Functional Testing Contracts
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for Functional Testing skills in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Functional Testing over the 3 months to 21 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 of the Processes & Methodologies category.

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
21 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Functional Testing
Rank 506 546 523
Rank change year-on-year
+40 -23
Contract jobs citing Functional Testing 34 35 57
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.072% 0.060% 0.095%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.102% 0.088% 0.140%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 20 38
Average daily rate £295 £388 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-23.87% +3.33%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £243 £238 £200
10% offered a daily rate of more than £440 £425 £533
UK excluding London average daily rate £275 £425 £300
% change year-on-year
-35.29% +41.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Processes & Methodologies
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category		 33459 39616 40749
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 70.87% 67.77% 67.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 19984 22785 23155
Average daily rate £413 £401 £438
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+2.99% -8.45%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £275 £275 £275
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £580 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £363 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
-0.68% -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 998 1285 1448
Average hourly rate £31.50 £25.00 £29.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+26.00% -13.79%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.50 £12.50 £13.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £50.00 £45.00 £45.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.50 £25.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year
+26.00% -16.66%

Functional Testing
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Functional Testing within the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

Functional Testing Jobs Demand Trend

Functional Testing
Daily Rate Trend

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

Functional Testing Daily Rate Trend

Functional Testing
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Functional Testing within the UK over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

Functional Testing Daily Rate Histogram

Functional Testing
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Functional Testing Hourly Rate Trend

Functional Testing
Top 25 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Functional Testing within the UK over the 3 months to 21 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 +44 33 £300 -22.58%
London +15 14 £405 +13.68%
South East +26 6 £288 -30.30%
City of London +17 6 £415 +18.57%
Hampshire -7 4 £288 -
South Coast - 4 - -
Newcastle upon Tyne - 3 - -
North East - 3 - -
Tyne and Wear - 3 - -
South West +20 2 £278 -34.70%
Devon +2 2 £278 +58.57%
East Midlands - 2 £275 -
Barnstaple - 2 £278 -
West Midlands +13 1 - -
Hertfordshire +12 1 £230 -20.00%
Berkshire +10 1 £400 -
East of England +10 1 £230 -20.00%
Scotland - 1 £245 -
Northamptonshire - 1 £275 -
Buckinghamshire - 1 £270 -
Northampton - 1 £275 -
Milton Keynes - 1 £270 -
Hounslow - 1 - -
Glasgow - 1 £245 -
Coventry - 1 - -

Functional Testing
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing Functional Testing 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 Functional Testing.

1 30 (39.47%) User Acceptance Testing
2 22 (28.95%) Finance
3 21 (27.63%) ISEB
4 18 (23.68%) Regression Testing
4 18 (23.68%) Test Scripting
5 14 (18.42%) QA
5 14 (18.42%) SQL
6 13 (17.11%) Oracle
6 13 (17.11%) Banking
6 13 (17.11%) Agile Software Development
6 13 (17.11%) HP Quality Center
7 11 (14.47%) Performance Testing
8 9 (11.84%) ISTQB
8 9 (11.84%) Selenium
9 8 (10.53%) JavaScript
9 8 (10.53%) HTML
9 8 (10.53%) Siebel
10 7 (9.211%) Data Warehouse
10 7 (9.211%) HP
10 7 (9.211%) Java
10 7 (9.211%) Test Management
10 7 (9.211%) Investment Management
11 6 (7.895%) Security Cleared
11 6 (7.895%) System Testing
11 6 (7.895%) Unit Testing
11 6 (7.895%) Investment Banking
11 6 (7.895%) Waterfall
11 6 (7.895%) Non-Functional Testing
11 6 (7.895%) Automation Testing
11 6 (7.895%) Retail

