Test Analyst Contracts in Glasgow
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for the Test Analyst role in IT contracts advertised for the Glasgow region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Test Analyst 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 Glasgow 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 Analyst
Rank 58 39 28
Rank change year-on-year
-19 -11
Contract jobs requiring a Test Analyst 18 23 37
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Glasgow 1.929% 2.922% 5.331%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.043% 3.067% 5.606%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 15 26
Average daily rate £273 £265 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+3.01% -24.28%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £219 £204 £290
10% offered a daily rate of more than £346 £330 £381
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £300 £300
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Average hourly rate £45.00 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £25.00 £17.50 £27.50
% change year-on-year
+42.85% -36.36%
All Job Titles
Glasgow
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category		 881 750 660
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Glasgow 94.43% 95.30% 95.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 445 352 379
Average daily rate £338 £319 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+5.79% -8.85%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £225 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £450 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 36 21
Average hourly rate £14.00 £22.50 £19.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-37.77% +18.42%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.50 £9.50 £9.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £37.50 £35.00 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
Test Analyst
Scotland

Test Analyst
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Glasgow Test Analyst Jobs Demand Trend

Test Analyst
Daily Rate Trend

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

Glasgow Test Analyst Daily Rate Trend

Test Analyst
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Glasgow Test Analyst Daily Rate Histogram

Test Analyst
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Glasgow Test Analyst Hourly Rate Trend

Test Analyst
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 18 (54.55%) Finance
2 12 (36.36%) HP Quality Center
3 11 (33.33%) Test Scripting
4 10 (30.30%) ISEB
5 9 (27.27%) Regression Testing
5 9 (27.27%) SQL
6 8 (24.24%) Oracle
6 8 (24.24%) Banking
7 7 (21.21%) Java
7 7 (21.21%) UNIX
8 6 (18.18%) SOA
8 6 (18.18%) Workflow
8 6 (18.18%) soapUI
9 5 (15.15%) Manual Testing
9 5 (15.15%) Test Automation
9 5 (15.15%) Data Warehouse
9 5 (15.15%) SOAP
10 4 (12.12%) Perl
10 4 (12.12%) TestDirector
10 4 (12.12%) Investment Banking
10 4 (12.12%) Software Testing
10 4 (12.12%) QA
11 3 (9.091%) User Acceptance Testing
11 3 (9.091%) Derivative
11 3 (9.091%) Asset Management
11 3 (9.091%) HP
11 3 (9.091%) Scrum
11 3 (9.091%) C#
12 2 (6.061%) Fund Accounting
12 2 (6.061%) TestComplete

Test Analyst
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 6 (18.18%) soapUI
2 5 (15.15%) SOAP
3 1 (3.030%) .NET
Application Platforms
1 1 (3.030%) Oracle Coherence
Business Applications
1 1 (3.030%) Front Arena
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (15.15%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (3.030%) Oracle Reports
2 1 (3.030%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 4 (12.12%) TestDirector
2 2 (6.061%) TestComplete
2 2 (6.061%) JBehave
2 2 (6.061%) QuickTest Pro
2 2 (6.061%) FitNesse
3 1 (3.030%) Maven
3 1 (3.030%) Subversion
3 1 (3.030%) Hudson
General
1 18 (54.55%) Finance
2 8 (24.24%) Banking
3 4 (12.12%) Investment Banking
4 2 (6.061%) Retail
4 2 (6.061%) Retail Banking
Miscellaneous
1 3 (9.091%) Derivative
2 1 (3.030%) Swaptions
2 1 (3.030%) Mashup
2 1 (3.030%) Equity Derivative
2 1 (3.030%) SaaS
2 1 (3.030%) Cloud Computing
Operating Systems
1 7 (21.21%) UNIX
2 2 (6.061%) Solaris
2 2 (6.061%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (33.33%) Test Scripting
2 9 (27.27%) Regression Testing
3 6 (18.18%) SOA
3 6 (18.18%) Workflow
4 5 (15.15%) Manual Testing
4 5 (15.15%) Test Automation
5 4 (12.12%) Software Testing
6 3 (9.091%) User Acceptance Testing
6 3 (9.091%) Asset Management
6 3 (9.091%) Scrum
7 2 (6.061%) Fund Accounting
7 2 (6.061%) Continuous Integration
7 2 (6.061%) Continuous Improvement
7 2 (6.061%) Project Governance
7 2 (6.061%) Test Strategy
7 2 (6.061%) ETL
7 2 (6.061%) Risk Management
7 2 (6.061%) Data Analysis
7 2 (6.061%) Automated Testing
7 2 (6.061%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 9 (27.27%) SQL
2 7 (21.21%) Java
3 4 (12.12%) Perl
4 3 (9.091%) C#
5 2 (6.061%) Groovy
5 2 (6.061%) VB
5 2 (6.061%) VBA
5 2 (6.061%) Shell Script
5 2 (6.061%) Ruby
6 1 (3.030%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 10 (30.30%) ISEB
2 2 (6.061%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (12.12%) QA
Systems Management
1 12 (36.36%) HP Quality Center
2 1 (3.030%) Control-M
Vendors
1 8 (24.24%) Oracle
2 3 (9.091%) HP
3 2 (6.061%) Sun
4 1 (3.030%) TIBCO
Tester / Test Analyst
Glasgow, Scotland
A busy organisation is looking for 6 Test Analyst's as soon as possible.The purpose of this role is to prepare and execute functional tests relating to...
Hays Specialist Recruitment Ltd
Rate: £240.00 - £280.00 per day
Posted: 22 May 2013
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