Test Analyst 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 the Test Analyst role 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 Test Analyst in their job title over the 3 months to 21 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 Job Titles advertised 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
21 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Test Analyst
Rank 69 88 87
Rank change year-on-year
+19 -1
Contract jobs requiring a Test Analyst 50 47 43
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the North West 2.118% 1.490% 1.429%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.271% 1.628% 1.540%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 31 30
Average daily rate £312 £308 £250
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+1.46% +23.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £275 £150
10% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £425 £301
UK excluding London average daily rate £308 £300 £300
% change year-on-year
+2.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £25.00 £17.50 £27.50
% change year-on-year
+42.85% -36.36%
All Job Titles
North West
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category		 2202 2887 2793
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the North West 93.27% 91.53% 92.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 1041 1432 1395
Average daily rate £333 £325 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+2.30% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £205 £225 £180
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £475 £473
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 178 174 190
Average hourly rate £18.00 £19.00 £17.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-5.26% +8.57%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.00 £12.00 £10.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £45.00 £33.30 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
Test Analyst
England

Test Analyst
Jobs Demand Trend

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

North West 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 North West region.

North West 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 North West region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

North West 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 North West region.

North West Test Analyst Hourly Rate Trend

Test Analyst
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 West region over the 3 months to 21 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
Cheshire +7 20 £425 +37.65%
Manchester +9 11 £338 +7.14%
Lancashire +9 4 £263 -10.25%
Merseyside +2 3 £280 -
Test Analyst
England

Test Analyst
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the North West 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 34 (50.00%) Test Scripting
2 29 (42.65%) HP Quality Center
3 27 (39.71%) HP
4 21 (30.88%) SAP
5 19 (27.94%) ISEB
6 16 (23.53%) User Acceptance Testing
7 14 (20.59%) SAP HR
7 14 (20.59%) Oracle
8 13 (19.12%) QuickTest Pro
8 13 (19.12%) SAP Implementation
8 13 (19.12%) Test Automation
8 13 (19.12%) Performance Management
9 11 (16.18%) SQL
10 10 (14.71%) SQL Server
11 9 (13.24%) ISTQB
11 9 (13.24%) Finance
11 9 (13.24%) Windows
12 8 (11.76%) UNIX
12 8 (11.76%) Validation
13 7 (10.29%) Retail
13 7 (10.29%) Agile Software Development
13 7 (10.29%) Automated Testing
13 7 (10.29%) SOAP
13 7 (10.29%) .NET
14 6 (8.824%) CSG Singleview
14 6 (8.824%) Performance Testing
15 5 (7.353%) System Testing
15 5 (7.353%) Test Strategy
15 5 (7.353%) Web Testing
15 5 (7.353%) Test Management

Test Analyst
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the North West 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 7 (10.29%) SOAP
1 7 (10.29%) .NET
2 5 (7.353%) HTML
2 5 (7.353%) Web Services
2 5 (7.353%) XML
3 3 (4.412%) soapUI
3 3 (4.412%) Oracle Fusion
3 3 (4.412%) WebSphere
3 3 (4.412%) Middleware
3 3 (4.412%) ASP.NET
4 1 (1.471%) XML Schema
4 1 (1.471%) J2EE
4 1 (1.471%) CSS
Application Platforms
1 3 (4.412%) WebSphere Application Server
2 2 (2.941%) Confluence
3 1 (1.471%) Windows Azure
3 1 (1.471%) ESB
3 1 (1.471%) CICS
Applications
1 3 (4.412%) MS Excel
2 2 (2.941%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 14 (20.59%) SAP HR
2 6 (8.824%) CSG Singleview
3 2 (2.941%) SAP SD
3 2 (2.941%) SAP MM
4 1 (1.471%) SAP FI-CA
4 1 (1.471%) SAP FI
4 1 (1.471%) SAP CO
4 1 (1.471%) SAP FI/CO
4 1 (1.471%) SAP PS
4 1 (1.471%) SAP WM
Communications & Networking
1 5 (7.353%) FTP
1 5 (7.353%) HTTP
1 5 (7.353%) TCP/IP
2 1 (1.471%) Intranet
2 1 (1.471%) Internet
2 1 (1.471%) LAN
2 1 (1.471%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (14.71%) SQL Server
2 2 (2.941%) DB2
2 2 (2.941%) TOAD
3 1 (1.471%) SAP BI
3 1 (1.471%) BusinessObjects
Development Applications
1 13 (19.12%) QuickTest Pro
2 4 (5.882%) LoadRunner
2 4 (5.882%) Selenium
3 3 (4.412%) Visual Studio
4 2 (2.941%) JIRA
4 2 (2.941%) WebDriver
5 1 (1.471%) Team Foundation Server
5 1 (1.471%) FitNesse
5 1 (1.471%) Oracle APEX
5 1 (1.471%) Eclipse
General
1 9 (13.24%) Finance
2 7 (10.29%) Retail
3 5 (7.353%) Banking
4 3 (4.412%) Manufacturing
5 2 (2.941%) Billing
6 1 (1.471%) Publishing
6 1 (1.471%) Pharmaceutical
Miscellaneous
1 2 (2.941%) AS400
2 1 (1.471%) Open Source
2 1 (1.471%) Mobile App
2 1 (1.471%) Life Science
2 1 (1.471%) VSAM
2 1 (1.471%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 9 (13.24%) Windows
2 8 (11.76%) UNIX
3 3 (4.412%) Windows XP
4 1 (1.471%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (50.00%) Test Scripting
2 16 (23.53%) User Acceptance Testing
3 13 (19.12%) SAP Implementation
3 13 (19.12%) Test Automation
3 13 (19.12%) Performance Management
4 8 (11.76%) Validation
5 7 (10.29%) Agile Software Development
5 7 (10.29%) Automated Testing
6 6 (8.824%) Performance Testing
7 5 (7.353%) System Testing
7 5 (7.353%) Test Strategy
7 5 (7.353%) Web Testing
7 5 (7.353%) Test Management
7 5 (7.353%) Requirements Analysis
8 4 (5.882%) E-Commerce
8 4 (5.882%) Regression Testing
8 4 (5.882%) Software Testing
8 4 (5.882%) Manual Testing
9 3 (4.412%) Non-Functional Testing
9 3 (4.412%) Load Testing
Programming Languages
1 11 (16.18%) SQL
2 5 (7.353%) Java
3 3 (4.412%) C#
4 2 (2.941%) JavaScript
5 1 (1.471%) Groovy
5 1 (1.471%) PowerShell
5 1 (1.471%) Ruby
5 1 (1.471%) JCL
5 1 (1.471%) PL/SQL
5 1 (1.471%) C
5 1 (1.471%) VBA
Qualifications
1 19 (27.94%) ISEB
2 9 (13.24%) ISTQB
3 4 (5.882%) Security Cleared
4 2 (2.941%) SC Cleared
5 1 (1.471%) BC Cleared
5 1 (1.471%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (7.353%) QA
System Software
1 1 (1.471%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 29 (42.65%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 27 (39.71%) HP
2 21 (30.88%) SAP
3 14 (20.59%) Oracle
4 4 (5.882%) VMware
5 2 (2.941%) Business Objects
5 2 (2.941%) Microsoft
5 2 (2.941%) Atlassian
6 1 (1.471%) Primavera
6 1 (1.471%) Micro Focus
6 1 (1.471%) Compuware
6 1 (1.471%) Siemens
6 1 (1.471%) Sage
6 1 (1.471%) Citrix
6 1 (1.471%) CA
6 1 (1.471%) Informatica
6 1 (1.471%) IBM
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