The first table below looks at the demand for the Senior 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 Senior Test Analyst in their job title over the 3 months to 18 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
18 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Senior Test Analyst
Rank 480 404 490
Rank change year-on-year
-76 +86
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Test Analyst 55 146 89
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 0.126% 0.275% 0.156%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.136% 0.298% 0.168%
Number of daily rates quoted 37 72 50
Average daily rate £395 £343 £338
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+15.32% +1.48%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £289 £275 £275
10% offered a daily rate of more than £535 £436 £475
UK excluding London average daily rate £340 £300 £325
% change year-on-year
+13.33% -7.69%
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
40481 49067 52965
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 92.47% 92.55% 92.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 23980 27814 29579
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 1993 2429 2822
Average hourly rate £19.00 £19.00 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -5.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.50 £11.35 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £42.30 £40.00 £42.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
Senior Test Analyst
UK

Senior Test Analyst
Jobs Demand Trend

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

England Senior Test Analyst Jobs Demand Trend

Senior Test Analyst
Daily Rate Trend

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

England Senior Test Analyst Daily Rate Trend

Senior Test Analyst
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Senior Test Analyst across the England region over the 3 months to 18 June 2013.

England Senior Test Analyst Daily Rate Histogram

Senior Test Analyst
Hourly Rate Trend

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

England Senior Test Analyst Hourly Rate Trend

Senior 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 Senior Test Analyst within the England region over the 3 months to 18 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
London -8 29 £463 +19.35% 16
South East -10 13 £363 +19.83% 4
South West +19 4 £363 +7.80% 3
North West +10 3 £325 +8.33% 1
East of England +9 2 £375 +11.11% 1
West Midlands -2 1 - -
Yorkshire -12 1 £315 +12.50% 1
East Midlands - 1 - -
North East - - - -
Senior Test Analyst
UK

Senior Test Analyst
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England region that cited Senior 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 Senior Test Analyst in their job title.

1 50 (39.37%) SQL
2 45 (35.43%) HP Quality Center
3 41 (32.28%) ISEB
4 36 (28.35%) Finance
5 33 (25.98%) Test Scripting
5 33 (25.98%) ISTQB
6 32 (25.20%) QA
6 32 (25.20%) User Acceptance Testing
7 27 (21.26%) Software Testing
7 27 (21.26%) Banking
8 24 (18.90%) Agile Software Development
9 23 (18.11%) Oracle
10 20 (15.75%) Microsoft
10 20 (15.75%) HP
11 19 (14.96%) Java
11 19 (14.96%) Investment Banking
12 17 (13.39%) Selenium
12 17 (13.39%) Manual Testing
13 16 (12.60%) Test Strategy
14 15 (11.81%) QuickTest Pro
15 14 (11.02%) XML
15 14 (11.02%) E-Commerce
15 14 (11.02%) Integration Testing
16 13 (10.24%) Performance Testing
16 13 (10.24%) Windows
17 12 (9.449%) MS Excel
17 12 (9.449%) UNIX
17 12 (9.449%) SAP
17 12 (9.449%) SQL Server
17 12 (9.449%) BDD

