Software Test Analyst Contracts in England
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Hourly Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for the Software 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 Software Test Analyst in their job title over the 3 months to 20 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
20 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Software Test Analyst
Rank 498 533 554
Rank change year-on-year
+35 +21
Contract jobs requiring a Software Test Analyst 5 33 16
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 0.012% 0.062% 0.029%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.013% 0.067% 0.031%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 10 6
Average daily rate £255 £290 £323
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-12.06% -10.07%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £233 £225 £283
10% offered a daily rate of more than £271 £385 £335
UK excluding London average daily rate £263 £290 £310
% change year-on-year
-9.48% -6.45%
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		 38599 49457 51411
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 92.55% 92.65% 92.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 22682 27982 28506
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 2004 2401 2726
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 £11.13 £11.00 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £42.00 £40.00 £40.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
Software Test Analyst
UK

Software Test Analyst
Jobs Demand Trend

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

England Software Test Analyst Jobs Demand Trend

Software Test Analyst
Daily Rate Trend

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

England Software Test Analyst Daily Rate Trend

Software Test Analyst
Hourly Rate Trend

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

England Software Test Analyst Hourly Rate Trend

Software 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 Software Test Analyst within the England region over the 3 months to 20 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
North West +18 2 £263 -7.89%
London -2 2 £243 +7.77%
Yorkshire - 1 - -
Software Test Analyst
UK

Software Test Analyst
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England region that cited Software 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 Software Test Analyst in their job title.

1 10 (55.56%) SQL
2 8 (44.44%) ISEB
2 8 (44.44%) Test Scripting
3 5 (27.78%) Banking
3 5 (27.78%) Retail
3 5 (27.78%) Finance
3 5 (27.78%) .NET
3 5 (27.78%) Software Testing
3 5 (27.78%) Retail Banking
3 5 (27.78%) Fiserv
4 4 (22.22%) User Acceptance Testing
5 3 (16.67%) JIRA
5 3 (16.67%) HP Quality Center
5 3 (16.67%) Oracle
5 3 (16.67%) MS Excel
5 3 (16.67%) Microsoft
5 3 (16.67%) Regression Testing
5 3 (16.67%) Agile Software Development
5 3 (16.67%) Automated Testing
6 2 (11.11%) STB
6 2 (11.11%) Java
6 2 (11.11%) MPEG
6 2 (11.11%) UNIX
6 2 (11.11%) MS Office
6 2 (11.11%) VBScript
6 2 (11.11%) VB.NET
6 2 (11.11%) System Testing
6 2 (11.11%) Digital Media
6 2 (11.11%) QA
7 1 (5.556%) SQL Server Integration Services

Software Test Analyst
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 5 (27.78%) .NET
2 1 (5.556%) SOAP
2 1 (5.556%) WSDL
2 1 (5.556%) BPEL4WS
2 1 (5.556%) WebSphere
Applications
1 3 (16.67%) MS Excel
2 2 (11.11%) MS Office
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.556%) MySQL
1 1 (5.556%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 3 (16.67%) JIRA
2 1 (5.556%) Rational Performance Tester
2 1 (5.556%) LoadRunner
General
1 5 (27.78%) Finance
1 5 (27.78%) Banking
1 5 (27.78%) Retail
1 5 (27.78%) Retail Banking
Miscellaneous
1 2 (11.11%) MPEG
1 2 (11.11%) STB
1 2 (11.11%) Digital Media
Operating Systems
1 2 (11.11%) UNIX
2 1 (5.556%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (44.44%) Test Scripting
2 5 (27.78%) Software Testing
3 4 (22.22%) User Acceptance Testing
4 3 (16.67%) Regression Testing
4 3 (16.67%) Agile Software Development
4 3 (16.67%) Automated Testing
5 2 (11.11%) System Testing
6 1 (5.556%) Test Automation
6 1 (5.556%) Software Architecture
6 1 (5.556%) Waterfall
6 1 (5.556%) Change Control
6 1 (5.556%) Test Strategy
6 1 (5.556%) Fault Management
6 1 (5.556%) Continuous Integration
6 1 (5.556%) Manual Testing
6 1 (5.556%) Scrum
6 1 (5.556%) Usability Testing
6 1 (5.556%) Performance Testing
6 1 (5.556%) Stress Testing
6 1 (5.556%) Web Testing
Programming Languages
1 10 (55.56%) SQL
2 2 (11.11%) VBScript
2 2 (11.11%) VB.NET
2 2 (11.11%) Java
Qualifications
1 8 (44.44%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (11.11%) QA
Systems Management
1 3 (16.67%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 5 (27.78%) Fiserv
2 3 (16.67%) Oracle
2 3 (16.67%) Microsoft
3 1 (5.556%) HP
3 1 (5.556%) Business Objects
3 1 (5.556%) IBM
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