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

The first table below looks at the demand for LoadRunner 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 LoadRunner over the 3 months to 20 June 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 Development Applications 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
20 Jun 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
HP LoadRunner
Rank 111 131 109
Rank change year-on-year
+20 -22
Contract jobs citing LoadRunner 10 1 21
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Berkshire 0.420% 0.032% 0.701%
As % of the Development Applications category 4.000% 0.595% 6.646%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 1 6
Average daily rate - £350 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +16.66%
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £325 £355
% change year-on-year
+7.69% -8.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - £24.00
All Development Applications
Berkshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Development Applications category		 250 168 316
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Berkshire 10.50% 5.400% 10.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 105 64 117
Average daily rate £375 £325 £310
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+15.38% +4.83%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £257 £210
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £450 £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £330 £325 £325
% change year-on-year
+1.53% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 4 15
Average hourly rate £16.00 £26.50 £45.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-39.62% -41.11%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.50 £37.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+1.35% +5.71%
LoadRunner
South East

LoadRunner
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing LoadRunner across the Berkshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Development Applications category.

Berkshire LoadRunner Jobs Demand Trend

LoadRunner
Daily Rate Trend

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

Berkshire LoadRunner Daily Rate Trend

LoadRunner
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Berkshire LoadRunner Hourly Rate Trend

LoadRunner
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing LoadRunner within the Berkshire region over the 3 months to 20 June 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		 Find
Job
Vacancies
Bracknell - 7 - -
Reading +6 3 - - 1
Slough - - - -
Maidenhead - - - -
LoadRunner
South East

LoadRunner
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Berkshire region citing LoadRunner 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 LoadRunner.

1 14 (77.78%) SQL
1 14 (77.78%) HP
1 14 (77.78%) Security Cleared
2 13 (72.22%) HP Quality Center
2 13 (72.22%) SC Cleared
3 12 (66.67%) Windows Server 2003
3 12 (66.67%) Windows
4 11 (61.11%) Tomcat
4 11 (61.11%) Windows XP
4 11 (61.11%) LAN
4 11 (61.11%) Oracle
4 11 (61.11%) SQL Server
4 11 (61.11%) IIS
4 11 (61.11%) WAN
4 11 (61.11%) Active Directory
4 11 (61.11%) VMware
4 11 (61.11%) VMware ESX
4 11 (61.11%) Windows 7
4 11 (61.11%) VMware Infrastructure
4 11 (61.11%) Windows Server 2008
5 10 (55.56%) Migration
5 10 (55.56%) Regression Testing
6 9 (50.00%) Test Scripting
7 8 (44.44%) Non-Functional Testing
8 7 (38.89%) Oracle 8/8i
9 6 (33.33%) Test Automation
10 5 (27.78%) Validation
10 5 (27.78%) Integration Testing
10 5 (27.78%) Business Continuity
11 4 (22.22%) VMware Workstation

LoadRunner
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Berkshire region citing LoadRunner 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 LoadRunner. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 4 (22.22%) .NET
2 3 (16.67%) SOAP
2 3 (16.67%) Web Services
2 3 (16.67%) XML
2 3 (16.67%) soapUI
2 3 (16.67%) REST
3 2 (11.11%) JSON
3 2 (11.11%) HTML
Application Platforms
1 11 (61.11%) Tomcat
1 11 (61.11%) IIS
Communications & Networking
1 11 (61.11%) LAN
1 11 (61.11%) WAN
2 2 (11.11%) Wireshark
2 2 (11.11%) VoIP
2 2 (11.11%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (61.11%) SQL Server
2 7 (38.89%) Oracle 8/8i
3 1 (5.556%) MS Access
3 1 (5.556%) DbVisualizer
Development Applications
1 2 (11.11%) Selenium
1 2 (11.11%) QuickTest Pro
2 1 (5.556%) TestDirector
2 1 (5.556%) JProfiler
General
1 1 (5.556%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 11 (61.11%) Tester
2 4 (22.22%) Test Analyst
2 4 (22.22%) Analyst
3 2 (11.11%) Performance Tester
3 2 (11.11%) QA Tester
3 2 (11.11%) Systems Test Analyst
3 2 (11.11%) Test Manager
3 2 (11.11%) Systems Analyst
4 1 (5.556%) QA Analyst
4 1 (5.556%) QA Test Analyst
4 1 (5.556%) Performance Engineer
4 1 (5.556%) Test Team Leader
4 1 (5.556%) Test Engineer
4 1 (5.556%) Senior Tester
4 1 (5.556%) Team Leader
4 1 (5.556%) Integration Tester
4 1 (5.556%) Performance Test Engineer
4 1 (5.556%) Test Leader
Miscellaneous
1 2 (11.11%) Replication
2 1 (5.556%) Handset
2 1 (5.556%) Smartphone
2 1 (5.556%) Statistics
Operating Systems
1 12 (66.67%) Windows Server 2003
1 12 (66.67%) Windows
2 11 (61.11%) Windows XP
2 11 (61.11%) Windows 7
2 11 (61.11%) Windows Server 2008
3 2 (11.11%) Apple iOS
3 2 (11.11%) Android
4 1 (5.556%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (55.56%) Migration
1 10 (55.56%) Regression Testing
2 9 (50.00%) Test Scripting
3 8 (44.44%) Non-Functional Testing
4 6 (33.33%) Test Automation
5 5 (27.78%) Validation
5 5 (27.78%) Integration Testing
5 5 (27.78%) Business Continuity
6 3 (16.67%) Performance Testing
7 2 (11.11%) Test Strategy
7 2 (11.11%) Analytics
7 2 (11.11%) Stress Testing
7 2 (11.11%) Manual Testing
7 2 (11.11%) Automated Testing
8 1 (5.556%) Disaster Recovery
8 1 (5.556%) Software Testing
8 1 (5.556%) Scalability Testing
8 1 (5.556%) Test Management
Programming Languages
1 14 (77.78%) SQL
2 3 (16.67%) Java
3 2 (11.11%) Objective-C
3 2 (11.11%) JavaScript
3 2 (11.11%) C#
3 2 (11.11%) C++
3 2 (11.11%) VB
4 1 (5.556%) Shell Script
4 1 (5.556%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 14 (77.78%) Security Cleared
2 13 (72.22%) SC Cleared
3 1 (5.556%) ISEB
3 1 (5.556%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (22.22%) QA
System Software
1 11 (61.11%) Active Directory
1 11 (61.11%) VMware ESX
1 11 (61.11%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (22.22%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 13 (72.22%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 14 (77.78%) HP
2 11 (61.11%) Oracle
2 11 (61.11%) VMware
3 3 (16.67%) NetApp
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