East Sussex Test Analyst Contracts

This section looks at the demand for the Test Analyst role in IT contracts within the East Sussex 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 Test Analyst in their job title over the 3 months to 29 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Abingdon Amersham Atherstone Basingstoke Bedfordshire Berkshire Birmingham Blackpool Bournemouth Bracknell Bridgend Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Chippenham City of London Coventry Crawley Croydon Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorking Dorset Durham East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh England Essex Farnham Gatwick Glasgow Gloucestershire Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harlow Harrogate Hertfordshire High Wycombe Home Counties Hove Kent Kingston Upon Thames Lancashire Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston London M4 Corridor Manchester Marlow Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Petersfield Plymouth Pontypool Portsmouth Pudsey Reading Runcorn Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Sidcup Skelmersdale Slough Solihull Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southend-on-Sea Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Telford Thames Valley Torfaen Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warrington Warwickshire Watford West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Wiltshire Windsor Worcester Worcestershire Worthing York Yorkshire	3 months to 29 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	25	32
Rank change on same period last year	+7
Matching contract IT job ads	3	6
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.004 %	0.006 %
As % of the category below	1.463 %	1.818 %
Daily rates quoted	2	1
Average minimum daily rate	£200	£250
Average daily rate	£256	£285
% change on same period last year	-10.08 %
Average maximum daily rate	£313	£320
UK excluding London average daily rate	£285	£293
% change on same period last year	-2.77 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum hourly rate	-	-
Average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£32.81	£31.46
% change on same period last year	+4.29 %
Job Titles East Sussex
Matching contract IT job ads	205	330
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.273 %	0.329 %
Daily rates quoted	47	105
Average minimum daily rate	£347	£320
Average daily rate	£365	£337
% change on same period last year	+8.40 %
Average maximum daily rate	£383	£353
UK excluding London average daily rate	£356	£355
% change on same period last year	+0.30 %
Hourly rates quoted	43	40
Average minimum hourly rate	£19.95	£16.68
Average hourly rate	£21.08	£18.03
% change on same period last year	+16.91 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£22.20	£19.37
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.79	£25.66
% change on same period last year	-7.31 %
Test Analyst South East

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 Test Analyst across the East Sussex 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 Test Analyst across the East Sussex region.

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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 Test Analyst within the East Sussex region over the 3 months to 29 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
Brighton	+6	2	£256	-
Hove	-	1	-	-

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Top 15 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 29 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the East Sussex region that cited Test Analyst 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 Test Analyst in their job title.

1 7 (50.00 %) Finance 1 7 (50.00 %) Pensions 2 5 (35.71 %) Test Scripting 3 3 (21.43 %) Insurance 3 3 (21.43 %) ISEB 4 2 (14.29 %) SQL 5 1 (7.143 %) SOA 5 1 (7.143 %) Change Management 5 1 (7.143 %) TestDirector 5 1 (7.143 %) LoadRunner 5 1 (7.143 %) QA 5 1 (7.143 %) Test Management 5 1 (7.143 %) ISEB Practitioner 5 1 (7.143 %) Automated Testing 5 1 (7.143 %) Software Testing

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 29 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the East Sussex region that cited Test Analyst 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 Test Analyst in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Development Applications 1 1 (7.143 %) TestDirector 1 1 (7.143 %) LoadRunner	General 1 7 (50.00 %) Finance 1 7 (50.00 %) Pensions 2 3 (21.43 %) Insurance
Processes & Methodologies 1 5 (35.71 %) Test Scripting 2 1 (7.143 %) SOA 2 1 (7.143 %) Change Management 2 1 (7.143 %) Test Management 2 1 (7.143 %) Automated Testing 2 1 (7.143 %) Software Testing	Programming Languages 1 2 (14.29 %) SQL
Qualifications 1 3 (21.43 %) ISEB 2 1 (7.143 %) ISEB Practitioner	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 1 (7.143 %) QA