Integration Testing Contracts in Berkshire
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Hourly Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for Integration Testing skills in IT contracts advertised for the Berkshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Integration 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 Berkshire 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
Integration Testing
Rank 105 121 103
Rank change year-on-year
+16 -18
Contract jobs citing Integration Testing 16 17 32
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Berkshire 0.666% 0.540% 1.058%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.010% 0.851% 1.684%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 6 12
Average daily rate £375 £340 £288
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+10.29% +18.26%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £359 £333 £263
10% offered a daily rate of more than £408 £425 £473
UK excluding London average daily rate £353 £384 £363
% change year-on-year
-8.14% +5.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
Average hourly rate - £53.00 £35.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- +51.42%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £36.00 £35.00 £37.00
% change year-on-year
+2.85% -5.40%
All Processes & Methodologies
Berkshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category		 1584 1998 1900
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Berkshire 65.97% 63.41% 62.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 647 766 757
Average daily rate £388 £370 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+4.72% +5.71%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £275 £250 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £525 £500 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £365 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
- -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 37 61 78
Average hourly rate £17.33 £20.00 £31.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-13.37% -36.50%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £14.50 £11.40 £13.30
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £37.50 £50.00 £47.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.45 £25.00 £29.00
% change year-on-year
+21.78% -13.79%
Integration Testing
South East

Integration Testing
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Berkshire Integration Testing Jobs Demand Trend

Integration Testing
Daily Rate Trend

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

Berkshire Integration Testing Daily Rate Trend

Integration Testing
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Berkshire Integration Testing Hourly Rate Trend

Integration Testing
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Integration Testing within the Berkshire 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
Bracknell -10 6 - -
Reading +11 3 £365 -14.11%
Slough -10 1 - -
Newbury - 1 £450 -
Integration Testing
South East

Integration Testing
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 10 (30.30%) Telecoms
1 10 (30.30%) User Acceptance Testing
2 9 (27.27%) Oracle
3 8 (24.24%) SAP
3 8 (24.24%) GPRS
3 8 (24.24%) GSM
3 8 (24.24%) UMTS
4 7 (21.21%) SC Cleared
4 7 (21.21%) Security Cleared
4 7 (21.21%) Migration
5 6 (18.18%) Manufacturing
5 6 (18.18%) VMware
5 6 (18.18%) Network Design
5 6 (18.18%) SAP Oil and Gas
5 6 (18.18%) VMware Infrastructure
5 6 (18.18%) Test Scripting
5 6 (18.18%) HP Quality Center
5 6 (18.18%) SIGTRAN
5 6 (18.18%) Tomcat
5 6 (18.18%) Windows
5 6 (18.18%) SQL Server
5 6 (18.18%) SQL
5 6 (18.18%) Regression Testing
5 6 (18.18%) SS7
5 6 (18.18%) Root Cause Analysis
5 6 (18.18%) Non-Functional Testing
6 5 (15.15%) Windows 7
6 5 (15.15%) Windows Server 2003
6 5 (15.15%) Active Directory
6 5 (15.15%) HP

