The first table below looks at the demand for Test Strategy skills in IT contracts advertised for the Oxford region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Test Strategy over the 3 months to 17 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 Oxford 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Test Strategy
Rank 31 38 -
Rank change year-on-year
+7 -
Contract jobs citing Test Strategy 5 1 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Oxford 2.262% 0.289% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.247% 0.508% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Average daily rate £325 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £388 £390
% change year-on-year
-9.67% -0.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £40.00 £37.00 £31.00
% change year-on-year
+8.10% +19.35%
All Processes & Methodologies
Oxford
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
154 197 69
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Oxford 69.68% 56.94% 43.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 106 125 38
Average daily rate £350 £425 £230
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-17.64% +84.78%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £265 £284 £178
10% offered a daily rate of more than £498 £500 £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £363 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
-0.68% -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 20 2
Average hourly rate £10.33 £20.06 £11.39
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-48.52% +76.15%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.60 £25.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year
+26.40% -16.66%
Test Strategy
Oxfordshire

Test Strategy
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Test Strategy across the Oxford region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

Oxford Test Strategy Jobs Demand Trend

Test Strategy
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Test Strategy across the Oxford region.

Oxford Test Strategy Daily Rate Trend

Test Strategy
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Test Strategy across the Oxford region.

Oxford Test Strategy Hourly Rate Trend

Test Strategy
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Oxford region citing Test Strategy 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 Test Strategy.

1 7 (100.00%) User Acceptance Testing
2 5 (71.43%) QA
3 4 (57.14%) Manual Testing
3 4 (57.14%) Test Automation
4 3 (42.86%) Business Intelligence
4 3 (42.86%) SQL
4 3 (42.86%) SAP
5 2 (28.57%) CSS
5 2 (28.57%) Web Services
5 2 (28.57%) XML
5 2 (28.57%) XSL
5 2 (28.57%) ITIL
5 2 (28.57%) PRINCE2
5 2 (28.57%) UML
5 2 (28.57%) RAD
5 2 (28.57%) CRM
5 2 (28.57%) ISEB
5 2 (28.57%) QuickTest Pro
5 2 (28.57%) Salesforce.com
5 2 (28.57%) Regression Testing
5 2 (28.57%) Workflow
5 2 (28.57%) Scrum
5 2 (28.57%) Ajax
5 2 (28.57%) Software Testing
5 2 (28.57%) JSON
5 2 (28.57%) Selenium
5 2 (28.57%) FitNesse
5 2 (28.57%) Firebug
5 2 (28.57%) Fiddler
5 2 (28.57%) Compatibility Testing

Test Strategy
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Oxford region citing Test Strategy 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 Test Strategy. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 2 (28.57%) HTML
1 2 (28.57%) CSS
1 2 (28.57%) Web Services
1 2 (28.57%) XML
1 2 (28.57%) XSL
1 2 (28.57%) Ajax
1 2 (28.57%) JSON
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (28.57%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (14.29%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 2 (28.57%) QuickTest Pro
1 2 (28.57%) Selenium
1 2 (28.57%) FitNesse
1 2 (28.57%) Firebug
1 2 (28.57%) Fiddler
Job Titles
1 4 (57.14%) Test Engineer
1 4 (57.14%) Senior Software Engineer
1 4 (57.14%) Software Test Engineer
1 4 (57.14%) Senior Test Engineer
1 4 (57.14%) QA Engineer
1 4 (57.14%) Senior QA Engineer
1 4 (57.14%) Software Engineer
1 4 (57.14%) Senior Software Test Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Analyst
2 2 (28.57%) Test Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) QA Leader
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) User Acceptance Testing
2 4 (57.14%) Manual Testing
2 4 (57.14%) Test Automation
3 3 (42.86%) Business Intelligence
4 2 (28.57%) Regression Testing
4 2 (28.57%) Workflow
4 2 (28.57%) Scrum
4 2 (28.57%) Software Testing
4 2 (28.57%) ITIL
4 2 (28.57%) PRINCE2
4 2 (28.57%) UML
4 2 (28.57%) RAD
4 2 (28.57%) CRM
4 2 (28.57%) Compatibility Testing
4 2 (28.57%) Integration Testing
4 2 (28.57%) Continuous Integration
5 1 (14.29%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 3 (42.86%) SQL
2 2 (28.57%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 2 (28.57%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (71.43%) QA
Vendors
1 3 (42.86%) SAP
2 2 (28.57%) Salesforce.com
3 1 (14.29%) Cognos