Lead Test Analyst 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 the Lead 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 Lead Test Analyst in their job title over the 3 months to 17 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
17 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Lead Test Analyst
Rank 510 561 569
Rank change year-on-year
+51 +8
Contract jobs requiring a Lead Test Analyst 20 17 19
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.043% 0.029% 0.031%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.047% 0.031% 0.033%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 14 15
Average daily rate £345 £320 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.81% -20.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £326 £272 £233
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £389 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £345 £310 £400
% change year-on-year
+11.29% -22.50%
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		 42797 53993 56874
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 92.24% 92.65% 92.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 24561 29781 30909
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 2134 2552 2929
Average hourly rate £18.50 £19.00 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-2.63% -5.00%
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 £41.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-5.40% -7.50%

Lead Test Analyst
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Lead Test Analyst Jobs Demand Trend

Lead Test Analyst
Daily Rate Trend

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

Lead Test Analyst Daily Rate Trend

Lead Test Analyst
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Lead Test Analyst within the UK over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

Lead Test Analyst Daily Rate Histogram

Lead Test Analyst
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Lead Test Analyst Hourly Rate Trend

Lead 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 Lead Test Analyst within the UK over the 3 months to 17 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 +52 20 £345 +7.81%
London +25 10 £475 +39.70%
City of London +16 5 £494 +1.28%
South East +21 4 £325 +13.04%
South West +25 3 £345 +6.15%
Swindon - 2 £345 -
Northampton - 2 £345 -
Wiltshire - 2 £345 -
Northamptonshire - 2 £345 -
East Midlands - 2 £345 -
Brighton +12 1 £325 -
East Sussex +11 1 £325 -
Hampshire -5 1 £320 +16.36%
North West - 1 £338 -
Middlesex - 1 £350 -
Kent - 1 - -
Manchester - 1 £338 -
Havant - 1 £320 -
Bristol - 1 £350 -

Lead Test Analyst
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK that cited Lead 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 Lead Test Analyst in their job title.

1 14 (35.00%) HP Quality Center
1 14 (35.00%) User Acceptance Testing
2 13 (32.50%) Test Scripting
2 13 (32.50%) Finance
3 11 (27.50%) Banking
4 10 (25.00%) SQL
4 10 (25.00%) ISEB
5 8 (20.00%) HP
6 7 (17.50%) Oracle
7 6 (15.00%) UNIX
7 6 (15.00%) Workflow
7 6 (15.00%) Retail
7 6 (15.00%) TDD
8 5 (12.50%) Integration Testing
8 5 (12.50%) Performance Testing
8 5 (12.50%) QA
8 5 (12.50%) Regression Testing
8 5 (12.50%) .NET
8 5 (12.50%) XML
8 5 (12.50%) C#
9 4 (10.00%) User Stories
9 4 (10.00%) Microsoft
9 4 (10.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 4 (10.00%) JIRA
9 4 (10.00%) Software Testing
10 3 (7.500%) Investment Banking
10 3 (7.500%) Manual Testing
10 3 (7.500%) Front Office
10 3 (7.500%) LoadRunner
10 3 (7.500%) Advertising

