Bedfordshire QuickTest Pro Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for HP QuickTest Professional (QTP) skills within the Bedfordshire region with a comparison to our Development Applications category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited QuickTest Pro over the 3 months to 3 December 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

HP QuickTest Professional (QTP)
Location Basingstoke Bedfordshire Berkshire Bicester Bradford Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Cheshire Chester City of London Devon Docklands, London East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh England Essex Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Gosport Guildford Hampshire Hertfordshire Ipswich Leeds London Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newport North West Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Portsmouth Pudsey Reading Salisbury Scotland South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Suffolk Surrey Swansea Swindon Thames Valley UK Wales Warrington Watford West Midlands West Wales West Yorkshire Wiltshire Yorkshire	3 months to 3 Dec 2008	Same period last year
Rank	-	30
Rank change on same period last year	-
Matching contract IT job ads	0	2
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.000 %	0.002 %
As % of the category below	0.000 %	5.714 %
Daily rates quoted	0	2
Average minimum daily rate	-	£290
Average daily rate	-	£290
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	£290
UK excluding London average daily rate	£292	£310
% change on same period last year	-5.69 %
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	£21.25	£40.42
% change on same period last year	-47.43 %
Development Applications Bedfordshire
Matching contract IT job ads	4	35
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.006 %	0.038 %
Daily rates quoted	1	13
Average minimum daily rate	£400	£301
Average daily rate	£450	£326
% change on same period last year	+38.02 %
Average maximum daily rate	£500	£351
UK excluding London average daily rate	£311	£324
% change on same period last year	-3.85 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	11
Average minimum hourly rate	-	£32.69
Average hourly rate	-	£35.23
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	£37.77
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£30.53	£30.81
% change on same period last year	-0.90 %
QuickTest Pro East of England

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.

QuickTest Pro
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing QuickTest Pro across the Bedfordshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Development Applications category.

QuickTest Pro
Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing QuickTest Pro across the Bedfordshire region.