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 May 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 May 2017	Same period 2016	Same period 2015
Rank	241	200	188
Rank change year-on-year	-41	-12
Contract jobs citing ISEB	458	685	712
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK	1.01%	1.26%	1.31%
As % of the Qualifications category	5.16%	5.81%	6.72%
Number of daily rates quoted	293	477	474
Median daily rate	£375	£375	£350
Median daily rate % change year-on-year	-	+7.14%
90% offered a daily rate of more than	£250	£275	£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	14	13	11
Median hourly rate	£40.00	£35.50	£21.00
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year	+12.67%	+69.04%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than	£17.00	£12.50	£15.25
10% offered a hourly rate of more than	£50.80	£48.05	£41.72
UK excluding London median hourly rate	£40.00	£35.50	£19.94
% change year-on-year	+12.67%	+78.03%

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	8884	11794	10603
As % of all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the UK	19.51%	21.62%	19.48%
Number of daily rates quoted	5383	7316	6073
Median daily rate	£428	£400	£388
Median daily rate % change year-on-year	+7.00%	+3.22%
90% offered a daily rate of more than	£265	£250	£240
10% offered a daily rate of more than	£575	£575	£538
UK excluding London median daily rate	£410	£375	£375
% change year-on-year	+9.33%	-
Number of hourly rates quoted	486	420	541
Median hourly rate	£31.50	£32.50	£22.50
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year	-3.07%	+44.44%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than	£13.50	£12.50	£13.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than	£50.00	£47.83	£49.35
UK excluding London median hourly rate	£31.85	£35.00	£22.50
% change year-on-year	-9.00%	+55.55%

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 May 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 May 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 May 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	-26	432	£380	+1.33%	145
London	-44	135	£450	+9.09%	41
South East	-13	114	£364	-3.00%	31
South West	+31	68	£400	+23.07%	18
Hampshire	+8	27	£313	-19.16%	8
Surrey	-2	27	£400	-11.11%	7
West Midlands	-2	26	£300	-14.28%	9
North West	+15	25	£295	-12.59%	20
Milton Keynes	-5	23	£423	+16.55%	1
Buckinghamshire	-13	23	£423	+26.11%	3
Yorkshire	-7	22	£400	+14.28%	12
East Midlands	-10	19	£475	+21.79%	4
City of London	-16	19	£475	+11.76%	19
Scotland	+17	18	£275	-17.16%	4
West Yorkshire	+11	17	£403	+15.00%	7
Wiltshire	+7	16	£425	+41.66%	5
Leeds	+16	15	£401	+18.88%	4
Devon	-	15	£428	-	1
East of England	-12	14	£240	-35.57%	10
Gloucestershire	+7	12	£400	-4.47%	4
Cheshire	+31	11	£295	-15.71%	1
Manchester	+6	11	£325	-3.70%	14
Edinburgh	+15	10	£270	-3.57%	3
Swindon	+5	9	£425	+21.42%	4
West Sussex	+18	8	£375	-6.83%	1
Berkshire	+17	8	£331	-14.51%	5
Basingstoke	+2	8	£293	-19.31%	1
Exeter	-	8	£350	-
Chester	+20	7	£275	-4.43%	1
Cambridgeshire	+4	7	£240	-32.39%	3

ISEB
Top 30 Co-occurring IT Skills

For the 6 months to 27 May 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	445 (44.15%)	Agile Software Development
2	398 (39.48%)	ISTQB
3	299 (29.66%)	Finance
3	299 (29.66%)	Test Automation
4	213 (21.13%)	Business Analysis
5	204 (20.24%)	User Acceptance Testing
6	194 (19.25%)	Test Scripting
7	173 (17.16%)	SQL
8	160 (15.87%)	Selenium
9	159 (15.77%)	PRINCE2
10	157 (15.58%)	JIRA
11	154 (15.28%)	ISTQB Foundation Certification
11	154 (15.28%)	Software Testing
12	143 (14.19%)	Scrum
13	136 (13.49%)	Microsoft

