The first table below looks at the demand for System Testing skills in IT contracts advertised for the North Yorkshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited System Testing over the 3 months to 22 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 Yorkshire 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
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
System Testing
Rank 25 24 28
Rank change year-on-year
-1 +4
Contract jobs citing System Testing 1 3 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in North Yorkshire 0.649% 1.676% 0.562%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.099% 2.439% 0.800%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 0
Average daily rate £230 £250 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-8.00% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £326
% change year-on-year
- -0.15%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.00 £30.00 £27.25
% change year-on-year
- +10.09%
All Processes & Methodologies
North Yorkshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
91 123 125
As % of all contract IT jobs located in North Yorkshire 59.09% 68.72% 70.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 44 65 44
Average daily rate £355 £300 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+18.33% -20.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £230 £230
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £425 £520
UK excluding London average daily rate £365 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
- -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 9 9
Average hourly rate £175.00 £16.50 £28.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+960.60% -41.07%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.00 £25.00 £29.00
% change year-on-year
+24.00% -13.79%
System Testing
Yorkshire

System Testing
Jobs Demand Trend

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

North Yorkshire System Testing Jobs Demand Trend

System Testing
Daily Rate Trend

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

North Yorkshire System Testing Daily Rate Trend

System Testing
Hourly Rate Trend

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

North Yorkshire System Testing Hourly Rate Trend

System Testing
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the North Yorkshire region citing System 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 System Testing.

1 1 (50.00%) Java
1 1 (50.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
1 1 (50.00%) J2EE
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle
1 1 (50.00%) DB2
1 1 (50.00%) JUnit
1 1 (50.00%) EJB
1 1 (50.00%) CSS
1 1 (50.00%) JDBC
1 1 (50.00%) JSP
1 1 (50.00%) Servlets
1 1 (50.00%) Struts
1 1 (50.00%) XML
1 1 (50.00%) XSLT
1 1 (50.00%) UNIX
1 1 (50.00%) Linux
1 1 (50.00%) Apache
1 1 (50.00%) XHTML
1 1 (50.00%) MQSeries
1 1 (50.00%) JMS
1 1 (50.00%) Eclipse
1 1 (50.00%) RDBMS
1 1 (50.00%) ISEB
1 1 (50.00%) Automotive
1 1 (50.00%) Agile Software Development
1 1 (50.00%) JSF
1 1 (50.00%) Software Testing
1 1 (50.00%) WebSphere
1 1 (50.00%) Chemistry

System Testing
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the North Yorkshire region citing System 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 System Testing. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (50.00%) J2EE
1 1 (50.00%) EJB
1 1 (50.00%) CSS
1 1 (50.00%) JDBC
1 1 (50.00%) JSP
1 1 (50.00%) Servlets
1 1 (50.00%) Struts
1 1 (50.00%) XML
1 1 (50.00%) XSLT
1 1 (50.00%) XHTML
1 1 (50.00%) JMS
1 1 (50.00%) JSF
1 1 (50.00%) WebSphere
Application Platforms
1 1 (50.00%) Apache
1 1 (50.00%) MQSeries
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) DB2
1 1 (50.00%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) JUnit
1 1 (50.00%) Eclipse
General
1 1 (50.00%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Test Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Java Developer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Chemistry
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) UNIX
1 1 (50.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Agile Software Development
1 1 (50.00%) Software Testing
1 1 (50.00%) User Acceptance Testing
1 1 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
1 1 (50.00%) Manual Testing
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Java
1 1 (50.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) ISEB
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle