Hertfordshire Test Analyst Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for the Test Analyst role in IT contracts within the Hertfordshire 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 2 December 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aldershot Basingstoke Bath Belfast Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Blackpool Bracknell Bradford Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Channel Islands Cheltenham Cheshire Chester City of London County Antrim Coventry Crawley Croydon Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset East Midlands East of England East Sussex Eastleigh Edinburgh England Essex Farnborough Farnham Fleetwood Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Gosport Halifax Hampshire Harrogate Hertfordshire Ipswich Isleworth Jersey Kent Lanarkshire Lancashire Leatherhead Leeds Liverpool London M4 Corridor Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Reading Runcorn Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Solihull Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Staffordshire Staines Stockport Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Surrey Sussex Swindon Tamworth Telford Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Welwyn Garden City West Malling West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Windsor Worcester Worcestershire Yeovil York Yorkshire	3 months to 2 Dec 2008	Same period last year
Rank	60	57
Rank change on same period last year	-3
Matching contract IT job ads	11	40
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.018 %	0.043 %
As % of the category below	1.194 %	2.502 %
Daily rates quoted	3	20
Average minimum daily rate	£300	£251
Average daily rate	£333	£273
% change on same period last year	+22.17 %
Average maximum daily rate	£367	£295
UK excluding London average daily rate	£299	£288
% change on same period last year	+3.97 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum hourly rate	-	-
Average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£26.42	£31.43
% change on same period last year	-15.94 %
Job Titles Hertfordshire
Matching contract IT job ads	921	1599
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	1.480 %	1.717 %
Daily rates quoted	284	619
Average minimum daily rate	£337	£324
Average daily rate	£357	£344
% change on same period last year	+3.85 %
Average maximum daily rate	£378	£364
UK excluding London average daily rate	£352	£352
% change on same period last year	+0.07 %
Hourly rates quoted	112	194
Average minimum hourly rate	£26.57	£23.77
Average hourly rate	£27.67	£24.98
% change on same period last year	+10.75 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£28.76	£26.19
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.10	£24.04
% change on same period last year	-3.88 %
Test Analyst East of England

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.

Test Analyst
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Test Analyst across the Hertfordshire 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 Hertfordshire 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 Test Analyst across the Hertfordshire region.

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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 Test Analyst within the Hertfordshire region over the 3 months to 2 December 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
Welwyn Garden City	-	1	-	-

Test Analyst East of England

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 2 December 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Hertfordshire 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 10 (34.48 %) Test Scripting 2 7 (24.14 %) UNIX 3 6 (20.69 %) TestDirector 4 5 (17.24 %) LoadRunner 4 5 (17.24 %) SAP 4 5 (17.24 %) ISEB 4 5 (17.24 %) Performance Testing 4 5 (17.24 %) Retail 5 4 (13.79 %) User Acceptance Testing 5 4 (13.79 %) Manual Testing 5 4 (13.79 %) Citrix 5 4 (13.79 %) XML 5 4 (13.79 %) SOAP 5 4 (13.79 %) SQL 6 3 (10.34 %) WebServices

6 3 (10.34 %) PRINCE2 6 3 (10.34 %) CRM 6 3 (10.34 %) Internet 6 3 (10.34 %) Telecoms 6 3 (10.34 %) eCATT 6 3 (10.34 %) Web Testing 6 3 (10.34 %) Security Cleared 6 3 (10.34 %) V-Model 6 3 (10.34 %) Handset 6 3 (10.34 %) SAP CRM 7 2 (6.897 %) QA 7 2 (6.897 %) BC Cleared 7 2 (6.897 %) Validation 7 2 (6.897 %) Middleware 7 2 (6.897 %) EPoS

Test Analyst
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 2 December 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Hertfordshire 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 4 (13.79 %) SOAP 1 4 (13.79 %) XML 2 3 (10.34 %) WebServices 3 2 (6.897 %) Middleware	Application Platforms 1 1 (3.448 %) Lotus Notes
Applications 1 1 (3.448 %) MS Office 1 1 (3.448 %) MS Excel	Business Applications 1 3 (10.34 %) SAP CRM
Communications & Networking 1 3 (10.34 %) Internet 2 1 (3.448 %) ATM	Database & Business Intelligence 1 1 (3.448 %) Datawarehouse
Development Applications 1 6 (20.69 %) TestDirector 2 5 (17.24 %) LoadRunner 3 3 (10.34 %) eCATT 4 1 (3.448 %) QuickTest Pro	General 1 5 (17.24 %) Retail 2 3 (10.34 %) Telecoms 3 1 (3.448 %) Finance 3 1 (3.448 %) Games 3 1 (3.448 %) Online Games 3 1 (3.448 %) Pharmaceutical
Miscellaneous 1 3 (10.34 %) Handset 2 2 (6.897 %) EPoS 3 1 (3.448 %) AS400	Operating Systems 1 7 (24.14 %) UNIX 2 1 (3.448 %) Windows 2 1 (3.448 %) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies 1 10 (34.48 %) Test Scripting 2 5 (17.24 %) Performance Testing 3 4 (13.79 %) Manual Testing 3 4 (13.79 %) User Acceptance Testing 4 3 (10.34 %) Web Testing 4 3 (10.34 %) Security Cleared 4 3 (10.34 %) V-Model 4 3 (10.34 %) PRINCE2 4 3 (10.34 %) CRM 5 2 (6.897 %) Validation 5 2 (6.897 %) BC Cleared 6 1 (3.448 %) System Testing 6 1 (3.448 %) Automated Testing 6 1 (3.448 %) Compatibility Testing 6 1 (3.448 %) Unit Testing 6 1 (3.448 %) Regression Testing 6 1 (3.448 %) Risk Management 6 1 (3.448 %) Workflow	Programming Languages 1 4 (13.79 %) SQL
Qualifications 1 5 (17.24 %) ISEB 2 1 (3.448 %) ISEB Practitioner	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 2 (6.897 %) QA
System Software 1 1 (3.448 %) Active Directory	Vendors 1 5 (17.24 %) SAP 2 4 (13.79 %) Citrix 3 1 (3.448 %) JDA 3 1 (3.448 %) Lotus 3 1 (3.448 %) Ab Initio 3 1 (3.448 %) VMware 3 1 (3.448 %) Retalix 3 1 (3.448 %) Oracle