The first table below looks at the demand for Software Testing skills in IT contracts advertised for the Hampshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Software Testing 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 of the Processes & Methodologies category for the Hampshire 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
Software Testing
Rank 86 88 89
Rank change year-on-year
+2 +1
Contract jobs citing Software Testing 15 10 15
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Hampshire 0.936% 0.643% 0.797%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.364% 1.009% 1.211%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 1 2
Average daily rate £350 £375 £250
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-6.66% +50.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £318 £375 £190
10% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £375 £310
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £300 £306
% change year-on-year
+8.33% -2.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 4
Average hourly rate - - £35.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £27.50 £32.00
% change year-on-year
+27.27% -14.06%
All Processes & Methodologies
Hampshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
1100 991 1239
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Hampshire 68.66% 63.73% 65.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 590 479 579
Average daily rate £375 £375 £375
90% offered a daily rate of more than £275 £263 £244
10% offered a daily rate of more than £525 £500 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £370 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
+1.36% -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 80 93 112
Average hourly rate £34.00 £31.00 £35.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+9.67% -11.42%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.69 £13.50 £13.54
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £46.25 £45.00 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.00 £25.00 £29.00
% change year-on-year
+24.00% -13.79%
Software Testing
South East

Software Testing
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Hampshire 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 Hampshire region.

Hampshire Software Testing Daily Rate Trend

Software Testing
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hampshire Software Testing Hourly Rate Trend

Software Testing
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Software Testing within the Hampshire region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Find
Job
Vacancies
Winchester 0 2 £354 -
Southampton -6 1 - -
Basingstoke -8 1 - - 1
Fareham - - - -
Havant - - - -
Portsmouth - - - - 1
Farnborough - - - -
Aldershot - - - -
Andover - - - -
Software Testing
South East

Software Testing
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Hampshire 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 16 (66.67%) ISTQB
2 11 (45.83%) Oracle
2 11 (45.83%) HP
3 10 (41.67%) JavaScript
3 10 (41.67%) .NET
3 10 (41.67%) Oracle EBS
3 10 (41.67%) Security Cleared
3 10 (41.67%) SC Cleared
4 9 (37.50%) HP Quality Center
4 9 (37.50%) UNIX
4 9 (37.50%) ASP.NET
4 9 (37.50%) JSP
4 9 (37.50%) HTML
4 9 (37.50%) ISEB
5 8 (33.33%) Windows
5 8 (33.33%) QA
6 7 (29.17%) Windows Server 2008
6 7 (29.17%) Windows 2000
6 7 (29.17%) Windows XP
6 7 (29.17%) Windows Server 2003
7 5 (20.83%) SOAP
7 5 (20.83%) Java
8 4 (16.67%) Sony
8 4 (16.67%) Software AG
8 4 (16.67%) Test Management
8 4 (16.67%) Knowledge Management
8 4 (16.67%) Final Cut Pro
8 4 (16.67%) soapUI
8 4 (16.67%) Test Strategy
9 3 (12.50%) Test Scripting

Software Testing
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Hampshire 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 10 (41.67%) .NET
2 9 (37.50%) ASP.NET
2 9 (37.50%) JSP
2 9 (37.50%) HTML
3 5 (20.83%) SOAP
4 4 (16.67%) soapUI
5 1 (4.167%) Gherkin
5 1 (4.167%) Web Services
Application Platforms
1 1 (4.167%) Windows Azure
1 1 (4.167%) CMS
Applications
1 4 (16.67%) Final Cut Pro
Business Applications
1 10 (41.67%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (4.167%) Oracle EBS R12
Communications & Networking
1 3 (12.50%) TCP/IP
2 2 (8.333%) DNS
2 2 (8.333%) HTTPS
2 2 (8.333%) HTTP
2 2 (8.333%) SAN
3 1 (4.167%) Wireshark
3 1 (4.167%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (12.50%) Oracle 8/8i
2 2 (8.333%) Oracle BI EE
3 1 (4.167%) SQL Server
3 1 (4.167%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 3 (12.50%) QuickTest Pro
2 2 (8.333%) LoadRunner
2 2 (8.333%) Selenium
2 2 (8.333%) JIRA
3 1 (4.167%) Cucumber
3 1 (4.167%) Visual Studio
General
1 1 (4.167%) Finance
Job Titles
1 7 (29.17%) Analyst
2 6 (25.00%) Test Analyst
3 4 (16.67%) Test Manager
3 4 (16.67%) QA Engineer
3 4 (16.67%) Test Leader
3 4 (16.67%) Tester
4 2 (8.333%) Performance Test Leader
5 1 (4.167%) Functional Test Analyst
5 1 (4.167%) Web Test Analyst
5 1 (4.167%) Agile Test Analyst
5 1 (4.167%) QA Leader
5 1 (4.167%) Senior Analyst
5 1 (4.167%) Performance Tester
5 1 (4.167%) Software Tester
5 1 (4.167%) Test Engineer
5 1 (4.167%) Senior Test Analyst
5 1 (4.167%) Senior Tester
5 1 (4.167%) Business Analyst
5 1 (4.167%) Applications Tester
5 1 (4.167%) Web Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 1 (4.167%) Computer Science
1 1 (4.167%) Enterprise Software
1 1 (4.167%) Clustering
1 1 (4.167%) DTV
1 1 (4.167%) MPEG
Operating Systems
1 9 (37.50%) UNIX
2 8 (33.33%) Windows
3 7 (29.17%) Windows Server 2008
3 7 (29.17%) Windows 2000
3 7 (29.17%) Windows XP
3 7 (29.17%) Windows Server 2003
4 2 (8.333%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (16.67%) Test Management
1 4 (16.67%) Knowledge Management
1 4 (16.67%) Test Strategy
2 3 (12.50%) Test Scripting
2 3 (12.50%) System Testing
2 3 (12.50%) Agile Software Development
3 2 (8.333%) Logistics
3 2 (8.333%) Regression Testing
3 2 (8.333%) Project Management
3 2 (8.333%) Validation
3 2 (8.333%) V-Model
3 2 (8.333%) Test Automation
3 2 (8.333%) Web Testing
3 2 (8.333%) Matrix Management
3 2 (8.333%) User Acceptance Testing
3 2 (8.333%) Performance Testing
4 1 (4.167%) Requirements Analysis
4 1 (4.167%) Security Testing
4 1 (4.167%) Integration Testing
4 1 (4.167%) Data Migration
Programming Languages
1 10 (41.67%) JavaScript
2 5 (20.83%) Java
3 2 (8.333%) SQL
4 1 (4.167%) Bash shell
4 1 (4.167%) C#
4 1 (4.167%) VBA
4 1 (4.167%) Python
Qualifications
1 16 (66.67%) ISTQB
2 10 (41.67%) Security Cleared
2 10 (41.67%) SC Cleared
3 9 (37.50%) ISEB
4 2 (8.333%) DV Cleared
4 2 (8.333%) Degree
5 1 (4.167%) ISEB Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (33.33%) QA
System Software
1 1 (4.167%) Nmap
Systems Management
1 9 (37.50%) HP Quality Center
2 1 (4.167%) Nessus
Vendors
1 11 (45.83%) Oracle
1 11 (45.83%) HP
2 4 (16.67%) Sony
2 4 (16.67%) Software AG
3 3 (12.50%) Microsoft
4 2 (8.333%) Citrix
5 1 (4.167%) Capita
5 1 (4.167%) RedPrairie
5 1 (4.167%) ArcSight
5 1 (4.167%) JDA
5 1 (4.167%) SAP