Senior Test Analyst
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England region that cited Senior 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 Senior Test Analyst in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 14 (11.02%) XML
2 10 (7.874%) .NET
2 10 (7.874%) Web Services
3 8 (6.299%) HTML
4 7 (5.512%) SOAP
5 5 (3.937%) Gherkin
6 4 (3.150%) CSS
6 4 (3.150%) ASP.NET
6 4 (3.150%) XML Messaging
7 3 (2.362%) ASP.NET MVC
8 2 (1.575%) NEsper
8 2 (1.575%) jQuery
8 2 (1.575%) WCF
8 2 (1.575%) RabbitMQ
8 2 (1.575%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
8 2 (1.575%) Ajax
8 2 (1.575%) WebSphere
8 2 (1.575%) .NET Framework
8 2 (1.575%) J2EE
9 1 (0.787%) COM
Application Platforms
1 3 (2.362%) Documentum
2 2 (1.575%) WebSphere Application Server
2 2 (1.575%) IBM Notes
2 2 (1.575%) Confluence
3 1 (0.787%) Lync
3 1 (0.787%) Adobe CQ
3 1 (0.787%) CICS
3 1 (0.787%) CMS
Applications
1 12 (9.449%) MS Excel
2 2 (1.575%) MS Office
2 2 (1.575%) MS PowerPoint
3 1 (0.787%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (0.787%) MS Project
3 1 (0.787%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.787%) Doxygen
Business Applications
1 2 (1.575%) SAP HR
1 2 (1.575%) LatentZero
2 1 (0.787%) MultiFonds
2 1 (0.787%) assyst
2 1 (0.787%) SAP SD
2 1 (0.787%) Oracle EBS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.150%) HTTP
2 3 (2.362%) TCP/IP
3 2 (1.575%) HTTPS
3 2 (1.575%) LAN
3 2 (1.575%) FTP
3 2 (1.575%) Intranet
3 2 (1.575%) Internet
4 1 (0.787%) Wireshark
4 1 (0.787%) SSL
4 1 (0.787%) ATM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (9.449%) SQL Server
2 3 (2.362%) Oracle Reports
2 3 (2.362%) Oracle 8/8i
2 3 (2.362%) MS Access
3 2 (1.575%) Oracle BI EE
3 2 (1.575%) SQL Server 2008
4 1 (0.787%) DB2
4 1 (0.787%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (0.787%) TOAD
4 1 (0.787%) SQL Server 2005
Development Applications
1 17 (13.39%) Selenium
2 15 (11.81%) QuickTest Pro
3 10 (7.874%) JUnit
3 10 (7.874%) WebDriver
4 9 (7.087%) LoadRunner
4 9 (7.087%) JIRA
5 8 (6.299%) Cucumber
5 8 (6.299%) Rational Performance Tester
6 7 (5.512%) Team Foundation Server
6 7 (5.512%) Jenkins
7 5 (3.937%) Visual Studio Team System
7 5 (3.937%) Git (software)
7 5 (3.937%) TestDirector
7 5 (3.937%) Maven
8 3 (2.362%) Eclipse
8 3 (2.362%) IntelliJ
8 3 (2.362%) SpecFlow
9 2 (1.575%) Hudson
9 2 (1.575%) MSTest
9 2 (1.575%) Rhino Mocks
General
1 36 (28.35%) Finance
2 27 (21.26%) Banking
3 19 (14.96%) Investment Banking
4 9 (7.087%) Front Office
5 5 (3.937%) Retail
6 4 (3.150%) Retail Banking
7 3 (2.362%) Billing
8 1 (0.787%) Corporate Banking
8 1 (0.787%) Back Office
8 1 (0.787%) Publishing
Miscellaneous
1 7 (5.512%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
1 7 (5.512%) Derivative
2 5 (3.937%) Fixed Income
2 5 (3.937%) Open Source
3 4 (3.150%) Client/Server
4 3 (2.362%) AS400
5 2 (1.575%) Mobile App
5 2 (1.575%) Mainframe
5 2 (1.575%) Interest Rate Derivative
5 2 (1.575%) Mathematics
5 2 (1.575%) Computer Science
5 2 (1.575%) Equities
5 2 (1.575%) iSeries
5 2 (1.575%) Credit Risk
5 2 (1.575%) Market Risk
6 1 (0.787%) IBM Mainframe
6 1 (0.787%) iPhone
6 1 (0.787%) Smart Meter
6 1 (0.787%) VSAM
6 1 (0.787%) Swaptions
Operating Systems
1 13 (10.24%) Windows
2 12 (9.449%) UNIX
3 7 (5.512%) Linux
4 4 (3.150%) Windows 2000
