The first table below looks at the demand for the Software Testing Engineer role in IT contracts advertised for the Peterborough region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Software Testing Engineer in their job title 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 Job Titles advertised for the Peterborough 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
Software Testing Engineer
Rank - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Software Testing Engineer 0 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Peterborough - - -
As % of the Job Titles category - - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate - - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Job Titles
Peterborough
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
92 84 98
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Peterborough 98.92% 98.82% 89.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 43 41 42
Average daily rate £350 £338 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+3.70% -3.57%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £95 £288 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £475 £474
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 9 15
Average hourly rate £13.00 £12.00 £15.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+8.33% -20.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.00 £12.00 £12.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £22.50 £12.00 £27.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
Software Testing Engineer
Cambridgeshire

Software Testing Engineer
Top 8 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Peterborough region that cited Software Testing 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 Software Testing Engineer in their job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Publishing
1 1 (100.00%) E-Learning
1 1 (100.00%) Software Testing
1 1 (100.00%) QA
1 1 (100.00%) User Acceptance Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Integration Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Test Management
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation

Software Testing Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Peterborough region that cited Software Testing 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 Software Testing Engineer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

General
1 1 (100.00%) Publishing
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) E-Learning
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Software Testing
1 1 (100.00%) User Acceptance Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Integration Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Test Management
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) QA