Software Testing Contracts in Leicestershire
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Hourly Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for Software Testing skills in IT contracts advertised for the Leicestershire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Software Testing over the 3 months to 17 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 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
17 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Software Testing
Rank 29 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing Software Testing 2 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Leicestershire 0.952% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.460% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £303 £300 £320
% change year-on-year
+0.83% -6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.00 £20.00 £31.50
% change year-on-year
+50.00% -36.50%
All Processes & Methodologies
Leicestershire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category		 137 126 154
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Leicestershire 65.24% 59.15% 66.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 65 41 50
Average daily rate £425 £350 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+21.42% -12.50%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £288 £205 £240
10% offered a daily rate of more than £725 £413 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £363 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
-0.68% -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 7 20
Average hourly rate £32.50 £11.00 £33.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+195.45% -66.66%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.50 £8.50 £24.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £35.00 £30.35 £36.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.60 £25.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year
+26.40% -16.66%
Software Testing
East Midlands

Software Testing
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Leicestershire Software Testing Jobs Demand Trend

Software Testing
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Software Testing across the Leicestershire region.

Leicestershire Software Testing Daily Rate Trend

Software Testing
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Software Testing across the Leicestershire region.

Leicestershire Software Testing Hourly Rate Trend

Software Testing
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Software Testing within the Leicestershire region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)		 Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year		 Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads		 Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months		 Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Hinckley - 2 - -
Software Testing
East Midlands

Software Testing
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Leicestershire region citing Software Testing 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 Software Testing.

1 5 (62.50%) ISEB
2 3 (37.50%) PRINCE2 Certification
2 3 (37.50%) Configuration Management
2 3 (37.50%) Project Management
2 3 (37.50%) PRINCE2
2 3 (37.50%) Migration
2 3 (37.50%) Degree
2 3 (37.50%) Data Migration
3 2 (25.00%) hybris
3 2 (25.00%) JIRA
3 2 (25.00%) Computer Science
3 2 (25.00%) Selenium
3 2 (25.00%) User Acceptance Testing
3 2 (25.00%) Logistics
3 2 (25.00%) MS PowerPoint
3 2 (25.00%) Scrum
3 2 (25.00%) XML
3 2 (25.00%) TickIT
3 2 (25.00%) UNIX
3 2 (25.00%) Windows
3 2 (25.00%) Linux
3 2 (25.00%) MS Excel
3 2 (25.00%) E-Commerce
3 2 (25.00%) ISO 9001
3 2 (25.00%) TCP/IP
3 2 (25.00%) Microsoft
3 2 (25.00%) SQL
3 2 (25.00%) Oracle
3 2 (25.00%) MS Office
3 2 (25.00%) VSS/SourceSafe

Software Testing
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Leicestershire region citing Software Testing 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 Software Testing. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 2 (25.00%) XML
Applications
1 2 (25.00%) MS Office
1 2 (25.00%) MS Excel
1 2 (25.00%) MS PowerPoint
Communications & Networking
1 2 (25.00%) TCP/IP
Development Applications
1 2 (25.00%) VSS/SourceSafe
1 2 (25.00%) JIRA
1 2 (25.00%) Selenium
Job Titles
1 3 (37.50%) Project Manager
2 2 (25.00%) Tester
2 2 (25.00%) Software Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Systems Tester
2 2 (25.00%) Test Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Software Test Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Test Leader
3 1 (12.50%) Test Manager
3 1 (12.50%) Test Coordinator
3 1 (12.50%) Coordinator
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) Computer Science
2 1 (12.50%) Smart Meter
Operating Systems
1 2 (25.00%) UNIX
1 2 (25.00%) Windows
1 2 (25.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (37.50%) Configuration Management
1 3 (37.50%) Project Management
1 3 (37.50%) Migration
1 3 (37.50%) PRINCE2
1 3 (37.50%) Data Migration
2 2 (25.00%) E-Commerce
2 2 (25.00%) Scrum
2 2 (25.00%) Logistics
2 2 (25.00%) User Acceptance Testing
3 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (25.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (62.50%) ISEB
2 3 (37.50%) PRINCE2 Certification
2 3 (37.50%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (25.00%) ISO 9001
1 2 (25.00%) TickIT
Vendors
1 2 (25.00%) Oracle
1 2 (25.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (25.00%) hybris
2 1 (12.50%) SAP
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