Senior Tester 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 the Senior Tester 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 Tester in their job title 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 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
24 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Senior Tester
Rank 465 529 546
Rank change year-on-year
+64 +17
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Tester 48 30 25
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 0.115% 0.056% 0.044%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.125% 0.061% 0.048%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 14 14
Average daily rate £365 £320 £323
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+14.06% -0.77%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £290 £281 £263
10% offered a daily rate of more than £438 £474 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £315 £300
% change year-on-year
+11.11% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
Average hourly rate £41.50 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Job Titles
England
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category		 38421 49352 52077
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 92.41% 92.53% 92.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 22588 27902 28893
Average daily rate £400 £400 £425
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -5.88%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £240 £246 £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 1983 2412 2765
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 £11.21 £11.00 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £41.86 £40.00 £40.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
Senior Tester
UK

Senior Tester
Jobs Demand Trend

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

England Senior Tester Jobs Demand Trend

Senior Tester
Daily Rate Trend

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

England Senior Tester Daily Rate Trend

Senior Tester
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Senior Tester across the England region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

England Senior Tester Daily Rate Histogram

Senior Tester
Hourly Rate Trend

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

England Senior Tester Hourly Rate Trend

Senior Tester
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Senior Tester within the England region over the 3 months to 24 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 +58 35 £423 +30.00%
South East +19 9 £350 +16.66%
East of England +20 4 £250 -32.43%
Senior Tester
UK

Senior Tester
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England region that cited Senior Tester 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 Tester in their job title.

1 31 (33.70%) Selenium
2 30 (32.61%) Test Scripting
3 27 (29.35%) ISEB
4 24 (26.09%) Linux
5 21 (22.83%) Agile Software Development
6 19 (20.65%) Python
6 19 (20.65%) Automated Testing
7 18 (19.57%) ISTQB
8 17 (18.48%) User Acceptance Testing
8 17 (18.48%) HP Quality Center
8 17 (18.48%) TDD
9 16 (17.39%) QA
10 15 (16.30%) Web Testing
10 15 (16.30%) SQL
11 14 (15.22%) QuickTest Pro
11 14 (15.22%) Finance
11 14 (15.22%) JIRA
11 14 (15.22%) Automation Testing
12 13 (14.13%) WebDriver
12 13 (14.13%) Software Testing
12 13 (14.13%) SQL Server
12 13 (14.13%) HTTP
13 12 (13.04%) TCP/IP
13 12 (13.04%) BDD
14 11 (11.96%) Test Automation
14 11 (11.96%) Manual Testing
14 11 (11.96%) Windows
14 11 (11.96%) .NET
14 11 (11.96%) Java
14 11 (11.96%) HP

