The first table below looks at the demand for the Test Analyst role in IT contracts advertised for the Hampshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Test Analyst in their job title over the 3 months to 17 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 Job Titles advertised 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Test Analyst
Rank 64 53 74
Rank change year-on-year
-11 +21
Contract jobs requiring a Test Analyst 40 47 33
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Hampshire 2.584% 2.932% 1.784%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.772% 3.117% 1.906%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 21 15
Average daily rate £330 £325 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+1.53% +8.33%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £278 £265 £210
10% offered a daily rate of more than £405 £400 £343
UK excluding London average daily rate £305 £300 £300
% change year-on-year
+1.66% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £25.00 £17.50 £28.25
% change year-on-year
+42.85% -38.05%
All Job Titles
Hampshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
1443 1508 1731
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Hampshire 93.22% 94.07% 93.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 795 700 725
Average daily rate £350 £355 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-1.40% +1.42%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £228 £240 £238
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £500 £488
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 162 221 241
Average hourly rate £17.50 £21.75 £28.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-19.54% -22.32%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.50 £11.49 £11.65
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £40.00 £40.00 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-5.40% -7.50%
Test Analyst
South East

Test Analyst
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Test Analyst across the Hampshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

Hampshire Test Analyst Jobs Demand Trend

Test Analyst
Daily Rate Trend

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

Hampshire Test Analyst Daily Rate Trend

Test Analyst
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Test Analyst across the Hampshire region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

Hampshire Test Analyst Daily Rate Histogram

Test Analyst
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hampshire Test Analyst Hourly Rate Trend

Test Analyst
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Test Analyst within the Hampshire region over the 3 months to 17 May 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
Havant - 7 £350 -
Basingstoke -13 5 £330 -
Andover +4 4 - -
Winchester - 2 £354 -
Farnborough - 2 £443 -
Portsmouth +4 1 £275 -29.03%
Southampton -5 1 - -
Gosport - 1 £350 -
Test Analyst
South East

Test Analyst
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Hampshire region that cited Test Analyst 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 Test Analyst in their job title.

1 34 (47.22%) Test Scripting
2 27 (37.50%) SQL
3 24 (33.33%) Oracle
3 24 (33.33%) HP Quality Center
4 23 (31.94%) ISEB
5 20 (27.78%) Security Cleared
6 18 (25.00%) User Acceptance Testing
7 16 (22.22%) HP
8 13 (18.06%) .NET
8 13 (18.06%) Agile Software Development
8 13 (18.06%) Test Automation
9 12 (16.67%) Selenium
9 12 (16.67%) SC Cleared
9 12 (16.67%) C#
10 11 (15.28%) Java
10 11 (15.28%) UNIX
10 11 (15.28%) Performance Testing
11 10 (13.89%) QA
11 10 (13.89%) Integration Testing
11 10 (13.89%) Regression Testing
11 10 (13.89%) ISTQB
12 9 (12.50%) Validation
12 9 (12.50%) Windows
12 9 (12.50%) JavaScript
12 9 (12.50%) HTML
12 9 (12.50%) Manual Testing
13 8 (11.11%) SQL Server
13 8 (11.11%) Linux
13 8 (11.11%) IBM
13 8 (11.11%) Oracle EBS

