ISEB Contracts in the North West
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for ISEB in IT contracts advertised for the North West region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited ISEB over the 3 months to 20 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 Qualifications for the North West 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 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Information Systems Examinations Board (ISEB)
Rank 85 94 95
Rank change year-on-year
+9 +1
Contract jobs citing ISEB 34 42 37
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the North West 1.467% 1.323% 1.229%
As % of the Qualifications category 7.572% 6.140% 7.773%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 23 19
Average daily rate £300 £313 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-4.28% -3.56%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £259 £275 £262
10% offered a daily rate of more than £350 £445 £372
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £335 £350
% change year-on-year
-2.98% -4.28%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 2
Average hourly rate £25.00 - £22.45
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.50 £22.50 £27.50
% change year-on-year
+22.22% -18.18%
All Qualifications
North West
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Qualifications category		 449 684 476
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the North West 19.38% 21.54% 15.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 195 340 211
Average daily rate £350 £370 £265
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-5.40% +39.62%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £188 £225 £180
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £511 £402
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 36 26 45
Average hourly rate £23.75 £20.00 £22.73
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+18.75% -12.01%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £14.33 £14.00 £12.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £41.50 £30.25 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.50 £22.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year
- -10.00%
ISEB
England

ISEB
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing ISEB across the North West region as a proportion of the total demand within the Qualifications category.

North West ISEB Jobs Demand Trend

ISEB
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing ISEB across the North West region.

North West ISEB Daily Rate Trend

ISEB
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing ISEB across the North West region over the 3 months to 20 May 2013.

North West ISEB Daily Rate Histogram

ISEB
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing ISEB across the North West region.

North West ISEB Hourly Rate Trend

ISEB
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing ISEB within the North West region over the 3 months to 20 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)		 Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year		 Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads		 Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months		 Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Lancashire +18 11 £275 -3.50%
Manchester +1 11 £318 -2.07%
Cheshire +7 7 £285 -28.75%
Merseyside -3 3 £350 +12.73%
ISEB
England

ISEB
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the North West region citing ISEB 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 ISEB.

1 20 (35.09%) ISTQB
2 12 (21.05%) Project Management
2 12 (21.05%) Test Scripting
2 12 (21.05%) Finance
3 10 (17.54%) Supplier Management
3 10 (17.54%) SQL
3 10 (17.54%) HP Quality Center
4 9 (15.79%) Windows
5 8 (14.04%) .NET
5 8 (14.04%) XML
5 8 (14.04%) Degree
5 8 (14.04%) User Acceptance Testing
5 8 (14.04%) Waterfall
6 7 (12.28%) Software Testing
6 7 (12.28%) SQL Server
7 6 (10.53%) Oracle
7 6 (10.53%) CheckPoint
7 6 (10.53%) Selenium
7 6 (10.53%) Stakeholder Management
7 6 (10.53%) Scrum
7 6 (10.53%) Agile Software Development
7 6 (10.53%) APMP
8 5 (8.772%) QA
8 5 (8.772%) Automated Testing
8 5 (8.772%) Business Analysis
8 5 (8.772%) HP
8 5 (8.772%) Java
8 5 (8.772%) Web Services
9 4 (7.018%) Linux
9 4 (7.018%) Symbian

