ISEB Contracts in Manchester
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Hourly Rate Trend Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for ISEB in IT contracts advertised for the Manchester region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited ISEB 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 Qualifications for the Manchester 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
Information Systems Examinations Board (ISEB)
Rank 62 64 56
Rank change year-on-year
+2 -8
Contract jobs citing ISEB 11 21 15
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Manchester 1.204% 1.614% 1.446%
As % of the Qualifications category 9.167% 10.29% 11.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 11 3
Average daily rate £318 £325 £266
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-2.07% +22.41%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £293 £275 £253
10% offered a daily rate of more than £344 £375 £269
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £335 £350
% change year-on-year
-2.98% -4.28%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Average hourly rate £25.00 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.50 £22.50 £27.50
% change year-on-year
+22.22% -18.18%
All Qualifications
Manchester
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Qualifications category		 120 204 129
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Manchester 13.13% 15.68% 12.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 60 75 51
Average daily rate £298 £325 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-8.46% +8.33%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £144 £186 £128
10% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £450 £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 15 8
Average hourly rate £22.00 £19.50 £18.40
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+12.82% +5.97%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.77 £18.00 £12.70
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £25.40 £37.00 £30.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.50 £23.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year
-2.17% -8.00%
ISEB
North West

ISEB
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Manchester 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 Manchester region.

Manchester ISEB Daily Rate Trend

ISEB
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Manchester ISEB Hourly Rate Trend

ISEB
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Manchester 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 12 (48.00%) ISTQB
2 6 (24.00%) Finance
2 6 (24.00%) Windows
3 5 (20.00%) XML
3 5 (20.00%) Software Testing
3 5 (20.00%) Test Scripting
4 4 (16.00%) Android
4 4 (16.00%) iPhone
4 4 (16.00%) Windows Mobile
4 4 (16.00%) Automated Testing
4 4 (16.00%) iPhone SDK
4 4 (16.00%) bada
4 4 (16.00%) Maemo
4 4 (16.00%) iOS SDK
4 4 (16.00%) Apple iOS
4 4 (16.00%) SAP
4 4 (16.00%) Linux
4 4 (16.00%) SQL
4 4 (16.00%) Symbian
4 4 (16.00%) Mac OS X
4 4 (16.00%) Blackberry
5 3 (12.00%) PRINCE2
5 3 (12.00%) .NET
5 3 (12.00%) SQL Server
5 3 (12.00%) C#
5 3 (12.00%) Scrum
5 3 (12.00%) Regression Testing
5 3 (12.00%) Cucumber
5 3 (12.00%) Business Analysis
5 3 (12.00%) Agile Software Development

ISEB
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Manchester 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 5 (20.00%) XML
2 4 (16.00%) iPhone SDK
2 4 (16.00%) iOS SDK
3 3 (12.00%) .NET
4 2 (8.000%) Web Services
4 2 (8.000%) XML Schema
4 2 (8.000%) Series 60
5 1 (4.000%) JSON
5 1 (4.000%) HTML
5 1 (4.000%) ASP.NET
5 1 (4.000%) SOAP
Application Platforms
1 2 (8.000%) Confluence
2 1 (4.000%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (4.000%) MS Office
1 1 (4.000%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (4.000%) Oracle EBS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.000%) LAN
1 1 (4.000%) WAN
1 1 (4.000%) FTP
1 1 (4.000%) HTTP
1 1 (4.000%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (12.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (4.000%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 3 (12.00%) JIRA
1 3 (12.00%) Selenium
1 3 (12.00%) Cucumber
2 1 (4.000%) Robotium
2 1 (4.000%) TestDirector
2 1 (4.000%) Xcode
2 1 (4.000%) Firebug
2 1 (4.000%) WebDriver
General
1 6 (24.00%) Finance
2 1 (4.000%) Legal
2 1 (4.000%) Manufacturing
2 1 (4.000%) Banking
2 1 (4.000%) Back Office
2 1 (4.000%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 14 (56.00%) Analyst
2 8 (32.00%) Test Analyst
3 7 (28.00%) Tester
4 5 (20.00%) Business Analyst
4 5 (20.00%) Test Engineer
5 2 (8.000%) Business Systems Analyst
5 2 (8.000%) Systems Analyst
5 2 (8.000%) Senior Analyst
6 1 (4.000%) Performance Tester
6 1 (4.000%) Software Tester
6 1 (4.000%) Test Manager
6 1 (4.000%) Consultant
6 1 (4.000%) Senior Business Analyst
6 1 (4.000%) Lead Developer
6 1 (4.000%) Architect
6 1 (4.000%) Developer
6 1 (4.000%) SAP Consultant
6 1 (4.000%) Senior Test Analyst
6 1 (4.000%) Test Consultant
6 1 (4.000%) QA Test Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 4 (16.00%) Blackberry
1 4 (16.00%) iPhone
2 1 (4.000%) Semantic Web
2 1 (4.000%) Interactive TV
2 1 (4.000%) Smartcard
Operating Systems
1 6 (24.00%) Windows
2 4 (16.00%) Linux
2 4 (16.00%) Mac OS X
2 4 (16.00%) Windows Mobile
2 4 (16.00%) Android
2 4 (16.00%) bada
2 4 (16.00%) Maemo
2 4 (16.00%) Apple iOS
3 1 (4.000%) UNIX
3 1 (4.000%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (20.00%) Software Testing
1 5 (20.00%) Test Scripting
2 4 (16.00%) Automated Testing
3 3 (12.00%) Business Analysis
3 3 (12.00%) Integration Testing
3 3 (12.00%) Regression Testing
3 3 (12.00%) PRINCE2
3 3 (12.00%) Scrum
3 3 (12.00%) Agile Software Development
4 2 (8.000%) TDD
4 2 (8.000%) ITIL
4 2 (8.000%) Stakeholder Management
4 2 (8.000%) B2B
4 2 (8.000%) B2C
4 2 (8.000%) Project Management
4 2 (8.000%) Web Testing
4 2 (8.000%) Systems Analysis
4 2 (8.000%) Load Testing
5 1 (4.000%) Time Management
5 1 (4.000%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 4 (16.00%) SQL
2 3 (12.00%) C#
3 1 (4.000%) COBOL
3 1 (4.000%) JavaScript
3 1 (4.000%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 12 (48.00%) ISTQB
2 2 (8.000%) Degree
3 1 (4.000%) SC Cleared
3 1 (4.000%) Security Cleared
3 1 (4.000%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.000%) QA
System Software
1 1 (4.000%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 2 (8.000%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 4 (16.00%) SAP
1 4 (16.00%) Symbian
2 2 (8.000%) Siemens
2 2 (8.000%) Oracle
2 2 (8.000%) Atlassian
3 1 (4.000%) Sage
3 1 (4.000%) AppSense
3 1 (4.000%) Microsoft
Software Tester
Manchester, Lancashire
A valid ISEB/ISTQB Foundation Certification is required. A broad range of testing different operating systems is desirable. The successful Software Tester will have over 3 years' experience...
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Rate: Up to £25 per hour
Posted: 14 May 2013
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