The first table below looks at the demand for ISTQB in IT contracts advertised for the Lancashire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited ISTQB over the 3 months to 18 June 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all Qualifications for the Lancashire 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
18 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
International Software Testing Qualification Board (ISTQB)
Rank 31 43 -
Rank change year-on-year
+12 -
Contract jobs citing ISTQB 1 1 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Lancashire 0.444% 0.234% -
As % of the Qualifications category 1.852% 0.505% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Average daily rate £350 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £328 £313 £344
% change year-on-year
+4.80% -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £25.00 £31.50 £16.50
% change year-on-year
-20.63% +90.90%
All Qualifications
Lancashire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Qualifications category
54 198 60
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Lancashire 24.00% 46.26% 24.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 115 32
Average daily rate £300 £423 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-28.99% +30.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £90 £300 £220
10% offered a daily rate of more than £432 £550 £408
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 1 13
Average hourly rate £20.00 £14.00 £36.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+42.85% -61.11%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £17.50 £14.00 £19.40
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £26.50 £14.00 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.00 £21.50 £24.00
% change year-on-year
+2.32% -10.41%
ISTQB
North West

ISTQB
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing ISTQB across the Lancashire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Qualifications category.

Lancashire ISTQB Jobs Demand Trend

ISTQB
Daily Rate Trend

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

Lancashire ISTQB Daily Rate Trend

ISTQB
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing ISTQB within the Lancashire region over the 3 months to 18 June 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
Find
Job
Vacancies
Chorley - 1 £350 -
Preston - - - -
ISTQB
North West

ISTQB
Top 24 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Lancashire region citing ISTQB 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 ISTQB.

1 4 (80.00%) PMP
1 4 (80.00%) PMI Certification
1 4 (80.00%) PRINCE
1 4 (80.00%) Project Management
1 4 (80.00%) Risk Management
1 4 (80.00%) Finance
2 2 (40.00%) Test Strategy
3 1 (20.00%) Jenkins
3 1 (20.00%) Scrum
3 1 (20.00%) Agile Software Development
3 1 (20.00%) Retail
3 1 (20.00%) Selenium
3 1 (20.00%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 1 (20.00%) PowerShell
3 1 (20.00%) Test Automation
3 1 (20.00%) WebDriver
3 1 (20.00%) soapUI
3 1 (20.00%) C
3 1 (20.00%) Java
3 1 (20.00%) SOAP
3 1 (20.00%) Web Services
3 1 (20.00%) Eclipse
3 1 (20.00%) HP
3 1 (20.00%) ISEB

ISTQB
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Lancashire region citing ISTQB 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 ISTQB. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (20.00%) SOAP
1 1 (20.00%) Web Services
1 1 (20.00%) soapUI
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Eclipse
1 1 (20.00%) Selenium
1 1 (20.00%) Atlassian Bamboo
1 1 (20.00%) WebDriver
1 1 (20.00%) Jenkins
General
1 4 (80.00%) Finance
2 1 (20.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 4 (80.00%) Test Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Automation Tester
2 1 (20.00%) Test Project Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Project Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Tester
2 1 (20.00%) Developer
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) PRINCE
1 4 (80.00%) Project Management
1 4 (80.00%) Risk Management
2 2 (40.00%) Test Strategy
3 1 (20.00%) Scrum
3 1 (20.00%) Agile Software Development
3 1 (20.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) C
1 1 (20.00%) Java
1 1 (20.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 4 (80.00%) PMP
1 4 (80.00%) PMI Certification
2 1 (20.00%) ISEB
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) HP