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

The first table below looks at the demand for the 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 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
Tester
Rank 28 23 -
Rank change year-on-year
-5 -
Contract jobs requiring a Tester 5 2 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Leicestershire 2.358% 0.948% -
As % of the Job Titles category 2.525% 1.026% -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 0
Average daily rate £325 £138 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+136.36% -
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 £19.50
% change year-on-year
+4.50% +42.30%
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%
Tester
East Midlands

Tester
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Leicestershire 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 Leicestershire region.

Leicestershire Tester Daily Rate Trend

Tester
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Leicestershire Tester Hourly Rate Trend

Tester
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Tester within the Leicestershire region over the 3 months to 21 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 - -
Tester
East Midlands

Tester
Top 27 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Leicestershire 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 4 (57.14%) E-Commerce
1 4 (57.14%) Scrum
1 4 (57.14%) Selenium
2 3 (42.86%) JIRA
2 3 (42.86%) Automation Testing
2 3 (42.86%) Agile Software Development
2 3 (42.86%) ISEB
2 3 (42.86%) Java
2 3 (42.86%) XML
3 2 (28.57%) QuickTest Pro
3 2 (28.57%) TDD
3 2 (28.57%) Retail
3 2 (28.57%) Extreme Programming
3 2 (28.57%) Software Testing
3 2 (28.57%) hybris
3 2 (28.57%) WebSphere
3 2 (28.57%) BDD
3 2 (28.57%) QA
4 1 (14.29%) SAP IS-U
4 1 (14.29%) Cucumber
4 1 (14.29%) ISTQB
4 1 (14.29%) Logistics
4 1 (14.29%) Automated Testing
4 1 (14.29%) UNIX
4 1 (14.29%) OO
4 1 (14.29%) SQL
4 1 (14.29%) SAP

Tester
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Leicestershire 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 3 (42.86%) XML
2 2 (28.57%) WebSphere
Business Applications
1 1 (14.29%) SAP IS-U
Development Applications
1 4 (57.14%) Selenium
2 3 (42.86%) JIRA
3 2 (28.57%) QuickTest Pro
4 1 (14.29%) Cucumber
General
1 2 (28.57%) Retail
Operating Systems
1 1 (14.29%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (57.14%) E-Commerce
1 4 (57.14%) Scrum
2 3 (42.86%) Automation Testing
2 3 (42.86%) Agile Software Development
3 2 (28.57%) TDD
3 2 (28.57%) Extreme Programming
3 2 (28.57%) Software Testing
3 2 (28.57%) BDD
4 1 (14.29%) Logistics
4 1 (14.29%) Automated Testing
4 1 (14.29%) OO
Programming Languages
1 3 (42.86%) Java
2 1 (14.29%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (42.86%) ISEB
2 1 (14.29%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (28.57%) QA
Vendors
1 2 (28.57%) hybris
2 1 (14.29%) SAP
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