Tester Contracts in Leeds
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for the Tester role in IT contracts advertised for the Leeds 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 23 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 Job Titles advertised 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
23 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Tester
Rank 59 53 42
Rank change year-on-year
-6 -11
Contract jobs requiring a Tester 15 15 13
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Leeds 2.044% 1.703% 2.025%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.161% 1.796% 2.121%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 7 11
Average daily rate £300 £300 £300
90% offered a daily rate of more than £219 £214 £200
10% offered a daily rate of more than £400 £355 £405
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £300 £275
% change year-on-year
+8.33% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £29.00 £27.75 £20.50
% change year-on-year
+4.50% +35.36%
All Job Titles
Leeds
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category		 694 835 613
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Leeds 94.55% 94.78% 95.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 366 479 281
Average daily rate £290 £338 £326
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-14.07% +3.68%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £211 £210 £220
10% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £460 £475
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 48 48
Average hourly rate £12.50 £13.00 £15.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-3.84% -13.33%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £10.50 £10.00 £7.25
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £34.30 £37.00 £24.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
Tester
West Yorkshire

Tester
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Leeds 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 Leeds region.

Leeds 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 Leeds region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

Leeds 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 Leeds region.

Leeds Tester Hourly Rate Trend

Tester
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Leeds 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 10 (45.45%) Performance Testing
2 8 (36.36%) Selenium
3 7 (31.82%) SQL
4 6 (27.27%) C#
4 6 (27.27%) Visual Studio
4 6 (27.27%) HP
4 6 (27.27%) Agile Software Development
4 6 (27.27%) Test Scripting
5 5 (22.73%) QA
5 5 (22.73%) Test Management
5 5 (22.73%) Oracle
5 5 (22.73%) Automation Testing
6 4 (18.18%) .NET
6 4 (18.18%) Web Services
6 4 (18.18%) Windows
6 4 (18.18%) VMware
6 4 (18.18%) HP Quality Center
6 4 (18.18%) WebDriver
6 4 (18.18%) Manual Testing
6 4 (18.18%) Web Testing
6 4 (18.18%) Automated Testing
7 3 (13.64%) Software Testing
7 3 (13.64%) Continuous Integration
7 3 (13.64%) User Acceptance Testing
7 3 (13.64%) SC Cleared
7 3 (13.64%) Security Cleared
7 3 (13.64%) VMware Infrastructure
7 3 (13.64%) Rational Performance Tester
7 3 (13.64%) Test Automation
7 3 (13.64%) TeamCity

Tester
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Leeds 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 4 (18.18%) .NET
1 4 (18.18%) Web Services
2 3 (13.64%) XML
2 3 (13.64%) ASP
2 3 (13.64%) HTML
2 3 (13.64%) Gherkin
3 1 (4.545%) WCF
Applications
1 3 (13.64%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 3 (13.64%) HTTP
2 1 (4.545%) Firewall
2 1 (4.545%) VPN
2 1 (4.545%) SSL
Development Applications
1 8 (36.36%) Selenium
2 6 (27.27%) Visual Studio
3 4 (18.18%) WebDriver
4 3 (13.64%) Rational Performance Tester
4 3 (13.64%) TeamCity
4 3 (13.64%) QuickTest Pro
4 3 (13.64%) LoadRunner
4 3 (13.64%) MSI
4 3 (13.64%) Cucumber
4 3 (13.64%) SpecFlow
5 2 (9.091%) Talend Open Studio
5 2 (9.091%) Visual Studio Team System
6 1 (4.545%) JMeter
Operating Systems
1 4 (18.18%) Windows
2 3 (13.64%) Linux
3 1 (4.545%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (45.45%) Performance Testing
2 6 (27.27%) Agile Software Development
2 6 (27.27%) Test Scripting
3 5 (22.73%) Test Management
3 5 (22.73%) Automation Testing
4 4 (18.18%) Manual Testing
4 4 (18.18%) Web Testing
4 4 (18.18%) Automated Testing
5 3 (13.64%) Software Testing
5 3 (13.64%) Continuous Integration
5 3 (13.64%) User Acceptance Testing
5 3 (13.64%) Test Automation
5 3 (13.64%) Scrum
5 3 (13.64%) Regression Testing
5 3 (13.64%) SOA
5 3 (13.64%) Agile Testing
6 2 (9.091%) System Testing
7 1 (4.545%) Web Accessibility
7 1 (4.545%) Usability Testing
7 1 (4.545%) Load Testing
Programming Languages
1 7 (31.82%) SQL
2 6 (27.27%) C#
3 3 (13.64%) VB
4 1 (4.545%) BeanShell
4 1 (4.545%) VBA
4 1 (4.545%) Java
Qualifications
1 3 (13.64%) SC Cleared
1 3 (13.64%) Security Cleared
2 2 (9.091%) ISEB
2 2 (9.091%) BC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (22.73%) QA
System Software
1 3 (13.64%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (18.18%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 6 (27.27%) HP
2 5 (22.73%) Oracle
3 4 (18.18%) VMware
4 3 (13.64%) Microsoft
5 2 (9.091%) Talend
6 1 (4.545%) Capita
6 1 (4.545%) SAP
6 1 (4.545%) IBM
Performance Tester
Leeds, West Yorkshire
Design, develop and execute test scripts using HP Performance Centre/Load Runner. Amend existing performance test scripts and execute as required to support regression testing of previously delivered...
Hydrogen Group
Rate: £200.00 - £250.00 per day
Posted: 17 May 2013
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