Web Testing Contracts in the North West
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Hourly Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for Web 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 Web Testing 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 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
21 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Web Testing
Rank 116 132 126
Rank change year-on-year
+16 -6
Contract jobs citing Web Testing 3 3 4
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the North West 0.127% 0.095% 0.133%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.180% 0.154% 0.204%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 3
Average daily rate £313 £294 £180
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+6.63% +63.19%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £292 £279 £168
10% offered a daily rate of more than £335 £309 £256
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £310 £225
% change year-on-year
-3.22% +37.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £29.00 - -
All Processes & Methodologies
North West
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category		 1669 1945 1965
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the North West 70.69% 61.67% 65.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 819 1005 1027
Average daily rate £350 £350 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +7.69%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £226 £238 £223
10% offered a daily rate of more than £465 £500 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £363 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
-0.68% -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 81 84 96
Average hourly rate £22.00 £20.00 £21.12
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+10.00% -5.29%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.20 £13.35 £12.95
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £55.00 £37.50 £36.60
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.50 £25.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year
+26.00% -16.66%
Web Testing
England

Web Testing
Jobs Demand Trend

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

North West Web Testing Jobs Demand Trend

Web Testing
Daily Rate Trend

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

North West Web Testing Daily Rate Trend

Web Testing
Hourly Rate Trend

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

North West Web Testing Hourly Rate Trend

Web Testing
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Web Testing 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
Manchester +16 2 £313 +6.63%
Web Testing
England

Web Testing
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the North West region citing Web 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 Web Testing.

1 3 (50.00%) Scrum
1 3 (50.00%) Java
1 3 (50.00%) SQL
1 3 (50.00%) XML
1 3 (50.00%) Windows
1 3 (50.00%) E-Commerce
1 3 (50.00%) Selenium
2 2 (33.33%) Web Services
2 2 (33.33%) Integration Testing
2 2 (33.33%) PRINCE2
2 2 (33.33%) HTTP
2 2 (33.33%) JavaScript
2 2 (33.33%) HTML
2 2 (33.33%) ISEB
2 2 (33.33%) Agile Software Development
3 1 (16.67%) Retail
3 1 (16.67%) Automated Testing
3 1 (16.67%) Ruby
3 1 (16.67%) Software Testing
3 1 (16.67%) Windows Mobile
3 1 (16.67%) JSON
3 1 (16.67%) Blackberry
3 1 (16.67%) Objective-C
3 1 (16.67%) Regression Testing
3 1 (16.67%) C#
3 1 (16.67%) PHP
3 1 (16.67%) XSLT
3 1 (16.67%) .NET
3 1 (16.67%) SOAP
3 1 (16.67%) TCP/IP

Web Testing
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the North West region citing Web 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 Web Testing. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 3 (50.00%) XML
2 2 (33.33%) Web Services
2 2 (33.33%) HTML
3 1 (16.67%) JSON
3 1 (16.67%) XSLT
3 1 (16.67%) .NET
3 1 (16.67%) SOAP
Communications & Networking
1 2 (33.33%) HTTP
2 1 (16.67%) TCP/IP
2 1 (16.67%) LAN
2 1 (16.67%) WAN
2 1 (16.67%) FTP
Development Applications
1 3 (50.00%) Selenium
2 1 (16.67%) Eclipse
2 1 (16.67%) WebDriver
General
1 1 (16.67%) Retail
Job Titles
1 5 (83.33%) Analyst
1 5 (83.33%) Test Analyst
2 2 (33.33%) Agile Test Analyst
3 1 (16.67%) Web Analyst
3 1 (16.67%) Web Test Analyst
3 1 (16.67%) Test Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Blackberry
1 1 (16.67%) Open Source
Operating Systems
1 3 (50.00%) Windows
2 1 (16.67%) Windows Mobile
2 1 (16.67%) UNIX
2 1 (16.67%) Apple iOS
2 1 (16.67%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (50.00%) Scrum
1 3 (50.00%) E-Commerce
2 2 (33.33%) Integration Testing
2 2 (33.33%) PRINCE2
2 2 (33.33%) Agile Software Development
3 1 (16.67%) Automated Testing
3 1 (16.67%) Software Testing
3 1 (16.67%) Regression Testing
3 1 (16.67%) Test Scripting
3 1 (16.67%) Continuous Integration
3 1 (16.67%) User Acceptance Testing
3 1 (16.67%) Performance Testing
Programming Languages
1 3 (50.00%) Java
1 3 (50.00%) SQL
2 2 (33.33%) JavaScript
3 1 (16.67%) Ruby
3 1 (16.67%) Objective-C
3 1 (16.67%) C#
3 1 (16.67%) PHP
3 1 (16.67%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 2 (33.33%) ISEB
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) HP Quality Center
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