The first table below looks at the demand for ISTQB in IT contracts advertised for the Woking region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited ISTQB 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 Qualifications for the Woking 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
International Software Testing Qualification Board (ISTQB)
Rank - - -
Contract jobs citing ISTQB 0 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Woking - - -
As % of the Qualifications category - - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £330 £303 £344
% change year-on-year
+9.09% -12.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £25.00 £31.50 £16.50
% change year-on-year
-20.63% +90.90%
All Qualifications
Woking
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Qualifications category
6 8 9
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Woking 8.696% 13.56% 19.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 2 7
Average daily rate £284 £346 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-18.05% +6.53%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £175 £293 £280
10% offered a daily rate of more than £383 £399 £407
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.00 £21.50 £24.00
% change year-on-year
+2.32% -10.41%
ISTQB
Surrey

ISTQB
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Woking 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 4 (100.00%) ISEB
1 4 (100.00%) Software Testing
2 3 (75.00%) User Acceptance Testing
2 3 (75.00%) Stress Testing
2 3 (75.00%) Test Scripting
2 3 (75.00%) HP Quality Center
2 3 (75.00%) MS Visio
2 3 (75.00%) Finance
2 3 (75.00%) CCA
2 3 (75.00%) QuickTest Pro
2 3 (75.00%) LoadRunner
2 3 (75.00%) SAP BW
2 3 (75.00%) SAP
3 2 (50.00%) Manufacturing
4 1 (25.00%) Publishing
4 1 (25.00%) Scrum
4 1 (25.00%) Automotive
4 1 (25.00%) Law
4 1 (25.00%) Legal
4 1 (25.00%) XML
4 1 (25.00%) MS Excel
4 1 (25.00%) C#
4 1 (25.00%) SQL
4 1 (25.00%) Visual Studio
4 1 (25.00%) BDD
4 1 (25.00%) Team Foundation Server
4 1 (25.00%) System Testing
4 1 (25.00%) QA
4 1 (25.00%) WPF
4 1 (25.00%) SAP Implementation

ISTQB
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Woking 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 1 (25.00%) XML
1 1 (25.00%) WPF
Applications
1 3 (75.00%) MS Visio
2 1 (25.00%) MS Excel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (75.00%) SAP BW
Development Applications
1 3 (75.00%) QuickTest Pro
1 3 (75.00%) LoadRunner
2 1 (25.00%) Visual Studio
2 1 (25.00%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 3 (75.00%) Finance
2 2 (50.00%) Manufacturing
3 1 (25.00%) Publishing
3 1 (25.00%) Automotive
3 1 (25.00%) Law
3 1 (25.00%) Legal
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) Analyst
1 4 (100.00%) Test Analyst
2 3 (75.00%) SAP Test Analyst
2 3 (75.00%) SAP Analyst
3 1 (25.00%) Test Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) QA Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) Agile Test Analyst
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Software Testing
2 3 (75.00%) User Acceptance Testing
2 3 (75.00%) Stress Testing
2 3 (75.00%) Test Scripting
3 1 (25.00%) Scrum
3 1 (25.00%) BDD
3 1 (25.00%) System Testing
3 1 (25.00%) SAP Implementation
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) C#
1 1 (25.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (100.00%) ISEB
2 3 (75.00%) CCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) QA
Systems Management
1 3 (75.00%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) SAP