East of England Software Testing Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Software Testing skills within the East of England region with a comparison to our Processes & Methodologies category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Software Testing over the 3 months to 21 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Abingdon Amersham Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Bradford Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Cheshire City of London County Antrim Coventry Crawley Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset East Midlands East of England Edinburgh England Essex Exeter Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Guildford Hampshire Harrow Havant Hertfordshire High Wycombe Lancashire Leeds Leicestershire London Manchester Middlesex Midlands Newport North East North West Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxfordshire Peterborough Pontypool Reading Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Skelmersdale Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Staines Surrey Swindon Telford Thames Valley Torfaen UK Uxbridge Wales Warrington Warwickshire West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Worcester Worcestershire Yorkshire	3 months to 21 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	113	119
Rank change on same period last year	+6
Matching contract IT job ads	25	42
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.033 %	0.042 %
As % of the category below	1.164 %	1.749 %
Daily rates quoted	11	26
Average minimum daily rate	£282	£299
Average daily rate	£298	£313
% change on same period last year	-4.83 %
Average maximum daily rate	£314	£327
UK excluding London average daily rate	£301	£318
% change on same period last year	-5.21 %
Hourly rates quoted	2	1
Average minimum hourly rate	£23.50	£27.50
Average hourly rate	£24.50	£27.50
% change on same period last year	-10.90 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£25.50	£27.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£31.27	£29.87
% change on same period last year	+4.67 %
Processes & Methodologies East of England
Matching contract IT job ads	2148	2401
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	2.835 %	2.391 %
Daily rates quoted	734	833
Average minimum daily rate	£375	£357
Average daily rate	£400	£377
% change on same period last year	+5.93 %
Average maximum daily rate	£424	£398
UK excluding London average daily rate	£380	£377
% change on same period last year	+0.74 %
Hourly rates quoted	215	268
Average minimum hourly rate	£29.01	£30.49
Average hourly rate	£30.26	£31.93
% change on same period last year	-5.22 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£31.51	£33.37
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£30.30	£30.18
% change on same period last year	+0.42 %
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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 Software Testing across the East of England region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies 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 Software Testing across the East of England region.

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Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Software Testing across the East of England region over the 3 months to 21 August 2008.

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Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Software Testing across the East of England region.

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Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Software Testing across the East of England region over the 3 months to 21 August 2008.

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Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Software Testing within the East of England region over the 3 months to 21 August 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
Hertfordshire	-1	12	£344	+10.72 %
Cambridgeshire	+14	10	£273	+11.18 %
Essex	+1	2	£388	-13.88 %
Bedfordshire	+17	1	£175	-

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the East of England 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 (31.25 %) Windows 1 15 (31.25 %) Test Scripting 2 10 (20.83 %) ISEB 3 9 (18.75 %) SQL Server 3 9 (18.75 %) QA 4 8 (16.67 %) Java 4 8 (16.67 %) Telecoms 5 7 (14.58 %) GSM 5 7 (14.58 %) Manual Testing 6 6 (12.50 %) Windows XP 7 5 (10.42 %) SQL 7 5 (10.42 %) Finance 7 5 (10.42 %) Ericsson 7 5 (10.42 %) User Acceptance Testing 8 4 (8.333 %) STB

8 4 (8.333 %) TestDirector 8 4 (8.333 %) DTV 8 4 (8.333 %) C 8 4 (8.333 %) C# 8 4 (8.333 %) C++ 8 4 (8.333 %) IIS 8 4 (8.333 %) Oracle 8 4 (8.333 %) Tomcat 8 4 (8.333 %) Microsoft 9 3 (6.250 %) EDI 9 3 (6.250 %) Oracle 8/8i 9 3 (6.250 %) Oracle 9i 9 3 (6.250 %) Linux 9 3 (6.250 %) Mainframe 9 3 (6.250 %) Middleware