14	132 (13.10%)	QA
15	125 (12.40%)	Stakeholder Management
16	122 (12.10%)	Java
16	122 (12.10%)	Waterfall
17	119 (11.81%)	Security Cleared
18	114 (11.31%)	Test Strategy
19	107 (10.62%)	ITIL
20	104 (10.32%)	Oracle
20	104 (10.32%)	Degree
20	104 (10.32%)	BDD
21	101 (10.02%)	Functional Testing
21	101 (10.02%)	Project Management
22	93 (9.23%)	SDLC
23	92 (9.13%)	Test Management
24	91 (9.03%)	Defect Management

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	51 (5.06%)	Confluence
2	24 (2.38%)	SharePoint
3	12 (1.19%)	WebLogic
4	11 (1.09%)	Oracle SOA Suite
5	9 (0.89%)	BizTalk Server
5	9 (0.89%)	CMS
5	9 (0.89%)	IIS
6	6 (0.60%)	WebSphere
7	4 (0.40%)	Adobe Experience Manager
7	4 (0.40%)	ATG Dynamo
7	4 (0.40%)	SAS
7	4 (0.40%)	Tomcat
8	3 (0.30%)	Apache
8	3 (0.30%)	Apache Spark
8	3 (0.30%)	JCAPS
9	2 (0.20%)	Drupal
9	2 (0.20%)	Elasticsearch
9	2 (0.20%)	JBoss
9	2 (0.20%)	MS Exchange
9	2 (0.20%)	Skype for Business

Applications
1	48 (4.76%)	Microsoft Office
2	36 (3.57%)	Microsoft Excel
3	31 (3.08%)	MS Visio
4	13 (1.29%)	Microsoft Project
5	12 (1.19%)	Microsoft PowerPoint
6	3 (0.30%)	Adobe Illustrator
6	3 (0.30%)	Open Workbench
6	3 (0.30%)	Photoshop

Business Applications
1	19 (1.88%)	Dynamics CRM
2	7 (0.69%)	Dynamics NAV
2	7 (0.69%)	Oracle EBS
2	7 (0.69%)	Oracle EBS R12
3	5 (0.50%)	Dynamics AX
4	4 (0.40%)	Oracle Applications
4	4 (0.40%)	SAP Oil and Gas
5	3 (0.30%)	NetSuite
6	2 (0.20%)	Actimize
6	2 (0.20%)	Cognos Business Intelligence
6	2 (0.20%)	iTrent
6	2 (0.20%)	Maximo
6	2 (0.20%)	Oracle ERP
6	2 (0.20%)	Temenos T24
6	2 (0.20%)	TRIRIGA
6	2 (0.20%)	Unit4 Business World
6	2 (0.20%)	Workday HCM
7	1 (0.099%)	IntelliMatch
7	1 (0.099%)	Sonata
7	1 (0.099%)	Tercero

Cloud Services
1	28 (2.78%)	Microsoft Azure
2	12 (1.19%)	GitHub
3	8 (0.79%)	SaaS
4	6 (0.60%)	Office 365
5	3 (0.30%)	BrowserStack
6	2 (0.20%)	Amazon AWS
6	2 (0.20%)	Azure Active Directory
6	2 (0.20%)	G Suite
6	2 (0.20%)	Sauce Labs
6	2 (0.20%)	SuccessFactors
7	1 (0.099%)	Amazon S3
7	1 (0.099%)	PaaS
7	1 (0.099%)	Slack
7	1 (0.099%)	Taleo
7	1 (0.099%)	Trello

