The first table below looks at the demand for the Agile Test Analyst role in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Agile 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 currently tracked.

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
Agile Test Analyst
Rank 507 534 535
Rank change year-on-year
+27 +1
Contract jobs requiring an Agile Test Analyst 22 50 49
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.047% 0.086% 0.080%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.051% 0.093% 0.087%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 20 36
Average daily rate £306 £313 £438
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-2.16% -28.57%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £260 £200 £273
10% offered a daily rate of more than £363 £450 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £283 £283 £305
% change year-on-year
+0.26% -7.37%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 1
Average hourly rate £20.00 £12.50 £12.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+60.00% -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.00 £12.50 £12.50
% change year-on-year
+60.00% -
All Job Titles
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
42733 53947 56601
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 92.11% 92.50% 92.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 24507 29722 30764
Average daily rate £400 £400 £425
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -5.88%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £240 £240 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £575 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 2112 2572 2930
Average hourly rate £18.50 £18.50 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -7.50%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.00 £11.00 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £41.50 £40.00 £41.38
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%

Agile Test Analyst
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Agile Test Analyst Jobs Demand Trend

Agile Test Analyst
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Agile Test Analyst within the UK.

Agile Test Analyst Daily Rate Trend

Agile Test Analyst
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Agile Test Analyst within the UK over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Agile Test Analyst Daily Rate Histogram

Agile Test Analyst
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Agile Test Analyst within the UK.

Agile Test Analyst Hourly Rate Trend

Agile Test Analyst
Top 19 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Agile Test Analyst within the UK over the 3 months to 24 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
England +15 17 £325 -3.70%
London +22 8 £328 -12.66%
South East +4 4 £363 +15.53%
Scotland -6 4 - -
South West +29 3 £280 +40.00%
Surrey +16 2 - -
North West +14 2 £287 -
City of London +12 2 £283 +2.72%
East Sussex +9 2 £363 -
Brighton +6 2 £363 -
Manchester - 2 £287 -
Wiltshire - 2 £280 -
Cobham -1 1 - -
Wales - 1 £265 -
South Wales - 1 £265 -
Dorset - 1 - -
Staines - 1 - -
Newport - 1 £265 -
Bournemouth - 1 - -

Agile Test Analyst
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK that cited Agile 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 Agile Test Analyst in their job title.

1 31 (55.36%) Agile Software Development
2 17 (30.36%) Scrum
3 16 (28.57%) ISEB
4 15 (26.79%) Finance
4 15 (26.79%) SQL
4 15 (26.79%) QA
5 14 (25.00%) Selenium
5 14 (25.00%) Software Testing
6 13 (23.21%) HP Quality Center
7 12 (21.43%) C#
7 12 (21.43%) E-Commerce
8 11 (19.64%) BDD
9 10 (17.86%) Test Scripting
9 10 (17.86%) Java
10 9 (16.07%) Oracle
10 9 (16.07%) Banking
10 9 (16.07%) Team Foundation Server
11 8 (14.29%) Cucumber
11 8 (14.29%) TDD
11 8 (14.29%) Microsoft
11 8 (14.29%) HP
11 8 (14.29%) XML
12 7 (12.50%) .NET
12 7 (12.50%) Regression Testing
12 7 (12.50%) ISTQB
12 7 (12.50%) Automated Testing
12 7 (12.50%) User Acceptance Testing
12 7 (12.50%) Web Testing
13 6 (10.71%) FitNesse
13 6 (10.71%) Test Automation

