Test Leader 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 Leader 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 Leader in their job title over the 3 months to 21 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
21 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Test Lead
Rank 179 188 209
Rank change year-on-year
+9 +21
Contract jobs requiring a Test Leader 24 29 27
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 0.373% 0.369% 0.279%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.404% 0.403% 0.304%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 18 17
Average daily rate £433 £388 £475
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+11.61% -18.42%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £303 £360 £360
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £550 £510
UK excluding London average daily rate £340 £325 £375
% change year-on-year
+4.61% -13.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.00 - £42.50
All Job Titles
City of London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category		 5943 7197 8889
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 92.48% 91.54% 91.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 4362 5164 6490
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 141 183 186
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 £135.00 £41.50 £41.25
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
Test Leader
London

Test Leader
Jobs Demand Trend

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

City of London Test Leader Jobs Demand Trend

Test Leader
Daily Rate Trend

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

City of London Test Leader Daily Rate Trend

Test Leader
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Test Leader across the City of London region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

City of London Test Leader Daily Rate Histogram

Test Leader
Hourly Rate Trend

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

City of London Test Leader Hourly Rate Trend

Test Leader
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region that cited Test Leader 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 Leader in their job title.

1 20 (45.45%) Banking
2 17 (38.64%) Finance
3 11 (25.00%) User Acceptance Testing
4 8 (18.18%) HP Quality Center
5 7 (15.91%) Test Strategy
5 7 (15.91%) Investment Banking
5 7 (15.91%) Test Management
5 7 (15.91%) Test Scripting
6 6 (13.64%) QA
7 5 (11.36%) JIRA
7 5 (11.36%) SQL
7 5 (11.36%) ISEB
8 4 (9.091%) Windows
8 4 (9.091%) Blackberry
8 4 (9.091%) Financial Institution
8 4 (9.091%) Selenium
8 4 (9.091%) Manual Testing
8 4 (9.091%) Retail
8 4 (9.091%) Apple iOS
8 4 (9.091%) Android
9 3 (6.818%) Waterfall
9 3 (6.818%) Windows 8
9 3 (6.818%) Mobile App
9 3 (6.818%) Windows 7
9 3 (6.818%) Automated Testing
9 3 (6.818%) Software Testing
9 3 (6.818%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 3 (6.818%) Visual Studio
10 2 (4.545%) SAP
10 2 (4.545%) C

Test Leader
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region that cited Test Leader 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 Leader in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 2 (4.545%) .NET
1 2 (4.545%) Middleware
2 1 (2.273%) Apache CXF
2 1 (2.273%) JAX-RS
2 1 (2.273%) Spring
2 1 (2.273%) JSON
2 1 (2.273%) Hibernate
2 1 (2.273%) JMS
2 1 (2.273%) J2EE
2 1 (2.273%) Web Services
2 1 (2.273%) XML
2 1 (2.273%) XSD
2 1 (2.273%) XSLT
Application Platforms
1 1 (2.273%) Apache Solr
1 1 (2.273%) Exchange Server 2010
1 1 (2.273%) WordPress
1 1 (2.273%) ActiveMQ
1 1 (2.273%) Exchange Server 2003
1 1 (2.273%) Lotus Notes
1 1 (2.273%) Apache
1 1 (2.273%) MS Exchange
Applications
1 1 (2.273%) MS Project
1 1 (2.273%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 1 (2.273%) SAP GTS
1 1 (2.273%) Temenos T24
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.273%) Internet
1 1 (2.273%) ASN.1
1 1 (2.273%) LDAP
1 1 (2.273%) HTTP
1 1 (2.273%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.273%) NoSQL
1 1 (2.273%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (11.36%) JIRA
2 4 (9.091%) Selenium
3 3 (6.818%) Visual Studio
4 2 (4.545%) TestDirector
4 2 (4.545%) QuickTest Pro
4 2 (4.545%) Subversion
5 1 (2.273%) LoadRunner
General
1 20 (45.45%) Banking
2 17 (38.64%) Finance
3 7 (15.91%) Investment Banking
4 4 (9.091%) Financial Institution
4 4 (9.091%) Retail
5 2 (4.545%) Publishing
5 2 (4.545%) Retail Banking
6 1 (2.273%) Back Office
6 1 (2.273%) Telecoms
6 1 (2.273%) Legal
Miscellaneous
1 4 (9.091%) Blackberry
2 3 (6.818%) Mobile App
2 3 (6.818%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 1 (2.273%) SWIFT
3 1 (2.273%) Online Banking
3 1 (2.273%) Computer Science
3 1 (2.273%) STB
3 1 (2.273%) IPTV
3 1 (2.273%) Fixed Income
3 1 (2.273%) MPEG
Operating Systems
1 4 (9.091%) Windows
1 4 (9.091%) Apple iOS
1 4 (9.091%) Android
2 3 (6.818%) Windows 8
2 3 (6.818%) Windows 7
3 1 (2.273%) Windows Server 2008
3 1 (2.273%) Windows Server 2003
3 1 (2.273%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (25.00%) User Acceptance Testing
2 7 (15.91%) Test Strategy
2 7 (15.91%) Test Management
2 7 (15.91%) Test Scripting
3 4 (9.091%) Manual Testing
4 3 (6.818%) Waterfall
4 3 (6.818%) Automated Testing
4 3 (6.818%) Software Testing
5 2 (4.545%) Project Management
5 2 (4.545%) Stakeholder Management
5 2 (4.545%) Agile Software Development
5 2 (4.545%) Project Planning
5 2 (4.545%) Project Governance
5 2 (4.545%) V-Model
6 1 (2.273%) Test Automation
6 1 (2.273%) Performance Testing
6 1 (2.273%) Load Testing
6 1 (2.273%) Change Control
6 1 (2.273%) Automation Testing
6 1 (2.273%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 5 (11.36%) SQL
2 2 (4.545%) C
2 2 (4.545%) C#
2 2 (4.545%) Java
2 2 (4.545%) PHP
3 1 (2.273%) Tcl
3 1 (2.273%) Python
Qualifications
1 5 (11.36%) ISEB
2 2 (4.545%) Degree
2 2 (4.545%) ISEB Practitioner
3 1 (2.273%) ISTQB
3 1 (2.273%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (13.64%) QA
System Software
1 1 (2.273%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 8 (18.18%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 2 (4.545%) SAP
1 2 (4.545%) Microsoft
1 2 (4.545%) Reuters
1 2 (4.545%) Bloomberg
2 1 (2.273%) Fundtech
2 1 (2.273%) OpenLink
2 1 (2.273%) Mercator
2 1 (2.273%) SumTotal
2 1 (2.273%) Lotus
2 1 (2.273%) Murex
2 1 (2.273%) Citrix
2 1 (2.273%) Cognos
2 1 (2.273%) Oracle
2 1 (2.273%) Sybase
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