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the East of England 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 3 (6.250 %) EDI 1 3 (6.250 %) Middleware 1 3 (6.250 %) Ruby on Rails 2 2 (4.167 %) Java EE 3 1 (2.083 %) XML Schema 3 1 (2.083 %) AWT 3 1 (2.083 %) .NET 3 1 (2.083 %) J2EE 3 1 (2.083 %) Swing 3 1 (2.083 %) XML	Application Platforms 1 4 (8.333 %) IIS 1 4 (8.333 %) Tomcat
Applications 1 1 (2.083 %) Quicktime 1 1 (2.083 %) MS Visio	Communications & Networking 1 7 (14.58 %) GSM 2 2 (4.167 %) Wi-Fi 2 2 (4.167 %) Wireless 2 2 (4.167 %) Bluetooth 3 1 (2.083 %) Internet 3 1 (2.083 %) UWB
Database & Business Intelligence 1 9 (18.75 %) SQL Server 2 3 (6.250 %) Oracle 8/8i 2 3 (6.250 %) Oracle 9i 3 1 (2.083 %) RDBMS 3 1 (2.083 %) MySQL 3 1 (2.083 %) SQL Server 2005	Development Applications 1 4 (8.333 %) TestDirector 2 3 (6.250 %) Selenium 2 3 (6.250 %) FitNesse 3 1 (2.083 %) Visual Studio 3 1 (2.083 %) LoadRunner 3 1 (2.083 %) NUnit
General 1 8 (16.67 %) Telecoms 2 5 (10.42 %) Finance 3 3 (6.250 %) Retail 4 2 (4.167 %) Back Office 4 2 (4.167 %) Pharmaceutical 5 1 (2.083 %) Electronics 5 1 (2.083 %) Government 5 1 (2.083 %) Health 5 1 (2.083 %) Banking 5 1 (2.083 %) Billing 5 1 (2.083 %) Investment Banking	Job Titles 1 14 (29.17 %) Tester 2 13 (27.08 %) Analyst 2 13 (27.08 %) Test Manager 3 11 (22.92 %) Test Analyst 4 7 (14.58 %) Configuration Manager 5 5 (10.42 %) QA Analyst 6 4 (8.333 %) Test Engineer 6 4 (8.333 %) QA Test Analyst 7 2 (4.167 %) UAT Tester 7 2 (4.167 %) Systems Test Engineer 7 2 (4.167 %) Applications Tester 7 2 (4.167 %) Software Test Engineer 7 2 (4.167 %) Systems Manager 7 2 (4.167 %) Software Engineer 7 2 (4.167 %) Systems Engineer 8 1 (2.083 %) Developer 8 1 (2.083 %) Test Team Leader 8 1 (2.083 %) Software Tester 8 1 (2.083 %) Java Developer 8 1 (2.083 %) Systems Tester
Miscellaneous 1 4 (8.333 %) STB 1 4 (8.333 %) DTV 2 3 (6.250 %) Mainframe 3 1 (2.083 %) Client/Server 3 1 (2.083 %) EFT 3 1 (2.083 %) Streaming Video 3 1 (2.083 %) Cryptography 3 1 (2.083 %) IBM Mainframe	Operating Systems 1 15 (31.25 %) Windows 2 6 (12.50 %) Windows XP 3 3 (6.250 %) Linux 3 3 (6.250 %) Windows Vista 4 2 (4.167 %) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies 1 15 (31.25 %) Test Scripting 2 7 (14.58 %) Manual Testing 3 5 (10.42 %) User Acceptance Testing 4 3 (6.250 %) Performance Testing 5 2 (4.167 %) Security Cleared 6 1 (2.083 %) E-Commerce 6 1 (2.083 %) PRINCE2 6 1 (2.083 %) Project Management 6 1 (2.083 %) Configuration Management 6 1 (2.083 %) Change Management 6 1 (2.083 %) Regression Testing 6 1 (2.083 %) Scrum 6 1 (2.083 %) Agile Software Development 6 1 (2.083 %) Load Testing 6 1 (2.083 %) Volume Testing 6 1 (2.083 %) Web Testing 6 1 (2.083 %) V-Model 6 1 (2.083 %) Computer Security 6 1 (2.083 %) SC Cleared	Programming Languages 1 8 (16.67 %) Java 2 5 (10.42 %) SQL 3 4 (8.333 %) C 3 4 (8.333 %) C# 3 4 (8.333 %) C++ 4 3 (6.250 %) Ruby 5 2 (4.167 %) Perl 5 2 (4.167 %) Python
Qualifications 1 10 (20.83 %) ISEB 2 3 (6.250 %) Degree 3 1 (2.083 %) MCSE 3 1 (2.083 %) MCP 3 1 (2.083 %) Microsoft Certification 3 1 (2.083 %) ISEB Practitioner	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 9 (18.75 %) QA
Vendors 1 5 (10.42 %) Ericsson 2 4 (8.333 %) Oracle 2 4 (8.333 %) Microsoft 3 3 (6.250 %) OpenTV 4 1 (2.083 %) IBM 4 1 (2.083 %) Apple 4 1 (2.083 %) Sony