Testing Consultant Contracts in London
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for the Testing Consultant role in IT contracts advertised for the London region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Testing Consultant 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 London 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
Testing Consultant
Rank 380 - 433
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs requiring a Testing Consultant 1 0 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 0.005% - 0.003%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.005% - 0.004%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Average daily rate £300 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £425 £380 £425
% change year-on-year
+11.84% -10.58%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Job Titles
London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category		 20013 24845 28392
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 92.25% 92.53% 92.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 13506 16024 18238
Average daily rate £450 £445 £475
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+1.12% -6.31%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £275 £275 £300
10% offered a daily rate of more than £600 £600 £625
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 449 607 669
Average hourly rate £20.00 £20.00 £20.00
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.50 £12.50 £12.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £47.50 £41.25 £47.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
Testing Consultant
England

Testing Consultant
Jobs Demand Trend

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

London Testing Consultant Jobs Demand Trend

Testing Consultant
Daily Rate Trend

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

London Testing Consultant Daily Rate Trend

Testing Consultant
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London region that cited Testing Consultant 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 Testing Consultant in their job title.

1 3 (50.00%) ISEB
1 3 (50.00%) Banking
1 3 (50.00%) Investment Banking
2 2 (33.33%) Integration Testing
2 2 (33.33%) Test Scripting
2 2 (33.33%) Oracle BI EE
2 2 (33.33%) Data Migration
2 2 (33.33%) FMCG
2 2 (33.33%) Process Improvement
2 2 (33.33%) Test Strategy
2 2 (33.33%) Agile Software Development
2 2 (33.33%) Migration
2 2 (33.33%) Fixed Income
2 2 (33.33%) E-Learning
2 2 (33.33%) MS PowerPoint
2 2 (33.33%) COBIT
2 2 (33.33%) CMMI
2 2 (33.33%) Finance
2 2 (33.33%) Six Sigma
2 2 (33.33%) SQL
2 2 (33.33%) ITIL
2 2 (33.33%) PRINCE2
2 2 (33.33%) MS Excel
2 2 (33.33%) Siebel
2 2 (33.33%) MS Visio
2 2 (33.33%) Microsoft
3 1 (16.67%) HP
3 1 (16.67%) CRM
3 1 (16.67%) Validation
3 1 (16.67%) QA

Testing Consultant
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Applications
1 2 (33.33%) MS Excel
1 2 (33.33%) MS Visio
1 2 (33.33%) MS PowerPoint
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (33.33%) Oracle BI EE
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) WinRunner
1 1 (16.67%) QARun
General
1 3 (50.00%) Banking
1 3 (50.00%) Investment Banking
2 2 (33.33%) Finance
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Fixed Income
1 2 (33.33%) E-Learning
1 2 (33.33%) FMCG
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (33.33%) ITIL
1 2 (33.33%) PRINCE2
1 2 (33.33%) Six Sigma
1 2 (33.33%) CMMI
1 2 (33.33%) Migration
1 2 (33.33%) Agile Software Development
1 2 (33.33%) Integration Testing
1 2 (33.33%) Test Scripting
1 2 (33.33%) Data Migration
1 2 (33.33%) Process Improvement
1 2 (33.33%) Test Strategy
2 1 (16.67%) Analytics
2 1 (16.67%) Feature Driven Development
2 1 (16.67%) System Testing
2 1 (16.67%) Automated Testing
2 1 (16.67%) Use Case
2 1 (16.67%) User Acceptance Testing
2 1 (16.67%) Validation
2 1 (16.67%) CRM
Programming Languages
1 2 (33.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (50.00%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (33.33%) COBIT
2 1 (16.67%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) Siebel
1 2 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 1 (16.67%) HP
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