The first table below looks at the demand for the Technical 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 Technical Test Analyst 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
Technical Test Analyst
Rank 519 562 569
Rank change year-on-year
+43 +7
Contract jobs requiring a Technical Test Analyst 15 24 17
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.032% 0.040% 0.028%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.035% 0.044% 0.030%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 14 10
Average daily rate £300 £450 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-33.33% +12.50%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £265 £333 £273
10% offered a daily rate of more than £388 £484 £475
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £313 £325
% change year-on-year
-4.00% -3.84%
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
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%

Technical Test Analyst
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Technical Test Analyst Jobs Demand Trend

Technical Test Analyst
Daily Rate Trend

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

Technical Test Analyst Daily Rate Trend

Technical Test Analyst
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Technical Test Analyst Daily Rate Histogram

Technical Test Analyst
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Technical Test Analyst Hourly Rate Trend

Technical Test Analyst
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 Technical Test Analyst 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 +46 14 £300 -33.33%
London +20 6 £475 +5.55%
South East +18 4 £300 -
City of London +2 3 £475 +2.70%
Hampshire 0 2 £300 -
Buckinghamshire - 2 £285 -
South West +28 1 - -
North West +7 1 £260 -13.33%
Dorset +4 1 - -
South Coast - 1 - -
Scotland - 1 - -
Midlands - 1 - -
Iver - 1 £300 -
Poole - 1 - -
Milton Keynes - 1 £270 -
Manchester - 1 £260 -

Technical Test Analyst
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 8 (38.10%) SQL
2 6 (28.57%) XML
2 6 (28.57%) UNIX
2 6 (28.57%) Agile Software Development
2 6 (28.57%) QA
3 4 (19.05%) Selenium
3 4 (19.05%) Finance
3 4 (19.05%) Microsoft
4 3 (14.29%) Windows
4 3 (14.29%) Linux
4 3 (14.29%) MS Excel
4 3 (14.29%) C#
4 3 (14.29%) Shell Script
4 3 (14.29%) Migration
4 3 (14.29%) ISEB
4 3 (14.29%) ISTQB
4 3 (14.29%) Test Scripting
4 3 (14.29%) System Testing
4 3 (14.29%) Security Cleared
4 3 (14.29%) HP Quality Center
5 2 (9.524%) soapUI
5 2 (9.524%) WebDriver
5 2 (9.524%) Bash shell
5 2 (9.524%) Functional Testing
5 2 (9.524%) Automation Testing
5 2 (9.524%) Windows Server 2008
5 2 (9.524%) Test Automation
5 2 (9.524%) Integration Testing
5 2 (9.524%) Test Management
5 2 (9.524%) Telecoms

Technical Test Analyst
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 6 (28.57%) XML
2 2 (9.524%) soapUI
2 2 (9.524%) .NET
2 2 (9.524%) SOAP
3 1 (4.762%) ASP.NET
3 1 (4.762%) COM
3 1 (4.762%) JSP
3 1 (4.762%) XSLT
3 1 (4.762%) HTML
3 1 (4.762%) XML Messaging
3 1 (4.762%) JNI
3 1 (4.762%) WCF
3 1 (4.762%) Drools
Application Platforms
1 1 (4.762%) MS Exchange
1 1 (4.762%) Lotus Notes
1 1 (4.762%) WorkSite
Applications
1 3 (14.29%) MS Excel
2 1 (4.762%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 1 (4.762%) Oracle EBS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.762%) TCP/IP
1 1 (4.762%) HTTPS
1 1 (4.762%) SSL
1 1 (4.762%) Firewall
1 1 (4.762%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (9.524%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 1 (4.762%) MS Access
2 1 (4.762%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (4.762%) SQL Server
2 1 (4.762%) DataStage
2 1 (4.762%) SAP Data Services
Development Applications
1 4 (19.05%) Selenium
2 2 (9.524%) WebDriver
2 2 (9.524%) Visual Studio
3 1 (4.762%) Team Foundation Server
3 1 (4.762%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 4 (19.05%) Finance
2 2 (9.524%) Telecoms
2 2 (9.524%) Banking
2 2 (9.524%) Investment Banking
Miscellaneous
1 1 (4.762%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
1 1 (4.762%) Digital Media
Operating Systems
1 6 (28.57%) UNIX
2 3 (14.29%) Windows
2 3 (14.29%) Linux
3 2 (9.524%) Windows Server 2008
3 2 (9.524%) Windows Server 2003
4 1 (4.762%) Windows XP
4 1 (4.762%) Windows 2000
4 1 (4.762%) AIX
4 1 (4.762%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (28.57%) Agile Software Development
2 3 (14.29%) Migration
2 3 (14.29%) Test Scripting
2 3 (14.29%) System Testing
3 2 (9.524%) Functional Testing
3 2 (9.524%) Automation Testing
3 2 (9.524%) Test Automation
3 2 (9.524%) Integration Testing
3 2 (9.524%) Test Management
3 2 (9.524%) User Acceptance Testing
3 2 (9.524%) Software Testing
3 2 (9.524%) Regression Testing
3 2 (9.524%) Scrum
3 2 (9.524%) Validation
3 2 (9.524%) SOA
3 2 (9.524%) ETL
4 1 (4.762%) Document Management
4 1 (4.762%) TDD
4 1 (4.762%) Risk Management
4 1 (4.762%) Security Testing
Programming Languages
1 8 (38.10%) SQL
2 3 (14.29%) C#
2 3 (14.29%) Shell Script
3 2 (9.524%) Bash shell
3 2 (9.524%) T-SQL
3 2 (9.524%) Python
4 1 (4.762%) VBA
4 1 (4.762%) Java
4 1 (4.762%) JavaScript
4 1 (4.762%) PHP
Qualifications
1 3 (14.29%) ISEB
1 3 (14.29%) ISTQB
1 3 (14.29%) Security Cleared
2 1 (4.762%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (28.57%) QA
System Software
1 1 (4.762%) Nmap
1 1 (4.762%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (14.29%) HP Quality Center
2 1 (4.762%) Tivoli
2 1 (4.762%) Netcool
2 1 (4.762%) Netcool/OMNIbus
Vendors
1 4 (19.05%) Microsoft
2 2 (9.524%) HP
3 1 (4.762%) Intel
3 1 (4.762%) Oracle
3 1 (4.762%) Business Objects
3 1 (4.762%) VMware
3 1 (4.762%) Citrix
3 1 (4.762%) Informatica
3 1 (4.762%) Lotus
3 1 (4.762%) Capita
City, London
My client, a top tier investment bank, is looking for a Technical Test Analyst who MUST have extensive technical knowledge of UNIX and a good understanding of associated...
Aston Carter
Rate: £450 - £500 per day
Posted: 20 May 2013