Functional Testing Contracts in 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 Functional Testing skills in IT contracts advertised for the England region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Functional Testing 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 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
Functional Testing
Rank 475 521 520
Rank change year-on-year
+46 -1
Contract jobs citing Functional Testing 35 37 52
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 0.084% 0.069% 0.092%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.118% 0.102% 0.135%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 21 34
Average daily rate £313 £405 £379
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-22.83% +6.93%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £253 £245 £233
10% offered a daily rate of more than £440 £425 £543
UK excluding London average daily rate £275 £425 £300
% change year-on-year
-35.29% +41.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Processes & Methodologies
England
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category		 29662 36423 38448
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 71.36% 68.27% 68.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 18133 21396 22256
Average daily rate £425 £410 £450
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+3.53% -8.88%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £275 £275 £275
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £588 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £363 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
-0.68% -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 916 1186 1394
Average hourly rate £32.00 £25.00 £29.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+28.00% -13.79%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.99 £13.50 £13.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £51.00 £45.00 £45.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.60 £25.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year
+26.40% -16.66%
Functional Testing
UK

Functional Testing
Jobs Demand Trend

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

England Functional Testing Jobs Demand Trend

Functional Testing
Daily Rate Trend

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

England Functional Testing Daily Rate Trend

Functional Testing
Daily Rate Histogram

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

England Functional Testing Daily Rate Histogram

Functional Testing
Hourly Rate Trend

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

England Functional Testing Hourly Rate Trend

Functional Testing
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Functional Testing within the 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
London +21 15 £405 +13.68%
South East +25 7 £288 -30.30%
South Coast - 4 - -
North East - 3 - -
South West +17 2 £278 -34.70%
East Midlands - 2 £275 -
East of England +13 1 £230 -20.00%
West Midlands +8 1 - -
Functional Testing
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Functional Testing
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England region citing Functional 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 Functional Testing.

1 26 (35.62%) User Acceptance Testing
2 20 (27.40%) ISEB
3 19 (26.03%) Finance
4 18 (24.66%) Test Scripting
5 15 (20.55%) Regression Testing
6 14 (19.18%) SQL
6 14 (19.18%) QA
7 13 (17.81%) Agile Software Development
8 12 (16.44%) Oracle
8 12 (16.44%) HP Quality Center
9 11 (15.07%) Performance Testing
10 10 (13.70%) Banking
11 9 (12.33%) JavaScript
11 9 (12.33%) HTML
11 9 (12.33%) Selenium
11 9 (12.33%) ISTQB
12 8 (10.96%) Investment Management
12 8 (10.96%) Siebel
13 7 (9.589%) Data Warehouse
13 7 (9.589%) Test Management
14 6 (8.219%) Investment Banking
14 6 (8.219%) System Testing
14 6 (8.219%) Security Cleared
14 6 (8.219%) Unit Testing
14 6 (8.219%) Waterfall
14 6 (8.219%) Non-Functional Testing
14 6 (8.219%) HP
14 6 (8.219%) Retail
14 6 (8.219%) Java
15 5 (6.849%) .NET

