Test Scripting Contracts in Berkshire
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for Test Scripting 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 Test Scripting 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
Test Scripting (Test Scripts)
Rank 70 67 78
Rank change year-on-year
-3 +11
Contract jobs citing Test Scripting 51 74 58
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Berkshire 2.124% 2.348% 1.917%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.220% 3.704% 3.053%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 34 30
Average daily rate £354 £350 £276
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+1.00% +27.04%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £228 £225 £261
10% offered a daily rate of more than £438 £400 £350
UK excluding London average daily rate £330 £300 £320
% change year-on-year
+10.00% -6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 0
Average hourly rate - £20.00 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £26.00 £27.50 £18.75
% change year-on-year
-5.45% +46.66%
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%
Test Scripting
South East

Test Scripting
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Berkshire Test Scripting Jobs Demand Trend

Test Scripting
Daily Rate Trend

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

Berkshire Test Scripting Daily Rate Trend

Test Scripting
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Test Scripting across the Berkshire region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

Berkshire Test Scripting Daily Rate Histogram

Test Scripting
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Berkshire Test Scripting Hourly Rate Trend

Test Scripting
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Test Scripting 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 -5 21 £375 +7.14%
Reading +7 9 £388 +3.33%
Slough -8 6 £357 -6.36%
Newbury - 3 £325 -
Wokingham - 1 £160 -
Test Scripting
South East

Test Scripting
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 30 (41.10%) Windows
2 25 (34.25%) VMware
2 25 (34.25%) HP Quality Center
3 20 (27.40%) SQL
3 20 (27.40%) Oracle
4 19 (26.03%) Migration
4 19 (26.03%) SC Cleared
4 19 (26.03%) Security Cleared
5 18 (24.66%) VMware Infrastructure
5 18 (24.66%) SQL Server
6 17 (23.29%) Regression Testing
7 14 (19.18%) Telecoms
7 14 (19.18%) HP
7 14 (19.18%) Windows Server 2008
8 12 (16.44%) Business Intelligence
9 11 (15.07%) Oracle 8/8i
9 11 (15.07%) User Acceptance Testing
9 11 (15.07%) QA
10 10 (13.70%) Data Warehouse
10 10 (13.70%) Windows Server 2003
11 9 (12.33%) System Testing
11 9 (12.33%) Agile Software Development
11 9 (12.33%) Non-Functional Testing
12 8 (10.96%) Test Automation
12 8 (10.96%) Windows 7
12 8 (10.96%) Active Directory
12 8 (10.96%) LoadRunner
12 8 (10.96%) Validation
12 8 (10.96%) VMware ESX
12 8 (10.96%) Windows XP

