The first table below looks at the demand for Test Management 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 Test Management over the 3 months to 24 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Test Management
Rank 67 83 82
Rank change year-on-year
+16 -1
Contract jobs citing Test Management 3 1 3
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Reading 0.359% 0.090% 0.288%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.543% 0.142% 0.434%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
Average daily rate £350 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £375 £375 £400
% change year-on-year
- -6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £32.00 £32.25 £32.50
% change year-on-year
-0.77% -0.76%
All Processes & Methodologies
Reading
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
552 702 692
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Reading 66.11% 62.96% 66.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 242 270 310
Average daily rate £390 £370 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+5.40% +5.71%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £264 £235 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £550 £550
UK excluding London average daily rate £365 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
- -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 24 18
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 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £30.00 £23.80 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.00 £25.00 £29.50
% change year-on-year
+20.00% -15.25%
Test Management
Berkshire

Test Management
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Reading Test Management Jobs Demand Trend

Test Management
Daily Rate Trend

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

Reading Test Management Daily Rate Trend

Test Management
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Reading Test Management Hourly Rate Trend

Test Management
Top 21 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Reading region citing Test Management 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 Management.

1 3 (100.00%) Data Warehouse
1 3 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
2 2 (66.67%) C
2 2 (66.67%) SQL
2 2 (66.67%) Linux
2 2 (66.67%) Python
2 2 (66.67%) Shell Script
2 2 (66.67%) GAP Analysis
2 2 (66.67%) Test Scripting
2 2 (66.67%) VMS
2 2 (66.67%) Analytics
3 1 (33.33%) Test Strategy
3 1 (33.33%) Test Automation
3 1 (33.33%) CMMI
3 1 (33.33%) Management Information System
3 1 (33.33%) Validation
3 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (33.33%) Project Management
3 1 (33.33%) C++
3 1 (33.33%) IBM
3 1 (33.33%) ATM

Test Management
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Reading region citing Test Management 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 Management. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) ATM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (100.00%) Data Warehouse
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Developer
1 2 (66.67%) Analyst
1 2 (66.67%) Test Analyst
1 2 (66.67%) Analyst Developer
1 2 (66.67%) Automation Test Analyst
1 2 (66.67%) Automation Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) SQL Developer
2 1 (33.33%) C++ Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Test Manager
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 2 (66.67%) Linux
1 2 (66.67%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
2 2 (66.67%) GAP Analysis
2 2 (66.67%) Test Scripting
2 2 (66.67%) Analytics
3 1 (33.33%) Test Strategy
3 1 (33.33%) Test Automation
3 1 (33.33%) CMMI
3 1 (33.33%) Validation
3 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (33.33%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) C
1 2 (66.67%) SQL
1 2 (66.67%) Python
1 2 (66.67%) Shell Script
2 1 (33.33%) C++
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) IBM