The first table below looks at the demand for Stress 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 Stress 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
Stress Testing
Rank - 136 132
Contract jobs citing Stress Testing 0 2 3
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Berkshire - 0.063% 0.099%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category - 0.100% 0.158%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 1
Average daily rate - - £360
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £469 £333
% change year-on-year
-25.33% +40.97%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Average hourly rate - - £27.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - £27.50
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%
Stress Testing
South East

Stress Testing
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Berkshire Stress Testing Jobs Demand Trend

Stress Testing
Daily Rate Trend

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

Berkshire Stress Testing Daily Rate Trend

Stress Testing
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 4 (80.00%) Web Services
2 3 (60.00%) Telecoms
2 3 (60.00%) Objective-C
2 3 (60.00%) C#
2 3 (60.00%) HTML
2 3 (60.00%) JavaScript
2 3 (60.00%) QA
2 3 (60.00%) Selenium
2 3 (60.00%) JSON
2 3 (60.00%) Apple iOS
2 3 (60.00%) Android
3 2 (40.00%) soapUI
3 2 (40.00%) REST
3 2 (40.00%) Test Strategy
3 2 (40.00%) Business Transformation
3 2 (40.00%) Analytics
3 2 (40.00%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (40.00%) Wireshark
3 2 (40.00%) Integration Testing
3 2 (40.00%) Release Management
3 2 (40.00%) VB
3 2 (40.00%) .NET
3 2 (40.00%) J2EE
3 2 (40.00%) SOAP
3 2 (40.00%) Java
3 2 (40.00%) C++
3 2 (40.00%) MS Excel
3 2 (40.00%) Client/Server
3 2 (40.00%) MS Visio
3 2 (40.00%) CDMA

Stress Testing
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 4 (80.00%) Web Services
2 3 (60.00%) HTML
2 3 (60.00%) JSON
3 2 (40.00%) soapUI
3 2 (40.00%) REST
3 2 (40.00%) .NET
3 2 (40.00%) J2EE
3 2 (40.00%) SOAP
3 2 (40.00%) XML
Applications
1 2 (40.00%) MS Excel
1 2 (40.00%) MS Visio
1 2 (40.00%) MS PowerPoint
Communications & Networking
1 2 (40.00%) Wireshark
1 2 (40.00%) CDMA
1 2 (40.00%) GPRS
1 2 (40.00%) GSM
1 2 (40.00%) UMTS
1 2 (40.00%) VoIP
1 2 (40.00%) HTTP
1 2 (40.00%) BSS
Development Applications
1 3 (60.00%) Selenium
2 2 (40.00%) LoadRunner
General
1 3 (60.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) OSS Architect
1 2 (40.00%) Solutions Architect
1 2 (40.00%) Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Tester
2 1 (20.00%) Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Test Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) QA Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Senior Tester
2 1 (20.00%) QA Test Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Test Leader
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Enterprise Software
1 2 (40.00%) Client/Server
1 2 (40.00%) Replication
1 2 (40.00%) Management Information System
2 1 (20.00%) Smartphone
2 1 (20.00%) Blackberry
Operating Systems
1 3 (60.00%) Apple iOS
1 3 (60.00%) Android
2 1 (20.00%) Windows
2 1 (20.00%) Windows Mobile
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (40.00%) Test Strategy
1 2 (40.00%) Business Transformation
1 2 (40.00%) Analytics
1 2 (40.00%) Integration Testing
1 2 (40.00%) Release Management
1 2 (40.00%) B2B
1 2 (40.00%) Service Delivery
1 2 (40.00%) Configuration Management
2 1 (20.00%) Load Testing
2 1 (20.00%) Manual Testing
Programming Languages
1 3 (60.00%) Objective-C
1 3 (60.00%) C#
1 3 (60.00%) JavaScript
2 2 (40.00%) VB
2 2 (40.00%) Java
2 2 (40.00%) C++
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (60.00%) QA
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft