Test Strategy Contracts in Glasgow
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for Test Strategy skills 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 Strategy over the 3 months to 23 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 of the Processes & Methodologies category 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
23 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Test Strategy
Rank 76 - 53
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing Test Strategy 6 0 10
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Glasgow 0.634% - 1.412%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.939% - 2.062%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 7
Average daily rate £350 - £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £400 £395
% change year-on-year
-12.50% +1.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £40.00 £37.00 £28.00
% change year-on-year
+8.10% +32.14%
All Processes & Methodologies
Glasgow
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category		 639 523 485
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Glasgow 67.55% 67.66% 68.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 335 279 281
Average daily rate £338 £338 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -3.57%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £259 £235 £288
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £450 £495
UK excluding London average daily rate £365 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
- -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 22 14
Average hourly rate £9.25 £25.00 £40.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-63.00% -37.50%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.45 £25.00 £29.00
% change year-on-year
+21.78% -13.79%
Test Strategy
Scotland

Test Strategy
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Test Strategy across the Glasgow region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

Glasgow Test Strategy Jobs Demand Trend

Test Strategy
Daily Rate Trend

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

Glasgow Test Strategy Daily Rate Trend

Test Strategy
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Glasgow region citing Test Strategy 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 Test Strategy.

1 7 (63.64%) Finance
2 5 (45.45%) Banking
3 4 (36.36%) GAP Analysis
3 4 (36.36%) User Acceptance Testing
4 3 (27.27%) Retail
4 3 (27.27%) Retail Banking
5 2 (18.18%) HP
5 2 (18.18%) TestDirector
5 2 (18.18%) Data Analysis
5 2 (18.18%) FATCA
5 2 (18.18%) Continuous Improvement
5 2 (18.18%) Fund Accounting
5 2 (18.18%) HP Quality Center
5 2 (18.18%) Test Management
6 1 (9.091%) System Testing
6 1 (9.091%) Financial Modelling
6 1 (9.091%) Waterfall
6 1 (9.091%) QA
6 1 (9.091%) Fund Management
6 1 (9.091%) Project Governance
6 1 (9.091%) SAP HANA
6 1 (9.091%) ISTQB
6 1 (9.091%) Asset Management
6 1 (9.091%) Migration
6 1 (9.091%) Stakeholder Management
6 1 (9.091%) Agile Software Development
6 1 (9.091%) ISEB
6 1 (9.091%) Java
6 1 (9.091%) ABAP
6 1 (9.091%) Oracle

Test Strategy
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Glasgow region citing Test Strategy 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 Test Strategy. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (9.091%) SAP HANA
1 1 (9.091%) DB2
1 1 (9.091%) Data Mining
Development Applications
1 2 (18.18%) TestDirector
General
1 7 (63.64%) Finance
2 5 (45.45%) Banking
3 3 (27.27%) Retail
3 3 (27.27%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 6 (54.55%) Analyst
2 5 (45.45%) Business Analyst
3 3 (27.27%) Financial Services Business Analyst
3 3 (27.27%) Financial Business Analyst
3 3 (27.27%) Test Manager
4 2 (18.18%) Test Analyst
5 1 (9.091%) Business Test Analyst
5 1 (9.091%) SAP Architect
5 1 (9.091%) Systems Manager
5 1 (9.091%) Test Team Leader
5 1 (9.091%) Team Leader
5 1 (9.091%) Implementation Manager
5 1 (9.091%) Applications Architect
5 1 (9.091%) Architect
5 1 (9.091%) Business Systems Analyst
5 1 (9.091%) Systems Analyst
Operating Systems
1 1 (9.091%) Windows
1 1 (9.091%) AIX
1 1 (9.091%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (36.36%) GAP Analysis
1 4 (36.36%) User Acceptance Testing
2 2 (18.18%) Data Analysis
2 2 (18.18%) Continuous Improvement
2 2 (18.18%) Fund Accounting
2 2 (18.18%) Test Management
3 1 (9.091%) System Testing
3 1 (9.091%) Financial Modelling
3 1 (9.091%) Waterfall
3 1 (9.091%) Fund Management
3 1 (9.091%) Project Governance
3 1 (9.091%) Asset Management
3 1 (9.091%) Migration
3 1 (9.091%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (9.091%) Agile Software Development
Programming Languages
1 1 (9.091%) Java
1 1 (9.091%) ABAP
Qualifications
1 1 (9.091%) ISTQB
1 1 (9.091%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (18.18%) FATCA
2 1 (9.091%) QA
Systems Management
1 2 (18.18%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 2 (18.18%) HP
2 1 (9.091%) Oracle
2 1 (9.091%) Sybase
2 1 (9.091%) SAP
2 1 (9.091%) IBM
2 1 (9.091%) Microsoft
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