Yorkshire Test Analyst Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for the Test Analyst role in IT contracts within the Yorkshire 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 Test Analyst in their job title over the 3 months to 13 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Abingdon Amersham Basingstoke Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Blackpool Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Channel Islands Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Chippenham City of London County Antrim Coventry Crawley Croydon Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex Eastleigh Edinburgh England Essex Farnham Fleetwood Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Halifax Hampshire Harlow Harrogate Hertfordshire High Wycombe Hove Ipswich Isleworth Jersey Kent Kingston Upon Thames Lancashire Leatherhead Leeds Liverpool Livingston London M4 Corridor Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Reading Runcorn Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Solihull South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southend-on-Sea Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Telford Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Wiltshire Windsor York Yorkshire	3 months to 13 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	45	47
Rank change on same period last year	+2
Matching contract IT job ads	89	117
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.126 %	0.118 %
As % of the category below	3.111 %	3.089 %
Daily rates quoted	24	39
Average minimum daily rate	£243	£273
Average daily rate	£257	£281
% change on same period last year	-8.55 %
Average maximum daily rate	£271	£289
UK excluding London average daily rate	£295	£288
% change on same period last year	+2.50 %
Hourly rates quoted	1	3
Average minimum hourly rate	£30.00	£40.00
Average hourly rate	£30.00	£40.00
% change on same period last year	-25.00 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£30.00	£40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£33.83	£31.60
% change on same period last year	+7.06 %
Job Titles Yorkshire
Matching contract IT job ads	2861	3788
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	4.046 %	3.835 %
Daily rates quoted	584	830
Average minimum daily rate	£323	£334
Average daily rate	£344	£350
% change on same period last year	-1.80 %
Average maximum daily rate	£365	£366
UK excluding London average daily rate	£352	£353
% change on same period last year	-0.18 %
Hourly rates quoted	331	369
Average minimum hourly rate	£20.47	£23.34
Average hourly rate	£21.90	£24.83
% change on same period last year	-11.80 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£23.32	£26.32
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.71	£25.14
% change on same period last year	-5.69 %
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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 Test Analyst across the Yorkshire 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 Test Analyst across the Yorkshire region.

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Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Test Analyst across the Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 13 October 2008.

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Hourly Rate Trend

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

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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 13 October 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
West Yorkshire	-2	59	£242	-14.14 %
North Yorkshire	+7	17	£375	+44.57 %
South Yorkshire	+8	5	£290	-23.68 %

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 13 October 2008, 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 63 (42.57 %) ISEB 2 54 (36.49 %) Finance 3 41 (27.70 %) Test Scripting 4 34 (22.97 %) User Acceptance Testing 4 34 (22.97 %) QA 5 25 (16.89 %) TestDirector 6 23 (15.54 %) SQL 6 23 (15.54 %) Software Testing 7 20 (13.51 %) BASE24 7 20 (13.51 %) NHS 8 18 (12.16 %) TCP/IP 8 18 (12.16 %) X.25 9 17 (11.49 %) PSTN 9 17 (11.49 %) Tandem 10 16 (10.81 %) Oracle

11 15 (10.14 %) Manual Testing 12 14 (9.459 %) Health 13 12 (8.108 %) Financial Institution 14 11 (7.432 %) Government 14 11 (7.432 %) Banking 14 11 (7.432 %) XML 15 10 (6.757 %) Java 15 10 (6.757 %) Agile Software Development 15 10 (6.757 %) Web Testing 16 8 (5.405 %) Integration Testing 16 8 (5.405 %) Systems Analysis 17 7 (4.730 %) System Testing 18 6 (4.054 %) Performance Testing 18 6 (4.054 %) UNIX 18 6 (4.054 %) MS Excel

