Test Analyst Contracts in the South West
 
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 South West 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 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 Job Titles advertised 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
23 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Test Analyst
Rank 82 45 44
Rank change year-on-year
-37 -1
Contract jobs requiring a Test Analyst 29 115 107
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South West 1.443% 3.544% 3.726%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.534% 3.809% 3.953%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 85 70
Average daily rate £303 £300 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+0.83% -7.69%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £221 £200
10% offered a daily rate of more than £375 £425 £430
UK excluding London average daily rate £305 £300 £300
% change year-on-year
+1.66% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Average hourly rate - - £29.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £25.00 £17.50 £27.50
% change year-on-year
+42.85% -36.36%
All Job Titles
South West
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category		 1891 3019 2707
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South West 94.08% 93.04% 94.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 1135 1811 1344
Average daily rate £350 £375 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-6.66% +7.14%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £230 £200
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £500 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 136 187 244
Average hourly rate £15.30 £22.50 £22.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-32.00% +2.27%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £10.00 £12.80 £12.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £42.50 £38.00 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
Test Analyst
England

Test Analyst
Jobs Demand Trend

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

South West 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 South West region.

South West 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 South West region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

South West 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 South West region.

South West 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 South West 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
Dorset -4 9 £391 +22.18%
Wiltshire -17 6 £303 -3.20%
Bristol -5 5 £295 -0.84%
Gloucestershire +6 2 £256 -26.99%
Somerset -1 2 £275 +19.56%
Devon -1 1 £175 -39.65%
Test Analyst
England

Test Analyst
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South West 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 47 (52.22%) ISEB
2 39 (43.33%) Finance
3 34 (37.78%) Test Scripting
4 27 (30.00%) User Acceptance Testing
5 26 (28.89%) HP Quality Center
6 25 (27.78%) ISTQB
7 22 (24.44%) Retail
8 21 (23.33%) Banking
9 20 (22.22%) HP
10 18 (20.00%) SQL
11 17 (18.89%) SAP
12 15 (16.67%) Agile Software Development
13 13 (14.44%) Software Testing
14 12 (13.33%) Security Cleared
14 12 (13.33%) SC Cleared
15 11 (12.22%) Retail Banking
16 10 (11.11%) .NET
16 10 (11.11%) Mainframe
16 10 (11.11%) Test Strategy
17 9 (10.00%) Oracle
17 9 (10.00%) QA
17 9 (10.00%) Automated Testing
18 8 (8.889%) ASP.NET
18 8 (8.889%) Microsoft
18 8 (8.889%) Visual Studio
18 8 (8.889%) Release Management
19 7 (7.778%) QuickTest Pro
19 7 (7.778%) Scrum
20 6 (6.667%) EPoS
20 6 (6.667%) E-Commerce

Test Analyst
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South West 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 10 (11.11%) .NET
2 8 (8.889%) ASP.NET
3 3 (3.333%) LAMP
4 2 (2.222%) Web Services
4 2 (2.222%) XML
5 1 (1.111%) AppFabric
5 1 (1.111%) XML Schema
5 1 (1.111%) Middleware
5 1 (1.111%) XSD
5 1 (1.111%) XSLT
5 1 (1.111%) ODBC
5 1 (1.111%) COM
5 1 (1.111%) JDBC
5 1 (1.111%) MDX
5 1 (1.111%) WCF
Application Platforms
1 1 (1.111%) SharePoint 2010
1 1 (1.111%) SharePoint
1 1 (1.111%) WebLogic
1 1 (1.111%) IIS
1 1 (1.111%) Oracle Application Server
Applications
1 3 (3.333%) MS Excel
2 1 (1.111%) MS Visio
2 1 (1.111%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 1 (1.111%) Cerner Millennium
1 1 (1.111%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (1.111%) BASE24
1 1 (1.111%) assyst
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.333%) HTTP
2 2 (2.222%) Internet
3 1 (1.111%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (3.333%) Data Warehouse
1 3 (3.333%) TOAD
1 3 (3.333%) SQL Server
1 3 (3.333%) MS Access
2 2 (2.222%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 2 (2.222%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 2 (2.222%) SAP BW
3 1 (1.111%) SQL Server 2005
3 1 (1.111%) Oracle 11g
Development Applications
1 8 (8.889%) Visual Studio
2 7 (7.778%) QuickTest Pro
3 4 (4.444%) LoadRunner
3 4 (4.444%) Team Foundation Server
4 3 (3.333%) Selenium
4 3 (3.333%) JIRA
5 2 (2.222%) WebDriver
6 1 (1.111%) TestDirector
6 1 (1.111%) Introscope
6 1 (1.111%) JMeter
General
1 39 (43.33%) Finance
2 22 (24.44%) Retail
3 21 (23.33%) Banking
4 11 (12.22%) Retail Banking
5 3 (3.333%) Military
6 2 (2.222%) Investment Banking
7 1 (1.111%) Financial Institution
7 1 (1.111%) Marketing
Miscellaneous
1 10 (11.11%) Mainframe
2 6 (6.667%) EPoS
2 6 (6.667%) Mobile App
3 3 (3.333%) NHS
4 2 (2.222%) EMV
4 2 (2.222%) Chip and PIN
5 1 (1.111%) SWIFT
5 1 (1.111%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 4 (4.444%) Windows
2 3 (3.333%) UNIX
3 2 (2.222%) Linux
4 1 (1.111%) Apple iOS
4 1 (1.111%) Windows Server 2012
4 1 (1.111%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (37.78%) Test Scripting
2 27 (30.00%) User Acceptance Testing
3 15 (16.67%) Agile Software Development
4 13 (14.44%) Software Testing
5 10 (11.11%) Test Strategy
6 9 (10.00%) Automated Testing
7 8 (8.889%) Release Management
8 7 (7.778%) Scrum
9 6 (6.667%) E-Commerce
9 6 (6.667%) Manual Testing
9 6 (6.667%) System Testing
9 6 (6.667%) Time Management
10 5 (5.556%) Test Automation
10 5 (5.556%) Change Management
10 5 (5.556%) ITIL
11 4 (4.444%) Project Planning
11 4 (4.444%) TDD
11 4 (4.444%) PRINCE2
11 4 (4.444%) Web Testing
11 4 (4.444%) Performance Testing
Programming Languages
1 18 (20.00%) SQL
2 4 (4.444%) C
3 3 (3.333%) ABAP
3 3 (3.333%) VBA
4 1 (1.111%) Python
4 1 (1.111%) C#
4 1 (1.111%) Delphi
4 1 (1.111%) Java
4 1 (1.111%) PHP
4 1 (1.111%) PL/SQL
4 1 (1.111%) T-SQL
4 1 (1.111%) VBScript
4 1 (1.111%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 47 (52.22%) ISEB
2 25 (27.78%) ISTQB
3 12 (13.33%) Security Cleared
3 12 (13.33%) SC Cleared
4 4 (4.444%) ISEB Practitioner
5 1 (1.111%) BC Cleared
5 1 (1.111%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (10.00%) QA
Systems Management
1 26 (28.89%) HP Quality Center
2 1 (1.111%) HP SiteScope
Vendors
1 20 (22.22%) HP
2 17 (18.89%) SAP
3 9 (10.00%) Oracle
4 8 (8.889%) Microsoft
5 2 (2.222%) Capita
5 2 (2.222%) ATG
5 2 (2.222%) Cerner
5 2 (2.222%) VeriFone
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