Northamptonshire Software Testing Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Software Testing skills within the Northamptonshire region with a comparison to our Processes & Methodologies category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Software Testing over the 3 months to 5 September 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Abingdon Amersham Barnsley Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Bradford Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Cheshire City of London County Antrim Coventry Crawley Darlington Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset Durham East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh England Essex Exeter Glasgow Guildford Hampshire Harrow Hertfordshire High Wycombe Lancashire Leeds Leicestershire London Manchester Middlesex Midlands Newport North East North West Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxfordshire Peterborough Pontypool Reading Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Skelmersdale Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Staines Surrey Swindon Telford Thames Valley Torfaen UK Uxbridge Wales Warrington Warwickshire West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Worcester Worcestershire Yorkshire	3 months to 5 Sep 2008	Same period last year
Rank	35	34
Rank change on same period last year	-1
Matching contract IT job ads	1	1
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.001 %	0.001 %
As % of the category below	0.450 %	0.543 %
Daily rates quoted	1	1
Average minimum daily rate	£150	£350
Average daily rate	£175	£350
% change on same period last year	-50.00 %
Average maximum daily rate	£200	£350
UK excluding London average daily rate	£298	£308
% change on same period last year	-3.34 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum hourly rate	-	-
Average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£31.97	£29.93
% change on same period last year	+6.83 %
Processes & Methodologies Northamptonshire
Matching contract IT job ads	222	184
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.300 %	0.181 %
Daily rates quoted	140	64
Average minimum daily rate	£430	£362
Average daily rate	£450	£389
% change on same period last year	+15.77 %
Average maximum daily rate	£471	£416
UK excluding London average daily rate	£378	£375
% change on same period last year	+0.59 %
Hourly rates quoted	10	14
Average minimum hourly rate	£28.30	£25.83
Average hourly rate	£32.98	£28.73
% change on same period last year	+14.77 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£37.65	£31.63
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£30.41	£30.41
% change on same period last year	+0.01 %
Software Testing East Midlands

We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Software Testing across the Northamptonshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

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Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Software Testing across the Northamptonshire region.

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Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Software Testing across the Northamptonshire region.

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Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Software Testing within the Northamptonshire region over the 3 months to 5 September 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
Northampton	-	1	£175	-

Software Testing East Midlands

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Top 16 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 5 September 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Northamptonshire region citing Software 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 Software Testing.

1 3 (100.00 %) Test Scripting 2 2 (66.67 %) User Acceptance Testing 3 1 (33.33 %) Workflow 3 1 (33.33 %) Education 3 1 (33.33 %) Government 3 1 (33.33 %) Health 3 1 (33.33 %) Local Government 3 1 (33.33 %) Capita 3 1 (33.33 %) Degree 3 1 (33.33 %) Load Testing 3 1 (33.33 %) Manual Testing 3 1 (33.33 %) SQL Server 3 1 (33.33 %) MS Excel 3 1 (33.33 %) FoxPro (VFP) 3 1 (33.33 %) Microsoft

3 1 (33.33 %) ISEB

Software Testing
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 5 September 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Northamptonshire region citing Software 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 Software Testing. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Applications 1 1 (33.33 %) MS Excel	Database & Business Intelligence 1 1 (33.33 %) SQL Server
General 1 1 (33.33 %) Education 1 1 (33.33 %) Government 1 1 (33.33 %) Health 1 1 (33.33 %) Local Government	Job Titles 1 2 (66.67 %) Tester 2 1 (33.33 %) Analyst 2 1 (33.33 %) Test Analyst 2 1 (33.33 %) Systems Tester
Processes & Methodologies 1 3 (100.00 %) Test Scripting 2 2 (66.67 %) User Acceptance Testing 3 1 (33.33 %) Load Testing 3 1 (33.33 %) Manual Testing 3 1 (33.33 %) Workflow	Programming Languages 1 1 (33.33 %) FoxPro (VFP)
Qualifications 1 1 (33.33 %) ISEB 1 1 (33.33 %) Degree	Vendors 1 1 (33.33 %) Microsoft 1 1 (33.33 %) Capita