Basingstoke User Acceptance Testing Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for User Acceptance Testing (UAT) skills within the Basingstoke region with a comparison to our Processes & Methodologies category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited User Acceptance Testing over the 3 months to 6 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

User Acceptance Testing (UAT)
Location Aberdeen Abingdon Aldershot Andover Basildon Basingstoke Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Blackpool Bournemouth Brentford Brentwood Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Cheltenham Cheshire Chester City of London County Antrim Coventry Crawley Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset Dunstable East Anglia East Midlands East of England Edinburgh England Essex Exeter Farnborough Fleetwood Glamorgan Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Halifax Hampshire Harrogate Hertfordshire High Wycombe Horsham Ipswich Isleworth Kent Lancashire Leeds Liverpool London M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Manchester Market Drayton Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newport Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Poole Pudsey Reading Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Skelmersdale Slough Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southend-on-Sea Staines Stockport Street Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Tadworth Telford Thames Valley Tyne and Wear Tyneside UK Uxbridge Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Wiltshire Windsor Wokingham Worcestershire York Yorkshire	3 months to 6 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	31	40
Rank change on same period last year	+9
Matching contract IT job ads	4	5
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.006 %	0.005 %
As % of the category below	2.469 %	2.475 %
Daily rates quoted	1	1
Average minimum daily rate	£275	£400
Average daily rate	£288	£400
% change on same period last year	-28.12 %
Average maximum daily rate	£300	£400
UK excluding London average daily rate	£351	£351
% change on same period last year	+0.09 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum hourly rate	-	-
Average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£30.99	£28.41
% change on same period last year	+9.07 %
Processes & Methodologies Basingstoke
Matching contract IT job ads	162	202
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.226 %	0.203 %
Daily rates quoted	45	66
Average minimum daily rate	£346	£355
Average daily rate	£371	£381
% change on same period last year	-2.37 %
Average maximum daily rate	£397	£406
UK excluding London average daily rate	£378	£372
% change on same period last year	+1.69 %
Hourly rates quoted	36	17
Average minimum hourly rate	£30.93	£29.12
Average hourly rate	£33.39	£31.92
% change on same period last year	+4.61 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£35.85	£34.72
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£29.30	£30.27
% change on same period last year	-3.20 %
User Acceptance Testing Hampshire

We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

User Acceptance Testing
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing User Acceptance Testing across the Basingstoke region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

User Acceptance Testing
Daily Rate Trend

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

User Acceptance Testing
Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing User Acceptance Testing across the Basingstoke region.

User Acceptance Testing
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 6 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Basingstoke 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 7 (50.00 %) Finance 2 5 (35.71 %) SAP 2 5 (35.71 %) Test Scripting 3 4 (28.57 %) Oracle 3 4 (28.57 %) CRM 4 3 (21.43 %) ISEB 5 2 (14.29 %) E-business 5 2 (14.29 %) Software Testing 5 2 (14.29 %) Pensions 5 2 (14.29 %) MS Office 6 1 (7.143 %) ERP 6 1 (7.143 %) Microsoft 6 1 (7.143 %) ASP 6 1 (7.143 %) Windows 6 1 (7.143 %) Oracle Financials

6 1 (7.143 %) Oracle 8/8i 6 1 (7.143 %) Borland 6 1 (7.143 %) Windows Server 2003 6 1 (7.143 %) OpenView Configuration Management 6 1 (7.143 %) Configuration Management 6 1 (7.143 %) Wealth Management 6 1 (7.143 %) Scalability Testing 6 1 (7.143 %) Test Management 6 1 (7.143 %) StarTeam 6 1 (7.143 %) Government 6 1 (7.143 %) Oracle Applications 6 1 (7.143 %) Oracle EBS 6 1 (7.143 %) GraphTalk 6 1 (7.143 %) V-Model 6 1 (7.143 %) SC Cleared

User Acceptance Testing
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 6 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Basingstoke 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 (7.143 %) ASP	Applications 1 2 (14.29 %) MS Office
Business Applications 1 1 (7.143 %) Oracle Financials 1 1 (7.143 %) Oracle EBS 1 1 (7.143 %) Oracle Applications 1 1 (7.143 %) GraphTalk	Database & Business Intelligence 1 1 (7.143 %) Oracle 8/8i
Development Applications 1 1 (7.143 %) StarTeam	General 1 7 (50.00 %) Finance 2 2 (14.29 %) Pensions 3 1 (7.143 %) Government
Job Titles 1 8 (57.14 %) Analyst 2 5 (35.71 %) Business Analyst 2 5 (35.71 %) SAP Business Analyst 2 5 (35.71 %) SAP Analyst 3 4 (28.57 %) Project Analyst 4 3 (21.43 %) Test Analyst 5 2 (14.29 %) Test Manager 6 1 (7.143 %) Tester 6 1 (7.143 %) Developer 6 1 (7.143 %) Systems Analyst 6 1 (7.143 %) Coordinator 6 1 (7.143 %) Integration Engineer 6 1 (7.143 %) Systems Test Analyst	Operating Systems 1 1 (7.143 %) Windows 1 1 (7.143 %) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies 1 5 (35.71 %) Test Scripting 2 4 (28.57 %) CRM 3 2 (14.29 %) E-business 3 2 (14.29 %) Software Testing 4 1 (7.143 %) Wealth Management 4 1 (7.143 %) Scalability Testing 4 1 (7.143 %) Test Management 4 1 (7.143 %) SC Cleared 4 1 (7.143 %) Security Cleared 4 1 (7.143 %) V-Model 4 1 (7.143 %) ERP 4 1 (7.143 %) Configuration Management	Qualifications 1 3 (21.43 %) ISEB
Systems Management 1 1 (7.143 %) OpenView Configuration Management	Vendors 1 5 (35.71 %) SAP 2 4 (28.57 %) Oracle 3 1 (7.143 %) Microsoft 3 1 (7.143 %) Borland