Hampshire Software Test Engineer Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for the Software Test Engineer role in IT contracts within the Hampshire region compared to all other Job Titles we currently track. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Software Test Engineer in their job title over the 3 months to 21 November 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Software Test Engineer
Location Avon Berkshire Bristol Cambridge Cambridgeshire East of England England Farnborough Hampshire Home Counties M4 Corridor Midlands Reading Somerset South East South West Southampton Surrey UK West Midlands Wiltshire Yeovil	3 months to 21 Nov 2008	Same period last year
Rank	90	94
Rank change on same period last year	+4
Matching contract IT job ads	7	24
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.011 %	0.026 %
As % of the category below	0.400 %	0.978 %
Daily rates quoted	0	4
Average minimum daily rate	-	£210
Average daily rate	-	£212
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	£214
UK excluding London average daily rate	£293	£283
% change on same period last year	+3.44 %
Hourly rates quoted	4	7
Average minimum hourly rate	£26.25	£25.43
Average hourly rate	£27.88	£26.64
% change on same period last year	+4.62 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£29.50	£27.86
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£31.17	£32.59
% change on same period last year	-4.36 %
Job Titles Hampshire
Matching contract IT job ads	1749	2455
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	2.755 %	2.631 %
Daily rates quoted	411	754
Average minimum daily rate	£358	£345
Average daily rate	£378	£361
% change on same period last year	+4.75 %
Average maximum daily rate	£398	£377
UK excluding London average daily rate	£353	£351
% change on same period last year	+0.72 %
Hourly rates quoted	451	442
Average minimum hourly rate	£26.07	£26.56
Average hourly rate	£27.94	£28.67
% change on same period last year	-2.56 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£29.81	£30.78
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.37	£24.42
% change on same period last year	-4.31 %
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We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Software Test Engineer across the Hampshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

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Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Software Test Engineer across the Hampshire region.

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Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Software Test Engineer across the Hampshire region.

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Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Software Test Engineer across the Hampshire region over the 3 months to 21 November 2008.

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Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Software Test Engineer within the Hampshire region over the 3 months to 21 November 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
Farnborough	+5	2	-	-
Southampton	-	1	-	-

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Top 28 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 November 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Hampshire region that cited Software Test Engineer in their job title 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 with Software Test Engineer in their job title.

1 9 (56.25 %) C++ 2 4 (25.00 %) Agile Software Development 2 4 (25.00 %) Unit Testing 2 4 (25.00 %) Integration Testing 2 4 (25.00 %) Java 2 4 (25.00 %) UML 2 4 (25.00 %) OO 2 4 (25.00 %) Aerospace 2 4 (25.00 %) Embedded C++ 3 3 (18.75 %) Telecoms 4 2 (12.50 %) Linux 4 2 (12.50 %) J2ME 4 2 (12.50 %) Perl 5 1 (6.250 %) Windows 5 1 (6.250 %) AIX

5 1 (6.250 %) HPUX 5 1 (6.250 %) Solaris 5 1 (6.250 %) Cisco 5 1 (6.250 %) C 5 1 (6.250 %) ISEB 5 1 (6.250 %) CTI 5 1 (6.250 %) Handset 5 1 (6.250 %) Replication 5 1 (6.250 %) Regression Testing 5 1 (6.250 %) Test Scripting 5 1 (6.250 %) Brocade 5 1 (6.250 %) Korn 5 1 (6.250 %) QA

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 November 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Hampshire region that cited Software Test Engineer in their job title 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 with Software Test Engineer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 2 (12.50 %) J2ME	Communications & Networking 1 1 (6.250 %) CTI
General 1 4 (25.00 %) Aerospace 2 3 (18.75 %) Telecoms	Miscellaneous 1 1 (6.250 %) Handset 1 1 (6.250 %) Replication
Operating Systems 1 2 (12.50 %) Linux 2 1 (6.250 %) Windows 2 1 (6.250 %) AIX 2 1 (6.250 %) HPUX 2 1 (6.250 %) Solaris	Processes & Methodologies 1 4 (25.00 %) Agile Software Development 1 4 (25.00 %) Unit Testing 1 4 (25.00 %) Integration Testing 1 4 (25.00 %) UML 1 4 (25.00 %) OO 2 1 (6.250 %) Regression Testing 2 1 (6.250 %) Test Scripting
Programming Languages 1 9 (56.25 %) C++ 2 4 (25.00 %) Java 2 4 (25.00 %) Embedded C++ 3 2 (12.50 %) Perl 4 1 (6.250 %) C 4 1 (6.250 %) Korn	Qualifications 1 1 (6.250 %) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 1 (6.250 %) QA	Vendors 1 1 (6.250 %) Cisco 1 1 (6.250 %) Brocade