The first table below looks at the demand for Web Testing skills in IT contracts advertised for the Manchester region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Web Testing over the 3 months to 22 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 of the Processes & Methodologies category 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
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Web Testing
Rank 73 86 68
Rank change year-on-year
+13 -18
Contract jobs citing Web Testing 2 2 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Manchester 0.212% 0.152% 0.098%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.299% 0.239% 0.149%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 1
Average daily rate £313 £294 £275
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+6.63% +6.81%
UK excluding London average daily rate £313 £310 £225
% change year-on-year
+0.80% +37.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £29.00 - -
All Processes & Methodologies
Manchester
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
668 836 669
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Manchester 70.91% 63.67% 65.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 342 421 308
Average daily rate £325 £325 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +8.33%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £230 £230 £195
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £450 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £365 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
- -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 41 40 38
Average hourly rate £17.50 £17.50 £18.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -2.77%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.05 £12.01 £11.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £77.50 £37.00 £27.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.00 £25.00 £29.00
% change year-on-year
+24.00% -13.79%
Web Testing
North West

Web Testing
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Web Testing across the Manchester region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

Manchester Web Testing Jobs Demand Trend

Web Testing
Daily Rate Trend

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

Manchester Web Testing Daily Rate Trend

Web Testing
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Manchester Web Testing Hourly Rate Trend

Web Testing
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Manchester region citing Web Testing 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 Web Testing.

1 3 (75.00%) XML
1 3 (75.00%) Windows
2 2 (50.00%) HTTP
2 2 (50.00%) ISEB
2 2 (50.00%) PRINCE2
2 2 (50.00%) HTML
2 2 (50.00%) JavaScript
2 2 (50.00%) SQL
2 2 (50.00%) Web Services
2 2 (50.00%) Scrum
3 1 (25.00%) Objective-C
3 1 (25.00%) Agile Software Development
3 1 (25.00%) Automated Testing
3 1 (25.00%) Software Testing
3 1 (25.00%) Windows Mobile
3 1 (25.00%) JSON
3 1 (25.00%) Selenium
3 1 (25.00%) User Acceptance Testing
3 1 (25.00%) Performance Testing
3 1 (25.00%) Integration Testing
3 1 (25.00%) Test Scripting
3 1 (25.00%) Android
3 1 (25.00%) HP Quality Center
3 1 (25.00%) Apple iOS
3 1 (25.00%) C#
3 1 (25.00%) .NET
3 1 (25.00%) SOAP
3 1 (25.00%) PHP
3 1 (25.00%) Java
3 1 (25.00%) UNIX

Web Testing
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Manchester region citing Web Testing 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 Web Testing. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 3 (75.00%) XML
2 2 (50.00%) HTML
2 2 (50.00%) Web Services
3 1 (25.00%) JSON
3 1 (25.00%) .NET
3 1 (25.00%) SOAP
3 1 (25.00%) XSLT
Communications & Networking
1 2 (50.00%) HTTP
2 1 (25.00%) LAN
2 1 (25.00%) WAN
2 1 (25.00%) FTP
2 1 (25.00%) TCP/IP
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Selenium
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Analyst
1 3 (75.00%) Test Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Test Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Agile Test Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Blackberry
Operating Systems
1 3 (75.00%) Windows
2 1 (25.00%) Windows Mobile
2 1 (25.00%) Android
2 1 (25.00%) Apple iOS
2 1 (25.00%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) PRINCE2
1 2 (50.00%) Scrum
2 1 (25.00%) Agile Software Development
2 1 (25.00%) Automated Testing
2 1 (25.00%) Software Testing
2 1 (25.00%) User Acceptance Testing
2 1 (25.00%) Performance Testing
2 1 (25.00%) Integration Testing
2 1 (25.00%) Test Scripting
2 1 (25.00%) E-Commerce
2 1 (25.00%) Regression Testing
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) JavaScript
1 2 (50.00%) SQL
2 1 (25.00%) Objective-C
2 1 (25.00%) C#
2 1 (25.00%) PHP
2 1 (25.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) ISEB
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) HP Quality Center