ISEB
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the North West region citing ISEB 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 ISEB. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 8 (14.04%) .NET
1 8 (14.04%) XML
2 5 (8.772%) Web Services
3 4 (7.018%) HTML
3 4 (7.018%) ASP.NET
3 4 (7.018%) iPhone SDK
3 4 (7.018%) iOS SDK
4 3 (5.263%) soapUI
4 3 (5.263%) SOAP
4 3 (5.263%) XML Schema
5 2 (3.509%) Series 60
6 1 (1.754%) JSON
Application Platforms
1 2 (3.509%) Confluence
2 1 (1.754%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (5.263%) MS Office
1 3 (5.263%) MS Excel
2 1 (1.754%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (3.509%) CSG Singleview
2 1 (1.754%) Oracle EBS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.754%) LAN
1 1 (1.754%) WAN
1 1 (1.754%) FTP
1 1 (1.754%) HTTP
1 1 (1.754%) TCP/IP
1 1 (1.754%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (12.28%) SQL Server
2 1 (1.754%) Oracle Reports
2 1 (1.754%) RDBMS
2 1 (1.754%) Oracle BI EE
Development Applications
1 6 (10.53%) Selenium
2 4 (7.018%) WebDriver
3 3 (5.263%) Cucumber
3 3 (5.263%) JIRA
3 3 (5.263%) Visual Studio
4 2 (3.509%) Eclipse
4 2 (3.509%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 2 (3.509%) Jenkins
5 1 (1.754%) Robotium
5 1 (1.754%) Firebug
5 1 (1.754%) TestDirector
5 1 (1.754%) LoadRunner
5 1 (1.754%) Xcode
General
1 12 (21.05%) Finance
2 3 (5.263%) Banking
2 3 (5.263%) Retail
3 2 (3.509%) Billing
4 1 (1.754%) Legal
4 1 (1.754%) Manufacturing
4 1 (1.754%) Back Office
4 1 (1.754%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 28 (49.12%) Analyst
2 19 (33.33%) Test Analyst
3 10 (17.54%) Tester
4 8 (14.04%) Business Analyst
5 6 (10.53%) Test Engineer
5 6 (10.53%) Supplier Manager
6 5 (8.772%) Test Manager
7 3 (5.263%) Senior Analyst
7 3 (5.263%) Project Manager
8 2 (3.509%) Developer
8 2 (3.509%) Business Systems Analyst
8 2 (3.509%) Systems Analyst
8 2 (3.509%) Senior Project Manager
8 2 (3.509%) Senior Manager
8 2 (3.509%) Automation Tester
8 2 (3.509%) Senior Test Analyst
8 2 (3.509%) Software Test Analyst
8 2 (3.509%) Defect Manager
9 1 (1.754%) SAP Test Analyst
9 1 (1.754%) SAP Tester
Miscellaneous
1 4 (7.018%) Blackberry
1 4 (7.018%) iPhone
2 1 (1.754%) Semantic Web
2 1 (1.754%) Management Information System
2 1 (1.754%) Interactive TV
2 1 (1.754%) NHS
2 1 (1.754%) Smartcard
Operating Systems
1 9 (15.79%) Windows
2 4 (7.018%) Linux
2 4 (7.018%) bada
2 4 (7.018%) Maemo
2 4 (7.018%) Apple iOS
2 4 (7.018%) Mac OS X
2 4 (7.018%) Windows Mobile
2 4 (7.018%) Android
3 3 (5.263%) Windows XP
3 3 (5.263%) UNIX
4 1 (1.754%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (21.05%) Project Management
1 12 (21.05%) Test Scripting
2 10 (17.54%) Supplier Management
3 8 (14.04%) User Acceptance Testing
3 8 (14.04%) Waterfall
4 7 (12.28%) Software Testing
5 6 (10.53%) Agile Software Development
5 6 (10.53%) Stakeholder Management
5 6 (10.53%) Scrum
6 5 (8.772%) Automated Testing
6 5 (8.772%) Business Analysis
7 4 (7.018%) Migration
7 4 (7.018%) PRINCE2
7 4 (7.018%) Regression Testing
7 4 (7.018%) Test Strategy
7 4 (7.018%) Test Management
8 3 (5.263%) Load Testing
8 3 (5.263%) Integration Testing
8 3 (5.263%) Test Automation
8 3 (5.263%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 10 (17.54%) SQL
2 5 (8.772%) Java
3 4 (7.018%) C#
4 2 (3.509%) PowerShell
5 1 (1.754%) C
5 1 (1.754%) COBOL
5 1 (1.754%) JavaScript
5 1 (1.754%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 20 (35.09%) ISTQB
2 8 (14.04%) Degree
3 6 (10.53%) APMP
4 4 (7.018%) Security Cleared
4 4 (7.018%) SC Cleared
5 2 (3.509%) BC Cleared
6 1 (1.754%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (8.772%) QA
System Software
1 2 (3.509%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 10 (17.54%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 6 (10.53%) Oracle
1 6 (10.53%) CheckPoint
2 5 (8.772%) HP
3 4 (7.018%) SAP
3 4 (7.018%) Symbian
4 2 (3.509%) Microsoft
4 2 (3.509%) Siemens
4 2 (3.509%) AppSense
4 2 (3.509%) Atlassian
5 1 (1.754%) Primavera
5 1 (1.754%) Sage
5 1 (1.754%) Citrix
5 1 (1.754%) Hyperion
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