The first table below looks at the demand for the Test Consultant role in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Test Consultant 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
Test Consultant
Rank 461 524 540
Rank change year-on-year
+63 +16
Contract jobs requiring a Test Consultant 73 62 46
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.155% 0.105% 0.076%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.168% 0.113% 0.082%
Number of daily rates quoted 37 39 21
Average daily rate £330 £350 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-5.71% -6.66%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £213 £212
10% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £440 £430
UK excluding London average daily rate £344 £310 £375
% change year-on-year
+10.88% -17.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Average hourly rate £45.00 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £45.00 - -
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%

Test Consultant
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Test Consultant Jobs Demand Trend

Test Consultant
Daily Rate Trend

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

Test Consultant Daily Rate Trend

Test Consultant
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Test Consultant Daily Rate Histogram

Test Consultant
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Test Consultant Hourly Rate Trend

Test Consultant
Top 30 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Test Consultant 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 +65 64 £323 -5.14%
London +34 30 £300 -14.28%
South East +30 18 £351 +20.60%
Hampshire +12 15 £351 +27.72%
North West +9 7 £250 -31.03%
East Midlands - 3 - -
Portsmouth - 3 £425 -
Lancashire - 3 £290 -
South West +27 2 £290 -42.00%
East of England +13 2 £400 +33.33%
Manchester - 2 £258 -
Bristol +10 1 £290 -42.00%
Hertfordshire +9 1 £400 +33.33%
City of London +8 1 £425 +21.42%
Edinburgh +2 1 - -
Scotland -18 1 - -
West Midlands - 1 £325 -
Gloucestershire - 1 - -
East Sussex - 1 - -
Derbyshire - 1 - -
Cambridgeshire - 1 - -
Tewkesbury - 1 - -
Surrey - 1 - -
Nottinghamshire - 1 - -
Middlesex - 1 - -
Lincolnshire - 1 - -
Nottingham - 1 - -
Brighton - 1 - -
Andover - 1 £375 -
Derby - 1 - -

Test Consultant
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 30 (23.26%) SQL
2 25 (19.38%) Security Cleared
3 24 (18.60%) Test Automation
3 24 (18.60%) HP Quality Center
4 22 (17.05%) Performance Testing
5 20 (15.50%) SAP
5 20 (15.50%) HP
6 19 (14.73%) ISEB
6 19 (14.73%) QuickTest Pro
6 19 (14.73%) Selenium
7 18 (13.95%) Automated Testing
7 18 (13.95%) Oracle
8 17 (13.18%) Finance
9 16 (12.40%) Windows
9 16 (12.40%) QA
10 14 (10.85%) Test Scripting
10 14 (10.85%) SC Cleared
11 13 (10.08%) Agile Software Development
11 13 (10.08%) .NET
11 13 (10.08%) Java
11 13 (10.08%) Integration Testing
12 12 (9.302%) Banking
13 11 (8.527%) IBM
13 11 (8.527%) Microsoft
13 11 (8.527%) Analytics
14 10 (7.752%) Data Warehouse
14 10 (7.752%) Migration
14 10 (7.752%) VMware
15 9 (6.977%) LoadRunner
15 9 (6.977%) C#

