Thames Valley Software Tester Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for the Software Tester role in IT contracts within the Thames Valley 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 Software Tester in their job title over the 3 months to 10 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Software Tester
Location Abingdon Basingstoke Berkshire Bournemouth Bradford Brentwood Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Cardiff Channel Islands City of London Crawley Derby Derbyshire Dorset East Midlands East of England Edinburgh England Essex Farnham Glasgow Hampshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Leeds Liverpool London Merseyside Middlesex North West Northampton Northamptonshire Oxfordshire Reading Scotland South East South Wales South West Southampton Surrey Thames Valley UK Wales Watford West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Winchester Yorkshire	3 months to 10 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	-	47
Rank change on same period last year	-
Matching contract IT job ads	0	3
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.000 %	0.003 %
As % of the category below	0.000 %	0.530 %
Daily rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum daily rate	-	-
Average daily rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£287	£280
% change on same period last year	+2.53 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum hourly rate	-	-
Average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£22.40	£24.79
% change on same period last year	-9.65 %
Job Titles Thames Valley
Matching contract IT job ads	352	566
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.496 %	0.572 %
Daily rates quoted	51	53
Average minimum daily rate	£320	£330
Average daily rate	£348	£349
% change on same period last year	-0.31 %
Average maximum daily rate	£376	£367
UK excluding London average daily rate	£352	£353
% change on same period last year	-0.20 %
Hourly rates quoted	9	34
Average minimum hourly rate	£29.29	£32.55
Average hourly rate	£31.02	£35.61
% change on same period last year	-12.88 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£32.76	£38.68
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.76	£25.22
% change on same period last year	-5.77 %
Software Tester 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.

Software Tester
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Software Tester across the Thames Valley region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

Software Tester
Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Software Tester across the Thames Valley region.