The first table below looks at the demand for ISEB in IT contracts advertised for the Luton region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited ISEB over the 3 months to 24 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 Qualifications for the Luton 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Information Systems Examinations Board (ISEB)
Rank 14 10 6
Rank change year-on-year
-4 -4
Contract jobs citing ISEB 3 2 5
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Luton 3.750% 3.226% 9.804%
As % of the Qualifications category 25.00% 16.67% 55.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 4
Average daily rate £325 £250 £330
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+30.00% -24.24%
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £330 £350
% change year-on-year
-1.51% -5.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £25.00 £18.50 £27.50
% change year-on-year
+35.13% -32.72%
All Qualifications
Luton
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Qualifications category
12 12 9
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Luton 15.00% 19.35% 17.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 10 4
Average daily rate £400 £250 £330
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+60.00% -24.24%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £320 £191 £286
10% offered a daily rate of more than £435 £425 £368
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Average hourly rate - £20.00 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.00 £22.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year
-2.22% -10.00%
ISEB
Bedfordshire

ISEB
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing ISEB across the Luton region as a proportion of the total demand within the Qualifications category.

Luton ISEB Jobs Demand Trend

ISEB
Daily Rate Trend

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

Luton ISEB Daily Rate Trend

ISEB
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Luton region citing ISEB 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 ISEB.

1 9 (60.00%) ISTQB
2 8 (53.33%) Test Scripting
3 7 (46.67%) Bugzilla
3 7 (46.67%) SQL
3 7 (46.67%) Web Services
3 7 (46.67%) QA
3 7 (46.67%) FogBugz
4 6 (40.00%) Client/Server
5 5 (33.33%) Data Warehouse
5 5 (33.33%) ETL
5 5 (33.33%) Test Automation
6 4 (26.67%) Risk Analysis
6 4 (26.67%) Oracle
7 3 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
7 3 (20.00%) User Acceptance Testing
7 3 (20.00%) Test Management
8 2 (13.33%) Enterprise Software
8 2 (13.33%) Unit Testing
8 2 (13.33%) Continuous Integration
8 2 (13.33%) Refactoring
8 2 (13.33%) .NET Framework
8 2 (13.33%) Systems Analysis
8 2 (13.33%) AOP
8 2 (13.33%) TDD
8 2 (13.33%) TOGAF
8 2 (13.33%) Change Management
8 2 (13.33%) N-Tier
8 2 (13.33%) SOA
8 2 (13.33%) SQL Server
8 2 (13.33%) .NET

ISEB
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Luton region citing ISEB 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 ISEB. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 7 (46.67%) Web Services
2 2 (13.33%) .NET Framework
2 2 (13.33%) .NET
2 2 (13.33%) XML
3 1 (6.667%) EDI
Applications
1 2 (13.33%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (6.667%) Oracle Financials
1 1 (6.667%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (6.667%) Oracle ERP
1 1 (6.667%) Oracle Applications
1 1 (6.667%) Oracle EBS R12
Communications & Networking
1 2 (13.33%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (33.33%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (13.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 7 (46.67%) Bugzilla
1 7 (46.67%) FogBugz
General
1 1 (6.667%) Finance
Job Titles
1 9 (60.00%) Analyst
2 8 (53.33%) Test Analyst
3 4 (26.67%) QA Analyst
4 3 (20.00%) Test Manager
5 2 (13.33%) Solutions Architect
5 2 (13.33%) Architect
5 2 (13.33%) Business Analyst
5 2 (13.33%) Tester
6 1 (6.667%) E-Business Analyst
6 1 (6.667%) Oracle Analyst
6 1 (6.667%) Business Test Analyst
6 1 (6.667%) Test Leader
Miscellaneous
1 6 (40.00%) Client/Server
2 2 (13.33%) Enterprise Software
2 2 (13.33%) N-Tier
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (53.33%) Test Scripting
2 5 (33.33%) ETL
2 5 (33.33%) Test Automation
3 4 (26.67%) Risk Analysis
4 3 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 3 (20.00%) User Acceptance Testing
4 3 (20.00%) Test Management
5 2 (13.33%) Unit Testing
5 2 (13.33%) Continuous Integration
5 2 (13.33%) Refactoring
5 2 (13.33%) Systems Analysis
5 2 (13.33%) AOP
5 2 (13.33%) TDD
5 2 (13.33%) TOGAF
5 2 (13.33%) Change Management
5 2 (13.33%) SOA
6 1 (6.667%) ERP
6 1 (6.667%) Project Management
6 1 (6.667%) PRINCE2
6 1 (6.667%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 7 (46.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 9 (60.00%) ISTQB
2 1 (6.667%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (46.67%) QA
Vendors
1 4 (26.67%) Oracle
2 2 (13.33%) Microsoft
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