Test Analyst 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 the Test Analyst role in IT contracts advertised for the Yorkshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Test Analyst in their job title 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 Job Titles advertised 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
Test Analyst
Rank 70 34 36
Rank change year-on-year
-36 +2
Contract jobs requiring a Test Analyst 40 94 71
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Yorkshire 2.153% 4.208% 3.882%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.286% 4.449% 4.138%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 57 38
Average daily rate £263 £275 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-4.54% -8.33%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £200 £213 £220
10% offered a daily rate of more than £333 £325 £350
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £300 £300
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Average hourly rate - - £23.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £25.00 £17.50 £27.50
% change year-on-year
+42.85% -36.36%
Search 16 Test Analyst jobs in Yorkshire
All Job Titles
Yorkshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category		 1750 2113 1716
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Yorkshire 94.19% 94.58% 93.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 902 1127 810
Average daily rate £315 £335 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-5.97% +3.07%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £200 £185 £200
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £450 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 105 116 120
Average hourly rate £12.88 £15.00 £17.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-14.16% -14.28%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £10.00 £10.00 £7.80
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £34.00 £32.50 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
Test Analyst
England

Test Analyst
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Test Analyst across the Yorkshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

Yorkshire Test Analyst Jobs Demand Trend

Test Analyst
Daily Rate Trend

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

Yorkshire Test Analyst Daily Rate Trend

Test Analyst
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Yorkshire Test Analyst Daily Rate Histogram

Test Analyst
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Yorkshire Test Analyst Hourly Rate Trend

Test Analyst
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Test Analyst 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 -26 33 £269 -2.27%
South Yorkshire +5 4 £275 +34.14%
North Yorkshire -1 3 £236 -5.50%
Test Analyst
England

Test Analyst
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Yorkshire region that cited Test Analyst 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 Test Analyst in their job title.

1 36 (41.86%) ISEB
2 27 (31.40%) Finance
2 27 (31.40%) HP Quality Center
3 25 (29.07%) User Acceptance Testing
3 25 (29.07%) Test Scripting
4 23 (26.74%) SQL
5 20 (23.26%) ISTQB
6 18 (20.93%) Banking
6 18 (20.93%) Retail
7 15 (17.44%) Software Testing
8 12 (13.95%) .NET
9 11 (12.79%) Java
9 11 (12.79%) HP
9 11 (12.79%) Retail Banking
9 11 (12.79%) Selenium
10 10 (11.63%) QA
10 10 (11.63%) Oracle
11 9 (10.47%) CRM
11 9 (10.47%) Stakeholder Management
11 9 (10.47%) Test Strategy
12 8 (9.302%) MS Excel
12 8 (9.302%) Microsoft
13 7 (8.140%) Agile Software Development
13 7 (8.140%) Test Management
13 7 (8.140%) Test Automation
14 6 (6.977%) Waterfall
14 6 (6.977%) Manual Testing
14 6 (6.977%) System Testing
14 6 (6.977%) Migration
14 6 (6.977%) JIRA

