Test Analyst 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 Test Analyst 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 Test Analyst in their job title over the 3 months to 24 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
24 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Test Analyst
Rank 96 81 85
Rank change year-on-year
-15 +4
Contract jobs requiring a Test Analyst 118 167 198
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 1.850% 2.123% 2.021%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.002% 2.322% 2.202%
Number of daily rates quoted 101 136 137
Average daily rate £405 £375 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+8.00% -6.25%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £273 £230 £296
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £500 £475
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £300 £300
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Average hourly rate - £17.50 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £25.00 £17.50 £27.50
% change year-on-year
+42.85% -36.36%
Search 34 Test Analyst jobs in the City of London
All Job Titles
City of London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category		 5894 7192 8993
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 92.40% 91.44% 91.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 4333 5169 6545
Average daily rate £450 £450 £500
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -10.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £285 £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 138 186 197
Average hourly rate £20.00 £20.00 £19.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- +2.56%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.50 £12.50 £12.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £133.00 £41.28 £41.38
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
Test Analyst
London

Test Analyst
Jobs Demand Trend

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

City of London Test Analyst Jobs Demand Trend

Test Analyst
Daily Rate Trend

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

City of London Test Analyst Daily Rate Trend

Test Analyst
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Test Analyst across the City of London region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

City of London Test Analyst Daily Rate Histogram

Test Analyst
Hourly Rate Trend

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

City of London Test Analyst Hourly Rate Trend

Test Analyst
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region that cited Test Analyst 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 Test Analyst in their job title.

1 83 (33.20%) Banking
2 78 (31.20%) Finance
3 72 (28.80%) SQL
4 60 (24.00%) QA
5 52 (20.80%) Test Scripting
6 51 (20.40%) Microsoft
7 50 (20.00%) Investment Banking
8 44 (17.60%) User Acceptance Testing
9 40 (16.00%) ISEB
10 39 (15.60%) HP Quality Center
11 37 (14.80%) Derivative
12 34 (13.60%) Selenium
12 34 (13.60%) Test Automation
13 33 (13.20%) C#
14 30 (12.00%) Agile Software Development
15 23 (9.200%) Java
16 22 (8.800%) .NET
16 22 (8.800%) QuickTest Pro
16 22 (8.800%) JIRA
17 21 (8.400%) Front Office
17 21 (8.400%) SQL Server
18 20 (8.000%) Windows
19 19 (7.600%) TDD
19 19 (7.600%) Performance Testing
19 19 (7.600%) Manual Testing
20 18 (7.200%) E-Commerce
20 18 (7.200%) HTTP
20 18 (7.200%) Migration
21 17 (6.800%) Oracle
22 16 (6.400%) XML

