The first table below looks at the demand for ISTQB in IT contracts advertised for the Salford region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited ISTQB 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 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
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
International Software Testing Qualification Board (ISTQB)
Rank - - -
Contract jobs citing ISTQB 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 £330 £301 £325
% change year-on-year
+9.54% -7.30%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.00 £31.50 £16.50
% change year-on-year
-4.76% +90.90%
All Qualifications
Salford
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Qualifications category
2 3 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Salford 8.000% 7.895% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 0
Average daily rate £350 £280 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+25.00% -
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 £22.00 £22.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year
-2.22% -10.00%
ISTQB
Manchester

ISTQB
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Salford region citing ISTQB 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 ISTQB.

1 2 (100.00%) Windows
1 2 (100.00%) Linux
1 2 (100.00%) Symbian
1 2 (100.00%) ISEB
1 2 (100.00%) Mac OS X
1 2 (100.00%) Blackberry
1 2 (100.00%) Scrum
1 2 (100.00%) TDD
1 2 (100.00%) Software Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Windows Mobile
1 2 (100.00%) iPhone SDK
1 2 (100.00%) bada
1 2 (100.00%) Maemo
1 2 (100.00%) Cucumber
1 2 (100.00%) Apple iOS
1 2 (100.00%) iOS SDK
1 2 (100.00%) Android
1 2 (100.00%) iPhone
2 1 (50.00%) Semantic Web
2 1 (50.00%) Test Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Robotium
2 1 (50.00%) Automation Testing
2 1 (50.00%) JSON
2 1 (50.00%) JIRA
2 1 (50.00%) Selenium
2 1 (50.00%) Firebug
2 1 (50.00%) Test Scripting
2 1 (50.00%) Interactive TV
2 1 (50.00%) SQL
2 1 (50.00%) XML

ISTQB
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Salford region citing ISTQB 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 ISTQB. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 2 (100.00%) iPhone SDK
1 2 (100.00%) iOS SDK
2 1 (50.00%) JSON
2 1 (50.00%) XML
2 1 (50.00%) Series 60
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Cucumber
2 1 (50.00%) Robotium
2 1 (50.00%) JIRA
2 1 (50.00%) Selenium
2 1 (50.00%) Firebug
2 1 (50.00%) Xcode
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Test Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Blackberry
1 2 (100.00%) iPhone
2 1 (50.00%) Semantic Web
2 1 (50.00%) Interactive TV
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
1 2 (100.00%) Linux
1 2 (100.00%) Mac OS X
1 2 (100.00%) Windows Mobile
1 2 (100.00%) bada
1 2 (100.00%) Maemo
1 2 (100.00%) Apple iOS
1 2 (100.00%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Scrum
1 2 (100.00%) TDD
1 2 (100.00%) Software Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Test Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Automation Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) ISEB
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Symbian