Surrey Test Analyst Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for the Test Analyst role in IT contracts within the Surrey 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 1 December 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aldershot Basingstoke Bath Belfast Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Blackpool Bracknell Bradford Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Channel Islands Cheltenham Cheshire Chester City of London County Antrim Coventry Crawley Croydon Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset East Midlands East of England East Sussex Eastleigh Edinburgh England Essex Farnborough Farnham Fleetwood Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Gosport Halifax Hampshire Harrogate Hertfordshire Ipswich Isleworth Jersey Lanarkshire Lancashire Leatherhead Leeds Liverpool London M4 Corridor Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Reading Runcorn Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Solihull Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Staffordshire Staines Stockport Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Surrey Sussex Swindon Tamworth Telford Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Welwyn Garden City West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Windsor Worcester Worcestershire Yeovil York Yorkshire	3 months to 1 Dec 2008	Same period last year
Rank	52	55
Rank change on same period last year	+3
Matching contract IT job ads	25	61
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.040 %	0.065 %
As % of the category below	2.049 %	2.598 %
Daily rates quoted	7	26
Average minimum daily rate	£299	£310
Average daily rate	£304	£322
% change on same period last year	-5.74 %
Average maximum daily rate	£309	£334
UK excluding London average daily rate	£301	£288
% change on same period last year	+4.53 %
Hourly rates quoted	2	1
Average minimum hourly rate	£27.50	£20.00
Average hourly rate	£28.75	£21.50
% change on same period last year	+33.72 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£30.00	£23.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£26.69	£30.69
% change on same period last year	-13.02 %
Job Titles Surrey
Matching contract IT job ads	1220	2348
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	1.934 %	2.499 %
Daily rates quoted	342	666
Average minimum daily rate	£322	£321
Average daily rate	£345	£339
% change on same period last year	+1.71 %
Average maximum daily rate	£368	£357
UK excluding London average daily rate	£353	£351
% change on same period last year	+0.46 %
Hourly rates quoted	148	332
Average minimum hourly rate	£20.80	£21.82
Average hourly rate	£22.34	£23.80
% change on same period last year	-6.13 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£23.89	£25.79
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.14	£24.11
% change on same period last year	-4.03 %
Test Analyst South East

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 Surrey 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 Surrey 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 Surrey region over the 3 months to 1 December 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 Surrey region.

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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 Surrey region over the 3 months to 1 December 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
Farnham	-6	2	-	-
Sunbury-on-Thames	+3	2	-	-
Staines	-	2	-	-
Leatherhead	-	1	£430	-

Test Analyst South East

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 1 December 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Surrey 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 18 (25.71 %) ISEB 1 18 (25.71 %) Test Scripting 2 14 (20.00 %) SAP 3 13 (18.57 %) LoadRunner 3 13 (18.57 %) SAP HR 4 12 (17.14 %) QuickTest Pro 4 12 (17.14 %) Finance 4 12 (17.14 %) Performance Testing 5 10 (14.29 %) Security Cleared 6 9 (12.86 %) SQL 7 8 (11.43 %) SAP BW 8 7 (10.00 %) Pensions 9 6 (8.571 %) Agile Software Development 9 6 (8.571 %) Insurance 9 6 (8.571 %) Load Testing

9 6 (8.571 %) User Acceptance Testing 9 6 (8.571 %) QA 10 5 (7.143 %) SC Cleared 10 5 (7.143 %) Automated Testing 10 5 (7.143 %) BPR 10 5 (7.143 %) Java 10 5 (7.143 %) .NET 11 4 (5.714 %) VBScript 11 4 (5.714 %) Oracle 11 4 (5.714 %) CRM 11 4 (5.714 %) Configuration Management 11 4 (5.714 %) Software Testing 11 4 (5.714 %) Selenium 12 3 (4.286 %) WebLOAD 12 3 (4.286 %) Risk Analysis

