ISTQB Contracts in the City of London
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for ISTQB in IT contracts advertised for the City of London region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited ISTQB over the 3 months to 20 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 City of London 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
20 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
International Software Testing Qualification Board (ISTQB)
Rank 193 205 214
Rank change year-on-year
+12 +9
Contract jobs citing ISTQB 8 15 22
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 0.127% 0.192% 0.227%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.841% 1.408% 1.852%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 11 15
Average daily rate £394 £475 £450
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-17.10% +5.55%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £350 £413 £289
10% offered a daily rate of more than £474 £525 £490
UK excluding London average daily rate £330 £303 £325
% change year-on-year
+9.09% -6.92%
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
City of London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Qualifications category		 951 1065 1188
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 15.05% 13.64% 12.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 616 639 755
Average daily rate £425 £425 £450
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -5.55%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £238 £253 £265
10% offered a daily rate of more than £563 £600 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 48 48 51
Average hourly rate £41.50 £17.85 £21.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+132.49% -15.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.00 £12.90 £14.88
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £135.00 £23.50 £36.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.50 £22.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year
- -10.00%
ISTQB
London

ISTQB
Jobs Demand Trend

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

City of London 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 City of London region.

City of London ISTQB Daily Rate Trend

ISTQB
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing ISTQB across the City of London region over the 3 months to 20 May 2013.

City of London ISTQB Daily Rate Histogram

ISTQB
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London 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 18 (78.26%) Banking
2 17 (73.91%) ISEB
3 14 (60.87%) HP Quality Center
4 13 (56.52%) Finance
5 12 (52.17%) Investment Banking
6 11 (47.83%) QA
7 10 (43.48%) Test Automation
8 9 (39.13%) HP
8 9 (39.13%) SQL
9 8 (34.78%) Degree
10 7 (30.43%) Software Testing
11 6 (26.09%) Agile Software Development
11 6 (26.09%) Test Management
11 6 (26.09%) Waterfall
11 6 (26.09%) Test Strategy
11 6 (26.09%) E-Commerce
11 6 (26.09%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 5 (21.74%) Regression Testing
12 5 (21.74%) SQL Server
12 5 (21.74%) Test Scripting
13 4 (17.39%) Web Testing
13 4 (17.39%) Automated Testing
13 4 (17.39%) Selenium
13 4 (17.39%) Derivative
13 4 (17.39%) User Acceptance Testing
13 4 (17.39%) C#
13 4 (17.39%) Java
13 4 (17.39%) Oracle
13 4 (17.39%) QuickTest Pro
13 4 (17.39%) Fixed Income

ISTQB
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London 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 3 (13.04%) .NET
2 2 (8.696%) XML
3 1 (4.348%) XSLT
3 1 (4.348%) .NET Framework
Application Platforms
1 2 (8.696%) Confluence
2 1 (4.348%) MSMQ
Business Applications
1 2 (8.696%) SAP Oil and Gas
Communications & Networking
1 2 (8.696%) VoIP
1 2 (8.696%) CTI
2 1 (4.348%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (21.74%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (17.39%) QuickTest Pro
1 4 (17.39%) Selenium
2 3 (13.04%) FitNesse
2 3 (13.04%) Maven
2 3 (13.04%) JIRA
2 3 (13.04%) Ant
2 3 (13.04%) MSBuild
3 2 (8.696%) TestNG
3 2 (8.696%) WebDriver
3 2 (8.696%) JUnit
4 1 (4.348%) LoadRunner
4 1 (4.348%) TestComplete
General
1 18 (78.26%) Banking
2 13 (56.52%) Finance
3 12 (52.17%) Investment Banking
4 3 (13.04%) Front Office
5 2 (8.696%) Electronics
5 2 (8.696%) Telecoms
5 2 (8.696%) Manufacturing
5 2 (8.696%) Marketing
6 1 (4.348%) Retail Banking
6 1 (4.348%) Retail
Job Titles
1 12 (52.17%) Analyst
2 10 (43.48%) Test Analyst
3 4 (17.39%) QA Engineer
4 3 (13.04%) Agile Test Analyst
4 3 (13.04%) Tester
5 2 (8.696%) Test Manager
5 2 (8.696%) Quality Engineer
5 2 (8.696%) Senior Analyst
5 2 (8.696%) Test Engineer
5 2 (8.696%) Senior Test Analyst
5 2 (8.696%) QA Analyst
5 2 (8.696%) UAT Tester
6 1 (4.348%) Quality Analyst
6 1 (4.348%) Business Test Analyst
6 1 (4.348%) Automation Test Analyst
6 1 (4.348%) UAT Test Manager
6 1 (4.348%) Test Leader
6 1 (4.348%) UAT Manager
6 1 (4.348%) Senior Tester
6 1 (4.348%) Project Manager
Miscellaneous
1 6 (26.09%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 4 (17.39%) Derivative
2 4 (17.39%) Fixed Income
3 2 (8.696%) SaaS
3 2 (8.696%) Equities
3 2 (8.696%) DTV
3 2 (8.696%) Mainframe
3 2 (8.696%) Client/Server
4 1 (4.348%) PMI
4 1 (4.348%) Mathematics
4 1 (4.348%) Computer Science
4 1 (4.348%) Market Risk
4 1 (4.348%) Reference Data
4 1 (4.348%) Kindle
4 1 (4.348%) Grid Computing
Operating Systems
1 2 (8.696%) Windows
2 1 (4.348%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (43.48%) Test Automation
2 7 (30.43%) Software Testing
3 6 (26.09%) Test Management
3 6 (26.09%) Waterfall
3 6 (26.09%) E-Commerce
3 6 (26.09%) Agile Software Development
3 6 (26.09%) Test Strategy
4 5 (21.74%) Regression Testing
4 5 (21.74%) Test Scripting
5 4 (17.39%) User Acceptance Testing
5 4 (17.39%) Web Testing
5 4 (17.39%) Automated Testing
6 3 (13.04%) Business Intelligence
6 3 (13.04%) User Experience Design
6 3 (13.04%) Time Management
6 3 (13.04%) Performance Testing
7 2 (8.696%) Security Testing
7 2 (8.696%) Manual Testing
7 2 (8.696%) Digital Marketing
7 2 (8.696%) Kanban
Programming Languages
1 9 (39.13%) SQL
2 4 (17.39%) C#
2 4 (17.39%) Java
3 3 (13.04%) Perl
4 2 (8.696%) C
4 2 (8.696%) C++
4 2 (8.696%) VB
4 2 (8.696%) Python
4 2 (8.696%) Ruby
5 1 (4.348%) JavaScript
5 1 (4.348%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 17 (73.91%) ISEB
2 8 (34.78%) Degree
3 1 (4.348%) ITIL Certification
3 1 (4.348%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (47.83%) QA
2 1 (4.348%) ISO 9001
Systems Management
1 14 (60.87%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 9 (39.13%) HP
2 4 (17.39%) Oracle
3 2 (8.696%) SAP
3 2 (8.696%) Microsoft
3 2 (8.696%) Murex
4 1 (4.348%) Sybase
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