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Agile Tester Contracts
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for the Agile Tester 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 Tester in their job title 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 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
19 Jun 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Agile Tester
Rank 523 553 586
Rank change year-on-year
+30 +33
Contract jobs requiring an Agile Tester 18 17 15
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.037% 0.029% 0.024%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.041% 0.032% 0.026%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 8 10
Average daily rate £338 £325 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+3.84% -13.33%
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £300 £413
% change year-on-year
+8.33% -27.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Job Titles
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category		 44347 53663 57608
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 92.17% 92.47% 92.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 25564 29628 31510
Average daily rate £400 £400 £420
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -4.76%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £238 £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 2099 2560 2964
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 £11.19 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £41.50 £40.00 £42.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £19.94
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -9.72%

Agile Tester
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Agile Tester Jobs Demand Trend

Agile Tester
Daily Rate Trend

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

Agile Tester Daily Rate Trend

Agile Tester
Top 11 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Agile Tester within the UK over the 3 months to 19 June 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		 Find
Job
Vacancies
England +15 18 £338 +3.84%
London +23 7 £406 -9.72%
Manchester - - - -
West Lothian - - - -
City of London - - - -
North West - - - -
South West - - - -
Scotland - - - -
Aberdeen - - - -
Bristol - - - -
Livingston - - - -

Agile Tester
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK that cited Agile 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 Agile Tester in their job title.

1 21 (87.50%) Scrum
2 20 (83.33%) Agile Software Development
3 14 (58.33%) Selenium
4 12 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
4 12 (50.00%) Cucumber
5 11 (45.83%) WebDriver
5 11 (45.83%) TeamCity
5 11 (45.83%) QA
5 11 (45.83%) SQL
6 10 (41.67%) TDD
6 10 (41.67%) Agile Testing
6 10 (41.67%) BDD
7 9 (37.50%) Automated Testing
7 9 (37.50%) Java
8 8 (33.33%) HTML
8 8 (33.33%) .NET
8 8 (33.33%) XML
8 8 (33.33%) Retail
8 8 (33.33%) SpecFlow
8 8 (33.33%) Gherkin
8 8 (33.33%) Automation Testing
9 7 (29.17%) User Stories
9 7 (29.17%) Manual Testing
9 7 (29.17%) Web Services
10 5 (20.83%) E-Commerce
10 5 (20.83%) C#
10 5 (20.83%) JavaScript
10 5 (20.83%) WebSphere
10 5 (20.83%) User Acceptance Testing
10 5 (20.83%) Team Foundation Server

Agile Tester
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK that cited Agile 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 Agile Tester in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 8 (33.33%) HTML
1 8 (33.33%) .NET
1 8 (33.33%) XML
1 8 (33.33%) Gherkin
2 7 (29.17%) Web Services
3 5 (20.83%) WebSphere
4 4 (16.67%) RESTful
4 4 (16.67%) ASP
5 3 (12.50%) XSLT
5 3 (12.50%) JSON
6 1 (4.167%) Servlets
6 1 (4.167%) SOAP
6 1 (4.167%) Cocoa
6 1 (4.167%) Spring
6 1 (4.167%) Cocoa Touch
6 1 (4.167%) REST
Applications
1 4 (16.67%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 1 (4.167%) Endur
Communications & Networking
1 4 (16.67%) HTTP
2 1 (4.167%) BIG-IP
2 1 (4.167%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.167%) DB2
Development Applications
1 14 (58.33%) Selenium
2 12 (50.00%) Cucumber
3 11 (45.83%) WebDriver
3 11 (45.83%) TeamCity
4 8 (33.33%) SpecFlow
5 5 (20.83%) Team Foundation Server
6 4 (16.67%) MSI
6 4 (16.67%) Visual Studio
6 4 (16.67%) QuickTest Pro
7 3 (12.50%) CruiseControl
7 3 (12.50%) WATIR
7 3 (12.50%) Jenkins
8 1 (4.167%) JUnit
8 1 (4.167%) Maven
8 1 (4.167%) JIRA
8 1 (4.167%) TestNG
8 1 (4.167%) JBehave
8 1 (4.167%) Git (software)
General
1 8 (33.33%) Retail
2 2 (8.333%) Games
Miscellaneous
1 2 (8.333%) Management Information System
2 1 (4.167%) STB
2 1 (4.167%) IPTV
2 1 (4.167%) Video on Demand
2 1 (4.167%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 4 (16.67%) Windows
2 2 (8.333%) Android
3 1 (4.167%) Linux
3 1 (4.167%) UNIX
3 1 (4.167%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (87.50%) Scrum
2 20 (83.33%) Agile Software Development
3 12 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
4 10 (41.67%) TDD
4 10 (41.67%) Agile Testing
4 10 (41.67%) BDD
5 9 (37.50%) Automated Testing
6 8 (33.33%) Automation Testing
7 7 (29.17%) User Stories
7 7 (29.17%) Manual Testing
8 5 (20.83%) E-Commerce
8 5 (20.83%) User Acceptance Testing
8 5 (20.83%) Test Automation
9 4 (16.67%) Software Testing
9 4 (16.67%) Extreme Programming
10 3 (12.50%) Pair Programming
10 3 (12.50%) Performance Testing
11 2 (8.333%) Test Strategy
11 2 (8.333%) Regression Testing
11 2 (8.333%) OO
Programming Languages
1 11 (45.83%) SQL
2 9 (37.50%) Java
3 5 (20.83%) C#
3 5 (20.83%) JavaScript
4 4 (16.67%) Ruby
4 4 (16.67%) VB
5 3 (12.50%) Shell Script
6 1 (4.167%) Python
6 1 (4.167%) Perl
6 1 (4.167%) Objective-C
Qualifications
1 2 (8.333%) ISTQB
1 2 (8.333%) ISEB
2 1 (4.167%) SC Cleared
2 1 (4.167%) BC Cleared
2 1 (4.167%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (45.83%) QA
System Software
1 4 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (8.333%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 4 (16.67%) Microsoft
1 4 (16.67%) VMware
1 4 (16.67%) Oracle
2 2 (8.333%) Cognos
3 1 (4.167%) F5
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