Test Consultant
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 13 (10.08%) .NET
2 7 (5.426%) Web Services
3 6 (4.651%) soapUI
4 4 (3.101%) XML
4 4 (3.101%) SOAP
5 3 (2.326%) COM
5 3 (2.326%) MDX
6 2 (1.550%) REST
7 1 (0.775%) XML Schema
7 1 (0.775%) HTML
7 1 (0.775%) Ruby on Rails
7 1 (0.775%) WebSphere
Application Platforms
1 7 (5.426%) SharePoint
2 6 (4.651%) MSMQ
3 4 (3.101%) IIS
4 1 (0.775%) ArcGIS
4 1 (0.775%) Lync
4 1 (0.775%) Magento
Applications
1 2 (1.550%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 5 (3.876%) SAP MM
2 2 (1.550%) SAP Oil and Gas
2 2 (1.550%) SAP HR
2 2 (1.550%) SAP SD
3 1 (0.775%) SAP FI
3 1 (0.775%) SAP WM
3 1 (0.775%) BASE24
3 1 (0.775%) Maximo
3 1 (0.775%) SAP HCM
Communications & Networking
1 5 (3.876%) HTTP
2 4 (3.101%) Internet
3 3 (2.326%) Intranet
3 3 (2.326%) Firewall
4 2 (1.550%) SNMP
4 2 (1.550%) CTI
5 1 (0.775%) HTTPS
5 1 (0.775%) FTP
5 1 (0.775%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.775%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (7.752%) Data Warehouse
2 9 (6.977%) SQL Server
3 8 (6.202%) Oracle BI EE
4 7 (5.426%) Oracle 8/8i
5 6 (4.651%) Oracle 11g
5 6 (4.651%) Oracle Reports
5 6 (4.651%) Oracle 10g
6 5 (3.876%) SQL Server 2008
6 5 (3.876%) SQL Server 2005
7 4 (3.101%) Oracle OWB
8 3 (2.326%) SQL Server 2000
8 3 (2.326%) TOAD
8 3 (2.326%) DB2
8 3 (2.326%) Microsoft Analysis Services
9 2 (1.550%) SQL Server 2012
10 1 (0.775%) SAP BI
10 1 (0.775%) GIS
10 1 (0.775%) RDBMS
10 1 (0.775%) SAP BW
Development Applications
1 19 (14.73%) QuickTest Pro
1 19 (14.73%) Selenium
2 9 (6.977%) LoadRunner
3 8 (6.202%) Rational Performance Tester
4 7 (5.426%) WebDriver
5 5 (3.876%) JBehave
5 5 (3.876%) Cucumber
5 5 (3.876%) Oracle APEX
6 4 (3.101%) JMeter
7 3 (2.326%) Team Foundation Server
8 2 (1.550%) WATIR
8 2 (1.550%) FitNesse
8 2 (1.550%) Eclipse
9 1 (0.775%) Bugzilla
9 1 (0.775%) JUnit
9 1 (0.775%) Visual Studio
9 1 (0.775%) OpenSTA
9 1 (0.775%) Rational Functional Tester
General
1 17 (13.18%) Finance
2 12 (9.302%) Banking
3 8 (6.202%) Investment Banking
4 7 (5.426%) Retail
5 4 (3.101%) Manufacturing
6 3 (2.326%) Pharmaceutical
7 2 (1.550%) Marketing
7 2 (1.550%) Dutch Language
8 1 (0.775%) Publishing
8 1 (0.775%) Aerospace
8 1 (0.775%) French Language
Miscellaneous
1 5 (3.876%) NHS
2 4 (3.101%) Cryptography
3 2 (1.550%) FMCG
3 2 (1.550%) Mobile App
4 1 (0.775%) Mainframe
4 1 (0.775%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 16 (12.40%) Windows
2 9 (6.977%) UNIX
3 5 (3.876%) Linux
3 5 (3.876%) Android
4 2 (1.550%) Windows Server 2012
5 1 (0.775%) Windows Server 2003
5 1 (0.775%) Windows XP
5 1 (0.775%) Windows 2000
5 1 (0.775%) Windows Phone
5 1 (0.775%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (18.60%) Test Automation
2 22 (17.05%) Performance Testing
3 18 (13.95%) Automated Testing
4 14 (10.85%) Test Scripting
5 13 (10.08%) Agile Software Development
5 13 (10.08%) Integration Testing
6 11 (8.527%) Analytics
7 10 (7.752%) Migration
8 8 (6.202%) ITIL
8 8 (6.202%) PRINCE2
9 7 (5.426%) Test Management
10 6 (4.651%) Software Testing
10 6 (4.651%) User Acceptance Testing
10 6 (4.651%) Business Intelligence
10 6 (4.651%) Project Management
11 5 (3.876%) Regression Testing
11 5 (3.876%) BDD
11 5 (3.876%) Manual Testing
12 4 (3.101%) Ethical Hacking
12 4 (3.101%) System Testing
Programming Languages
1 30 (23.26%) SQL
2 13 (10.08%) Java
3 9 (6.977%) C#
4 6 (4.651%) Python
5 4 (3.101%) C++
5 4 (3.101%) Shell Script
6 3 (2.326%) C
6 3 (2.326%) Ruby
7 2 (1.550%) PHP
8 1 (0.775%) PL/SQL
8 1 (0.775%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 25 (19.38%) Security Cleared
2 19 (14.73%) ISEB
3 14 (10.85%) SC Cleared
4 9 (6.977%) ISTQB
5 4 (3.101%) CEH
5 4 (3.101%) HP AIS
6 3 (2.326%) ISEB Practitioner
6 3 (2.326%) Degree
7 2 (1.550%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (12.40%) QA
System Software
1 6 (4.651%) Oracle RAC
1 6 (4.651%) Active Directory
2 4 (3.101%) Terminal Services
3 3 (2.326%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 24 (18.60%) HP Quality Center
2 1 (0.775%) Oracle Identity Manager
Vendors
1 20 (15.50%) SAP
1 20 (15.50%) HP
2 18 (13.95%) Oracle
3 11 (8.527%) IBM
3 11 (8.527%) Microsoft
4 10 (7.752%) VMware
5 8 (6.202%) Sybase
5 8 (6.202%) Siebel
6 4 (3.101%) Capita
7 2 (1.550%) Siemens
8 1 (0.775%) Primavera
8 1 (0.775%) MicroStrategy
8 1 (0.775%) Informatica
8 1 (0.775%) Compuware
8 1 (0.775%) Misys
8 1 (0.775%) Twitter
8 1 (0.775%) Syclo
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