South West Test Analyst Contracts

This section looks at the demand for the Test Analyst role in IT contracts within the South West region compared to all other Job Titles we currently track. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Test Analyst in their job title over the 3 months to 20 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Abingdon Amersham Atherstone Basingstoke Bath Bedfordshire Berkshire Birmingham Blackpool Bournemouth Bracknell Bridgend Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Chippenham City of London Coventry Crawley Croydon Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorking Dorset Dundee Durham East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh England Essex Farnham Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Guildford Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harlow Harrogate Havant Hertfordshire High Wycombe Home Counties Hove Kent Kingston Upon Thames Lancashire Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston London M4 Corridor Manchester Marlow Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Petersfield Plymouth Pontypool Poole Portsmouth Pudsey Reading Runcorn Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Sidcup Skelmersdale Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southend-on-Sea Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Tadworth Telford Thames Valley Torfaen Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warrington Warwickshire Watford West Bromwich West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Wiltshire Windsor Wirral Worcester Worcestershire Worthing York Yorkshire	3 months to 20 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	58	42
Rank change on same period last year	-16
Matching contract IT job ads	94	184
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.124 %	0.183 %
As % of the category below	2.155 %	3.200 %
Daily rates quoted	51	70
Average minimum daily rate	£285	£289
Average daily rate	£296	£306
% change on same period last year	-3.48 %
Average maximum daily rate	£306	£324
UK excluding London average daily rate	£283	£294
% change on same period last year	-3.78 %
Hourly rates quoted	2	16
Average minimum hourly rate	£30.00	£30.81
Average hourly rate	£30.00	£32.63
% change on same period last year	-8.04 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£30.00	£34.44
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£33.01	£31.85
% change on same period last year	+3.64 %
Job Titles South West
Matching contract IT job ads	4362	5750
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	5.756 %	5.727 %
Daily rates quoted	1402	1536
Average minimum daily rate	£348	£341
Average daily rate	£370	£360
% change on same period last year	+2.85 %
Average maximum daily rate	£393	£379
UK excluding London average daily rate	£355	£354
% change on same period last year	+0.35 %
Hourly rates quoted	578	696
Average minimum hourly rate	£25.34	£24.90
Average hourly rate	£27.23	£26.57
% change on same period last year	+2.47 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£29.11	£28.24
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.68	£25.69
% change on same period last year	-7.85 %
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We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Test Analyst across the South West region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

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Daily Rate Trend

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

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Daily Rate Histogram

The 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 20 August 2008.

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Hourly Rate Trend

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

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Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Test Analyst across the South West region over the 3 months to 20 August 2008.

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Contract Locations

This section 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 20 August 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
Bristol	+9	35	£291	+14.11 %
Wiltshire	-16	22	£303	-1.02 %
Dorset	-11	6	£327	-5.91 %
Gloucestershire	-9	6	£350	+9.13 %
Devon	+5	2	£310	-9.15 %
Somerset	+7	2	£125	-50.00 %

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 August 2008, 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 60 (32.97 %) Finance 2 49 (26.92 %) Pensions 3 45 (24.73 %) ISEB 4 40 (21.98 %) Test Scripting 5 39 (21.43 %) Insurance 6 37 (20.33 %) User Acceptance Testing 7 36 (19.78 %) TestDirector 8 30 (16.48 %) QuickTest Pro 9 23 (12.64 %) SQL 10 19 (10.44 %) Banking 11 17 (9.341 %) Oracle 12 16 (8.791 %) SQL Server 12 16 (8.791 %) LoadRunner 13 14 (7.692 %) WinRunner 14 13 (7.143 %) Agile Software Development

14 13 (7.143 %) Security Cleared 15 12 (6.593 %) System Testing 15 12 (6.593 %) Migration 15 12 (6.593 %) Automated Testing 16 11 (6.044 %) SQL Server 2005 16 11 (6.044 %) .NET 17 10 (5.495 %) Regression Testing 17 10 (5.495 %) V-Model 18 9 (4.945 %) Manual Testing 18 9 (4.945 %) Windows 18 9 (4.945 %) Government 18 9 (4.945 %) Telecoms 18 9 (4.945 %) Retail 19 8 (4.396 %) .NET Framework 19 8 (4.396 %) QA

