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Tester Contracts in Lancashire
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram 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 Lancashire 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 19 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 Job Titles advertised 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
19 Jun 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Tester
Rank 28 38 19
Rank change year-on-year
+10 -19
Contract jobs requiring a Tester 3 4 12
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Lancashire 1.357% 0.948% 5.021%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.442% 1.023% 5.455%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 0
Average daily rate £270 £293 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-7.69% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £300 £275
% change year-on-year
+8.33% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Average hourly rate - £10.00 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.00 £13.00 £24.00
% change year-on-year
+138.46% -45.83%
All Job Titles
Lancashire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category		 208 391 220
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Lancashire 94.12% 92.65% 92.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 84 217 99
Average daily rate £290 £375 £326
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-22.66% +14.94%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £190 £275 £235
10% offered a daily rate of more than £375 £500 £463
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 37 19 30
Average hourly rate £18.00 £20.50 £37.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-12.19% -45.33%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £10.70 £11.50 £19.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £29.95 £30.00 £42.05
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £19.94
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -9.72%
Tester
North West

Tester
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Lancashire 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 Lancashire region.

Lancashire Tester Daily Rate Trend

Tester
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Tester across the Lancashire region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

Lancashire Tester Daily Rate Histogram

Tester
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Lancashire 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 Lancashire region over the 3 months to 19 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 -
Tester
North West

Tester
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Lancashire 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 2 (66.67%) SOAP
1 2 (66.67%) Web Services
2 1 (33.33%) UNIX
2 1 (33.33%) Windows
2 1 (33.33%) Eclipse
2 1 (33.33%) FTP
2 1 (33.33%) HTTP
2 1 (33.33%) TCP/IP
2 1 (33.33%) TOAD
2 1 (33.33%) HP
2 1 (33.33%) ISEB
2 1 (33.33%) LoadRunner
2 1 (33.33%) Workflow
2 1 (33.33%) Finance
2 1 (33.33%) Validation
2 1 (33.33%) Scrum
2 1 (33.33%) VMware
2 1 (33.33%) Agile Software Development
2 1 (33.33%) TDD
2 1 (33.33%) Retail
2 1 (33.33%) ISTQB
2 1 (33.33%) JIRA
2 1 (33.33%) Selenium
2 1 (33.33%) Performance Testing
2 1 (33.33%) Test Scripting
2 1 (33.33%) Atlassian Bamboo
2 1 (33.33%) Manual Testing
2 1 (33.33%) PowerShell
2 1 (33.33%) Test Automation
2 1 (33.33%) HP Quality Center

Tester
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Lancashire 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 2 (66.67%) SOAP
1 2 (66.67%) Web Services
2 1 (33.33%) soapUI
2 1 (33.33%) .NET
2 1 (33.33%) ASP.NET
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) FTP
1 1 (33.33%) HTTP
1 1 (33.33%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) TOAD
1 1 (33.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Eclipse
1 1 (33.33%) LoadRunner
1 1 (33.33%) JIRA
1 1 (33.33%) Selenium
1 1 (33.33%) Atlassian Bamboo
1 1 (33.33%) WebDriver
1 1 (33.33%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (33.33%) Finance
1 1 (33.33%) Retail
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) UNIX
1 1 (33.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (33.33%) Workflow
1 1 (33.33%) Validation
1 1 (33.33%) Scrum
1 1 (33.33%) Agile Software Development
1 1 (33.33%) TDD
1 1 (33.33%) Performance Testing
1 1 (33.33%) Test Scripting
1 1 (33.33%) Manual Testing
1 1 (33.33%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) PowerShell
1 1 (33.33%) C#
1 1 (33.33%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) ISEB
1 1 (33.33%) ISTQB
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) HP
1 1 (33.33%) VMware
1 1 (33.33%) Oracle
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