ISTQB Contracts in West Yorkshire
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for ISTQB 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 ISTQB over the 3 months to 21 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 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
21 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
International Software Testing Qualification Board (ISTQB)
Rank 75 83 59
Rank change year-on-year
+8 -24
Contract jobs citing ISTQB 17 12 13
As % of all contract IT jobs located in West Yorkshire 1.324% 0.748% 1.187%
As % of the Qualifications category 8.500% 5.286% 8.725%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 8 4
Average daily rate £280 £284 £273
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-1.32% +4.12%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £213 £220
10% offered a daily rate of more than £346 £391 £325
UK excluding London average daily rate £330 £304 £325
% change year-on-year
+8.64% -6.53%
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 Yorkshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Qualifications category		 200 227 149
As % of all contract IT jobs located in West Yorkshire 15.58% 14.15% 13.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 97 129 61
Average daily rate £300 £350 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-14.28% +7.69%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £213 £195
10% offered a daily rate of more than £400 £500 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 9 13
Average hourly rate £12.75 £20.50 £22.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-37.80% -6.81%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £10.86 £12.00 £9.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £175.00 £50.00 £25.65
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.50 £22.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year
- -10.00%
ISTQB
Yorkshire

ISTQB
Jobs Demand Trend

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

West Yorkshire 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 Yorkshire region.

West Yorkshire ISTQB Daily Rate Trend

ISTQB
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing ISTQB across the West Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

West Yorkshire ISTQB Daily Rate Histogram

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 Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 21 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
Leeds -1 8 £250 +17.64%
Halifax +12 5 £280 +1.35%
Bradford +5 3 £330 -
ISTQB
Yorkshire

ISTQB
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Yorkshire 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 21 (100.00%) ISEB
2 13 (61.90%) User Acceptance Testing
3 12 (57.14%) Software Testing
4 11 (52.38%) Stakeholder Management
4 11 (52.38%) Banking
4 11 (52.38%) Retail
5 10 (47.62%) Retail Banking
5 10 (47.62%) HP Quality Center
6 9 (42.86%) Waterfall
7 8 (38.10%) Finance
8 6 (28.57%) Test Scripting
8 6 (28.57%) SQL
9 5 (23.81%) Java
9 5 (23.81%) Open Source
10 4 (19.05%) Test Strategy
10 4 (19.05%) FATCA
10 4 (19.05%) Oracle
10 4 (19.05%) Linux
10 4 (19.05%) RAD
10 4 (19.05%) Apache
10 4 (19.05%) Tomcat
10 4 (19.05%) V-Model
11 3 (14.29%) Oracle CRM
11 3 (14.29%) MS Excel
11 3 (14.29%) CRM
12 2 (9.524%) Windows
12 2 (9.524%) Microsoft
12 2 (9.524%) HP
12 2 (9.524%) Visual Studio
12 2 (9.524%) ASP.NET

ISTQB
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Yorkshire 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 2 (9.524%) ASP.NET
1 2 (9.524%) XML
1 2 (9.524%) .NET
1 2 (9.524%) HTML
2 1 (4.762%) soapUI
2 1 (4.762%) XML Schema
2 1 (4.762%) SOAP
Application Platforms
1 4 (19.05%) Apache
1 4 (19.05%) Tomcat
Applications
1 3 (14.29%) MS Excel
2 2 (9.524%) MS Project
3 1 (4.762%) MS PowerPoint
3 1 (4.762%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 3 (14.29%) Oracle CRM
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.762%) NFC
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (9.524%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (9.524%) Visual Studio
2 1 (4.762%) WebDriver
2 1 (4.762%) Selenium
General
1 11 (52.38%) Banking
1 11 (52.38%) Retail
2 10 (47.62%) Retail Banking
3 8 (38.10%) Finance
4 1 (4.762%) Law
Job Titles
1 15 (71.43%) Analyst
1 15 (71.43%) Test Analyst
2 7 (33.33%) Test Leader
3 3 (14.29%) UAT Manager
3 3 (14.29%) Test Manager
3 3 (14.29%) UAT Test Manager
4 2 (9.524%) Senior Analyst
4 2 (9.524%) Senior Test Analyst
5 1 (4.762%) UAT Test Analyst
5 1 (4.762%) Automation Analyst
5 1 (4.762%) Systems Test Analyst
5 1 (4.762%) Performance Analyst
5 1 (4.762%) UAT Analyst
5 1 (4.762%) Performance Test Analyst
5 1 (4.762%) Automation Test Analyst
5 1 (4.762%) Systems Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 5 (23.81%) Open Source
Operating Systems
1 4 (19.05%) Linux
2 2 (9.524%) Windows
2 2 (9.524%) Windows XP
3 1 (4.762%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (61.90%) User Acceptance Testing
2 12 (57.14%) Software Testing
3 11 (52.38%) Stakeholder Management
4 9 (42.86%) Waterfall
5 6 (28.57%) Test Scripting
6 4 (19.05%) Test Strategy
6 4 (19.05%) RAD
6 4 (19.05%) V-Model
7 3 (14.29%) CRM
8 2 (9.524%) Test Management
9 1 (4.762%) Manual Testing
9 1 (4.762%) BDD
9 1 (4.762%) Project Management
9 1 (4.762%) Change Management
9 1 (4.762%) Regression Testing
9 1 (4.762%) Automation Testing
Programming Languages
1 6 (28.57%) SQL
2 5 (23.81%) Java
3 1 (4.762%) C#
Qualifications
1 21 (100.00%) ISEB
2 1 (4.762%) SC Cleared
2 1 (4.762%) Security Cleared
2 1 (4.762%) ISEB Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (19.05%) FATCA
2 1 (4.762%) QA
Systems Management
1 10 (47.62%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 4 (19.05%) Oracle
2 2 (9.524%) Microsoft
2 2 (9.524%) HP
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