The first table below looks at the demand for ISEB Practitioner in IT contracts advertised for the Scotland region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited ISEB Practitioner 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 Qualifications for the Scotland 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
ISEB Practitioner
Rank 115 - 108
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing ISEB Practitioner 3 0 3
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Scotland 0.123% - 0.109%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.737% - 0.865%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 1
Average daily rate £323 - £220
UK excluding London average daily rate £330 £358 £400
% change year-on-year
-7.69% -10.62%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £26.00 £22.96
% change year-on-year
- +13.24%
All Qualifications
Scotland
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Qualifications category
407 336 347
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Scotland 16.69% 12.63% 12.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 246 163 136
Average daily rate £350 £335 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+4.47% -4.28%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £212 £220
10% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £429 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 28 20
Average hourly rate £14.75 £27.50 £19.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-46.36% +44.73%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £10.00 £13.04 £11.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £43.85 £37.50 £175.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.00 £22.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year
-2.22% -10.00%
ISEB Practitioner
UK

ISEB Practitioner
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Scotland ISEB Practitioner Jobs Demand Trend

ISEB Practitioner
Daily Rate Trend

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

Scotland ISEB Practitioner Daily Rate Trend

ISEB Practitioner
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing ISEB Practitioner within the Scotland region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Fife - 2 £323 -
Stirling - 1 - -
ISEB Practitioner
UK

ISEB Practitioner
Top 22 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Scotland region citing ISEB Practitioner 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 Practitioner.

1 5 (100.00%) ISEB
2 3 (60.00%) Management Information System
2 3 (60.00%) Software Testing
2 3 (60.00%) Web Development
2 3 (60.00%) Degree
2 3 (60.00%) User Acceptance Testing
2 3 (60.00%) Test Management
2 3 (60.00%) System Testing
2 3 (60.00%) HP Quality Center
2 3 (60.00%) Test Strategy
2 3 (60.00%) ISTQB
2 3 (60.00%) Oracle
3 2 (40.00%) Retail Banking
3 2 (40.00%) Test Scripting
3 2 (40.00%) Incident Management
3 2 (40.00%) Migration
3 2 (40.00%) Banking
3 2 (40.00%) Retail
3 2 (40.00%) Automated Testing
3 2 (40.00%) Internet
3 2 (40.00%) Mainframe
4 1 (20.00%) Business Transformation

ISEB Practitioner
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Scotland region citing ISEB Practitioner 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 Practitioner. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Communications & Networking
1 2 (40.00%) Internet
General
1 2 (40.00%) Retail Banking
1 2 (40.00%) Banking
1 2 (40.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Tester
1 3 (60.00%) Systems Tester
2 2 (40.00%) Analyst
2 2 (40.00%) Test Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 3 (60.00%) Management Information System
2 2 (40.00%) Mainframe
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Software Testing
1 3 (60.00%) Web Development
1 3 (60.00%) User Acceptance Testing
1 3 (60.00%) Test Management
1 3 (60.00%) System Testing
1 3 (60.00%) Test Strategy
2 2 (40.00%) Test Scripting
2 2 (40.00%) Incident Management
2 2 (40.00%) Migration
2 2 (40.00%) Automated Testing
3 1 (20.00%) Business Transformation
Qualifications
1 5 (100.00%) ISEB
2 3 (60.00%) Degree
2 3 (60.00%) ISTQB
Systems Management
1 3 (60.00%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) Oracle