The first table below looks at the demand for the Senior 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 Senior Tester in their job title over the 3 months to 22 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
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Senior Tester
Rank 481 553 557
Rank change year-on-year
+72 +4
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Tester 53 33 29
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.112% 0.056% 0.048%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.122% 0.060% 0.052%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 15 16
Average daily rate £370 £325 £323
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+13.84% +0.77%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £293 £283 £263
10% offered a daily rate of more than £434 £467 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £315 £300
% change year-on-year
+11.11% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
Average hourly rate £41.50 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Job Titles
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
43445 54854 55821
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 92.19% 92.53% 92.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 24929 30221 30365
Average daily rate £400 £400 £425
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -5.88%
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 2155 2623 2895
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 £41.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%

Senior Tester
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Senior Tester Jobs Demand Trend

Senior Tester
Daily Rate Trend

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

Senior Tester Daily Rate Trend

Senior Tester
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Senior Tester within the UK over the 3 months to 22 May 2013.

Senior Tester Daily Rate Histogram

Senior Tester
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Senior Tester Hourly Rate Trend

Senior Tester
Top 16 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Senior Tester within the UK over the 3 months to 22 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 +78 52 £370 +15.62%
London +54 38 £400 +23.07%
South East +21 9 £350 +16.66%
City of London +16 9 £370 +5.71%
Hounslow - 6 £378 -
East of England +17 4 £250 -32.43%
Berkshire - 4 £365 -
Hertfordshire - 3 £250 -
Tunbridge Wells - 2 £275 -
Reading - 2 £365 -
Kent - 2 £275 -
Buckinghamshire - 2 £325 -
Suffolk +10 1 - -
Hampshire -1 1 £350 -
Yorkshire - 1 - -
Gosport - 1 £350 -

Senior Tester
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK that cited Senior 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 Senior Tester in their job title.

1 32 (32.32%) Selenium
1 32 (32.32%) Test Scripting
2 29 (29.29%) ISEB
3 24 (24.24%) Linux
4 23 (23.23%) Agile Software Development
5 21 (21.21%) ISTQB
6 20 (20.20%) User Acceptance Testing
7 19 (19.19%) Automated Testing
7 19 (19.19%) Python
8 18 (18.18%) HP Quality Center
9 17 (17.17%) QA
9 17 (17.17%) TDD
10 16 (16.16%) SQL
10 16 (16.16%) Web Testing
11 15 (15.15%) JIRA
11 15 (15.15%) Finance
11 15 (15.15%) QuickTest Pro
12 14 (14.14%) Software Testing
12 14 (14.14%) Automation Testing
13 13 (13.13%) WebDriver
13 13 (13.13%) SQL Server
13 13 (13.13%) HTTP
14 12 (12.12%) TCP/IP
14 12 (12.12%) Java
14 12 (12.12%) HP
14 12 (12.12%) Test Automation
14 12 (12.12%) BDD
15 11 (11.11%) Manual Testing
15 11 (11.11%) Scrum
15 11 (11.11%) .NET

