The first table below looks at the demand for Test Strategy skills in IT contracts advertised for the Leeds region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Test Strategy over the 3 months to 22 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 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
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Test Strategy
Rank 61 43 52
Rank change year-on-year
-18 +9
Contract jobs citing Test Strategy 7 29 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Leeds 0.931% 3.247% 0.322%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.275% 4.545% 0.478%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 13 2
Average daily rate £263 £450 £405
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-41.66% +11.11%
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £400 £395
% change year-on-year
-12.50% +1.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £40.00 £37.00 £28.00
% change year-on-year
+8.10% +32.14%
All Processes & Methodologies
Leeds
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
549 638 418
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Leeds 73.01% 71.44% 67.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 311 377 205
Average daily rate £310 £345 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-10.14% -1.42%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £245 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £451 £475
UK excluding London average daily rate £365 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
- -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 16 22
Average hourly rate £33.50 £14.00 £17.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+139.28% -20.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.50 £11.40 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £38.00 £62.50 £25.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.00 £25.00 £29.00
% change year-on-year
+24.00% -13.79%
Test Strategy
West Yorkshire

Test Strategy
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Leeds Test Strategy Jobs Demand Trend

Test Strategy
Daily Rate Trend

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

Leeds Test Strategy Daily Rate Trend

Test Strategy
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Leeds region citing Test Strategy 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 Test Strategy.

1 5 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 5 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 4 (40.00%) Test Management
2 4 (40.00%) HP Quality Center
3 3 (30.00%) User Acceptance Testing
3 3 (30.00%) ISEB
3 3 (30.00%) Firewall
3 3 (30.00%) SQL
3 3 (30.00%) MS Office
3 3 (30.00%) Visual Studio
3 3 (30.00%) Web Services
4 2 (20.00%) XML
4 2 (20.00%) .NET
4 2 (20.00%) Windows
4 2 (20.00%) HTML
4 2 (20.00%) SQL Server
4 2 (20.00%) Regression Testing
4 2 (20.00%) Programme Management
4 2 (20.00%) EPoS
4 2 (20.00%) Integration Testing
4 2 (20.00%) Retail
4 2 (20.00%) ISTQB
4 2 (20.00%) Test Scripting
4 2 (20.00%) Manual Testing
4 2 (20.00%) V-Model
4 2 (20.00%) Waterfall
5 1 (10.00%) Cucumber
5 1 (10.00%) SpecFlow
5 1 (10.00%) Gherkin
5 1 (10.00%) Agile Testing

Test Strategy
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Leeds region citing Test Strategy 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 Test Strategy. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 3 (30.00%) Web Services
2 2 (20.00%) XML
2 2 (20.00%) .NET
2 2 (20.00%) HTML
3 1 (10.00%) Gherkin
3 1 (10.00%) ASP
3 1 (10.00%) ASP.NET
Applications
1 3 (30.00%) MS Office
2 1 (10.00%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 3 (30.00%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (20.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (30.00%) Visual Studio
2 1 (10.00%) Cucumber
2 1 (10.00%) SpecFlow
2 1 (10.00%) TeamCity
2 1 (10.00%) WebDriver
2 1 (10.00%) Selenium
2 1 (10.00%) MSI
General
1 2 (20.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 5 (50.00%) Analyst
1 5 (50.00%) Test Analyst
2 3 (30.00%) Test Manager
3 1 (10.00%) Testing Consultant
3 1 (10.00%) Agile Tester
3 1 (10.00%) Tester
3 1 (10.00%) Consultant
3 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 2 (20.00%) EPoS
Operating Systems
1 2 (20.00%) Windows
2 1 (10.00%) Windows XP
2 1 (10.00%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (40.00%) Test Management
2 3 (30.00%) User Acceptance Testing
3 2 (20.00%) Regression Testing
3 2 (20.00%) Programme Management
3 2 (20.00%) Integration Testing
3 2 (20.00%) Test Scripting
3 2 (20.00%) Manual Testing
3 2 (20.00%) V-Model
3 2 (20.00%) Waterfall
4 1 (10.00%) Agile Testing
4 1 (10.00%) Automation Testing
4 1 (10.00%) System Testing
4 1 (10.00%) Continuous Integration
4 1 (10.00%) Risk Analysis
4 1 (10.00%) Automated Testing
4 1 (10.00%) Software Testing
4 1 (10.00%) Agile Software Development
4 1 (10.00%) Scrum
4 1 (10.00%) Risk Assessment
4 1 (10.00%) E-Commerce
Programming Languages
1 3 (30.00%) SQL
2 1 (10.00%) C#
2 1 (10.00%) VB
Qualifications
1 5 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 5 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (30.00%) ISEB
3 2 (20.00%) ISTQB
4 1 (10.00%) BC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (10.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (10.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (40.00%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 1 (10.00%) VMware
1 1 (10.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (10.00%) HP
1 1 (10.00%) Oracle