The first table below looks at the demand for Manual Testing skills in IT contracts advertised for the Gloucestershire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Manual Testing over the 3 months to 21 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 Gloucestershire 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
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Manual Testing
Rank 35 67 44
Rank change year-on-year
+32 -23
Contract jobs citing Manual Testing 2 2 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Gloucestershire 0.730% 0.299% 0.233%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.117% 0.397% 0.376%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 1
Average daily rate £188 £325 £475
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-42.30% -31.57%
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £300 £275
% change year-on-year
+8.33% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.00 - £23.75
All Processes & Methodologies
Gloucestershire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
179 504 266
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Gloucestershire 65.33% 75.34% 62.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 112 304 106
Average daily rate £380 £425 £363
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-10.58% +17.24%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £300 £300 £200
10% offered a daily rate of more than £480 £501 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £363 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
-0.68% -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 22 36
Average hourly rate £29.00 £25.00 £32.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+16.00% -23.07%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £18.90 £25.00 £18.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £42.50 £37.00 £37.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.50 £25.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year
+26.00% -16.66%
Manual Testing
South West

Manual Testing
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Gloucestershire Manual Testing Jobs Demand Trend

Manual Testing
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Manual Testing across the Gloucestershire region.

Gloucestershire Manual Testing Daily Rate Trend

Manual Testing
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Manual Testing across the Gloucestershire region.

Gloucestershire Manual Testing Hourly Rate Trend

Manual Testing
Top 29 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Gloucestershire region citing Manual Testing 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 Manual Testing.

1 3 (60.00%) Microsoft
1 3 (60.00%) Automated Testing
2 2 (40.00%) iPhone
2 2 (40.00%) HTML
2 2 (40.00%) Scrum
2 2 (40.00%) HTML5
2 2 (40.00%) iPad
2 2 (40.00%) ISEB
2 2 (40.00%) .NET
3 1 (20.00%) User Acceptance Testing
3 1 (20.00%) Performance Testing
3 1 (20.00%) Unit Testing
3 1 (20.00%) Test Scripting
3 1 (20.00%) Continuous Integration
3 1 (20.00%) Kanban
3 1 (20.00%) SC Cleared
3 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
3 1 (20.00%) Oracle
3 1 (20.00%) Visual Studio
3 1 (20.00%) XML
3 1 (20.00%) XSD
3 1 (20.00%) XSLT
3 1 (20.00%) Electronics
3 1 (20.00%) Finance
3 1 (20.00%) TDD
3 1 (20.00%) SQL
3 1 (20.00%) V-Model
3 1 (20.00%) Team Foundation Server
3 1 (20.00%) JIRA

Manual Testing
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Gloucestershire region citing Manual Testing 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 Manual Testing. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 2 (40.00%) HTML
1 2 (40.00%) HTML5
1 2 (40.00%) .NET
2 1 (20.00%) XML
2 1 (20.00%) XSD
2 1 (20.00%) XSLT
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Visual Studio
1 1 (20.00%) Team Foundation Server
1 1 (20.00%) JIRA
General
1 1 (20.00%) Electronics
1 1 (20.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Tester
1 2 (40.00%) Analyst
1 2 (40.00%) Test Analyst
1 2 (40.00%) Web Tester
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) iPhone
1 2 (40.00%) iPad
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Automated Testing
2 2 (40.00%) Scrum
3 1 (20.00%) User Acceptance Testing
3 1 (20.00%) Performance Testing
3 1 (20.00%) Unit Testing
3 1 (20.00%) Test Scripting
3 1 (20.00%) Continuous Integration
3 1 (20.00%) Kanban
3 1 (20.00%) TDD
3 1 (20.00%) V-Model
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) ISEB
2 1 (20.00%) SC Cleared
2 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (20.00%) Oracle
Gloucestershire
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Posted: 17 May 2013