Test Analyst
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Hampshire region that cited Test Analyst 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 Test Analyst in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 13 (18.06%) .NET
2 9 (12.50%) HTML
3 5 (6.944%) soapUI
3 5 (6.944%) WCF
4 4 (5.556%) Web Services
4 4 (5.556%) XML
4 4 (5.556%) ASP.NET
5 3 (4.167%) JSP
5 3 (4.167%) SOAP
5 3 (4.167%) Gherkin
6 1 (1.389%) .NET Framework
6 1 (1.389%) HTML5
Application Platforms
1 5 (6.944%) IIS
1 5 (6.944%) BizTalk Server
2 4 (5.556%) CMS
2 4 (5.556%) SharePoint
3 3 (4.167%) Windows Azure
4 2 (2.778%) TeamSite
Applications
1 3 (4.167%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 8 (11.11%) Oracle EBS
2 3 (4.167%) Oracle EBS R12
3 2 (2.778%) Oracle iProcurement
3 2 (2.778%) Oracle HRMS
4 1 (1.389%) Oracle Applications
4 1 (1.389%) Oracle Payroll
4 1 (1.389%) Maximo
4 1 (1.389%) Oracle Financials
Communications & Networking
1 4 (5.556%) Internet
2 2 (2.778%) Wireshark
2 2 (2.778%) HTTP
2 2 (2.778%) TCP/IP
2 2 (2.778%) HTTPS
2 2 (2.778%) SSL
3 1 (1.389%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (11.11%) SQL Server
2 7 (9.722%) Data Warehouse
2 7 (9.722%) Oracle BI EE
3 6 (8.333%) Oracle 8/8i
4 4 (5.556%) SQL Server 2008
4 4 (5.556%) Oracle 10g
4 4 (5.556%) Oracle OWB
4 4 (5.556%) SQL Server 2005
4 4 (5.556%) Oracle 11g
5 3 (4.167%) Oracle Reports
5 3 (4.167%) SQL Server 2012
6 2 (2.778%) Oracle Discoverer
7 1 (1.389%) SQL Server 2000
Development Applications
1 12 (16.67%) Selenium
2 7 (9.722%) WebDriver
2 7 (9.722%) Cucumber
3 6 (8.333%) JIRA
4 5 (6.944%) WATIR
4 5 (6.944%) QuickTest Pro
4 5 (6.944%) LoadRunner
4 5 (6.944%) SpecFlow
4 5 (6.944%) FitNesse
4 5 (6.944%) Rational Performance Tester
5 4 (5.556%) Rational Functional Tester
5 4 (5.556%) JMeter
5 4 (5.556%) Oracle APEX
6 3 (4.167%) Visual Studio
6 3 (4.167%) Firebug
6 3 (4.167%) Fiddler
6 3 (4.167%) Visual Studio Team System
6 3 (4.167%) Team Foundation Server
7 2 (2.778%) NUnit
7 2 (2.778%) ClearQuest
General
1 6 (8.333%) Finance
2 3 (4.167%) Military
3 2 (2.778%) General Ledger
3 2 (2.778%) Telecoms
4 1 (1.389%) French Language
4 1 (1.389%) German Language
4 1 (1.389%) Spanish Language
4 1 (1.389%) Retail
4 1 (1.389%) Manufacturing
Miscellaneous
1 3 (4.167%) Open Source
1 3 (4.167%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (1.389%) SaaS
2 1 (1.389%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 1 (1.389%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 11 (15.28%) UNIX
2 9 (12.50%) Windows
3 8 (11.11%) Linux
4 4 (5.556%) Windows Server 2003
4 4 (5.556%) Windows Server 2008
5 3 (4.167%) Windows 2000
5 3 (4.167%) Windows XP
6 1 (1.389%) Mac OS X
6 1 (1.389%) SUSE
6 1 (1.389%) AIX
6 1 (1.389%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (47.22%) Test Scripting
2 18 (25.00%) User Acceptance Testing
3 13 (18.06%) Test Automation
3 13 (18.06%) Agile Software Development
4 11 (15.28%) Performance Testing
5 10 (13.89%) Integration Testing
5 10 (13.89%) Regression Testing
6 9 (12.50%) Validation
6 9 (12.50%) Manual Testing
7 8 (11.11%) TDD
8 6 (8.333%) CRM
8 6 (8.333%) SOA
9 5 (6.944%) Automated Testing
9 5 (6.944%) Software Testing
9 5 (6.944%) Web Testing
9 5 (6.944%) BDD
10 4 (5.556%) Functional Testing
10 4 (5.556%) Test Management
10 4 (5.556%) System Testing
10 4 (5.556%) Data Validation
Programming Languages
1 27 (37.50%) SQL
2 12 (16.67%) C#
3 11 (15.28%) Java
4 9 (12.50%) JavaScript
5 6 (8.333%) C++
5 6 (8.333%) C
6 5 (6.944%) Perl
6 5 (6.944%) Python
7 2 (2.778%) Groovy
8 1 (1.389%) R
Qualifications
1 23 (31.94%) ISEB
2 20 (27.78%) Security Cleared
3 12 (16.67%) SC Cleared
4 10 (13.89%) ISTQB
5 4 (5.556%) ISEB Practitioner
6 2 (2.778%) Degree
6 2 (2.778%) HP AIS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (13.89%) QA
System Software
1 5 (6.944%) Active Directory
2 4 (5.556%) Terminal Services
2 4 (5.556%) Oracle RAC
2 4 (5.556%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (2.778%) Nmap
4 1 (1.389%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 24 (33.33%) HP Quality Center
2 1 (1.389%) Tivoli
2 1 (1.389%) Netcool
2 1 (1.389%) Netcool/OMNIbus
2 1 (1.389%) Nessus
Vendors
1 24 (33.33%) Oracle
2 16 (22.22%) HP
3 8 (11.11%) IBM
4 6 (8.333%) Microsoft
4 6 (8.333%) VMware
5 4 (5.556%) Siebel
6 1 (1.389%) Capita
6 1 (1.389%) RedPrairie
6 1 (1.389%) ArcSight
6 1 (1.389%) SAP
6 1 (1.389%) Intel
6 1 (1.389%) Citrix
6 1 (1.389%) Hyperion
6 1 (1.389%) Apple
6 1 (1.389%) webMethods
Andover, South East
Non Functional Test AnalystAndover, HampshireContract Length: 3 months +Key Skills: NON FUNCTIONAL,TEST, ORACLE, SQL SERVER, WINDOWS, UNIX, VIRTUAL, VMWARE, SERVER, BUILD, DATA WAREHOUSE, DATAWAREHOUSE, DATAWARHOUSING, QTP, QUICK...
LA International Computer Consultants Ltd.
Posted: 29 April 2013