ISEB Contracts

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for ISEB qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 3 months to 27 June 2017 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

Note that daily and hourly rates are treated separately in these statistics. When calculating contractor rate percentiles, daily rates are never derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Information Systems Examinations Board (ISEB) UK
Location	3 months to 27 Jun 2017	Same period 2016	Same period 2015
Rank	251	207	175
Rank change year-on-year	-44	-32
Contract jobs citing ISEB	445	653	743
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK	0.94%	1.21%	1.35%
As % of the Qualifications category	4.92%	5.52%	7.11%
Number of daily rates quoted	281	479	511
Median daily rate	£375	£375	£350
Median daily rate % change year-on-year	-	+7.14%
90% offered a daily rate of more than	£250	£270	£250
10% offered a daily rate of more than	£500	£500	£500
UK excluding London median daily rate	£350	£350	£348
% change year-on-year	-	+0.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted	10	7	10
Median hourly rate	£40.00	£14.43	£19.94
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year	+177.29%	-27.65%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than	£17.00	£12.50	£15.21
10% offered a hourly rate of more than	£45.00	£91.60	£31.34
UK excluding London median hourly rate	£28.50	£14.43	£19.94
% change year-on-year	+97.57%	-27.65%

ISEB is in the academic qualifications and professional certifications category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all academic qualifications and professional certifications cited in contract job vacancies.

Academic & Professional Certification UK
Contract job vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications	9042	11823	10443
As % of all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the UK	19.19%	21.90%	18.93%
Number of daily rates quoted	5400	7392	6106
Median daily rate	£425	£400	£390
Median daily rate % change year-on-year	+6.25%	+2.56%
90% offered a daily rate of more than	£250	£250	£241
10% offered a daily rate of more than	£575	£575	£550
UK excluding London median daily rate	£400	£375	£375
% change year-on-year	+6.66%	-
Number of hourly rates quoted	490	454	538
Median hourly rate	£32.00	£28.50	£24.23
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year	+12.28%	+17.62%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than	£13.50	£12.50	£13.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than	£50.00	£47.85	£50.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate	£32.50	£28.50	£24.12
% change year-on-year	+14.03%	+18.15%

ISEB
Job Vacancy Trend

The job posting trend of jobs advertised citing ISEB as a proportion of all contract or permanent IT jobs with a match in the Qualifications category.

ISEB
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in contract jobs citing ISEB.

Contractor daily rate trend for ISEB in the UK

ISEB
Contractor Daily Rate Histogram

The daily rate distribution of IT jobs citing ISEB over the 3 months to 27 June 2017.

Contractor daily rate histogram for ISEB in the UK

ISEB
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for contractor hourly rates quoted in IT jobs citing ISEB.

Contractor hourly rate trend for ISEB in the UK

ISEB
Contractor Hourly Rate Histogram

The hourly rate distribution of IT jobs citing ISEB over the 3 months to 27 June 2017.

Contractor hourly rate histogram for ISEB in the UK

ISEB
Top 30 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing ISEB within the UK over the 3 months to 27 June 2017. 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	Rank Change on Same Period Last Year	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Median Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Median Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year	Live Job Vacancies
England	-35	409	£400	+6.66%	169
London	-54	133	£425	+6.25%	54
South East	-25	98	£363	-6.75%	29
South West	+28	61	£411	+26.30%	9
Yorkshire	+16	28	£365	+4.28%	13
West Midlands	-4	28	£325	-4.41%	19
West Yorkshire	+10	25	£383	+2.00%	9
Scotland	+10	23	£313	-1.41%	3
Hampshire	-4	21	£325	-18.75%	7
Surrey	-5	20	£363	-21.19%	8
Leeds	+10	19	£400	+16.95%	8
City of London	-11	18	£488	+15.38%	30
Edinburgh	+29	17	£275	-1.78%
North West	+2	17	£330	-2.22%	21
East Midlands	-7	17	£500	+31.14%	8
East of England	-27	15	£258	-30.40%	16
Devon	-	14	£433	-
Plymouth	-	13	£433	-
West Sussex	+9	12	£375	-6.25%	2
Wiltshire	+1	12	£425	+41.66%	3
Bristol	+1	11	£391	-10.05%	2
Manchester	+1	11	£225	-32.07%	16
Wales	-11	11	£310	+3.33%
Milton Keynes	-12	11	£350	+16.66%	2
Buckinghamshire	-20	11	£350	+18.64%	2
North East	+73	9	£350	+5.26%
Cardiff	-6	9	£310	+4.20%
South Wales	-11	9	£310	-4.61%
Basingstoke	-18	9	£309	-8.51%	2
Cornwall	-	9	£176	-

ISEB
Top 30 Co-occurring IT Skills

For the 6 months to 27 June 2017, IT contractor jobs citing ISEB also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number co-occurrences and its proportion to all contract ads with a requirement for ISEB.

