Test Specialist Contracts
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for the Test Specialist 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 Specialist in their job title over the 3 months to 17 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
17 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Test Specialist
Rank 511 561 557
Rank change year-on-year
+50 -4
Contract jobs requiring a Test Specialist 19 17 31
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.041% 0.029% 0.051%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.044% 0.031% 0.055%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 11 20
Average daily rate £355 £390 £427
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-9.03% -8.61%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £313 £313 £272
10% offered a daily rate of more than £430 £413 £525
UK excluding London average daily rate £313 £314 £375
% change year-on-year
-0.10% -16.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
Average hourly rate - - £19.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Job Titles
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category		 42797 53993 56874
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 92.24% 92.65% 92.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 24561 29781 30909
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 2134 2552 2929
Average hourly rate £18.50 £19.00 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-2.63% -5.00%
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 £41.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-5.40% -7.50%

Test Specialist
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Test Specialist Jobs Demand Trend

Test Specialist
Daily Rate Trend

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

Test Specialist Daily Rate Trend

Test Specialist
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Test Specialist within the UK over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

Test Specialist Daily Rate Histogram

Test Specialist
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Test Specialist Hourly Rate Trend

Test Specialist
Top 22 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Test Specialist within the UK over the 3 months to 17 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 +49 18 £340 -12.82%
South East +30 9 £313 +6.38%
London +15 5 £398 -3.51%
Bracknell - 4 - -
Berkshire - 4 - -
Hampshire - 4 £313 -
City of London +11 2 £384 -1.60%
Winchester - 2 £313 -
North West +15 1 £425 +34.92%
East of England +14 1 - -
Scotland - 1 £375 -
West Midlands - 1 £280 -
South West - 1 £340 -
Warwickshire - 1 £280 -
Essex - 1 - -
Cheshire - 1 £425 -
Buckinghamshire - 1 £313 -
Warrington - 1 £425 -
Milton Keynes - 1 £313 -
Edinburgh - 1 £375 -
Basingstoke - 1 - -
Basildon - 1 - -

Test Specialist
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK that cited Test Specialist 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 Specialist in their job title.

1 9 (29.03%) Test Scripting
1 9 (29.03%) Security Cleared
1 9 (29.03%) Finance
2 8 (25.81%) SC Cleared
3 5 (16.13%) Test Automation
3 5 (16.13%) User Acceptance Testing
3 5 (16.13%) Selenium
3 5 (16.13%) SQL
3 5 (16.13%) SAP
4 4 (12.90%) Java
4 4 (12.90%) Windows
4 4 (12.90%) QuickTest Pro
4 4 (12.90%) LoadRunner
4 4 (12.90%) Telecoms
4 4 (12.90%) Performance Testing
4 4 (12.90%) Test Management
5 3 (9.677%) HP Quality Center
5 3 (9.677%) Open Source
5 3 (9.677%) BDD
5 3 (9.677%) Scrum
5 3 (9.677%) Business Intelligence
5 3 (9.677%) HP
5 3 (9.677%) C#
5 3 (9.677%) UNIX
5 3 (9.677%) Oracle
6 2 (6.452%) SQL Server
6 2 (6.452%) VBScript
6 2 (6.452%) Web Services
6 2 (6.452%) Business Objects
6 2 (6.452%) Perl

Test Specialist
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK that cited Test Specialist 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 Specialist in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 2 (6.452%) Web Services
1 2 (6.452%) WebSphere
1 2 (6.452%) soapUI
2 1 (3.226%) ASP.NET MVC
2 1 (3.226%) .NET
2 1 (3.226%) ASP.NET
Application Platforms
1 1 (3.226%) WebSphere Application Server
1 1 (3.226%) SharePoint
1 1 (3.226%) LiveLink
1 1 (3.226%) IBM HTTP Server
Business Applications
1 1 (3.226%) Oracle 11i
1 1 (3.226%) Oracle EBS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.226%) SMS
1 1 (3.226%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (6.452%) SQL Server
1 2 (6.452%) Oracle 8/8i
1 2 (6.452%) Data Mining
1 2 (6.452%) BusinessObjects
2 1 (3.226%) SAP BI
2 1 (3.226%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (3.226%) DB2
Development Applications
1 5 (16.13%) Selenium
2 4 (12.90%) QuickTest Pro
2 4 (12.90%) LoadRunner
3 2 (6.452%) JMeter
3 2 (6.452%) NUnit
3 2 (6.452%) TestPartner
3 2 (6.452%) Firebug
3 2 (6.452%) Fiddler
3 2 (6.452%) WebDriver
3 2 (6.452%) Cucumber
4 1 (3.226%) SpecFlow
4 1 (3.226%) MonkeyTalk
4 1 (3.226%) Robotium
4 1 (3.226%) Rational Performance Tester
4 1 (3.226%) MSI
General
1 9 (29.03%) Finance
2 4 (12.90%) Telecoms
3 2 (6.452%) Banking
3 2 (6.452%) Retail
3 2 (6.452%) Billing
4 1 (3.226%) Retail Banking
4 1 (3.226%) Front Office
Miscellaneous
1 3 (9.677%) Open Source
2 2 (6.452%) Mobile App
2 2 (6.452%) EPoS
3 1 (3.226%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 4 (12.90%) Windows
2 3 (9.677%) UNIX
3 2 (6.452%) AIX
3 2 (6.452%) Windows Server 2008
3 2 (6.452%) Windows 7
4 1 (3.226%) Windows 8
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (29.03%) Test Scripting
2 5 (16.13%) User Acceptance Testing
2 5 (16.13%) Test Automation
3 4 (12.90%) Performance Testing
3 4 (12.90%) Test Management
4 3 (9.677%) BDD
4 3 (9.677%) Business Intelligence
4 3 (9.677%) Scrum
5 2 (6.452%) SOA
5 2 (6.452%) ETL
5 2 (6.452%) Regression Testing
5 2 (6.452%) Test Strategy
5 2 (6.452%) Data Migration
5 2 (6.452%) Integration Testing
5 2 (6.452%) Migration
6 1 (3.226%) Stakeholder Management
6 1 (3.226%) E-Commerce
6 1 (3.226%) Capacity Planning
6 1 (3.226%) E-business
6 1 (3.226%) MVC
Programming Languages
1 5 (16.13%) SQL
2 4 (12.90%) Java
3 3 (9.677%) C#
4 2 (6.452%) Groovy
4 2 (6.452%) Perl
4 2 (6.452%) VBScript
5 1 (3.226%) VB
5 1 (3.226%) VBA
5 1 (3.226%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 9 (29.03%) Security Cleared
2 8 (25.81%) SC Cleared
3 1 (3.226%) ISEB
3 1 (3.226%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.452%) QA
System Software
1 2 (6.452%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (3.226%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (9.677%) HP Quality Center
2 2 (6.452%) SCCM
3 1 (3.226%) Splunk
Vendors
1 5 (16.13%) SAP
2 3 (9.677%) Oracle
2 3 (9.677%) HP
3 2 (6.452%) VMware
3 2 (6.452%) Business Objects
3 2 (6.452%) IBM
Performance Test Specialist
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Posted: 17 May 2013
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