The first table below looks at the demand for User Acceptance Testing skills in IT contracts advertised for the Aberdeen region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited User Acceptance Testing over the 3 months to 17 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 of the Processes & Methodologies category for the Aberdeen 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
User Acceptance Testing (UAT)
Rank 24 27 -
Rank change year-on-year
+3 -
Contract jobs citing User Acceptance Testing 3 1 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Aberdeen 1.875% 0.526% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.703% 0.763% -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 1 0
Average daily rate - £225 -
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £350 £350
% change year-on-year
-7.14% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.00 £26.28 £23.00
% change year-on-year
+14.15% +14.26%
All Processes & Methodologies
Aberdeen
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
111 131 139
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Aberdeen 69.38% 68.95% 71.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 51 64 57
Average daily rate £375 £350 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.14% +16.66%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £275 £225 £213
10% offered a daily rate of more than £525 £500 £420
UK excluding London average daily rate £363 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
-0.68% -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 3 10
Average hourly rate £26.25 £14.00 £30.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+87.50% -53.33%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.15 £14.00 £17.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £64.50 £35.20 £40.88
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.60 £25.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year
+26.40% -16.66%
User Acceptance Testing
Scotland

User Acceptance Testing
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing User Acceptance Testing across the Aberdeen region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

Aberdeen User Acceptance Testing Jobs Demand Trend

User Acceptance Testing
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing User Acceptance Testing across the Aberdeen region.

Aberdeen User Acceptance Testing Daily Rate Trend

User Acceptance Testing
Top 26 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Aberdeen region citing User Acceptance Testing also 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 that cited User Acceptance Testing.

1 4 (80.00%) SAP
2 3 (60.00%) SAP MM
2 3 (60.00%) Back Office
2 3 (60.00%) SAP CO
2 3 (60.00%) Logistics
2 3 (60.00%) SAP Oil and Gas
2 3 (60.00%) SAP SCM
3 2 (40.00%) Billing
3 2 (40.00%) E-Procurement
4 1 (20.00%) Microsoft App-V
4 1 (20.00%) SAP PM
4 1 (20.00%) SAP BI
4 1 (20.00%) MSI
4 1 (20.00%) ITIL
4 1 (20.00%) Windows
4 1 (20.00%) Windows XP
4 1 (20.00%) Business Intelligence
4 1 (20.00%) BusinessObjects
4 1 (20.00%) Citrix
4 1 (20.00%) SAP BW
4 1 (20.00%) Business Objects
4 1 (20.00%) SCCM
4 1 (20.00%) Windows 7
4 1 (20.00%) Change Control
4 1 (20.00%) Application Packaging
4 1 (20.00%) QA

User Acceptance Testing
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Aberdeen region citing User Acceptance Testing also 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 that cited User Acceptance Testing. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (20.00%) Application Packaging
Business Applications
1 3 (60.00%) SAP MM
1 3 (60.00%) SAP CO
1 3 (60.00%) SAP Oil and Gas
1 3 (60.00%) SAP SCM
2 1 (20.00%) SAP PM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) BusinessObjects
1 1 (20.00%) SAP BW
1 1 (20.00%) SAP BI
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) MSI
General
1 3 (60.00%) Back Office
2 2 (40.00%) Billing
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Consultant
1 3 (60.00%) SAP Consultant
2 2 (40.00%) SAP SCM Consultant
3 1 (20.00%) SAP BI Consultant
3 1 (20.00%) Business Intelligence Consultant
3 1 (20.00%) Applications Packager
Operating Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Windows
1 1 (20.00%) Windows XP
1 1 (20.00%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Logistics
2 2 (40.00%) E-Procurement
3 1 (20.00%) Change Control
3 1 (20.00%) ITIL
3 1 (20.00%) Business Intelligence
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) SCCM
Vendors
1 4 (80.00%) SAP
2 1 (20.00%) Citrix
2 1 (20.00%) Business Objects