The first table below looks at the demand for Software Testing skills in IT contracts advertised for the Halifax region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Software Testing over the 3 months to 22 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 Halifax 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
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Software Testing
Rank 17 28 21
Rank change year-on-year
+11 -7
Contract jobs citing Software Testing 4 3 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Halifax 3.448% 1.304% 1.695%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.494% 1.579% 2.439%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 2 2
Average daily rate £280 £276 £550
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+1.35% -49.77%
UK excluding London average daily rate £313 £300 £320
% change year-on-year
+4.16% -6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.00 £18.50 £31.50
% change year-on-year
+62.16% -41.26%
All Processes & Methodologies
Halifax
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
89 190 82
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Halifax 76.72% 82.61% 69.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 68 162 52
Average daily rate £375 £390 £393
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-3.84% -0.63%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £280 £265 £170
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £500 £493
UK excluding London average daily rate £365 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
- -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 3
Average hourly rate - £15.00 £7.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- +114.28%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.00 £25.00 £29.00
% change year-on-year
+24.00% -13.79%
Software Testing
West Yorkshire

Software Testing
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Halifax Software Testing Jobs Demand Trend

Software Testing
Daily Rate Trend

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

Halifax Software Testing Daily Rate Trend

Software Testing
Top 16 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Halifax 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 5 (100.00%) Finance
1 5 (100.00%) ISEB
1 5 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 5 (100.00%) Banking
1 5 (100.00%) ISTQB
1 5 (100.00%) HP Quality Center
2 4 (80.00%) FATCA
2 4 (80.00%) Retail Banking
2 4 (80.00%) User Acceptance Testing
2 4 (80.00%) Test Scripting
2 4 (80.00%) Retail
3 1 (20.00%) ISEB Practitioner
3 1 (20.00%) NFC
3 1 (20.00%) Project Management
3 1 (20.00%) Law
3 1 (20.00%) Test Strategy

Software Testing
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Halifax 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.

Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) NFC
General
1 5 (100.00%) Finance
1 5 (100.00%) Banking
2 4 (80.00%) Retail Banking
2 4 (80.00%) Retail
3 1 (20.00%) Law
Job Titles
1 5 (100.00%) Analyst
1 5 (100.00%) Test Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) UAT Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) UAT Test Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Senior Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Senior Test Analyst
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 4 (80.00%) User Acceptance Testing
2 4 (80.00%) Test Scripting
3 1 (20.00%) Project Management
3 1 (20.00%) Test Strategy
Qualifications
1 5 (100.00%) ISEB
1 5 (100.00%) ISTQB
2 1 (20.00%) ISEB Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (80.00%) FATCA
Systems Management
1 5 (100.00%) HP Quality Center