Coventry Test Analyst Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for the Test Analyst role in IT contracts within the Coventry region compared to all other Job Titles we currently track. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Test Analyst in their job title over the 3 months to 3 December 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aldershot Basingstoke Bath Belfast Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Blackpool Bracknell Bradford Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Channel Islands Cheltenham Cheshire Chester City of London County Antrim Coventry Crawley Croydon Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset East Midlands East of England East Sussex Eastleigh Edinburgh England Essex Farnborough Farnham Fleetwood Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Gosport Halifax Hampshire Harrogate Hertfordshire Ipswich Isleworth Jersey Kent Lanarkshire Lancashire Leatherhead Leeds Liverpool London M4 Corridor Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Reading Runcorn Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Solihull Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Staffordshire Staines Stockport Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Surrey Sussex Swindon Tamworth Telford Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Welwyn Garden City West Malling West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Windsor Worcester Worcestershire Yeovil York Yorkshire	3 months to 3 Dec 2008	Same period last year
Rank	28	19
Rank change on same period last year	-9
Matching contract IT job ads	2	15
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.003 %	0.016 %
As % of the category below	0.913 %	5.952 %
Daily rates quoted	0	8
Average minimum daily rate	-	£277
Average daily rate	-	£281
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	£285
UK excluding London average daily rate	£299	£288
% change on same period last year	+3.78 %
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	£25.94	£31.36
% change on same period last year	-17.29 %
Job Titles Coventry
Matching contract IT job ads	219	252
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.354 %	0.275 %
Daily rates quoted	82	97
Average minimum daily rate	£294	£290
Average daily rate	£316	£300
% change on same period last year	+5.33 %
Average maximum daily rate	£339	£311
UK excluding London average daily rate	£352	£352
% change on same period last year	+0.12 %
Hourly rates quoted	34	30
Average minimum hourly rate	£16.99	£22.47
Average hourly rate	£18.52	£23.43
% change on same period last year	-20.97 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£20.05	£24.39
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.16	£23.97
% change on same period last year	-3.40 %
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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 Test Analyst across the Coventry region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles 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 Test Analyst across the Coventry region.

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Top 17 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 3 December 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Coventry 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 4 (50.00 %) Test Scripting 2 3 (37.50 %) Finance 2 3 (37.50 %) MS Excel 2 3 (37.50 %) MS Access 2 3 (37.50 %) VBA 3 2 (25.00 %) ISEB 3 2 (25.00 %) Education 3 2 (25.00 %) Government 4 1 (12.50 %) User Acceptance Testing 4 1 (12.50 %) Manual Testing 4 1 (12.50 %) Data Management 4 1 (12.50 %) SQL 4 1 (12.50 %) ODBC 4 1 (12.50 %) UNIX 4 1 (12.50 %) Client/Server

4 1 (12.50 %) Microsoft 4 1 (12.50 %) HP

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 3 December 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Coventry 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 1 (12.50 %) ODBC	Applications 1 3 (37.50 %) MS Excel
Database & Business Intelligence 1 3 (37.50 %) MS Access	General 1 3 (37.50 %) Finance 2 2 (25.00 %) Education 2 2 (25.00 %) Government
Miscellaneous 1 1 (12.50 %) Client/Server	Operating Systems 1 1 (12.50 %) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies 1 4 (50.00 %) Test Scripting 2 1 (12.50 %) Manual Testing 2 1 (12.50 %) Data Management 2 1 (12.50 %) User Acceptance Testing	Programming Languages 1 3 (37.50 %) VBA 2 1 (12.50 %) SQL
Qualifications 1 2 (25.00 %) ISEB	Vendors 1 1 (12.50 %) Microsoft 1 1 (12.50 %) HP