ISTQB Contracts in the West Midlands
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Hourly Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for ISTQB in IT contracts advertised for the West Midlands region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited ISTQB over the 3 months to 20 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 Qualifications for the West Midlands 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
20 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
International Software Testing Qualification Board (ISTQB)
Rank 88 82 84
Rank change year-on-year
-6 +2
Contract jobs citing ISTQB 7 21 8
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the West Midlands 0.421% 0.933% 0.429%
As % of the Qualifications category 2.692% 6.625% 2.730%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 9 4
Average daily rate £330 £305 £500
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+8.19% -39.00%
UK excluding London average daily rate £330 £303 £325
% change year-on-year
+9.09% -6.92%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.00 £31.50 £16.50
% change year-on-year
-4.76% +90.90%
All Qualifications
West Midlands
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Qualifications category		 260 317 293
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the West Midlands 15.64% 14.08% 15.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 122 145 132
Average daily rate £325 £300 £313
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+8.33% -4.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £175 £175 £175
10% offered a daily rate of more than £525 £438 £425
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 34 25
Average hourly rate £28.00 £17.50 £19.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+60.00% -7.89%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.50 £12.00 £12.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £65.00 £31.00 £37.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.50 £22.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year
- -10.00%
ISTQB
England

ISTQB
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing ISTQB across the West Midlands region as a proportion of the total demand within the Qualifications category.

West Midlands ISTQB Jobs Demand Trend

ISTQB
Daily Rate Trend

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

West Midlands ISTQB Daily Rate Trend

ISTQB
Hourly Rate Trend

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

West Midlands ISTQB Hourly Rate Trend

ISTQB
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing ISTQB within the West Midlands region over the 3 months to 20 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
Birmingham +7 3 £368 +16.66%
Shropshire +6 2 £330 +23.36%
Coventry 0 1 - -
Warwickshire -4 1 - -
ISTQB
England

ISTQB
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Midlands region citing ISTQB also 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 that cited ISTQB.

1 20 (95.24%) ISEB
2 9 (42.86%) Test Scripting
3 8 (38.10%) User Acceptance Testing
3 8 (38.10%) HP Quality Center
4 6 (28.57%) Test Management
4 6 (28.57%) Finance
4 6 (28.57%) SQL
5 5 (23.81%) Oracle
6 4 (19.05%) UNIX
6 4 (19.05%) Windows
6 4 (19.05%) Banking
6 4 (19.05%) Retail
6 4 (19.05%) Retail Banking
6 4 (19.05%) Cash Management
6 4 (19.05%) Test Strategy
6 4 (19.05%) Functional Testing
7 3 (14.29%) Waterfall
7 3 (14.29%) V-Model
7 3 (14.29%) Manual Testing
7 3 (14.29%) Financial Institution
7 3 (14.29%) XML
7 3 (14.29%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 3 (14.29%) Java
8 2 (9.524%) C#
8 2 (9.524%) .NET
8 2 (9.524%) HP
8 2 (9.524%) Telecoms
8 2 (9.524%) Migration
8 2 (9.524%) Stakeholder Management
8 2 (9.524%) Software Testing

ISTQB
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Midlands region citing ISTQB also 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 that cited ISTQB. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 3 (14.29%) XML
2 2 (9.524%) .NET
3 1 (4.762%) Web Services
3 1 (4.762%) HTML
3 1 (4.762%) .NET Framework
3 1 (4.762%) WCF
3 1 (4.762%) soapUI
Application Platforms
1 1 (4.762%) WebLogic
1 1 (4.762%) SharePoint
1 1 (4.762%) Zimbra
Applications
1 1 (4.762%) MS Excel
1 1 (4.762%) Open Workbench
Business Applications
1 1 (4.762%) Dynamics CRM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.762%) SQL Server
1 1 (4.762%) TOAD
1 1 (4.762%) Oracle OWB
Development Applications
1 1 (4.762%) Visual Studio
1 1 (4.762%) QuickTest Pro
1 1 (4.762%) LoadRunner
General
1 6 (28.57%) Finance
2 4 (19.05%) Banking
2 4 (19.05%) Retail
2 4 (19.05%) Retail Banking
3 3 (14.29%) Financial Institution
4 2 (9.524%) Telecoms
5 1 (4.762%) Manufacturing
5 1 (4.762%) Billing
Job Titles
1 12 (57.14%) Analyst
1 12 (57.14%) Test Analyst
2 4 (19.05%) Test Manager
3 3 (14.29%) Tester
3 3 (14.29%) Senior Analyst
3 3 (14.29%) Senior Test Analyst
4 2 (9.524%) Agile Test Analyst
5 1 (4.762%) Automation Tester
5 1 (4.762%) Lead Tester
5 1 (4.762%) Coordinator
5 1 (4.762%) Team Leader
5 1 (4.762%) Integration Tester
5 1 (4.762%) Programme Test Manager
5 1 (4.762%) Test Leader
5 1 (4.762%) Test Coordinator
5 1 (4.762%) Test Team Leader
5 1 (4.762%) Software Tester
5 1 (4.762%) Systems Tester
5 1 (4.762%) Programme Manager
Miscellaneous
1 3 (14.29%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 1 (4.762%) Mobile App
2 1 (4.762%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 4 (19.05%) UNIX
1 4 (19.05%) Windows
2 1 (4.762%) Linux
2 1 (4.762%) Windows Vista
2 1 (4.762%) Windows Server 2008
2 1 (4.762%) Windows 7
2 1 (4.762%) Windows 8
2 1 (4.762%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (42.86%) Test Scripting
2 8 (38.10%) User Acceptance Testing
3 6 (28.57%) Test Management
4 4 (19.05%) Test Strategy
4 4 (19.05%) Functional Testing
4 4 (19.05%) Cash Management
5 3 (14.29%) Waterfall
5 3 (14.29%) V-Model
5 3 (14.29%) Manual Testing
6 2 (9.524%) Time Management
6 2 (9.524%) Migration
6 2 (9.524%) Stakeholder Management
6 2 (9.524%) Agile Software Development
6 2 (9.524%) Software Testing
6 2 (9.524%) Project Planning
7 1 (4.762%) Matrix Management
7 1 (4.762%) Programme Management
7 1 (4.762%) CRM
7 1 (4.762%) Regression Testing
7 1 (4.762%) Data Migration
Programming Languages
1 6 (28.57%) SQL
2 3 (14.29%) Java
3 2 (9.524%) C#
4 1 (4.762%) JavaScript
4 1 (4.762%) Perl
4 1 (4.762%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 20 (95.24%) ISEB
2 2 (9.524%) Security Cleared
3 1 (4.762%) ISEB Practitioner
3 1 (4.762%) Degree
3 1 (4.762%) SC Cleared
3 1 (4.762%) BC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.762%) QA
Systems Management
1 8 (38.10%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 5 (23.81%) Oracle
2 2 (9.524%) HP
3 1 (4.762%) webMethods
3 1 (4.762%) Microsoft
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