Software Testing Contracts in Dorset
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Hourly Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for Software Testing skills in IT contracts advertised for the Dorset region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Software Testing 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 of the Processes & Methodologies category for the Dorset 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
Software Testing
Rank 26 31 24
Rank change year-on-year
+5 -7
Contract jobs citing Software Testing 6 2 15
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Dorset 3.061% 0.760% 4.950%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.000% 1.111% 6.944%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 7
Average daily rate £275 - £375
UK excluding London average daily rate £303 £300 £320
% change year-on-year
+0.83% -6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.00 £20.00 £31.50
% change year-on-year
+50.00% -36.50%
All Processes & Methodologies
Dorset
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category		 150 180 216
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Dorset 76.53% 68.44% 71.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 85 111 115
Average daily rate £350 £375 £365
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-6.66% +2.73%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £205 £275 £175
10% offered a daily rate of more than £685 £500 £475
UK excluding London average daily rate £363 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
-0.68% -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 10 8
Average hourly rate £32.00 £27.50 £40.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+16.36% -32.09%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £27.50 £25.50 £22.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £47.50 £40.00 £165.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.60 £25.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year
+26.40% -16.66%
Software Testing
South West

Software Testing
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Software Testing across the Dorset region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

Dorset Software Testing Jobs Demand Trend

Software Testing
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Software Testing across the Dorset region.

Dorset Software Testing Daily Rate Trend

Software Testing
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Software Testing across the Dorset region.

Dorset Software Testing Hourly Rate Trend

Software Testing
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Software Testing within the Dorset region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)		 Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year		 Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads		 Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months		 Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Weymouth - 4 - -
Bournemouth +2 1 - -
Poole - 1 £275 -
Software Testing
South West

Software Testing
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Dorset region citing Software Testing 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 Software Testing.

1 15 (93.75%) SQL
2 14 (87.50%) Microsoft
2 14 (87.50%) Degree
3 13 (81.25%) Test Scripting
3 13 (81.25%) Time Management
3 13 (81.25%) Retail
3 13 (81.25%) Oracle
4 9 (56.25%) Finance
4 9 (56.25%) Incident Management
4 9 (56.25%) ITIL
4 9 (56.25%) ISEB
5 7 (43.75%) Lawson
5 7 (43.75%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
5 7 (43.75%) Kronos
5 7 (43.75%) JIRA
5 7 (43.75%) JMeter
5 7 (43.75%) Fiserv
6 6 (37.50%) Analytics
6 6 (37.50%) ATG
6 6 (37.50%) Mobile Commerce
6 6 (37.50%) ISTQB
6 6 (37.50%) EPoS
6 6 (37.50%) E-Commerce
6 6 (37.50%) Web Services
7 4 (25.00%) Windows
7 4 (25.00%) User Acceptance Testing
7 4 (25.00%) Enterprise Software
8 3 (18.75%) FTP
8 3 (18.75%) Java
9 2 (12.50%) WebLogic

Software Testing
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Dorset region citing Software Testing 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 Software Testing. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 6 (37.50%) Web Services
2 2 (12.50%) JDBC
2 2 (12.50%) ODBC
2 2 (12.50%) Middleware
3 1 (6.250%) Hibernate
3 1 (6.250%) Spring
3 1 (6.250%) jQuery
3 1 (6.250%) Struts
3 1 (6.250%) HTML
3 1 (6.250%) CSS
3 1 (6.250%) XML
Application Platforms
1 2 (12.50%) WebLogic
Applications
1 1 (6.250%) MS Office
1 1 (6.250%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 7 (43.75%) Lawson
Communications & Networking
1 3 (18.75%) FTP
2 2 (12.50%) HTTP
2 2 (12.50%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (12.50%) TOAD
Development Applications
1 7 (43.75%) JMeter
1 7 (43.75%) JIRA
2 2 (12.50%) QuickTest Pro
2 2 (12.50%) LoadRunner
2 2 (12.50%) Introscope
3 1 (6.250%) JProbe
3 1 (6.250%) JProfiler
General
1 13 (81.25%) Retail
2 9 (56.25%) Finance
3 2 (12.50%) Banking
Job Titles
1 10 (62.50%) Analyst
2 9 (56.25%) Applications Support
3 6 (37.50%) Support Analyst
3 6 (37.50%) Help Desk Analyst
4 4 (25.00%) Test Leader
5 3 (18.75%) Systems Support
5 3 (18.75%) Senior Analyst
6 1 (6.250%) Java Developer
6 1 (6.250%) Junior Developer
6 1 (6.250%) Junior Java Developer
6 1 (6.250%) Test Analyst
6 1 (6.250%) Junior
6 1 (6.250%) Developer
6 1 (6.250%) QA Leader
6 1 (6.250%) Non-Functional Test Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 6 (37.50%) EPoS
2 4 (25.00%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (12.50%) SWIFT
4 1 (6.250%) Computer Science
Operating Systems
1 4 (25.00%) Windows
2 2 (12.50%) Solaris
2 2 (12.50%) Linux
2 2 (12.50%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (81.25%) Test Scripting
1 13 (81.25%) Time Management
2 9 (56.25%) Incident Management
2 9 (56.25%) ITIL
3 6 (37.50%) E-Commerce
3 6 (37.50%) Mobile Commerce
3 6 (37.50%) Analytics
4 4 (25.00%) User Acceptance Testing
5 2 (12.50%) Test Management
6 1 (6.250%) Test Strategy
6 1 (6.250%) Scrum
6 1 (6.250%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 15 (93.75%) SQL
2 3 (18.75%) Java
3 2 (12.50%) VBScript
4 1 (6.250%) VB
4 1 (6.250%) Shell Script
4 1 (6.250%) JavaScript
4 1 (6.250%) C
4 1 (6.250%) C++
Qualifications
1 14 (87.50%) Degree
2 9 (56.25%) ISEB
3 6 (37.50%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (12.50%) QA
Systems Management
1 7 (43.75%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
2 2 (12.50%) HP Quality Center
2 2 (12.50%) HP SiteScope
Vendors
1 14 (87.50%) Microsoft
2 13 (81.25%) Oracle
3 7 (43.75%) Kronos
3 7 (43.75%) Fiserv
4 6 (37.50%) ATG
5 2 (12.50%) HP
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