Cheshire ISEB Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Information Systems Examinations Board (ISEB) in IT contracts within the Cheshire region compared to all other Qualifications we currently track. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited ISEB over the 3 months to 21 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Information Systems Examinations Board (ISEB)
Location Aberdeen Abingdon Amersham Andover Atherstone Basingstoke Bath Berkshire Birmingham Bournemouth Bridgend Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Chippenham City of London Corsham Coventry Crawley Croydon Cumbria Derby Derbyshire Docklands, London Dorset East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh England Essex Farnham Feltham Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Guildford Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Havant Hertfordshire Home Counties Ipswich Kent Lancashire Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Liverpool Livingston London M4 Corridor Macclesfield Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Newton-le-Willows Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northumberland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxfordshire Peterborough Petersfield Pontypool Portsmouth Reading Rugby Runcorn Scotland Shropshire Sidcup Skelmersdale Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Lanarkshire South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southend-on-Sea Southport Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stoke-on-Trent Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Surrey Sussex Swindon Telford Thames Valley Torfaen Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warrington Warwickshire Watford West Bromwich West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Windsor Worcester Worcestershire Worthing York Yorkshire	3 months to 21 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	38	55
Rank change on same period last year	+17
Matching contract IT job ads	24	6
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.032 %	0.006 %
As % of the category below	21.24 %	7.792 %
Daily rates quoted	9	3
Average minimum daily rate	£288	£300
Average daily rate	£288	£300
% change on same period last year	-4.07 %
Average maximum daily rate	£288	£300
UK excluding London average daily rate	£324	£320
% change on same period last year	+1.44 %
Hourly rates quoted	1	0
Average minimum hourly rate	£10.00	-
Average hourly rate	£11.00	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	£12.00	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£31.88	£34.23
% change on same period last year	-6.87 %
Qualifications Cheshire
Matching contract IT job ads	113	77
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.149 %	0.077 %
Daily rates quoted	44	15
Average minimum daily rate	£245	£353
Average daily rate	£256	£365
% change on same period last year	-30.00 %
Average maximum daily rate	£266	£377
UK excluding London average daily rate	£331	£329
% change on same period last year	+0.48 %
Hourly rates quoted	15	10
Average minimum hourly rate	£17.50	£26.70
Average hourly rate	£18.45	£27.52
% change on same period last year	-32.93 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£19.40	£28.34
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£24.31	£25.67
% change on same period last year	-5.30 %
ISEB North West

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.

ISEB
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing ISEB across the Cheshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Qualifications category.

ISEB
Daily Rate Trend

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

ISEB
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing ISEB across the Cheshire region over the 3 months to 21 August 2008.

ISEB
Hourly Rate Trend

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

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Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing ISEB within the Cheshire region over the 3 months to 21 August 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
Warrington	+9	10	£284	-
Chester	+9	8	-	-
Runcorn	-	1	-	-
Macclesfield	-	1	-	-

ISEB North West

ISEB
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 15 (39.47 %) Finance 2 14 (36.84 %) Software Testing 3 9 (23.68 %) QA 3 9 (23.68 %) TestDirector 3 9 (23.68 %) E-Commerce 4 8 (21.05 %) Oracle 4 8 (21.05 %) Test Scripting 5 7 (18.42 %) ISTQB 5 7 (18.42 %) User Acceptance Testing 5 7 (18.42 %) XML 5 7 (18.42 %) SQL 5 7 (18.42 %) PRINCE2 6 6 (15.79 %) Oracle Reports 6 6 (15.79 %) PL/SQL 6 6 (15.79 %) Replication

7 5 (13.16 %) Incident Management 8 4 (10.53 %) Banking 8 4 (10.53 %) QuickTest Pro 8 4 (10.53 %) LoadRunner 8 4 (10.53 %) ITIL 9 3 (7.895 %) J2EE 9 3 (7.895 %) WebServices 9 3 (7.895 %) Java 9 3 (7.895 %) Windows 9 3 (7.895 %) Regression Testing 9 3 (7.895 %) Disaster Recovery 9 3 (7.895 %) ISEB Practitioner 9 3 (7.895 %) AJAX 9 3 (7.895 %) V-Model 10 2 (5.263 %) Performance Testing

