The first table below looks at the demand for TMap 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 TMap 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 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
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Test Management Approach (TMap)
Rank - - -
Contract jobs citing TMap 0 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Leeds - - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category - - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate - - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Processes & Methodologies
Leeds
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
537 629 433
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Leeds 73.16% 71.40% 67.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 304 373 209
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 £240 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £453 £475
UK excluding London average daily rate £365 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
- -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 15 23
Average hourly rate £34.00 £14.00 £17.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+142.85% -20.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.20 £11.40 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £38.00 £62.50 £25.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.45 £25.00 £29.00
% change year-on-year
+21.78% -13.79%
TMap
West Yorkshire

TMap
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Leeds TMap Jobs Demand Trend

TMap
Top 13 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Leeds region citing TMap 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 TMap.

1 1 (100.00%) SQL
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle
1 1 (100.00%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (100.00%) HP
1 1 (100.00%) Informatica
1 1 (100.00%) PowerCenter
1 1 (100.00%) Software Testing
1 1 (100.00%) QA
1 1 (100.00%) Test Scripting
1 1 (100.00%) Manual Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Dimensional Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle BI EE
1 1 (100.00%) HP Quality Center

TMap
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Leeds region citing TMap 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 TMap. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (100.00%) PowerCenter
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle BI EE
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Analyst
1 1 (100.00%) Test Analyst
1 1 (100.00%) Data Warehouse Analyst
1 1 (100.00%) Data Warehouse Test Analyst
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Software Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Test Scripting
1 1 (100.00%) Manual Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Dimensional Modelling
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle
1 1 (100.00%) HP
1 1 (100.00%) Informatica