System Testing Contracts in Scotland
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for System Testing skills in IT contracts advertised for the Scotland region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited System Testing 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 of the Processes & Methodologies category 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
23 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
System Testing
Rank 110 90 88
Rank change year-on-year
-20 -2
Contract jobs citing System Testing 10 18 28
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Scotland 0.410% 0.682% 0.995%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.600% 1.061% 1.481%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 11 12
Average daily rate £265 £375 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-29.33% -6.25%
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £326
% change year-on-year
- -0.30%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 1
Average hourly rate - £10.00 £32.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -69.23%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.00 £30.00 £27.25
% change year-on-year
- +10.09%
All Processes & Methodologies
Scotland
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category		 1666 1697 1890
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Scotland 68.25% 64.30% 67.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 859 860 974
Average daily rate £364 £350 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+3.92% -6.66%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £265 £225 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £475 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £365 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
- -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 68 50
Average hourly rate £20.00 £24.00 £30.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-16.66% -20.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £9.25 £9.50 £9.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £44.30 £35.00 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.45 £25.00 £29.00
% change year-on-year
+21.78% -13.79%
System Testing
UK

System Testing
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Scotland System Testing Jobs Demand Trend

System Testing
Daily Rate Trend

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

Scotland System Testing Daily Rate Trend

System Testing
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Scotland System Testing Daily Rate Histogram

System Testing
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Scotland System Testing Hourly Rate Trend

System Testing
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing System Testing within the Scotland region over the 3 months to 23 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
Edinburgh +11 5 £320 +5.34%
Stirling - 3 - -
Glasgow -29 1 - -
System Testing
UK

System Testing
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Scotland region citing System Testing 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 System Testing.

1 15 (62.50%) User Acceptance Testing
2 10 (41.67%) Finance
3 9 (37.50%) ISEB
4 8 (33.33%) HP Quality Center
5 7 (29.17%) SQL
6 6 (25.00%) Test Strategy
6 6 (25.00%) ISTQB
7 5 (20.83%) Test Scripting
7 5 (20.83%) SQL Server
7 5 (20.83%) Management Information System
8 4 (16.67%) Workflow
8 4 (16.67%) .NET
8 4 (16.67%) Oracle
8 4 (16.67%) XML
8 4 (16.67%) Windows
8 4 (16.67%) Degree
8 4 (16.67%) Pega
9 3 (12.50%) Web Development
9 3 (12.50%) Test Management
9 3 (12.50%) UNIX
9 3 (12.50%) HP
9 3 (12.50%) Java
9 3 (12.50%) Banking
9 3 (12.50%) ISEB Practitioner
9 3 (12.50%) Business Analysis
9 3 (12.50%) Software Testing
9 3 (12.50%) SQL Server 2005
9 3 (12.50%) Stakeholder Management
10 2 (8.333%) XML Messaging
10 2 (8.333%) Sybase IQ

System Testing
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 4 (16.67%) .NET
1 4 (16.67%) XML
2 2 (8.333%) XML Messaging
2 2 (8.333%) XSL
3 1 (4.167%) WebSphere
Application Platforms
1 1 (4.167%) CMS
Applications
1 2 (8.333%) MS Office
1 2 (8.333%) MS Visio
2 1 (4.167%) MS Excel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (20.83%) SQL Server
2 3 (12.50%) SQL Server 2005
3 2 (8.333%) Sybase IQ
3 2 (8.333%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (8.333%) TOAD
3 2 (8.333%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 2 (8.333%) Visual Studio
2 1 (4.167%) QuickTest Pro
General
1 10 (41.67%) Finance
2 3 (12.50%) Banking
3 2 (8.333%) Investment Banking
4 1 (4.167%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 9 (37.50%) Analyst
2 6 (25.00%) Developer
2 6 (25.00%) Test Analyst
3 5 (20.83%) Tester
4 4 (16.67%) Systems Tester
5 2 (8.333%) Test Team Leader
5 2 (8.333%) Sybase Developer
5 2 (8.333%) Team Leader
5 2 (8.333%) Software Developer
5 2 (8.333%) Business Analyst
5 2 (8.333%) IT Business Analyst
6 1 (4.167%) Test Leader
6 1 (4.167%) UAT Tester
6 1 (4.167%) Manual Test Analyst
6 1 (4.167%) Systems Analyst
6 1 (4.167%) Senior Developer
6 1 (4.167%) Support Analyst
6 1 (4.167%) Applications Support
6 1 (4.167%) Coordinator
6 1 (4.167%) SQL Developer
Miscellaneous
1 5 (20.83%) Management Information System
2 2 (8.333%) Derivative
2 2 (8.333%) Equity Derivative
3 1 (4.167%) Computer Science
3 1 (4.167%) Market Risk
Operating Systems
1 4 (16.67%) Windows
2 3 (12.50%) UNIX
3 2 (8.333%) Windows Server 2003
3 2 (8.333%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (62.50%) User Acceptance Testing
2 6 (25.00%) Test Strategy
3 5 (20.83%) Test Scripting
4 4 (16.67%) Workflow
5 3 (12.50%) Web Development
5 3 (12.50%) Test Management
5 3 (12.50%) Business Analysis
5 3 (12.50%) Software Testing
5 3 (12.50%) Stakeholder Management
6 2 (8.333%) Process Management
6 2 (8.333%) Data Management
6 2 (8.333%) ETL
6 2 (8.333%) UML
6 2 (8.333%) Agile Software Development
6 2 (8.333%) Use Case
6 2 (8.333%) Waterfall
7 1 (4.167%) Data Transformation
7 1 (4.167%) V-Model
7 1 (4.167%) Performance Testing
7 1 (4.167%) Integration Testing
Programming Languages
1 7 (29.17%) SQL
2 3 (12.50%) Java
3 2 (8.333%) C#
3 2 (8.333%) T-SQL
3 2 (8.333%) VB.NET
3 2 (8.333%) XQuery
3 2 (8.333%) Shell Script
3 2 (8.333%) XPath
Qualifications
1 9 (37.50%) ISEB
2 6 (25.00%) ISTQB
3 4 (16.67%) Degree
4 3 (12.50%) ISEB Practitioner
Systems Management
1 8 (33.33%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 4 (16.67%) Oracle
1 4 (16.67%) Pega
2 3 (12.50%) HP
3 2 (8.333%) Sybase
3 2 (8.333%) Microsoft
4 1 (4.167%) Informatica
Test Lead
Edinburgh, Scotland
Test Lead, Scotland, Investment Banking, £400-450 per day A leading banking client in Edinburgh urgently requires a Test Lead, to work on a 6-month rolling contract...
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Rate: £400 - £450 per day
Posted: 15 May 2013
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