Manual Testing Contracts in Hounslow
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for Manual Testing skills in IT contracts advertised for the Hounslow region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Manual Testing over the 3 months to 20 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 of the Processes & Methodologies category for the Hounslow 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
20 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Manual Testing
Rank 17 16 -
Rank change year-on-year
-1 -
Contract jobs citing Manual Testing 2 1 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Hounslow 3.509% 1.282% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.000% 1.667% -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 1 0
Average daily rate - £325 -
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £300 £256
% change year-on-year
+8.33% +17.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.00 - £23.75
All Processes & Methodologies
Hounslow
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category		 50 60 41
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Hounslow 87.72% 76.92% 63.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 35 36 24
Average daily rate £450 £375 £330
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+20.00% +13.63%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £400 £269 £201
10% offered a daily rate of more than £470 £475 £398
UK excluding London average daily rate £363 £363 £375
% change year-on-year
- -3.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £32.00 £25.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year
+28.00% -16.66%
Manual Testing
London

Manual Testing
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Hounslow Manual Testing Jobs Demand Trend

Manual Testing
Daily Rate Trend

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

Hounslow Manual Testing Daily Rate Trend

Manual Testing
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Hounslow region citing Manual 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 Manual Testing.

1 3 (100.00%) Python
1 3 (100.00%) ISEB
1 3 (100.00%) ISTQB
1 3 (100.00%) JIRA
1 3 (100.00%) Wireshark
1 3 (100.00%) STB
2 2 (66.67%) Ruby
2 2 (66.67%) IPTV
2 2 (66.67%) Cucumber
2 2 (66.67%) BDD
2 2 (66.67%) Apple iOS
2 2 (66.67%) Selenium
2 2 (66.67%) User Acceptance Testing
2 2 (66.67%) Test Scripting
2 2 (66.67%) Android
2 2 (66.67%) Video on Demand
2 2 (66.67%) Agile Software Development
2 2 (66.67%) TDD
2 2 (66.67%) DRM
2 2 (66.67%) Regression Testing
2 2 (66.67%) Games
2 2 (66.67%) Scrum
2 2 (66.67%) Cocoa
2 2 (66.67%) Objective-C
2 2 (66.67%) HTML
2 2 (66.67%) JavaScript
2 2 (66.67%) Perl
2 2 (66.67%) Functional Testing
2 2 (66.67%) Cocoa Touch
2 2 (66.67%) User Stories

Manual Testing
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Hounslow region citing Manual 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 Manual Testing. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 2 (66.67%) HTML
1 2 (66.67%) Cocoa
1 2 (66.67%) Cocoa Touch
Application Platforms
1 1 (33.33%) SharePoint
Communications & Networking
1 3 (100.00%) Wireshark
2 1 (33.33%) DVB
Development Applications
1 3 (100.00%) JIRA
2 2 (66.67%) Selenium
2 2 (66.67%) Cucumber
General
1 2 (66.67%) Games
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Tester
1 3 (100.00%) Senior Tester
2 1 (33.33%) Agile Tester
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Agile Tester
2 1 (33.33%) Manual Tester
Miscellaneous
1 3 (100.00%) STB
2 2 (66.67%) IPTV
2 2 (66.67%) Video on Demand
2 2 (66.67%) Mobile App
3 1 (33.33%) MPEG
3 1 (33.33%) Embedded Systems
Operating Systems
1 2 (66.67%) Android
1 2 (66.67%) Apple iOS
2 1 (33.33%) UNIX
2 1 (33.33%) HPUX
2 1 (33.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) DRM
1 2 (66.67%) Regression Testing
1 2 (66.67%) Scrum
1 2 (66.67%) Agile Software Development
1 2 (66.67%) TDD
1 2 (66.67%) User Acceptance Testing
1 2 (66.67%) Test Scripting
1 2 (66.67%) BDD
1 2 (66.67%) Functional Testing
1 2 (66.67%) User Stories
1 2 (66.67%) Automation Testing
2 1 (33.33%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Python
2 2 (66.67%) JavaScript
2 2 (66.67%) Perl
2 2 (66.67%) Objective-C
2 2 (66.67%) Ruby
3 1 (33.33%) C
3 1 (33.33%) SQL
3 1 (33.33%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 3 (100.00%) ISEB
1 3 (100.00%) ISTQB
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