Systems Tester Contracts
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Hourly Rate Histogram Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for the Systems 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 Systems Tester in their job title 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 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
21 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
System Tester
Rank 512 550 522
Rank change year-on-year
+38 -28
Contract jobs requiring a Systems Tester 28 31 58
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.059% 0.053% 0.096%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.064% 0.057% 0.104%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 11 28
Average daily rate £315 £265 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+18.86% -24.28%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £188 £200 £263
10% offered a daily rate of more than £443 £333 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £315 £201 £281
% change year-on-year
+57.10% -28.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 1
Average hourly rate £29.56 £13.70 £19.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+115.72% -27.89%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £29.56 £13.70 £19.00
% change year-on-year
+115.72% -27.89%
All Job Titles
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category		 43539 54119 55808
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 92.22% 92.58% 92.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 24944 29835 30377
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 2174 2589 2882
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 £41.28
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%

Systems Tester
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Systems Tester Jobs Demand Trend

Systems Tester
Daily Rate Trend

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

Systems Tester Daily Rate Trend

Systems Tester
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Systems Tester Daily Rate Histogram

Systems Tester
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Systems Tester Hourly Rate Trend

Systems Tester
Hourly Rate Histogram

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

Systems Tester Hourly Rate Histogram

Systems Tester
Top 29 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Systems Tester 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 22 £315 +9.56%
London +13 5 £338 +6.71%
Scotland -9 5 £163 -18.95%
South East +22 4 £313 +54.32%
Birmingham - 4 £344 -
West Midlands - 4 £344 -
South West +23 3 £305 -
Gloucestershire +29 2 - -
North West +17 2 - -
Berkshire +10 2 £300 +185.71%
East Midlands +2 2 - -
Leicestershire -7 2 - -
Hinckley - 2 - -
Stirling - 2 - -
Manchester +16 1 - -
City of London +14 1 £175 -41.66%
Yorkshire +5 1 - -
Glasgow -19 1 - -
East of England - 1 £300 -
Docklands, London - 1 £500 -
Surrey - 1 - -
Fife - 1 - -
Essex - 1 £300 -
Cheshire - 1 - -
Warrington - 1 - -
Dunfermline - 1 - -
Bristol - 1 £305 -
Brentford - 1 - -
Bracknell - 1 - -

Systems Tester
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK that cited Systems 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 Systems Tester in their job title.

1 31 (42.47%) Test Scripting
2 26 (35.62%) Finance
3 25 (34.25%) ISEB
4 19 (26.03%) User Acceptance Testing
5 18 (24.66%) SQL
6 17 (23.29%) System Testing
7 14 (19.18%) HP Quality Center
8 12 (16.44%) Software Testing
9 11 (15.07%) Validation
10 10 (13.70%) Oracle
11 9 (12.33%) QA
12 8 (10.96%) ISTQB
12 8 (10.96%) UNIX
12 8 (10.96%) Security Cleared
13 7 (9.589%) Microsoft
13 7 (9.589%) Regression Testing
13 7 (9.589%) Integration Testing
13 7 (9.589%) Manual Testing
14 6 (8.219%) Agile Software Development
14 6 (8.219%) EMV
14 6 (8.219%) Shell Script
14 6 (8.219%) XML
15 5 (6.849%) Sun
15 5 (6.849%) Migration
15 5 (6.849%) General Ledger
15 5 (6.849%) Selenium
15 5 (6.849%) Degree
15 5 (6.849%) Data Migration
15 5 (6.849%) SC Cleared
16 4 (5.479%) Test Strategy

