The first table below looks at the demand for ISEB in IT contracts advertised for the Leeds region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited ISEB over the 3 months to 24 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 Qualifications for the Leeds 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Information Systems Examinations Board (ISEB)
Rank 63 44 31
Rank change year-on-year
-19 -13
Contract jobs citing ISEB 11 23 24
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Leeds 1.488% 2.647% 3.774%
As % of the Qualifications category 7.971% 14.74% 22.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 17 10
Average daily rate £250 £325 £320
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-23.07% +1.56%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £224 £213 £208
10% offered a daily rate of more than £336 £400 £353
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £330 £350
% change year-on-year
-1.51% -5.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
Average hourly rate - £22.50 £11.82
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- +90.43%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £25.00 £18.50 £27.50
% change year-on-year
+35.13% -32.72%
All Qualifications
Leeds
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Qualifications category
138 156 106
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Leeds 18.67% 17.95% 16.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 75 96 47
Average daily rate £300 £350 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-14.28% +7.69%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £213 £175
10% offered a daily rate of more than £400 £500 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 6 10
Average hourly rate £13.58 £12.00 £22.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+13.12% -45.45%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £10.65 £12.00 £9.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £24.75 £52.50 £25.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.00 £22.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year
-2.22% -10.00%
ISEB
West Yorkshire

ISEB
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Leeds ISEB Jobs Demand Trend

ISEB
Daily Rate Trend

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

Leeds ISEB Daily Rate Trend

ISEB
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing ISEB across the Leeds region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Leeds ISEB Daily Rate Histogram

ISEB
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Leeds ISEB Hourly Rate Trend

ISEB
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Leeds region citing ISEB 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 ISEB.

1 13 (52.00%) SQL
2 12 (48.00%) ISTQB
3 9 (36.00%) HP Quality Center
4 8 (32.00%) Finance
5 7 (28.00%) User Acceptance Testing
6 6 (24.00%) Software Testing
6 6 (24.00%) Oracle
6 6 (24.00%) SQL Server
7 5 (20.00%) .NET
7 5 (20.00%) Microsoft
7 5 (20.00%) Java
7 5 (20.00%) Retail
7 5 (20.00%) Open Source
7 5 (20.00%) Waterfall
7 5 (20.00%) Test Management
7 5 (20.00%) Test Scripting
8 4 (16.00%) System Testing
8 4 (16.00%) V-Model
8 4 (16.00%) Stakeholder Management
8 4 (16.00%) Selenium
8 4 (16.00%) HP
8 4 (16.00%) Apache
8 4 (16.00%) Tomcat
8 4 (16.00%) MS Excel
8 4 (16.00%) CRM
8 4 (16.00%) Visual Studio
8 4 (16.00%) Windows
8 4 (16.00%) Linux
9 3 (12.00%) SharePoint
9 3 (12.00%) Oracle CRM

ISEB
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Leeds region citing ISEB 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 ISEB. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 5 (20.00%) .NET
2 2 (8.000%) XML
2 2 (8.000%) ASP.NET
2 2 (8.000%) HTML
3 1 (4.000%) SOAP
3 1 (4.000%) XML Schema
3 1 (4.000%) soapUI
Application Platforms
1 4 (16.00%) Apache
1 4 (16.00%) Tomcat
2 3 (12.00%) SharePoint
3 1 (4.000%) IIS
Applications
1 4 (16.00%) MS Excel
2 2 (8.000%) MS PowerPoint
2 2 (8.000%) MS Project
2 2 (8.000%) MS Office
3 1 (4.000%) InfoPath
Business Applications
1 3 (12.00%) Oracle CRM
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.000%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (24.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (4.000%) MySQL
2 1 (4.000%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 4 (16.00%) Selenium
1 4 (16.00%) Visual Studio
2 2 (8.000%) QuickTest Pro
3 1 (4.000%) Oracle Forms
3 1 (4.000%) Oracle APEX
3 1 (4.000%) WebDriver
General
1 8 (32.00%) Finance
2 5 (20.00%) Retail
3 3 (12.00%) Banking
4 2 (8.000%) Legal
5 1 (4.000%) Retail Banking
5 1 (4.000%) Private Banking
5 1 (4.000%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 22 (88.00%) Analyst
2 20 (80.00%) Test Analyst
3 2 (8.000%) Test Leader
3 2 (8.000%) Business Analyst
3 2 (8.000%) Tester
4 1 (4.000%) Test Manager
4 1 (4.000%) Systems Analyst
4 1 (4.000%) UAT Analyst
4 1 (4.000%) Performance Test Analyst
4 1 (4.000%) Software Test Analyst
4 1 (4.000%) Automation Test Analyst
4 1 (4.000%) UAT Test Manager
4 1 (4.000%) QA Analyst
4 1 (4.000%) Performance Analyst
4 1 (4.000%) QA Test Analyst
4 1 (4.000%) Systems Test Analyst
4 1 (4.000%) UAT Manager
4 1 (4.000%) Applications Engineer
4 1 (4.000%) Automation Analyst
4 1 (4.000%) UAT Test Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 5 (20.00%) Open Source
2 1 (4.000%) EPoS
2 1 (4.000%) CMDB
2 1 (4.000%) Management Information System
2 1 (4.000%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 4 (16.00%) Windows
1 4 (16.00%) Linux
2 2 (8.000%) Windows XP
3 1 (4.000%) UNIX
3 1 (4.000%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (28.00%) User Acceptance Testing
2 6 (24.00%) Software Testing
3 5 (20.00%) Waterfall
3 5 (20.00%) Test Management
3 5 (20.00%) Test Scripting
4 4 (16.00%) System Testing
4 4 (16.00%) V-Model
4 4 (16.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 4 (16.00%) CRM
5 3 (12.00%) Regression Testing
5 3 (12.00%) Test Strategy
5 3 (12.00%) Automation Testing
6 2 (8.000%) Test Automation
6 2 (8.000%) Manual Testing
6 2 (8.000%) Agile Software Development
6 2 (8.000%) PRINCE2
7 1 (4.000%) Service Management
7 1 (4.000%) Change Management
7 1 (4.000%) Configuration Management
7 1 (4.000%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 13 (52.00%) SQL
2 5 (20.00%) Java
3 2 (8.000%) C#
4 1 (4.000%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 12 (48.00%) ISTQB
2 1 (4.000%) SC Cleared
2 1 (4.000%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (8.000%) QA
Systems Management
1 9 (36.00%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 6 (24.00%) Oracle
2 5 (20.00%) Microsoft
3 4 (16.00%) HP