The first table below looks at the demand for the Agile Tester role in IT contracts advertised for the Leicestershire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Agile Tester in their job title over the 3 months to 21 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 Leicestershire 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
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Agile Tester
Rank 31 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs requiring an Agile Tester 2 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Leicestershire 0.943% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 1.010% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
Average daily rate £325 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £219 £375
% change year-on-year
+48.57% -41.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Job Titles
Leicestershire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
198 195 222
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Leicestershire 93.40% 92.42% 95.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 70 51 61
Average daily rate £325 £301 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+8.15% -14.14%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £240 £150 £192
10% offered a daily rate of more than £540 £450 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 47 30 32
Average hourly rate £13.50 £11.00 £32.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+22.72% -66.15%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.00 £8.50 £16.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £35.00 £20.00 £36.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
Agile Tester
East Midlands

Agile Tester
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Leicestershire Agile Tester Jobs Demand Trend

Agile Tester
Top 22 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Leicestershire region that cited Agile 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 Agile Tester in their job title.

1 3 (100.00%) Agile Software Development
1 3 (100.00%) Automation Testing
2 2 (66.67%) QuickTest Pro
2 2 (66.67%) BDD
2 2 (66.67%) TDD
2 2 (66.67%) Retail
2 2 (66.67%) WebSphere
2 2 (66.67%) QA
2 2 (66.67%) Selenium
2 2 (66.67%) Scrum
2 2 (66.67%) Extreme Programming
2 2 (66.67%) E-Commerce
2 2 (66.67%) Java
3 1 (33.33%) SQL
3 1 (33.33%) XML
3 1 (33.33%) UNIX
3 1 (33.33%) OO
3 1 (33.33%) ISEB
3 1 (33.33%) Cucumber
3 1 (33.33%) Logistics
3 1 (33.33%) Automated Testing
3 1 (33.33%) ISTQB

Agile Tester
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Leicestershire region that cited Agile 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 Agile Tester in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 2 (66.67%) WebSphere
2 1 (33.33%) XML
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) QuickTest Pro
1 2 (66.67%) Selenium
2 1 (33.33%) Cucumber
General
1 2 (66.67%) Retail
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Agile Software Development
1 3 (100.00%) Automation Testing
2 2 (66.67%) BDD
2 2 (66.67%) TDD
2 2 (66.67%) Scrum
2 2 (66.67%) Extreme Programming
2 2 (66.67%) E-Commerce
3 1 (33.33%) OO
3 1 (33.33%) Logistics
3 1 (33.33%) Automated Testing
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Java
2 1 (33.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) ISEB
1 1 (33.33%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (66.67%) QA