The first table below looks at the demand for Manual Testing skills 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 Manual Testing over the 3 months to 18 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 of the Processes & Methodologies category 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
18 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Manual Testing
Rank 118 128 122
Rank change year-on-year
+10 -6
Contract jobs citing Manual Testing 4 6 10
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the North West 0.166% 0.197% 0.329%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.236% 0.314% 0.514%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 4 4
Average daily rate £300 £319 £190
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-5.80% +67.63%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £212 £305 £126
10% offered a daily rate of more than £320 £342 £219
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £300 £275
% change year-on-year
+8.33% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
Average hourly rate - - £22.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 - £22.00
All Processes & Methodologies
North West
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
1696 1913 1945
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the North West 70.37% 62.82% 63.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 820 994 1025
Average daily rate £350 £350 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +7.69%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £240 £250 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £475 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £370 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
+1.36% -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 84 87 90
Average hourly rate £19.00 £20.00 £22.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-5.00% -11.11%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.50 £13.50 £11.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £46.00 £37.50 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.00 £25.00 £29.00
% change year-on-year
+24.00% -13.79%
Manual Testing
England

Manual Testing
Jobs Demand Trend

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

North West Manual Testing Jobs Demand Trend

Manual Testing
Daily Rate Trend

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

North West Manual Testing Daily Rate Trend

Manual Testing
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Manual Testing across the North West region over the 3 months to 18 June 2013.

North West Manual Testing Daily Rate Histogram

Manual Testing
Hourly Rate Trend

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

North West Manual Testing Hourly Rate Trend

Manual Testing
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Manual Testing within the North West region over the 3 months to 18 June 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
Find
Job
Vacancies
Manchester +14 3 £313 -6.01% 4
Lancashire - 1 £190 -
Merseyside - - - -
Cheshire - - - - 1
Manual Testing
England

Manual Testing
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the North West region citing Manual 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 Manual Testing.

1 4 (50.00%) .NET
1 4 (50.00%) User Acceptance Testing
2 3 (37.50%) ASP.NET
2 3 (37.50%) Windows
2 3 (37.50%) Test Scripting
3 2 (25.00%) Test Strategy
3 2 (25.00%) HP Quality Center
3 2 (25.00%) MS Excel
3 2 (25.00%) Windows XP
3 2 (25.00%) HP
3 2 (25.00%) ISEB
3 2 (25.00%) SQL Server
3 2 (25.00%) MS Office
3 2 (25.00%) Visual Studio
3 2 (25.00%) HTML
3 2 (25.00%) SQL
3 2 (25.00%) XML
3 2 (25.00%) UNIX
3 2 (25.00%) ISTQB
3 2 (25.00%) Test Management
3 2 (25.00%) QA
3 2 (25.00%) Selenium
3 2 (25.00%) Agile Software Development
4 1 (12.50%) TDD
4 1 (12.50%) Banking
4 1 (12.50%) Windows Mobile
4 1 (12.50%) Workflow
4 1 (12.50%) Finance
4 1 (12.50%) Scrum
4 1 (12.50%) JIRA

Manual Testing
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the North West region citing Manual 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 Manual Testing. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 4 (50.00%) .NET
2 3 (37.50%) ASP.NET
3 2 (25.00%) XML
3 2 (25.00%) HTML
Applications
1 2 (25.00%) MS Office
1 2 (25.00%) MS Excel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (25.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (25.00%) Selenium
1 2 (25.00%) Visual Studio
2 1 (12.50%) QuickTest Pro
2 1 (12.50%) JIRA
2 1 (12.50%) JUnit
2 1 (12.50%) JBehave
2 1 (12.50%) Cucumber
2 1 (12.50%) Robotium
General
1 1 (12.50%) Pharmaceutical
1 1 (12.50%) Finance
1 1 (12.50%) Banking
Job Titles
1 4 (50.00%) Analyst
1 4 (50.00%) Test Analyst
2 3 (37.50%) Tester
3 1 (12.50%) Software Tester
3 1 (12.50%) Test Leader
3 1 (12.50%) Agile Test Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) Mobile Tester
Miscellaneous
1 1 (12.50%) NHS
1 1 (12.50%) Blackberry
1 1 (12.50%) iPhone
Operating Systems
1 3 (37.50%) Windows
2 2 (25.00%) Windows XP
2 2 (25.00%) UNIX
3 1 (12.50%) Mac OS X
3 1 (12.50%) Windows Mobile
3 1 (12.50%) Android
3 1 (12.50%) bada
3 1 (12.50%) Maemo
3 1 (12.50%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (50.00%) User Acceptance Testing
2 3 (37.50%) Test Scripting
3 2 (25.00%) Test Management
3 2 (25.00%) Agile Software Development
3 2 (25.00%) Test Strategy
4 1 (12.50%) TDD
4 1 (12.50%) Workflow
4 1 (12.50%) Scrum
4 1 (12.50%) BDD
Programming Languages
1 2 (25.00%) SQL
2 1 (12.50%) C#
2 1 (12.50%) Java
Qualifications
1 2 (25.00%) ISEB
1 2 (25.00%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (25.00%) QA
Systems Management
1 2 (25.00%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 2 (25.00%) HP
Manchester, North West
Experience of both Automated and Manual testing would be preferable and experience of working in an Agile environment... Skills required: Selenium, QTP, Junit and Jbehave. The project itself...
Hays Specialist Recruitment Ltd
Rate: £300.00 - £350.00 per annum
Posted: 23 May 2013
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