The first table below looks at the demand for Software Testing skills in IT contracts advertised for the Gosport region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Software 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 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
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Software Testing
Rank 4 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing Software Testing 3 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Gosport 33.33% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 42.86% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
Average daily rate £350 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £303 £300 £320
% change year-on-year
+0.83% -6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.00 £18.50 £32.00
% change year-on-year
+62.16% -42.18%
All Processes & Methodologies
Gosport
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
7 11 17
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Gosport 77.78% 100.00% 68.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 7 10
Average daily rate £350 £450 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-22.22% +12.50%
UK excluding London average daily rate £363 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
-0.68% -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.50 £25.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year
+26.00% -16.66%
Software Testing
Hampshire

Software Testing
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Gosport Software Testing Jobs Demand Trend

Software Testing
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 3 (100.00%) HTML
1 3 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 3 (100.00%) .NET
1 3 (100.00%) Oracle
1 3 (100.00%) ASP.NET
1 3 (100.00%) JSP
1 3 (100.00%) UNIX
1 3 (100.00%) Windows
1 3 (100.00%) Windows 2000
1 3 (100.00%) Oracle 8/8i
1 3 (100.00%) Windows XP
1 3 (100.00%) Oracle EBS
1 3 (100.00%) Windows Server 2003
1 3 (100.00%) ISTQB
1 3 (100.00%) HP
1 3 (100.00%) System Testing
1 3 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (100.00%) Security Cleared
1 3 (100.00%) Windows Server 2008
1 3 (100.00%) HP Quality Center
2 2 (66.67%) DV Cleared
2 2 (66.67%) TCP/IP
2 2 (66.67%) HTTPS
3 1 (33.33%) SSL
3 1 (33.33%) DNS
3 1 (33.33%) HTTP
3 1 (33.33%) Linux
3 1 (33.33%) Wireshark
3 1 (33.33%) Performance Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Validation

Software Testing
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 3 (100.00%) HTML
1 3 (100.00%) .NET
1 3 (100.00%) ASP.NET
1 3 (100.00%) JSP
Business Applications
1 3 (100.00%) Oracle EBS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (66.67%) TCP/IP
1 2 (66.67%) HTTPS
2 1 (33.33%) SSL
2 1 (33.33%) DNS
2 1 (33.33%) HTTP
2 1 (33.33%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (100.00%) Oracle 8/8i
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) QuickTest Pro
1 1 (33.33%) LoadRunner
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Tester
2 1 (33.33%) Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Test Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Functional Test Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Performance Tester
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Test Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Tester
2 1 (33.33%) Applications Tester
2 1 (33.33%) Functional Analyst
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) UNIX
1 3 (100.00%) Windows
1 3 (100.00%) Windows 2000
1 3 (100.00%) Windows XP
1 3 (100.00%) Windows Server 2003
1 3 (100.00%) Windows Server 2008
2 1 (33.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) System Testing
2 1 (33.33%) Performance Testing
2 1 (33.33%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 3 (100.00%) ISTQB
1 3 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (66.67%) DV Cleared
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Nmap
Systems Management
1 3 (100.00%) HP Quality Center
2 1 (33.33%) Nessus
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Oracle
1 3 (100.00%) HP
2 1 (33.33%) ArcSight