Hampshire Test Analyst Contracts

This section looks at the demand for the Test Analyst 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 Test Analyst in their job title over the 3 months to 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Abingdon Amersham Atherstone Basingstoke Bath Bedfordshire Berkshire Birmingham Blackpool Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Bridgend Bristol Buckinghamshire Burton-upon-Trent Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Chesterfield City of London Coventry Crawley Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorking Dorset Dundee Durham East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex Eastleigh Edinburgh England Essex Farnham Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Godalming Guildford Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harlow Harrogate Havant Hertfordshire Home Counties Hove Kent Kingston Upon Thames Lancashire Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lincolnshire Liverpool London M4 Corridor Manchester Marlow Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Petersfield Plymouth Pontypool Poole Portsmouth Pudsey Reading Runcorn Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Sidcup Skelmersdale Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stirling Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Surbiton Surrey Sussex Swindon Tadworth Telford Thames Valley Torfaen Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warrington Warwickshire Watford West Bromwich West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Winchester Windsor Wirral Worcester Worcestershire Worthing York Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	60	74
Rank change on same period last year	+14
Matching contract IT job ads	46	52
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.061 %	0.053 %
As % of the category below	2.294 %	1.881 %
Daily rates quoted	17	23
Average minimum daily rate	£268	£332
Average daily rate	£292	£342
% change on same period last year	-14.49 %
Average maximum daily rate	£317	£351
UK excluding London average daily rate	£289	£293
% change on same period last year	-1.26 %
Hourly rates quoted	1	1
Average minimum hourly rate	£25.00	£40.00
Average hourly rate	£27.50	£41.00
% change on same period last year	-32.92 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£30.00	£42.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£29.25	£32.41
% change on same period last year	-9.77 %
Job Titles Hampshire
Matching contract IT job ads	2005	2764
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	2.673 %	2.796 %
Daily rates quoted	461	703
Average minimum daily rate	£348	£339
Average daily rate	£370	£360
% change on same period last year	+2.76 %
Average maximum daily rate	£393	£382
UK excluding London average daily rate	£357	£353
% change on same period last year	+1.09 %
Hourly rates quoted	380	529
Average minimum hourly rate	£24.90	£29.41
Average hourly rate	£26.56	£31.01
% change on same period last year	-14.35 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£28.21	£32.60
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.51	£25.99
% change on same period last year	-9.54 %
Test Analyst South East

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 Test Analyst 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 Test Analyst across the Hampshire region.

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Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Test Analyst across the Hampshire region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008.

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Hourly Rate Trend

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

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Contract Locations

This section 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 25 July 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
Basingstoke	+25	9	£287	-4.30 %
Southampton	+4	5	£300	-1.63 %
Havant	-	3	-	-
Petersfield	-	3	-	-
Winchester	+1	2	-	-
Portsmouth	-	2	-	-
Eastleigh	-1	1	£295	-1.66 %

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, 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 41 (39.05 %) ISEB 2 30 (28.57 %) Security Cleared 3 25 (23.81 %) SC Cleared 4 23 (21.90 %) TestDirector 4 23 (21.90 %) Software Testing 5 21 (20.00 %) Oracle 6 19 (18.10 %) User Acceptance Testing 7 18 (17.14 %) Telecoms 7 18 (17.14 %) Finance 8 15 (14.29 %) SQL 9 14 (13.33 %) Java 9 14 (13.33 %) Test Scripting 10 12 (11.43 %) Government 11 11 (10.48 %) QA 11 11 (10.48 %) Linux

12 10 (9.524 %) Microsoft 12 10 (9.524 %) Active Directory 13 9 (8.571 %) XML 13 9 (8.571 %) UNIX 14 8 (7.619 %) Agile Software Development 14 8 (7.619 %) Windows 14 8 (7.619 %) Regression Testing 15 7 (6.667 %) EAM 15 7 (6.667 %) Asset Management 15 7 (6.667 %) Manual Testing 15 7 (6.667 %) System Testing 16 6 (5.714 %) VLAN 16 6 (5.714 %) Requirements Analysis 16 6 (5.714 %) WinRunner 16 6 (5.714 %) Firewall