Systems Tester
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK that cited Systems 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 Systems Tester in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 6 (8.219%) XML
2 4 (5.479%) .NET
2 4 (5.479%) J2EE
3 2 (2.740%) JSON
4 1 (1.370%) Middleware
4 1 (1.370%) SOAP
4 1 (1.370%) Web Services
4 1 (1.370%) WPF
4 1 (1.370%) FIX Protocol
4 1 (1.370%) Java EE
4 1 (1.370%) WebSphere
Application Platforms
1 1 (1.370%) Lotus Notes
1 1 (1.370%) SharePoint
1 1 (1.370%) MQSeries
1 1 (1.370%) ESB
1 1 (1.370%) Windows Azure
1 1 (1.370%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (4.110%) MS Excel
2 1 (1.370%) MS PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (1.370%) SAP PS
1 1 (1.370%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (1.370%) Servitor
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.740%) VLAN
1 2 (2.740%) DSL
2 1 (1.370%) Internet
2 1 (1.370%) IPv6
2 1 (1.370%) SNMP
2 1 (1.370%) TCP/IP
2 1 (1.370%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.370%) SQL Server
1 1 (1.370%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (1.370%) BusinessObjects XI
Development Applications
1 5 (6.849%) Selenium
2 4 (5.479%) JIRA
2 4 (5.479%) Oracle Forms
3 3 (4.110%) TestDirector
4 2 (2.740%) Team Foundation Server
4 2 (2.740%) Visual Studio
4 2 (2.740%) QuickTest Pro
5 1 (1.370%) LoadRunner
5 1 (1.370%) Oracle APEX
General
1 26 (35.62%) Finance
2 5 (6.849%) General Ledger
3 4 (5.479%) Banking
4 3 (4.110%) Avionics
5 2 (2.740%) Investment Banking
5 2 (2.740%) Games
5 2 (2.740%) Telecoms
6 1 (1.370%) Publishing
6 1 (1.370%) Back Office
6 1 (1.370%) Retail
Miscellaneous
1 6 (8.219%) EMV
2 4 (5.479%) APACS
3 3 (4.110%) Management Information System
3 3 (4.110%) Client/Server
3 3 (4.110%) Mobile App
4 2 (2.740%) iSeries
4 2 (2.740%) CMDB
4 2 (2.740%) EPoS
4 2 (2.740%) iDTV
4 2 (2.740%) AS400
4 2 (2.740%) Chip and PIN
5 1 (1.370%) NHS
5 1 (1.370%) Mainframe
5 1 (1.370%) Equities
5 1 (1.370%) Field-Programmable Gate Array
5 1 (1.370%) e-Health
5 1 (1.370%) Derivative
5 1 (1.370%) IBM Mainframe
5 1 (1.370%) Cryptography
5 1 (1.370%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 8 (10.96%) UNIX
2 3 (4.110%) Windows
3 2 (2.740%) Windows 7
3 2 (2.740%) Windows XP
4 1 (1.370%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (42.47%) Test Scripting
2 19 (26.03%) User Acceptance Testing
3 17 (23.29%) System Testing
4 12 (16.44%) Software Testing
5 11 (15.07%) Validation
6 7 (9.589%) Regression Testing
6 7 (9.589%) Integration Testing
6 7 (9.589%) Manual Testing
7 6 (8.219%) Agile Software Development
8 5 (6.849%) Migration
8 5 (6.849%) Data Migration
9 4 (5.479%) Test Strategy
9 4 (5.479%) Test Management
9 4 (5.479%) ITIL
10 3 (4.110%) E-Commerce
10 3 (4.110%) Scrum
10 3 (4.110%) Automated Testing
10 3 (4.110%) Web Development
11 2 (2.740%) Test Automation
11 2 (2.740%) ATDD
Programming Languages
1 18 (24.66%) SQL
2 6 (8.219%) Shell Script
3 4 (5.479%) C
4 3 (4.110%) C#
5 2 (2.740%) C++
5 2 (2.740%) Java
6 1 (1.370%) Perl
6 1 (1.370%) PL/SQL
6 1 (1.370%) Python
6 1 (1.370%) Bash shell
Qualifications
1 25 (34.25%) ISEB
2 8 (10.96%) ISTQB
2 8 (10.96%) Security Cleared
3 5 (6.849%) Degree
3 5 (6.849%) SC Cleared
4 3 (4.110%) ISEB Practitioner
4 3 (4.110%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (12.33%) QA
2 1 (1.370%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 1 (1.370%) HL7
System Software
1 2 (2.740%) Microsoft App-V
2 1 (1.370%) NFS
Systems Management
1 14 (19.18%) HP Quality Center
2 1 (1.370%) Legato
Vendors
1 10 (13.70%) Oracle
2 7 (9.589%) Microsoft
3 5 (6.849%) Sun
4 4 (5.479%) HP
5 3 (4.110%) IBM
6 2 (2.740%) hybris
6 2 (2.740%) VeriFone
6 2 (2.740%) Altiris
6 2 (2.740%) Remedy
6 2 (2.740%) Citrix
7 1 (1.370%) CA
7 1 (1.370%) Empirix
7 1 (1.370%) Ericsson
7 1 (1.370%) Informatica
7 1 (1.370%) Veritas
7 1 (1.370%) Lotus
7 1 (1.370%) Primavera
7 1 (1.370%) Business Objects
7 1 (1.370%) SAP
7 1 (1.370%) Siebel
Ecommerce System Tester - 6 month Contract - Nottingham
Nottingham, Nottinghamshire
ISEB or ISTQB qualified to foundation level. -Definition and creation of test scripts for internal QA and system testing purposes... -Good knowledge of Agile development techniques such as “...
IT Retail People Ltd
Rate: Unspecified
Posted: 17 May 2013
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