Senior Tester Contracts in the City of London
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for the Senior Tester role 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 Senior Tester in their job title 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 Job Titles advertised 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
17 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Senior Tester
Rank 192 210 241
Rank change year-on-year
+18 +31
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Tester 9 3 5
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 0.143% 0.039% 0.051%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.154% 0.042% 0.055%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 2 4
Average daily rate £370 £350 £500
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+5.71% -30.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £308 £330 £374
10% offered a daily rate of more than £432 £370 £535
UK excluding London average daily rate £338 £315 £288
% change year-on-year
+7.14% +9.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
Average hourly rate £41.50 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Job Titles
City of London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category		 5827 7127 9041
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 92.57% 91.61% 91.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 4285 5101 6595
Average daily rate £450 £450 £500
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -10.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £280 £275 £325
10% offered a daily rate of more than £600 £625 £650
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 138 180 188
Average hourly rate £19.44 £19.00 £19.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+2.31% -2.56%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.50 £12.50 £12.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £135.00 £41.50 £40.20
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-5.40% -7.50%
Senior Tester
London

Senior Tester
Jobs Demand Trend

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

City of London Senior Tester Jobs Demand Trend

Senior Tester
Daily Rate Trend

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

City of London Senior Tester Daily Rate Trend

Senior Tester
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Senior Tester across the City of London region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

City of London Senior Tester Daily Rate Histogram

Senior Tester
Hourly Rate Trend

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

City of London Senior Tester Hourly Rate Trend

Senior Tester
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region that cited Senior 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 Senior Tester in their job title.

1 6 (54.55%) Test Scripting
2 5 (45.45%) QA
2 5 (45.45%) Selenium
2 5 (45.45%) Agile Software Development
3 4 (36.36%) Validation
3 4 (36.36%) E-Commerce
3 4 (36.36%) JIRA
3 4 (36.36%) HP Quality Center
4 3 (27.27%) WebDriver
4 3 (27.27%) Security Cleared
4 3 (27.27%) User Acceptance Testing
4 3 (27.27%) Automated Testing
4 3 (27.27%) SQL
4 3 (27.27%) Adobe
4 3 (27.27%) Adobe CQ
4 3 (27.27%) Test Management
4 3 (27.27%) Test Automation
5 2 (18.18%) Perl
5 2 (18.18%) ISEB
5 2 (18.18%) Regression Testing
5 2 (18.18%) Banking
5 2 (18.18%) C#
5 2 (18.18%) Java
5 2 (18.18%) .NET
5 2 (18.18%) Oracle
5 2 (18.18%) Finance
5 2 (18.18%) Software Testing
5 2 (18.18%) Continuous Integration
5 2 (18.18%) Manual Testing
5 2 (18.18%) System Testing

Senior Tester
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region that cited Senior 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 Senior Tester in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 2 (18.18%) .NET
2 1 (9.091%) XML
2 1 (9.091%) jQuery
Application Platforms
1 3 (27.27%) Adobe CQ
2 1 (9.091%) SAS
Business Applications
1 1 (9.091%) Oracle Financials
Communications & Networking
1 1 (9.091%) TCP/IP
1 1 (9.091%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (9.091%) SQL Server
1 1 (9.091%) Oracle Reports
1 1 (9.091%) Data Mining
Development Applications
1 5 (45.45%) Selenium
2 4 (36.36%) JIRA
3 3 (27.27%) WebDriver
4 1 (9.091%) Cucumber
4 1 (9.091%) Jenkins
4 1 (9.091%) WATIR
4 1 (9.091%) TeamCity
4 1 (9.091%) Visual Studio
4 1 (9.091%) QuickTest Pro
4 1 (9.091%) Bugzilla
4 1 (9.091%) Subversion
General
1 2 (18.18%) Finance
1 2 (18.18%) Banking
2 1 (9.091%) Retail
2 1 (9.091%) Investment Banking
2 1 (9.091%) Marketing
2 1 (9.091%) Publishing
2 1 (9.091%) Front Office
2 1 (9.091%) Telecoms
Miscellaneous
1 1 (9.091%) Fixed Income
1 1 (9.091%) Grid Computing
1 1 (9.091%) Derivative
1 1 (9.091%) Market Risk
Operating Systems
1 1 (9.091%) UNIX
1 1 (9.091%) Windows
1 1 (9.091%) Linux
1 1 (9.091%) Android
1 1 (9.091%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (54.55%) Test Scripting
2 5 (45.45%) Agile Software Development
3 4 (36.36%) E-Commerce
3 4 (36.36%) Validation
4 3 (27.27%) Test Management
4 3 (27.27%) Automated Testing
4 3 (27.27%) User Acceptance Testing
4 3 (27.27%) Test Automation
5 2 (18.18%) Continuous Integration
5 2 (18.18%) Manual Testing
5 2 (18.18%) System Testing
5 2 (18.18%) Software Testing
5 2 (18.18%) Regression Testing
6 1 (9.091%) Risk Management
6 1 (9.091%) RDF
6 1 (9.091%) Configuration Management
6 1 (9.091%) Security Testing
6 1 (9.091%) Time Management
6 1 (9.091%) Greeks
6 1 (9.091%) Predictive Modelling
Programming Languages
1 3 (27.27%) SQL
2 2 (18.18%) C#
2 2 (18.18%) Java
2 2 (18.18%) Perl
3 1 (9.091%) JavaScript
3 1 (9.091%) VB.NET
3 1 (9.091%) Python
3 1 (9.091%) Ruby
3 1 (9.091%) Lua
3 1 (9.091%) Bash shell
Qualifications
1 3 (27.27%) Security Cleared
2 2 (18.18%) ISEB
3 1 (9.091%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (45.45%) QA
Systems Management
1 4 (36.36%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 3 (27.27%) Adobe
2 2 (18.18%) Oracle
3 1 (9.091%) Business Objects
3 1 (9.091%) Microsoft
3 1 (9.091%) HP
3 1 (9.091%) hybris
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