ISEB Contracts in Cheshire
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Hourly Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for ISEB in IT contracts advertised for the Cheshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited ISEB over the 3 months to 17 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 Cheshire 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
17 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Information Systems Examinations Board (ISEB)
Rank 54 59 63
Rank change year-on-year
+5 +4
Contract jobs citing ISEB 7 8 10
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cheshire 0.970% 0.990% 1.005%
As % of the Qualifications category 4.268% 4.790% 5.780%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 5 6
Average daily rate £285 £400 £288
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-28.75% +39.13%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £261 £255 £238
10% offered a daily rate of more than £334 £485 £338
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £335 £350
% change year-on-year
-2.98% -4.28%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.50 £22.50 £27.50
% change year-on-year
+22.22% -18.18%
All Qualifications
Cheshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Qualifications category		 164 167 173
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cheshire 22.71% 20.67% 17.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 51 80 59
Average daily rate £345 £330 £265
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+4.54% +24.52%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £212 £186 £217
10% offered a daily rate of more than £511 £451 £350
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 2 6
Average hourly rate £40.00 £29.00 £12.75
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+37.93% +127.45%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.50 £23.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year
-2.17% -8.00%
ISEB
North West

ISEB
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Cheshire ISEB Jobs Demand Trend

ISEB
Daily Rate Trend

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

Cheshire ISEB Daily Rate Trend

ISEB
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Cheshire ISEB Hourly Rate Trend

ISEB
Contract Locations

The table below 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 17 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
Knutsford -5 2 £285 -45.71%
Chester -2 1 £350 -
Warrington -7 1 - -
ISEB
North West

ISEB
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, 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 6 (54.55%) HP Quality Center
2 5 (45.45%) Test Scripting
2 5 (45.45%) User Acceptance Testing
3 4 (36.36%) ISTQB
3 4 (36.36%) HP
3 4 (36.36%) SQL
4 3 (27.27%) .NET
4 3 (27.27%) Visual Studio
4 3 (27.27%) ASP.NET
4 3 (27.27%) XML
4 3 (27.27%) SQL Server
4 3 (27.27%) HTML
4 3 (27.27%) Windows XP
4 3 (27.27%) Windows
4 3 (27.27%) Finance
4 3 (27.27%) Migration
4 3 (27.27%) QA
4 3 (27.27%) Test Management
4 3 (27.27%) Test Strategy
5 2 (18.18%) Non-Functional Testing
5 2 (18.18%) Manual Testing
5 2 (18.18%) Data Migration
5 2 (18.18%) Banking
5 2 (18.18%) Retail
5 2 (18.18%) Billing
5 2 (18.18%) Software Testing
5 2 (18.18%) Validation
5 2 (18.18%) Disaster Recovery
5 2 (18.18%) MS Excel
5 2 (18.18%) CSG Singleview

ISEB
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, 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 3 (27.27%) HTML
1 3 (27.27%) .NET
1 3 (27.27%) ASP.NET
1 3 (27.27%) XML
2 1 (9.091%) XML Schema
Applications
1 2 (18.18%) MS Office
1 2 (18.18%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (18.18%) CSG Singleview
Communications & Networking
1 1 (9.091%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (27.27%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (27.27%) Visual Studio
2 1 (9.091%) LoadRunner
General
1 3 (27.27%) Finance
2 2 (18.18%) Banking
2 2 (18.18%) Retail
2 2 (18.18%) Billing
Job Titles
1 7 (63.64%) Analyst
1 7 (63.64%) Test Analyst
2 3 (27.27%) Test Manager
3 1 (9.091%) Implementation Manager
3 1 (9.091%) Defect Manager
Operating Systems
1 3 (27.27%) Windows
1 3 (27.27%) Windows XP
2 2 (18.18%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (45.45%) User Acceptance Testing
1 5 (45.45%) Test Scripting
2 3 (27.27%) Test Management
2 3 (27.27%) Test Strategy
2 3 (27.27%) Migration
3 2 (18.18%) Software Testing
3 2 (18.18%) Disaster Recovery
3 2 (18.18%) Validation
3 2 (18.18%) Data Migration
3 2 (18.18%) Non-Functional Testing
3 2 (18.18%) Manual Testing
4 1 (9.091%) Time Management
4 1 (9.091%) Agile Testing
4 1 (9.091%) ITIL
4 1 (9.091%) RDF
4 1 (9.091%) Project Management
4 1 (9.091%) Problem Management
4 1 (9.091%) Automated Testing
Programming Languages
1 4 (36.36%) SQL
2 1 (9.091%) C
2 1 (9.091%) C#
Qualifications
1 4 (36.36%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (27.27%) QA
System Software
1 1 (9.091%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 6 (54.55%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 4 (36.36%) HP
2 1 (9.091%) Citrix
2 1 (9.091%) AppSense
2 1 (9.091%) Oracle
2 1 (9.091%) Microsoft
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