System Testing Contracts in Edinburgh
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Hourly Rate Trend Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for System Testing skills in IT contracts advertised for the Edinburgh region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited System Testing over the 3 months to 24 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 Edinburgh 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
24 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
System Testing
Rank 52 60 53
Rank change year-on-year
+8 -7
Contract jobs citing System Testing 5 3 15
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Edinburgh 0.600% 0.276% 1.158%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.876% 0.413% 1.750%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 4
Average daily rate £320 £304 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+5.34% +1.25%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £276 £301 £271
10% offered a daily rate of more than £364 £307 £370
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £326
% change year-on-year
- -0.15%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Average hourly rate - - £32.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.00 £30.00 £27.25
% change year-on-year
- +10.09%
All Processes & Methodologies
Edinburgh
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category		 571 727 857
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Edinburgh 68.55% 66.88% 66.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 269 362 465
Average daily rate £413 £375 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+10.00% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £270 £246 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £525 £475 £535
UK excluding London average daily rate £365 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
- -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 16 8
Average hourly rate £20.00 £27.50 £17.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-27.27% +57.14%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.00 £12.88 £14.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £25.45 £39.00 £43.75
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.00 £25.00 £29.50
% change year-on-year
+20.00% -15.25%
System Testing
Scotland

System Testing
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing System Testing across the Edinburgh region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

Edinburgh System Testing Jobs Demand Trend

System Testing
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing System Testing across the Edinburgh region.

Edinburgh System Testing Daily Rate Trend

System Testing
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing System Testing across the Edinburgh region.

Edinburgh System Testing Hourly Rate Trend

System Testing
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Edinburgh region citing System 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 System Testing.

1 7 (58.33%) User Acceptance Testing
2 6 (50.00%) Finance
3 5 (41.67%) ISEB
4 4 (33.33%) Test Scripting
4 4 (33.33%) SQL
4 4 (33.33%) .NET
4 4 (33.33%) SQL Server
4 4 (33.33%) Windows
5 3 (25.00%) SQL Server 2005
6 2 (16.67%) ISTQB
6 2 (16.67%) XPath
6 2 (16.67%) Windows Server 2008
6 2 (16.67%) SQL Server 2008
6 2 (16.67%) Pega
6 2 (16.67%) Management Information System
6 2 (16.67%) Workflow
6 2 (16.67%) Data Management
6 2 (16.67%) Business Analysis
6 2 (16.67%) C#
6 2 (16.67%) MS Office
6 2 (16.67%) Visual Studio
6 2 (16.67%) XML
6 2 (16.67%) XSL
6 2 (16.67%) T-SQL
6 2 (16.67%) VB.NET
6 2 (16.67%) Microsoft
6 2 (16.67%) XQuery
6 2 (16.67%) Windows Server 2003
7 1 (8.333%) Informatica
7 1 (8.333%) MS Excel

System Testing
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Edinburgh region citing System 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 System Testing. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 4 (33.33%) .NET
2 2 (16.67%) XML
2 2 (16.67%) XSL
Application Platforms
1 1 (8.333%) CMS
Applications
1 2 (16.67%) MS Office
2 1 (8.333%) MS Excel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (33.33%) SQL Server
2 3 (25.00%) SQL Server 2005
3 2 (16.67%) SQL Server 2008
4 1 (8.333%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 2 (16.67%) Visual Studio
General
1 6 (50.00%) Finance
2 1 (8.333%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 5 (41.67%) Test Analyst
1 5 (41.67%) Analyst
2 4 (33.33%) Developer
3 2 (16.67%) Software Developer
4 1 (8.333%) Coordinator
4 1 (8.333%) Tester
4 1 (8.333%) Systems Analyst
4 1 (8.333%) Test Coordinator
4 1 (8.333%) .NET Developer
4 1 (8.333%) VB.NET Developer
4 1 (8.333%) Senior Tester
4 1 (8.333%) SQL Developer
4 1 (8.333%) SQL Server Developer
4 1 (8.333%) Systems Test Analyst
4 1 (8.333%) UAT Tester
4 1 (8.333%) Test Manager
4 1 (8.333%) Test Leader
4 1 (8.333%) Manual Test Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 2 (16.67%) Management Information System
2 1 (8.333%) Computer Science
Operating Systems
1 4 (33.33%) Windows
2 2 (16.67%) Windows Server 2008
2 2 (16.67%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (58.33%) User Acceptance Testing
2 4 (33.33%) Test Scripting
3 2 (16.67%) Workflow
3 2 (16.67%) Data Management
3 2 (16.67%) Business Analysis
4 1 (8.333%) ETL
4 1 (8.333%) Regression Testing
4 1 (8.333%) Migration
4 1 (8.333%) Stakeholder Management
4 1 (8.333%) Performance Testing
4 1 (8.333%) Integration Testing
4 1 (8.333%) Content Management
4 1 (8.333%) Software Engineering
4 1 (8.333%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 4 (33.33%) SQL
2 2 (16.67%) XPath
2 2 (16.67%) C#
2 2 (16.67%) T-SQL
2 2 (16.67%) VB.NET
2 2 (16.67%) XQuery
Qualifications
1 5 (41.67%) ISEB
2 2 (16.67%) ISTQB
3 1 (8.333%) Degree
Systems Management
1 1 (8.333%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 2 (16.67%) Pega
1 2 (16.67%) Microsoft
2 1 (8.333%) Informatica
Test Lead
Edinburgh, Scotland
Test Lead, Scotland, Investment Banking, £400-450 per day A leading banking client in Edinburgh urgently requires a Test Lead, to work on a 6-month rolling contract...
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Rate: £400 - £450 per day
Posted: 15 May 2013
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