Software Testing Contracts in Somerset
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Hourly Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for Software Testing skills in IT contracts advertised for the Somerset region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Software Testing 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 of the Processes & Methodologies category 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
21 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Software Testing
Rank 30 31 -
Rank change year-on-year
+1 -
Contract jobs citing Software Testing 3 5 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Somerset 1.604% 3.012% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.885% 5.208% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 3 0
Average daily rate £275 £230 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+19.56% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £303 £300 £320
% change year-on-year
+0.83% -6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.00 £18.50 £32.00
% change year-on-year
+62.16% -42.18%
All Processes & Methodologies
Somerset
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category		 104 96 92
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Somerset 55.61% 57.83% 57.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 47 51 42
Average daily rate £335 £400 £355
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-16.25% +12.67%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £265 £230 £215
10% offered a daily rate of more than £460 £433 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £363 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
-0.68% -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 4 12
Average hourly rate £17.50 £25.00 £15.25
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-30.00% +63.93%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £9.23 £22.00 £15.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £19.00 £25.00 £30.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.50 £25.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year
+26.00% -16.66%
Software Testing
South West

Software Testing
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Somerset Software Testing Jobs Demand Trend

Software Testing
Daily Rate Trend

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

Somerset Software Testing Daily Rate Trend

Software Testing
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Somerset Software Testing Hourly Rate Trend

Software Testing
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Software Testing within the Somerset 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
Taunton -3 2 £275 +19.56%
Bath - 1 - -
Software Testing
South West

Software Testing
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Somerset region citing Software 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 Software Testing.

1 12 (85.71%) ISEB
1 12 (85.71%) ISTQB
1 12 (85.71%) Test Scripting
2 10 (71.43%) Security Cleared
3 9 (64.29%) SC Cleared
3 9 (64.29%) SAP
4 8 (57.14%) Test Strategy
5 7 (50.00%) ITIL
5 7 (50.00%) HP
6 6 (42.86%) PRINCE2
6 6 (42.86%) HP Quality Center
7 5 (35.71%) QuickTest Pro
8 4 (28.57%) SAP BW
8 4 (28.57%) Business Intelligence
8 4 (28.57%) ASP.NET
8 4 (28.57%) ABAP
8 4 (28.57%) .NET
8 4 (28.57%) Visual Studio
8 4 (28.57%) Agile Software Development
8 4 (28.57%) ISEB Practitioner
8 4 (28.57%) Release Management
8 4 (28.57%) Automated Testing
8 4 (28.57%) Project Planning
9 3 (21.43%) QA
9 3 (21.43%) Mobile App
9 3 (21.43%) Military
9 3 (21.43%) LAMP
9 3 (21.43%) Scrum
9 3 (21.43%) C
9 3 (21.43%) E-Commerce

Software Testing
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Somerset region citing Software 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 Software Testing. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 4 (28.57%) ASP.NET
1 4 (28.57%) .NET
2 3 (21.43%) LAMP
Business Applications
1 1 (7.143%) assyst
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (28.57%) SAP BW
Development Applications
1 5 (35.71%) QuickTest Pro
2 4 (28.57%) Visual Studio
3 2 (14.29%) Team Foundation Server
4 1 (7.143%) WebDriver
4 1 (7.143%) Selenium
General
1 3 (21.43%) Military
Job Titles
1 12 (85.71%) Analyst
1 12 (85.71%) Test Analyst
2 9 (64.29%) Senior Analyst
2 9 (64.29%) Senior Test Analyst
3 6 (42.86%) SAP Analyst
3 6 (42.86%) SAP Test Analyst
3 6 (42.86%) Senior SAP Test Analyst
4 4 (28.57%) Tester
4 4 (28.57%) Software Tester
5 1 (7.143%) Rollout Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (21.43%) Mobile App
2 1 (7.143%) Fat Client
2 1 (7.143%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 2 (14.29%) Windows
2 1 (7.143%) Windows 7
2 1 (7.143%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (85.71%) Test Scripting
2 8 (57.14%) Test Strategy
3 7 (50.00%) ITIL
4 6 (42.86%) PRINCE2
5 4 (28.57%) Business Intelligence
5 4 (28.57%) Agile Software Development
5 4 (28.57%) Release Management
5 4 (28.57%) Automated Testing
5 4 (28.57%) Project Planning
6 3 (21.43%) Scrum
6 3 (21.43%) E-Commerce
7 2 (14.29%) Test Management
8 1 (7.143%) Service Management
8 1 (7.143%) ITSM
8 1 (7.143%) Migration
8 1 (7.143%) Penetration Testing
8 1 (7.143%) Logistics
Programming Languages
1 4 (28.57%) ABAP
2 3 (21.43%) C
Qualifications
1 12 (85.71%) ISEB
1 12 (85.71%) ISTQB
2 10 (71.43%) Security Cleared
3 9 (64.29%) SC Cleared
4 4 (28.57%) ISEB Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (21.43%) QA
Systems Management
1 6 (42.86%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 9 (64.29%) SAP
2 7 (50.00%) HP
3 1 (7.143%) LANDesk
3 1 (7.143%) Microsoft
3 1 (7.143%) Citrix
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