The first table below looks at the demand for the Test Analyst role in IT contracts advertised for the Swindon region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Test Analyst in their job title over the 3 months to 24 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 Job Titles advertised for the Swindon 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Test Analyst
Rank 36 25 23
Rank change year-on-year
-11 -2
Contract jobs requiring a Test Analyst 4 17 14
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Swindon 1.333% 4.683% 4.416%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.434% 5.075% 4.682%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 13 10
Average daily rate £324 £348 £339
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-6.83% +2.50%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £303 £204 £313
10% offered a daily rate of more than £345 £415 £386
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £300 £300
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £25.00 £17.50 £27.50
% change year-on-year
+42.85% -36.36%
All Job Titles
Swindon
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
279 335 299
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Swindon 93.00% 92.29% 94.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 215 237 174
Average daily rate £413 £375 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+10.00% -6.25%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £300 £238 £220
10% offered a daily rate of more than £525 £475 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 9 21
Average hourly rate £13.50 £15.50 £23.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-12.90% -34.04%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.00 £12.49 £12.75
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £18.00 £23.50 £36.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
Test Analyst
Wiltshire

Test Analyst
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Test Analyst across the Swindon region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

Swindon Test Analyst Jobs Demand Trend

Test Analyst
Daily Rate Trend

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

Swindon Test Analyst Daily Rate Trend

Test Analyst
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Swindon Test Analyst Hourly Rate Trend

Test Analyst
Top 28 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Swindon 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 12 (80.00%) Finance
1 12 (80.00%) HP Quality Center
2 11 (73.33%) Banking
2 11 (73.33%) User Acceptance Testing
2 11 (73.33%) ISEB
3 10 (66.67%) Retail
3 10 (66.67%) HP
4 6 (40.00%) Retail Banking
5 3 (20.00%) TDD
6 2 (13.33%) Test Scripting
7 1 (6.667%) Integration Testing
7 1 (6.667%) WCF
7 1 (6.667%) ISTQB
7 1 (6.667%) Stakeholder Management
7 1 (6.667%) Scrum
7 1 (6.667%) Agile Software Development
7 1 (6.667%) Oracle EBS
7 1 (6.667%) SQL
7 1 (6.667%) .NET
7 1 (6.667%) Oracle
7 1 (6.667%) SQL Server
7 1 (6.667%) IIS
7 1 (6.667%) ASP.NET
7 1 (6.667%) Web Services
7 1 (6.667%) UNIX
7 1 (6.667%) ETL
7 1 (6.667%) Microsoft
7 1 (6.667%) AppFabric

Test Analyst
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Swindon 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 1 (6.667%) WCF
1 1 (6.667%) .NET
1 1 (6.667%) ASP.NET
1 1 (6.667%) Web Services
1 1 (6.667%) AppFabric
Application Platforms
1 1 (6.667%) IIS
Business Applications
1 1 (6.667%) Oracle EBS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (6.667%) SQL Server
General
1 12 (80.00%) Finance
2 11 (73.33%) Banking
3 10 (66.67%) Retail
4 6 (40.00%) Retail Banking
Operating Systems
1 1 (6.667%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (73.33%) User Acceptance Testing
2 3 (20.00%) TDD
3 2 (13.33%) Test Scripting
4 1 (6.667%) Integration Testing
4 1 (6.667%) Stakeholder Management
4 1 (6.667%) Scrum
4 1 (6.667%) Agile Software Development
4 1 (6.667%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 1 (6.667%) SQL
Qualifications
1 11 (73.33%) ISEB
2 1 (6.667%) ISTQB
Systems Management
1 12 (80.00%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 10 (66.67%) HP
2 1 (6.667%) Oracle
2 1 (6.667%) Microsoft