Senior Tester
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK that cited Senior 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 Senior Tester in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 11 (11.11%) .NET
2 9 (9.091%) HTML
2 9 (9.091%) Web Services
3 6 (6.061%) soapUI
3 6 (6.061%) XML
4 5 (5.051%) Cocoa
4 5 (5.051%) SOAP
4 5 (5.051%) Cocoa Touch
5 4 (4.040%) JSON
6 3 (3.030%) WAP
6 3 (3.030%) jQuery
7 2 (2.020%) REST
7 2 (2.020%) RESTful
7 2 (2.020%) Ajax
7 2 (2.020%) Ruby on Rails
7 2 (2.020%) ASP.NET
7 2 (2.020%) Middleware
8 1 (1.010%) JSP
8 1 (1.010%) .NET Framework
Application Platforms
1 4 (4.040%) ColdFusion
2 3 (3.030%) Adobe CQ
3 2 (2.020%) Confluence
4 1 (1.010%) SAS
4 1 (1.010%) SharePoint
4 1 (1.010%) MSMQ
Applications
1 4 (4.040%) MS Excel
2 2 (2.020%) MS Office
3 1 (1.010%) MS Project
3 1 (1.010%) Doxygen
Business Applications
1 3 (3.030%) Agresso
2 1 (1.010%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (1.010%) Oracle Financials
2 1 (1.010%) Eagle PACE
2 1 (1.010%) SAP HCM
2 1 (1.010%) Oracle EBS R12
Communications & Networking
1 13 (13.13%) HTTP
2 12 (12.12%) TCP/IP
3 7 (7.071%) HTTPS
4 5 (5.051%) DHCP
4 5 (5.051%) DNS
5 4 (4.040%) Wireshark
6 2 (2.020%) Network Security
7 1 (1.010%) DVB
7 1 (1.010%) BSS
7 1 (1.010%) CDMA
7 1 (1.010%) GSM
7 1 (1.010%) IPv6
7 1 (1.010%) VoIP
7 1 (1.010%) VPN
7 1 (1.010%) VLAN
7 1 (1.010%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (13.13%) SQL Server
2 2 (2.020%) SQL Server 2008
2 2 (2.020%) SQL Server 2005
2 2 (2.020%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 1 (1.010%) Oracle Reports
3 1 (1.010%) Oracle 8/8i
3 1 (1.010%) Data Mining
Development Applications
1 32 (32.32%) Selenium
2 15 (15.15%) JIRA
2 15 (15.15%) QuickTest Pro
3 13 (13.13%) WebDriver
4 9 (9.091%) Team Foundation Server
5 8 (8.081%) Cucumber
6 6 (6.061%) Visual Studio
7 5 (5.051%) Jenkins
8 4 (4.040%) Hudson
8 4 (4.040%) JUnit
9 3 (3.030%) JMeter
9 3 (3.030%) LoadRunner
9 3 (3.030%) WATIR
10 2 (2.020%) Rational Performance Tester
10 2 (2.020%) MonkeyTalk
10 2 (2.020%) JBehave
10 2 (2.020%) Bugzilla
11 1 (1.010%) Subversion
11 1 (1.010%) ClearCase
11 1 (1.010%) Fiddler
General
1 15 (15.15%) Finance
2 6 (6.061%) Telecoms
3 5 (5.051%) Banking
4 3 (3.030%) Games
4 3 (3.030%) Retail
5 2 (2.020%) Retail Banking
5 2 (2.020%) Investment Banking
6 1 (1.010%) Front Office
6 1 (1.010%) Publishing
6 1 (1.010%) Marketing
6 1 (1.010%) Dutch Language
Miscellaneous
1 8 (8.081%) STB
2 7 (7.071%) Video on Demand
3 6 (6.061%) Mobile App
4 5 (5.051%) IPTV
5 3 (3.030%) Management Information System
5 3 (3.030%) Replication
6 2 (2.020%) Digital Media
6 2 (2.020%) MPEG
6 2 (2.020%) Client/Server
6 2 (2.020%) Blackberry
7 1 (1.010%) DTV
7 1 (1.010%) Fixed Income
7 1 (1.010%) Grid Computing
7 1 (1.010%) Field-Programmable Gate Array
7 1 (1.010%) Smartphone
7 1 (1.010%) Derivative
7 1 (1.010%) Computer Science
7 1 (1.010%) Market Risk
7 1 (1.010%) Embedded Systems
Operating Systems
1 24 (24.24%) Linux
2 11 (11.11%) Windows
3 8 (8.081%) Android
3 8 (8.081%) Apple iOS
4 7 (7.071%) UNIX
5 2 (2.020%) Windows Phone
6 1 (1.010%) Windows Server 2003
6 1 (1.010%) Debian
6 1 (1.010%) Windows 2000
6 1 (1.010%) Windows XP
6 1 (1.010%) HPUX
6 1 (1.010%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (32.32%) Test Scripting
2 23 (23.23%) Agile Software Development
3 20 (20.20%) User Acceptance Testing
4 19 (19.19%) Automated Testing
5 17 (17.17%) TDD
6 16 (16.16%) Web Testing
7 14 (14.14%) Software Testing
7 14 (14.14%) Automation Testing
8 12 (12.12%) Test Automation
8 12 (12.12%) BDD
9 11 (11.11%) Manual Testing
9 11 (11.11%) Scrum
9 11 (11.11%) E-Commerce
10 9 (9.091%) Regression Testing
11 8 (8.081%) Agile Testing
11 8 (8.081%) User Stories
11 8 (8.081%) Continuous Integration
12 7 (7.071%) Performance Testing
13 6 (6.061%) System Testing
14 5 (5.051%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 19 (19.19%) Python
2 16 (16.16%) SQL
3 12 (12.12%) Java
4 8 (8.081%) JavaScript
5 7 (7.071%) C#
5 7 (7.071%) Ruby
6 6 (6.061%) Objective-C
7 4 (4.040%) Perl
8 3 (3.030%) Shell Script
8 3 (3.030%) C++
8 3 (3.030%) Bash shell
9 2 (2.020%) C
9 2 (2.020%) PHP
9 2 (2.020%) VB
9 2 (2.020%) Tcl
10 1 (1.010%) VB.NET
10 1 (1.010%) VBScript
10 1 (1.010%) Lua
Qualifications
1 29 (29.29%) ISEB
2 21 (21.21%) ISTQB
3 5 (5.051%) Security Cleared
4 2 (2.020%) SC Cleared
4 2 (2.020%) Degree
5 1 (1.010%) HND
5 1 (1.010%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (17.17%) QA
System Software
1 2 (2.020%) vCloud
2 1 (1.010%) NFS
2 1 (1.010%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 18 (18.18%) HP Quality Center
2 1 (1.010%) Legato
Vendors
1 12 (12.12%) HP
2 11 (11.11%) Microsoft
3 6 (6.061%) Oracle
4 3 (3.030%) Adobe
5 2 (2.020%) Infor
5 2 (2.020%) Atlassian
5 2 (2.020%) Sun
5 2 (2.020%) IBM
5 2 (2.020%) Cognos
5 2 (2.020%) SAP
6 1 (1.010%) Veritas
6 1 (1.010%) Business Objects
6 1 (1.010%) Sybase
6 1 (1.010%) Siebel
6 1 (1.010%) GoldenSource
6 1 (1.010%) Cadis
6 1 (1.010%) hybris