+23.50% -25.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £10.72 £14.00 £9.52
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £37.50 £15.50 £106.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
Tester
South Wales

Tester
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Cardiff Tester Jobs Demand Trend

Tester
Daily Rate Trend

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

Cardiff Tester Daily Rate Trend

Tester
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Cardiff Tester Hourly Rate Trend

Tester
Top 20 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cardiff region that cited 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 Tester in their job title.

1 2 (66.67%) Test Scripting
2 1 (33.33%) Rational Functional Tester
2 1 (33.33%) Test Automation
2 1 (33.33%) HP Quality Center
2 1 (33.33%) Test Strategy
2 1 (33.33%) Java
2 1 (33.33%) PL/SQL
2 1 (33.33%) SQL
2 1 (33.33%) .NET
2 1 (33.33%) Windows
2 1 (33.33%) TOAD
2 1 (33.33%) HP
2 1 (33.33%) Regression Testing
2 1 (33.33%) Finance
2 1 (33.33%) Agile Software Development
2 1 (33.33%) TDD
2 1 (33.33%) Banking
2 1 (33.33%) Software Testing
2 1 (33.33%) QA
2 1 (33.33%) User Acceptance Testing

Tester
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cardiff region that cited 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 Tester in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (33.33%) .NET
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) TOAD
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Rational Functional Tester
General
1 1 (33.33%) Finance
1 1 (33.33%) Banking
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Test Scripting
2 1 (33.33%) Test Automation
2 1 (33.33%) Test Strategy
2 1 (33.33%) Regression Testing
2 1 (33.33%) Agile Software Development
2 1 (33.33%) TDD
2 1 (33.33%) Software Testing
2 1 (33.33%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) Java
1 1 (33.33%) PL/SQL
1 1 (33.33%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) HP
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