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development 1 7 (18.42 %) XML 2 3 (7.895 %) J2EE 2 3 (7.895 %) WebServices 2 3 (7.895 %) AJAX 3 1 (2.632 %) UIQ	Application Platforms 1 1 (2.632 %) CICS 1 1 (2.632 %) Apache 1 1 (2.632 %) WebLogic
Applications 1 2 (5.263 %) MS Excel 2 1 (2.632 %) MS Visio 2 1 (2.632 %) MS Office	Communications & Networking 1 2 (5.263 %) Internet 2 1 (2.632 %) 3G
Database & Business Intelligence 1 6 (15.79 %) Oracle Reports 2 1 (2.632 %) DB2	Development Applications 1 9 (23.68 %) TestDirector 2 4 (10.53 %) QuickTest Pro 2 4 (10.53 %) LoadRunner 3 2 (5.263 %) WinRunner
General 1 15 (39.47 %) Finance 2 4 (10.53 %) Banking 3 1 (2.632 %) Financial Institution 3 1 (2.632 %) Telecoms 3 1 (2.632 %) Education 3 1 (2.632 %) Government 3 1 (2.632 %) Health 3 1 (2.632 %) Pensions 3 1 (2.632 %) International Banking 3 1 (2.632 %) Online Banking 3 1 (2.632 %) Marketing 3 1 (2.632 %) Insurance	Job Titles 1 19 (50.00 %) Analyst 2 18 (47.37 %) Test Analyst 3 8 (21.05 %) Tester 4 5 (13.16 %) Technical Analyst 4 5 (13.16 %) Test Manager 4 5 (13.16 %) Technical Test Analyst 5 2 (5.263 %) UAT Test Manager 5 2 (5.263 %) Software Tester 5 2 (5.263 %) Architect 6 1 (2.632 %) Support Analyst 6 1 (2.632 %) Infrastructure Analyst 6 1 (2.632 %) Administrator 6 1 (2.632 %) Performance Tester 6 1 (2.632 %) Test Engineer 6 1 (2.632 %) IT Administrator 6 1 (2.632 %) Risk Manager 6 1 (2.632 %) Performance Test Analyst 6 1 (2.632 %) Web Test Analyst 6 1 (2.632 %) Performance Analyst 6 1 (2.632 %) UAT Tester
Miscellaneous 1 6 (15.79 %) Replication 2 1 (2.632 %) Client/Server 2 1 (2.632 %) Blackberry 2 1 (2.632 %) Mainframe 2 1 (2.632 %) IBM Mainframe	Operating Systems 1 3 (7.895 %) Windows 2 1 (2.632 %) UNIX 2 1 (2.632 %) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies 1 14 (36.84 %) Software Testing 2 9 (23.68 %) E-Commerce 3 8 (21.05 %) Test Scripting 4 7 (18.42 %) User Acceptance Testing 4 7 (18.42 %) PRINCE2 5 5 (13.16 %) Incident Management 6 4 (10.53 %) ITIL 7 3 (7.895 %) Regression Testing 7 3 (7.895 %) Disaster Recovery 7 3 (7.895 %) V-Model 8 2 (5.263 %) Performance Testing 8 2 (5.263 %) Test Management 8 2 (5.263 %) Validation 9 1 (2.632 %) Project Management 9 1 (2.632 %) Migration 9 1 (2.632 %) Risk Management 9 1 (2.632 %) Internet Marketing 9 1 (2.632 %) Stress Testing 9 1 (2.632 %) Web Testing 9 1 (2.632 %) Manual Testing	Programming Languages 1 7 (18.42 %) SQL 2 6 (15.79 %) PL/SQL 3 3 (7.895 %) Java 4 1 (2.632 %) C 4 1 (2.632 %) COBOL 4 1 (2.632 %) VBScript 4 1 (2.632 %) VB 4 1 (2.632 %) VBA
Qualifications 1 7 (18.42 %) ISTQB 2 3 (7.895 %) ISEB Practitioner 3 1 (2.632 %) Degree	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 9 (23.68 %) QA
System Software 1 1 (2.632 %) Active Directory	Vendors 1 8 (21.05 %) Oracle 2 2 (5.263 %) Progress 2 2 (5.263 %) Microsoft 3 1 (2.632 %) Citrix 3 1 (2.632 %) Symbian 3 1 (2.632 %) IBM