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Test Strategy Contracts in Swindon
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Hourly Rate Trend Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for Test Strategy skills 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 Strategy over the 3 months to 19 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 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
19 Jun 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Test Strategy
Rank 41 - 39
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing Test Strategy 3 0 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Swindon 0.857% - 0.551%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.132% - 0.794%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
Average daily rate £520 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £400 £395
% change year-on-year
-12.50% +1.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.25 £23.00
% change year-on-year
+8.52% +40.21%
All Processes & Methodologies
Swindon
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category		 265 226 252
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Swindon 75.71% 66.86% 69.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 195 154 151
Average daily rate £423 £413 £450
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+2.42% -8.33%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £318 £250 £325
10% offered a daily rate of more than £480 £475 £517
UK excluding London average daily rate £370 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
+1.36% -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 4 7
Average hourly rate £14.50 £22.50 £26.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-35.55% -13.46%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.05 £13.10 £12.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £17.80 £25.00 £35.60
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.00 £25.00 £29.00
% change year-on-year
+24.00% -13.79%
Test Strategy
Wiltshire

Test Strategy
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Swindon Test Strategy Jobs Demand Trend

Test Strategy
Daily Rate Trend

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

Swindon Test Strategy Daily Rate Trend

Test Strategy
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Swindon Test Strategy Hourly Rate Trend

Test Strategy
Top 17 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Swindon region citing Test Strategy 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 Test Strategy.

1 5 (71.43%) Web Services
1 5 (71.43%) SC Cleared
1 5 (71.43%) Security Cleared
1 5 (71.43%) HP Quality Center
1 5 (71.43%) Integration Testing
2 3 (42.86%) Telecoms
3 2 (28.57%) QA
4 1 (14.29%) Supplier Management
4 1 (14.29%) C
4 1 (14.29%) Firewall
4 1 (14.29%) Finance
4 1 (14.29%) Validation
4 1 (14.29%) Stakeholder Management
4 1 (14.29%) ATM
4 1 (14.29%) Microsoft
4 1 (14.29%) ISEB
4 1 (14.29%) Data Validation

Test Strategy
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Swindon region citing Test Strategy 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 Test Strategy. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 5 (71.43%) Web Services
Communications & Networking
1 1 (14.29%) Firewall
1 1 (14.29%) ATM
General
1 3 (42.86%) Telecoms
2 1 (14.29%) Finance
Job Titles
1 6 (85.71%) Test Manager
2 2 (28.57%) Test Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Manager
3 1 (14.29%) Senior Test Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Project Manager
3 1 (14.29%) Test Leader
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (71.43%) Integration Testing
2 1 (14.29%) Supplier Management
2 1 (14.29%) Validation
2 1 (14.29%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (14.29%) Data Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (14.29%) C
Qualifications
1 5 (71.43%) SC Cleared
1 5 (71.43%) Security Cleared
2 1 (14.29%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (28.57%) QA
Systems Management
1 5 (71.43%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft
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