Web Tester 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 Web Tester role in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Web Tester in their job title over the 3 months to 23 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
23 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Web Tester
Rank 524 538 531
Rank change year-on-year
+14 -7
Contract jobs requiring a Web Tester 17 27 55
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.037% 0.046% 0.089%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.040% 0.050% 0.096%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 18 34
Average daily rate £325 £303 £250
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.43% +21.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £210 £200 £203
10% offered a daily rate of more than £370 £350 £350
UK excluding London average daily rate £275 £315 £225
% change year-on-year
-12.69% +40.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 2
Average hourly rate £29.00 - £31.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £29.00 - £31.50
All Job Titles
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category		 42697 54001 57544
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 92.14% 92.51% 92.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 24521 29759 31287
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 2095 2581 2973
Average hourly rate £18.25 £18.50 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-1.35% -7.50%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.00 £11.00 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £41.88 £40.00 £41.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%

Web Tester
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Web Tester Jobs Demand Trend

Web Tester
Daily Rate Trend

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

Web Tester Daily Rate Trend

Web Tester
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Web Tester within the UK over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

Web Tester Daily Rate Histogram

Web Tester
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Web Tester Hourly Rate Trend

Web Tester
Top 14 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Web Tester within the UK over the 3 months to 23 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 +34 16 £333 +7.25%
London +22 8 £355 +24.38%
South East +24 6 £325 -7.14%
East Sussex - 2 - -
South West +29 1 - -
Surrey +18 1 - -
Home Counties - 1 - -
Scotland - 1 £275 -
East Midlands - 1 £225 -
Hampshire - 1 - -
Buckinghamshire - 1 £325 -
Southampton - 1 - -
Edinburgh - 1 £275 -
Brighton - 1 - -

Web Tester
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK that cited Web Tester 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 Web Tester in their job title.

1 13 (35.14%) Manual Testing
2 12 (32.43%) Web Testing
3 9 (24.32%) .NET
4 8 (21.62%) Java
4 8 (21.62%) SQL
4 8 (21.62%) Agile Software Development
4 8 (21.62%) Automated Testing
4 8 (21.62%) Selenium
5 6 (16.22%) WebDriver
5 6 (16.22%) TDD
5 6 (16.22%) Scrum
5 6 (16.22%) C#
6 5 (13.51%) ISEB
6 5 (13.51%) iPhone
6 5 (13.51%) BDD
7 4 (10.81%) iPad
7 4 (10.81%) Automation Testing
7 4 (10.81%) Test Scripting
7 4 (10.81%) Ruby
7 4 (10.81%) Windows
7 4 (10.81%) Microsoft
7 4 (10.81%) HP
8 3 (8.108%) HTML
8 3 (8.108%) JavaScript
8 3 (8.108%) J2EE
8 3 (8.108%) Oracle
8 3 (8.108%) SQL Server
8 3 (8.108%) Web Services
8 3 (8.108%) Ruby on Rails
8 3 (8.108%) QA

Web Tester
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK that cited Web Tester 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 Web Tester in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 9 (24.32%) .NET
2 3 (8.108%) HTML
2 3 (8.108%) J2EE
2 3 (8.108%) Web Services
2 3 (8.108%) Ruby on Rails
2 3 (8.108%) HTML5
3 2 (5.405%) RESTful
3 2 (5.405%) soapUI
3 2 (5.405%) WCF
3 2 (5.405%) SOAP
3 2 (5.405%) Spring
4 1 (2.703%) XML
4 1 (2.703%) XSLT
4 1 (2.703%) ASP.NET
4 1 (2.703%) CSS
4 1 (2.703%) jQuery
4 1 (2.703%) iPhone SDK
4 1 (2.703%) iOS SDK
Application Platforms
1 1 (2.703%) CMS
1 1 (2.703%) Drupal
Applications
1 2 (5.405%) MS Excel
2 1 (2.703%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 2 (5.405%) Firewall
2 1 (2.703%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (8.108%) SQL Server
1 3 (8.108%) SQL Server 2012
Development Applications
1 8 (21.62%) Selenium
2 6 (16.22%) WebDriver
3 3 (8.108%) Team Foundation Server
4 2 (5.405%) WATIR
5 1 (2.703%) TestPartner
5 1 (2.703%) JIRA
5 1 (2.703%) Xcode
5 1 (2.703%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 1 (2.703%) TeamCity
5 1 (2.703%) MSTest
5 1 (2.703%) Jenkins
5 1 (2.703%) SpecFlow
5 1 (2.703%) Hudson
5 1 (2.703%) Cucumber
General
1 2 (5.405%) Retail
2 1 (2.703%) Finance
2 1 (2.703%) Publishing
2 1 (2.703%) Investment Banking
2 1 (2.703%) Banking
Miscellaneous
1 5 (13.51%) iPhone
2 4 (10.81%) iPad
3 2 (5.405%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (5.405%) Open Source
3 2 (5.405%) iSeries
3 2 (5.405%) AS400
4 1 (2.703%) Blackberry
4 1 (2.703%) Computer Science
4 1 (2.703%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 4 (10.81%) Windows
2 3 (8.108%) Android
3 2 (5.405%) Apple iOS
3 2 (5.405%) Linux
4 1 (2.703%) Mac OS X
4 1 (2.703%) Windows Mobile
4 1 (2.703%) bada
4 1 (2.703%) Maemo
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (35.14%) Manual Testing
2 12 (32.43%) Web Testing
3 8 (21.62%) Agile Software Development
3 8 (21.62%) Automated Testing
4 6 (16.22%) TDD
4 6 (16.22%) Scrum
5 5 (13.51%) BDD
6 4 (10.81%) Automation Testing
6 4 (10.81%) Test Scripting
7 2 (5.405%) Security Testing
7 2 (5.405%) User Acceptance Testing
7 2 (5.405%) Performance Testing
7 2 (5.405%) Vulnerability Assessment
7 2 (5.405%) Penetration Testing
7 2 (5.405%) Regression Testing
8 1 (2.703%) Risk Management
8 1 (2.703%) Validation
8 1 (2.703%) Migration
8 1 (2.703%) UML
8 1 (2.703%) E-Commerce
Programming Languages
1 8 (21.62%) Java
1 8 (21.62%) SQL
2 6 (16.22%) C#
3 4 (10.81%) Ruby
4 3 (8.108%) JavaScript
5 2 (5.405%) Python
6 1 (2.703%) VB
6 1 (2.703%) PHP
Qualifications
1 5 (13.51%) ISEB
2 2 (5.405%) CEH
2 2 (5.405%) CISSP
3 1 (2.703%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (8.108%) QA
System Software
1 2 (5.405%) Hyper-V
2 1 (2.703%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (5.405%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 4 (10.81%) Microsoft
1 4 (10.81%) HP
2 3 (8.108%) Oracle
3 1 (2.703%) Symbian
3 1 (2.703%) VMware
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