The first table below looks at the demand for Agile Testing skills in IT contracts advertised for the West Yorkshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Agile Testing over the 3 months to 19 June 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Processes & Methodologies category for the West Yorkshire 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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Agile Testing
Rank 92 96 -
Rank change year-on-year
+4 -
Contract jobs citing Agile Testing 3 1 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in West Yorkshire 0.219% 0.057% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.310% 0.078% -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 1 0
Average daily rate - £313 -
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £305 £375
% change year-on-year
+14.75% -18.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.00 £19.00 £56.50
% change year-on-year
+5.26% -66.37%
All Processes & Methodologies
West Yorkshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
967 1287 815
As % of all contract IT jobs located in West Yorkshire 70.48% 73.97% 67.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 530 732 408
Average daily rate £325 £350 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-7.14% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £213 £225 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £450 £525
UK excluding London average daily rate £370 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
+1.36% -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 27 35
Average hourly rate £29.25 £15.00 £22.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+95.00% -31.81%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.35 £11.76 £7.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £39.60 £62.50 £45.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.00 £25.00 £29.00
% change year-on-year
+24.00% -13.79%
Agile Testing
Yorkshire

Agile Testing
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Agile Testing across the West Yorkshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

West Yorkshire Agile Testing Jobs Demand Trend

Agile Testing
Daily Rate Trend

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

West Yorkshire Agile Testing Daily Rate Trend

Agile Testing
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Agile Testing within the West Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 19 June 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
Find
Job
Vacancies
Leeds -3 3 - - 4
Wakefield - - - -
Agile Testing
Yorkshire

Agile Testing
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Yorkshire region citing Agile Testing 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 Agile Testing.

1 4 (100.00%) C#
1 4 (100.00%) HTML
1 4 (100.00%) SQL
1 4 (100.00%) VB
1 4 (100.00%) .NET
1 4 (100.00%) Oracle
1 4 (100.00%) MS Office
1 4 (100.00%) Visual Studio
1 4 (100.00%) ASP
1 4 (100.00%) Web Services
1 4 (100.00%) XML
1 4 (100.00%) Windows
1 4 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 4 (100.00%) MSI
1 4 (100.00%) Scrum
1 4 (100.00%) VMware
1 4 (100.00%) Agile Software Development
1 4 (100.00%) Automated Testing
1 4 (100.00%) Software Testing
1 4 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
1 4 (100.00%) Manual Testing
1 4 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 4 (100.00%) TeamCity
1 4 (100.00%) WebDriver
1 4 (100.00%) Cucumber
1 4 (100.00%) Selenium
1 4 (100.00%) User Acceptance Testing
1 4 (100.00%) SpecFlow
1 4 (100.00%) Gherkin
2 3 (75.00%) Performance Testing

Agile Testing
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Yorkshire region citing Agile Testing 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 Agile Testing. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 4 (100.00%) HTML
1 4 (100.00%) .NET
1 4 (100.00%) ASP
1 4 (100.00%) Web Services
1 4 (100.00%) XML
1 4 (100.00%) Gherkin
Applications
1 4 (100.00%) MS Office
Development Applications
1 4 (100.00%) Visual Studio
1 4 (100.00%) MSI
1 4 (100.00%) TeamCity
1 4 (100.00%) WebDriver
1 4 (100.00%) Cucumber
1 4 (100.00%) Selenium
1 4 (100.00%) SpecFlow
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) Tester
1 4 (100.00%) Agile Tester
Operating Systems
1 4 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Scrum
1 4 (100.00%) Agile Software Development
1 4 (100.00%) Automated Testing
1 4 (100.00%) Software Testing
1 4 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
1 4 (100.00%) Manual Testing
1 4 (100.00%) User Acceptance Testing
2 3 (75.00%) Performance Testing
3 1 (25.00%) Automation Testing
3 1 (25.00%) Test Strategy
3 1 (25.00%) Regression Testing
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) C#
1 4 (100.00%) SQL
1 4 (100.00%) VB
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (25.00%) BC Cleared
1 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (75.00%) QA
System Software
1 4 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) Oracle
1 4 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 4 (100.00%) VMware