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 13 October 2008, 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 11 (7.432 %) XML 2 5 (3.378 %) .NET 3 1 (0.676 %) SOAP 3 1 (0.676 %) XML Schema 3 1 (0.676 %) Middleware	Application Platforms 1 2 (1.351 %) SAS 2 1 (0.676 %) SharePoint 2 1 (0.676 %) MS Exchange
Applications 1 6 (4.054 %) MS Excel 2 5 (3.378 %) MS Office 3 1 (0.676 %) Spreadsheet	Business Applications 1 20 (13.51 %) BASE24 2 2 (1.351 %) InvestOne 3 1 (0.676 %) Oracle Applications
Communications & Networking 1 18 (12.16 %) TCP/IP 1 18 (12.16 %) X.25 2 17 (11.49 %) PSTN 3 3 (2.027 %) ATM	Database & Business Intelligence 1 5 (3.378 %) MS Access 2 4 (2.703 %) Datawarehouse 2 4 (2.703 %) Oracle 9i 3 2 (1.351 %) SQL Server 4 1 (0.676 %) DB2 4 1 (0.676 %) Crystal Reports 4 1 (0.676 %) Informix 4 1 (0.676 %) Oracle Reports 4 1 (0.676 %) Oracle 8/8i 4 1 (0.676 %) RDBMS 4 1 (0.676 %) BusinessObjects 4 1 (0.676 %) SQL Server 2005
Development Applications 1 25 (16.89 %) TestDirector 2 5 (3.378 %) LoadRunner 3 4 (2.703 %) QuickTest Pro 4 2 (1.351 %) ClearQuest 4 2 (1.351 %) FitNesse 5 1 (0.676 %) Bugzilla 5 1 (0.676 %) Selenium 5 1 (0.676 %) RequisitePro	General 1 54 (36.49 %) Finance 2 14 (9.459 %) Health 3 12 (8.108 %) Financial Institution 4 11 (7.432 %) Government 4 11 (7.432 %) Banking 5 5 (3.378 %) Telecoms 6 3 (2.027 %) Pensions 7 2 (1.351 %) International Banking 7 2 (1.351 %) Insurance 8 1 (0.676 %) Pharmaceutical 8 1 (0.676 %) Retail 8 1 (0.676 %) Legal
Miscellaneous 1 20 (13.51 %) NHS 2 17 (11.49 %) Tandem 3 5 (3.378 %) Client/Server 3 5 (3.378 %) Management Information System 4 4 (2.703 %) N-Tier 5 3 (2.027 %) Smartcard 5 3 (2.027 %) Mainframe 5 3 (2.027 %) Computer Science 6 2 (1.351 %) IBM Mainframe 6 2 (1.351 %) NPfIT 6 2 (1.351 %) EMV 7 1 (0.676 %) Blackberry 7 1 (0.676 %) PDA	Operating Systems 1 6 (4.054 %) UNIX 2 4 (2.703 %) Linux 3 2 (1.351 %) Windows 4 1 (0.676 %) zOS
Processes & Methodologies 1 41 (27.70 %) Test Scripting 2 34 (22.97 %) User Acceptance Testing 3 23 (15.54 %) Software Testing 4 15 (10.14 %) Manual Testing 5 10 (6.757 %) Web Testing 5 10 (6.757 %) Agile Software Development 6 8 (5.405 %) Systems Analysis 6 8 (5.405 %) Integration Testing 7 7 (4.730 %) System Testing 8 6 (4.054 %) Performance Testing 9 5 (3.378 %) Test Management 9 5 (3.378 %) Data Management 9 5 (3.378 %) Data Analysis 9 5 (3.378 %) Stakeholder Management 9 5 (3.378 %) Project Management 10 4 (2.703 %) PRINCE2 10 4 (2.703 %) RAD 10 4 (2.703 %) Time Management 11 3 (2.027 %) Requirements Analysis 11 3 (2.027 %) Quality Management	Programming Languages 1 23 (15.54 %) SQL 2 10 (6.757 %) Java 3 3 (2.027 %) PL/SQL 4 2 (1.351 %) C 4 2 (1.351 %) VBScript 5 1 (0.676 %) VB 5 1 (0.676 %) C#
Qualifications 1 63 (42.57 %) ISEB 2 3 (2.027 %) Degree 3 2 (1.351 %) PRINCE2 Certification 4 1 (0.676 %) ISEB Practitioner	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 34 (22.97 %) QA 2 2 (1.351 %) Basel II 3 1 (0.676 %) ISO8583
Vendors 1 16 (10.81 %) Oracle 2 4 (2.703 %) Microsoft 3 2 (1.351 %) IBM 3 2 (1.351 %) Apple 4 1 (0.676 %) HP 4 1 (0.676 %) Business Objects