The first table below looks at the demand for ISEB Practitioner in IT contracts advertised for the Somerset region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited ISEB Practitioner 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 Somerset 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
ISEB Practitioner
Rank 24 - 33
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing ISEB Practitioner 7 0 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Somerset 4.023% - 1.149%
As % of the Qualifications category 14.89% - 3.390%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 1
Average daily rate £458 - £525
UK excluding London average daily rate £328 £358 £400
% change year-on-year
-8.39% -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
Somerset
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Qualifications category
47 67 59
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Somerset 27.01% 39.64% 33.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 41 28
Average daily rate £426 £365 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+16.78% +4.28%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £275 £230 £238
10% offered a daily rate of more than £458 £450 £419
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 3
Average hourly rate £19.00 - £20.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.00 £22.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year
-2.22% -10.00%
ISEB Practitioner
South West

ISEB Practitioner
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Somerset 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 Somerset region.

Somerset ISEB Practitioner Daily Rate Trend

ISEB Practitioner
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Somerset ISEB Practitioner Daily Rate Histogram

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 Somerset 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
Taunton - 7 £458 -
ISEB Practitioner
South West

ISEB Practitioner
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Somerset 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 9 (100.00%) ITIL
1 9 (100.00%) PRINCE2
1 9 (100.00%) ISEB
1 9 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 9 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 6 (66.67%) ITSM
2 6 (66.67%) Service Management
3 5 (55.56%) Microsoft
3 5 (55.56%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
4 4 (44.44%) SharePoint 2010
4 4 (44.44%) Waterfall
4 4 (44.44%) Test Strategy
4 4 (44.44%) HP
4 4 (44.44%) UML
4 4 (44.44%) RAD
4 4 (44.44%) SharePoint
4 4 (44.44%) TickIT
4 4 (44.44%) Change Management
4 4 (44.44%) Microsoft Certification
4 4 (44.44%) QuickTest Pro
4 4 (44.44%) MCSD
4 4 (44.44%) .NET
4 4 (44.44%) Visual Studio
4 4 (44.44%) SAP
4 4 (44.44%) ASP
4 4 (44.44%) CSS
4 4 (44.44%) XML
4 4 (44.44%) XSL
4 4 (44.44%) C
4 4 (44.44%) C#

ISEB Practitioner
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Somerset 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.

Application Development
1 4 (44.44%) .NET
1 4 (44.44%) ASP
1 4 (44.44%) CSS
1 4 (44.44%) XML
1 4 (44.44%) XSL
1 4 (44.44%) HTML
1 4 (44.44%) .NET Framework
2 3 (33.33%) WCF
2 3 (33.33%) WPF
2 3 (33.33%) WF
Application Platforms
1 4 (44.44%) SharePoint 2010
1 4 (44.44%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 1 (11.11%) assyst
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (33.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
1 3 (33.33%) SQL Server Reporting Services
1 3 (33.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (44.44%) QuickTest Pro
1 4 (44.44%) Visual Studio
1 4 (44.44%) Subversion
2 2 (22.22%) Team Foundation Server
3 1 (11.11%) Selenium
3 1 (11.11%) NUnit
3 1 (11.11%) TeamCity
3 1 (11.11%) WebDriver
3 1 (11.11%) MSTest
3 1 (11.11%) Jenkins
Job Titles
1 4 (44.44%) Analyst
1 4 (44.44%) Test Analyst
1 4 (44.44%) Senior Analyst
1 4 (44.44%) Senior Test Analyst
2 1 (11.11%) Senior SAP Test Analyst
2 1 (11.11%) SAP Test Analyst
2 1 (11.11%) Transition Manager
2 1 (11.11%) Service Manager
2 1 (11.11%) Development Manager
2 1 (11.11%) SAP Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 1 (11.11%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 1 (11.11%) Windows
1 1 (11.11%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (100.00%) ITIL
1 9 (100.00%) PRINCE2
2 6 (66.67%) ITSM
2 6 (66.67%) Service Management
3 4 (44.44%) Waterfall
3 4 (44.44%) Test Strategy
3 4 (44.44%) UML
3 4 (44.44%) RAD
3 4 (44.44%) Change Management
3 4 (44.44%) Software Testing
3 4 (44.44%) Performance Management
3 4 (44.44%) Test Scripting
4 3 (33.33%) Project Planning
4 3 (33.33%) Pair Programming
4 3 (33.33%) TOGAF
4 3 (33.33%) SOA
5 1 (11.11%) Continuous Integration
5 1 (11.11%) Integration Testing
5 1 (11.11%) Business Continuity
5 1 (11.11%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (44.44%) C
1 4 (44.44%) C#
1 4 (44.44%) JavaScript
1 4 (44.44%) SQL
1 4 (44.44%) VBScript
1 4 (44.44%) VB
1 4 (44.44%) VB6
2 3 (33.33%) Java
3 1 (11.11%) ABAP
Qualifications
1 9 (100.00%) ISEB
1 9 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 9 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 5 (55.56%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
3 4 (44.44%) Microsoft Certification
3 4 (44.44%) MCSD
3 4 (44.44%) ISTQB
4 2 (22.22%) BC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (44.44%) TickIT
1 4 (44.44%) ISO 9000
1 4 (44.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (33.33%) COBIT
Systems Management
1 3 (33.33%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 5 (55.56%) Microsoft
2 4 (44.44%) HP
2 4 (44.44%) SAP
3 3 (33.33%) Oracle