West Midlands Tester Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for the Tester role in IT contracts within the West Midlands region compared to all other Job Titles we currently track. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Tester in their job title over the 3 months to 5 September 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Abingdon Aldershot Andover Atherstone Basildon Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Berkshire Birmingham Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentwood Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Cheshire Chester Chichester City of London Coventry Crawley Croydon Darlington Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset Durham East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh England Essex Exeter Farnborough Farnham Feltham Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Guildford Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harlow Harrogate Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire Hove Huddersfield Ipswich Kent Kingston Upon Thames Lancashire Leatherhead Leeds Liverpool London M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Nuneaton Oxford Oxfordshire Plymouth Portsmouth Preston Reading Runcorn Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Solihull Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southport Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stoke-on-Trent Suffolk Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Tadworth Telford Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Wallington Warrington Warwickshire Watford Welwyn West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Wiltshire Worcester Worcestershire York Yorkshire	3 months to 5 Sep 2008	Same period last year
Rank	61	65
Rank change on same period last year	+4
Matching contract IT job ads	65	79
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.088 %	0.078 %
As % of the category below	2.166 %	2.359 %
Daily rates quoted	14	21
Average minimum daily rate	£262	£252
Average daily rate	£279	£260
% change on same period last year	+7.00 %
Average maximum daily rate	£295	£269
UK excluding London average daily rate	£318	£297
% change on same period last year	+7.21 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	6
Average minimum hourly rate	-	£22.81
Average hourly rate	-	£23.60
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	£24.39
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£29.97	£29.19
% change on same period last year	+2.65 %
Job Titles West Midlands
Matching contract IT job ads	3001	3349
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	4.057 %	3.303 %
Daily rates quoted	750	771
Average minimum daily rate	£322	£326
Average daily rate	£343	£348
% change on same period last year	-1.41 %
Average maximum daily rate	£364	£370
UK excluding London average daily rate	£355	£355
% change on same period last year	-0.15 %
Hourly rates quoted	296	469
Average minimum hourly rate	£19.60	£21.33
Average hourly rate	£21.09	£23.00
% change on same period last year	-8.30 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£22.58	£24.67
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.85	£25.69
% change on same period last year	-7.14 %
Tester England

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 Tester across the West Midlands region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles 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 Tester 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 Tester across the West Midlands region over the 3 months to 5 September 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 Tester across the West Midlands region.

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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 West Midlands region over the 3 months to 5 September 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
Shropshire	0	14	£316	+43.48 %
Staffordshire	0	10	-	-
Birmingham	+6	6	£243	+0.51 %
Coventry	+1	3	£200	-39.39 %
Herefordshire	-3	3	-	-
Solihull	+7	2	-	-
Worcestershire	+4	2	£210	-6.66 %
Warwickshire	+4	2	£300	-

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 5 September 2008, IT contractor jobs across the West Midlands 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 48 (33.80 %) SQL 2 36 (25.35 %) VB 3 33 (23.24 %) Pensions 4 30 (21.13 %) HTTP 5 27 (19.01 %) Auditing 5 27 (19.01 %) Paros 5 27 (19.01 %) Information Security 5 27 (19.01 %) Fiddler 5 27 (19.01 %) Test Scripting 6 26 (18.31 %) ISEB 6 26 (18.31 %) Transact-SQL 7 21 (14.79 %) Finance 8 18 (12.68 %) Migration 9 17 (11.97 %) Data Migration 10 15 (10.56 %) LoadRunner

11 14 (9.859 %) User Acceptance Testing 12 13 (9.155 %) Oracle 13 12 (8.451 %) TestDirector 13 12 (8.451 %) Microsoft 13 12 (8.451 %) Performance Testing 14 9 (6.338 %) Java 14 9 (6.338 %) System Testing 15 8 (5.634 %) C 16 7 (4.930 %) Games 16 7 (4.930 %) UNIX 16 7 (4.930 %) Security Cleared 16 7 (4.930 %) Manual Testing 17 6 (4.225 %) .NET 17 6 (4.225 %) GSM 17 6 (4.225 %) Automated Testing

