Test Team Leader Contracts
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Hourly Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for the Test Team Leader 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 Team Leader 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
Testing Team Lead
Rank 509 540 530
Rank change year-on-year
+31 -10
Contract jobs requiring a Test Team Leader 21 38 58
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.045% 0.065% 0.095%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.049% 0.070% 0.102%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 8 36
Average daily rate £330 £400 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-17.50% +6.66%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £313 £318 £266
10% offered a daily rate of more than £375 £450 £425
UK excluding London average daily rate £330 £325 £375
% change year-on-year
+1.53% -13.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Average hourly rate - £33.50 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £33.50 -
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 Team Leader
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Test Team Leader Jobs Demand Trend

Test Team Leader
Daily Rate Trend

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

Test Team Leader Daily Rate Trend

Test Team Leader
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Test Team Leader Hourly Rate Trend

Test Team Leader
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 Team Leader 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 +47 20 £330 -17.50%
South East +26 7 £353 -
London +20 7 £338 -20.58%
West Midlands +12 5 £323 -
Shropshire - 3 £330 -
West Sussex +15 2 £350 -
City of London +12 2 £350 -22.22%
Oxfordshire - 2 £375 -
Hampshire - 2 £330 -
Telford - 2 £330 -
Basingstoke - 2 £330 -
Abingdon - 2 £375 -
West Yorkshire +2 1 - -
Yorkshire -2 1 - -
Scotland -16 1 - -
Berkshire - 1 - -
Hounslow - 1 - -
Glasgow - 1 - -
Chichester - 1 £375 -
Bradford - 1 - -
Bracknell - 1 - -
Birmingham - 1 £315 -

Test Team Leader
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 16 (32.65%) SQL
2 10 (20.41%) System Testing
3 9 (18.37%) User Acceptance Testing
3 9 (18.37%) Test Scripting
3 9 (18.37%) C#
3 9 (18.37%) .NET
3 9 (18.37%) ISEB
4 8 (16.33%) Java
4 8 (16.33%) QA
5 7 (14.29%) Integration Testing
5 7 (14.29%) Selenium
5 7 (14.29%) FitNesse
5 7 (14.29%) Python
5 7 (14.29%) Finance
6 6 (12.24%) C++
6 6 (12.24%) C
6 6 (12.24%) Perl
6 6 (12.24%) SQL Server
6 6 (12.24%) Manual Testing
6 6 (12.24%) TDD
7 5 (10.20%) WATIR
7 5 (10.20%) Agile Software Development
7 5 (10.20%) WCF
7 5 (10.20%) Oracle
7 5 (10.20%) Visual Studio
7 5 (10.20%) JavaScript
7 5 (10.20%) XML
7 5 (10.20%) SOA
7 5 (10.20%) BizTalk Server
7 5 (10.20%) WebDriver

