Manual Testing Contracts in the South West
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Hourly Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for Manual Testing skills in IT contracts advertised for the South West region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Manual Testing 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 of the Processes & Methodologies category for the South West 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
Manual Testing
Rank 106 128 114
Rank change year-on-year
+22 -14
Contract jobs citing Manual Testing 2 8 8
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South West 0.099% 0.247% 0.283%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.149% 0.363% 0.434%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 4 3
Average daily rate £230 £325 £388
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-29.23% -16.12%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £226 £230 £378
10% offered a daily rate of more than £234 £805 £458
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £300 £256
% change year-on-year
+8.33% +17.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.00 - £23.75
Search 4 Manual Testing jobs in the South West
All Processes & Methodologies
South West
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category		 1344 2204 1843
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South West 66.63% 68.13% 65.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 843 1360 953
Average daily rate £375 £390 £384
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-3.84% +1.69%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £263 £265 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £480 £500 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £365 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
- -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 62 110 129
Average hourly rate £29.00 £25.00 £32.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+16.00% -23.07%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.50 £16.00 £15.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £42.75 £39.50 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.00 £25.00 £29.50
% change year-on-year
+20.00% -15.25%
Manual Testing
England

Manual Testing
Jobs Demand Trend

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

South West Manual Testing Jobs Demand Trend

Manual Testing
Daily Rate Trend

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

South West Manual Testing Daily Rate Trend

Manual Testing
Hourly Rate Trend

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

South West Manual Testing Hourly Rate Trend

Manual Testing
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Manual Testing within the South West 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
Gloucestershire +29 2 £230 -29.23%
Manual Testing
England

Manual Testing
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South West region citing Manual 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 Manual Testing.

1 6 (54.55%) ISEB
2 5 (45.45%) User Acceptance Testing
3 4 (36.36%) Automated Testing
3 4 (36.36%) SQL
3 4 (36.36%) Test Scripting
4 3 (27.27%) Microsoft
5 2 (18.18%) HTML
5 2 (18.18%) .NET
5 2 (18.18%) Finance
5 2 (18.18%) Scrum
5 2 (18.18%) Web Testing
5 2 (18.18%) iPhone
5 2 (18.18%) HTML5
5 2 (18.18%) iPad
6 1 (9.091%) Test Strategy
6 1 (9.091%) Automation Testing
6 1 (9.091%) V-Model
6 1 (9.091%) Team Foundation Server
6 1 (9.091%) Continuous Integration
6 1 (9.091%) Kanban
6 1 (9.091%) SC Cleared
6 1 (9.091%) Security Cleared
6 1 (9.091%) WinForms
6 1 (9.091%) Agile Software Development
6 1 (9.091%) TDD
6 1 (9.091%) JIRA
6 1 (9.091%) QA
6 1 (9.091%) Performance Testing
6 1 (9.091%) Unit Testing
6 1 (9.091%) Software Testing

Manual Testing
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South West region citing Manual 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 Manual Testing. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 2 (18.18%) HTML
1 2 (18.18%) .NET
1 2 (18.18%) HTML5
2 1 (9.091%) WinForms
2 1 (9.091%) XML
2 1 (9.091%) XSD
2 1 (9.091%) XSLT
Communications & Networking
1 1 (9.091%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (9.091%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 1 (9.091%) Team Foundation Server
1 1 (9.091%) JIRA
1 1 (9.091%) Visual Studio
General
1 2 (18.18%) Finance
2 1 (9.091%) Marketing
2 1 (9.091%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 6 (54.55%) Analyst
1 6 (54.55%) Test Analyst
2 2 (18.18%) Tester
2 2 (18.18%) Manual Test Analyst
2 2 (18.18%) Web Tester
3 1 (9.091%) QA Leader
3 1 (9.091%) Test Engineer
3 1 (9.091%) Software Test Engineer
3 1 (9.091%) Team Leader
3 1 (9.091%) QA Engineer
3 1 (9.091%) Senior QA Engineer
3 1 (9.091%) Software Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (18.18%) iPhone
1 2 (18.18%) iPad
Operating Systems
1 1 (9.091%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (45.45%) User Acceptance Testing
2 4 (36.36%) Automated Testing
2 4 (36.36%) Test Scripting
3 2 (18.18%) Scrum
3 2 (18.18%) Web Testing
4 1 (9.091%) Test Strategy
4 1 (9.091%) Automation Testing
4 1 (9.091%) V-Model
4 1 (9.091%) Continuous Integration
4 1 (9.091%) Kanban
4 1 (9.091%) Agile Software Development
4 1 (9.091%) TDD
4 1 (9.091%) Performance Testing
4 1 (9.091%) Unit Testing
4 1 (9.091%) Software Testing
4 1 (9.091%) E-Commerce
4 1 (9.091%) ETL
4 1 (9.091%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (36.36%) SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (54.55%) ISEB
2 1 (9.091%) SC Cleared
2 1 (9.091%) Security Cleared
2 1 (9.091%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (9.091%) QA
Vendors
1 3 (27.27%) Microsoft
2 1 (9.091%) Oracle
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