Worcestershire Tester Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for the Tester role in IT contracts within the Worcestershire 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 Tester in their job title over the 3 months to 3 December 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Abingdon Basingstoke Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Bracknell Bradford Bradford-on-Avon Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Burton-upon-Trent Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Channel Islands Cheltenham Cheshire Chester City of London County Antrim Croydon Devon Docklands, London Dorset East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh England Essex Exeter Farnborough Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Guildford Hammersmith Hampshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Hounslow Hove Kent Lancashire Leeds Leicestershire Livingston London Loughborough Manchester Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Osterley Oxford Oxfordshire Paisley Peterborough Reading Redhill Renfrewshire Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Shropshire South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Sunbury-on-Thames Surrey Sussex Swindon Telford Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Wales Warwick Warwickshire Watford West Lothian West Malling West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Winchester Worcestershire Worksop Worthing York Yorkshire	3 months to 3 Dec 2008	Same period last year
Rank	-	-
Rank change on same period last year	-
Matching contract IT job ads	0	0
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.000 %	0.000 %
As % of the category below	0.000 %	0.000 %
Daily rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum daily rate	-	-
Average daily rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£315	£287
% change on same period last year	+9.76 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum hourly rate	-	-
Average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£22.63	£26.96
% change on same period last year	-16.06 %
Job Titles Worcestershire
Matching contract IT job ads	66	65
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.107 %	0.071 %
Daily rates quoted	13	11
Average minimum daily rate	£380	£179
Average daily rate	£428	£206
% change on same period last year	+108.14 %
Average maximum daily rate	£477	£233
UK excluding London average daily rate	£352	£352
% change on same period last year	+0.12 %
Hourly rates quoted	13	16
Average minimum hourly rate	£16.58	£24.56
Average hourly rate	£17.28	£25.43
% change on same period last year	-32.03 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£17.99	£26.30
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.16	£23.97
% change on same period last year	-3.40 %
Tester West Midlands

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 Tester across the Worcestershire 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 Tester across the Worcestershire 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 Tester across the Worcestershire region.

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Top 7 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 3 December 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Worcestershire region that cited Tester 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 Tester in their job title.

1 2 (100.00 %) ISEB 2 1 (50.00 %) Software Testing 2 1 (50.00 %) Use Case 2 1 (50.00 %) Test Scripting 2 1 (50.00 %) ClearQuest 2 1 (50.00 %) ClearCase 2 1 (50.00 %) IBM

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 3 December 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Worcestershire region that cited Tester 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 Tester in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Development Applications 1 1 (50.00 %) ClearCase 1 1 (50.00 %) ClearQuest	Processes & Methodologies 1 1 (50.00 %) Software Testing 1 1 (50.00 %) Use Case 1 1 (50.00 %) Test Scripting
Qualifications 1 2 (100.00 %) ISEB	Vendors 1 1 (50.00 %) IBM