1	438 (43.50%)	Agile Software Development
2	409 (40.62%)	ISTQB
3	282 (28.00%)	Test Automation
4	281 (27.90%)	Finance
5	217 (21.55%)	User Acceptance Testing
6	202 (20.06%)	Test Scripting
7	200 (19.86%)	Business Analysis
8	173 (17.18%)	SQL
9	165 (16.39%)	JIRA
10	164 (16.29%)	ISTQB Foundation Certification
11	154 (15.29%)	Software Testing
12	153 (15.19%)	Scrum
13	148 (14.70%)	PRINCE2
14	143 (14.20%)	Selenium
15	127 (12.61%)	Microsoft

16	126 (12.51%)	Waterfall
17	121 (12.02%)	QA
18	118 (11.72%)	ITIL
19	116 (11.52%)	Security Cleared
19	116 (11.52%)	Test Strategy
20	113 (11.22%)	Stakeholder Management
21	110 (10.92%)	Degree
22	109 (10.82%)	Java
23	103 (10.23%)	HP
24	100 (9.93%)	Functional Testing
25	98 (9.73%)	SDLC
26	96 (9.53%)	Defect Management
27	95 (9.43%)	Oracle
28	93 (9.24%)	Project Management
28	93 (9.24%)	Banking

ISEB
Co-occurring IT Skills by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same job type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
Applications
Business Applications
Cloud Services
Communications & Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
Development Applications
General
Job Titles
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
Miscellaneous
Operating Systems
Processes & Methodologies
Programming Languages
Qualifications
Quality Assurance & Compliance
System Software
Systems Management
Vendors

Application Platforms
1	54 (5.36%)	Confluence
2	25 (2.48%)	SharePoint
3	14 (1.39%)	WebLogic
4	10 (0.99%)	Oracle SOA Suite
5	9 (0.89%)	CMS
6	6 (0.60%)	BizTalk Server
7	5 (0.50%)	IIS
8	4 (0.40%)	Adobe Experience Manager
8	4 (0.40%)	Tomcat
9	3 (0.30%)	Apache
9	3 (0.30%)	ATG Dynamo
9	3 (0.30%)	Drupal
9	3 (0.30%)	SAS
9	3 (0.30%)	WebSphere
10	2 (0.20%)	JBoss
10	2 (0.20%)	MS Exchange
10	2 (0.20%)	Oracle Workflow
10	2 (0.20%)	Skype for Business
11	1 (0.099%)	Apache Spark
11	1 (0.099%)	Exchange Server 2010

Applications
1	51 (5.06%)	Microsoft Office
2	37 (3.67%)	MS Visio
3	34 (3.38%)	Microsoft Excel
4	12 (1.19%)	Microsoft PowerPoint
5	11 (1.09%)	Microsoft Project
6	3 (0.30%)	Adobe Illustrator
6	3 (0.30%)	Photoshop
7	2 (0.20%)	Open Workbench

Business Applications
1	14 (1.39%)	Dynamics CRM
2	7 (0.70%)	Dynamics NAV
2	7 (0.70%)	Oracle EBS
2	7 (0.70%)	Oracle EBS R12
3	5 (0.50%)	Dynamics AX
4	4 (0.40%)	iTrent
4	4 (0.40%)	Oracle Applications
5	3 (0.30%)	Actimize
5	3 (0.30%)	Maximo
5	3 (0.30%)	NetSuite
6	2 (0.20%)	Cognos Business Intelligence
6	2 (0.20%)	TRIRIGA
6	2 (0.20%)	Unit4 Business World
6	2 (0.20%)	Workday HCM
7	1 (0.099%)	Oracle ERP
7	1 (0.099%)	Oracle Retail
7	1 (0.099%)	Primavera
7	1 (0.099%)	RMDS
7	1 (0.099%)	SAP Oil and Gas
7	1 (0.099%)	SAP PM