4 4 (3.150%) Windows XP
5 3 (2.362%) Apple iOS
5 3 (2.362%) Windows Server 2012
5 3 (2.362%) Android
6 1 (0.787%) Windows Server 2008
6 1 (0.787%) bada
6 1 (0.787%) Maemo
6 1 (0.787%) Mac OS X
6 1 (0.787%) zOS
6 1 (0.787%) Windows Server 2003
6 1 (0.787%) Windows Mobile
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (25.98%) Test Scripting
2 32 (25.20%) User Acceptance Testing
3 27 (21.26%) Software Testing
4 24 (18.90%) Agile Software Development
5 17 (13.39%) Manual Testing
6 16 (12.60%) Test Strategy
7 14 (11.02%) Integration Testing
7 14 (11.02%) E-Commerce
8 13 (10.24%) Performance Testing
9 12 (9.449%) BDD
10 11 (8.661%) Regression Testing
10 11 (8.661%) Validation
11 10 (7.874%) TDD
11 10 (7.874%) Test Automation
12 9 (7.087%) Test Management
12 9 (7.087%) Automation Testing
13 7 (5.512%) Automated Testing
13 7 (5.512%) Scrum
14 6 (4.724%) Migration
14 6 (4.724%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 50 (39.37%) SQL
2 19 (14.96%) Java
3 10 (7.874%) C#
4 4 (3.150%) C
5 3 (2.362%) Ruby
5 3 (2.362%) VBA
5 3 (2.362%) C++
6 2 (1.575%) T-SQL
6 2 (1.575%) PL/SQL
6 2 (1.575%) RPG
7 1 (0.787%) JCL
7 1 (0.787%) VBScript
7 1 (0.787%) VB
7 1 (0.787%) ABAP
7 1 (0.787%) JavaScript
7 1 (0.787%) PHP
Qualifications
1 41 (32.28%) ISEB
2 33 (25.98%) ISTQB
3 11 (8.661%) Degree
4 10 (7.874%) SC Cleared
4 10 (7.874%) Security Cleared
5 4 (3.150%) ISEB Practitioner
6 1 (0.787%) BC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (25.20%) QA
2 1 (0.787%) FATCA
System Software
1 2 (1.575%) Active Directory
1 2 (1.575%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (0.787%) Nmap
Systems Management
1 45 (35.43%) HP Quality Center
2 1 (0.787%) Oracle Identity Manager
2 1 (0.787%) Nessus
Vendors
1 23 (18.11%) Oracle
2 20 (15.75%) Microsoft
2 20 (15.75%) HP
3 12 (9.449%) SAP
4 9 (7.087%) IBM
5 4 (3.150%) VMware
6 2 (1.575%) Charles River
6 2 (1.575%) thinkFolio
6 2 (1.575%) Cisco
6 2 (1.575%) Lotus
6 2 (1.575%) Siebel
6 2 (1.575%) Sun
7 1 (0.787%) Murex
7 1 (0.787%) SmartStream
7 1 (0.787%) Symbian
7 1 (0.787%) CheckPoint
7 1 (0.787%) Reuters
7 1 (0.787%) Bloomberg
7 1 (0.787%) Citrix
7 1 (0.787%) ArcSight
London
Strong Unix and XML is essential... Key Words: Testing, Test Analyst, Investment Banking, London, UNIX, MQ Series, Clearing, Dodd Frank, XML, EMEA, Regulatory Reporting, ISEB, ISTQB, Functional, Manual.
Orgtel
Rate: £425 - £450 per day
Posted: 13 June 2013
City of London
Manual Testing, User Acceptance Testing and Test Planning experience... Strong Microsoft Excel... ISEB qualified... Key Words: Test, Analyst, Investment Banking, ALM, Quality Centre, UAT, London, Manual Testing, ISEB,...
Orgtel
Rate: £400 - £450 per day
Posted: 12 June 2013
City of London
Strong Stress Testing, SQL and UAT background. Excellent Microsoft Excel and Access experience... Key Words: Market Risk, Test Analyst, Credit Risk, Fixed Income, UAT, Busines Analyst, Investment Banking,...
Orgtel
Rate: £500 - £600 per day
Posted: 4 June 2013
Manchester, North West
Symbian (S40, S60, 3), iOS, Android, Blackberry, Windows Mobile, OSE, SHP, Bada, Maemo.*Good knowledge of device and app architecture e.g. Android SDK, iPhone SDK, Symbian SDK,...
Harvey Nash plc
Rate: £300 - £350 per annum
Posted: 6 June 2013
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