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, 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 9 (8.571 %) XML 2 4 (3.810 %) ISPF 3 3 (2.857 %) .NET 4 2 (1.905 %) WebSphere 5 1 (0.952 %) J2EE 5 1 (0.952 %) ASP 5 1 (0.952 %) HTML	Application Platforms 1 4 (3.810 %) MS Exchange 2 2 (1.905 %) Exchange Server 5.5 2 2 (1.905 %) Exchange Server 2003 2 2 (1.905 %) Exchange Server 2007 3 1 (0.952 %) WebSphere MQ 3 1 (0.952 %) SharePoint
Applications 1 3 (2.857 %) MS Excel 2 1 (0.952 %) AutoCAD 2 1 (0.952 %) MS Office	Business Applications 1 5 (4.762 %) Oracle EBS 1 5 (4.762 %) MAXIMO 2 1 (0.952 %) AWD 2 1 (0.952 %) SAP R/3
Communications & Networking 1 6 (5.714 %) LAN 1 6 (5.714 %) WAN 1 6 (5.714 %) Firewall 1 6 (5.714 %) VLAN 2 5 (4.762 %) VPN 3 3 (2.857 %) FTP 3 3 (2.857 %) HTTP	Database & Business Intelligence 1 5 (4.762 %) Oracle 9i 2 4 (3.810 %) DB2 3 3 (2.857 %) TOAD 3 3 (2.857 %) Oracle Discoverer 3 3 (2.857 %) Oracle 10g 4 2 (1.905 %) GIS 4 2 (1.905 %) Datawarehouse
Development Applications 1 23 (21.90 %) TestDirector 2 6 (5.714 %) QuickTest Pro 2 6 (5.714 %) WinRunner 3 4 (3.810 %) Bugzilla 4 3 (2.857 %) RequisitePro 4 3 (2.857 %) Rational Robot 4 3 (2.857 %) Selenium 5 2 (1.905 %) LoadRunner 6 1 (0.952 %) JUnit 6 1 (0.952 %) Visual Studio 6 1 (0.952 %) NUnit	General 1 18 (17.14 %) Telecoms 1 18 (17.14 %) Finance 2 12 (11.43 %) Government 3 4 (3.810 %) Retail 4 3 (2.857 %) Billing 4 3 (2.857 %) Insurance 5 2 (1.905 %) Pensions 5 2 (1.905 %) Health 5 2 (1.905 %) Manufacturing 6 1 (0.952 %) Games 6 1 (0.952 %) Banking 6 1 (0.952 %) Retail Banking 6 1 (0.952 %) Marketing 6 1 (0.952 %) Video Editing 6 1 (0.952 %) Back Office 6 1 (0.952 %) Electronics
Miscellaneous 1 4 (3.810 %) Thin Client 1 4 (3.810 %) Mainframe 1 4 (3.810 %) Fat Client 2 2 (1.905 %) STB 2 2 (1.905 %) PDA 2 2 (1.905 %) DTV 2 2 (1.905 %) Client/Server 2 2 (1.905 %) NHS 3 1 (0.952 %) Computer Science 3 1 (0.952 %) AS400	Operating Systems 1 11 (10.48 %) Linux 2 9 (8.571 %) UNIX 3 8 (7.619 %) Windows 4 6 (5.714 %) Windows Server 2003 5 2 (1.905 %) Windows Mobile
Processes & Methodologies 1 30 (28.57 %) Security Cleared 2 25 (23.81 %) SC Cleared 3 23 (21.90 %) Software Testing 4 19 (18.10 %) User Acceptance Testing 5 14 (13.33 %) Test Scripting 6 8 (7.619 %) Regression Testing 6 8 (7.619 %) Agile Software Development 7 7 (6.667 %) Asset Management 7 7 (6.667 %) EAM 7 7 (6.667 %) Manual Testing 7 7 (6.667 %) System Testing 8 6 (5.714 %) Requirements Analysis 9 5 (4.762 %) Test Management 9 5 (4.762 %) Automated Testing 10 4 (3.810 %) Document Management 10 4 (3.810 %) Performance Testing 11 3 (2.857 %) Web Testing 11 3 (2.857 %) Use Case 11 3 (2.857 %) Migration 11 3 (2.857 %) Risk Management	Programming Languages 1 15 (14.29 %) SQL 2 14 (13.33 %) Java 3 4 (3.810 %) VBA 3 4 (3.810 %) REXX 3 4 (3.810 %) JCL 4 2 (1.905 %) C 4 2 (1.905 %) C# 5 1 (0.952 %) PL/SQL 5 1 (0.952 %) VB.NET
Qualifications 1 41 (39.05 %) ISEB 2 1 (0.952 %) ISEB Practitioner 2 1 (0.952 %) ISTQB 2 1 (0.952 %) Degree	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 11 (10.48 %) QA 2 5 (4.762 %) Basel II
System Software 1 10 (9.524 %) Active Directory	Systems Management 1 4 (3.810 %) SCOM 2 3 (2.857 %) SCCM 3 2 (1.905 %) MOM 3 2 (1.905 %) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors 1 21 (20.00 %) Oracle 2 10 (9.524 %) Microsoft 3 4 (3.810 %) Citrix 3 4 (3.810 %) Actuate 4 3 (2.857 %) Juniper 4 3 (2.857 %) Cisco 5 1 (0.952 %) IBM 5 1 (0.952 %) SAP 5 1 (0.952 %) Cognos 5 1 (0.952 %) Sony 5 1 (0.952 %) ESRI