Functional Testing
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 9 (12.33%) HTML
2 5 (6.849%) .NET
3 3 (4.110%) J2EE
3 3 (4.110%) ASP.NET
3 3 (4.110%) CSS
3 3 (4.110%) Middleware
3 3 (4.110%) Spring
3 3 (4.110%) soapUI
4 2 (2.740%) Cocoa Touch
4 2 (2.740%) jQuery
4 2 (2.740%) Hibernate
4 2 (2.740%) Cocoa
4 2 (2.740%) JSP
4 2 (2.740%) SOAP
4 2 (2.740%) XML
5 1 (1.370%) XSLT
5 1 (1.370%) XHTML
5 1 (1.370%) Struts
5 1 (1.370%) Servlets
5 1 (1.370%) WinForms
Application Platforms
1 3 (4.110%) Tomcat
1 3 (4.110%) MS Exchange
1 3 (4.110%) Exchange Server 2003
1 3 (4.110%) Exchange Server 2010
2 2 (2.740%) GlassFish
2 2 (2.740%) Lotus Notes
3 1 (1.370%) Apache
3 1 (1.370%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.370%) Alfresco
3 1 (1.370%) Liferay
Applications
1 1 (1.370%) MS Office
1 1 (1.370%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (4.110%) LatentZero
1 3 (4.110%) Tesseract
1 3 (4.110%) Minerva
1 3 (4.110%) Sentinel
2 2 (2.740%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (1.370%) Oracle Payroll
3 1 (1.370%) BASE24
3 1 (1.370%) SAP FI
3 1 (1.370%) Eagle PACE
Communications & Networking
1 4 (5.479%) HTTP
1 4 (5.479%) TCP/IP
1 4 (5.479%) SSL
1 4 (5.479%) Intranet
2 3 (4.110%) Wireshark
2 3 (4.110%) NAS
2 3 (4.110%) SAN
2 3 (4.110%) LDAP
2 3 (4.110%) POP3
2 3 (4.110%) SMTP
3 2 (2.740%) CTI
3 2 (2.740%) HTTPS
4 1 (1.370%) Broadband
4 1 (1.370%) LLU
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (9.589%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (2.740%) Oracle BI EE
3 1 (1.370%) SQL Server 2008
3 1 (1.370%) MongoDB
3 1 (1.370%) SQL Server
3 1 (1.370%) Oracle 8/8i
3 1 (1.370%) TOAD
3 1 (1.370%) DataStage
3 1 (1.370%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 9 (12.33%) Selenium
2 4 (5.479%) JIRA
2 4 (5.479%) Cucumber
3 3 (4.110%) JUnit
4 2 (2.740%) Eclipse
4 2 (2.740%) QuickTest Pro
4 2 (2.740%) Subversion
4 2 (2.740%) jMock
4 2 (2.740%) Team Foundation Server
4 2 (2.740%) Mockito
4 2 (2.740%) Jenkins
5 1 (1.370%) SpecFlow
5 1 (1.370%) GitHub
5 1 (1.370%) WebDriver
5 1 (1.370%) Git (software)
5 1 (1.370%) Maven
5 1 (1.370%) IntelliJ
General
1 19 (26.03%) Finance
2 10 (13.70%) Banking
3 6 (8.219%) Retail
3 6 (8.219%) Investment Banking
4 3 (4.110%) Front Office
4 3 (4.110%) Marketing
5 2 (2.740%) Telecoms
5 2 (2.740%) Games
5 2 (2.740%) Retail Banking
6 1 (1.370%) Corporate Banking
6 1 (1.370%) Billing
6 1 (1.370%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 42 (57.53%) Analyst
2 36 (49.32%) Test Analyst
3 11 (15.07%) Test Manager
4 7 (9.589%) Tester
4 7 (9.589%) Functional Analyst
4 7 (9.589%) Functional Test Analyst
5 4 (5.479%) Siebel Analyst
5 4 (5.479%) Programme Test Manager
5 4 (5.479%) Agile Test Analyst
5 4 (5.479%) Programme Manager
5 4 (5.479%) Business Analyst
5 4 (5.479%) Developer
5 4 (5.479%) Senior Analyst
5 4 (5.479%) Senior Test Analyst
6 3 (4.110%) Test Consultant
6 3 (4.110%) Senior Consultant
6 3 (4.110%) Consultant
6 3 (4.110%) Infrastructure Analyst
6 3 (4.110%) Senior Test Consultant
7 2 (2.740%) Test Leader
Miscellaneous
1 3 (4.110%) Mobile App
2 2 (2.740%) Video on Demand
2 2 (2.740%) Client/Server
2 2 (2.740%) STB
2 2 (2.740%) IPTV
3 1 (1.370%) FMCG
3 1 (1.370%) Open Source
3 1 (1.370%) EPoS
3 1 (1.370%) EFT
3 1 (1.370%) Blackberry
3 1 (1.370%) Embedded Systems
Operating Systems
1 5 (6.849%) Windows
1 5 (6.849%) Windows Server 2003
1 5 (6.849%) Windows Server 2008
2 4 (5.479%) Apple iOS
2 4 (5.479%) Android
2 4 (5.479%) UNIX
3 2 (2.740%) Windows 2000
3 2 (2.740%) Windows XP
4 1 (1.370%) Solaris
4 1 (1.370%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (35.62%) User Acceptance Testing
2 18 (24.66%) Test Scripting
3 15 (20.55%) Regression Testing
4 13 (17.81%) Agile Software Development
5 11 (15.07%) Performance Testing
6 8 (10.96%) Investment Management
7 7 (9.589%) Test Management
8 6 (8.219%) Unit Testing
8 6 (8.219%) System Testing
8 6 (8.219%) Waterfall
8 6 (8.219%) Non-Functional Testing
9 5 (6.849%) Automation Testing
9 5 (6.849%) V-Model
9 5 (6.849%) Test Automation
9 5 (6.849%) Manual Testing
9 5 (6.849%) Scrum
9 5 (6.849%) Migration
9 5 (6.849%) CRM
9 5 (6.849%) E-Commerce
10 4 (5.479%) RDF
Programming Languages
1 14 (19.18%) SQL
2 9 (12.33%) JavaScript
3 6 (8.219%) Java
4 3 (4.110%) Python
5 2 (2.740%) Objective-C
5 2 (2.740%) Ruby
5 2 (2.740%) Perl
5 2 (2.740%) PL/SQL
5 2 (2.740%) C#
5 2 (2.740%) C++
6 1 (1.370%) Groovy
6 1 (1.370%) Scala
Qualifications
1 20 (27.40%) ISEB
2 9 (12.33%) ISTQB
3 6 (8.219%) Security Cleared
4 3 (4.110%) SC Cleared
5 1 (1.370%) DV Cleared
5 1 (1.370%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (19.18%) QA
2 1 (1.370%) ISO 8583
System Software
1 3 (4.110%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.370%) Nmap
Systems Management
1 12 (16.44%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 12 (16.44%) Oracle
2 8 (10.96%) Siebel
3 6 (8.219%) HP
4 4 (5.479%) Cognos
5 3 (4.110%) Microsoft
5 3 (4.110%) thinkFolio
6 2 (2.740%) Citrix
6 2 (2.740%) Lotus
6 2 (2.740%) SAP
7 1 (1.370%) Symbian
7 1 (1.370%) Wincor Nixdorf
7 1 (1.370%) GigaSpaces
7 1 (1.370%) VeriFone
7 1 (1.370%) Cadis
7 1 (1.370%) Twitter
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The successful Systems Analyst/Technical Author will have extensive experience: - Working within an IT environment (working with web applications) - Broad conceptual conversance of IT technologies - Knowledge of web...
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Posted: 15 May 2013
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