Manual Testing Contracts in Yorkshire
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for Manual Testing skills in IT contracts advertised for the Yorkshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Manual Testing 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 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
Manual Testing
Rank 100 108 95
Rank change year-on-year
+8 -13
Contract jobs citing Manual Testing 10 4 3
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Yorkshire 0.538% 0.179% 0.164%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.782% 0.254% 0.260%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 2
Average daily rate £290 £173 £220
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+68.11% -21.59%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £242 £143 £204
10% offered a daily rate of more than £338 £203 £236
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £300 £256
% change year-on-year
+8.33% +17.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.00 - £23.75
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Yorkshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category		 1278 1574 1154
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Yorkshire 68.78% 70.46% 63.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 712 868 548
Average daily rate £325 £350 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-7.14% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £225 £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 44 40 60
Average hourly rate £26.00 £16.50 £23.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+57.57% -29.78%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.00 £12.45 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £170.00 £32.50 £60.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.00 £25.00 £29.50
% change year-on-year
+20.00% -15.25%
Manual Testing
England

Manual Testing
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Yorkshire Manual Testing Jobs Demand Trend

Manual Testing
Daily Rate Trend

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

Yorkshire Manual Testing Daily Rate Trend

Manual Testing
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Yorkshire Manual Testing Daily Rate Histogram

Manual Testing
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Manual Testing across the Yorkshire region.

Yorkshire Manual Testing Hourly Rate Trend

Manual Testing
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Manual Testing within the 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
West Yorkshire +6 6 £350 +66.66%
South Yorkshire +4 2 - -
North Yorkshire - 1 £230 -
Manual Testing
England

Manual Testing
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Yorkshire region citing Manual Testing 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 Manual Testing.

1 9 (50.00%) SQL
2 8 (44.44%) VB
3 7 (38.89%) QA
4 6 (33.33%) Software Testing
4 6 (33.33%) .NET
5 5 (27.78%) Oracle
5 5 (27.78%) VBScript
5 5 (27.78%) Visual Studio
5 5 (27.78%) ISEB
5 5 (27.78%) User Acceptance Testing
6 4 (22.22%) Agile Software Development
6 4 (22.22%) MS Office
6 4 (22.22%) XML
6 4 (22.22%) Windows
6 4 (22.22%) C#
6 4 (22.22%) HTML
7 3 (16.67%) MySQL
7 3 (16.67%) Web Services
7 3 (16.67%) ASP
7 3 (16.67%) Microsoft
7 3 (16.67%) HP
7 3 (16.67%) STB
7 3 (16.67%) Automated Testing
7 3 (16.67%) Scrum
7 3 (16.67%) VMware
7 3 (16.67%) Selenium
7 3 (16.67%) Test Scripting
7 3 (16.67%) Continuous Integration
7 3 (16.67%) TeamCity
7 3 (16.67%) HP Quality Center

Manual Testing
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 6 (33.33%) .NET
2 4 (22.22%) XML
2 4 (22.22%) HTML
3 3 (16.67%) Web Services
3 3 (16.67%) ASP
3 3 (16.67%) Gherkin
4 1 (5.556%) ASP.NET
4 1 (5.556%) WCF
Application Platforms
1 1 (5.556%) CMS
Applications
1 4 (22.22%) MS Office
2 1 (5.556%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 2 (11.11%) Internet
2 1 (5.556%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (16.67%) MySQL
2 2 (11.11%) Oracle BI EE
2 2 (11.11%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (5.556%) PowerCenter
3 1 (5.556%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (27.78%) Visual Studio
2 3 (16.67%) Selenium
2 3 (16.67%) TeamCity
2 3 (16.67%) WebDriver
2 3 (16.67%) Cucumber
2 3 (16.67%) SpecFlow
2 3 (16.67%) MSI
3 1 (5.556%) WinRunner
3 1 (5.556%) QuickTest Pro
3 1 (5.556%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 1 (5.556%) Retail
Job Titles
1 7 (38.89%) Tester
2 6 (33.33%) Analyst
2 6 (33.33%) Test Analyst
3 3 (16.67%) Test Engineer
3 3 (16.67%) Agile Tester
4 2 (11.11%) Automation Engineer
4 2 (11.11%) Automation Tester
4 2 (11.11%) QA Engineer
5 1 (5.556%) Data Warehouse Analyst
5 1 (5.556%) Senior Tester
5 1 (5.556%) Senior Test Engineer
5 1 (5.556%) Software Test Analyst
5 1 (5.556%) Automation Test Analyst
5 1 (5.556%) Data Warehouse Test Analyst
5 1 (5.556%) Automation Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 3 (16.67%) STB
2 1 (5.556%) Chemistry
Operating Systems
1 4 (22.22%) Windows
2 1 (5.556%) Windows XP
2 1 (5.556%) Linux
2 1 (5.556%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (33.33%) Software Testing
2 5 (27.78%) User Acceptance Testing
3 4 (22.22%) Agile Software Development
4 3 (16.67%) Automated Testing
4 3 (16.67%) Scrum
4 3 (16.67%) Test Scripting
4 3 (16.67%) Continuous Integration
4 3 (16.67%) Agile Testing
4 3 (16.67%) Automation Testing
5 2 (11.11%) Test Strategy
5 2 (11.11%) Performance Testing
5 2 (11.11%) Test Management
5 2 (11.11%) Regression Testing
6 1 (5.556%) E-Commerce
6 1 (5.556%) ETL
6 1 (5.556%) System Testing
6 1 (5.556%) Dimensional Modelling
6 1 (5.556%) TMap
Programming Languages
1 9 (50.00%) SQL
2 8 (44.44%) VB
3 5 (27.78%) VBScript
4 4 (22.22%) C#
5 2 (11.11%) Tcl
5 2 (11.11%) Python
6 1 (5.556%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (27.78%) ISEB
2 1 (5.556%) ISTQB
2 1 (5.556%) SC Cleared
2 1 (5.556%) BC Cleared
2 1 (5.556%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (38.89%) QA
System Software
1 3 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (16.67%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 5 (27.78%) Oracle
2 3 (16.67%) Microsoft
2 3 (16.67%) HP
2 3 (16.67%) VMware
3 2 (11.11%) Informatica
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