Cloud Services
1	32 (3.18%)	Microsoft Azure
2	12 (1.19%)	SaaS
3	11 (1.09%)	GitHub
4	6 (0.60%)	Office 365
5	3 (0.30%)	PaaS
6	2 (0.20%)	Amazon AWS
6	2 (0.20%)	Azure Active Directory
6	2 (0.20%)	BrowserStack
6	2 (0.20%)	G Suite
7	1 (0.099%)	Amazon S3
7	1 (0.099%)	Sauce Labs
7	1 (0.099%)	Slack
7	1 (0.099%)	SuccessFactors
7	1 (0.099%)	Taleo
7	1 (0.099%)	Trello
7	1 (0.099%)	Yammer

Communications & Networking
1	17 (1.69%)	Internet
1	17 (1.69%)	PuTTY
2	15 (1.49%)	WinSCP
3	14 (1.39%)	TCP/IP
3	14 (1.39%)	WAN
4	13 (1.29%)	LAN
5	11 (1.09%)	LDAP
6	8 (0.79%)	Firewall
7	6 (0.60%)	SSL
8	5 (0.50%)	POP3
8	5 (0.50%)	SMTP
8	5 (0.50%)	VLAN
9	4 (0.40%)	Cisco IOS
9	4 (0.40%)	DHCP
9	4 (0.40%)	DNS
9	4 (0.40%)	Reverse Proxy
9	4 (0.40%)	SAN
9	4 (0.40%)	VPN
10	3 (0.30%)	Skype
10	3 (0.30%)	Unified Communications

Database & Business Intelligence
1	42 (4.17%)	Data Warehouse
2	38 (3.77%)	SQL Server
3	23 (2.28%)	Oracle Reports
4	21 (2.09%)	Oracle Database
5	17 (1.69%)	Relational Database
6	15 (1.49%)	Oracle Database 10g
6	15 (1.49%)	Oracle Database 11g
7	11 (1.09%)	SQL Server 2012
8	10 (0.99%)	RDBMS
8	10 (0.99%)	SQL Server 2005
8	10 (0.99%)	SQL Server 2008
9	9 (0.89%)	SQL Server Integration Services
10	8 (0.79%)	SQL Server Reporting Services
11	6 (0.60%)	BusinessObjects
11	6 (0.60%)	BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
12	5 (0.50%)	Big Data
12	5 (0.50%)	DB2
12	5 (0.50%)	Oracle BI EE
12	5 (0.50%)	Oracle Database 12c
12	5 (0.50%)	Oracle OWB

Development Applications
1	165 (16.39%)	JIRA
2	143 (14.20%)	Selenium
3	63 (6.26%)	Cucumber
4	61 (6.06%)	HP UFT
5	54 (5.36%)	Team Foundation Server
6	49 (4.87%)	SoapUI
7	41 (4.07%)	Jenkins
8	37 (3.67%)	WebDriver
9	35 (3.48%)	LoadRunner
10	29 (2.88%)	SpecFlow
11	24 (2.38%)	JMeter
12	21 (2.09%)	TestRail
13	20 (1.99%)	TeamCity
14	18 (1.79%)	Visual Studio
15	16 (1.59%)	Oracle APEX
15	16 (1.59%)	Toad
16	15 (1.49%)	Git (software)
17	14 (1.39%)	Eclipse
18	13 (1.29%)	TestNG
19	12 (1.19%)	Ant

General
1	281 (27.90%)	Finance
2	93 (9.24%)	Banking
3	92 (9.14%)	Retail
4	40 (3.97%)	Telecoms
5	33 (3.28%)	Retail Banking
6	18 (1.79%)	Legal
7	17 (1.69%)	Manufacturing
7	17 (1.69%)	Marketing
8	13 (1.29%)	Investment Banking
9	11 (1.09%)	Spanish Language
10	10 (0.99%)	Back Office
11	9 (0.89%)	Law
11	9 (0.89%)	Local Government
12	8 (0.79%)	Games
13	5 (0.50%)	Automotive
13	5 (0.50%)	Pharmaceutical
13	5 (0.50%)	Publishing
14	4 (0.40%)	General Ledger
15	3 (0.30%)	Advertising
15	3 (0.30%)	Private Banking

Job Titles
1	549 (54.52%)	Analyst
2	267 (26.51%)	Business Analyst
3	233 (23.14%)	Test Analyst
4	113 (11.22%)	Tester
5	107 (10.63%)	Test Manager
6	76 (7.55%)	Test Leader
7	61 (6.06%)	Senior Analyst
8	43 (4.27%)	Test Engineer
9	38 (3.77%)	Project Manager
10	33 (3.28%)	Automation Test Analyst
11	30 (2.98%)	Financial Analyst
12	29 (2.88%)	Senior Test Analyst
13	26 (2.58%)	Senior Business Analyst
14	25 (2.48%)	Agile Test Analyst
14	25 (2.48%)	IT Analyst
15	24 (2.38%)	Business IT Analyst
16	23 (2.28%)	Test Specialist
17	22 (2.18%)	Business Systems Analyst
18	21 (2.09%)	IT Business Analyst
18	21 (2.09%)	QA Engineer

Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1	41 (4.07%)	.NET
2	40 (3.97%)	XML
3	36 (3.57%)	Web Services
4	13 (1.29%)	SOAP
5	12 (1.19%)	Gherkin
5	12 (1.19%)	Middleware
6	11 (1.09%)	AngularJS
6	11 (1.09%)	HTML
6	11 (1.09%)	J2EE
7	9 (0.89%)	Spring
8	8 (0.79%)	Hibernate
8	8 (0.79%)	RESTful
9	6 (0.60%)	HTML5
9	6 (0.60%)	JSON
10	5 (0.50%)	CSS
10	5 (0.50%)	XSLT
11	4 (0.40%)	COM+
11	4 (0.40%)	Node.js
11	4 (0.40%)	Struts
12	3 (0.30%)	REST

Miscellaneous
1	91 (9.04%)	Analytical Skills
2	45 (4.47%)	Management Information System
3	22 (2.18%)	PMI
4	20 (1.99%)	Mobile App
4	20 (1.99%)	User Experience
5	17 (1.69%)	Equities
5	17 (1.69%)	NHS
6	16 (1.59%)	Computer Science
7	13 (1.29%)	Data Centre
7	13 (1.29%)	Hedge funds
8	8 (0.79%)	Client/Server
8	8 (0.79%)	Derivative
8	8 (0.79%)	Foreign Exchange (FX)
9	7 (0.70%)	Frameworx
9	7 (0.70%)	STB
10	6 (0.60%)	Data Structures
10	6 (0.60%)	Fintech
10	6 (0.60%)	Smart Meter
10	6 (0.60%)	Virtual Team
11	5 (0.50%)	iSeries

Operating Systems
1	85 (8.44%)	Windows
2	52 (5.16%)	Linux
3	44 (4.37%)	Unix
4	17 (1.69%)	Windows Server
5	15 (1.49%)	Windows Server 2012
6	14 (1.39%)	Android
7	13 (1.29%)	Windows 10
8	11 (1.09%)	Apple iOS
9	10 (0.99%)	Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10	9 (0.89%)	Windows Vista
11	8 (0.79%)	Windows Server 2003
11	8 (0.79%)	Windows Server 2008
12	5 (0.50%)	AIX
13	2 (0.20%)	Windows 7
14	1 (0.099%)	HPUX
14	1 (0.099%)	Kali Linux
14	1 (0.099%)	Solaris
14	1 (0.099%)	SUSE
14	1 (0.099%)	VMS
14	1 (0.099%)	Windows 8

Processes & Methodologies
1	438 (43.50%)	Agile Software Development
2	282 (28.00%)	Test Automation
3	217 (21.55%)	User Acceptance Testing
4	202 (20.06%)	Test Scripting
5	200 (19.86%)	Business Analysis
6	154 (15.29%)	Software Testing
7	153 (15.19%)	Scrum
8	148 (14.70%)	PRINCE2
9	126 (12.51%)	Waterfall
10	118 (11.72%)	ITIL
11	116 (11.52%)	Test Strategy
12	113 (11.22%)	Stakeholder Management
13	100 (9.93%)	Functional Testing
14	98 (9.73%)	SDLC
15	96 (9.53%)	Defect Management
16	93 (9.24%)	Project Management
17	90 (8.94%)	BDD
18	89 (8.84%)	User Stories
19	87 (8.64%)	Regression Testing
20	86 (8.54%)	Test Management

Programming Languages
1	173 (17.18%)	SQL
2	109 (10.82%)	Java
3	47 (4.67%)	Python
4	43 (4.27%)	C#
5	23 (2.28%)	Ruby
6	18 (1.79%)	C
6	18 (1.79%)	JavaScript
7	17 (1.69%)	Groovy
8	15 (1.49%)	F#
8	15 (1.49%)	PL/SQL
9	14 (1.39%)	Perl
10	11 (1.09%)	VBScript
11	10 (0.99%)	VB
12	8 (0.79%)	C++
13	6 (0.60%)	PHP
13	6 (0.60%)	T-SQL
14	5 (0.50%)	Shell Script
14	5 (0.50%)	VB.NET
15	3 (0.30%)	ActionScript
15	3 (0.30%)	Bash Shell

