The first table below looks at the demand for ISEB in IT contracts advertised for the Merseyside 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 Merseyside 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 29 28 28
Rank change year-on-year
-1 0
Contract jobs citing ISEB 2 7 3
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Merseyside 0.990% 2.682% 1.210%
As % of the Qualifications category 3.175% 14.89% 10.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 6 2
Average daily rate £330 £310 £365
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+6.29% -14.94%
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
Merseyside
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Qualifications category
63 47 30
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Merseyside 31.19% 18.01% 12.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 37 22 11
Average daily rate £400 £300 £250
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+33.33% +20.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £310 £175 £135
10% offered a daily rate of more than £525 £485 £365
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 7
Average hourly rate - £15.50 £21.19
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -26.84%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.00 £22.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year
-2.22% -10.00%
ISEB
North West

ISEB
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Merseyside 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 Merseyside region.

Merseyside ISEB Daily Rate Trend

ISEB
Top 24 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Merseyside 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 2 (40.00%) Web Services
1 2 (40.00%) Java
1 2 (40.00%) Scrum
1 2 (40.00%) Agile Software Development
1 2 (40.00%) ISTQB
1 2 (40.00%) Test Scripting
1 2 (40.00%) HP Quality Center
1 2 (40.00%) WebDriver
1 2 (40.00%) Selenium
1 2 (40.00%) User Acceptance Testing
1 2 (40.00%) soapUI
2 1 (20.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (20.00%) Performance Testing
2 1 (20.00%) Atlassian Bamboo
2 1 (20.00%) System Testing
2 1 (20.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (20.00%) Test Automation
2 1 (20.00%) Requirements Management
2 1 (20.00%) QA
2 1 (20.00%) SOAP
2 1 (20.00%) Regression Testing
2 1 (20.00%) E-Commerce
2 1 (20.00%) Eclipse
2 1 (20.00%) HP

ISEB
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Merseyside 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 2 (40.00%) Web Services
1 2 (40.00%) soapUI
2 1 (20.00%) SOAP
Development Applications
1 2 (40.00%) WebDriver
1 2 (40.00%) Selenium
2 1 (20.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (20.00%) Atlassian Bamboo
2 1 (20.00%) Eclipse
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Tester
2 1 (20.00%) Automation Tester
2 1 (20.00%) Automation Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Test Automation Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Test Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Test Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Test Analyst
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (40.00%) Scrum
1 2 (40.00%) Agile Software Development
1 2 (40.00%) Test Scripting
1 2 (40.00%) User Acceptance Testing
2 1 (20.00%) Performance Testing
2 1 (20.00%) System Testing
2 1 (20.00%) Test Automation
2 1 (20.00%) Requirements Management
2 1 (20.00%) Regression Testing
2 1 (20.00%) E-Commerce
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) Java
2 1 (20.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) QA
Systems Management
1 2 (40.00%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) HP