Integration Testing
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 4 (12.12%) J2EE
2 2 (6.061%) WebSphere
2 2 (6.061%) Web Services
3 1 (3.030%) XML
3 1 (3.030%) XSLT
3 1 (3.030%) JMS
3 1 (3.030%) JSON
3 1 (3.030%) Velocity
3 1 (3.030%) FreeMarker
3 1 (3.030%) Hibernate
3 1 (3.030%) Spring
Application Platforms
1 6 (18.18%) Tomcat
2 5 (15.15%) IIS
3 3 (9.091%) Documentum
3 3 (9.091%) SAP Portal
4 1 (3.030%) WebSphere Application Server
4 1 (3.030%) SAS
4 1 (3.030%) Jetty
Applications
1 2 (6.061%) MS PowerPoint
1 2 (6.061%) MS Visio
1 2 (6.061%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 6 (18.18%) SAP Oil and Gas
2 4 (12.12%) Agresso
3 2 (6.061%) SAP CS
3 2 (6.061%) SAP PM
4 1 (3.030%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (3.030%) SAP SD
4 1 (3.030%) Oracle SCM
4 1 (3.030%) SAP CRM
4 1 (3.030%) Oracle Retail
Communications & Networking
1 8 (24.24%) GPRS
1 8 (24.24%) GSM
1 8 (24.24%) UMTS
2 6 (18.18%) SIGTRAN
2 6 (18.18%) SS7
3 5 (15.15%) WAN
3 5 (15.15%) LAN
4 2 (6.061%) BSS
4 2 (6.061%) CDMA
4 2 (6.061%) Wireless
5 1 (3.030%) LDAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (18.18%) SQL Server
2 5 (15.15%) Oracle 8/8i
Development Applications
1 5 (15.15%) LoadRunner
2 2 (6.061%) StarTeam
2 2 (6.061%) Ant
3 1 (3.030%) JUnit
General
1 10 (30.30%) Telecoms
2 6 (18.18%) Manufacturing
3 4 (12.12%) Finance
4 3 (9.091%) Retail
5 2 (6.061%) Banking
6 1 (3.030%) Spanish Language
6 1 (3.030%) Advertising
6 1 (3.030%) Games
Job Titles
1 6 (18.18%) Network Support Engineer
1 6 (18.18%) Network Support
1 6 (18.18%) Support Engineer
1 6 (18.18%) Consultant
1 6 (18.18%) Network Engineer
2 5 (15.15%) Tester
2 5 (15.15%) Analyst
3 4 (12.12%) Test Manager
3 4 (12.12%) Test Analyst
4 3 (9.091%) SAP Consultant
4 3 (9.091%) Senior Tester
4 3 (9.091%) Documentum Consultant
5 2 (6.061%) Systems Test Analyst
5 2 (6.061%) Configuration Engineer
5 2 (6.061%) OSS Architect
5 2 (6.061%) Architect
5 2 (6.061%) Systems Analyst
5 2 (6.061%) Solutions Architect
6 1 (3.030%) Developer
6 1 (3.030%) Configuration Manager
Miscellaneous
1 2 (6.061%) Enterprise Software
1 2 (6.061%) Client/Server
1 2 (6.061%) Management Information System
2 1 (3.030%) Open Source
2 1 (3.030%) Smart Meter
Operating Systems
1 6 (18.18%) Windows
2 5 (15.15%) Windows 7
2 5 (15.15%) Windows Server 2003
2 5 (15.15%) UNIX
2 5 (15.15%) Windows XP
2 5 (15.15%) Windows Server 2008
3 4 (12.12%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (30.30%) User Acceptance Testing
2 7 (21.21%) Migration
3 6 (18.18%) Network Design
3 6 (18.18%) Test Scripting
3 6 (18.18%) Regression Testing
3 6 (18.18%) Root Cause Analysis
3 6 (18.18%) Non-Functional Testing
4 5 (15.15%) Validation
5 4 (12.12%) ERP
5 4 (12.12%) Configuration Management
6 2 (6.061%) Business Transformation
6 2 (6.061%) Service Delivery
6 2 (6.061%) Test Automation
6 2 (6.061%) Release Management
6 2 (6.061%) Stress Testing
6 2 (6.061%) B2B
7 1 (3.030%) HOOD
7 1 (3.030%) Mobile Commerce
7 1 (3.030%) CRM
7 1 (3.030%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 6 (18.18%) SQL
2 3 (9.091%) Java
3 1 (3.030%) Bash shell
3 1 (3.030%) Jython
Qualifications
1 7 (21.21%) SC Cleared
1 7 (21.21%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 6 (18.18%) VMware Infrastructure
2 5 (15.15%) Active Directory
2 5 (15.15%) VMware ESX
2 5 (15.15%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 6 (18.18%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 9 (27.27%) Oracle
2 8 (24.24%) SAP
3 6 (18.18%) VMware
4 5 (15.15%) HP
5 3 (9.091%) EMC
6 2 (6.061%) Microsoft
7 1 (3.030%) IBM
7 1 (3.030%) Sage
7 1 (3.030%) JD Edwards
7 1 (3.030%) PeopleSoft
7 1 (3.030%) Infor
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