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 5 September 2008, IT contractor jobs across the West Midlands 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 6 (4.225 %) .NET 2 4 (2.817 %) XML 3 2 (1.408 %) WCF 3 2 (1.408 %) J2EE 3 2 (1.408 %) WebServices 4 1 (0.704 %) HTML 4 1 (0.704 %) ASP.NET 4 1 (0.704 %) WebSphere	Application Platforms 1 4 (2.817 %) CMS 2 3 (2.113 %) ESB
Applications 1 1 (0.704 %) MS Office 1 1 (0.704 %) MS Excel	Business Applications 1 1 (0.704 %) Oracle General Ledger
Communications & Networking 1 30 (21.13 %) HTTP 2 6 (4.225 %) GSM 3 4 (2.817 %) Wireless 4 3 (2.113 %) LDAP 4 3 (2.113 %) Intranet 4 3 (2.113 %) Internet	Database & Business Intelligence 1 3 (2.113 %) OLAP 1 3 (2.113 %) Datawarehouse 1 3 (2.113 %) RDBMS 2 2 (1.408 %) Oracle OLAP 2 2 (1.408 %) Oracle 8/8i 3 1 (0.704 %) TOAD 3 1 (0.704 %) SQL Server
Development Applications 1 27 (19.01 %) Paros 1 27 (19.01 %) Fiddler 2 15 (10.56 %) LoadRunner 3 12 (8.451 %) TestDirector 4 4 (2.817 %) Rational Functional Tester 4 4 (2.817 %) ClearQuest 4 4 (2.817 %) WinRunner 5 3 (2.113 %) ClearCase 5 3 (2.113 %) QuickTest Pro 6 2 (1.408 %) Rational Robot 7 1 (0.704 %) NUnit 7 1 (0.704 %) Visual Studio 7 1 (0.704 %) Flash 7 1 (0.704 %) Selenium	General 1 33 (23.24 %) Pensions 2 27 (19.01 %) Auditing 3 21 (14.79 %) Finance 4 7 (4.930 %) Games 5 5 (3.521 %) Banking 6 4 (2.817 %) Government 6 4 (2.817 %) Telecoms 7 3 (2.113 %) Retail 8 2 (1.408 %) Education 9 1 (0.704 %) Manufacturing 9 1 (0.704 %) Insurance 9 1 (0.704 %) Local Government 9 1 (0.704 %) Retail Banking
Miscellaneous 1 2 (1.408 %) NHS 2 1 (0.704 %) VLE	Operating Systems 1 7 (4.930 %) UNIX 2 4 (2.817 %) Windows 3 2 (1.408 %) Linux 4 1 (0.704 %) Windows 2000 4 1 (0.704 %) Windows XP 4 1 (0.704 %) Mac OS X 4 1 (0.704 %) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies 1 27 (19.01 %) Information Security 1 27 (19.01 %) Test Scripting 2 18 (12.68 %) Migration 3 17 (11.97 %) Data Migration 4 14 (9.859 %) User Acceptance Testing 5 12 (8.451 %) Performance Testing 6 9 (6.338 %) System Testing 7 7 (4.930 %) Security Cleared 7 7 (4.930 %) Manual Testing 8 6 (4.225 %) Automated Testing 9 5 (3.521 %) Test Management 10 4 (2.817 %) Stress Testing 10 4 (2.817 %) V-Model 10 4 (2.817 %) SC Cleared 10 4 (2.817 %) Software Testing 10 4 (2.817 %) Validation 11 3 (2.113 %) Use Case 11 3 (2.113 %) RAD 11 3 (2.113 %) SOA 11 3 (2.113 %) Business Intelligence	Programming Languages 1 48 (33.80 %) SQL 2 36 (25.35 %) VB 3 26 (18.31 %) Transact-SQL 4 9 (6.338 %) Java 5 8 (5.634 %) C 6 5 (3.521 %) PL/SQL 7 2 (1.408 %) C# 7 2 (1.408 %) C++ 7 2 (1.408 %) VB.NET 8 1 (0.704 %) VBA 8 1 (0.704 %) Python 8 1 (0.704 %) Jython 8 1 (0.704 %) COBOL 8 1 (0.704 %) VBScript
Qualifications 1 26 (18.31 %) ISEB 2 2 (1.408 %) Citrix Certification 3 1 (0.704 %) Degree	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 5 (3.521 %) QA 2 1 (0.704 %) HL7
System Software 1 3 (2.113 %) AquaLogic 2 2 (1.408 %) Active Directory	Vendors 1 13 (9.155 %) Oracle 2 12 (8.451 %) Microsoft 3 5 (3.521 %) Ericsson 4 4 (2.817 %) IBM 4 4 (2.817 %) Siemens 5 3 (2.113 %) FatWire 5 3 (2.113 %) BEA 5 3 (2.113 %) SAP 6 2 (1.408 %) HP 6 2 (1.408 %) Nokia 6 2 (1.408 %) Sitecore