The first table below looks at the demand for the Agile Test Analyst role in IT contracts advertised for the England region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Agile Test Analyst in their job title over the 3 months to 19 June 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all Job Titles advertised for the 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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Agile Test Analyst
Rank 504 493 546
Rank change year-on-year
-11 +53
Contract jobs requiring an Agile Test Analyst 28 52 34
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 0.065% 0.098% 0.059%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.070% 0.106% 0.064%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 19 24
Average daily rate £350 £363 £450
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-3.44% -19.44%
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £300 £285
% change year-on-year
+16.66% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 0
Average hourly rate £20.00 £19.00 -
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+5.26% -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.00 £19.00 -
% change year-on-year
+5.26% -
All Job Titles
England
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
40014 49001 53004
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 92.47% 92.53% 92.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 23687 27821 29587
Average daily rate £400 £400 £425
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -5.88%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £240 £240 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £575 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 1959 2399 2806
Average hourly rate £19.00 £18.68 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+1.74% -6.62%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.50 £11.25 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £42.20 £40.00 £41.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £19.94
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -9.72%
Agile Test Analyst
UK

Agile Test Analyst
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Agile Test Analyst across the England region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

England Agile Test Analyst Jobs Demand Trend

Agile Test Analyst
Daily Rate Trend

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

England Agile Test Analyst Daily Rate Trend

Agile Test Analyst
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Agile Test Analyst across the England region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

England Agile Test Analyst Daily Rate Histogram

Agile Test Analyst
Hourly Rate Trend

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

England Agile Test Analyst Hourly Rate Trend

Agile Test Analyst
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Agile Test Analyst within the England region over the 3 months to 19 June 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
Find
Job
Vacancies
South East +28 15 £350 -3.44% 1
London +15 11 £400 - 4
South West +29 1 £280 -8.94%
North West +14 1 - -
Yorkshire - - - -
West Midlands - - - -
East of England - - - - 2
Agile Test Analyst
UK

Agile Test Analyst
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England region that cited Agile 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 Agile Test Analyst in their job title.

1 28 (44.44%) Agile Software Development
2 27 (42.86%) Scrum
3 24 (38.10%) SQL
4 20 (31.75%) Finance
4 20 (31.75%) Selenium
4 20 (31.75%) HP Quality Center
5 16 (25.40%) Team Foundation Server
5 16 (25.40%) HP
6 15 (23.81%) Banking
7 14 (22.22%) TDD
7 14 (22.22%) QA
7 14 (22.22%) Software Testing
8 13 (20.63%) ISEB
8 13 (20.63%) .NET
9 12 (19.05%) C#
9 12 (19.05%) Visual Studio
9 12 (19.05%) SOAP
9 12 (19.05%) E-Commerce
9 12 (19.05%) Automated Testing
10 11 (17.46%) User Acceptance Testing
10 11 (17.46%) BDD
11 10 (15.87%) soapUI
11 10 (15.87%) WebDriver
11 10 (15.87%) Oracle
12 9 (14.29%) Java
13 8 (12.70%) Test Automation
13 8 (12.70%) Test Scripting
13 8 (12.70%) ISTQB
13 8 (12.70%) Waterfall
14 7 (11.11%) JIRA

Agile Test Analyst
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England region that cited Agile 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 Agile Test Analyst in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 13 (20.63%) .NET
2 12 (19.05%) SOAP
3 10 (15.87%) soapUI
4 6 (9.524%) XML
5 3 (4.762%) .NET Framework
5 3 (4.762%) WPF
5 3 (4.762%) Web Services
5 3 (4.762%) HTML
6 2 (3.175%) WCF
7 1 (1.587%) Gherkin
7 1 (1.587%) J2EE
7 1 (1.587%) CSS
Application Platforms
1 4 (6.349%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.587%) Windows Azure
2 1 (1.587%) SharePoint 2010
2 1 (1.587%) CMS
2 1 (1.587%) IIS
Applications
1 1 (1.587%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.587%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (9.524%) SQL Server
2 4 (6.349%) Data Warehouse
2 4 (6.349%) SQL Server 2008
2 4 (6.349%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 3 (4.762%) MySQL
4 1 (1.587%) SQL Server 2012
4 1 (1.587%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 20 (31.75%) Selenium
2 16 (25.40%) Team Foundation Server
3 12 (19.05%) Visual Studio
4 10 (15.87%) WebDriver
5 7 (11.11%) JIRA
6 6 (9.524%) FitNesse
6 6 (9.524%) Cucumber
7 4 (6.349%) Ant
8 3 (4.762%) MSBuild
8 3 (4.762%) Maven
8 3 (4.762%) QuickTest Pro
9 2 (3.175%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 2 (3.175%) WATIR
9 2 (3.175%) SpecFlow
10 1 (1.587%) Jenkins
10 1 (1.587%) Behat
10 1 (1.587%) Hudson
10 1 (1.587%) Sahi
10 1 (1.587%) JBehave
10 1 (1.587%) DbUnit
General
1 20 (31.75%) Finance
2 15 (23.81%) Banking
3 4 (6.349%) Retail
4 3 (4.762%) Investment Banking
4 3 (4.762%) Retail Banking
5 2 (3.175%) Publishing
6 1 (1.587%) Corporate Banking
6 1 (1.587%) Law
6 1 (1.587%) Legal
6 1 (1.587%) Telecoms
Miscellaneous
1 3 (4.762%) Online Banking
1 3 (4.762%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 1 (1.587%) Mobile App
2 1 (1.587%) Mobile Banking
2 1 (1.587%) Derivative
2 1 (1.587%) Interest Rate Derivative
2 1 (1.587%) Computer Science
2 1 (1.587%) Swaptions
2 1 (1.587%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 7 (11.11%) Windows
2 4 (6.349%) Windows 7
3 1 (1.587%) Linux
3 1 (1.587%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (44.44%) Agile Software Development
2 27 (42.86%) Scrum
3 14 (22.22%) TDD
3 14 (22.22%) Software Testing
4 12 (19.05%) E-Commerce
4 12 (19.05%) Automated Testing
5 11 (17.46%) User Acceptance Testing
5 11 (17.46%) BDD
6 8 (12.70%) Test Automation
6 8 (12.70%) Test Scripting
6 8 (12.70%) Waterfall
7 7 (11.11%) Web Testing
8 6 (9.524%) Test Management
9 5 (7.937%) Continuous Integration
9 5 (7.937%) Regression Testing
10 4 (6.349%) Functional Testing
10 4 (6.349%) User Stories
10 4 (6.349%) Integration Testing
11 3 (4.762%) User Experience Design
11 3 (4.762%) V-Model
Programming Languages
1 24 (38.10%) SQL
2 12 (19.05%) C#
3 9 (14.29%) Java
4 2 (3.175%) JavaScript
5 1 (1.587%) Ruby
5 1 (1.587%) Groovy
5 1 (1.587%) Python
5 1 (1.587%) C
Qualifications
1 13 (20.63%) ISEB
2 8 (12.70%) ISTQB
3 4 (6.349%) Degree
3 4 (6.349%) Security Cleared
4 2 (3.175%) SC Cleared
5 1 (1.587%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (22.22%) QA
Systems Management
1 20 (31.75%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 16 (25.40%) HP
2 10 (15.87%) Oracle
3 6 (9.524%) Microsoft
4 2 (3.175%) Capita
5 1 (1.587%) ATG
5 1 (1.587%) Murex
5 1 (1.587%) Salesforce.com
5 1 (1.587%) SAP
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