Dorset Web Tester Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for the Web Tester role in IT contracts within the Dorset 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 Web Tester in their job title over the 3 months to 4 December 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Web Tester
Location Berkshire City of London Dorset England Kent London Reading South East South Yorkshire Staffordshire Thames Valley UK West Midlands Yorkshire	3 months to 4 Dec 2008	Same period last year
Rank	-	-
Rank change on same period last year	-
Matching contract IT job ads	0	0
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.000 %	0.000 %
As % of the category below	0.000 %	0.000 %
Daily rates quoted	0	0
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Average daily rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
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UK excluding London average daily rate	£353	£269
% change on same period last year	+31.29 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum hourly rate	-	-
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% change on same period last year	-
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UK excluding London average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Job Titles Dorset
Matching contract IT job ads	217	485
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.352 %	0.529 %
Daily rates quoted	78	174
Average minimum daily rate	£307	£321
Average daily rate	£326	£341
% change on same period last year	-4.27 %
Average maximum daily rate	£346	£361
UK excluding London average daily rate	£352	£352
% change on same period last year	+0.01 %
Hourly rates quoted	55	65
Average minimum hourly rate	£20.82	£29.87
Average hourly rate	£22.78	£31.25
% change on same period last year	-27.12 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£24.74	£32.64
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.15	£23.97
% change on same period last year	-3.43 %
Web Tester South West

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 Web Tester across the Dorset 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 Web Tester across the Dorset region.

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Top 11 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 4 December 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Dorset region that cited Web 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 Web Tester in their job title.

1 2 (66.67 %) Automated Testing 1 2 (66.67 %) Software Testing 1 2 (66.67 %) Finance 1 2 (66.67 %) TestDirector 1 2 (66.67 %) W3C 2 1 (33.33 %) SQL 2 1 (33.33 %) .NET 2 1 (33.33 %) Visual Studio 2 1 (33.33 %) E-Commerce 2 1 (33.33 %) Test Scripting 2 1 (33.33 %) AJAX

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 4 December 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Dorset region that cited Web 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 Web Tester in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 1 (33.33 %) .NET 1 1 (33.33 %) AJAX	Development Applications 1 2 (66.67 %) TestDirector 2 1 (33.33 %) Visual Studio
General 1 2 (66.67 %) Finance	Miscellaneous 1 2 (66.67 %) W3C
Processes & Methodologies 1 2 (66.67 %) Automated Testing 1 2 (66.67 %) Software Testing 2 1 (33.33 %) Test Scripting 2 1 (33.33 %) E-Commerce	Programming Languages 1 1 (33.33 %) SQL