The first table below looks at the demand for the Test Analyst role in IT contracts advertised for the Portsmouth region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Test Analyst in their job title over the 3 months to 22 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 Portsmouth 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
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Test Analyst
Rank 15 16 29
Rank change year-on-year
+1 +13
Contract jobs requiring a Test Analyst 1 3 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Portsmouth 1.190% 2.913% 1.316%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.282% 2.913% 1.471%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 3 1
Average daily rate £275 £275 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -15.38%
UK excluding London average daily rate £305 £300 £300
% change year-on-year
+1.66% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £25.00 £17.50 £27.50
% change year-on-year
+42.85% -36.36%
All Job Titles
Portsmouth
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
78 103 136
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Portsmouth 92.86% 100.00% 89.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 49 40 44
Average daily rate £370 £350 £315
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+5.71% +11.11%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £250 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £550 £425
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 29 50
Average hourly rate £26.98 £21.75 £23.36
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+24.02% -6.89%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.88 £14.25 £12.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £30.00 £35.00 £35.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
Test Analyst
Hampshire

Test Analyst
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Test Analyst across the Portsmouth region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

Portsmouth Test Analyst Jobs Demand Trend

Test Analyst
Daily Rate Trend

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

Portsmouth Test Analyst Daily Rate Trend

Test Analyst
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Portsmouth Test Analyst Hourly Rate Trend

Test Analyst
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Portsmouth region that cited Test Analyst 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 Analyst in their job title.

1 3 (75.00%) SQL
1 3 (75.00%) Oracle
1 3 (75.00%) ISEB
2 2 (50.00%) UNIX
2 2 (50.00%) CRM
2 2 (50.00%) HP
2 2 (50.00%) Regression Testing
2 2 (50.00%) ISTQB
2 2 (50.00%) Validation
2 2 (50.00%) User Acceptance Testing
2 2 (50.00%) Data Validation
2 2 (50.00%) HP Quality Center
3 1 (25.00%) Waterfall
3 1 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (25.00%) Windows Server 2008
3 1 (25.00%) Test Scripting
3 1 (25.00%) Migration
3 1 (25.00%) VMware
3 1 (25.00%) Agile Software Development
3 1 (25.00%) QA
3 1 (25.00%) Firewall
3 1 (25.00%) Finance
3 1 (25.00%) Intel
3 1 (25.00%) C#
3 1 (25.00%) C++
3 1 (25.00%) Java
3 1 (25.00%) Windows
3 1 (25.00%) AIX
3 1 (25.00%) Oracle Reports
3 1 (25.00%) Citrix

Test Analyst
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Portsmouth region that cited Test Analyst 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 Analyst in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) Oracle Reports
General
1 1 (25.00%) Finance
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 2 (50.00%) UNIX
2 1 (25.00%) Windows Server 2008
2 1 (25.00%) Windows
2 1 (25.00%) AIX
2 1 (25.00%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) CRM
1 2 (50.00%) Regression Testing
1 2 (50.00%) Validation
1 2 (50.00%) User Acceptance Testing
1 2 (50.00%) Data Validation
2 1 (25.00%) Waterfall
2 1 (25.00%) Test Scripting
2 1 (25.00%) Migration
2 1 (25.00%) Agile Software Development
2 1 (25.00%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) SQL
2 1 (25.00%) C#
2 1 (25.00%) C++
2 1 (25.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 3 (75.00%) ISEB
2 2 (50.00%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) HP Quality Center
2 1 (25.00%) Tivoli
2 1 (25.00%) Netcool
2 1 (25.00%) Netcool/OMNIbus
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) Oracle
2 2 (50.00%) HP
3 1 (25.00%) VMware
3 1 (25.00%) Intel
3 1 (25.00%) Citrix