The first table below looks at the demand for User Acceptance Testing skills in IT contracts advertised for the Belfast 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 20 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 Belfast 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
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
User Acceptance Testing (UAT)
Rank 31 17 42
Rank change year-on-year
-14 +25
Contract jobs citing User Acceptance Testing 1 11 6
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Belfast 0.476% 6.962% 1.852%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.847% 11.11% 3.448%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 3
Average daily rate £250 - £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £326 £350 £350
% change year-on-year
-6.78% -
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
Belfast
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
118 99 174
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Belfast 56.19% 62.66% 53.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 67 29 59
Average daily rate £325 £400 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-18.75% +23.07%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £238 £260 £200
10% offered a daily rate of more than £398 £400 £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £363 £363 £375
% change year-on-year
- -3.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
Average hourly rate £10.50 - £12.42
UK excluding London average hourly rate £32.00 £25.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year
+28.00% -16.66%
User Acceptance Testing
County Antrim

User Acceptance Testing
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Belfast 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 Belfast region.

Belfast User Acceptance Testing Daily Rate Trend

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 Belfast region.

Belfast User Acceptance Testing Hourly Rate Trend

User Acceptance Testing
Top 11 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Belfast 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 1 (100.00%) C#
1 1 (100.00%) HTML
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (100.00%) .NET
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 1 (100.00%) ASP.NET
1 1 (100.00%) CSS
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) .NET Framework
1 1 (100.00%) Degree
1 1 (100.00%) System Testing

User Acceptance Testing
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Belfast 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 (100.00%) HTML
1 1 (100.00%) .NET
1 1 (100.00%) ASP.NET
1 1 (100.00%) CSS
1 1 (100.00%) .NET Framework
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Software Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) System Testing
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) C#
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Degree
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft