The first table below looks at the demand for Software Testing skills in IT contracts advertised for the Surrey region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Software Testing over the 3 months to 18 June 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 Surrey 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
18 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Software Testing
Rank 66 73 93
Rank change year-on-year
+7 +20
Contract jobs citing Software Testing 16 20 7
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Surrey 1.304% 1.238% 0.378%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.860% 1.789% 0.539%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 10 1
Average daily rate £313 £278 £335
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+12.61% -17.16%
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £300 £319
% change year-on-year
+8.33% -5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 5 0
Average hourly rate £26.00 £40.00 -
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-35.00% -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £27.50 £32.00
% change year-on-year
+27.27% -14.06%
All Processes & Methodologies
Surrey
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
860 1118 1299
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Surrey 70.09% 69.23% 70.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 439 603 650
Average daily rate £389 £363 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.24% -9.37%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £250 £265
10% offered a daily rate of more than £550 £525 £515
UK excluding London average daily rate £370 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
+1.36% -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 42 58 39
Average hourly rate £35.00 £36.50 £35.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-4.10% +4.28%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £15.50 £15.85 £15.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £55.12 £41.50 £45.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.00 £25.00 £29.00
% change year-on-year
+24.00% -13.79%
Software Testing
South East

Software Testing
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Surrey 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 Surrey region.

Surrey Software Testing Daily Rate Trend

Software Testing
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Software Testing across the Surrey region over the 3 months to 18 June 2013.

Surrey Software Testing Daily Rate Histogram

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 Surrey region.

Surrey Software Testing Hourly Rate Trend

Software Testing
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Software Testing within the Surrey region over the 3 months to 18 June 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
Find
Job
Vacancies
Staines -1 4 £313 -
Guildford - 1 - - 1
Leatherhead - - - -
Oxted - - - -
Redhill - - - - 2
Reigate - - - - 2
Dorking - - - - 1
Epsom - - - -
Farnham - - - -
Godalming - - - -
Walton-on-Thames - - - - 1
Woking - - - -
Software Testing
South East

Software Testing
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Surrey 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 23 (63.89%) ISEB
2 12 (33.33%) ISTQB
2 12 (33.33%) User Acceptance Testing
3 9 (25.00%) Finance
3 9 (25.00%) C#
4 8 (22.22%) SQL
4 8 (22.22%) Test Scripting
4 8 (22.22%) Degree
4 8 (22.22%) Scrum
5 6 (16.67%) Mathematics
5 6 (16.67%) Test Management
5 6 (16.67%) QA
5 6 (16.67%) Java
5 6 (16.67%) XML
5 6 (16.67%) Electronics
5 6 (16.67%) QuickTest Pro
6 5 (13.89%) Linux
6 5 (13.89%) OpenGL
6 5 (13.89%) C
6 5 (13.89%) C++
6 5 (13.89%) WPF
6 5 (13.89%) Test Automation
6 5 (13.89%) HP Quality Center
6 5 (13.89%) Computer Science
6 5 (13.89%) Agile Software Development
6 5 (13.89%) 3D Graphics
6 5 (13.89%) Stakeholder Management
6 5 (13.89%) BDD
6 5 (13.89%) Embedded Software Development
7 4 (11.11%) Android

