North East Tester Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for the Tester 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 Tester in their job title over the 3 months to 13 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Abingdon Aldershot Basildon Basingstoke Bath Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentwood Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Channel Islands Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Chichester City of London County Antrim Crawley Croydon Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh England Essex Exeter Farnborough Farnham Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Guildford Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harlow Hertfordshire High Wycombe Hove Huddersfield Kent Kingston Upon Thames Lancashire Leatherhead Leeds Liverpool Livingston London Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Plymouth Reading Redhill Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stoke-on-Trent Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Tadworth Telford Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Wallington Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Welwyn West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Wiltshire Winchester York Yorkshire	3 months to 13 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	46	55
Rank change on same period last year	+9
Matching contract IT job ads	8	7
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.011 %	0.007 %
As % of the category below	1.377 %	0.910 %
Daily rates quoted	2	2
Average minimum daily rate	£300	£230
Average daily rate	£328	£230
% change on same period last year	+42.39 %
Average maximum daily rate	£355	£230
UK excluding London average daily rate	£313	£299
% change on same period last year	+4.88 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum hourly rate	-	-
Average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£29.06	£26.92
% change on same period last year	+7.94 %
Job Titles North East
Matching contract IT job ads	581	769
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.822 %	0.778 %
Daily rates quoted	117	176
Average minimum daily rate	£319	£345
Average daily rate	£337	£360
% change on same period last year	-6.19 %
Average maximum daily rate	£356	£374
UK excluding London average daily rate	£352	£353
% change on same period last year	-0.18 %
Hourly rates quoted	87	81
Average minimum hourly rate	£18.02	£22.99
Average hourly rate	£19.36	£24.29
% change on same period last year	-20.31 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£20.69	£25.59
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.71	£25.14
% change on same period last year	-5.69 %
Tester England

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 Tester 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 Tester 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 Tester 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 Tester within the North East region over the 3 months to 13 October 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	+16	8	£328	+42.39 %

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 13 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the North East region that cited Tester 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 Tester in their job title.

1 6 (40.00 %) Test Scripting 1 6 (40.00 %) Security Cleared 2 5 (33.33 %) Performance Testing 2 5 (33.33 %) XML 2 5 (33.33 %) LoadRunner 3 4 (26.67 %) SAP 3 4 (26.67 %) HTTP 3 4 (26.67 %) Oracle 3 4 (26.67 %) SC Cleared 4 3 (20.00 %) User Acceptance Testing 4 3 (20.00 %) SQL 5 2 (13.33 %) VBScript 5 2 (13.33 %) Business Objects 5 2 (13.33 %) Visual Studio 5 2 (13.33 %) SQL Server

5 2 (13.33 %) ASP 5 2 (13.33 %) ODBC 5 2 (13.33 %) UNIX 5 2 (13.33 %) ETL 5 2 (13.33 %) Government 5 2 (13.33 %) HP 5 2 (13.33 %) BusinessObjects 5 2 (13.33 %) ISEB 5 2 (13.33 %) Data Analysis 6 1 (6.667 %) WebSphere 6 1 (6.667 %) Project Planning 6 1 (6.667 %) Risk Analysis 6 1 (6.667 %) Stress Testing 6 1 (6.667 %) Test Management 6 1 (6.667 %) CCVP

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 13 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the North East region that cited Tester 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 Tester in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 5 (33.33 %) XML 2 2 (13.33 %) ODBC 2 2 (13.33 %) ASP 3 1 (6.667 %) WebSphere	Application Platforms 1 1 (6.667 %) CICS
Communications & Networking 1 4 (26.67 %) HTTP 2 1 (6.667 %) VoIP	Database & Business Intelligence 1 2 (13.33 %) SQL Server 1 2 (13.33 %) ETL 1 2 (13.33 %) BusinessObjects 2 1 (6.667 %) DB2
Development Applications 1 5 (33.33 %) LoadRunner 2 2 (13.33 %) Visual Studio 3 1 (6.667 %) TestDirector	General 1 2 (13.33 %) Government 2 1 (6.667 %) Banking 2 1 (6.667 %) Retail 2 1 (6.667 %) Telecoms 2 1 (6.667 %) Finance
Operating Systems 1 2 (13.33 %) UNIX	Processes & Methodologies 1 6 (40.00 %) Test Scripting 1 6 (40.00 %) Security Cleared 2 5 (33.33 %) Performance Testing 3 4 (26.67 %) SC Cleared 4 3 (20.00 %) User Acceptance Testing 5 2 (13.33 %) Data Analysis 6 1 (6.667 %) Project Planning 6 1 (6.667 %) Risk Analysis 6 1 (6.667 %) Configuration Management 6 1 (6.667 %) Stress Testing 6 1 (6.667 %) Test Management
Programming Languages 1 3 (20.00 %) SQL 2 2 (13.33 %) VBScript 3 1 (6.667 %) Shell Script 3 1 (6.667 %) Java	Qualifications 1 2 (13.33 %) ISEB 2 1 (6.667 %) Cisco Certification 2 1 (6.667 %) CCVP 2 1 (6.667 %) ISEB Practitioner
Vendors 1 4 (26.67 %) Oracle 1 4 (26.67 %) SAP 2 2 (13.33 %) Business Objects 2 2 (13.33 %) HP 3 1 (6.667 %) Cisco 3 1 (6.667 %) Sybase