Test Strategy 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 Strategy 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 Strategy 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 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
17 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Test Strategy
Rank 101 100 112
Rank change year-on-year
-1 +12
Contract jobs citing Test Strategy 14 29 20
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the East of England 0.650% 0.984% 0.761%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.973% 1.518% 1.166%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 18 7
Average daily rate £525 £419 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+25.37% +19.64%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £325 £290
10% offered a daily rate of more than £625 £675 £415
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £388 £390
% change year-on-year
-9.67% -0.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 8 2
Average hourly rate - £37.00 £27.88
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- +32.73%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £40.00 £37.00 £31.00
% change year-on-year
+8.10% +19.35%
All Processes & Methodologies
East of England
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category		 1439 1910 1716
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the East of England 66.81% 64.81% 65.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 808 936 772
Average daily rate £375 £375 £375
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £250 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £500 £550
UK excluding London average daily rate £363 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
-0.68% -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 128 152 192
Average hourly rate £35.03 £30.50 £32.25
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+14.83% -5.42%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £19.12 £12.04 £14.70
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £43.00 £49.00 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.60 £25.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year
+26.40% -16.66%
Test Strategy
England

Test Strategy
Jobs Demand Trend

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

East of England Test Strategy Jobs Demand Trend

Test Strategy
Daily Rate Trend

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

East of England Test Strategy Daily Rate Trend

Test Strategy
Daily Rate Histogram

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

East of England Test Strategy Daily Rate Histogram

Test Strategy
Hourly Rate Trend

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

East of England Test Strategy Hourly Rate Trend

Test Strategy
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Test Strategy within the East of England 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
Cambridgeshire +18 9 £450 -
Hertfordshire -6 3 £600 +54.83%
Essex -2 1 - -
Bedfordshire - 1 - -
Test Strategy
England

Test Strategy
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the East of England region citing Test Strategy 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 Strategy.

1 10 (43.48%) QA
2 7 (30.43%) Software Testing
3 6 (26.09%) Security Testing
3 6 (26.09%) Automated Testing
4 5 (21.74%) Web Services
4 5 (21.74%) System Testing
4 5 (21.74%) ISTQB
4 5 (21.74%) User Acceptance Testing
5 4 (17.39%) Resource Management
5 4 (17.39%) Integration Testing
5 4 (17.39%) Test Management
5 4 (17.39%) ITIL
5 4 (17.39%) Oracle
5 4 (17.39%) HP
5 4 (17.39%) ISEB
5 4 (17.39%) Project Management
5 4 (17.39%) Finance
5 4 (17.39%) Migration
6 3 (13.04%) Agile Software Development
6 3 (13.04%) Retail
6 3 (13.04%) Oracle ERP
6 3 (13.04%) Middleware
6 3 (13.04%) Back Office
6 3 (13.04%) E-Commerce
6 3 (13.04%) ERP
6 3 (13.04%) PRINCE2
6 3 (13.04%) Test Automation
6 3 (13.04%) Non-Functional Testing
6 3 (13.04%) Test Scripting
6 3 (13.04%) HP Quality Center

Test Strategy
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the East of England region citing Test Strategy 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 Strategy. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 5 (21.74%) Web Services
2 3 (13.04%) Middleware
3 2 (8.696%) EDI
4 1 (4.348%) REST
4 1 (4.348%) .NET
Business Applications
1 3 (13.04%) Oracle ERP
2 2 (8.696%) Oracle Applications
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.348%) VPN
1 1 (4.348%) SAN
1 1 (4.348%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.348%) MySQL
1 1 (4.348%) SQL Server
1 1 (4.348%) Oracle 8/8i
1 1 (4.348%) Oracle 9i
1 1 (4.348%) Oracle 10g
1 1 (4.348%) SQL Server 2000
1 1 (4.348%) Microsoft Analysis Services
1 1 (4.348%) SQL Server Reporting Services
1 1 (4.348%) SQL Server 2005
1 1 (4.348%) SQL Server Integration Services
1 1 (4.348%) SQL Server Analysis Services
1 1 (4.348%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 1 (4.348%) JUnit
1 1 (4.348%) Selenium
1 1 (4.348%) FitNesse
1 1 (4.348%) Cucumber
General
1 4 (17.39%) Finance
2 3 (13.04%) Back Office
2 3 (13.04%) Retail
3 2 (8.696%) Games
4 1 (4.348%) Banking
Job Titles
1 16 (69.57%) Test Manager
2 7 (30.43%) Software Manager
3 6 (26.09%) QA Manager
4 5 (21.74%) Programme Manager
4 5 (21.74%) Software Test Manager
5 4 (17.39%) QA Test Manager
5 4 (17.39%) Test Programme Manager
6 3 (13.04%) Test Leader
7 2 (8.696%) Testing Manager
7 2 (8.696%) Programme Test Manager
7 2 (8.696%) Tester
8 1 (4.348%) Business Analyst
8 1 (4.348%) Analyst
8 1 (4.348%) Senior Consultant
8 1 (4.348%) Consultant
8 1 (4.348%) DBA
8 1 (4.348%) Senior Manager
8 1 (4.348%) Administrator
8 1 (4.348%) SQL Server DBA
8 1 (4.348%) Senior Tester
Miscellaneous
1 1 (4.348%) EPoS
1 1 (4.348%) NHS
1 1 (4.348%) Replication
1 1 (4.348%) Clustering
1 1 (4.348%) Digital Media
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.348%) UNIX
1 1 (4.348%) Windows
1 1 (4.348%) Windows Server 2003
1 1 (4.348%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (30.43%) Software Testing
2 6 (26.09%) Security Testing
2 6 (26.09%) Automated Testing
3 5 (21.74%) User Acceptance Testing
3 5 (21.74%) System Testing
4 4 (17.39%) Integration Testing
4 4 (17.39%) Test Management
4 4 (17.39%) ITIL
4 4 (17.39%) Migration
4 4 (17.39%) Project Management
4 4 (17.39%) Resource Management
5 3 (13.04%) Non-Functional Testing
5 3 (13.04%) E-Commerce
5 3 (13.04%) ERP
5 3 (13.04%) PRINCE2
5 3 (13.04%) Agile Software Development
5 3 (13.04%) Test Scripting
5 3 (13.04%) Time Management
5 3 (13.04%) Performance Management
5 3 (13.04%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (4.348%) C
1 1 (4.348%) C++
1 1 (4.348%) Java
1 1 (4.348%) Perl
1 1 (4.348%) SQL
1 1 (4.348%) T-SQL
1 1 (4.348%) Shell Script
1 1 (4.348%) Groovy
1 1 (4.348%) Scala
Qualifications
1 5 (21.74%) ISTQB
2 4 (17.39%) ISEB
3 3 (13.04%) Degree
4 1 (4.348%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (4.348%) MCITP
4 1 (4.348%) MCDBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (43.48%) QA
Systems Management
1 3 (13.04%) HP Quality Center
2 1 (4.348%) BMC PATROL
Vendors
1 4 (17.39%) Oracle
1 4 (17.39%) HP
2 1 (4.348%) BMC
2 1 (4.348%) Microsoft
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