The first table below looks at the demand for System Testing skills in IT contracts advertised for the East Midlands region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited System 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 East Midlands 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
System Testing
Rank 74 76 68
Rank change year-on-year
+2 -8
Contract jobs citing System Testing 10 10 7
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the East Midlands 0.793% 0.733% 0.512%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.185% 1.131% 0.787%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 4 4
Average daily rate £550 £469 £321
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+17.33% +46.02%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £375 £319 £278
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £496 £344
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 5 1
Average hourly rate - £17.50 £26.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -32.69%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.00 £30.00 £27.75
% change year-on-year
- +8.10%
All Processes & Methodologies
East Midlands
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
844 884 889
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the East Midlands 66.93% 64.76% 64.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 405 452 377
Average daily rate £375 £375 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -6.25%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £239 £225 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £525 £500 £525
UK excluding London average daily rate £363 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
-0.68% -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 50 50 64
Average hourly rate £27.50 £34.00 £26.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-19.11% +30.76%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.00 £10.90 £14.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £35.00 £57.50 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.60 £25.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year
+26.40% -16.66%
System Testing
England

System Testing
Jobs Demand Trend

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

East Midlands System Testing Jobs Demand Trend

System Testing
Daily Rate Trend

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

East Midlands System Testing Daily Rate Trend

System Testing
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing System Testing across the East Midlands region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

East Midlands System Testing Daily Rate Histogram

System Testing
Hourly Rate Trend

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

East Midlands System Testing Hourly Rate Trend

System Testing
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing System Testing within the East Midlands 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
Derbyshire - 5 £550 -
Nottinghamshire -4 2 - -
System Testing
England

System Testing
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the East Midlands region citing System 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 System Testing.

1 6 (50.00%) SAP
1 6 (50.00%) User Acceptance Testing
2 5 (41.67%) GAP Analysis
3 4 (33.33%) Data Mapping
4 3 (25.00%) HP Quality Center
4 3 (25.00%) Data Migration
4 3 (25.00%) Finance
4 3 (25.00%) Migration
4 3 (25.00%) SAP CO-PA
5 2 (16.67%) Credit Risk
5 2 (16.67%) Market Risk
5 2 (16.67%) Integration Testing
5 2 (16.67%) Test Management
5 2 (16.67%) SAP CO
5 2 (16.67%) Retail
5 2 (16.67%) General Ledger
5 2 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
5 2 (16.67%) Scrum
5 2 (16.67%) Risk Management
6 1 (8.333%) Functional Testing
6 1 (8.333%) Smart Meter
6 1 (8.333%) Test Automation
6 1 (8.333%) Performance Testing
6 1 (8.333%) Unit Testing
6 1 (8.333%) Regression Testing
6 1 (8.333%) Client/Server
6 1 (8.333%) ERP
6 1 (8.333%) HTTP
6 1 (8.333%) ISEB
6 1 (8.333%) Pharmaceutical

System Testing
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 3 (25.00%) SAP CO-PA
Business Applications
1 2 (16.67%) SAP CO
2 1 (8.333%) SAP Retail
Communications & Networking
1 1 (8.333%) HTTP
General
1 3 (25.00%) Finance
2 2 (16.67%) Retail
2 2 (16.67%) General Ledger
3 1 (8.333%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 3 (25.00%) Test Manager
1 3 (25.00%) Consultant
1 3 (25.00%) SAP Consultant
2 2 (16.67%) Management Consultant
2 2 (16.67%) Tester
2 2 (16.67%) Risk Management Consultant
2 2 (16.67%) Risk Consultant
3 1 (8.333%) Analyst
3 1 (8.333%) Test Analyst
3 1 (8.333%) UAT Tester
3 1 (8.333%) Manual Test Analyst
3 1 (8.333%) Test Leader
Miscellaneous
1 2 (16.67%) Credit Risk
1 2 (16.67%) Market Risk
2 1 (8.333%) Smart Meter
2 1 (8.333%) Client/Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (50.00%) User Acceptance Testing
2 5 (41.67%) GAP Analysis
3 4 (33.33%) Data Mapping
4 3 (25.00%) Migration
4 3 (25.00%) Data Migration
5 2 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
5 2 (16.67%) Scrum
5 2 (16.67%) Risk Management
5 2 (16.67%) Integration Testing
5 2 (16.67%) Test Management
6 1 (8.333%) Test Scripting
6 1 (8.333%) Manual Testing
6 1 (8.333%) Test Automation
6 1 (8.333%) Functional Testing
6 1 (8.333%) Performance Testing
6 1 (8.333%) Unit Testing
6 1 (8.333%) ERP
6 1 (8.333%) Regression Testing
6 1 (8.333%) Automated Testing
6 1 (8.333%) Software Testing
Qualifications
1 1 (8.333%) ISEB
Systems Management
1 3 (25.00%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 6 (50.00%) SAP
Nottingham, Nottinghamshire
ISEB or ISTQB qualified to foundation level. -Definition and creation of test scripts for internal QA and system testing purposes... -Good knowledge of Agile development techniques such as “...
IT Retail People Ltd
Rate: Unspecified
Posted: 17 May 2013