The first table below looks at the demand for Software Testing skills in IT contracts advertised for the Midlands region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Software Testing over the 3 months to 20 June 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 Midlands 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
20 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Software Testing
Rank 22 30 30
Rank change year-on-year
+8 0
Contract jobs citing Software Testing 4 2 4
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the Midlands 2.151% 0.810% 1.290%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.636% 1.504% 2.000%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 2
Average daily rate £175 £338 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-48.14% +3.84%
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £300 £319
% change year-on-year
+8.33% -5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £27.50 £31.50
% change year-on-year
+27.27% -12.69%
All Processes & Methodologies
Midlands
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
110 133 200
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the Midlands 59.14% 53.85% 64.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 46 51 49
Average daily rate £400 £375 £430
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+6.66% -12.79%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £325 £213 £269
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £550 £563
UK excluding London average daily rate £370 £363 £375
% change year-on-year
+2.06% -3.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 8 64
Average hourly rate £103.50 £32.50 £27.37
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+218.46% +18.74%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £32.00 £21.00 £22.90
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £175.00 £42.50 £37.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.50 £25.00 £29.00
% change year-on-year
+22.00% -13.79%
Software Testing
England

Software Testing
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Midlands Software Testing Jobs Demand Trend

Software Testing
Daily Rate Trend

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

Midlands Software Testing Daily Rate Trend

Software Testing
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Midlands Software Testing Hourly Rate Trend

Software Testing
Top 15 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Midlands region citing Software 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 Software Testing.

1 2 (50.00%) Front Office
1 2 (50.00%) Finance
2 1 (25.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 1 (25.00%) Apache Flex
2 1 (25.00%) User Acceptance Testing
2 1 (25.00%) Integration Testing
2 1 (25.00%) Test Scripting
2 1 (25.00%) System Testing
2 1 (25.00%) Java
2 1 (25.00%) SQL
2 1 (25.00%) T-SQL
2 1 (25.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (25.00%) MS Excel
2 1 (25.00%) ETL
2 1 (25.00%) Adobe

Software Testing
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Midlands region citing Software 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 Software Testing. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (25.00%) Apache Flex
Applications
1 1 (25.00%) MS Excel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
1 1 (25.00%) SQL Server
General
1 2 (50.00%) Front Office
1 2 (50.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) Analyst
1 4 (100.00%) Test Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Technical Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Technical Test Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Software Test Analyst
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (25.00%) User Acceptance Testing
1 1 (25.00%) Integration Testing
1 1 (25.00%) Test Scripting
1 1 (25.00%) System Testing
1 1 (25.00%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) Java
1 1 (25.00%) SQL
1 1 (25.00%) T-SQL
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Adobe
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