Tester Contracts in Hertfordshire
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Hourly Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for the Tester role in IT contracts advertised for the Hertfordshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Tester 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 Hertfordshire 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
Tester
Rank 57 64 54
Rank change year-on-year
+7 -10
Contract jobs requiring a Tester 6 4 12
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Hertfordshire 0.933% 0.413% 1.382%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.979% 0.439% 1.449%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 2
Average daily rate £250 - £318
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £300 £275
% change year-on-year
+8.33% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £29.00 £19.50 £19.00
% change year-on-year
+48.71% +2.63%
All Job Titles
Hertfordshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category		 613 911 828
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Hertfordshire 95.33% 94.11% 95.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 309 401 346
Average daily rate £400 £375 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+6.66% +7.14%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £230 £250 £220
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £500 £525
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 36 87 106
Average hourly rate £17.47 £31.00 £16.20
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-43.64% +91.35%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.05 £11.00 £11.20
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £37.50 £40.00 £37.15
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-5.40% -7.50%
Tester
East of England

Tester
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Hertfordshire Tester Jobs Demand Trend

Tester
Daily Rate Trend

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

Hertfordshire Tester Daily Rate Trend

Tester
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hertfordshire Tester Hourly Rate Trend

Tester
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Tester within the Hertfordshire 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
Watford - 3 - -
Tester
East of England

Tester
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 10 (76.92%) SQL
2 7 (53.85%) Java
3 6 (46.15%) Oracle
3 6 (46.15%) Automated Testing
3 6 (46.15%) Test Scripting
4 5 (38.46%) Finance
4 5 (38.46%) XML
4 5 (38.46%) ETL
5 4 (30.77%) ISEB
5 4 (30.77%) QuickTest Pro
5 4 (30.77%) J2EE
5 4 (30.77%) E-Commerce
5 4 (30.77%) HTML
5 4 (30.77%) Selenium
5 4 (30.77%) Manual Testing
6 3 (23.08%) System Testing
6 3 (23.08%) HP
6 3 (23.08%) Regression Testing
6 3 (23.08%) Scrum
6 3 (23.08%) Retail
6 3 (23.08%) WebSphere
6 3 (23.08%) JavaScript
6 3 (23.08%) SOAP
6 3 (23.08%) Web Services
6 3 (23.08%) DB2
6 3 (23.08%) Flash
6 3 (23.08%) MQSeries
6 3 (23.08%) Data Warehouse
6 3 (23.08%) UNIX
6 3 (23.08%) LoadRunner

Tester
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 5 (38.46%) XML
2 4 (30.77%) HTML
2 4 (30.77%) J2EE
3 3 (23.08%) SOAP
3 3 (23.08%) Web Services
3 3 (23.08%) Flash
3 3 (23.08%) WebSphere
4 2 (15.38%) soapUI
5 1 (7.692%) XSLT
5 1 (7.692%) CSS
5 1 (7.692%) .NET
Application Platforms
1 3 (23.08%) MQSeries
2 2 (15.38%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (7.692%) MS Office
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (23.08%) DB2
1 3 (23.08%) Data Warehouse
1 3 (23.08%) DbVisualizer
2 2 (15.38%) PowerCenter
3 1 (7.692%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (30.77%) QuickTest Pro
1 4 (30.77%) Selenium
2 3 (23.08%) LoadRunner
2 3 (23.08%) WebDriver
3 2 (15.38%) MonkeyTalk
3 2 (15.38%) JBehave
3 2 (15.38%) JIRA
4 1 (7.692%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 5 (38.46%) Finance
2 3 (23.08%) Retail
3 2 (15.38%) Pharmaceutical
4 1 (7.692%) Multimedia
4 1 (7.692%) Manufacturing
4 1 (7.692%) Games
Miscellaneous
1 1 (7.692%) Client/Server
1 1 (7.692%) Mathematics
1 1 (7.692%) Computer Science
1 1 (7.692%) FMCG
Operating Systems
1 3 (23.08%) UNIX
2 2 (15.38%) Linux
3 1 (7.692%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (46.15%) Automated Testing
1 6 (46.15%) Test Scripting
2 5 (38.46%) ETL
3 4 (30.77%) E-Commerce
3 4 (30.77%) Manual Testing
4 3 (23.08%) System Testing
4 3 (23.08%) Scrum
4 3 (23.08%) Regression Testing
5 2 (15.38%) Agile Software Development
5 2 (15.38%) Continuous Integration
5 2 (15.38%) Integration Testing
5 2 (15.38%) Software Testing
5 2 (15.38%) BDD
5 2 (15.38%) Build Automation
6 1 (7.692%) Time Management
6 1 (7.692%) Data Architecture
6 1 (7.692%) V-Model
6 1 (7.692%) Test Automation
6 1 (7.692%) Software Architecture
6 1 (7.692%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 10 (76.92%) SQL
2 7 (53.85%) Java
3 3 (23.08%) JavaScript
4 2 (15.38%) C#
4 2 (15.38%) VB
5 1 (7.692%) VB.NET
5 1 (7.692%) Erlang
Qualifications
1 4 (30.77%) ISEB
2 1 (7.692%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (15.38%) QA
2 1 (7.692%) SLA
Systems Management
1 3 (23.08%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 6 (46.15%) Oracle
2 3 (23.08%) IBM
2 3 (23.08%) HP
2 3 (23.08%) Informatica
3 2 (15.38%) Atlassian
4 1 (7.692%) Microsoft
RF Tester
Stevenage, Hertfordshire
1. RF PXI/PLL/VCO. 2. Run automated & manual tests. 3. Understanding instruments such as Spectrum, Scope, Signal generators.
Anantha Limited
Rate: From £15 to £17 per hour
Posted: 13 May 2013
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