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 1 December 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Surrey 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 5 (7.143 %) .NET 2 3 (4.286 %) J2EE 2 3 (4.286 %) AJAX 3 1 (1.429 %) HTML 3 1 (1.429 %) SOAP 3 1 (1.429 %) WebServices 3 1 (1.429 %) XML	Application Platforms 1 1 (1.429 %) Apache 1 1 (1.429 %) BizTalk Server
Applications 1 1 (1.429 %) MS Excel	Business Applications 1 13 (18.57 %) SAP HR 2 3 (4.286 %) SAP Oil and Gas 3 1 (1.429 %) SAP IS-U
Communications & Networking 1 2 (2.857 %) HTTP	Database & Business Intelligence 1 8 (11.43 %) SAP BW 2 1 (1.429 %) MySQL
Development Applications 1 13 (18.57 %) LoadRunner 2 12 (17.14 %) QuickTest Pro 3 4 (5.714 %) Selenium 4 3 (4.286 %) WebLOAD 4 3 (4.286 %) TestDirector 5 2 (2.857 %) WinRunner 5 2 (2.857 %) Bugzilla 5 2 (2.857 %) JIRA 6 1 (1.429 %) WATIR 6 1 (1.429 %) MSI 6 1 (1.429 %) JMeter 6 1 (1.429 %) Visual Studio	General 1 12 (17.14 %) Finance 2 7 (10.00 %) Pensions 3 6 (8.571 %) Insurance 4 2 (2.857 %) Government 4 2 (2.857 %) Games 4 2 (2.857 %) Banking 5 1 (1.429 %) Billing 5 1 (1.429 %) Investment Banking 5 1 (1.429 %) Health 5 1 (1.429 %) Automotive 5 1 (1.429 %) Telecoms
Miscellaneous 1 3 (4.286 %) Fixed Income 1 3 (4.286 %) Derivative 2 1 (1.429 %) Client/Server 2 1 (1.429 %) EMV 2 1 (1.429 %) Management Information System	Operating Systems 1 3 (4.286 %) UNIX 2 2 (2.857 %) Windows 2 2 (2.857 %) Linux 3 1 (1.429 %) Windows 2000 3 1 (1.429 %) Windows XP 3 1 (1.429 %) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies 1 18 (25.71 %) Test Scripting 2 12 (17.14 %) Performance Testing 3 10 (14.29 %) Security Cleared 4 6 (8.571 %) User Acceptance Testing 4 6 (8.571 %) Load Testing 4 6 (8.571 %) Agile Software Development 5 5 (7.143 %) Automated Testing 5 5 (7.143 %) BPR 5 5 (7.143 %) SC Cleared 6 4 (5.714 %) Configuration Management 6 4 (5.714 %) CRM 6 4 (5.714 %) Software Testing 7 3 (4.286 %) Technical Architecture 7 3 (4.286 %) Risk Analysis 7 3 (4.286 %) Business Analysis 7 3 (4.286 %) Web Testing 8 2 (2.857 %) Investment Management 8 2 (2.857 %) Scrum 8 2 (2.857 %) Project Management 9 1 (1.429 %) Regression Testing	Programming Languages 1 9 (12.86 %) SQL 2 5 (7.143 %) Java 3 4 (5.714 %) VBScript 4 2 (2.857 %) VB 4 2 (2.857 %) Perl 4 2 (2.857 %) C++ 5 1 (1.429 %) PHP 5 1 (1.429 %) C 5 1 (1.429 %) C# 5 1 (1.429 %) VB.NET 5 1 (1.429 %) Ada 5 1 (1.429 %) Ruby
Qualifications 1 18 (25.71 %) ISEB 2 2 (2.857 %) ISEB Practitioner 2 2 (2.857 %) ISTQB	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 6 (8.571 %) QA 2 1 (1.429 %) ISO8583
Systems Management 1 1 (1.429 %) Systems Management Server (SMS)	Vendors 1 14 (20.00 %) SAP 2 4 (5.714 %) Oracle 3 2 (2.857 %) Sophis 3 2 (2.857 %) Google 3 2 (2.857 %) IBM 4 1 (1.429 %) Microsoft 4 1 (1.429 %) HP