The first table below looks at the demand for Software Testing skills in IT contracts advertised for the Reading region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Software Testing 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 Reading 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
Software Testing
Rank 65 74 79
Rank change year-on-year
+9 +5
Contract jobs citing Software Testing 5 7 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Reading 0.602% 0.658% 0.095%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.893% 1.042% 0.142%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £303 £300 £320
% change year-on-year
+0.83% -6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
Average hourly rate - £7.50 £27.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -72.72%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.00 £20.00 £31.50
% change year-on-year
+50.00% -36.50%
All Processes & Methodologies
Reading
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
560 672 706
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Reading 67.47% 63.16% 66.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 244 261 313
Average daily rate £388 £369 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+5.01% +5.42%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £225 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £550 £550
UK excluding London average daily rate £363 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
-0.68% -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 22 17
Average hourly rate £16.00 £14.50 £27.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+10.34% -47.27%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.20 £11.00 £14.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £30.00 £24.20 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.60 £25.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year
+26.40% -16.66%
Software Testing
Berkshire

Software Testing
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Reading Software Testing Jobs Demand Trend

Software Testing
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Software Testing across the Reading region.

Reading Software Testing Daily Rate Trend

Software Testing
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Software Testing across the Reading region.

Reading Software Testing Hourly Rate Trend

Software Testing
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Reading region citing Software Testing 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 Software Testing.

1 4 (57.14%) SOAP
1 4 (57.14%) Web Services
1 4 (57.14%) XML
1 4 (57.14%) ISEB
1 4 (57.14%) Handset
1 4 (57.14%) Groovy
1 4 (57.14%) HP Quality Center
1 4 (57.14%) soapUI
1 4 (57.14%) REST
1 4 (57.14%) DbVisualizer
2 3 (42.86%) Finance
2 3 (42.86%) Web Testing
2 3 (42.86%) Test Scripting
2 3 (42.86%) System Testing
2 3 (42.86%) ISTQB
2 3 (42.86%) WebSphere
2 3 (42.86%) WebSphere Application Server
2 3 (42.86%) Shell Script
2 3 (42.86%) UNIX
3 2 (28.57%) Windows
3 2 (28.57%) Internet
3 2 (28.57%) WinRunner
3 2 (28.57%) VMware
3 2 (28.57%) Automated Testing
3 2 (28.57%) JIRA
3 2 (28.57%) Selenium
3 2 (28.57%) Agile Software Development
3 2 (28.57%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (14.29%) Waterfall
4 1 (14.29%) JProfiler

Software Testing
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Reading region citing Software Testing 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 Software Testing. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 4 (57.14%) SOAP
1 4 (57.14%) Web Services
1 4 (57.14%) XML
1 4 (57.14%) soapUI
1 4 (57.14%) REST
2 3 (42.86%) WebSphere
Application Platforms
1 3 (42.86%) WebSphere Application Server
Communications & Networking
1 2 (28.57%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (57.14%) DbVisualizer
2 1 (14.29%) MS Access
Development Applications
1 2 (28.57%) JIRA
1 2 (28.57%) Selenium
1 2 (28.57%) WinRunner
2 1 (14.29%) LoadRunner
2 1 (14.29%) JProfiler
2 1 (14.29%) Cucumber
General
1 3 (42.86%) Finance
2 1 (14.29%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 2 (28.57%) Test Analyst
1 2 (28.57%) Test Coordinator
1 2 (28.57%) Test Engineer
1 2 (28.57%) Coordinator
1 2 (28.57%) Analyst
2 1 (14.29%) Test Manager
2 1 (14.29%) Performance Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Security Manager
2 1 (14.29%) Compliance Manager
2 1 (14.29%) Performance Test Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (57.14%) Handset
2 1 (14.29%) Statistics
2 1 (14.29%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 3 (42.86%) UNIX
2 2 (28.57%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (42.86%) Web Testing
1 3 (42.86%) Test Scripting
1 3 (42.86%) System Testing
2 2 (28.57%) Agile Software Development
2 2 (28.57%) Automated Testing
3 1 (14.29%) IT Governance
3 1 (14.29%) Performance Testing
3 1 (14.29%) ITIL
3 1 (14.29%) PRINCE2
3 1 (14.29%) Project Management
3 1 (14.29%) Information Security
3 1 (14.29%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 4 (57.14%) Groovy
2 3 (42.86%) Shell Script
3 1 (14.29%) Java
3 1 (14.29%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (57.14%) ISEB
2 3 (42.86%) ISTQB
3 1 (14.29%) CISSP
3 1 (14.29%) SSCP
3 1 (14.29%) CISA
3 1 (14.29%) CISM
3 1 (14.29%) GIAC
3 1 (14.29%) ISEB Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 2 (28.57%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (57.14%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 2 (28.57%) VMware