The first table below looks at the demand for ISTQB in IT contracts advertised for the South Yorkshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited ISTQB over the 3 months to 22 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 South Yorkshire 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
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
International Software Testing Qualification Board (ISTQB)
Rank 31 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing ISTQB 1 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in South Yorkshire 0.383% - -
As % of the Qualifications category 1.961% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Average daily rate £100 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £330 £301 £325
% change year-on-year
+9.54% -7.30%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.00 £31.50 £16.50
% change year-on-year
-4.76% +90.90%
All Qualifications
South Yorkshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Qualifications category
51 51 36
As % of all contract IT jobs located in South Yorkshire 19.54% 19.10% 12.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 31 17
Average daily rate £333 £310 £320
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.25% -3.12%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £175 £185 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £408 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 6 8
Average hourly rate £12.00 £23.00 £36.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-47.82% -36.98%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.00 £22.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year
-2.22% -10.00%
ISTQB
Yorkshire

ISTQB
Jobs Demand Trend

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

South Yorkshire ISTQB Jobs Demand Trend

ISTQB
Daily Rate Trend

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

South Yorkshire ISTQB Daily Rate Trend

ISTQB
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing ISTQB within the South Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 22 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
Sheffield - 1 £100 -
ISTQB
Yorkshire

ISTQB
Top 24 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South Yorkshire region citing ISTQB 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 ISTQB.

1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) PHP
1 1 (100.00%) MySQL
1 1 (100.00%) MS Office
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) JBoss
1 1 (100.00%) Apache
1 1 (100.00%) MS Excel
1 1 (100.00%) Windows XP
1 1 (100.00%) HP
1 1 (100.00%) ISEB
1 1 (100.00%) Telecoms
1 1 (100.00%) LAMP
1 1 (100.00%) Agile Software Development
1 1 (100.00%) Ubuntu
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
1 1 (100.00%) User Acceptance Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
1 1 (100.00%) Git (software)
1 1 (100.00%) Windows 7
1 1 (100.00%) HP Quality Center
1 1 (100.00%) Confluence
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins

ISTQB
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South Yorkshire region citing ISTQB 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 ISTQB. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (100.00%) LAMP
Application Platforms
1 1 (100.00%) Apache
1 1 (100.00%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (100.00%) MS Office
1 1 (100.00%) MS Excel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
1 1 (100.00%) Git (software)
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (100.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Analyst
1 1 (100.00%) Test Analyst
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Windows XP
1 1 (100.00%) Ubuntu
1 1 (100.00%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile Software Development
1 1 (100.00%) User Acceptance Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) PHP
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) ISEB
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) JBoss
1 1 (100.00%) HP