Nottinghamshire Test Engineer Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for the Test Engineer role in IT contracts within the Nottinghamshire region compared to all other Job Titles we currently track. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Test Engineer in their job title over the 3 months to 6 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Abingdon Andover Avon Basingstoke Bath Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Bournemouth Bracknell Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Cardiff Channel Islands Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Chippenham City of London County Antrim Coventry Docklands, London Dorset East Anglia East Midlands East of England Edinburgh England Essex Farnborough Farnham Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Hampshire Hertfordshire Home Counties Jersey Lancashire London M4 Corridor Manchester Marlow Middlesex Midlands Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport North East North West Northern Ireland Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Portsmouth Reading Rugby Salisbury Scotland Shropshire Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West Southampton Stevenage Surrey Swindon Telford Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warwickshire West Midlands Wiltshire Winchester Wokingham Yeovil	3 months to 6 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	31	41
Rank change on same period last year	+10
Matching contract IT job ads	8	1
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.011 %	0.001 %
As % of the category below	2.151 %	0.250 %
Daily rates quoted	6	0
Average minimum daily rate	£342	-
Average daily rate	£400	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	£458	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£305	£282
% change on same period last year	+8.42 %
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	£30.83	£32.05
% change on same period last year	-3.78 %
Job Titles Nottinghamshire
Matching contract IT job ads	372	400
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.520 %	0.402 %
Daily rates quoted	99	80
Average minimum daily rate	£339	£309
Average daily rate	£362	£320
% change on same period last year	+13.39 %
Average maximum daily rate	£386	£330
UK excluding London average daily rate	£353	£353
% change on same period last year	+0.09 %
Hourly rates quoted	46	76
Average minimum hourly rate	£15.00	£17.86
Average hourly rate	£16.13	£19.70
% change on same period last year	-18.12 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£17.25	£21.54
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.74	£25.24
% change on same period last year	-5.93 %
Test Engineer 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 Test Engineer across the Nottinghamshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles 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 Test Engineer across the Nottinghamshire region.

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Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Test Engineer across the Nottinghamshire region over the 3 months to 6 October 2008.

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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 Test Engineer within the Nottinghamshire region over the 3 months to 6 October 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
Nottingham	+1	7	£400	-

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Top 10 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 6 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Nottinghamshire region that cited Test Engineer 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 Engineer in their job title.

1 8 (100.00 %) Scrum 1 8 (100.00 %) Agile Software Development 2 7 (87.50 %) .NET 2 7 (87.50 %) Test Scripting 3 6 (75.00 %) WebServices 4 5 (62.50 %) C# 5 3 (37.50 %) Manual Testing 5 3 (37.50 %) Automated Testing 6 1 (12.50 %) Software Testing 6 1 (12.50 %) Microsoft

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 6 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Nottinghamshire region that cited Test Engineer 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 Engineer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 7 (87.50 %) .NET 2 6 (75.00 %) WebServices	Processes & Methodologies 1 8 (100.00 %) Scrum 1 8 (100.00 %) Agile Software Development 2 7 (87.50 %) Test Scripting 3 3 (37.50 %) Manual Testing 3 3 (37.50 %) Automated Testing 4 1 (12.50 %) Software Testing
Programming Languages 1 5 (62.50 %) C#	Vendors 1 1 (12.50 %) Microsoft