Test Analyst
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Yorkshire region that cited Test Analyst 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 Test Analyst in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 12 (13.95%) .NET
2 6 (6.977%) HTML
3 5 (5.814%) ASP.NET
3 5 (5.814%) XML
4 4 (4.651%) Web Services
5 2 (2.326%) HTML5
5 2 (2.326%) soapUI
6 1 (1.163%) XML Schema
6 1 (1.163%) SOAP
6 1 (1.163%) LAMP
Application Platforms
1 5 (5.814%) Apache
1 5 (5.814%) SharePoint
2 4 (4.651%) SharePoint 2010
2 4 (4.651%) Tomcat
3 1 (1.163%) CMS
3 1 (1.163%) Confluence
Applications
1 8 (9.302%) MS Excel
2 5 (5.814%) MS Office
3 2 (2.326%) MS PowerPoint
4 1 (1.163%) MS Project
Business Applications
1 5 (5.814%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (3.488%) Oracle CRM
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.488%) Firewall
2 2 (2.326%) Broadband
3 1 (1.163%) Wi-Fi
3 1 (1.163%) NFC
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (5.814%) SQL Server
2 3 (3.488%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (2.326%) MySQL
3 2 (2.326%) SQLPlus
4 1 (1.163%) PowerCenter
4 1 (1.163%) Oracle 11g
4 1 (1.163%) Oracle BI EE
4 1 (1.163%) Data Mart
Development Applications
1 11 (12.79%) Selenium
2 6 (6.977%) JIRA
3 5 (5.814%) Visual Studio
3 5 (5.814%) WebDriver
4 4 (4.651%) QuickTest Pro
4 4 (4.651%) LoadRunner
5 2 (2.326%) Jenkins
6 1 (1.163%) WinRunner
6 1 (1.163%) JMeter
6 1 (1.163%) Oracle Forms
6 1 (1.163%) Ant
6 1 (1.163%) JUnit
6 1 (1.163%) Oracle APEX
6 1 (1.163%) FitNesse
6 1 (1.163%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 1 (1.163%) Visual Studio Team System
6 1 (1.163%) Rational Performance Tester
6 1 (1.163%) Subversion
6 1 (1.163%) CruiseControl
6 1 (1.163%) Hudson
General
1 27 (31.40%) Finance
2 18 (20.93%) Banking
2 18 (20.93%) Retail
3 11 (12.79%) Retail Banking
4 3 (3.488%) Telecoms
5 1 (1.163%) Private Banking
5 1 (1.163%) Law
5 1 (1.163%) Advertising
Miscellaneous
1 5 (5.814%) Open Source
2 3 (3.488%) STB
3 1 (1.163%) EPoS
3 1 (1.163%) Client/Server
3 1 (1.163%) Chemistry
3 1 (1.163%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 5 (5.814%) Linux
2 4 (4.651%) UNIX
2 4 (4.651%) Windows
3 3 (3.488%) Windows XP
4 1 (1.163%) Ubuntu
4 1 (1.163%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (29.07%) User Acceptance Testing
1 25 (29.07%) Test Scripting
2 15 (17.44%) Software Testing
3 9 (10.47%) CRM
3 9 (10.47%) Stakeholder Management
3 9 (10.47%) Test Strategy
4 7 (8.140%) Agile Software Development
4 7 (8.140%) Test Management
4 7 (8.140%) Test Automation
5 6 (6.977%) Waterfall
5 6 (6.977%) Manual Testing
5 6 (6.977%) System Testing
5 6 (6.977%) Migration
6 5 (5.814%) Integration Testing
6 5 (5.814%) V-Model
7 4 (4.651%) Business Transformation
7 4 (4.651%) Performance Testing
8 3 (3.488%) Scrum
8 3 (3.488%) Automated Testing
8 3 (3.488%) Automation Testing
Programming Languages
1 23 (26.74%) SQL
2 11 (12.79%) Java
3 6 (6.977%) C#
4 3 (3.488%) VB
5 2 (2.326%) VBScript
5 2 (2.326%) JavaScript
6 1 (1.163%) PHP
6 1 (1.163%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 36 (41.86%) ISEB
2 20 (23.26%) ISTQB
3 4 (4.651%) Security Cleared
4 3 (3.488%) SC Cleared
5 1 (1.163%) ISEB Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (11.63%) QA
2 4 (4.651%) FATCA
System Software
1 1 (1.163%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 27 (31.40%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 11 (12.79%) HP
2 10 (11.63%) Oracle
3 8 (9.302%) Microsoft
4 2 (2.326%) Business Objects
4 2 (2.326%) SAP
4 2 (2.326%) IBM
5 1 (1.163%) Cisco
5 1 (1.163%) JD Edwards
5 1 (1.163%) Informatica
5 1 (1.163%) JBoss
5 1 (1.163%) VMware
Test Analyst / Tester / West Yorkshire / £200p/d
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CoreCom Consulting
Rate: £200 per day
Posted: 23 May 2013
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NET -Oracle Application Express -Web-based applications -Server/Client frameworks A System Test Analyst possessing ISEB/ISTQB or equivalent qualifications and a solid experience of using SQL at...
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Rate: £28,000 Pro Rata
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