Tester Contracts in Wales
 
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 Tester role in IT contracts advertised for the Wales region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited 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 advertised for the Wales region.

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
Tester
Rank 30 48 41
Rank change year-on-year
+18 -7
Contract jobs requiring a Tester 13 8 18
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Wales 3.044% 1.399% 2.711%
As % of the Job Titles category 3.266% 1.498% 2.941%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 5 2
Average daily rate £360 £200 £250
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+80.00% -20.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £251 £200 £190
10% offered a daily rate of more than £408 £245 £310
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £300 £275
% change year-on-year
+8.33% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £29.00 £27.75 £20.50
% change year-on-year
+4.50% +35.36%
All Job Titles
Wales
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category		 398 534 612
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Wales 93.21% 93.36% 92.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 235 258 281
Average daily rate £350 £340 £338
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+2.94% +0.74%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £210 £155 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £500 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 27 33
Average hourly rate £15.00 £14.50 £21.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+3.44% -30.95%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.35 £10.75 £10.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £36.75 £20.00 £42.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
Tester
UK

Tester
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Wales Tester Jobs Demand Trend

Tester
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Tester across the Wales region.

Wales Tester Daily Rate Trend

Tester
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Wales Tester Daily Rate Histogram

Tester
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Tester across the Wales region.

Wales Tester Hourly Rate Trend

Tester
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Tester within the Wales region 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
West Wales - 7 £420 -
South Wales -1 6 £325 +62.50%
Tester
UK

Tester
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Wales region that cited 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 Tester in their job title.

1 11 (47.83%) Security Cleared
2 10 (43.48%) Rational Functional Tester
2 10 (43.48%) Test Scripting
2 10 (43.48%) SQL
3 9 (39.13%) C
3 9 (39.13%) LoadRunner
4 8 (34.78%) Test Automation
5 7 (30.43%) SC Cleared
5 7 (30.43%) IBM
6 6 (26.09%) SQLPlus
7 5 (21.74%) UNIX
7 5 (21.74%) Java
7 5 (21.74%) Web Development
7 5 (21.74%) HP Quality Center
8 4 (17.39%) Test Management
8 4 (17.39%) Perl
8 4 (17.39%) HTML
8 4 (17.39%) SOAP
8 4 (17.39%) XML
8 4 (17.39%) Shell Script
8 4 (17.39%) TestDirector
9 3 (13.04%) Regression Testing
9 3 (13.04%) Windows
9 3 (13.04%) Selenium
10 2 (8.696%) QA
10 2 (8.696%) .NET
10 2 (8.696%) Agile Software Development
11 1 (4.348%) TDD
11 1 (4.348%) Banking
11 1 (4.348%) Software Testing

Tester
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 4 (17.39%) HTML
1 4 (17.39%) SOAP
1 4 (17.39%) XML
2 2 (8.696%) .NET
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (26.09%) SQLPlus
2 1 (4.348%) TOAD
Development Applications
1 10 (43.48%) Rational Functional Tester
2 9 (39.13%) LoadRunner
3 4 (17.39%) TestDirector
4 3 (13.04%) Selenium
General
1 1 (4.348%) Banking
1 1 (4.348%) Finance
Operating Systems
1 5 (21.74%) UNIX
2 3 (13.04%) Windows
3 1 (4.348%) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (43.48%) Test Scripting
2 8 (34.78%) Test Automation
3 5 (21.74%) Web Development
4 4 (17.39%) Test Management
5 3 (13.04%) Regression Testing
6 2 (8.696%) Agile Software Development
7 1 (4.348%) TDD
7 1 (4.348%) Software Testing
7 1 (4.348%) Service Management
7 1 (4.348%) E-Commerce
7 1 (4.348%) Test Strategy
7 1 (4.348%) Automation Testing
7 1 (4.348%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 10 (43.48%) SQL
2 9 (39.13%) C
3 5 (21.74%) Java
4 4 (17.39%) Perl
4 4 (17.39%) Shell Script
5 1 (4.348%) PL/SQL
5 1 (4.348%) Python
5 1 (4.348%) Jython
Qualifications
1 11 (47.83%) Security Cleared
2 7 (30.43%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (8.696%) QA
System Software
1 1 (4.348%) Active Directory
1 1 (4.348%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 5 (21.74%) HP Quality Center
2 1 (4.348%) SCCM
Vendors
1 7 (30.43%) IBM
2 1 (4.348%) HP
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