User Acceptance Testing Contracts in Bedfordshire
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for User Acceptance Testing skills in IT contracts advertised for the Bedfordshire 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 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 Bedfordshire 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
User Acceptance Testing (UAT)
Rank 22 33 23
Rank change year-on-year
+11 -10
Contract jobs citing User Acceptance Testing 6 3 20
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Bedfordshire 3.209% 1.083% 6.803%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.000% 1.500% 9.259%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 3 5
Average daily rate £400 £335 £310
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+19.40% +8.06%
UK excluding London average daily rate £330 £350 £350
% change year-on-year
-5.71% -
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
Bedfordshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category		 150 200 216
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Bedfordshire 80.21% 72.20% 73.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 98 106 110
Average daily rate £350 £350 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +7.69%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £300 £238 £185
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £488 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £365 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
- -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 8 8
Average hourly rate £32.75 £41.50 £47.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-21.08% -12.63%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.45 £25.00 £29.00
% change year-on-year
+21.78% -13.79%
User Acceptance Testing
East of England

User Acceptance Testing
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Bedfordshire 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 Bedfordshire region.

Bedfordshire User Acceptance Testing Daily Rate Trend

User Acceptance Testing
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing User Acceptance Testing across the Bedfordshire region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

Bedfordshire User Acceptance Testing Daily Rate Histogram

User Acceptance Testing
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Bedfordshire User Acceptance Testing Hourly Rate Trend

User Acceptance Testing
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing User Acceptance Testing within the Bedfordshire region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013. 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
(Click each for more statistics)		 Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year		 Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads		 Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months		 Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Luton - 1 £450 -
User Acceptance Testing
East of England

User Acceptance Testing
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Bedfordshire 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 5 (38.46%) ISEB
1 5 (38.46%) Finance
2 4 (30.77%) ISTQB
2 4 (30.77%) Test Scripting
3 3 (23.08%) Oracle EBS
3 3 (23.08%) Test Management
3 3 (23.08%) Oracle
3 3 (23.08%) Stakeholder Management
4 2 (15.38%) Bugzilla
4 2 (15.38%) Change Management
4 2 (15.38%) Systems Analysis
4 2 (15.38%) Retail
4 2 (15.38%) SQL
4 2 (15.38%) Oracle Financials
4 2 (15.38%) CRM
4 2 (15.38%) Client/Server
4 2 (15.38%) Local Government
4 2 (15.38%) Manual Testing
4 2 (15.38%) FogBugz
4 2 (15.38%) Oracle EBS R12
5 1 (7.692%) Test Automation
5 1 (7.692%) HP Quality Center
5 1 (7.692%) Waterfall
5 1 (7.692%) Test Strategy
5 1 (7.692%) Data Migration
5 1 (7.692%) Software Testing
5 1 (7.692%) eCATT
5 1 (7.692%) ETL
5 1 (7.692%) HP
5 1 (7.692%) Data Warehouse

User Acceptance Testing
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Bedfordshire 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 (7.692%) Web Services
Business Applications
1 3 (23.08%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (15.38%) Oracle Financials
2 2 (15.38%) Oracle EBS R12
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.692%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 2 (15.38%) Bugzilla
1 2 (15.38%) FogBugz
2 1 (7.692%) eCATT
2 1 (7.692%) QuickTest Pro
General
1 5 (38.46%) Finance
2 2 (15.38%) Retail
2 2 (15.38%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 8 (61.54%) Analyst
2 4 (30.77%) Test Analyst
2 4 (30.77%) Business Analyst
3 3 (23.08%) Oracle Analyst
3 3 (23.08%) Tester
3 3 (23.08%) Test Manager
4 1 (7.692%) Testing Analyst
4 1 (7.692%) Testing Manager
4 1 (7.692%) Business Test Analyst
4 1 (7.692%) SAP Manager
4 1 (7.692%) SAP Test Manager
4 1 (7.692%) Project Manager
4 1 (7.692%) E-Business Analyst
4 1 (7.692%) IT Business Analyst
4 1 (7.692%) IT Project Manager
4 1 (7.692%) Contracts Manager
4 1 (7.692%) Financial Business Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 2 (15.38%) Client/Server
2 1 (7.692%) EPoS
2 1 (7.692%) NHS
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (30.77%) Test Scripting
2 3 (23.08%) Test Management
2 3 (23.08%) Stakeholder Management
3 2 (15.38%) Change Management
3 2 (15.38%) Systems Analysis
3 2 (15.38%) CRM
3 2 (15.38%) Manual Testing
4 1 (7.692%) Test Automation
4 1 (7.692%) Waterfall
4 1 (7.692%) Test Strategy
4 1 (7.692%) Data Migration
4 1 (7.692%) Software Testing
4 1 (7.692%) ETL
4 1 (7.692%) Project Management
4 1 (7.692%) Information Management
4 1 (7.692%) Data Analysis
4 1 (7.692%) Migration
4 1 (7.692%) Regression Testing
4 1 (7.692%) GAP Analysis
4 1 (7.692%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 2 (15.38%) SQL
2 1 (7.692%) C
Qualifications
1 5 (38.46%) ISEB
2 4 (30.77%) ISTQB
3 1 (7.692%) ISEB Practitioner
Systems Management
1 1 (7.692%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 3 (23.08%) Oracle
2 1 (7.692%) HP
2 1 (7.692%) SAP
2 1 (7.692%) Hyperion
Business Analyst
Luton, Bedfordshire
May have some involvement in testing and UAT. Ensure that processes are documented and handover material is available to the service delivery team... Information Security Manager to ensure...
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Posted: 21 May 2013
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