The first table below looks at the demand for ISEB in IT contracts advertised for the Salford region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited ISEB 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 Qualifications for the Salford 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
Information Systems Examinations Board (ISEB)
Rank - - -
Contract jobs citing ISEB 0 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Salford - - -
As % of the Qualifications category - - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £335 £350
% change year-on-year
-2.98% -4.28%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.50 £22.50 £27.50
% change year-on-year
+22.22% -18.18%
All Qualifications
Salford
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Qualifications category
2 2 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Salford 8.000% 5.000% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
Average daily rate £350 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.50 £23.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year
-2.17% -8.00%
ISEB
Manchester

ISEB
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing ISEB across the Salford region as a proportion of the total demand within the Qualifications category.

Salford ISEB Jobs Demand Trend

ISEB
Daily Rate Trend

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

Salford ISEB Daily Rate Trend

ISEB
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Salford region citing ISEB 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 ISEB.

1 3 (100.00%) Windows
1 3 (100.00%) Scrum
2 2 (66.67%) TDD
2 2 (66.67%) Android
2 2 (66.67%) iPhone
2 2 (66.67%) Software Testing
2 2 (66.67%) Windows Mobile
2 2 (66.67%) ISTQB
2 2 (66.67%) Linux
2 2 (66.67%) XML
2 2 (66.67%) SQL
2 2 (66.67%) Symbian
2 2 (66.67%) Mac OS X
2 2 (66.67%) Blackberry
2 2 (66.67%) iPhone SDK
2 2 (66.67%) bada
2 2 (66.67%) Maemo
2 2 (66.67%) Cucumber
2 2 (66.67%) Apple iOS
2 2 (66.67%) iOS SDK
3 1 (33.33%) Robotium
3 1 (33.33%) Automation Testing
3 1 (33.33%) WAN
3 1 (33.33%) FTP
3 1 (33.33%) HTTP
3 1 (33.33%) TCP/IP
3 1 (33.33%) Web Services
3 1 (33.33%) HTML
3 1 (33.33%) JavaScript
3 1 (33.33%) UNIX

ISEB
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 2 (66.67%) XML
1 2 (66.67%) iPhone SDK
1 2 (66.67%) iOS SDK
2 1 (33.33%) Series 60
2 1 (33.33%) JSON
2 1 (33.33%) HTML
2 1 (33.33%) Web Services
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) LAN
1 1 (33.33%) WAN
1 1 (33.33%) FTP
1 1 (33.33%) HTTP
1 1 (33.33%) TCP/IP
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) Cucumber
2 1 (33.33%) Robotium
2 1 (33.33%) Xcode
2 1 (33.33%) JIRA
2 1 (33.33%) Selenium
2 1 (33.33%) Firebug
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Test Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Test Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Blackberry
1 2 (66.67%) iPhone
2 1 (33.33%) Semantic Web
2 1 (33.33%) Interactive TV
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) Windows
2 2 (66.67%) Linux
2 2 (66.67%) Mac OS X
2 2 (66.67%) Windows Mobile
2 2 (66.67%) Android
2 2 (66.67%) bada
2 2 (66.67%) Maemo
2 2 (66.67%) Apple iOS
3 1 (33.33%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Scrum
2 2 (66.67%) TDD
2 2 (66.67%) Software Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Performance Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Web Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Test Scripting
3 1 (33.33%) Test Automation
3 1 (33.33%) Automation Testing
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) SQL
2 1 (33.33%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) ISTQB
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Symbian