Test Team Leader
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 9 (18.37%) .NET
2 5 (10.20%) XML
2 5 (10.20%) WCF
3 4 (8.163%) HTML
3 4 (8.163%) Web Services
4 2 (4.082%) soapUI
5 1 (2.041%) ASP.NET
5 1 (2.041%) SOAP
5 1 (2.041%) HTML5
5 1 (2.041%) Middleware
Application Platforms
1 5 (10.20%) BizTalk Server
2 2 (4.082%) IIS
2 2 (4.082%) SharePoint
3 1 (2.041%) Tomcat
3 1 (2.041%) CMS
3 1 (2.041%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 4 (8.163%) Open Workbench
2 2 (4.082%) MS Office
3 1 (2.041%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (6.122%) Prophet
2 2 (4.082%) Temenos T24
3 1 (2.041%) Oracle EBS R12
3 1 (2.041%) SAP GTS
3 1 (2.041%) Tridion
3 1 (2.041%) VisionPLUS
3 1 (2.041%) Dynamics CRM
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.082%) TCP/IP
2 1 (2.041%) VPN
2 1 (2.041%) LAN
2 1 (2.041%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (12.24%) SQL Server
2 3 (6.122%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (2.041%) Oracle OWB
3 1 (2.041%) SQL Server 2012
Development Applications
1 7 (14.29%) Selenium
1 7 (14.29%) FitNesse
2 5 (10.20%) WebDriver
2 5 (10.20%) Visual Studio
2 5 (10.20%) WATIR
2 5 (10.20%) SpecFlow
3 4 (8.163%) Team Foundation Server
4 3 (6.122%) JIRA
5 2 (4.082%) Subversion
5 2 (4.082%) Git (software)
5 2 (4.082%) Cucumber
6 1 (2.041%) Firebug
6 1 (2.041%) Fiddler
6 1 (2.041%) COOL:Gen
6 1 (2.041%) ClearCase
6 1 (2.041%) QuickTest Pro
6 1 (2.041%) LoadRunner
6 1 (2.041%) JMeter
6 1 (2.041%) Bugzilla
6 1 (2.041%) GitHub
General
1 7 (14.29%) Finance
2 1 (2.041%) Manufacturing
2 1 (2.041%) Banking
2 1 (2.041%) Retail
2 1 (2.041%) Pharmaceutical
2 1 (2.041%) Telecoms
Miscellaneous
1 2 (4.082%) Data Integration
1 2 (4.082%) SWIFT
2 1 (2.041%) DTV
2 1 (2.041%) Management Information System
2 1 (2.041%) APACS
2 1 (2.041%) STB
Operating Systems
1 4 (8.163%) UNIX
2 3 (6.122%) Linux
3 2 (4.082%) Windows
4 1 (2.041%) Windows XP
4 1 (2.041%) Windows Server 2003
4 1 (2.041%) SUSE
4 1 (2.041%) Android
4 1 (2.041%) Windows Server 2008
4 1 (2.041%) Windows 7
4 1 (2.041%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (20.41%) System Testing
2 9 (18.37%) Test Scripting
2 9 (18.37%) User Acceptance Testing
3 7 (14.29%) Integration Testing
4 6 (12.24%) Manual Testing
4 6 (12.24%) TDD
5 5 (10.20%) Agile Software Development
5 5 (10.20%) SOA
5 5 (10.20%) BDD
5 5 (10.20%) Test Strategy
6 4 (8.163%) Automated Testing
7 3 (6.122%) Regression Testing
7 3 (6.122%) Scrum
7 3 (6.122%) Migration
7 3 (6.122%) Waterfall
8 2 (4.082%) V-Model
8 2 (4.082%) Agile Testing
8 2 (4.082%) Stakeholder Management
8 2 (4.082%) E-Commerce
8 2 (4.082%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 16 (32.65%) SQL
2 9 (18.37%) C#
3 8 (16.33%) Java
4 7 (14.29%) Python
5 6 (12.24%) C++
5 6 (12.24%) C
5 6 (12.24%) Perl
6 5 (10.20%) JavaScript
7 2 (4.082%) Shell Script
8 1 (2.041%) Lua
8 1 (2.041%) Erlang
8 1 (2.041%) Bash shell
8 1 (2.041%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 9 (18.37%) ISEB
2 4 (8.163%) ISTQB
3 2 (4.082%) Degree
3 2 (4.082%) SC Cleared
3 2 (4.082%) Security Cleared
3 2 (4.082%) ISEB Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (16.33%) QA
2 1 (2.041%) Solvency II
System Software
1 1 (2.041%) Active Directory
1 1 (2.041%) VMware ESX
1 1 (2.041%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (8.163%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 5 (10.20%) Oracle
2 3 (6.122%) Microsoft
3 2 (4.082%) HP
3 2 (4.082%) Mercator
3 2 (4.082%) T-Plan
4 1 (2.041%) SAP
4 1 (2.041%) OpenLink
4 1 (2.041%) VMware
4 1 (2.041%) Capita
4 1 (2.041%) Sitecore
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Posted: 3 May 2013
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