West Midlands TestDirector Contracts

This section looks at the demand for HP TestDirector for Quality Center skills within the West Midlands region with a comparison to our Development Applications category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited TestDirector over the 3 months to 20 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Abingdon Basildon Basingstoke Bath Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Bracknell Bradford Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Cheltenham Cheshire Chester City of London County Antrim Crawley Dartford Devon Docklands, London Dorset East Anglia East Midlands East of England Edinburgh England Essex Farnborough Gatwick Glasgow Gloucestershire Guildford Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harlow Havant Hertfordshire Kent Leeds Lincolnshire Liverpool London M4 Corridor Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Upon Tyne Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Plymouth Pudsey Reading Scotland Solihull Somerset South East South Wales South West St Albans Staffordshire Stevenage Surrey Swansea Swindon Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warrington Watford West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Wiltshire Windsor Wirral Wokingham York Yorkshire	3 months to 20 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	114	65
Rank change on same period last year	-49
Matching contract IT job ads	16	69
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.021 %	0.069 %
As % of the category below	6.723 %	20.35 %
Daily rates quoted	5	16
Average minimum daily rate	£250	£296
Average daily rate	£265	£305
% change on same period last year	-13.05 %
Average maximum daily rate	£280	£314
UK excluding London average daily rate	£298	£317
% change on same period last year	-5.76 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	2
Average minimum hourly rate	-	£26.00
Average hourly rate	-	£26.00
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	£26.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£39.21	£27.98
% change on same period last year	+40.12 %
Development Applications West Midlands
Matching contract IT job ads	238	339
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.314 %	0.338 %
Daily rates quoted	49	49
Average minimum daily rate	£286	£287
Average daily rate	£310	£305
% change on same period last year	+1.70 %
Average maximum daily rate	£334	£322
UK excluding London average daily rate	£327	£334
% change on same period last year	-2.18 %
Hourly rates quoted	13	13
Average minimum hourly rate	£23.95	£22.89
Average hourly rate	£28.00	£25.84
% change on same period last year	+8.35 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£32.05	£28.79
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£33.63	£33.53
% change on same period last year	+0.31 %
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We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing TestDirector across the West Midlands region as a proportion of the total demand within the Development Applications category.

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Daily Rate Trend

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

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Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing TestDirector across the West Midlands region over the 3 months to 20 August 2008.

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Hourly Rate Trend

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

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Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing TestDirector within the West Midlands region over the 3 months to 20 August 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
Birmingham	+6	3	£225	-6.25 %
Solihull	+4	2	-	-
Staffordshire	-18	1	-	-

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the West Midlands region citing TestDirector 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 TestDirector.

1 14 (42.42 %) SQL 2 13 (39.39 %) Oracle 3 12 (36.36 %) Migration 4 11 (33.33 %) Finance 4 11 (33.33 %) Pensions 5 10 (30.30 %) ISEB 5 10 (30.30 %) Data Migration 6 9 (27.27 %) User Acceptance Testing 7 7 (21.21 %) VB 8 5 (15.15 %) ClearQuest 8 5 (15.15 %) Security Cleared 9 4 (12.12 %) V-Model 9 4 (12.12 %) Regression Testing 9 4 (12.12 %) WinRunner 9 4 (12.12 %) PL/SQL

9 4 (12.12 %) Manual Testing 9 4 (12.12 %) QA 9 4 (12.12 %) Health 10 3 (9.091 %) Java 10 3 (9.091 %) C 10 3 (9.091 %) OLAP 10 3 (9.091 %) UNIX 10 3 (9.091 %) Windows 10 3 (9.091 %) Datawarehouse 10 3 (9.091 %) QuickTest Pro 10 3 (9.091 %) LoadRunner 10 3 (9.091 %) Business Intelligence 10 3 (9.091 %) RDBMS 11 2 (6.061 %) HP 11 2 (6.061 %) Management Information System

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the West Midlands region citing TestDirector 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 TestDirector. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 2 (6.061 %) .NET 2 1 (3.030 %) HTML 2 1 (3.030 %) XML	Application Platforms 1 1 (3.030 %) SAS 1 1 (3.030 %) MQSeries 1 1 (3.030 %) CICS
Communications & Networking 1 2 (6.061 %) GSM	Database & Business Intelligence 1 3 (9.091 %) OLAP 1 3 (9.091 %) Datawarehouse 1 3 (9.091 %) RDBMS 2 2 (6.061 %) SQL Server 2 2 (6.061 %) Oracle OLAP 3 1 (3.030 %) DB2 3 1 (3.030 %) TOAD 3 1 (3.030 %) Easytrieve
Development Applications 1 5 (15.15 %) ClearQuest 2 4 (12.12 %) WinRunner 3 3 (9.091 %) QuickTest Pro 3 3 (9.091 %) LoadRunner 4 1 (3.030 %) PVCS	General 1 11 (33.33 %) Finance 1 11 (33.33 %) Pensions 2 4 (12.12 %) Health 3 1 (3.030 %) Government
Job Titles 1 12 (36.36 %) Analyst 2 11 (33.33 %) Tester 3 10 (30.30 %) Test Analyst 4 4 (12.12 %) QA Tester 5 3 (9.091 %) QA Engineer 5 3 (9.091 %) Systems Tester 6 2 (6.061 %) Team Leader 6 2 (6.061 %) UAT Analyst 6 2 (6.061 %) Data Migration Analyst 6 2 (6.061 %) Test Team Leader 6 2 (6.061 %) Data Analyst 6 2 (6.061 %) Software Tester 7 1 (3.030 %) Test Coordinator 7 1 (3.030 %) Functional Analyst 7 1 (3.030 %) Integration Engineer 7 1 (3.030 %) Applications Tester 7 1 (3.030 %) Technical Test Analyst 7 1 (3.030 %) Functional Test Analyst 7 1 (3.030 %) Test and Integration Engineer 7 1 (3.030 %) Web Tester	Miscellaneous 1 2 (6.061 %) Management Information System 2 1 (3.030 %) VSAM
Operating Systems 1 3 (9.091 %) UNIX 1 3 (9.091 %) Windows	Processes & Methodologies 1 12 (36.36 %) Migration 2 10 (30.30 %) Data Migration 3 9 (27.27 %) User Acceptance Testing 4 5 (15.15 %) Security Cleared 5 4 (12.12 %) V-Model 5 4 (12.12 %) Regression Testing 5 4 (12.12 %) Manual Testing 6 3 (9.091 %) Business Intelligence 7 2 (6.061 %) Test Management 7 2 (6.061 %) Agile Software Development 8 1 (3.030 %) Software Testing 8 1 (3.030 %) Use Case 8 1 (3.030 %) Test Scripting 8 1 (3.030 %) Load Testing 8 1 (3.030 %) E-Commerce 8 1 (3.030 %) Data Mapping
Programming Languages 1 14 (42.42 %) SQL 2 7 (21.21 %) VB 3 4 (12.12 %) PL/SQL 4 3 (9.091 %) Java 4 3 (9.091 %) C 5 1 (3.030 %) VBA 5 1 (3.030 %) COBOL 5 1 (3.030 %) JCL	Qualifications 1 10 (30.30 %) ISEB 2 1 (3.030 %) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 4 (12.12 %) QA	Systems Management 1 1 (3.030 %) AllFusion Endevor
Vendors 1 13 (39.39 %) Oracle 2 2 (6.061 %) HP 3 1 (3.030 %) FatWire 3 1 (3.030 %) Ericsson 3 1 (3.030 %) iSOFT