The first table below looks at the demand for Software Testing skills in IT contracts advertised for the Milton Keynes region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Software Testing 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 of the Processes & Methodologies category for the Milton Keynes 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
Software Testing
Rank 50 61 57
Rank change year-on-year
+11 -4
Contract jobs citing Software Testing 2 2 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Milton Keynes 0.390% 0.275% 0.168%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.541% 0.416% 0.286%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 0
Average daily rate £255 £287 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-11.22% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £303 £300 £320
% change year-on-year
+0.83% -6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.00 £20.00 £31.50
% change year-on-year
+50.00% -36.50%
All Processes & Methodologies
Milton Keynes
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
370 481 350
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Milton Keynes 72.12% 66.16% 58.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 232 217 156
Average daily rate £348 £325 £340
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+6.92% -4.41%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £216 £225 £175
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £413 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £363 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
-0.68% -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 30 36
Average hourly rate £18.45 £14.75 £25.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+25.05% -41.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.50 £10.58 £10.85
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £35.00 £17.00 £45.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.60 £25.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year
+26.40% -16.66%
Software Testing
Buckinghamshire

Software Testing
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Milton Keynes 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 Milton Keynes region.

Milton Keynes Software Testing Daily Rate Trend

Software Testing
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Milton Keynes 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 4 (80.00%) ISEB
2 3 (60.00%) HP
2 3 (60.00%) User Acceptance Testing
3 2 (40.00%) Unit Testing
3 2 (40.00%) Security Cleared
3 2 (40.00%) Microsoft
3 2 (40.00%) Service Management
3 2 (40.00%) Agile Software Development
3 2 (40.00%) Compaq
3 2 (40.00%) ITIL
4 1 (20.00%) Oracle Reports
4 1 (20.00%) CRM
4 1 (20.00%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (20.00%) WSDL
4 1 (20.00%) Business Intelligence
4 1 (20.00%) JavaScript
4 1 (20.00%) SQL
4 1 (20.00%) Oracle
4 1 (20.00%) Business Objects
4 1 (20.00%) Visual Studio
4 1 (20.00%) SOAP
4 1 (20.00%) QuickTest Pro
4 1 (20.00%) Banking
4 1 (20.00%) Retail
4 1 (20.00%) ISEB Practitioner
4 1 (20.00%) BPEL4WS
4 1 (20.00%) Supplier Management
4 1 (20.00%) BODI
4 1 (20.00%) Incident Management
4 1 (20.00%) Retail Banking

Software Testing
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Milton Keynes 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 (20.00%) SOAP
1 1 (20.00%) WSDL
1 1 (20.00%) BPEL4WS
1 1 (20.00%) WebSphere
Application Platforms
1 1 (20.00%) Oracle Workflow
1 1 (20.00%) ESB
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) Oracle Reports
1 1 (20.00%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (20.00%) BODI
1 1 (20.00%) BusinessObjects Web Intelligence
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Visual Studio
1 1 (20.00%) QuickTest Pro
1 1 (20.00%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 1 (20.00%) Finance
1 1 (20.00%) Banking
1 1 (20.00%) Retail
1 1 (20.00%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Analyst
1 3 (60.00%) Test Analyst
2 2 (40.00%) Test Manager
3 1 (20.00%) Tester
3 1 (20.00%) Software Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Systems Manager
3 1 (20.00%) Software Tester
3 1 (20.00%) Test Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Software Test Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Applications Manager
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) User Acceptance Testing
2 2 (40.00%) Unit Testing
2 2 (40.00%) ITIL
2 2 (40.00%) Service Management
2 2 (40.00%) Agile Software Development
3 1 (20.00%) Supplier Management
3 1 (20.00%) Incident Management
3 1 (20.00%) Fault Management
3 1 (20.00%) Workflow
3 1 (20.00%) Risk Assessment
3 1 (20.00%) CRM
3 1 (20.00%) Business Intelligence
3 1 (20.00%) Test Scripting
3 1 (20.00%) Manual Testing
3 1 (20.00%) Performance Management
3 1 (20.00%) Test Strategy
3 1 (20.00%) Automation Testing
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (20.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (80.00%) ISEB
2 2 (40.00%) Security Cleared
3 1 (20.00%) ISEB Practitioner
3 1 (20.00%) SC Cleared
3 1 (20.00%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) Data Quality
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) HP
2 2 (40.00%) Compaq
2 2 (40.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (20.00%) Oracle
3 1 (20.00%) Business Objects