Test Strategy 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 Test Strategy 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 Test Strategy over the 3 months to 24 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 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
24 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Test Strategy
Rank 74 53 70
Rank change year-on-year
-21 +17
Contract jobs citing Test Strategy 14 39 9
As % of all contract IT jobs located in West Yorkshire 1.116% 2.492% 0.800%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.578% 3.445% 1.216%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 18 4
Average daily rate £305 £441 £405
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-30.79% +8.82%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £215 £347 £402
10% offered a daily rate of more than £368 £475 £437
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £400 £395
% change year-on-year
-12.50% +1.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £40.00 £37.00 £31.00
% change year-on-year
+8.10% +19.35%
All Processes & Methodologies
West Yorkshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category		 887 1132 740
As % of all contract IT jobs located in West Yorkshire 70.68% 72.33% 65.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 487 659 357
Average daily rate £325 £350 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-7.14% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £230 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £455 £475
UK excluding London average daily rate £365 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
- -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 23 30
Average hourly rate £23.50 £15.00 £17.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+56.66% -14.28%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.35 £11.64 £7.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £38.00 £62.50 £25.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.00 £25.00 £29.50
% change year-on-year
+20.00% -15.25%
Test Strategy
Yorkshire

Test Strategy
Jobs Demand Trend

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

West Yorkshire Test Strategy Jobs Demand Trend

Test Strategy
Daily Rate Trend

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

West Yorkshire Test Strategy Daily Rate Trend

Test Strategy
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Test Strategy across the West Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

West Yorkshire Test Strategy Daily Rate Histogram

Test Strategy
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Test Strategy within the West Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 24 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
Bradford +4 5 £305 -
Leeds -31 5 £263 -41.66%
Halifax +6 1 £315 -26.74%
Test Strategy
Yorkshire

Test Strategy
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Yorkshire region citing Test Strategy 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 Test Strategy.

1 8 (33.33%) HP Quality Center
2 6 (25.00%) Visual Studio
2 6 (25.00%) ISEB
2 6 (25.00%) User Acceptance Testing
3 5 (20.83%) Test Management
3 5 (20.83%) SC Cleared
3 5 (20.83%) Security Cleared
3 5 (20.83%) .NET
3 5 (20.83%) Oracle
3 5 (20.83%) Validation
3 5 (20.83%) Retail
4 4 (16.67%) SQL
4 4 (16.67%) ISTQB
5 3 (12.50%) QA
5 3 (12.50%) SharePoint 2010
5 3 (12.50%) CSS
5 3 (12.50%) Web Services
5 3 (12.50%) MS Office
5 3 (12.50%) SharePoint
5 3 (12.50%) Data Warehouse
5 3 (12.50%) Publishing
5 3 (12.50%) Banking
5 3 (12.50%) Regression Testing
5 3 (12.50%) Firewall
6 2 (8.333%) HP
6 2 (8.333%) Migration
6 2 (8.333%) Finance
6 2 (8.333%) Software Testing
6 2 (8.333%) Document Management
6 2 (8.333%) Programme Management

Test Strategy
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Yorkshire region citing Test Strategy 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 Test Strategy. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 5 (20.83%) .NET
2 3 (12.50%) CSS
2 3 (12.50%) Web Services
3 2 (8.333%) XML
3 2 (8.333%) HTML
4 1 (4.167%) WebSphere
4 1 (4.167%) Gherkin
4 1 (4.167%) ASP
4 1 (4.167%) ASP.NET
4 1 (4.167%) Middleware
Application Platforms
1 3 (12.50%) SharePoint 2010
1 3 (12.50%) SharePoint
2 1 (4.167%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 3 (12.50%) MS Office
2 1 (4.167%) MS Project
2 1 (4.167%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (4.167%) SAP HR
Communications & Networking
1 3 (12.50%) Firewall
2 1 (4.167%) NFC
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (12.50%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (8.333%) SQL Server
3 1 (4.167%) Oracle BI EE
Development Applications
1 6 (25.00%) Visual Studio
2 1 (4.167%) TeamCity
2 1 (4.167%) Selenium
2 1 (4.167%) WebDriver
2 1 (4.167%) Cucumber
2 1 (4.167%) SpecFlow
2 1 (4.167%) MSI
General
1 5 (20.83%) Retail
2 3 (12.50%) Publishing
2 3 (12.50%) Banking
3 2 (8.333%) Finance
3 2 (8.333%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 10 (41.67%) Test Manager
2 7 (29.17%) Test Analyst
2 7 (29.17%) Analyst
3 3 (12.50%) SharePoint Developer
3 3 (12.50%) Developer
4 2 (8.333%) Consultant
4 2 (8.333%) Senior Analyst
4 2 (8.333%) Senior Test Analyst
4 2 (8.333%) Test Leader
5 1 (4.167%) Senior SharePoint Developer
5 1 (4.167%) Agile Tester
5 1 (4.167%) Testing Consultant
5 1 (4.167%) Architect
5 1 (4.167%) Tester
5 1 (4.167%) Test Consultant
5 1 (4.167%) Applications Architect
5 1 (4.167%) Infrastructure Consultant
5 1 (4.167%) E-Commerce Manager
5 1 (4.167%) Web Manager
5 1 (4.167%) Senior Developer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (8.333%) EPoS
2 1 (4.167%) Credit Risk
Operating Systems
1 2 (8.333%) Windows
2 1 (4.167%) UNIX
2 1 (4.167%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (25.00%) User Acceptance Testing
2 5 (20.83%) Test Management
2 5 (20.83%) Validation
3 3 (12.50%) Regression Testing
4 2 (8.333%) Migration
4 2 (8.333%) Software Testing
4 2 (8.333%) Document Management
4 2 (8.333%) Programme Management
4 2 (8.333%) E-Commerce
4 2 (8.333%) Project Management
4 2 (8.333%) Waterfall
4 2 (8.333%) Test Scripting
4 2 (8.333%) Manual Testing
4 2 (8.333%) V-Model
4 2 (8.333%) Integration Testing
5 1 (4.167%) System Testing
5 1 (4.167%) Continuous Integration
5 1 (4.167%) Performance Testing
5 1 (4.167%) Project Planning
5 1 (4.167%) Risk Analysis
Programming Languages
1 4 (16.67%) SQL
2 1 (4.167%) PL/SQL
2 1 (4.167%) VB
2 1 (4.167%) C#
Qualifications
1 6 (25.00%) ISEB
2 5 (20.83%) SC Cleared
2 5 (20.83%) Security Cleared
3 4 (16.67%) ISTQB
4 1 (4.167%) BC Cleared
4 1 (4.167%) ISEB Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (12.50%) QA
System Software
1 1 (4.167%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 8 (33.33%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 5 (20.83%) Oracle
2 2 (8.333%) HP
3 1 (4.167%) SAP
3 1 (4.167%) Informatica
3 1 (4.167%) Microsoft
3 1 (4.167%) Endeca
3 1 (4.167%) VMware
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