Test Specialist 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 Test Specialist 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 Test Specialist 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
Test Specialist
Rank 495 539 543
Rank change year-on-year
+44 +4
Contract jobs requiring a Test Specialist 18 20 28
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 0.043% 0.037% 0.050%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.047% 0.041% 0.054%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 11 18
Average daily rate £358 £390 £460
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-8.26% -15.21%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £313 £313 £267
10% offered a daily rate of more than £430 £413 £525
UK excluding London average daily rate £344 £314 £350
% change year-on-year
+9.70% -10.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
Average hourly rate - - £19.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
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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%
Test Specialist
UK

Test Specialist
Jobs Demand Trend

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

England Test Specialist Jobs Demand Trend

Test Specialist
Daily Rate Trend

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

England Test Specialist Daily Rate Trend

Test Specialist
Hourly Rate Trend

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

England Test Specialist Hourly Rate Trend

Test Specialist
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Test Specialist 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
South East +21 9 £313 +6.53%
London +32 7 £370 -10.42%
East of England +17 1 - -
North West +14 1 £425 +34.92%
Test Specialist
UK

Test Specialist
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 10 (31.25%) Security Cleared
2 9 (28.13%) SC Cleared
2 9 (28.13%) Test Scripting
2 9 (28.13%) Finance
3 6 (18.75%) LoadRunner
3 6 (18.75%) Java
3 6 (18.75%) SQL
3 6 (18.75%) Performance Testing
4 5 (15.63%) Test Automation
4 5 (15.63%) SAP
4 5 (15.63%) UNIX
4 5 (15.63%) HP
4 5 (15.63%) Selenium
5 4 (12.50%) QuickTest Pro
5 4 (12.50%) IBM
5 4 (12.50%) Web Services
5 4 (12.50%) Telecoms
5 4 (12.50%) Test Management
5 4 (12.50%) Rational Performance Tester
6 3 (9.375%) User Acceptance Testing
6 3 (9.375%) HP Quality Center
6 3 (9.375%) Open Source
6 3 (9.375%) BDD
6 3 (9.375%) Enterprise Software
6 3 (9.375%) DB2
6 3 (9.375%) C#
6 3 (9.375%) Oracle
6 3 (9.375%) Business Intelligence
6 3 (9.375%) Windows
6 3 (9.375%) WebSphere

Test Specialist
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 4 (12.50%) Web Services
2 3 (9.375%) WebSphere
3 2 (6.250%) soapUI
4 1 (3.125%) ASP.NET MVC
4 1 (3.125%) XML
4 1 (3.125%) ASP.NET
4 1 (3.125%) .NET
Application Platforms
1 1 (3.125%) WebSphere Application Server
1 1 (3.125%) SharePoint
1 1 (3.125%) LiveLink
1 1 (3.125%) IBM HTTP Server
Business Applications
1 1 (3.125%) Oracle 11i
1 1 (3.125%) Oracle EBS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.125%) SMS
1 1 (3.125%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (9.375%) DB2
2 2 (6.250%) Oracle 8/8i
2 2 (6.250%) BusinessObjects
2 2 (6.250%) SQL Server
3 1 (3.125%) Data Mining
3 1 (3.125%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (3.125%) SAP BI
Development Applications
1 6 (18.75%) LoadRunner
2 5 (15.63%) Selenium
3 4 (12.50%) QuickTest Pro
3 4 (12.50%) Rational Performance Tester
4 2 (6.250%) NUnit
4 2 (6.250%) TestPartner
4 2 (6.250%) JMeter
4 2 (6.250%) Cucumber
4 2 (6.250%) WebDriver
4 2 (6.250%) Firebug
4 2 (6.250%) Fiddler
5 1 (3.125%) SpecFlow
5 1 (3.125%) MonkeyTalk
5 1 (3.125%) Robotium
General
1 9 (28.13%) Finance
2 4 (12.50%) Telecoms
3 2 (6.250%) Banking
3 2 (6.250%) Retail
3 2 (6.250%) Billing
4 1 (3.125%) Front Office
4 1 (3.125%) Retail Banking
Miscellaneous
1 3 (9.375%) Open Source
1 3 (9.375%) Enterprise Software
2 2 (6.250%) EPoS
2 2 (6.250%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 5 (15.63%) UNIX
2 3 (9.375%) Windows
3 2 (6.250%) AIX
3 2 (6.250%) Windows Server 2008
4 1 (3.125%) Windows 8
4 1 (3.125%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (28.13%) Test Scripting
2 6 (18.75%) Performance Testing
3 5 (15.63%) Test Automation
4 4 (12.50%) Test Management
5 3 (9.375%) User Acceptance Testing
5 3 (9.375%) BDD
5 3 (9.375%) Business Intelligence
5 3 (9.375%) Scrum
6 2 (6.250%) Agile Software Development
6 2 (6.250%) Regression Testing
6 2 (6.250%) Migration
6 2 (6.250%) SOA
6 2 (6.250%) ETL
6 2 (6.250%) Capacity Planning
6 2 (6.250%) Test Strategy
6 2 (6.250%) Integration Testing
6 2 (6.250%) Data Migration
7 1 (3.125%) E-Commerce
7 1 (3.125%) Stakeholder Management
7 1 (3.125%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 6 (18.75%) Java
1 6 (18.75%) SQL
2 3 (9.375%) C#
3 2 (6.250%) Shell Script
3 2 (6.250%) VBA
3 2 (6.250%) Perl
3 2 (6.250%) Groovy
4 1 (3.125%) VBScript
4 1 (3.125%) VB
Qualifications
1 10 (31.25%) Security Cleared
2 9 (28.13%) SC Cleared
3 1 (3.125%) ISEB
3 1 (3.125%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.250%) QA
System Software
1 2 (6.250%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (9.375%) HP Quality Center
2 2 (6.250%) Splunk
3 1 (3.125%) SCCM
Vendors
1 5 (15.63%) SAP
1 5 (15.63%) HP
2 4 (12.50%) IBM
3 3 (9.375%) Oracle
4 2 (6.250%) VMware
4 2 (6.250%) Business Objects
Non Functional Performance Test Specialist
Farnborough, Hampshire
The ideal candidate will have experience of Rational Performance Tester, Unix, SQL and XML. Due to the nature of the project candidates must hold or be willing to...
Experis IT
Rate: £400 - £455 per day
Posted: 20 May 2013
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