The first table below looks at the demand for the Test Coordinator 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 Coordinator 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 Coordinator
Rank 500 543 552
Rank change year-on-year
+43 +9
Contract jobs requiring a Test Coordinator 34 43 34
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.072% 0.073% 0.056%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.078% 0.078% 0.061%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 19 16
Average daily rate £330 £365 £396
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-9.58% -7.88%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £224 £245 £275
10% offered a daily rate of more than £490 £455 £405
UK excluding London average daily rate £330 £283 £350
% change year-on-year
+16.81% -19.28%
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%

Test Coordinator
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Test Coordinator Jobs Demand Trend

Test Coordinator
Daily Rate Trend

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

Test Coordinator Daily Rate Trend

Test Coordinator
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Test Coordinator Daily Rate Histogram

Test Coordinator
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Test Coordinator Hourly Rate Trend

Test Coordinator
Top 18 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Test Coordinator 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 +48 31 £340 -8.10%
London +36 18 £356 -20.83%
South East +14 7 - -
Surrey +21 4 - -
City of London +8 3 £550 +22.22%
West Midlands +6 3 £330 +24.52%
Warwickshire -8 3 £330 +24.52%
Scotland -16 2 £225 -10.00%
Edinburgh - 2 £225 -
Berkshire - 2 - -
Reading - 2 - -
South West +28 1 - -
Stratford-upon-Avon -1 1 - -
West Drayton - 1 £363 -
Oxford - 1 - -
Oxfordshire - 1 - -
Wiltshire - 1 - -
South Coast - 1 - -

Test Coordinator
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 22 (39.29%) User Acceptance Testing
2 16 (28.57%) Finance
3 15 (26.79%) ISEB
4 13 (23.21%) Software Testing
5 12 (21.43%) Test Scripting
6 11 (19.64%) Stakeholder Management
6 11 (19.64%) SAP
7 9 (16.07%) ISTQB
7 9 (16.07%) Test Management
8 6 (10.71%) Automated Testing
8 6 (10.71%) UNIX
8 6 (10.71%) ETL
8 6 (10.71%) Microsoft
9 5 (8.929%) Windows
9 5 (8.929%) SQL
9 5 (8.929%) Regression Testing
9 5 (8.929%) Banking
9 5 (8.929%) HP Quality Center
10 4 (7.143%) Integration Testing
10 4 (7.143%) System Testing
10 4 (7.143%) JIRA
10 4 (7.143%) Migration
10 4 (7.143%) Web Services
10 4 (7.143%) UML
10 4 (7.143%) MS Excel
10 4 (7.143%) Rational Rose
11 3 (5.357%) Data Warehouse
11 3 (5.357%) Apache
11 3 (5.357%) Python
11 3 (5.357%) Linux

Test Coordinator
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 4 (7.143%) Web Services
2 3 (5.357%) Django
3 2 (3.571%) AppFabric
3 2 (3.571%) WCF
3 2 (3.571%) ASP.NET
3 2 (3.571%) .NET
4 1 (1.786%) SOAP
4 1 (1.786%) XML
4 1 (1.786%) XSLT
4 1 (1.786%) WSDL
Application Platforms
1 3 (5.357%) Apache
2 2 (3.571%) nginx
2 2 (3.571%) IIS
3 1 (1.786%) Lotus Notes
3 1 (1.786%) Drupal
Applications
1 4 (7.143%) MS Excel
2 2 (3.571%) MS Office
3 1 (1.786%) MS PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 3 (5.357%) Taleo
2 1 (1.786%) Summit
2 1 (1.786%) SAP MM
2 1 (1.786%) SAP HCM
2 1 (1.786%) SAP PLM
2 1 (1.786%) SAP ERP
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.571%) Internet
2 1 (1.786%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (5.357%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (3.571%) DataStage
2 2 (3.571%) MySQL
2 2 (3.571%) SQL Server
2 2 (3.571%) DB2
3 1 (1.786%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 4 (7.143%) JIRA
1 4 (7.143%) Rational Rose
2 2 (3.571%) Selenium
2 2 (3.571%) WinRunner
General
1 16 (28.57%) Finance
2 5 (8.929%) Banking
3 3 (5.357%) French Language
3 3 (5.357%) Investment Banking
4 2 (3.571%) Manufacturing
4 2 (3.571%) Front Office
5 1 (1.786%) Automotive
Miscellaneous
1 3 (5.357%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
1 3 (5.357%) Smart Meter
2 2 (3.571%) Open Source
2 2 (3.571%) SWIFT
3 1 (1.786%) Derivative
Operating Systems
1 6 (10.71%) UNIX
2 5 (8.929%) Windows
3 3 (5.357%) Linux
3 3 (5.357%) Windows 7
4 2 (3.571%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (39.29%) User Acceptance Testing
2 13 (23.21%) Software Testing
3 12 (21.43%) Test Scripting
4 11 (19.64%) Stakeholder Management
5 9 (16.07%) Test Management
6 6 (10.71%) Automated Testing
6 6 (10.71%) ETL
7 5 (8.929%) Regression Testing
8 4 (7.143%) Integration Testing
8 4 (7.143%) System Testing
8 4 (7.143%) Migration
8 4 (7.143%) UML
9 2 (3.571%) Infrastructure Management
9 2 (3.571%) Agile Software Development
9 2 (3.571%) Document Management
9 2 (3.571%) Data Analysis
9 2 (3.571%) Supplier Management
9 2 (3.571%) Unit Testing
9 2 (3.571%) Release Management
9 2 (3.571%) Configuration Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (8.929%) SQL
2 3 (5.357%) Python
3 2 (3.571%) Shell Script
3 2 (3.571%) C
3 2 (3.571%) Perl
4 1 (1.786%) PHP
4 1 (1.786%) JavaScript
4 1 (1.786%) VBA
Qualifications
1 15 (26.79%) ISEB
2 9 (16.07%) ISTQB
3 3 (5.357%) Degree
4 2 (3.571%) PRINCE2 Certification
5 1 (1.786%) Postgraduate
5 1 (1.786%) ISEB Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.786%) QA
System Software
1 2 (3.571%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (8.929%) HP Quality Center
2 2 (3.571%) SCOM
3 1 (1.786%) Control-M
Vendors
1 11 (19.64%) SAP
2 6 (10.71%) Microsoft
3 3 (5.357%) Capita
4 2 (3.571%) VMware
5 1 (1.786%) IBM
5 1 (1.786%) Murex
5 1 (1.786%) HP
5 1 (1.786%) Lotus
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Posted: 20 May 2013