Lead Test Analyst
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK that cited Lead 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 Lead Test Analyst in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 5 (12.50%) .NET
1 5 (12.50%) XML
2 3 (7.500%) Web Services
3 2 (5.000%) SOAP
3 2 (5.000%) .NET Framework
4 1 (2.500%) WCF
4 1 (2.500%) Drools
4 1 (2.500%) soapUI
4 1 (2.500%) HTML
4 1 (2.500%) XSLT
Application Platforms
1 3 (7.500%) Documentum
2 1 (2.500%) BizTalk Server
2 1 (2.500%) MQSeries
Business Applications
1 1 (2.500%) SAP FI
1 1 (2.500%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (2.500%) BASE24
1 1 (2.500%) SAP FI/CO
1 1 (2.500%) SAP CO
1 1 (2.500%) LatentZero
1 1 (2.500%) Tesseract
1 1 (2.500%) Minerva
1 1 (2.500%) Sentinel
1 1 (2.500%) Oracle EBS R12
Communications & Networking
1 2 (5.000%) HTTP
2 1 (2.500%) TCP/IP
2 1 (2.500%) SMS
2 1 (2.500%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (7.500%) SQL Server
2 2 (5.000%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 2 (5.000%) SQL Server Analysis Services
3 1 (2.500%) Oracle BI EE
3 1 (2.500%) TOAD
Development Applications
1 4 (10.00%) JIRA
2 3 (7.500%) LoadRunner
3 2 (5.000%) Selenium
3 2 (5.000%) WebDriver
4 1 (2.500%) SpecFlow
4 1 (2.500%) FitNesse
4 1 (2.500%) JMeter
4 1 (2.500%) WATIR
General
1 13 (32.50%) Finance
2 11 (27.50%) Banking
3 6 (15.00%) Retail
4 3 (7.500%) Investment Banking
4 3 (7.500%) Advertising
4 3 (7.500%) Front Office
5 2 (5.000%) General Ledger
5 2 (5.000%) Retail Banking
6 1 (2.500%) Marketing
6 1 (2.500%) Back Office
Miscellaneous
1 4 (10.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 3 (7.500%) Client/Server
3 2 (5.000%) Fixed Income
4 1 (2.500%) Equities
4 1 (2.500%) Market Risk
4 1 (2.500%) Open Source
4 1 (2.500%) Mobile App
4 1 (2.500%) EPoS
4 1 (2.500%) EFT
Operating Systems
1 6 (15.00%) UNIX
2 2 (5.000%) Windows
3 1 (2.500%) Android
3 1 (2.500%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (35.00%) User Acceptance Testing
2 13 (32.50%) Test Scripting
3 6 (15.00%) TDD
3 6 (15.00%) Workflow
4 5 (12.50%) Regression Testing
4 5 (12.50%) Performance Testing
4 5 (12.50%) Integration Testing
5 4 (10.00%) User Stories
5 4 (10.00%) Software Testing
6 3 (7.500%) Manual Testing
6 3 (7.500%) Automation Testing
6 3 (7.500%) Test Strategy
7 2 (5.000%) Stress Testing
7 2 (5.000%) Non-Functional Testing
7 2 (5.000%) Agile Software Development
7 2 (5.000%) SOA
8 1 (2.500%) B2B
8 1 (2.500%) Benchmarking
8 1 (2.500%) Validation
8 1 (2.500%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 10 (25.00%) SQL
2 5 (12.50%) C#
3 3 (7.500%) Java
3 3 (7.500%) VBScript
3 3 (7.500%) VB
4 2 (5.000%) VBA
4 2 (5.000%) C
5 1 (2.500%) Python
5 1 (2.500%) JavaScript
5 1 (2.500%) Perl
5 1 (2.500%) C++
Qualifications
1 10 (25.00%) ISEB
2 1 (2.500%) ISTQB
2 1 (2.500%) SC Cleared
2 1 (2.500%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (12.50%) QA
2 1 (2.500%) ISO 8583
Systems Management
1 14 (35.00%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 8 (20.00%) HP
2 7 (17.50%) Oracle
3 4 (10.00%) Microsoft
4 1 (2.500%) Murex
4 1 (2.500%) Calypso
4 1 (2.500%) SAP
4 1 (2.500%) Hyperion
4 1 (2.500%) webMethods
4 1 (2.500%) VMware
4 1 (2.500%) Wincor Nixdorf
4 1 (2.500%) VeriFone
Lead Test Analyst
London
The successful Lead Test Analyst will meet the following requirements: Excellent Test/QA analyst experience Experience of MQ Series, Coherence, XSLT and Drools rules engine would be ideal...
Orgtel
Rate: £450 - £500 per day
Posted: 15 May 2013
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