Functional Testing
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing Functional Testing 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 Functional Testing. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 8 (10.53%) HTML
2 5 (6.579%) .NET
3 3 (3.947%) Middleware
3 3 (3.947%) J2EE
3 3 (3.947%) ASP.NET
3 3 (3.947%) soapUI
3 3 (3.947%) Spring
4 2 (2.632%) jQuery
4 2 (2.632%) Cocoa Touch
4 2 (2.632%) CSS
4 2 (2.632%) JSP
4 2 (2.632%) SOAP
4 2 (2.632%) XML
4 2 (2.632%) Hibernate
4 2 (2.632%) Cocoa
5 1 (1.316%) WinForms
5 1 (1.316%) XSLT
5 1 (1.316%) XHTML
5 1 (1.316%) Struts
5 1 (1.316%) Servlets
Application Platforms
1 3 (3.947%) Tomcat
1 3 (3.947%) MS Exchange
1 3 (3.947%) Exchange Server 2010
1 3 (3.947%) Exchange Server 2003
2 2 (2.632%) GlassFish
2 2 (2.632%) Lotus Notes
3 1 (1.316%) Apache
3 1 (1.316%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.316%) Alfresco
3 1 (1.316%) Liferay
Applications
1 1 (1.316%) MS Office
1 1 (1.316%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (3.947%) LatentZero
1 3 (3.947%) Tesseract
1 3 (3.947%) Minerva
1 3 (3.947%) Sentinel
2 2 (2.632%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (1.316%) BASE24
3 1 (1.316%) SAP FI
3 1 (1.316%) Oracle Payroll
3 1 (1.316%) Eagle PACE
Communications & Networking
1 4 (5.263%) TCP/IP
1 4 (5.263%) SSL
1 4 (5.263%) Intranet
2 3 (3.947%) LDAP
2 3 (3.947%) SAN
2 3 (3.947%) POP3
2 3 (3.947%) SMTP
2 3 (3.947%) HTTP
2 3 (3.947%) Wireshark
2 3 (3.947%) NAS
3 2 (2.632%) CTI
4 1 (1.316%) HTTPS
4 1 (1.316%) Broadband
4 1 (1.316%) LLU
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (9.211%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (2.632%) Oracle BI EE
3 1 (1.316%) DataStage
3 1 (1.316%) Oracle 8/8i
3 1 (1.316%) TOAD
3 1 (1.316%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 9 (11.84%) Selenium
2 4 (5.263%) JIRA
2 4 (5.263%) Cucumber
3 3 (3.947%) JUnit
4 2 (2.632%) Team Foundation Server
4 2 (2.632%) Subversion
4 2 (2.632%) jMock
4 2 (2.632%) Jenkins
4 2 (2.632%) Mockito
4 2 (2.632%) Eclipse
4 2 (2.632%) QuickTest Pro
5 1 (1.316%) IntelliJ
5 1 (1.316%) WebDriver
5 1 (1.316%) GitHub
5 1 (1.316%) SpecFlow
5 1 (1.316%) Maven
5 1 (1.316%) Git (software)
General
1 22 (28.95%) Finance
2 13 (17.11%) Banking
3 6 (7.895%) Investment Banking
3 6 (7.895%) Retail
4 3 (3.947%) Front Office
4 3 (3.947%) Marketing
5 2 (2.632%) Retail Banking
5 2 (2.632%) Telecoms
5 2 (2.632%) Games
6 1 (1.316%) Billing
6 1 (1.316%) Pharmaceutical
6 1 (1.316%) Corporate Banking
Job Titles
1 46 (60.53%) Analyst
2 40 (52.63%) Test Analyst
3 11 (14.47%) Test Manager
4 8 (10.53%) Functional Test Analyst
4 8 (10.53%) Functional Analyst
5 7 (9.211%) Tester
6 4 (5.263%) Programme Test Manager
6 4 (5.263%) Siebel Analyst
6 4 (5.263%) Agile Test Analyst
6 4 (5.263%) Programme Manager
6 4 (5.263%) Business Analyst
6 4 (5.263%) Senior Analyst
6 4 (5.263%) Senior Test Analyst
7 3 (3.947%) Test Consultant
7 3 (3.947%) Developer
7 3 (3.947%) Senior Consultant
7 3 (3.947%) Consultant
7 3 (3.947%) Infrastructure Analyst
7 3 (3.947%) Senior Test Consultant
8 2 (2.632%) Test Leader
Miscellaneous
1 3 (3.947%) Mobile App
2 2 (2.632%) IPTV
2 2 (2.632%) Video on Demand
2 2 (2.632%) Client/Server
2 2 (2.632%) STB
3 1 (1.316%) Blackberry
3 1 (1.316%) EPoS
3 1 (1.316%) EFT
3 1 (1.316%) Open Source
3 1 (1.316%) Embedded Systems
3 1 (1.316%) FMCG
Operating Systems
1 5 (6.579%) Windows Server 2003
1 5 (6.579%) Windows
1 5 (6.579%) Apple iOS
1 5 (6.579%) Android
1 5 (6.579%) Windows Server 2008
2 4 (5.263%) UNIX
3 2 (2.632%) Windows XP
3 2 (2.632%) Windows 2000
4 1 (1.316%) Solaris
4 1 (1.316%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (39.47%) User Acceptance Testing
2 18 (23.68%) Regression Testing
2 18 (23.68%) Test Scripting
3 13 (17.11%) Agile Software Development
4 11 (14.47%) Performance Testing
5 7 (9.211%) Test Management
5 7 (9.211%) Investment Management
6 6 (7.895%) System Testing
6 6 (7.895%) Unit Testing
6 6 (7.895%) Waterfall
6 6 (7.895%) Non-Functional Testing
6 6 (7.895%) Automation Testing
7 5 (6.579%) Scrum
7 5 (6.579%) Migration
7 5 (6.579%) CRM
7 5 (6.579%) E-Commerce
7 5 (6.579%) Integration Testing
7 5 (6.579%) Manual Testing
7 5 (6.579%) V-Model
7 5 (6.579%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 14 (18.42%) SQL
2 8 (10.53%) JavaScript
3 7 (9.211%) Java
4 3 (3.947%) Python
4 3 (3.947%) Ruby
5 2 (2.632%) Perl
5 2 (2.632%) PL/SQL
5 2 (2.632%) C#
5 2 (2.632%) C++
5 2 (2.632%) Objective-C
6 1 (1.316%) Scala
6 1 (1.316%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 21 (27.63%) ISEB
2 9 (11.84%) ISTQB
3 6 (7.895%) Security Cleared
4 3 (3.947%) SC Cleared
5 1 (1.316%) Degree
5 1 (1.316%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (18.42%) QA
2 1 (1.316%) ISO 8583
System Software
1 3 (3.947%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.316%) Nmap
Systems Management
1 13 (17.11%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 13 (17.11%) Oracle
2 8 (10.53%) Siebel
3 7 (9.211%) HP
4 4 (5.263%) Cognos
5 3 (3.947%) Microsoft
5 3 (3.947%) thinkFolio
6 2 (2.632%) Lotus
6 2 (2.632%) Citrix
6 2 (2.632%) SAP
7 1 (1.316%) Symbian
7 1 (1.316%) VeriFone
7 1 (1.316%) Cadis
7 1 (1.316%) GigaSpaces
7 1 (1.316%) Wincor Nixdorf
Systems Analyst/Technical Author - Contract
Hampshire, South East
The successful Systems Analyst/Technical Author will have extensive experience: - Working within an IT environment (working with web applications) - Broad conceptual conversance of IT technologies - Knowledge of web...
Progressive Recruitment
Rate: £300 - £350 per day
Posted: 15 May 2013
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