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 August 2008, 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 11 (6.044 %) .NET 2 8 (4.396 %) .NET Framework 2 8 (4.396 %) XML 3 5 (2.747 %) HTML 4 4 (2.198 %) J2EE	Application Platforms 1 1 (0.549 %) CMS 1 1 (0.549 %) Portal Infranet
Applications 1 4 (2.198 %) CA Clarity 2 1 (0.549 %) MS Visio 2 1 (0.549 %) MS Excel	Business Applications 1 5 (2.747 %) Oracle EBS 2 2 (1.099 %) Oracle ERP 3 1 (0.549 %) WebTrends 3 1 (0.549 %) PeopleSoft Financials 3 1 (0.549 %) Oracle 11i 3 1 (0.549 %) Summit 3 1 (0.549 %) Oracle BRM
Database & Business Intelligence 1 16 (8.791 %) SQL Server 2 11 (6.044 %) SQL Server 2005 3 7 (3.846 %) Datawarehouse 4 2 (1.099 %) SQL Server 2000 5 1 (0.549 %) TOAD 5 1 (0.549 %) MS Access 5 1 (0.549 %) Oracle Reports	Development Applications 1 36 (19.78 %) TestDirector 2 30 (16.48 %) QuickTest Pro 3 16 (8.791 %) LoadRunner 4 14 (7.692 %) WinRunner 5 7 (3.846 %) FitNesse 6 6 (3.297 %) Visual Studio 7 3 (1.648 %) WATIR 8 1 (0.549 %) ClearQuest 8 1 (0.549 %) PVCS 8 1 (0.549 %) VSS/SourceSafe 8 1 (0.549 %) Selenium 8 1 (0.549 %) QARun 8 1 (0.549 %) NUnit
General 1 60 (32.97 %) Finance 2 49 (26.92 %) Pensions 3 39 (21.43 %) Insurance 4 19 (10.44 %) Banking 5 9 (4.945 %) Government 5 9 (4.945 %) Telecoms 5 9 (4.945 %) Retail 6 4 (2.198 %) Investment Banking 7 3 (1.648 %) General Ledger 8 2 (1.099 %) Electric 8 2 (1.099 %) Billing 8 2 (1.099 %) Financial Institution 9 1 (0.549 %) Pharmaceutical 9 1 (0.549 %) Back Office 9 1 (0.549 %) Local Government 9 1 (0.549 %) Multimedia 9 1 (0.549 %) Publishing	Miscellaneous 1 2 (1.099 %) Data Integration 1 2 (1.099 %) Client/Server 2 1 (0.549 %) Mainframe 2 1 (0.549 %) CCTV
Operating Systems 1 9 (4.945 %) Windows 2 7 (3.846 %) UNIX 3 5 (2.747 %) Linux 4 4 (2.198 %) Windows 2000 5 1 (0.549 %) HPUX	Processes & Methodologies 1 40 (21.98 %) Test Scripting 2 37 (20.33 %) User Acceptance Testing 3 13 (7.143 %) Agile Software Development 3 13 (7.143 %) Security Cleared 4 12 (6.593 %) System Testing 4 12 (6.593 %) Migration 4 12 (6.593 %) Automated Testing 5 10 (5.495 %) Regression Testing 5 10 (5.495 %) V-Model 6 9 (4.945 %) Manual Testing 7 7 (3.846 %) Software Testing 8 6 (3.297 %) Integration Testing 8 6 (3.297 %) Project Management 9 5 (2.747 %) E-Commerce 9 5 (2.747 %) TDD 9 5 (2.747 %) Scrum 9 5 (2.747 %) DV Cleared 10 4 (2.198 %) Unified Process 10 4 (2.198 %) RUP 10 4 (2.198 %) Configuration Management
Programming Languages 1 23 (12.64 %) SQL 2 4 (2.198 %) C 2 4 (2.198 %) C# 3 3 (1.648 %) JavaScript 4 1 (0.549 %) VBScript 4 1 (0.549 %) VB	Qualifications 1 45 (24.73 %) ISEB 2 7 (3.846 %) ISTQB 3 2 (1.099 %) Degree 4 1 (0.549 %) CCNP 4 1 (0.549 %) CCNA 4 1 (0.549 %) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 8 (4.396 %) QA	System Software 1 1 (0.549 %) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors 1 17 (9.341 %) Oracle 2 6 (3.297 %) Compuware 3 5 (2.747 %) HP 4 4 (2.198 %) Microsoft 5 2 (1.099 %) SAP 6 1 (0.549 %) Unisys 6 1 (0.549 %) Cisco 6 1 (0.549 %) IBM 6 1 (0.549 %) PeopleSoft 6 1 (0.549 %) Sybase 6 1 (0.549 %) VMware