Agile Test Analyst
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK that cited Agile 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 Agile Test Analyst in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 8 (14.29%) XML
2 7 (12.50%) .NET
3 5 (8.929%) SOAP
4 3 (5.357%) HTML
4 3 (5.357%) Web Services
4 3 (5.357%) soapUI
4 3 (5.357%) WPF
5 1 (1.786%) J2EE
5 1 (1.786%) CSS
5 1 (1.786%) Gherkin
5 1 (1.786%) WCF
Application Platforms
1 4 (7.143%) SharePoint
2 2 (3.571%) IIS
3 1 (1.786%) CMS
3 1 (1.786%) Windows Azure
3 1 (1.786%) SharePoint 2010
Applications
1 1 (1.786%) MS Excel
1 1 (1.786%) MS Project
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.786%) HTTP
1 1 (1.786%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (10.71%) SQL Server
2 3 (5.357%) SQL Server 2008
2 3 (5.357%) MySQL
3 2 (3.571%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 2 (3.571%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (1.786%) SQL Server 2012
Development Applications
1 14 (25.00%) Selenium
2 9 (16.07%) Team Foundation Server
3 8 (14.29%) Cucumber
4 6 (10.71%) FitNesse
5 5 (8.929%) Visual Studio
5 5 (8.929%) WebDriver
5 5 (8.929%) JIRA
6 4 (7.143%) Ant
7 3 (5.357%) QuickTest Pro
7 3 (5.357%) MSBuild
7 3 (5.357%) Maven
8 2 (3.571%) WATIR
8 2 (3.571%) JBehave
9 1 (1.786%) JUnit
9 1 (1.786%) CruiseControl
9 1 (1.786%) Subversion
9 1 (1.786%) JMeter
9 1 (1.786%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 1 (1.786%) TestNG
9 1 (1.786%) DbUnit
General
1 15 (26.79%) Finance
2 9 (16.07%) Banking
3 3 (5.357%) Investment Banking
4 2 (3.571%) Publishing
5 1 (1.786%) Retail
5 1 (1.786%) Law
5 1 (1.786%) Legal
5 1 (1.786%) Telecoms
5 1 (1.786%) Corporate Banking
Miscellaneous
1 6 (10.71%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 3 (5.357%) Equities
3 1 (1.786%) Management Information System
3 1 (1.786%) NHS
3 1 (1.786%) Online Banking
3 1 (1.786%) Computer Science
Operating Systems
1 3 (5.357%) Windows
2 2 (3.571%) UNIX
3 1 (1.786%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (55.36%) Agile Software Development
2 17 (30.36%) Scrum
3 14 (25.00%) Software Testing
4 12 (21.43%) E-Commerce
5 11 (19.64%) BDD
6 10 (17.86%) Test Scripting
7 8 (14.29%) TDD
8 7 (12.50%) Regression Testing
8 7 (12.50%) Automated Testing
8 7 (12.50%) User Acceptance Testing
8 7 (12.50%) Web Testing
9 6 (10.71%) Test Automation
10 5 (8.929%) Test Management
11 4 (7.143%) Integration Testing
11 4 (7.143%) Waterfall
11 4 (7.143%) Investment Management
11 4 (7.143%) Asset Management
11 4 (7.143%) Functional Testing
12 3 (5.357%) User Stories
12 3 (5.357%) System Testing
Programming Languages
1 15 (26.79%) SQL
2 12 (21.43%) C#
3 10 (17.86%) Java
4 2 (3.571%) Ruby
4 2 (3.571%) JavaScript
5 1 (1.786%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 16 (28.57%) ISEB
2 7 (12.50%) ISTQB
3 5 (8.929%) Degree
4 3 (5.357%) Security Cleared
5 2 (3.571%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (26.79%) QA
Systems Management
1 13 (23.21%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 9 (16.07%) Oracle
2 8 (14.29%) Microsoft
2 8 (14.29%) HP
3 3 (5.357%) thinkFolio
4 2 (3.571%) Capita
5 1 (1.786%) SAP
5 1 (1.786%) ATG
5 1 (1.786%) Salesforce.com
London
Key skills: - .Net/ ASP.Net (4.5) - Previous experience in Automated testing - Previous experience in Manual testing (essential) - Regression testing - Functional testing - System integration testing - Performance, load or...
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Posted: 15 May 2013