The first table below looks at the demand for the Lead 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 Lead Test Analyst in their job title over the 3 months to 22 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 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
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Lead Test Analyst
Rank 494 552 553
Rank change year-on-year
+58 +1
Contract jobs requiring a Lead Test Analyst 20 18 11
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 0.047% 0.033% 0.020%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.051% 0.036% 0.021%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 15 9
Average daily rate £345 £320 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.81% -20.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £326 £272 £222
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £383 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £345 £300 £400
% change year-on-year
+15.00% -25.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Job Titles
England
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
39040 50214 51349
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 92.49% 92.56% 92.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 22971 28392 28508
Average daily rate £400 £400 £425
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -5.88%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £240 £245 £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 2022 2460 2732
Average hourly rate £19.00 £18.50 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+2.70% -7.50%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.13 £11.00 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £42.00 £40.00 £41.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
Lead Test Analyst
UK

Lead Test Analyst
Jobs Demand Trend

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

England Lead Test Analyst Jobs Demand Trend

Lead Test Analyst
Daily Rate Trend

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

England Lead Test Analyst Daily Rate Trend

Lead Test Analyst
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Lead Test Analyst across the England region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013.

England Lead Test Analyst Daily Rate Histogram

Lead Test Analyst
Hourly Rate Trend

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

England Lead Test Analyst Hourly Rate Trend

Lead 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 Lead Test Analyst within the England region over the 3 months to 22 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 +34 10 £475 +39.70%
South East +13 4 £325 +13.04%
South West +29 3 £345 +6.15%
East Midlands - 2 £345 -
North West - 1 £338 -
Lead Test Analyst
UK

Lead Test Analyst
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England region that cited Lead 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 Lead Test Analyst in their job title.

1 14 (35.90%) HP Quality Center
2 13 (33.33%) Test Scripting
2 13 (33.33%) User Acceptance Testing
2 13 (33.33%) Finance
3 11 (28.21%) Banking
4 10 (25.64%) SQL
4 10 (25.64%) ISEB
5 8 (20.51%) HP
6 7 (17.95%) Oracle
7 6 (15.38%) UNIX
7 6 (15.38%) Workflow
7 6 (15.38%) TDD
8 5 (12.82%) Performance Testing
8 5 (12.82%) QA
8 5 (12.82%) Integration Testing
8 5 (12.82%) Regression Testing
8 5 (12.82%) Retail
8 5 (12.82%) .NET
8 5 (12.82%) XML
8 5 (12.82%) C#
9 4 (10.26%) Microsoft
9 4 (10.26%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 4 (10.26%) User Stories
9 4 (10.26%) Software Testing
9 4 (10.26%) JIRA
10 3 (7.692%) Investment Banking
10 3 (7.692%) Automation Testing
10 3 (7.692%) Test Strategy
10 3 (7.692%) Manual Testing
10 3 (7.692%) LoadRunner

Lead Test Analyst
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England region that cited Lead 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 Lead Test Analyst in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 5 (12.82%) .NET
1 5 (12.82%) XML
2 3 (7.692%) Web Services
3 2 (5.128%) SOAP
3 2 (5.128%) .NET Framework
4 1 (2.564%) WCF
4 1 (2.564%) soapUI
4 1 (2.564%) Drools
4 1 (2.564%) HTML
4 1 (2.564%) XSLT
Application Platforms
1 3 (7.692%) Documentum
2 1 (2.564%) MQSeries
2 1 (2.564%) BizTalk Server
Business Applications
1 1 (2.564%) SAP CO
1 1 (2.564%) Oracle EBS R12
1 1 (2.564%) SAP FI/CO
1 1 (2.564%) LatentZero
1 1 (2.564%) Tesseract
1 1 (2.564%) Minerva
1 1 (2.564%) Sentinel
1 1 (2.564%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (2.564%) SAP FI
Communications & Networking
1 2 (5.128%) HTTP
2 1 (2.564%) TCP/IP
2 1 (2.564%) SMS
2 1 (2.564%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (7.692%) SQL Server
2 2 (5.128%) SQL Server Analysis Services
2 2 (5.128%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 1 (2.564%) Oracle BI EE
3 1 (2.564%) TOAD
Development Applications
1 4 (10.26%) JIRA
2 3 (7.692%) LoadRunner
3 2 (5.128%) WebDriver
3 2 (5.128%) Selenium
4 1 (2.564%) FitNesse
4 1 (2.564%) WATIR
4 1 (2.564%) SpecFlow
4 1 (2.564%) JMeter
General
1 13 (33.33%) Finance
2 11 (28.21%) Banking
3 5 (12.82%) Retail
4 3 (7.692%) Investment Banking
4 3 (7.692%) Front Office
4 3 (7.692%) Advertising
5 2 (5.128%) General Ledger
5 2 (5.128%) Retail Banking
6 1 (2.564%) Marketing
6 1 (2.564%) Back Office
Miscellaneous
1 4 (10.26%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 3 (7.692%) Client/Server
3 2 (5.128%) Fixed Income
4 1 (2.564%) Market Risk
4 1 (2.564%) Mobile App
4 1 (2.564%) Open Source
4 1 (2.564%) Equities
Operating Systems
1 6 (15.38%) UNIX
2 2 (5.128%) Windows
3 1 (2.564%) Apple iOS
3 1 (2.564%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (33.33%) Test Scripting
1 13 (33.33%) User Acceptance Testing
2 6 (15.38%) Workflow
2 6 (15.38%) TDD
3 5 (12.82%) Performance Testing
3 5 (12.82%) Integration Testing
3 5 (12.82%) Regression Testing
4 4 (10.26%) User Stories
4 4 (10.26%) Software Testing
5 3 (7.692%) Automation Testing
5 3 (7.692%) Test Strategy
5 3 (7.692%) Manual Testing
6 2 (5.128%) SOA
6 2 (5.128%) Stress Testing
6 2 (5.128%) Non-Functional Testing
6 2 (5.128%) Agile Software Development
7 1 (2.564%) Load Testing
7 1 (2.564%) Web Development
7 1 (2.564%) Test Automation
7 1 (2.564%) Agile Testing
Programming Languages
1 10 (25.64%) SQL
2 5 (12.82%) C#
3 3 (7.692%) Java
3 3 (7.692%) VBScript
3 3 (7.692%) VB
4 2 (5.128%) C
4 2 (5.128%) VBA
5 1 (2.564%) Python
5 1 (2.564%) JavaScript
5 1 (2.564%) Perl
5 1 (2.564%) C++
Qualifications
1 10 (25.64%) ISEB
2 1 (2.564%) ISTQB
2 1 (2.564%) SC Cleared
2 1 (2.564%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (12.82%) QA
Systems Management
1 14 (35.90%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 8 (20.51%) HP
2 7 (17.95%) Oracle
3 4 (10.26%) Microsoft
4 1 (2.564%) Murex
4 1 (2.564%) Calypso
4 1 (2.564%) Hyperion
4 1 (2.564%) SAP
4 1 (2.564%) VMware
4 1 (2.564%) webMethods
London
The successful Lead Test Analyst will meet the following requirements: Excellent Test/QA analyst experience Experience of MQ Series, Coherence, XSLT and Drools rules engine would be ideal...
Orgtel
Rate: £450 - £500 per day
Posted: 15 May 2013