Communications & Networking
1	17 (1.69%)	Internet
1	17 (1.69%)	PuTTY
2	15 (1.49%)	WinSCP
3	11 (1.09%)	LDAP
4	10 (0.99%)	Firewall
5	8 (0.79%)	TCP/IP
5	8 (0.79%)	WAN
6	7 (0.69%)	LAN
7	5 (0.50%)	SSH
7	5 (0.50%)	SSL
7	5 (0.50%)	Unified Communications
8	4 (0.40%)	Intrusion Detection
8	4 (0.40%)	Reverse Proxy
8	4 (0.40%)	SAN
8	4 (0.40%)	VLAN
9	3 (0.30%)	Cisco IOS
9	3 (0.30%)	DHCP
9	3 (0.30%)	DMZ
9	3 (0.30%)	DNS
9	3 (0.30%)	VPN

Database & Business Intelligence
1	45 (4.46%)	SQL Server
2	44 (4.37%)	Data Warehouse
3	24 (2.38%)	Oracle Reports
4	20 (1.98%)	Oracle Database
5	16 (1.59%)	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	8 (0.79%)	SQL Server Integration Services
10	6 (0.60%)	Oracle BI EE
10	6 (0.60%)	SQL Server Reporting Services
11	5 (0.50%)	Big Data
11	5 (0.50%)	DB2
11	5 (0.50%)	Hadoop
11	5 (0.50%)	Oracle Database 12c
11	5 (0.50%)	Oracle OWB
12	4 (0.40%)	BusinessObjects

Development Applications
1	160 (15.87%)	Selenium
2	157 (15.58%)	JIRA
3	68 (6.75%)	HP UFT
4	67 (6.65%)	Cucumber
5	59 (5.85%)	Team Foundation Server
6	52 (5.16%)	SoapUI
7	49 (4.86%)	Jenkins
8	40 (3.97%)	LoadRunner
9	38 (3.77%)	WebDriver
10	33 (3.27%)	SpecFlow
11	29 (2.88%)	JMeter
12	25 (2.48%)	Visual Studio
13	23 (2.28%)	TestRail
14	20 (1.98%)	TeamCity
15	16 (1.59%)	Git (software)
15	16 (1.59%)	Oracle APEX
15	16 (1.59%)	Toad
16	14 (1.39%)	Eclipse
17	12 (1.19%)	Ant
17	12 (1.19%)	TestNG

General
1	299 (29.66%)	Finance
2	89 (8.83%)	Banking
3	76 (7.54%)	Retail
4	38 (3.77%)	Telecoms
5	23 (2.28%)	Marketing
6	21 (2.08%)	Manufacturing
7	19 (1.88%)	Retail Banking
8	14 (1.39%)	Legal
9	12 (1.19%)	Investment Banking
10	9 (0.89%)	Law
10	9 (0.89%)	Local Government
11	8 (0.79%)	Back Office
12	6 (0.60%)	Automotive
12	6 (0.60%)	Games
12	6 (0.60%)	Pharmaceutical
13	4 (0.40%)	Electronics
13	4 (0.40%)	General Ledger
13	4 (0.40%)	Publishing
14	3 (0.30%)	Aerospace
14	3 (0.30%)	Spanish Language

Job Titles
1	545 (54.07%)	Analyst
2	280 (27.78%)	Business Analyst
3	221 (21.92%)	Test Analyst
4	135 (13.39%)	Tester
5	100 (9.92%)	Test Manager
6	69 (6.85%)	Test Leader
7	67 (6.65%)	Senior Analyst
8	46 (4.56%)	Test Engineer
9	34 (3.37%)	Project Manager
10	33 (3.27%)	Automation Test Analyst
11	31 (3.08%)	Automation Tester
11	31 (3.08%)	Financial Analyst
11	31 (3.08%)	Senior Business Analyst
11	31 (3.08%)	Senior Test Analyst
12	24 (2.38%)	Agile Test Analyst
12	24 (2.38%)	Insurance Business Analyst
12	24 (2.38%)	IT Analyst
13	23 (2.28%)	Business IT Analyst
13	23 (2.28%)	QA Engineer
13	23 (2.28%)	Test Specialist

Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1	53 (5.26%)	XML
2	48 (4.76%)	.NET
3	44 (4.37%)	Web Services
4	19 (1.88%)	SOAP
5	17 (1.69%)	Gherkin
6	15 (1.49%)	J2EE
7	13 (1.29%)	AngularJS
7	13 (1.29%)	HTML
7	13 (1.29%)	RESTful
8	11 (1.09%)	Middleware
9	10 (0.99%)	Spring
10	9 (0.89%)	Hibernate
11	8 (0.79%)	CSS
11	8 (0.79%)	XSLT
12	7 (0.69%)	REST
13	6 (0.60%)	JSON
13	6 (0.60%)	WCF
14	5 (0.50%)	HTML5
15	4 (0.40%)	AppFabric
15	4 (0.40%)	Node.js

Miscellaneous
1	88 (8.73%)	Analytical Skills
2	48 (4.76%)	Management Information System
3	22 (2.18%)	PMI
4	19 (1.88%)	NHS
4	19 (1.88%)	User Experience
5	18 (1.79%)	Computer Science
5	18 (1.79%)	Mobile App
6	16 (1.59%)	Equities
7	13 (1.29%)	Hedge funds
8	10 (0.99%)	Foreign Exchange (FX)
9	9 (0.89%)	Client/Server
10	8 (0.79%)	Fintech
11	7 (0.69%)	Data Centre
11	7 (0.69%)	Data Protection Act
11	7 (0.69%)	Derivative
11	7 (0.69%)	Greenfield Project
11	7 (0.69%)	Linux Command Line
12	6 (0.60%)	Frameworx
12	6 (0.60%)	Smart Meter
12	6 (0.60%)	STB

Operating Systems
1	68 (6.75%)	Windows
2	56 (5.56%)	Linux
3	54 (5.36%)	Unix
4	17 (1.69%)	Windows Server
5	15 (1.49%)	Android
5	15 (1.49%)	Windows Server 2012
6	12 (1.19%)	Apple iOS
7	10 (0.99%)	Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8	9 (0.89%)	Windows 10
8	9 (0.89%)	Windows Vista
9	8 (0.79%)	Windows Server 2003
9	8 (0.79%)	Windows Server 2008
10	5 (0.50%)	AIX
11	2 (0.20%)	Solaris
11	2 (0.20%)	Windows 7
12	1 (0.099%)	HPUX
12	1 (0.099%)	SUSE
12	1 (0.099%)	VMS
12	1 (0.099%)	Windows 8

Processes & Methodologies
1	445 (44.15%)	Agile Software Development
2	299 (29.66%)	Test Automation
3	213 (21.13%)	Business Analysis
4	204 (20.24%)	User Acceptance Testing
5	194 (19.25%)	Test Scripting
6	159 (15.77%)	PRINCE2
7	154 (15.28%)	Software Testing
8	143 (14.19%)	Scrum
9	125 (12.40%)	Stakeholder Management
10	122 (12.10%)	Waterfall
11	114 (11.31%)	Test Strategy
12	107 (10.62%)	ITIL
13	104 (10.32%)	BDD
14	101 (10.02%)	Functional Testing
14	101 (10.02%)	Project Management
15	93 (9.23%)	SDLC
16	92 (9.13%)	Test Management
17	91 (9.03%)	Defect Management
18	84 (8.33%)	Scenario Testing
18	84 (8.33%)	User Stories

Programming Languages
1	173 (17.16%)	SQL
2	122 (12.10%)	Java
3	46 (4.56%)	Python
4	42 (4.17%)	C#
5	24 (2.38%)	JavaScript
6	23 (2.28%)	Ruby
7	20 (1.98%)	C
8	17 (1.69%)	Groovy
9	16 (1.59%)	PL/SQL
10	15 (1.49%)	F#
11	14 (1.39%)	Perl
12	11 (1.09%)	VB
13	10 (0.99%)	VBScript
14	8 (0.79%)	C++
15	7 (0.69%)	PHP
16	5 (0.50%)	Shell Script
17	4 (0.40%)	ActionScript
17	4 (0.40%)	VB.NET
18	3 (0.30%)	Bash Shell
18	3 (0.30%)	Scala

