Tester 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 Tester 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 Tester 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
Tester
Rank 87 82 69
Rank change year-on-year
-5 -13
Contract jobs requiring a Tester 23 30 29
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Yorkshire 1.238% 1.343% 1.586%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.314% 1.420% 1.690%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 16 19
Average daily rate £263 £280 £315
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-6.25% -10.96%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £199 £188 £210
10% offered a daily rate of more than £400 £365 £408
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £310 £275
% change year-on-year
+4.83% +12.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Average hourly rate - - £160.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £29.00 £19.50 £20.50
% change year-on-year
+48.71% -4.87%
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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%
Tester
England

Tester
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Yorkshire Tester Jobs Demand Trend

Tester
Daily Rate Trend

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

Yorkshire Tester Daily Rate Trend

Tester
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Yorkshire Tester Daily Rate Histogram

Tester
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Yorkshire Tester Hourly Rate Trend

Tester
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Tester 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 -2 18 £263 -11.01%
South Yorkshire +3 2 £400 +37.93%
North Yorkshire +1 1 £185 -31.48%
Tester
England

Tester
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Yorkshire 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 17 (32.08%) SQL
2 16 (30.19%) Performance Testing
3 14 (26.42%) Test Scripting
4 13 (24.53%) Selenium
5 10 (18.87%) User Acceptance Testing
5 10 (18.87%) Agile Software Development
5 10 (18.87%) HTML
5 10 (18.87%) LoadRunner
6 9 (16.98%) HP
7 8 (15.09%) QA
7 8 (15.09%) HP Quality Center
8 7 (13.21%) Test Management
8 7 (13.21%) Manual Testing
8 7 (13.21%) Automated Testing
8 7 (13.21%) ISEB
8 7 (13.21%) Microsoft
8 7 (13.21%) Oracle
8 7 (13.21%) MS Office
8 7 (13.21%) XML
8 7 (13.21%) Automation Testing
9 6 (11.32%) Visual Studio
9 6 (11.32%) Linux
9 6 (11.32%) .NET
9 6 (11.32%) C#
9 6 (11.32%) Regression Testing
9 6 (11.32%) QuickTest Pro
10 5 (9.434%) Windows
10 5 (9.434%) HTTP
10 5 (9.434%) Java
10 5 (9.434%) VB

Tester
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Yorkshire 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.

Application Development
1 10 (18.87%) HTML
2 7 (13.21%) XML
3 6 (11.32%) .NET
4 4 (7.547%) Web Services
5 3 (5.660%) Gherkin
5 3 (5.660%) Middleware
5 3 (5.660%) ASP
6 2 (3.774%) ASP.NET
6 2 (3.774%) CSS
7 1 (1.887%) WCF
Application Platforms
1 1 (1.887%) WebLogic
1 1 (1.887%) Magento
Applications
1 7 (13.21%) MS Office
2 3 (5.660%) MS Excel
2 3 (5.660%) MS Project
Business Applications
1 1 (1.887%) Dynamics AX
Communications & Networking
1 5 (9.434%) HTTP
2 3 (5.660%) SSL
3 1 (1.887%) Firewall
3 1 (1.887%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (5.660%) SQL Server
2 1 (1.887%) Oracle 10g
2 1 (1.887%) TOAD
2 1 (1.887%) MS Access
2 1 (1.887%) Oracle 8/8i
2 1 (1.887%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 13 (24.53%) Selenium
2 10 (18.87%) LoadRunner
3 6 (11.32%) Visual Studio
3 6 (11.32%) QuickTest Pro
4 5 (9.434%) WebDriver
5 4 (7.547%) Cucumber
6 3 (5.660%) SpecFlow
6 3 (5.660%) MSI
6 3 (5.660%) Rational Performance Tester
6 3 (5.660%) Talend Open Studio
6 3 (5.660%) TeamCity
7 2 (3.774%) Visual Studio Team System
8 1 (1.887%) JMeter
8 1 (1.887%) WinRunner
8 1 (1.887%) TestDirector
8 1 (1.887%) JIRA
8 1 (1.887%) FitNesse
General
1 2 (3.774%) Retail
1 2 (3.774%) Finance
2 1 (1.887%) Retail Banking
2 1 (1.887%) Banking
Miscellaneous
1 4 (7.547%) STB
2 3 (5.660%) MPEG
2 3 (5.660%) IPTV
2 3 (5.660%) Computer Science
3 1 (1.887%) Mainframe
3 1 (1.887%) AS400
3 1 (1.887%) iSeries
Operating Systems
1 6 (11.32%) Linux
2 5 (9.434%) Windows
3 4 (7.547%) UNIX
4 1 (1.887%) Windows Server 2003
4 1 (1.887%) Windows XP
4 1 (1.887%) Windows 2000
4 1 (1.887%) Windows Vista
4 1 (1.887%) Apple iOS
4 1 (1.887%) Windows 7
4 1 (1.887%) Windows 8
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (30.19%) Performance Testing
2 14 (26.42%) Test Scripting
3 10 (18.87%) User Acceptance Testing
3 10 (18.87%) Agile Software Development
4 7 (13.21%) Test Management
4 7 (13.21%) Manual Testing
4 7 (13.21%) Automated Testing
4 7 (13.21%) Automation Testing
5 6 (11.32%) Regression Testing
6 5 (9.434%) Web Testing
6 5 (9.434%) Test Automation
7 4 (7.547%) Load Testing
7 4 (7.547%) Integration Testing
7 4 (7.547%) System Testing
7 4 (7.547%) Software Testing
8 3 (5.660%) Agile Testing
8 3 (5.660%) Scrum
8 3 (5.660%) SOA
8 3 (5.660%) Continuous Integration
9 2 (3.774%) BDD
Programming Languages
1 17 (32.08%) SQL
2 6 (11.32%) C#
3 5 (9.434%) Java
3 5 (9.434%) VB
4 4 (7.547%) Python
4 4 (7.547%) Tcl
5 3 (5.660%) VBA
5 3 (5.660%) C
6 2 (3.774%) Bash shell
6 2 (3.774%) JavaScript
6 2 (3.774%) Perl
6 2 (3.774%) VBScript
7 1 (1.887%) C++
7 1 (1.887%) PL/SQL
7 1 (1.887%) BeanShell
Qualifications
1 7 (13.21%) ISEB
2 4 (7.547%) Security Cleared
3 3 (5.660%) HND
3 3 (5.660%) Degree
3 3 (5.660%) SC Cleared
3 3 (5.660%) BC Cleared
4 2 (3.774%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (15.09%) QA
System Software
1 3 (5.660%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 8 (15.09%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 9 (16.98%) HP
2 7 (13.21%) Microsoft
2 7 (13.21%) Oracle
3 4 (7.547%) VMware
4 3 (5.660%) Talend
5 2 (3.774%) SAP
6 1 (1.887%) IBM
6 1 (1.887%) Capita
Test Analyst / Tester / West Yorkshire / £200p/d
West Yorkshire
Strong web-testing experience with ability to read ASP.Net, HTML and XML... Ability to use Quality Centre (or equivalent Test Management tools) ISEB qualified - MUST. Desirable Skills:...
CoreCom Consulting
Rate: £200 per day
Posted: 23 May 2013
Performance Tester - JMeter
West Yorkshire
You will have structured experience of JMeter in a performance test Java environment and have knowledge of other test tools testing varied web applications and sites. You will...
QUANTICA
Rate: £350 - £400 per day
Posted: 22 May 2013
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