The first table below looks at the demand for the Test Analyst role 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 Test Analyst in their job title 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 Job Titles advertised 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
20 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Test Analyst
Rank 29 45 49
Rank change year-on-year
+16 +4
Contract jobs requiring a Test Analyst 34 17 16
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Milton Keynes 5.574% 2.599% 2.536%
As % of the Job Titles category 5.965% 2.738% 2.671%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 13 4
Average daily rate £273 £275 £250
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-0.90% +10.00%
UK excluding London average daily rate £310 £290 £300
% change year-on-year
+6.89% -3.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Average hourly rate £11.00 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.00 £19.00 £29.00
% change year-on-year
+5.26% -34.48%
All Job Titles
Milton Keynes
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
570 621 599
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Milton Keynes 93.44% 94.95% 94.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 305 265 229
Average daily rate £350 £325 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.69% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £200 £173 £142
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £425 £440
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 56 48 90
Average hourly rate £14.00 £14.50 £14.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-3.44% +3.57%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.03 £11.00 £10.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £22.50 £25.00 £16.75
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
Test Analyst
Buckinghamshire

Test Analyst
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Test Analyst across the Milton Keynes region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

Milton Keynes Test Analyst Jobs Demand Trend

Test Analyst
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Test Analyst across the Milton Keynes region.

Milton Keynes Test Analyst Daily Rate Trend

Test Analyst
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Test Analyst across the Milton Keynes region over the 3 months to 20 June 2013.

Milton Keynes Test Analyst Daily Rate Histogram

Test Analyst
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Test Analyst across the Milton Keynes region.

Milton Keynes Test Analyst Hourly Rate Trend

Test Analyst
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Milton Keynes region that cited Test Analyst in their job title 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 with Test Analyst in their job title.

1 25 (52.08%) Finance
1 25 (52.08%) HP Quality Center
2 17 (35.42%) Banking
3 15 (31.25%) HP
4 14 (29.17%) SQL
4 14 (29.17%) User Acceptance Testing
5 12 (25.00%) QuickTest Pro
6 11 (22.92%) Retail
7 10 (20.83%) Test Scripting
8 9 (18.75%) Selenium
8 9 (18.75%) Automation Testing
8 9 (18.75%) Retail Banking
9 8 (16.67%) Software Testing
9 8 (16.67%) Scrum
9 8 (16.67%) Visual Studio
9 8 (16.67%) SOAP
9 8 (16.67%) Team Foundation Server
10 7 (14.58%) WebDriver
10 7 (14.58%) soapUI
10 7 (14.58%) ISEB
11 6 (12.50%) TDD
11 6 (12.50%) Manual Testing
12 5 (10.42%) QA
12 5 (10.42%) Automated Testing
12 5 (10.42%) .NET
13 4 (8.333%) SAP
13 4 (8.333%) Agile Software Development
13 4 (8.333%) Web Testing
13 4 (8.333%) Continuous Integration
13 4 (8.333%) ISTQB

Test Analyst
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Milton Keynes region that cited Test Analyst in their job title 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 with Test Analyst in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 8 (16.67%) SOAP
2 7 (14.58%) soapUI
3 5 (10.42%) .NET
4 4 (8.333%) WebSphere
5 3 (6.250%) .NET Framework
6 1 (2.083%) WCF
6 1 (2.083%) BPEL4WS
6 1 (2.083%) XML
6 1 (2.083%) WSDL
Application Platforms
1 1 (2.083%) ESB
1 1 (2.083%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 1 (2.083%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (2.083%) Servitor
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.167%) ATM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.083%) BusinessObjects Web Intelligence
1 1 (2.083%) BODI
1 1 (2.083%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (2.083%) Oracle Reports
1 1 (2.083%) Crystal Reports
Development Applications
1 12 (25.00%) QuickTest Pro
2 9 (18.75%) Selenium
3 8 (16.67%) Visual Studio
3 8 (16.67%) Team Foundation Server
4 7 (14.58%) WebDriver
5 2 (4.167%) LoadRunner
General
1 25 (52.08%) Finance
2 17 (35.42%) Banking
3 11 (22.92%) Retail
4 9 (18.75%) Retail Banking
5 3 (6.250%) Automotive
6 1 (2.083%) Spanish Language
6 1 (2.083%) Billing
Miscellaneous
1 1 (2.083%) EPoS
Operating Systems
1 3 (6.250%) Windows 7
1 3 (6.250%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (29.17%) User Acceptance Testing
2 10 (20.83%) Test Scripting
3 9 (18.75%) Automation Testing
4 8 (16.67%) Software Testing
4 8 (16.67%) Scrum
5 6 (12.50%) TDD
5 6 (12.50%) Manual Testing
6 5 (10.42%) Automated Testing
7 4 (8.333%) Agile Software Development
7 4 (8.333%) Web Testing
7 4 (8.333%) Continuous Integration
7 4 (8.333%) Waterfall
7 4 (8.333%) Data Transformation
8 3 (6.250%) Performance Testing
9 2 (4.167%) SOA
9 2 (4.167%) CRM
9 2 (4.167%) Logistics
9 2 (4.167%) System Testing
9 2 (4.167%) Test Strategy
10 1 (2.083%) Functional Testing
Programming Languages
1 14 (29.17%) SQL
2 3 (6.250%) VBA
3 2 (4.167%) Java
4 1 (2.083%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 7 (14.58%) ISEB
2 4 (8.333%) ISTQB
3 2 (4.167%) SC Cleared
3 2 (4.167%) Security Cleared
4 1 (2.083%) ISEB Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (10.42%) QA
2 1 (2.083%) Data Quality
Systems Management
1 25 (52.08%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 15 (31.25%) HP
2 4 (8.333%) SAP
3 1 (2.083%) Oracle
3 1 (2.083%) Business Objects
3 1 (2.083%) Microsoft
3 1 (2.083%) Remedy
3 1 (2.083%) BancTec
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