Edinburgh Functional Tester Contracts

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

Functional Tester
Location Aldershot Basingstoke Berkshire Brentwood Buckinghamshire Canary Wharf City of London Docklands, London East of England Edinburgh England Essex Guildford Hampshire Leeds London Nuneaton Reading South East South West Surrey Swindon Tadworth Thames Valley UK Warwickshire West Midlands West Yorkshire Wiltshire Yorkshire	3 months to 29 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	-	-
Rank change on same period last year	-
Matching contract IT job ads	0	0
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.000 %	0.000 %
As % of the category below	0.000 %	0.000 %
Daily rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum daily rate	-	-
Average daily rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£360	£294
% change on same period last year	+22.46 %
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	-	£5.35
% change on same period last year	-
Job Titles Edinburgh
Matching contract IT job ads	841	1263
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	1.121 %	1.260 %
Daily rates quoted	195	283
Average minimum daily rate	£278	£311
Average daily rate	£306	£328
% change on same period last year	-6.71 %
Average maximum daily rate	£334	£345
UK excluding London average daily rate	£356	£355
% change on same period last year	+0.30 %
Hourly rates quoted	28	51
Average minimum hourly rate	£25.51	£27.35
Average hourly rate	£27.75	£28.57
% change on same period last year	-2.86 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£29.98	£29.78
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.79	£25.66
% change on same period last year	-7.31 %
Functional Tester Scotland

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.

Functional Tester
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Functional Tester across the Edinburgh region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.