Qualifications
1	398 (39.48%)	ISTQB
2	154 (15.28%)	ISTQB Foundation Certification
3	119 (11.81%)	Security Cleared
4	104 (10.32%)	Degree
5	62 (6.15%)	SC Cleared
6	50 (4.96%)	IIBA
7	43 (4.27%)	CBAP
8	37 (3.67%)	ISEB Practitioner
9	35 (3.47%)	DV Cleared
10	24 (2.38%)	PMI Certification
11	21 (2.08%)	PRINCE2 Practitioner
12	17 (1.69%)	CISSP
12	17 (1.69%)	ISTQB Advanced Certification
13	15 (1.49%)	BPSS Clearance
14	14 (1.39%)	APMG
15	13 (1.29%)	CISA
16	11 (1.09%)	PRINCE2 Certification
17	10 (0.99%)	CITP
18	9 (0.89%)	CISM
19	8 (0.79%)	Chartered Engineer

Quality Assurance & Compliance
1	132 (13.10%)	QA
2	12 (1.19%)	GDPR
2	12 (1.19%)	PCI DSS
2	12 (1.19%)	PMO
3	11 (1.09%)	MiFID
4	10 (0.99%)	Disclosure Scotland
5	8 (0.79%)	SLA
6	7 (0.69%)	ISO/IEC 19770
6	7 (0.69%)	ISO/IEC 27001
7	6 (0.60%)	Data Quality
7	6 (0.60%)	Dodd-Frank
8	4 (0.40%)	ISO 9001
8	4 (0.40%)	SEPA
9	3 (0.30%)	COBIT
9	3 (0.30%)	FATCA
9	3 (0.30%)	HL7
9	3 (0.30%)	TickIT
10	2 (0.20%)	EMIR
10	2 (0.20%)	IFRS
10	2 (0.20%)	Solvency II

System Software
1	15 (1.49%)	Active Directory
2	13 (1.29%)	Virtual Machines
3	11 (1.09%)	vSphere
4	6 (0.60%)	VMware Infrastructure
5	5 (0.50%)	Oracle RAC
5	5 (0.50%)	VirtualBox
6	3 (0.30%)	Snort
6	3 (0.30%)	VMware Workstation
7	1 (0.099%)	Microsoft Virtual Server
7	1 (0.099%)	Virtual Servers
7	1 (0.099%)	VMware ESXi

Systems Management
1	53 (5.26%)	HP Quality Center
2	10 (0.99%)	vRealize
3	7 (0.69%)	SCCM
3	7 (0.69%)	Systems Management Server (SMS)
4	5 (0.50%)	Cisco IPCC
5	4 (0.40%)	SCOM
6	3 (0.30%)	SmoothWall
7	2 (0.20%)	HP SiteScope
7	2 (0.20%)	ITRS Geneos
7	2 (0.20%)	Oozie
8	1 (0.099%)	AirWatch
8	1 (0.099%)	BMC PATROL
8	1 (0.099%)	Graphite
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%)	Perfmon
8	1 (0.099%)	Puppet
8	1 (0.099%)	QRadar

Vendors
1	136 (13.49%)	Microsoft
2	104 (10.32%)	Oracle
3	88 (8.73%)	HP
4	41 (4.07%)	SAP
5	18 (1.79%)	VMware
6	17 (1.69%)	IBM
7	15 (1.49%)	Sybase
8	11 (1.09%)	Cisco
9	10 (0.99%)	Red Hat
10	9 (0.89%)	BMC
11	8 (0.79%)	Adobe
11	8 (0.79%)	Atlassian
11	8 (0.79%)	Remedy
12	7 (0.69%)	Salesforce.com
12	7 (0.69%)	Snow
13	6 (0.60%)	Fixnetix
13	6 (0.60%)	PeopleSoft
13	6 (0.60%)	Workday
14	5 (0.50%)	Citrix
14	5 (0.50%)	Juniper