North East Test Analyst Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for the Test Analyst role in IT contracts within the North East region compared to all other Job Titles we currently track. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Test Analyst in their job title over the 3 months to 2 December 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aldershot Basingstoke Bath Belfast Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Blackpool Bracknell Bradford Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Channel Islands Cheltenham Cheshire Chester City of London County Antrim Coventry Crawley Croydon Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset East Midlands East of England East Sussex Eastleigh Edinburgh England Essex Farnborough Farnham Fleetwood Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Gosport Halifax Hampshire Harrogate Hertfordshire Ipswich Isleworth Jersey Kent Lanarkshire Lancashire Leatherhead Leeds Liverpool London M4 Corridor Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Reading Runcorn Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Solihull Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Staffordshire Staines Stockport Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Surrey Sussex Swindon Tamworth Telford Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Welwyn Garden City West Malling West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Windsor Worcester Worcestershire Yeovil York Yorkshire	3 months to 2 Dec 2008	Same period last year
Rank	46	33
Rank change on same period last year	-13
Matching contract IT job ads	2	29
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.003 %	0.031 %
As % of the category below	0.412 %	3.473 %
Daily rates quoted	2	16
Average minimum daily rate	£265	£249
Average daily rate	£288	£255
% change on same period last year	+12.95 %
Average maximum daily rate	£310	£260
UK excluding London average daily rate	£299	£288
% change on same period last year	+3.97 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	2
Average minimum hourly rate	-	£35.00
Average hourly rate	-	£38.75
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	£42.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£26.42	£31.43
% change on same period last year	-15.94 %
Job Titles North East
Matching contract IT job ads	486	835
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.781 %	0.897 %
Daily rates quoted	98	231
Average minimum daily rate	£293	£327
Average daily rate	£318	£338
% change on same period last year	-5.89 %
Average maximum daily rate	£344	£350
UK excluding London average daily rate	£352	£352
% change on same period last year	+0.07 %
Hourly rates quoted	83	119
Average minimum hourly rate	£16.93	£24.76
Average hourly rate	£18.25	£26.65
% change on same period last year	-31.50 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£19.57	£28.54
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.10	£24.04
% change on same period last year	-3.88 %
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We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Test Analyst across the North East region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

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Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Test Analyst across the North East region.

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Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Test Analyst across the North East region.

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Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Test Analyst within the North East region over the 3 months to 2 December 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
Tyne and Wear	-6	1	£235	-5.99 %

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Top 17 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 2 December 2008, IT contractor jobs across the North East 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 3 (37.50 %) ISEB 1 3 (37.50 %) UNIX 2 2 (25.00 %) SQL 2 2 (25.00 %) TestDirector 2 2 (25.00 %) Finance 2 2 (25.00 %) Pensions 3 1 (12.50 %) Test Scripting 3 1 (12.50 %) System Testing 3 1 (12.50 %) V-Model 3 1 (12.50 %) Insurance 3 1 (12.50 %) Software Testing 3 1 (12.50 %) BASE24 3 1 (12.50 %) Tandem 3 1 (12.50 %) Mainframe 3 1 (12.50 %) Sybase

3 1 (12.50 %) Windows 3 1 (12.50 %) Microsoft

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 2 December 2008, IT contractor jobs across the North East 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.

Business Applications 1 1 (12.50 %) BASE24	Development Applications 1 2 (25.00 %) TestDirector
General 1 2 (25.00 %) Finance 1 2 (25.00 %) Pensions 2 1 (12.50 %) Insurance	Miscellaneous 1 1 (12.50 %) Mainframe 1 1 (12.50 %) Tandem
Operating Systems 1 3 (37.50 %) UNIX 2 1 (12.50 %) Windows	Processes & Methodologies 1 1 (12.50 %) Software Testing 1 1 (12.50 %) Test Scripting 1 1 (12.50 %) System Testing 1 1 (12.50 %) V-Model
Programming Languages 1 2 (25.00 %) SQL	Qualifications 1 3 (37.50 %) ISEB
Vendors 1 1 (12.50 %) Sybase 1 1 (12.50 %) Microsoft