Senior Tester
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England region that cited Senior Tester 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 Tester in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 11 (11.96%) .NET
2 9 (9.783%) HTML
2 9 (9.783%) Web Services
3 6 (6.522%) soapUI
3 6 (6.522%) XML
4 5 (5.435%) SOAP
4 5 (5.435%) Cocoa
4 5 (5.435%) Cocoa Touch
5 4 (4.348%) JSON
6 3 (3.261%) WAP
6 3 (3.261%) jQuery
7 2 (2.174%) REST
7 2 (2.174%) RESTful
7 2 (2.174%) Ruby on Rails
7 2 (2.174%) Ajax
7 2 (2.174%) ASP.NET
7 2 (2.174%) Middleware
8 1 (1.087%) JSP
8 1 (1.087%) .NET Framework
Application Platforms
1 4 (4.348%) ColdFusion
2 3 (3.261%) Adobe CQ
3 2 (2.174%) Confluence
4 1 (1.087%) SAS
4 1 (1.087%) SharePoint
4 1 (1.087%) MSMQ
Applications
1 4 (4.348%) MS Excel
2 1 (1.087%) MS Project
2 1 (1.087%) MS Office
2 1 (1.087%) Doxygen
Business Applications
1 3 (3.261%) Agresso
2 1 (1.087%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (1.087%) Oracle Financials
2 1 (1.087%) Oracle EBS R12
2 1 (1.087%) SAP HCM
Communications & Networking
1 13 (14.13%) HTTP
2 12 (13.04%) TCP/IP
3 7 (7.609%) HTTPS
4 5 (5.435%) DNS
4 5 (5.435%) DHCP
5 4 (4.348%) Wireshark
6 2 (2.174%) Network Security
7 1 (1.087%) DVB
7 1 (1.087%) BSS
7 1 (1.087%) CDMA
7 1 (1.087%) GSM
7 1 (1.087%) VoIP
7 1 (1.087%) VPN
7 1 (1.087%) IPv6
7 1 (1.087%) VLAN
7 1 (1.087%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (14.13%) SQL Server
2 2 (2.174%) SQL Server 2008
2 2 (2.174%) SQL Server 2005
2 2 (2.174%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 1 (1.087%) Oracle Reports
3 1 (1.087%) Oracle 8/8i
3 1 (1.087%) Data Mining
Development Applications
1 31 (33.70%) Selenium
2 14 (15.22%) QuickTest Pro
2 14 (15.22%) JIRA
3 13 (14.13%) WebDriver
4 8 (8.696%) Cucumber
5 7 (7.609%) Team Foundation Server
6 5 (5.435%) Visual Studio
6 5 (5.435%) Jenkins
7 4 (4.348%) Hudson
7 4 (4.348%) JUnit
8 3 (3.261%) LoadRunner
8 3 (3.261%) JMeter
8 3 (3.261%) WATIR
9 2 (2.174%) MonkeyTalk
9 2 (2.174%) JBehave
9 2 (2.174%) Rational Performance Tester
10 1 (1.087%) Subversion
10 1 (1.087%) Bugzilla
10 1 (1.087%) ClearCase
10 1 (1.087%) TestComplete
General
1 14 (15.22%) Finance
2 6 (6.522%) Telecoms
3 5 (5.435%) Banking
4 3 (3.261%) Games
4 3 (3.261%) Retail
5 2 (2.174%) Retail Banking
5 2 (2.174%) Investment Banking
6 1 (1.087%) Publishing
6 1 (1.087%) Front Office
6 1 (1.087%) Marketing
Miscellaneous
1 8 (8.696%) STB
2 6 (6.522%) Video on Demand
2 6 (6.522%) Mobile App
3 5 (5.435%) IPTV
4 3 (3.261%) Management Information System
4 3 (3.261%) Replication
5 2 (2.174%) Digital Media
5 2 (2.174%) MPEG
5 2 (2.174%) Client/Server
5 2 (2.174%) Blackberry
6 1 (1.087%) Fixed Income
6 1 (1.087%) Grid Computing
6 1 (1.087%) Smartphone
6 1 (1.087%) Derivative
6 1 (1.087%) Field-Programmable Gate Array
6 1 (1.087%) Computer Science
6 1 (1.087%) Market Risk
6 1 (1.087%) Embedded Systems
Operating Systems
1 24 (26.09%) Linux
2 11 (11.96%) Windows
3 8 (8.696%) Apple iOS
3 8 (8.696%) Android
4 7 (7.609%) UNIX
5 2 (2.174%) Windows Phone
6 1 (1.087%) Windows Server 2003
6 1 (1.087%) Debian
6 1 (1.087%) Windows 2000
6 1 (1.087%) Windows XP
6 1 (1.087%) HPUX
6 1 (1.087%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (32.61%) Test Scripting
2 21 (22.83%) Agile Software Development
3 19 (20.65%) Automated Testing
4 17 (18.48%) User Acceptance Testing
4 17 (18.48%) TDD
5 15 (16.30%) Web Testing
6 14 (15.22%) Automation Testing
7 13 (14.13%) Software Testing
8 12 (13.04%) BDD
9 11 (11.96%) Test Automation
9 11 (11.96%) Manual Testing
10 10 (10.87%) Scrum
10 10 (10.87%) E-Commerce
11 9 (9.783%) Regression Testing
12 8 (8.696%) User Stories
12 8 (8.696%) Agile Testing
12 8 (8.696%) Continuous Integration
13 6 (6.522%) Performance Testing
14 5 (5.435%) Migration
14 5 (5.435%) Integration Testing
Programming Languages
1 19 (20.65%) Python
2 15 (16.30%) SQL
3 11 (11.96%) Java
4 8 (8.696%) JavaScript
5 7 (7.609%) C#
5 7 (7.609%) Ruby
6 6 (6.522%) Objective-C
7 4 (4.348%) Perl
8 3 (3.261%) Shell Script
8 3 (3.261%) C++
8 3 (3.261%) Bash shell
9 2 (2.174%) C
9 2 (2.174%) PHP
9 2 (2.174%) VB
9 2 (2.174%) Tcl
10 1 (1.087%) VB.NET
10 1 (1.087%) Lua
Qualifications
1 27 (29.35%) ISEB
2 18 (19.57%) ISTQB
3 5 (5.435%) Security Cleared
4 2 (2.174%) SC Cleared
4 2 (2.174%) Degree
5 1 (1.087%) HND
5 1 (1.087%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (17.39%) QA
System Software
1 2 (2.174%) vCloud
2 1 (1.087%) NFS
2 1 (1.087%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 17 (18.48%) HP Quality Center
2 1 (1.087%) Legato
Vendors
1 11 (11.96%) HP
2 10 (10.87%) Microsoft
3 6 (6.522%) Oracle
4 3 (3.261%) Adobe
5 2 (2.174%) Atlassian
5 2 (2.174%) Infor
5 2 (2.174%) Sun
5 2 (2.174%) IBM
5 2 (2.174%) Cognos
6 1 (1.087%) Veritas
6 1 (1.087%) SAP
6 1 (1.087%) Sybase
6 1 (1.087%) Business Objects
6 1 (1.087%) Siebel
6 1 (1.087%) hybris
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Crawley, West Sussex
E ssential Skills and Experience: At least 2 years’ experience in manual software testing... Excellent knowledge of software testing methodologies and best practice. Desirable: ISEB Foundation Certificate... Automated...
Coal IT Services
Rate: From £300 to £340 per day
Posted: 23 May 2013
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Rate: £350 - £375 per day
Posted: 22 May 2013
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