Software Testing
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Surrey 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 6 (16.67%) XML
2 5 (13.89%) WPF
2 5 (13.89%) OpenGL
3 4 (11.11%) .NET
4 3 (8.333%) SOAP
4 3 (8.333%) soapUI
5 2 (5.556%) Web Services
5 2 (5.556%) ASP.NET
5 2 (5.556%) ASP.NET MVC
6 1 (2.778%) ADO
6 1 (2.778%) .NET Framework
6 1 (2.778%) JSON
6 1 (2.778%) WCF
6 1 (2.778%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
6 1 (2.778%) REST
6 1 (2.778%) OpenGL ES
6 1 (2.778%) Silverlight
6 1 (2.778%) Qt
6 1 (2.778%) WAP
Application Platforms
1 1 (2.778%) IIS
Applications
1 3 (8.333%) MS Visio
2 2 (5.556%) MS Excel
3 1 (2.778%) Simulink
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.778%) CDMA
1 1 (2.778%) GSM
1 1 (2.778%) SMS
1 1 (2.778%) SNMP
1 1 (2.778%) TCP/IP
1 1 (2.778%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (8.333%) SQL Server
1 3 (8.333%) SAP BW
2 2 (5.556%) Oracle 11g
3 1 (2.778%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 6 (16.67%) QuickTest Pro
2 4 (11.11%) Visual Studio
3 3 (8.333%) LoadRunner
3 3 (8.333%) Team Foundation Server
4 2 (5.556%) Selenium
5 1 (2.778%) JUnit
5 1 (2.778%) WebDriver
5 1 (2.778%) Hudson
5 1 (2.778%) Jenkins
5 1 (2.778%) JMeter
5 1 (2.778%) SilkTest
5 1 (2.778%) JIRA
General
1 9 (25.00%) Finance
2 6 (16.67%) Electronics
3 3 (8.333%) Marketing
4 2 (5.556%) Telecoms
4 2 (5.556%) Manufacturing
5 1 (2.778%) Publishing
5 1 (2.778%) Games
5 1 (2.778%) Automotive
5 1 (2.778%) Law
5 1 (2.778%) Legal
Job Titles
1 15 (41.67%) Analyst
2 13 (36.11%) Test Analyst
3 6 (16.67%) Test Manager
4 5 (13.89%) Coordinator
4 5 (13.89%) Test Coordinator
5 4 (11.11%) Test Engineer
5 4 (11.11%) Tester
6 3 (8.333%) SAP Test Analyst
6 3 (8.333%) SAP Analyst
7 2 (5.556%) Deployment Analyst
7 2 (5.556%) Development Engineer
7 2 (5.556%) Agile Test Analyst
7 2 (5.556%) Security Tester
7 2 (5.556%) Software Engineer
7 2 (5.556%) QA Engineer
8 1 (2.778%) QA Analyst
8 1 (2.778%) Software Test Analyst
8 1 (2.778%) Test Team Leader
8 1 (2.778%) Systems Tester
8 1 (2.778%) Senior Software Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 6 (16.67%) Mathematics
2 5 (13.89%) Computer Science
2 5 (13.89%) 3D Graphics
3 3 (8.333%) Open Source
4 2 (5.556%) Embedded Systems
5 1 (2.778%) Client/Server
5 1 (2.778%) N-Tier
5 1 (2.778%) DTV
5 1 (2.778%) Device Driver
5 1 (2.778%) Animation
Operating Systems
1 5 (13.89%) Linux
2 4 (11.11%) Android
3 2 (5.556%) UNIX
3 2 (5.556%) Windows
4 1 (2.778%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (33.33%) User Acceptance Testing
2 8 (22.22%) Scrum
2 8 (22.22%) Test Scripting
3 6 (16.67%) Test Management
4 5 (13.89%) Stakeholder Management
4 5 (13.89%) Test Automation
4 5 (13.89%) BDD
4 5 (13.89%) Embedded Software Development
4 5 (13.89%) Agile Software Development
5 4 (11.11%) Stress Testing
5 4 (11.11%) Integration Testing
6 3 (8.333%) MVC
6 3 (8.333%) Automated Testing
6 3 (8.333%) Project Planning
7 2 (5.556%) Validation
7 2 (5.556%) System Testing
8 1 (2.778%) Performance Management
8 1 (2.778%) Product Management
8 1 (2.778%) Waterfall
8 1 (2.778%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 9 (25.00%) C#
2 8 (22.22%) SQL
3 6 (16.67%) Java
4 5 (13.89%) C++
4 5 (13.89%) C
5 2 (5.556%) GLSL
5 2 (5.556%) Python
6 1 (2.778%) Tcl
6 1 (2.778%) MATLAB
6 1 (2.778%) Bash shell
6 1 (2.778%) PHP
6 1 (2.778%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 23 (63.89%) ISEB
2 12 (33.33%) ISTQB
3 8 (22.22%) Degree
4 3 (8.333%) Security Cleared
4 3 (8.333%) CCA
5 1 (2.778%) HNC
5 1 (2.778%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (16.67%) QA
Systems Management
1 5 (13.89%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 3 (8.333%) Oracle
1 3 (8.333%) SAP
2 2 (5.556%) Microsoft
2 2 (5.556%) HP
3 1 (2.778%) Siemens
3 1 (2.778%) Teradata
3 1 (2.778%) Atlassian