Tyne and Wear Functional Tester Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for the Functional Tester role in IT contracts within the Tyne and Wear 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 Functional Tester in their job title over the 3 months to 13 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Functional Tester
Location Aldershot Basingstoke Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Brentwood Buckinghamshire City of London County Antrim Docklands, London East of England England Essex Hampshire Leeds London Middlesex Northern Ireland Reading Shropshire South East South West Staffordshire Surrey Swindon Tadworth Telford Tyne and Wear UK West Midlands West Yorkshire Wiltshire Yorkshire	3 months to 13 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	-	46
Rank change on same period last year	-
Matching contract IT job ads	0	2
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.000 %	0.002 %
As % of the category below	0.000 %	0.415 %
Daily rates quoted	0	1
Average minimum daily rate	-	£300
Average daily rate	-	£300
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	£300
UK excluding London average daily rate	£340	£319
% change on same period last year	+6.54 %
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	£35.71	£5.35
% change on same period last year	+567.47 %
Job Titles Tyne and Wear
Matching contract IT job ads	283	482
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.400 %	0.488 %
Daily rates quoted	61	134
Average minimum daily rate	£300	£344
Average daily rate	£311	£356
% change on same period last year	-12.75 %
Average maximum daily rate	£321	£368
UK excluding London average daily rate	£352	£353
% change on same period last year	-0.18 %
Hourly rates quoted	52	56
Average minimum hourly rate	£18.25	£23.43
Average hourly rate	£19.74	£24.75
% change on same period last year	-20.22 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£21.23	£26.06
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.71	£25.14
% change on same period last year	-5.69 %
Functional Tester North 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.

Functional Tester
Demand Trend

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

Functional Tester
Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Functional Tester across the Tyne and Wear region.

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Top 7 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 13 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Tyne and Wear region that cited Functional Tester 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 Functional Tester in their job title.

1 1 (100.00 %) SQL 1 1 (100.00 %) Sybase 1 1 (100.00 %) UNIX 1 1 (100.00 %) ISEB 1 1 (100.00 %) Shell Script 1 1 (100.00 %) Government 1 1 (100.00 %) Test Scripting

Functional Tester
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 13 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Tyne and Wear region that cited Functional Tester 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 Functional Tester in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

General 1 1 (100.00 %) Government	Operating Systems 1 1 (100.00 %) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies 1 1 (100.00 %) Test Scripting	Programming Languages 1 1 (100.00 %) SQL 1 1 (100.00 %) Shell Script
Qualifications 1 1 (100.00 %) ISEB	Vendors 1 1 (100.00 %) Sybase