Test Analyst
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region that cited Test Analyst 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 Test Analyst in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 22 (8.800%) .NET
2 16 (6.400%) XML
3 6 (2.400%) HTML
3 6 (2.400%) Web Services
3 6 (2.400%) Middleware
4 5 (2.000%) XSLT
4 5 (2.000%) COM
4 5 (2.000%) FIX Protocol
4 5 (2.000%) WPF
4 5 (2.000%) Drools
5 4 (1.600%) Gherkin
6 3 (1.200%) SOAP
7 2 (0.800%) HTML5
7 2 (0.800%) Ajax
7 2 (0.800%) ASP.NET
7 2 (0.800%) XML Messaging
8 1 (0.400%) Motif
8 1 (0.400%) JMS
8 1 (0.400%) Flash
8 1 (0.400%) XSD
Application Platforms
1 13 (5.200%) MS Exchange
2 11 (4.400%) Exchange Server 2010
2 11 (4.400%) Confluence
3 8 (3.200%) Lotus Notes
4 7 (2.800%) Exchange Server 2003
5 5 (2.000%) TIBCO EMS
6 2 (0.800%) CMS
7 1 (0.400%) SAS
7 1 (0.400%) SharePoint
7 1 (0.400%) CoreMedia CMS
7 1 (0.400%) Adobe CQ
7 1 (0.400%) Sitecore CMS
7 1 (0.400%) Liferay
Applications
1 7 (2.800%) MS Office
2 1 (0.400%) MS Excel
2 1 (0.400%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 11 (4.400%) LatentZero
2 4 (1.600%) Eagle PACE
3 3 (1.200%) Temenos T24
4 2 (0.800%) SAP GTS
4 2 (0.800%) Capstone
4 2 (0.800%) Tesseract
4 2 (0.800%) Minerva
4 2 (0.800%) Sentinel
5 1 (0.400%) SAP CRM
5 1 (0.400%) SAP HR
5 1 (0.400%) Cognos Business Intelligence
5 1 (0.400%) SAP IS-U
5 1 (0.400%) Dynamics CRM
Communications & Networking
1 18 (7.200%) HTTP
2 12 (4.800%) TCP/IP
3 5 (2.000%) SAN
4 4 (1.600%) NAS
4 4 (1.600%) POP3
4 4 (1.600%) SMTP
4 4 (1.600%) LDAP
4 4 (1.600%) SSL
4 4 (1.600%) CTI
5 2 (0.800%) Internet
5 2 (0.800%) VoIP
6 1 (0.400%) Intranet
6 1 (0.400%) HTTPS
6 1 (0.400%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (8.400%) SQL Server
2 9 (3.600%) Data Warehouse
3 7 (2.800%) Oracle BI EE
4 2 (0.800%) MySQL
5 1 (0.400%) RDBMS
5 1 (0.400%) DB2
5 1 (0.400%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 1 (0.400%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 34 (13.60%) Selenium
2 22 (8.800%) QuickTest Pro
2 22 (8.800%) JIRA
3 16 (6.400%) FitNesse
3 16 (6.400%) Cucumber
4 13 (5.200%) Visual Studio
5 11 (4.400%) Team Foundation Server
6 9 (3.600%) WebDriver
6 9 (3.600%) Concordion
7 7 (2.800%) JUnit
8 6 (2.400%) Git (software)
8 6 (2.400%) Maven
8 6 (2.400%) TestDirector
8 6 (2.400%) LoadRunner
9 5 (2.000%) Subversion
9 5 (2.000%) SpecFlow
10 3 (1.200%) Ant
10 3 (1.200%) MSBuild
10 3 (1.200%) Visual Studio Team System
10 3 (1.200%) Rational Performance Tester
General
1 83 (33.20%) Banking
2 78 (31.20%) Finance
3 50 (20.00%) Investment Banking
4 21 (8.400%) Front Office
5 6 (2.400%) Advertising
6 5 (2.000%) Back Office
6 5 (2.000%) Financial Institution
6 5 (2.000%) Retail
7 4 (1.600%) Billing
7 4 (1.600%) Retail Banking
8 3 (1.200%) Law
9 2 (0.800%) Marketing
10 1 (0.400%) Pharmaceutical
10 1 (0.400%) Telecoms
10 1 (0.400%) General Ledger
10 1 (0.400%) Publishing
Miscellaneous
1 37 (14.80%) Derivative
2 13 (5.200%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 11 (4.400%) Credit Risk
4 10 (4.000%) Credit Derivative
4 10 (4.000%) Market Risk
5 7 (2.800%) Fixed Income
5 7 (2.800%) Open Source
6 6 (2.400%) Mobile App
7 5 (2.000%) Client/Server
8 4 (1.600%) FMCG
8 4 (1.600%) iPhone
8 4 (1.600%) Blackberry
9 3 (1.200%) Mainframe
9 3 (1.200%) Management Information System
9 3 (1.200%) Equities
9 3 (1.200%) Digital Media
9 3 (1.200%) SWIFT
9 3 (1.200%) SaaS
10 2 (0.800%) APACS
10 2 (0.800%) Mathematics
Operating Systems
1 20 (8.000%) Windows
2 15 (6.000%) UNIX
3 7 (2.800%) Windows Server 2003
3 7 (2.800%) Linux
3 7 (2.800%) Apple iOS
3 7 (2.800%) Windows Server 2008
3 7 (2.800%) Android
4 4 (1.600%) Windows Phone
5 2 (0.800%) Windows 2000
5 2 (0.800%) Windows XP
6 1 (0.400%) Windows Mobile
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (20.80%) Test Scripting
2 44 (17.60%) User Acceptance Testing
3 34 (13.60%) Test Automation
4 30 (12.00%) Agile Software Development
5 19 (7.600%) TDD
5 19 (7.600%) Performance Testing
5 19 (7.600%) Manual Testing
6 18 (7.200%) E-Commerce
6 18 (7.200%) Migration
7 16 (6.400%) Regression Testing
8 15 (6.000%) Software Testing
9 14 (5.600%) Automated Testing
9 14 (5.600%) Waterfall
10 13 (5.200%) Integration Testing
11 12 (4.800%) Web Testing
11 12 (4.800%) BDD
12 11 (4.400%) Functional Testing
12 11 (4.400%) Analytics
13 10 (4.000%) Scrum
13 10 (4.000%) Asset Management
Programming Languages
1 72 (28.80%) SQL
2 33 (13.20%) C#
3 23 (9.200%) Java
4 14 (5.600%) Ruby
5 7 (2.800%) Perl
5 7 (2.800%) C
6 5 (2.000%) Python
6 5 (2.000%) C++
6 5 (2.000%) JavaScript
6 5 (2.000%) VBA
6 5 (2.000%) PowerShell
7 4 (1.600%) T-SQL
7 4 (1.600%) VB
8 2 (0.800%) Jython
8 2 (0.800%) VBScript
8 2 (0.800%) PHP
8 2 (0.800%) Shell Script
9 1 (0.400%) COBOL
9 1 (0.400%) ActionScript
9 1 (0.400%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 40 (16.00%) ISEB
2 10 (4.000%) ISTQB
3 6 (2.400%) Degree
4 4 (1.600%) DV Cleared
4 4 (1.600%) Security Cleared
5 1 (0.400%) ITIL Certification
5 1 (0.400%) ISEB Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 60 (24.00%) QA
2 5 (2.000%) Basel III
3 1 (0.400%) SLA
3 1 (0.400%) ISO 9001
3 1 (0.400%) PCI DSS
3 1 (0.400%) FATCA
System Software
1 10 (4.000%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 39 (15.60%) HP Quality Center
2 1 (0.400%) SCCM
Vendors
1 51 (20.40%) Microsoft
2 17 (6.800%) Oracle
3 12 (4.800%) HP
4 10 (4.000%) thinkFolio
5 9 (3.600%) Siebel
6 8 (3.200%) Lotus
6 8 (3.200%) Citrix
7 5 (2.000%) Charles River
7 5 (2.000%) TIBCO
7 5 (2.000%) Avaya
7 5 (2.000%) Cognos
7 5 (2.000%) SAP
7 5 (2.000%) Cadis
8 4 (1.600%) IBM
9 3 (1.200%) OpenLink
9 3 (1.200%) Mercator
9 3 (1.200%) Salesforce.com
10 2 (0.800%) T-Plan
10 2 (0.800%) Murex
11 1 (0.400%) Open Text
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