Chester TestDirector Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for HP TestDirector for Quality Center skills within the Chester 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 3 December 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

HP TestDirector for Quality Center
Location Basingstoke Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Bournemouth Bracknell Brentford Bristol Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Channel Islands Cheltenham Cheshire Chester City of London Derby Derbyshire Docklands, London Dorset East Midlands East of England Edinburgh England Essex Farnborough Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Gosport Halifax Hampshire Hemel Hempstead Hereford Herefordshire Hertfordshire Ipswich Leeds London M4 Corridor Manchester Middlesex Midlands Newbury Newcastle Newport Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Pudsey Reading Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Solihull South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Staffordshire Suffolk Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Telford Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Wales Warrington Watford West Midlands West Wales West Yorkshire Wiltshire Windsor York Yorkshire	3 months to 3 Dec 2008	Same period last year
Rank	30	29
Rank change on same period last year	-1
Matching contract IT job ads	3	1
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.005 %	0.001 %
As % of the category below	15.79 %	9.091 %
Daily rates quoted	0	1
Average minimum daily rate	-	£250
Average daily rate	-	£260
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	£270
UK excluding London average daily rate	£312	£315
% change on same period last year	-0.94 %
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	£30.20	£25.74
% change on same period last year	+17.35 %
Development Applications Chester
Matching contract IT job ads	19	11
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.031 %	0.012 %
Daily rates quoted	3	2
Average minimum daily rate	£243	£260
Average daily rate	£251	£278
% change on same period last year	-9.63 %
Average maximum daily rate	£259	£296
UK excluding London average daily rate	£311	£324
% change on same period last year	-3.85 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	1
Average minimum hourly rate	-	£46.00
Average hourly rate	-	£46.00
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	£46.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£30.53	£30.81
% change on same period last year	-0.90 %
TestDirector Cheshire

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 Chester 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 Chester 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 Chester region.

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Top 14 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 3 December 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Chester 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 4 (66.67 %) Finance 2 3 (50.00 %) Banking 2 3 (50.00 %) Incident Management 3 2 (33.33 %) User Acceptance Testing 3 2 (33.33 %) Test Scripting 3 2 (33.33 %) E-Commerce 3 2 (33.33 %) ISEB 4 1 (16.67 %) Mainframe 4 1 (16.67 %) MS Visio 4 1 (16.67 %) Regression Testing 4 1 (16.67 %) System Testing 4 1 (16.67 %) V-Model 4 1 (16.67 %) International Banking 4 1 (16.67 %) VisionPLUS

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 3 December 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Chester 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.

Applications 1 1 (16.67 %) MS Visio	Business Applications 1 1 (16.67 %) VisionPLUS
General 1 4 (66.67 %) Finance 2 3 (50.00 %) Banking 3 1 (16.67 %) International Banking	Job Titles 1 5 (83.33 %) Analyst 1 5 (83.33 %) Test Analyst 2 1 (16.67 %) Senior Analyst 2 1 (16.67 %) Senior Test Analyst
Miscellaneous 1 1 (16.67 %) Mainframe	Processes & Methodologies 1 3 (50.00 %) Incident Management 2 2 (33.33 %) User Acceptance Testing 2 2 (33.33 %) Test Scripting 2 2 (33.33 %) E-Commerce 3 1 (16.67 %) Regression Testing 3 1 (16.67 %) System Testing 3 1 (16.67 %) V-Model
Qualifications 1 2 (33.33 %) ISEB