Poole Tester Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for the Tester role in IT contracts within the Poole 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 Tester in their job title over the 3 months to 10 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Tester
Location Abingdon Aldershot Basildon Basingstoke Bath Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentwood Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Channel Islands Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Chichester City of London County Antrim Coventry Crawley Croydon Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh England Essex Exeter Farnborough Farnham Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Guildford Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harlow Hertfordshire High Wycombe Hove Huddersfield Kent Kingston Upon Thames Lancashire Leatherhead Leeds Liverpool Livingston London M4 Corridor Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Plymouth Poole Reading Redhill Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Solihull Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stoke-on-Trent Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Tadworth Telford Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Wallington Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Welwyn West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Wiltshire Winchester York Yorkshire	3 months to 10 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	-	9
Rank change on same period last year	-
Matching contract IT job ads	0	13
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.000 %	0.013 %
As % of the category below	0.000 %	10.48 %
Daily rates quoted	0	7
Average minimum daily rate	-	£293
Average daily rate	-	£326
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	£360
UK excluding London average daily rate	£313	£298
% change on same period last year	+4.75 %
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	£28.85	£26.85
% change on same period last year	+7.44 %
Job Titles Poole
Matching contract IT job ads	90	124
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.127 %	0.125 %
Daily rates quoted	54	49
Average minimum daily rate	£300	£324
Average daily rate	£316	£348
% change on same period last year	-9.30 %
Average maximum daily rate	£331	£373
UK excluding London average daily rate	£352	£353
% change on same period last year	-0.20 %
Hourly rates quoted	10	14
Average minimum hourly rate	£19.85	£19.45
Average hourly rate	£22.48	£21.09
% change on same period last year	+6.59 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£25.12	£22.73
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.76	£25.22
% change on same period last year	-5.77 %
Tester Dorset

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.

Tester
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Tester across the Poole region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

Tester
Daily Rate Trend

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