Test Analyst 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 the Test Analyst role in IT contracts advertised for the Scotland region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Test Analyst in their job title over the 3 months to 21 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 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
21 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Test Analyst
Rank 53 42 27
Rank change year-on-year
-11 -15
Contract jobs requiring a Test Analyst 72 72 121
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Scotland 2.913% 2.724% 4.421%
As % of the Job Titles category 3.139% 2.902% 4.695%
Number of daily rates quoted 44 45 61
Average daily rate £330 £275 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+20.00% -15.38%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £204 £275
10% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £375 £425
UK excluding London average daily rate £308 £300 £300
% change year-on-year
+2.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Average hourly rate £45.00 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £25.00 £17.50 £27.50
% change year-on-year
+42.85% -36.36%
All Job Titles
Scotland
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category		 2294 2481 2577
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Scotland 92.80% 93.87% 94.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 1106 1208 1272
Average daily rate £350 £338 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+3.70% -3.57%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £215 £245
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £450 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 59 111 95
Average hourly rate £15.50 £21.50 £15.29
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-27.90% +40.61%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.00 £10.00 £9.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £40.00 £33.00 £37.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
Test Analyst
UK

Test Analyst
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Scotland Test Analyst Jobs Demand Trend

Test Analyst
Daily Rate Trend

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

Scotland Test Analyst Daily Rate Trend

Test Analyst
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Test Analyst across the Scotland region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

Scotland Test Analyst Daily Rate Histogram

Test Analyst
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Scotland Test Analyst Hourly Rate Trend

Test Analyst
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Test Analyst within the Scotland region over the 3 months to 21 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 -10 20 £325 +8.33%
Glasgow -23 18 £273 +3.01%
Stirling 0 13 £425 +41.66%
Fife - 3 £330 -
Perth and Kinross - 3 £403 -
West Lothian - 2 - -
Test Analyst
UK

Test Analyst
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Scotland region that cited Test Analyst 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 Test Analyst in their job title.

1 59 (53.15%) Finance
2 49 (44.14%) Test Scripting
3 40 (36.04%) Banking
4 30 (27.03%) HP Quality Center
5 29 (26.13%) User Acceptance Testing
6 27 (24.32%) ISEB
7 26 (23.42%) SQL
8 16 (14.41%) Regression Testing
8 16 (14.41%) QuickTest Pro
9 13 (11.71%) Investment Banking
9 13 (11.71%) Cadis
10 12 (10.81%) Software Testing
10 12 (10.81%) Selenium
10 12 (10.81%) HP
11 11 (9.910%) Asset Management
12 10 (9.009%) Retail
12 10 (9.009%) Workflow
12 10 (9.009%) SQL Server
12 10 (9.009%) QA
12 10 (9.009%) Automated Testing
13 9 (8.108%) Retail Banking
13 9 (8.108%) Oracle
13 9 (8.108%) Data Warehouse
13 9 (8.108%) Agile Software Development
13 9 (8.108%) soapUI
14 8 (7.207%) Scrum
14 8 (7.207%) Control-M
14 8 (7.207%) UNIX
14 8 (7.207%) Java
14 8 (7.207%) WebSphere

Test Analyst
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Scotland region that cited Test Analyst 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 Test Analyst in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 9 (8.108%) soapUI
2 8 (7.207%) WebSphere
3 5 (4.505%) SOAP
4 4 (3.604%) XML
5 3 (2.703%) JSON
5 3 (2.703%) RESTful
5 3 (2.703%) XML Schema
5 3 (2.703%) .NET
6 1 (0.901%) .NET Framework
Application Platforms
1 7 (6.306%) WebSphere MQ
2 1 (0.901%) Oracle Coherence
2 1 (0.901%) WebSphere Application Server
2 1 (0.901%) CMS
Applications
1 1 (0.901%) MS Excel
1 1 (0.901%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 3 (2.703%) Front Arena
2 1 (0.901%) MultiFonds
2 1 (0.901%) Eagle PACE
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.802%) Internet
1 2 (1.802%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (9.009%) SQL Server
2 9 (8.108%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (0.901%) Oracle Reports
3 1 (0.901%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 16 (14.41%) QuickTest Pro
2 12 (10.81%) Selenium
3 5 (4.505%) FitNesse
3 5 (4.505%) TestDirector
4 4 (3.604%) Maven
5 3 (2.703%) Jenkins
5 3 (2.703%) Cucumber
5 3 (2.703%) Ant
6 2 (1.802%) Eclipse
6 2 (1.802%) TestComplete
6 2 (1.802%) JBehave
7 1 (0.901%) Hudson
7 1 (0.901%) Team Foundation Server
7 1 (0.901%) Subversion
General
1 59 (53.15%) Finance
2 40 (36.04%) Banking
3 13 (11.71%) Investment Banking
4 10 (9.009%) Retail
5 9 (8.108%) Retail Banking
6 1 (0.901%) General Ledger
Miscellaneous
1 3 (2.703%) Derivative
1 3 (2.703%) Credit Risk
1 3 (2.703%) Open Source
1 3 (2.703%) Equities
1 3 (2.703%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 2 (1.802%) Mainframe
3 1 (0.901%) Equity Derivative
3 1 (0.901%) Mashup
3 1 (0.901%) Swaptions
3 1 (0.901%) Cloud Computing
3 1 (0.901%) SaaS
Operating Systems
1 8 (7.207%) UNIX
2 2 (1.802%) Solaris
2 2 (1.802%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (44.14%) Test Scripting
2 29 (26.13%) User Acceptance Testing
3 16 (14.41%) Regression Testing
4 12 (10.81%) Software Testing
5 11 (9.910%) Asset Management
6 10 (9.009%) Workflow
6 10 (9.009%) Automated Testing
7 9 (8.108%) Agile Software Development
8 8 (7.207%) Scrum
8 8 (7.207%) Manual Testing
9 7 (6.306%) SOA
10 6 (5.405%) Migration
10 6 (5.405%) Stakeholder Management
10 6 (5.405%) System Testing
10 6 (5.405%) Test Automation
10 6 (5.405%) BDD
11 5 (4.505%) Investment Management
11 5 (4.505%) TDD
11 5 (4.505%) Data Management
12 4 (3.604%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 26 (23.42%) SQL
2 8 (7.207%) Java
3 4 (3.604%) Perl
3 4 (3.604%) C#
4 3 (2.703%) XPath
5 2 (1.802%) Shell Script
5 2 (1.802%) VB
5 2 (1.802%) VBA
5 2 (1.802%) Groovy
5 2 (1.802%) Ruby
6 1 (0.901%) VBScript
6 1 (0.901%) C
Qualifications
1 27 (24.32%) ISEB
2 7 (6.306%) ISTQB
3 2 (1.802%) ISEB Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (9.009%) QA
2 2 (1.802%) Basel II
Systems Management
1 30 (27.03%) HP Quality Center
2 8 (7.207%) Control-M
Vendors
1 13 (11.71%) Cadis
2 12 (10.81%) HP
3 9 (8.108%) Oracle
4 5 (4.505%) IBM
5 4 (3.604%) thinkFolio
6 3 (2.703%) Capita
7 2 (1.802%) Business Objects
7 2 (1.802%) Sun
7 2 (1.802%) Pega
8 1 (0.901%) Microsoft
8 1 (0.901%) TIBCO
8 1 (0.901%) VMware
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