Qualifications
1	409 (40.62%)	ISTQB
2	164 (16.29%)	ISTQB Foundation Certification
3	116 (11.52%)	Security Cleared
4	110 (10.92%)	Degree
5	63 (6.26%)	SC Cleared
6	41 (4.07%)	IIBA
7	36 (3.57%)	CBAP
8	34 (3.38%)	DV Cleared
9	32 (3.18%)	ISEB Practitioner
10	27 (2.68%)	ISTQB Advanced Certification
11	24 (2.38%)	PMI Certification
12	20 (1.99%)	PRINCE2 Practitioner
13	17 (1.69%)	BPSS Clearance
14	14 (1.39%)	PRINCE2 Certification
15	9 (0.89%)	APMG
15	9 (0.89%)	CITP
16	7 (0.70%)	Chartered Engineer
17	6 (0.60%)	CCAA
17	6 (0.60%)	Citrix Certification
17	6 (0.60%)	PMP

Quality Assurance & Compliance
1	121 (12.02%)	QA
2	14 (1.39%)	GDPR
3	12 (1.19%)	PMO
4	11 (1.09%)	MiFID
5	8 (0.79%)	Disclosure Scotland
5	8 (0.79%)	SLA
6	7 (0.70%)	ISO/IEC 19770
6	7 (0.70%)	ISO/IEC 20000
7	6 (0.60%)	Data Quality
7	6 (0.60%)	Dodd-Frank
7	6 (0.60%)	PCI DSS
8	4 (0.40%)	ISO 9001
8	4 (0.40%)	ISO/IEC 27001
8	4 (0.40%)	SEPA
9	3 (0.30%)	FATCA
9	3 (0.30%)	TickIT
10	2 (0.20%)	EMIR
10	2 (0.20%)	IFRS
10	2 (0.20%)	IFRS 9
10	2 (0.20%)	ISO 9000

System Software
1	13 (1.29%)	Virtual Machines
2	12 (1.19%)	Active Directory
3	11 (1.09%)	vSphere
4	7 (0.70%)	VirtualBox
5	6 (0.60%)	VMware Infrastructure
6	5 (0.50%)	Oracle RAC
7	4 (0.40%)	XenApp
8	3 (0.30%)	Hyper-V
8	3 (0.30%)	Microsoft App-V
8	3 (0.30%)	VMware Workstation
8	3 (0.30%)	XenServer
9	2 (0.20%)	Firmware
10	1 (0.099%)	Microsoft Virtual Server
10	1 (0.099%)	Virtual Servers
10	1 (0.099%)	VMware ESXi
10	1 (0.099%)	Xen

Systems Management
1	63 (6.26%)	HP Quality Center
2	10 (0.99%)	vRealize
3	8 (0.79%)	SCCM
4	7 (0.70%)	Systems Management Server (SMS)
5	5 (0.50%)	Cisco IPCC
6	4 (0.40%)	SCOM
7	3 (0.30%)	SmoothWall
8	1 (0.099%)	AirWatch
8	1 (0.099%)	BMC PATROL
8	1 (0.099%)	Business Desktop Deployment
8	1 (0.099%)	CA Single Sign-On
8	1 (0.099%)	Graphite
8	1 (0.099%)	HP SiteScope
8	1 (0.099%)	ITRS Geneos
8	1 (0.099%)	McAfee ePO
8	1 (0.099%)	Microsoft Intune
8	1 (0.099%)	Netcool
8	1 (0.099%)	Opscode Chef
8	1 (0.099%)	Puppet
8	1 (0.099%)	QRadar

Vendors
1	127 (12.61%)	Microsoft
2	103 (10.23%)	HP
3	95 (9.43%)	Oracle
4	42 (4.17%)	SAP
5	21 (2.09%)	VMware
6	16 (1.59%)	Sybase
7	14 (1.39%)	IBM
8	12 (1.19%)	Citrix
8	12 (1.19%)	Salesforce.com
9	11 (1.09%)	Cisco
10	10 (0.99%)	Atlassian
10	10 (0.99%)	Red Hat
11	9 (0.89%)	BMC
12	8 (0.79%)	Remedy
13	7 (0.70%)	Adobe
13	7 (0.70%)	PeopleSoft
13	7 (0.70%)	Snow
13	7 (0.70%)	Workday
14	6 (0.60%)	Fixnetix
15	5 (0.50%)	Apple