Glasgow ISEB Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Information Systems Examinations Board (ISEB) in IT contracts within the Glasgow region compared to all other Qualifications we currently track. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT job ads that have cited ISEB over the 3 months to 7 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Information Systems Examinations Board (ISEB)
Location Aberdeen Amersham Atherstone Basingstoke Bath Berkshire Birmingham Bishop's Stortford Bradford Bridgend Bristol Buckinghamshire Burton-upon-Trent Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Channel Islands Cheltenham Cheshire Chester City of London Corsham Coventry Croydon Derby Derbyshire Docklands, London Dorking Dorset East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex Eastleigh Edinburgh England Essex Feltham Glasgow Gloucestershire Guildford Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Hayes Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire Home Counties Hounslow Hove Ipswich Isle of Man Jersey Kent Lancashire Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Liverpool London Macclesfield Maidenhead Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Newton-le-Willows Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northumberland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxfordshire Peterborough Petersfield Pontypool Portsmouth Reading Rugby Runcorn Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Sidcup Skelmersdale Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Staffordshire Staines Suffolk Surrey Swindon Telford Thames Valley Torfaen Tyne and Wear UK Wales Warrington Warwickshire Watford West Bromwich West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Windsor Wirral Worcester Worcestershire Worthing York Yorkshire	3 months to 7 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	49	59
Rank change on same period last year	+10
Matching contract IT job ads	10	10
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.013 %	0.011 %
As % of the category below	9.434 %	9.615 %
Daily rates quoted	6	5
Average minimum daily rate	£263	£226
Average daily rate	£278	£236
% change on same period last year	+17.83 %
Average maximum daily rate	£293	£245
UK excluding London average daily rate	£337	£312
% change on same period last year	+8.00 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum hourly rate	-	-
Average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£30.53	£31.37
% change on same period last year	-2.67 %
Qualifications Glasgow
Matching contract IT job ads	106	104
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.140 %	0.110 %
Daily rates quoted	30	20
Average minimum daily rate	£242	£262
Average daily rate	£261	£269
% change on same period last year	-3.13 %
Average maximum daily rate	£279	£276
UK excluding London average daily rate	£331	£338
% change on same period last year	-2.17 %
Hourly rates quoted	12	17
Average minimum hourly rate	£23.46	£13.94
Average hourly rate	£24.41	£15.06
% change on same period last year	+62.09 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£25.36	£16.18
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£25.18	£25.81
% change on same period last year	-2.45 %
ISEB Scotland

We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing ISEB across the Glasgow region as a proportion of the total demand within the Qualifications category.

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Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing ISEB across the Glasgow region.

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Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing ISEB across the Glasgow region over the 3 months to 7 July 2008.

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Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing ISEB across the Glasgow region.

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 7 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Glasgow region citing ISEB also 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 that cited ISEB.

1 19 (57.58 %) Finance 2 11 (33.33 %) Software Testing 2 11 (33.33 %) ISTQB 3 10 (30.30 %) Test Management 4 9 (27.27 %) Banking 5 7 (21.21 %) SQL 6 6 (18.18 %) TestDirector 6 6 (18.18 %) ISEB Practitioner 7 5 (15.15 %) Test Scripting 7 5 (15.15 %) Oracle 8 4 (12.12 %) QuickTest Pro 8 4 (12.12 %) Manual Testing 9 3 (9.091 %) Release Management 9 3 (9.091 %) Requirements Analysis 9 3 (9.091 %) Online Banking

9 3 (9.091 %) Stakeholder Management 9 3 (9.091 %) LoadRunner 9 3 (9.091 %) Internet 9 3 (9.091 %) Project Management 10 2 (6.061 %) Microsoft 10 2 (6.061 %) Service Management 10 2 (6.061 %) WinRunner 10 2 (6.061 %) Mainframe 10 2 (6.061 %) PRINCE 10 2 (6.061 %) PRINCE2 10 2 (6.061 %) MS Excel 10 2 (6.061 %) Investment Banking 10 2 (6.061 %) User Acceptance Testing 10 2 (6.061 %) Data Extraction 11 1 (3.030 %) Performance Testing

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 7 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Glasgow region citing ISEB also 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 that cited ISEB. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 1 (3.030 %) .NET 1 1 (3.030 %) XML	Applications 1 2 (6.061 %) MS Excel
Communications & Networking 1 3 (9.091 %) Internet	Database & Business Intelligence 1 1 (3.030 %) SQL Server
Development Applications 1 6 (18.18 %) TestDirector 2 4 (12.12 %) QuickTest Pro 3 3 (9.091 %) LoadRunner 4 2 (6.061 %) WinRunner 5 1 (3.030 %) Bugzilla	General 1 19 (57.58 %) Finance 2 9 (27.27 %) Banking 3 3 (9.091 %) Online Banking 4 2 (6.061 %) Investment Banking
Job Titles 1 11 (33.33 %) Analyst 1 11 (33.33 %) Test Manager 1 11 (33.33 %) Test Analyst 2 7 (21.21 %) Environment Manager 2 7 (21.21 %) Tester 3 5 (15.15 %) Senior Test Analyst 3 5 (15.15 %) Senior Analyst 4 2 (6.061 %) Performance Tester 4 2 (6.061 %) Test Team Leader 4 2 (6.061 %) Software Tester 4 2 (6.061 %) Team Leader 4 2 (6.061 %) Consultant 5 1 (3.030 %) Security Consultant 5 1 (3.030 %) UAT Tester 5 1 (3.030 %) IT Security Consultant 5 1 (3.030 %) QA Tester 5 1 (3.030 %) Test Consultant 5 1 (3.030 %) IT Consultant	Miscellaneous 1 2 (6.061 %) Mainframe 1 2 (6.061 %) Data Extraction 2 1 (3.030 %) Asset Management
Operating Systems 1 1 (3.030 %) Windows	Processes & Methodologies 1 11 (33.33 %) Software Testing 2 10 (30.30 %) Test Management 3 5 (15.15 %) Test Scripting 4 4 (12.12 %) Manual Testing 5 3 (9.091 %) Requirements Analysis 5 3 (9.091 %) Release Management 5 3 (9.091 %) Project Management 5 3 (9.091 %) Stakeholder Management 6 2 (6.061 %) Service Management 6 2 (6.061 %) User Acceptance Testing 6 2 (6.061 %) PRINCE2 6 2 (6.061 %) PRINCE 7 1 (3.030 %) CRM 7 1 (3.030 %) Performance Testing 7 1 (3.030 %) Regression Testing 7 1 (3.030 %) Migration 7 1 (3.030 %) Information Security 7 1 (3.030 %) Automated Testing 7 1 (3.030 %) Business Analysis
Programming Languages 1 7 (21.21 %) SQL 2 1 (3.030 %) C 2 1 (3.030 %) Java	Qualifications 1 11 (33.33 %) ISTQB 2 6 (18.18 %) ISEB Practitioner 3 1 (3.030 %) ISSEP 3 1 (3.030 %) ISSMP 3 1 (3.030 %) CISSP 3 1 (3.030 %) SSCP 3 1 (3.030 %) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 1 (3.030 %) QA	Vendors 1 5 (15.15 %) Oracle 2 2 (6.061 %) Microsoft 3 1 (3.030 %) Lagan 3 1 (3.030 %) SAP