The first table below looks at the demand for the Web Tester 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 Web Tester in their job title 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 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Web Tester
Rank 375 388 408
Rank change year-on-year
+13 +20
Contract jobs requiring a Web Tester 10 18 29
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 0.046% 0.067% 0.093%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.050% 0.073% 0.100%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 10 21
Average daily rate £370 £285 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+29.64% -5.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £238 £198 £220
10% offered a daily rate of more than £415 £316 £350
UK excluding London average daily rate £250 £310 £265
% change year-on-year
-19.35% +16.98%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £29.00 - £27.50
All Job Titles
London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
19929 24797 28916
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 92.30% 92.59% 92.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 13475 15993 18573
Average daily rate £450 £440 £475
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+2.27% -7.36%
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 450 606 683
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 £18.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-5.40% -7.50%
Web Tester
England

Web Tester
Jobs Demand Trend

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

London Web Tester Jobs Demand Trend

Web Tester
Daily Rate Trend

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

London Web Tester Daily Rate Trend

Web Tester
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Web Tester across the London region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

London Web Tester Daily Rate Histogram

Web Tester
Hourly Rate Trend

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

London Web Tester Hourly Rate Trend

Web Tester
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London region that cited Web 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 Web Tester in their job title.

1 9 (40.91%) Manual Testing
2 8 (36.36%) SQL
3 7 (31.82%) Selenium
4 6 (27.27%) WebDriver
4 6 (27.27%) Agile Software Development
4 6 (27.27%) TDD
4 6 (27.27%) .NET
4 6 (27.27%) Java
5 5 (22.73%) Web Testing
5 5 (22.73%) BDD
6 4 (18.18%) Automated Testing
6 4 (18.18%) Ruby
6 4 (18.18%) C#
6 4 (18.18%) HP
7 3 (13.64%) Web Services
7 3 (13.64%) Windows
7 3 (13.64%) J2EE
7 3 (13.64%) Oracle
7 3 (13.64%) SQL Server
7 3 (13.64%) Ruby on Rails
7 3 (13.64%) Team Foundation Server
7 3 (13.64%) SQL Server 2012
7 3 (13.64%) Automation Testing
8 2 (9.091%) Enterprise Software
8 2 (9.091%) soapUI
8 2 (9.091%) RESTful
8 2 (9.091%) HP Quality Center
8 2 (9.091%) Hyper-V
8 2 (9.091%) Open Source
8 2 (9.091%) WCF

Web Tester
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London region that cited Web 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 Web Tester in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 6 (27.27%) .NET
2 3 (13.64%) J2EE
2 3 (13.64%) Web Services
2 3 (13.64%) Ruby on Rails
3 2 (9.091%) WCF
3 2 (9.091%) RESTful
3 2 (9.091%) SOAP
3 2 (9.091%) Spring
3 2 (9.091%) soapUI
4 1 (4.545%) HTML5
4 1 (4.545%) XML
4 1 (4.545%) CSS
Applications
1 1 (4.545%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 2 (9.091%) Firewall
2 1 (4.545%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (13.64%) SQL Server
1 3 (13.64%) SQL Server 2012
Development Applications
1 7 (31.82%) Selenium
2 6 (27.27%) WebDriver
3 3 (13.64%) Team Foundation Server
4 2 (9.091%) WATIR
5 1 (4.545%) JIRA
5 1 (4.545%) MSTest
5 1 (4.545%) SpecFlow
General
1 1 (4.545%) Finance
1 1 (4.545%) Publishing
1 1 (4.545%) Banking
1 1 (4.545%) Investment Banking
Miscellaneous
1 2 (9.091%) Open Source
1 2 (9.091%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 3 (13.64%) Windows
2 1 (4.545%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (40.91%) Manual Testing
2 6 (27.27%) Agile Software Development
2 6 (27.27%) TDD
3 5 (22.73%) BDD
3 5 (22.73%) Web Testing
4 4 (18.18%) Automated Testing
5 3 (13.64%) Automation Testing
6 2 (9.091%) Security Testing
6 2 (9.091%) Scrum
6 2 (9.091%) Vulnerability Assessment
6 2 (9.091%) Penetration Testing
7 1 (4.545%) Regression Testing
7 1 (4.545%) User Acceptance Testing
7 1 (4.545%) Integration Testing
7 1 (4.545%) Test Scripting
7 1 (4.545%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 8 (36.36%) SQL
2 6 (27.27%) Java
3 4 (18.18%) C#
3 4 (18.18%) Ruby
4 2 (9.091%) JavaScript
4 2 (9.091%) Python
5 1 (4.545%) PHP
Qualifications
1 2 (9.091%) CISSP
1 2 (9.091%) CEH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (9.091%) QA
System Software
1 2 (9.091%) Hyper-V
2 1 (4.545%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (9.091%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 4 (18.18%) HP
2 3 (13.64%) Oracle
3 2 (9.091%) Microsoft
4 1 (4.545%) VMware