Berkshire Stress Testing Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Stress Testing skills within the Berkshire region with a comparison to our Processes & Methodologies category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Stress Testing over the 3 months to 21 November 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Cambridge Cambridgeshire Cheshire City of London County Antrim Crawley East Anglia East of England Edinburgh England Glasgow Lancashire London Manchester Midlands North West Northern Ireland Pudsey Reading Scotland South East South West UK West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Yorkshire	3 months to 21 Nov 2008	Same period last year
Rank	116	139
Rank change on same period last year	+23
Matching contract IT job ads	1	3
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.002 %	0.003 %
As % of the category below	0.062 %	0.136 %
Daily rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum daily rate	-	-
Average daily rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£487	£361
% change on same period last year	+35.05 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum hourly rate	-	-
Average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Processes & Methodologies Berkshire
Matching contract IT job ads	1617	2213
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	2.547 %	2.371 %
Daily rates quoted	496	763
Average minimum daily rate	£367	£351
Average daily rate	£391	£372
% change on same period last year	+4.93 %
Average maximum daily rate	£414	£393
UK excluding London average daily rate	£380	£370
% change on same period last year	+2.76 %
Hourly rates quoted	93	182
Average minimum hourly rate	£22.95	£32.29
Average hourly rate	£24.56	£34.23
% change on same period last year	-28.23 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£26.17	£36.17
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£28.17	£29.91
% change on same period last year	-5.80 %
Stress Testing South East

We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Stress Testing across the Berkshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

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Daily Rate Trend

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

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Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Stress Testing within the Berkshire region over the 3 months to 21 November 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
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Stress Testing South East

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Top 23 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 November 2008, 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 2 (66.67 %) Test Scripting 2 1 (33.33 %) System Testing 2 1 (33.33 %) SC Cleared 2 1 (33.33 %) Security Cleared 2 1 (33.33 %) Regression Testing 2 1 (33.33 %) JMeter 2 1 (33.33 %) Finance 2 1 (33.33 %) Penetration Testing 2 1 (33.33 %) QA 2 1 (33.33 %) User Acceptance Testing 2 1 (33.33 %) Performance Testing 2 1 (33.33 %) Integration Testing 2 1 (33.33 %) HTML 2 1 (33.33 %) Java 2 1 (33.33 %) SQL

2 1 (33.33 %) J2EE 2 1 (33.33 %) UNIX 2 1 (33.33 %) Windows 2 1 (33.33 %) AIX 2 1 (33.33 %) Solaris 2 1 (33.33 %) E-Commerce 2 1 (33.33 %) TCP/IP 2 1 (33.33 %) TestDirector

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 November 2008, 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 1 (33.33 %) HTML 1 1 (33.33 %) J2EE	Communications & Networking 1 1 (33.33 %) TCP/IP
Development Applications 1 1 (33.33 %) TestDirector 1 1 (33.33 %) JMeter	General 1 1 (33.33 %) Finance
Job Titles 1 2 (66.67 %) Tester 2 1 (33.33 %) Test Team Leader 2 1 (33.33 %) Team Leader 2 1 (33.33 %) Functional Tester 2 1 (33.33 %) Non-Functional Tester	Operating Systems 1 1 (33.33 %) UNIX 1 1 (33.33 %) Windows 1 1 (33.33 %) AIX 1 1 (33.33 %) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies 1 2 (66.67 %) Test Scripting 2 1 (33.33 %) System Testing 2 1 (33.33 %) SC Cleared 2 1 (33.33 %) Security Cleared 2 1 (33.33 %) E-Commerce 2 1 (33.33 %) Regression Testing 2 1 (33.33 %) Penetration Testing 2 1 (33.33 %) User Acceptance Testing 2 1 (33.33 %) Performance Testing 2 1 (33.33 %) Integration Testing	Programming Languages 1 1 (33.33 %) Java 1 1 (33.33 %) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 1 (33.33 %) QA