The first table below looks at the demand for Performance Testing skills in IT contracts advertised for the Basingstoke region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Performance Testing over the 3 months to 23 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 Basingstoke 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
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Performance Testing
Rank - - 28
Contract jobs citing Performance Testing 0 0 5
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Basingstoke - - 1.976%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category - - 3.067%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 1
Average daily rate - - £550
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £400 £375
% change year-on-year
-18.75% +6.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £32.00 £31.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+1.58% -10.00%
All Processes & Methodologies
Basingstoke
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
139 115 163
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Basingstoke 69.85% 62.50% 64.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 91 37 59
Average daily rate £350 £380 £395
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-7.89% -3.79%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £290 £275 £226
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £500 £508
UK excluding London average daily rate £365 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
- -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 14 17
Average hourly rate £39.00 £16.75 £16.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+132.83% +4.68%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.45 £25.00 £29.00
% change year-on-year
+21.78% -13.79%
Performance Testing
Hampshire

Performance Testing
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Basingstoke Performance Testing Jobs Demand Trend

Performance Testing
Daily Rate Trend

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

Basingstoke Performance Testing Daily Rate Trend

Performance Testing
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Basingstoke region citing Performance 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 Performance Testing.

1 2 (100.00%) Linux
1 2 (100.00%) Java
2 1 (50.00%) Perl
2 1 (50.00%) SQL
2 1 (50.00%) .NET
2 1 (50.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (50.00%) WebSphere Application Server
2 1 (50.00%) IIS
2 1 (50.00%) Web Services
2 1 (50.00%) C
2 1 (50.00%) C#
2 1 (50.00%) C++
2 1 (50.00%) Python
2 1 (50.00%) SOA
2 1 (50.00%) HTTP
2 1 (50.00%) IBM
2 1 (50.00%) BizTalk Server
2 1 (50.00%) Shell Script
2 1 (50.00%) JMeter
2 1 (50.00%) SUSE
2 1 (50.00%) Scrum
2 1 (50.00%) IBM HTTP Server
2 1 (50.00%) Jython
2 1 (50.00%) Agile Software Development
2 1 (50.00%) Penetration Testing
2 1 (50.00%) WebSphere
2 1 (50.00%) WATIR
2 1 (50.00%) Selenium
2 1 (50.00%) FitNesse
2 1 (50.00%) WCF

Performance Testing
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Basingstoke region citing Performance 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 Performance Testing. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (50.00%) .NET
1 1 (50.00%) Web Services
1 1 (50.00%) WebSphere
1 1 (50.00%) WCF
1 1 (50.00%) HTML5
1 1 (50.00%) soapUI
Application Platforms
1 1 (50.00%) WebSphere Application Server
1 1 (50.00%) IIS
1 1 (50.00%) BizTalk Server
1 1 (50.00%) IBM HTTP Server
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) JMeter
1 1 (50.00%) WATIR
1 1 (50.00%) Selenium
1 1 (50.00%) FitNesse
1 1 (50.00%) Firebug
1 1 (50.00%) Fiddler
1 1 (50.00%) Git (software)
1 1 (50.00%) WebDriver
1 1 (50.00%) SpecFlow
1 1 (50.00%) GitHub
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Test Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Administrator
1 1 (50.00%) Test Team Leader
1 1 (50.00%) Team Leader
1 1 (50.00%) WebSphere Administrator
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Linux
2 1 (50.00%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) SOA
1 1 (50.00%) Scrum
1 1 (50.00%) Agile Software Development
1 1 (50.00%) Penetration Testing
1 1 (50.00%) Security Testing
1 1 (50.00%) Integration Testing
1 1 (50.00%) Manual Testing
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Java
2 1 (50.00%) Perl
2 1 (50.00%) SQL
2 1 (50.00%) C
2 1 (50.00%) C#
2 1 (50.00%) C++
2 1 (50.00%) Python
2 1 (50.00%) Shell Script
2 1 (50.00%) Jython
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) IBM