The first table below looks at the demand for Software Testing skills in IT contracts advertised for the Suffolk region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Software Testing over the 3 months to 17 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 Suffolk 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Software Testing
Rank - 34 34
Contract jobs citing Software Testing 0 3 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Suffolk - 1.200% 0.562%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category - 1.840% 0.877%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 3 1
Average daily rate - £300 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -14.28%
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 £20.00 £31.50
% change year-on-year
+50.00% -36.50%
All Processes & Methodologies
Suffolk
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
103 163 114
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Suffolk 63.98% 65.20% 64.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 73 95 53
Average daily rate £375 £325 £525
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+15.38% -38.09%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £262 £285 £275
10% offered a daily rate of more than £470 £425 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £363 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
-0.68% -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 16 6
Average hourly rate £15.16 £29.50 £13.75
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-48.61% +114.54%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £10.60 £12.50 £13.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £37.50 £35.00 £50.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.60 £25.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year
+26.40% -16.66%
Software Testing
East of England

Software Testing
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Suffolk 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 Suffolk region.

Suffolk 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 Suffolk region.

Suffolk Software Testing Hourly Rate Trend

Software Testing
Top 17 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Suffolk 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 2 (100.00%) SQL
1 2 (100.00%) ISEB
1 2 (100.00%) ISTQB
1 2 (100.00%) QA
2 1 (50.00%) User Acceptance Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Performance Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Test Management
2 1 (50.00%) Test Scripting
2 1 (50.00%) Waterfall
2 1 (50.00%) Root Cause Analysis
2 1 (50.00%) Financial Institution
2 1 (50.00%) Finance
2 1 (50.00%) LAMP
2 1 (50.00%) VB
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (50.00%) C#
2 1 (50.00%) PHP

Software Testing
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Suffolk 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 1 (50.00%) LAMP
General
1 1 (50.00%) Financial Institution
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Analyst
1 2 (100.00%) Test Analyst
1 2 (100.00%) QA Analyst
2 1 (50.00%) QA Test Analyst
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) User Acceptance Testing
1 1 (50.00%) Performance Testing
1 1 (50.00%) Test Management
1 1 (50.00%) Test Scripting
1 1 (50.00%) Waterfall
1 1 (50.00%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
2 1 (50.00%) VB
2 1 (50.00%) C#
2 1 (50.00%) PHP
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) ISEB
1 2 (100.00%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft