The first table below looks at the demand for the Test Engineer role in IT contracts advertised for the Leicester region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Test Engineer in their job title over the 3 months to 20 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 Leicester 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
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Test Engineer
Rank 20 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs requiring a Test Engineer 2 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Leicester 1.980% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 2.041% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £295 £280
% change year-on-year
+10.16% +5.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+7.14% -
All Job Titles
Leicester
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
98 77 102
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Leicester 97.03% 90.59% 97.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 28 22
Average daily rate £308 £301 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+2.32% -19.86%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £288 £150 £190
10% offered a daily rate of more than £550 £475 £550
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 16 21
Average hourly rate £13.50 £8.50 £33.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+58.82% -74.62%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.00 £8.50 £26.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £35.00 £25.25 £36.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
Test Engineer
Leicestershire

Test Engineer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Leicester Test Engineer Jobs Demand Trend

Test Engineer
Top 10 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Leicester region that cited Test Engineer 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 Test Engineer in their job title.

1 3 (100.00%) SQL
1 3 (100.00%) VSS/SourceSafe
1 3 (100.00%) UNIX
1 3 (100.00%) Windows
1 3 (100.00%) Linux
1 3 (100.00%) ISO 9001
1 3 (100.00%) ISEB
1 3 (100.00%) TickIT
1 3 (100.00%) User Acceptance Testing
2 2 (66.67%) Logistics

Test Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Leicester region that cited Test Engineer 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 Test Engineer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Development Applications
1 3 (100.00%) VSS/SourceSafe
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) UNIX
1 3 (100.00%) Windows
1 3 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) User Acceptance Testing
2 2 (66.67%) Logistics
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (100.00%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (100.00%) ISO 9001
1 3 (100.00%) TickIT