West Yorkshire Senior Test Analyst Contracts

This section looks at the demand for the Senior Test Analyst role in IT contracts within the West Yorkshire 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 Senior Test Analyst in their job title over the 3 months to 20 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Amersham Berkshire Blackpool Bristol Buckinghamshire Canary Wharf Cheshire City of London Crawley East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh England Essex Glasgow Hampshire Hertfordshire Hove Lancashire Leeds Livingston London Manchester Midlands North West Northampton Northamptonshire Reading Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Staines Surrey Sussex Telford Thames Valley UK Wales Watford West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Worcester Worcestershire Yorkshire	3 months to 20 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	89	87
Rank change on same period last year	-2
Matching contract IT job ads	2	9
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.003 %	0.009 %
As % of the category below	0.116 %	0.485 %
Daily rates quoted	1	2
Average minimum daily rate	£298	£313
Average daily rate	£298	£338
% change on same period last year	-11.70 %
Average maximum daily rate	£298	£363
UK excluding London average daily rate	£297	£322
% change on same period last year	-7.78 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	2
Average minimum hourly rate	-	£40.00
Average hourly rate	-	£40.00
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	£40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£44.67	£33.75
% change on same period last year	+32.34 %
Job Titles West Yorkshire
Matching contract IT job ads	1729	1857
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	2.282 %	1.849 %
Daily rates quoted	433	310
Average minimum daily rate	£325	£325
Average daily rate	£344	£346
% change on same period last year	-0.45 %
Average maximum daily rate	£364	£367
UK excluding London average daily rate	£355	£354
% change on same period last year	+0.35 %
Hourly rates quoted	122	169
Average minimum hourly rate	£20.36	£23.35
Average hourly rate	£22.51	£24.87
% change on same period last year	-9.49 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£24.66	£26.39
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.68	£25.69
% change on same period last year	-7.85 %
Senior Test Analyst Yorkshire

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 Senior Test Analyst across the West Yorkshire 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 Senior Test Analyst across the West Yorkshire region.

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Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Senior Test Analyst across the West Yorkshire 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 Senior Test Analyst within the West Yorkshire 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
Leeds	-12	1	-	-

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Top 24 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the West Yorkshire region that cited Senior Test Analyst 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 Senior Test Analyst in their job title.

1 3 (42.86 %) Finance 1 3 (42.86 %) Health 1 3 (42.86 %) NHS 2 2 (28.57 %) Manual Testing 3 1 (14.29 %) Time Management 3 1 (14.29 %) Data Validation 3 1 (14.29 %) Reference Data 3 1 (14.29 %) Banking 3 1 (14.29 %) Data Analysis 3 1 (14.29 %) Systems Analysis 3 1 (14.29 %) Software Testing 3 1 (14.29 %) Test Scripting 3 1 (14.29 %) IBM Mainframe 3 1 (14.29 %) Mainframe 3 1 (14.29 %) .NET

3 1 (14.29 %) DB2 3 1 (14.29 %) ITIL 3 1 (14.29 %) IBM 3 1 (14.29 %) ISEB 3 1 (14.29 %) TestDirector 3 1 (14.29 %) Validation 3 1 (14.29 %) IVR 3 1 (14.29 %) Quality Management 3 1 (14.29 %) 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 Yorkshire region that cited Senior Test Analyst 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 Senior Test Analyst in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 1 (14.29 %) .NET	Database & Business Intelligence 1 1 (14.29 %) Reference Data 1 1 (14.29 %) DB2
Development Applications 1 1 (14.29 %) TestDirector	General 1 3 (42.86 %) Finance 1 3 (42.86 %) Health 2 1 (14.29 %) Banking
Miscellaneous 1 3 (42.86 %) NHS 2 1 (14.29 %) IBM Mainframe 2 1 (14.29 %) Mainframe 2 1 (14.29 %) IVR 2 1 (14.29 %) Management Information System	Processes & Methodologies 1 2 (28.57 %) Manual Testing 2 1 (14.29 %) Time Management 2 1 (14.29 %) Data Validation 2 1 (14.29 %) Data Analysis 2 1 (14.29 %) Systems Analysis 2 1 (14.29 %) Software Testing 2 1 (14.29 %) Test Scripting 2 1 (14.29 %) ITIL 2 1 (14.29 %) Validation 2 1 (14.29 %) Quality Management
Qualifications 1 1 (14.29 %) ISEB	Vendors 1 1 (14.29 %) IBM