Tester Contracts in Reading
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for the Tester role in IT contracts advertised for the Reading region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Tester in their job title over the 3 months to 23 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 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
23 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Tester
Rank 60 70 58
Rank change year-on-year
+10 -12
Contract jobs requiring a Tester 5 9 24
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Reading 0.596% 0.807% 2.251%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.655% 0.876% 2.561%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 2 14
Average daily rate £338 £278 £263
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+21.62% +5.71%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £231 £140 £210
10% offered a daily rate of more than £371 £416 £275
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £300 £275
% change year-on-year
+8.33% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
Average hourly rate - £7.50 £7.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £29.00 £27.75 £20.50
% change year-on-year
+4.50% +35.36%
All Job Titles
Reading
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category		 763 1027 937
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Reading 90.94% 92.11% 87.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 349 344 419
Average daily rate £375 £350 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.14% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £200 £225 £219
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £500 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 42 60 43
Average hourly rate £18.00 £15.50 £12.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+16.12% +24.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £10.70 £11.25 £10.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £27.50 £22.20 £32.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
Tester
Berkshire

Tester
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Reading Tester Jobs Demand Trend

Tester
Daily Rate Trend

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

Reading Tester Daily Rate Trend

Tester
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Tester across the Reading region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

Reading Tester Daily Rate Histogram

Tester
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Reading Tester Hourly Rate Trend

Tester
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Reading region that cited Tester 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 Tester in their job title.

1 8 (36.36%) Microsoft
2 7 (31.82%) .NET
2 7 (31.82%) Test Automation
3 6 (27.27%) Team Foundation Server
3 6 (27.27%) C#
3 6 (27.27%) Windows
3 6 (27.27%) Agile Software Development
3 6 (27.27%) Selenium
4 5 (22.73%) Automated Testing
4 5 (22.73%) Visual Studio
4 5 (22.73%) Automation Testing
5 4 (18.18%) Manual Testing
5 4 (18.18%) SQL
5 4 (18.18%) QuickTest Pro
6 3 (13.64%) MS Excel
6 3 (13.64%) ERP
6 3 (13.64%) Java
6 3 (13.64%) SQL Server
6 3 (13.64%) Degree
6 3 (13.64%) Finance
6 3 (13.64%) Performance Testing
6 3 (13.64%) Windows Phone 8
6 3 (13.64%) Windows Phone
7 2 (9.091%) vCloud
7 2 (9.091%) BDD
7 2 (9.091%) jQuery
7 2 (9.091%) SAP HCM
7 2 (9.091%) Web Testing
7 2 (9.091%) Test Scripting
7 2 (9.091%) SQL Server Reporting Services

Tester
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Reading region that cited Tester 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 Tester in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 7 (31.82%) .NET
2 2 (9.091%) jQuery
2 2 (9.091%) Ajax
2 2 (9.091%) HTML
3 1 (4.545%) ADO.NET
3 1 (4.545%) ASP.NET
3 1 (4.545%) COM
3 1 (4.545%) SOAP
3 1 (4.545%) Web Services
3 1 (4.545%) XML
3 1 (4.545%) .NET Framework
3 1 (4.545%) WCF
3 1 (4.545%) Silverlight
Applications
1 3 (13.64%) MS Excel
2 1 (4.545%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 2 (9.091%) SAP HCM
2 1 (4.545%) Agresso
Communications & Networking
1 2 (9.091%) BSS
2 1 (4.545%) VoIP
2 1 (4.545%) Cisco IOS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (13.64%) SQL Server
2 2 (9.091%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 1 (4.545%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (4.545%) TOAD
3 1 (4.545%) MySQL
3 1 (4.545%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 6 (27.27%) Team Foundation Server
1 6 (27.27%) Selenium
2 5 (22.73%) Visual Studio
3 4 (18.18%) QuickTest Pro
4 2 (9.091%) TestComplete
5 1 (4.545%) WebDriver
General
1 3 (13.64%) Finance
2 2 (9.091%) Telecoms
3 1 (4.545%) Billing
Miscellaneous
1 2 (9.091%) Client/Server
1 2 (9.091%) Computer Science
2 1 (4.545%) EPoS
2 1 (4.545%) EMV
2 1 (4.545%) APACS
2 1 (4.545%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 6 (27.27%) Windows
2 3 (13.64%) Windows Phone 8
2 3 (13.64%) Windows Phone
3 1 (4.545%) Linux
3 1 (4.545%) Ubuntu
3 1 (4.545%) SUSE
3 1 (4.545%) Android
3 1 (4.545%) Windows Phone 7
3 1 (4.545%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (31.82%) Test Automation
2 6 (27.27%) Agile Software Development
3 5 (22.73%) Automated Testing
3 5 (22.73%) Automation Testing
4 4 (18.18%) Manual Testing
5 3 (13.64%) ERP
5 3 (13.64%) Performance Testing
6 2 (9.091%) BDD
6 2 (9.091%) Web Testing
6 2 (9.091%) Test Scripting
6 2 (9.091%) TDD
6 2 (9.091%) Business Intelligence
6 2 (9.091%) Data Management
7 1 (4.545%) SOA
7 1 (4.545%) ETL
7 1 (4.545%) Information Management
7 1 (4.545%) MVC
7 1 (4.545%) V-Model
7 1 (4.545%) MVVM
7 1 (4.545%) Kanban
Programming Languages
1 6 (27.27%) C#
2 4 (18.18%) SQL
3 3 (13.64%) Java
4 1 (4.545%) Python
4 1 (4.545%) XAML
Qualifications
1 3 (13.64%) Degree
2 2 (9.091%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (9.091%) QA
2 1 (4.545%) ISO 8583
System Software
1 2 (9.091%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 1 (4.545%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 8 (36.36%) Microsoft
2 2 (9.091%) SAP
2 2 (9.091%) Siebel
2 2 (9.091%) HP
3 1 (4.545%) Informatica
3 1 (4.545%) Cisco
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