Test Scripting
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 2 (2.740%) REST
1 2 (2.740%) Web Services
1 2 (2.740%) XML
1 2 (2.740%) ASP.NET
1 2 (2.740%) HTML
1 2 (2.740%) .NET
2 1 (1.370%) CSS
2 1 (1.370%) JSP
2 1 (1.370%) SOAP
2 1 (1.370%) XSL
2 1 (1.370%) WAP
2 1 (1.370%) EDI
2 1 (1.370%) Hibernate
2 1 (1.370%) MHP
2 1 (1.370%) Middleware
2 1 (1.370%) WebSphere
2 1 (1.370%) .NET Framework
2 1 (1.370%) WCF
2 1 (1.370%) Grails
2 1 (1.370%) Spring
Application Platforms
1 8 (10.96%) IIS
1 8 (10.96%) Tomcat
2 1 (1.370%) WebSphere Application Server
2 1 (1.370%) Lotus Notes
2 1 (1.370%) CMS
Applications
1 2 (2.740%) MS Excel
2 1 (1.370%) MS Office
2 1 (1.370%) MS PowerPoint
2 1 (1.370%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (2.740%) Agresso
2 1 (1.370%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (1.370%) SAP SD
Communications & Networking
1 8 (10.96%) LAN
1 8 (10.96%) WAN
1 8 (10.96%) TCP/IP
2 6 (8.219%) VLAN
3 5 (6.849%) Kerberos
3 5 (6.849%) Network Security
4 3 (4.110%) Internet
4 3 (4.110%) NAS
5 2 (2.740%) GPRS
5 2 (2.740%) SAN
6 1 (1.370%) IPv6
6 1 (1.370%) SNMP
6 1 (1.370%) GSM
6 1 (1.370%) Packet Switching
6 1 (1.370%) UMTS
6 1 (1.370%) LDAP
6 1 (1.370%) Wireless
6 1 (1.370%) INAP
6 1 (1.370%) CTI
6 1 (1.370%) IP Telephony
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (24.66%) SQL Server
2 11 (15.07%) Oracle 8/8i
3 10 (13.70%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (2.740%) TOAD
5 1 (1.370%) MySQL
5 1 (1.370%) Oracle 10g
5 1 (1.370%) Oracle BI EE
5 1 (1.370%) DbVisualizer
Development Applications
1 8 (10.96%) LoadRunner
2 7 (9.589%) Selenium
3 3 (4.110%) Visual Studio
3 3 (4.110%) JIRA
4 2 (2.740%) Cucumber
4 2 (2.740%) QADirector
4 2 (2.740%) QuickTest Pro
4 2 (2.740%) WinRunner
5 1 (1.370%) JUnit
5 1 (1.370%) TestDirector
5 1 (1.370%) Bugzilla
5 1 (1.370%) FitNesse
5 1 (1.370%) TestPartner
5 1 (1.370%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 14 (19.18%) Telecoms
2 6 (8.219%) Finance
3 5 (6.849%) Retail
4 1 (1.370%) Billing
Job Titles
1 23 (31.51%) Analyst
2 15 (20.55%) Test Analyst
3 14 (19.18%) Tester
4 9 (12.33%) Test Manager
4 9 (12.33%) Test Leader
5 7 (9.589%) Systems Analyst
5 7 (9.589%) Business Analyst
6 6 (8.219%) Business Systems Analyst
7 5 (6.849%) Test Engineer
8 4 (5.479%) Technical Architect
8 4 (5.479%) Consultant
8 4 (5.479%) Solutions Architect
8 4 (5.479%) Architect
8 4 (5.479%) Developer
9 3 (4.110%) Automation Test Analyst
9 3 (4.110%) QA Engineer
9 3 (4.110%) Automation Analyst
10 2 (2.740%) Storage Engineer
10 2 (2.740%) QA Analyst
10 2 (2.740%) QA Test Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 3 (4.110%) Field-Programmable Gate Array
2 2 (2.740%) Mobile App
2 2 (2.740%) STB
2 2 (2.740%) DTV
3 1 (1.370%) AS400
3 1 (1.370%) Handset
3 1 (1.370%) IVR
3 1 (1.370%) APACS
3 1 (1.370%) EPoS
3 1 (1.370%) EMV
3 1 (1.370%) Blackberry
3 1 (1.370%) MediaHighway
Operating Systems
1 30 (41.10%) Windows
2 14 (19.18%) Windows Server 2008
3 10 (13.70%) Windows Server 2003
4 8 (10.96%) Windows 7
4 8 (10.96%) Windows XP
5 7 (9.589%) Linux
6 5 (6.849%) UNIX
6 5 (6.849%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (2.740%) VMS
8 1 (1.370%) Android
8 1 (1.370%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (26.03%) Migration
2 17 (23.29%) Regression Testing
3 12 (16.44%) Business Intelligence
4 11 (15.07%) User Acceptance Testing
5 9 (12.33%) System Testing
5 9 (12.33%) Agile Software Development
5 9 (12.33%) Non-Functional Testing
6 8 (10.96%) Test Automation
6 8 (10.96%) Validation
7 7 (9.589%) Project Management
7 7 (9.589%) Waterfall
8 6 (8.219%) Use Case
8 6 (8.219%) Integration Testing
8 6 (8.219%) Data Migration
8 6 (8.219%) Scrum
8 6 (8.219%) E-Commerce
8 6 (8.219%) UML
8 6 (8.219%) RUP
9 5 (6.849%) Data Modelling
10 4 (5.479%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 20 (27.40%) SQL
2 7 (9.589%) Python
3 6 (8.219%) Bash shell
4 5 (6.849%) Perl
5 4 (5.479%) Java
6 3 (4.110%) C#
6 3 (4.110%) Shell Script
7 2 (2.740%) Groovy
7 2 (2.740%) C
7 2 (2.740%) C++
7 2 (2.740%) JavaScript
7 2 (2.740%) PL/SQL
8 1 (1.370%) VB
8 1 (1.370%) Scala
Qualifications
1 19 (26.03%) SC Cleared
1 19 (26.03%) Security Cleared
2 3 (4.110%) ISEB
2 3 (4.110%) Degree
3 2 (2.740%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (15.07%) QA
2 1 (1.370%) ISO 8583
System Software
1 18 (24.66%) VMware Infrastructure
2 8 (10.96%) Active Directory
2 8 (10.96%) VMware ESX
3 5 (6.849%) VMware Workstation
3 5 (6.849%) vSphere
3 5 (6.849%) VMware ESXi
4 3 (4.110%) NFS
Systems Management
1 25 (34.25%) HP Quality Center
2 3 (4.110%) Legato
3 1 (1.370%) SCOM
Vendors
1 25 (34.25%) VMware
2 20 (27.40%) Oracle
3 14 (19.18%) HP
4 7 (9.589%) Teradata
4 7 (9.589%) Ab Initio
5 5 (6.849%) NetApp
5 5 (6.849%) Red Hat
6 3 (4.110%) Veritas
7 2 (2.740%) Microsoft
8 1 (1.370%) SAP
8 1 (1.370%) Informatica
8 1 (1.370%) Cognos
8 1 (1.370%) OpenTV
8 1 (1.370%) Lotus
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The role: Providing documentation to support the test work undertaken through to handover Creating test scripts Carrying out regression and unit test across a range of technologies Responsible...
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Rate: likely to extend
Posted: 22 May 2013
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Rate: £300 - £450 per day + Excellent Benefits
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Test Analyst (Contract) £300-£450pd (+Benefits)
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Rate: £300 - £450 per day + Excellent Benefits
Posted: 22 May 2013
IN Test Engineer
Newbury, Berkshire
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Posted: 20 May 2013
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