The first table below looks at the demand for ISTQB in IT contracts advertised for the Gosport region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited ISTQB over the 3 months to 19 June 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all Qualifications for the Gosport 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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
International Software Testing Qualification Board (ISTQB)
Rank 5 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing ISTQB 7 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Gosport 38.89% - -
As % of the Qualifications category 41.18% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
Average daily rate £350 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £330 £303 £344
% change year-on-year
+9.09% -12.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £25.00 £31.50 £16.50
% change year-on-year
-20.63% +90.90%
All Qualifications
Gosport
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Qualifications category
17 11 22
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Gosport 94.44% 91.67% 84.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 6 14
Average daily rate £350 £475 £370
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-26.31% +28.37%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £325 £213 £303
10% offered a daily rate of more than £353 £500 £425
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.00 £21.50 £24.00
% change year-on-year
+2.32% -10.41%
ISTQB
Hampshire

ISTQB
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing ISTQB across the Gosport region as a proportion of the total demand within the Qualifications category.

Gosport ISTQB Jobs Demand Trend

ISTQB
Daily Rate Trend

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

Gosport ISTQB Daily Rate Trend

ISTQB
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Gosport region citing ISTQB 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 ISTQB.

1 7 (100.00%) HTML
1 7 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 7 (100.00%) .NET
1 7 (100.00%) ASP.NET
1 7 (100.00%) JSP
1 7 (100.00%) HP
1 7 (100.00%) Software Testing
1 7 (100.00%) Security Cleared
1 7 (100.00%) SC Cleared
2 6 (85.71%) Oracle EBS
2 6 (85.71%) UNIX
2 6 (85.71%) Oracle
3 5 (71.43%) Windows
3 5 (71.43%) Windows 2000
3 5 (71.43%) Windows XP
3 5 (71.43%) Windows Server 2003
3 5 (71.43%) Windows Server 2008
3 5 (71.43%) HP Quality Center
4 3 (42.86%) Oracle 8/8i
4 3 (42.86%) Knowledge Management
4 3 (42.86%) System Testing
5 2 (28.57%) Microsoft
5 2 (28.57%) DV Cleared
5 2 (28.57%) Project Management
5 2 (28.57%) Citrix
5 2 (28.57%) SAN
5 2 (28.57%) QuickTest Pro
5 2 (28.57%) LoadRunner
5 2 (28.57%) TCP/IP
5 2 (28.57%) HTTPS

ISTQB
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Gosport region citing ISTQB 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 ISTQB. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 7 (100.00%) HTML
1 7 (100.00%) .NET
1 7 (100.00%) ASP.NET
1 7 (100.00%) JSP
Business Applications
1 6 (85.71%) Oracle EBS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (28.57%) SAN
1 2 (28.57%) TCP/IP
1 2 (28.57%) HTTPS
2 1 (14.29%) SSL
2 1 (14.29%) DNS
2 1 (14.29%) HTTP
2 1 (14.29%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (42.86%) Oracle 8/8i
2 1 (14.29%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 2 (28.57%) QuickTest Pro
1 2 (28.57%) LoadRunner
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) Test Leader
2 2 (28.57%) Tester
2 2 (28.57%) Analyst
2 2 (28.57%) Test Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Senior Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Performance Tester
3 1 (14.29%) Senior Test Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Senior Tester
3 1 (14.29%) Applications Tester
3 1 (14.29%) Functional Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Functional Test Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Performance Test Leader
3 1 (14.29%) QA Leader
Operating Systems
1 6 (85.71%) UNIX
2 5 (71.43%) Windows
2 5 (71.43%) Windows 2000
2 5 (71.43%) Windows XP
2 5 (71.43%) Windows Server 2003
2 5 (71.43%) Windows Server 2008
3 1 (14.29%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) Software Testing
2 3 (42.86%) Knowledge Management
2 3 (42.86%) System Testing
3 2 (28.57%) Project Management
4 1 (14.29%) Validation
4 1 (14.29%) Document Management
4 1 (14.29%) Performance Testing
4 1 (14.29%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 7 (100.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (14.29%) VBA
Qualifications
1 7 (100.00%) Security Cleared
1 7 (100.00%) SC Cleared
2 2 (28.57%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) QA
System Software
1 1 (14.29%) Nmap
Systems Management
1 5 (71.43%) HP Quality Center
2 1 (14.29%) Nessus
Vendors
1 7 (100.00%) HP
2 6 (85.71%) Oracle
3 2 (28.57%) Microsoft
3 2 (28.57%) Citrix
4 1 (14.29%) ArcSight