The first table below looks at the demand for the Technical 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 Technical Test Analyst in their job title 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 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Technical Test Analyst
Rank 497 536 555
Rank change year-on-year
+39 +19
Contract jobs requiring a Technical Test Analyst 13 22 17
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 0.031% 0.041% 0.030%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.034% 0.044% 0.032%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 14 9
Average daily rate £300 £450 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-33.33% +12.50%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £264 £333 £270
10% offered a daily rate of more than £405 £484 £475
UK excluding London average daily rate £285 £313 £325
% change year-on-year
-8.80% -3.84%
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
38474 49443 52336
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 92.56% 92.67% 92.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 22637 27972 29016
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 2002 2393 2764
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 £11.15 £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 £18.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-5.40% -7.50%
Technical Test Analyst
UK

Technical Test Analyst
Jobs Demand Trend

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

England Technical Test Analyst Jobs Demand Trend

Technical Test Analyst
Daily Rate Trend

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

England Technical Test Analyst Daily Rate Trend

Technical Test Analyst
Daily Rate Histogram

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

England Technical Test Analyst Daily Rate Histogram

Technical Test Analyst
Hourly Rate Trend

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

England Technical Test Analyst Hourly Rate Trend

Technical 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 Technical Test Analyst 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 +11 6 £475 +5.55%
South East +24 3 £300 -
South West +24 1 - -
North West +15 1 £260 -13.33%
South Coast - 1 - -
Midlands - 1 - -
Technical Test Analyst
UK

Technical Test Analyst
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England region that cited Technical 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 Technical Test Analyst in their job title.

1 7 (36.84%) SQL
2 6 (31.58%) UNIX
2 6 (31.58%) QA
3 5 (26.32%) XML
3 5 (26.32%) Agile Software Development
4 4 (21.05%) Microsoft
4 4 (21.05%) Selenium
5 3 (15.79%) Test Scripting
5 3 (15.79%) System Testing
5 3 (15.79%) Windows
5 3 (15.79%) Linux
5 3 (15.79%) MS Excel
5 3 (15.79%) C#
5 3 (15.79%) Shell Script
5 3 (15.79%) Finance
5 3 (15.79%) Migration
6 2 (10.53%) Scrum
6 2 (10.53%) Validation
6 2 (10.53%) ISEB
6 2 (10.53%) Windows Server 2003
6 2 (10.53%) .NET
6 2 (10.53%) T-SQL
6 2 (10.53%) Visual Studio
6 2 (10.53%) HP
6 2 (10.53%) SOAP
6 2 (10.53%) Python
6 2 (10.53%) ETL
6 2 (10.53%) Security Cleared
6 2 (10.53%) Windows Server 2008
6 2 (10.53%) Test Automation

Technical Test Analyst
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England region that cited Technical 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 Technical Test Analyst in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 5 (26.32%) XML
2 2 (10.53%) .NET
2 2 (10.53%) SOAP
2 2 (10.53%) soapUI
3 1 (5.263%) HTML
3 1 (5.263%) ASP.NET
3 1 (5.263%) COM
3 1 (5.263%) JSP
3 1 (5.263%) XSLT
3 1 (5.263%) XML Messaging
3 1 (5.263%) JNI
3 1 (5.263%) WCF
3 1 (5.263%) Drools
Application Platforms
1 1 (5.263%) Lotus Notes
1 1 (5.263%) MS Exchange
1 1 (5.263%) WorkSite
Applications
1 3 (15.79%) MS Excel
2 1 (5.263%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 1 (5.263%) Oracle EBS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.263%) TCP/IP
1 1 (5.263%) HTTPS
1 1 (5.263%) SSL
1 1 (5.263%) Firewall
1 1 (5.263%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (10.53%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 1 (5.263%) SAP Data Services
2 1 (5.263%) SQL Server
2 1 (5.263%) MS Access
2 1 (5.263%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (5.263%) DataStage
Development Applications
1 4 (21.05%) Selenium
2 2 (10.53%) Visual Studio
2 2 (10.53%) WebDriver
3 1 (5.263%) Visual Studio Team System
3 1 (5.263%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 3 (15.79%) Finance
2 2 (10.53%) Banking
2 2 (10.53%) Investment Banking
3 1 (5.263%) Telecoms
Miscellaneous
1 1 (5.263%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
1 1 (5.263%) Digital Media
Operating Systems
1 6 (31.58%) UNIX
2 3 (15.79%) Windows
2 3 (15.79%) Linux
3 2 (10.53%) Windows Server 2003
3 2 (10.53%) Windows Server 2008
4 1 (5.263%) Windows 7
4 1 (5.263%) Windows 2000
4 1 (5.263%) Windows XP
4 1 (5.263%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (26.32%) Agile Software Development
2 3 (15.79%) Migration
2 3 (15.79%) Test Scripting
2 3 (15.79%) System Testing
3 2 (10.53%) Test Automation
3 2 (10.53%) Functional Testing
3 2 (10.53%) Automation Testing
3 2 (10.53%) Scrum
3 2 (10.53%) Software Testing
3 2 (10.53%) User Acceptance Testing
3 2 (10.53%) ETL
3 2 (10.53%) Validation
4 1 (5.263%) SOA
4 1 (5.263%) Regression Testing
4 1 (5.263%) Risk Management
4 1 (5.263%) TDD
4 1 (5.263%) Document Management
4 1 (5.263%) Automated Testing
4 1 (5.263%) Security Testing
4 1 (5.263%) Integration Testing
Programming Languages
1 7 (36.84%) SQL
2 3 (15.79%) Shell Script
2 3 (15.79%) C#
3 2 (10.53%) Bash shell
3 2 (10.53%) T-SQL
3 2 (10.53%) Python
4 1 (5.263%) VBA
4 1 (5.263%) Java
4 1 (5.263%) JavaScript
4 1 (5.263%) PHP
Qualifications
1 2 (10.53%) ISEB
1 2 (10.53%) ISTQB
1 2 (10.53%) Security Cleared
2 1 (5.263%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (31.58%) QA
System Software
1 1 (5.263%) Nmap
1 1 (5.263%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (10.53%) HP Quality Center
2 1 (5.263%) Tivoli
2 1 (5.263%) Netcool
2 1 (5.263%) Netcool/OMNIbus
Vendors
1 4 (21.05%) Microsoft
2 2 (10.53%) HP
3 1 (5.263%) Intel
3 1 (5.263%) Citrix
3 1 (5.263%) Informatica
3 1 (5.263%) Lotus
3 1 (5.263%) VMware
3 1 (5.263%) Oracle
3 1 (5.263%) Business Objects