York Applications Tester Contracts

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

Application Tester
Location Berkshire Buckinghamshire Cheltenham Cheshire City of London England Farnborough Gloucestershire Hampshire London Middlesex Milton Keynes Newport North West Salisbury South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Sunbury-on-Thames Surrey UK Wales Wiltshire 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	£363	£324
% change on same period last year	+11.86 %
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	£12.13	£13.50
% change on same period last year	-10.18 %
Job Titles York
Matching contract IT job ads	85	202
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.137 %	0.220 %
Daily rates quoted	28	66
Average minimum daily rate	£337	£373
Average daily rate	£350	£383
% change on same period last year	-8.54 %
Average maximum daily rate	£362	£393
UK excluding London average daily rate	£352	£352
% change on same period last year	+0.12 %
Hourly rates quoted	5	5
Average minimum hourly rate	£15.96	£25.41
Average hourly rate	£17.69	£26.05
% change on same period last year	-32.09 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£19.41	£26.68
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.16	£23.97
% change on same period last year	-3.40 %
Applications Tester North 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.

Applications Tester
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Applications Tester across the York region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

Applications Tester
Top 6 Related IT Skills

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

1 1 (100.00 %) SQL 1 1 (100.00 %) Oracle 1 1 (100.00 %) ISEB 1 1 (100.00 %) User Acceptance Testing 1 1 (100.00 %) Test Scripting 1 1 (100.00 %) V-Model

Applications Tester
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Processes & Methodologies 1 1 (100.00 %) User Acceptance Testing 1 1 (100.00 %) Test Scripting 1 1 (100.00 %) V-Model	Programming Languages 1 1 (100.00 %) SQL
Qualifications 1 1 (100.00 %) ISEB	Vendors 1 1 (100.00 %) Oracle