The first table below looks at the demand for ISTQB in IT contracts advertised for the Leeds region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited ISTQB 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 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
International Software Testing Qualification Board (ISTQB)
Rank 69 65 54
Rank change year-on-year
-4 -11
Contract jobs citing ISTQB 7 3 3
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Leeds 0.940% 0.337% 0.479%
As % of the Qualifications category 5.600% 1.887% 2.885%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 3 2
Average daily rate £290 £213 £220
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+36.47% -3.40%
UK excluding London average daily rate £337 £305 £325
% change year-on-year
+10.49% -6.15%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.00 £31.50 £16.50
% change year-on-year
-4.76% +90.90%
All Qualifications
Leeds
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Qualifications category
125 159 104
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Leeds 16.78% 17.87% 16.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 65 97 44
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 £250 £218 £195
10% offered a daily rate of more than £400 £501 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 7 11
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 £50.00 £26.95
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.50 £23.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year
-2.17% -8.00%
ISTQB
West Yorkshire

ISTQB
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Leeds 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 Leeds region.

Leeds ISTQB Daily Rate Trend

ISTQB
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing ISTQB across the Leeds region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

Leeds ISTQB Daily Rate Histogram

ISTQB
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Leeds 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 10 (100.00%) ISEB
2 5 (50.00%) SQL
3 4 (40.00%) Java
3 4 (40.00%) User Acceptance Testing
3 4 (40.00%) HP Quality Center
3 4 (40.00%) Open Source
3 4 (40.00%) Waterfall
4 3 (30.00%) Oracle CRM
4 3 (30.00%) V-Model
4 3 (30.00%) Software Testing
4 3 (30.00%) Oracle
4 3 (30.00%) Linux
4 3 (30.00%) Apache
4 3 (30.00%) Tomcat
4 3 (30.00%) MS Excel
4 3 (30.00%) CRM
5 2 (20.00%) Windows XP
5 2 (20.00%) Visual Studio
5 2 (20.00%) ASP.NET
5 2 (20.00%) XML
5 2 (20.00%) SQL Server
5 2 (20.00%) .NET
5 2 (20.00%) HTML
5 2 (20.00%) Windows
5 2 (20.00%) Microsoft
5 2 (20.00%) HP
5 2 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
5 2 (20.00%) Test Strategy
5 2 (20.00%) Retail
5 2 (20.00%) Test Management

ISTQB
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Leeds 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 2 (20.00%) HTML
1 2 (20.00%) .NET
1 2 (20.00%) ASP.NET
1 2 (20.00%) XML
2 1 (10.00%) XML Schema
2 1 (10.00%) soapUI
2 1 (10.00%) SOAP
Application Platforms
1 3 (30.00%) Apache
1 3 (30.00%) Tomcat
Applications
1 3 (30.00%) MS Excel
2 1 (10.00%) MS PowerPoint
2 1 (10.00%) MS Project
2 1 (10.00%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 3 (30.00%) Oracle CRM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (20.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (20.00%) Visual Studio
2 1 (10.00%) Selenium
2 1 (10.00%) WebDriver
General
1 2 (20.00%) Retail
2 1 (10.00%) Retail Banking
2 1 (10.00%) Finance
2 1 (10.00%) Banking
Job Titles
1 8 (80.00%) Test Analyst
1 8 (80.00%) Analyst
2 2 (20.00%) Test Leader
3 1 (10.00%) UAT Manager
3 1 (10.00%) Automation Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) Test Manager
3 1 (10.00%) Performance Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) Performance Test Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) Automation Test Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) UAT Test Manager
Miscellaneous
1 4 (40.00%) Open Source
Operating Systems
1 3 (30.00%) Linux
2 2 (20.00%) Windows XP
2 2 (20.00%) Windows
3 1 (10.00%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (40.00%) User Acceptance Testing
1 4 (40.00%) Waterfall
2 3 (30.00%) V-Model
2 3 (30.00%) CRM
2 3 (30.00%) Software Testing
3 2 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 2 (20.00%) Test Management
3 2 (20.00%) Test Scripting
3 2 (20.00%) Test Strategy
4 1 (10.00%) Automation Testing
4 1 (10.00%) Manual Testing
4 1 (10.00%) Regression Testing
Programming Languages
1 5 (50.00%) SQL
2 4 (40.00%) Java
3 1 (10.00%) C#
Qualifications
1 10 (100.00%) ISEB
2 1 (10.00%) SC Cleared
2 1 (10.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (10.00%) QA
Systems Management
1 4 (40.00%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 3 (30.00%) Oracle
2 2 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (20.00%) HP
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