Test Management Contracts in the East of England
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for Test Management skills in IT contracts advertised for the East of England region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Test Management over the 3 months to 23 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 of England 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
23 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Test Management
Rank 98 116 100
Rank change year-on-year
+18 -16
Contract jobs citing Test Management 18 18 22
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the East of England 0.849% 0.610% 0.822%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.268% 0.946% 1.261%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 8 13
Average daily rate £413 £413 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +17.85%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £400 £301 £231
10% offered a daily rate of more than £550 £675 £475
UK excluding London average daily rate £375 £375 £400
% change year-on-year
- -6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Average hourly rate - £32.25 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £32.00 £32.25 £32.50
% change year-on-year
-0.77% -0.76%
All Processes & Methodologies
East of England
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category		 1419 1903 1744
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the East of England 66.93% 64.51% 65.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 804 915 788
Average daily rate £375 £363 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+3.44% -3.33%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £240 £250 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £500 £550
UK excluding London average daily rate £365 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
- -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 122 155 189
Average hourly rate £35.14 £31.00 £32.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+13.33% -3.12%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £19.12 £12.50 £13.98
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £43.00 £49.00 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.45 £25.00 £29.00
% change year-on-year
+21.78% -13.79%
Test Management
England

Test Management
Jobs Demand Trend

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

East of England Test Management Jobs Demand Trend

Test Management
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Test Management across the East of England region.

East of England Test Management Daily Rate Trend

Test Management
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Test Management across the East of England region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

East of England Test Management Daily Rate Histogram

Test Management
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Test Management across the East of England region.

East of England Test Management Hourly Rate Trend

Test Management
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Test Management within the East of England region over the 3 months to 23 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
Hertfordshire +11 6 £413 -
Cambridgeshire +12 4 £450 +53.19%
Bedfordshire - 4 £413 -
Suffolk +6 2 - -
East Anglia +12 1 - -
Norfolk -4 1 £290 -57.03%
Test Management
England

Test Management
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the East of England region citing Test Management 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 Test Management.

1 12 (40.00%) Finance
1 12 (40.00%) ISEB
1 12 (40.00%) User Acceptance Testing
2 8 (26.67%) QA
2 8 (26.67%) HP Quality Center
3 6 (20.00%) HP
3 6 (20.00%) Integration Testing
3 6 (20.00%) Test Scripting
4 5 (16.67%) Agile Software Development
4 5 (16.67%) Software Testing
4 5 (16.67%) Waterfall
4 5 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
4 5 (16.67%) Web Services
5 4 (13.33%) .NET
5 4 (13.33%) Test Automation
5 4 (13.33%) Test Strategy
5 4 (13.33%) JIRA
6 3 (10.00%) Selenium
6 3 (10.00%) ISTQB
6 3 (10.00%) ISEB Practitioner
6 3 (10.00%) Non-Functional Testing
6 3 (10.00%) System Testing
6 3 (10.00%) Time Management
6 3 (10.00%) SQL
6 3 (10.00%) Back Office
6 3 (10.00%) Middleware
7 2 (6.667%) QuickTest Pro
7 2 (6.667%) CRM
7 2 (6.667%) ISO 9001
7 2 (6.667%) Microsoft

Test Management
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the East of England region citing Test Management 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 Test Management. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 5 (16.67%) Web Services
2 4 (13.33%) .NET
3 3 (10.00%) Middleware
4 2 (6.667%) ASP.NET
4 2 (6.667%) SOAP
5 1 (3.333%) soapUI
5 1 (3.333%) ASP.NET MVC
5 1 (3.333%) LAMP
5 1 (3.333%) XML
5 1 (3.333%) POSIX
Application Platforms
1 1 (3.333%) Confluence
1 1 (3.333%) MSMQ
1 1 (3.333%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (3.333%) MS Excel
1 1 (3.333%) MS Project
1 1 (3.333%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 1 (3.333%) Oracle EBS R12
1 1 (3.333%) Oracle Financials
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.333%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.333%) Oracle Reports
1 1 (3.333%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (13.33%) JIRA
2 3 (10.00%) Selenium
3 2 (6.667%) QuickTest Pro
3 2 (6.667%) WebDriver
3 2 (6.667%) NUnit
4 1 (3.333%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 1 (3.333%) eCATT
4 1 (3.333%) Jenkins
4 1 (3.333%) JBehave
4 1 (3.333%) LabVIEW
4 1 (3.333%) Bugzilla
General
1 12 (40.00%) Finance
2 3 (10.00%) Back Office
3 2 (6.667%) Banking
3 2 (6.667%) Local Government
4 1 (3.333%) Retail
4 1 (3.333%) Publishing
4 1 (3.333%) Electronics
4 1 (3.333%) Telecoms
4 1 (3.333%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 16 (53.33%) Test Manager
2 8 (26.67%) Analyst
3 7 (23.33%) Test Analyst
4 5 (16.67%) Test Leader
5 4 (13.33%) Programme Manager
5 4 (13.33%) Test Programme Manager
6 3 (10.00%) Senior Analyst
6 3 (10.00%) Senior Test Analyst
7 2 (6.667%) Testing Manager
7 2 (6.667%) QA Analyst
8 1 (3.333%) Programme Test Manager
8 1 (3.333%) SAP Test Manager
8 1 (3.333%) Software Manager
8 1 (3.333%) Test Engineer
8 1 (3.333%) SAP Manager
8 1 (3.333%) Senior Test Consultant
8 1 (3.333%) Software Testing Engineer
8 1 (3.333%) Development Engineer
8 1 (3.333%) Test Architect
8 1 (3.333%) Test Development Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (6.667%) Kindle
2 1 (3.333%) E-Learning
2 1 (3.333%) Digital Media
Operating Systems
1 2 (6.667%) Windows
1 2 (6.667%) Linux
2 1 (3.333%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (40.00%) User Acceptance Testing
2 6 (20.00%) Integration Testing
2 6 (20.00%) Test Scripting
3 5 (16.67%) Agile Software Development
3 5 (16.67%) Software Testing
3 5 (16.67%) Waterfall
3 5 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
4 4 (13.33%) Test Automation
4 4 (13.33%) Test Strategy
5 3 (10.00%) Non-Functional Testing
5 3 (10.00%) System Testing
5 3 (10.00%) Time Management
6 2 (6.667%) CRM
6 2 (6.667%) Migration
6 2 (6.667%) Manual Testing
6 2 (6.667%) Root Cause Analysis
6 2 (6.667%) Scrum
7 1 (3.333%) Performance Testing
7 1 (3.333%) Stress Testing
7 1 (3.333%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 3 (10.00%) SQL
2 2 (6.667%) C#
3 1 (3.333%) Bash shell
3 1 (3.333%) Python
3 1 (3.333%) C++
3 1 (3.333%) Java
3 1 (3.333%) PHP
3 1 (3.333%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 12 (40.00%) ISEB
2 3 (10.00%) ISTQB
2 3 (10.00%) ISEB Practitioner
3 2 (6.667%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (26.67%) QA
2 2 (6.667%) ISO 9001
3 1 (3.333%) Data Quality
Systems Management
1 8 (26.67%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 6 (20.00%) HP
2 2 (6.667%) Microsoft
2 2 (6.667%) Sun
2 2 (6.667%) Capita
3 1 (3.333%) Perforce
3 1 (3.333%) Oracle
3 1 (3.333%) SAP
3 1 (3.333%) SunGard
3 1 (3.333%) Red Hat
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