Berkshire User Acceptance Testing Contracts

This section looks at the demand for User Acceptance Testing (UAT) 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 User Acceptance Testing over the 3 months to 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

User Acceptance Testing (UAT)
Location Abingdon Aldershot Andover Basildon Basingstoke Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Blackpool Borehamwood Bournemouth Bracknell Brentwood Bridgend Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Carlisle Cheltenham Cheshire Chester City of London Colchester County Antrim Coventry Crawley Croydon Cumbria Devon Docklands, London Dorset Dundee Durham East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh England Essex Exeter Farnborough Gatwick Glamorgan Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Guildford Halifax Hampshire Havant Herefordshire Hertfordshire Home Counties Horsham Ipswich Kent Knutsford Lancashire Leamington Spa Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Liverpool London Luton M4 Corridor Macclesfield Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Northumberland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Poole Portsmouth Reading Rickmansworth Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Skelmersdale Slough Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Staffordshire Staines Stockport Stoke-on-Trent Street Suffolk Surrey Sussex Swindon Tadworth Taunton Telford Thames Valley Tunbridge Wells Tyne and Wear UK Uttoxeter Uxbridge Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Welwyn Garden City West Drayton West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wigan Wilmslow Wiltshire Winchester Windsor Wokingham Worthing York Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	56	84
Rank change on same period last year	+28
Matching contract IT job ads	73	84
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.097 %	0.085 %
As % of the category below	3.738 %	3.268 %
Daily rates quoted	27	34
Average minimum daily rate	£315	£368
Average daily rate	£345	£371
% change on same period last year	-6.76 %
Average maximum daily rate	£376	£373
UK excluding London average daily rate	£344	£347
% change on same period last year	-1.01 %
Hourly rates quoted	2	1
Average minimum hourly rate	£36.00	£25.00
Average hourly rate	£37.00	£25.63
% change on same period last year	+44.39 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£38.00	£26.25
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£28.64	£21.57
% change on same period last year	+32.75 %
Processes & Methodologies Berkshire
Matching contract IT job ads	1953	2570
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	2.603 %	2.600 %
Daily rates quoted	515	896
Average minimum daily rate	£356	£357
Average daily rate	£378	£378
% change on same period last year	-0.09 %
Average maximum daily rate	£399	£399
UK excluding London average daily rate	£380	£376
% change on same period last year	+1.21 %
Hourly rates quoted	87	150
Average minimum hourly rate	£23.32	£31.30
Average hourly rate	£26.03	£33.05
% change on same period last year	-21.23 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£28.74	£34.80
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£29.33	£30.16
% change on same period last year	-2.72 %
User Acceptance 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.

User Acceptance Testing
Demand Trend

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

User Acceptance Testing
Daily Rate Trend

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

User Acceptance Testing
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing User Acceptance Testing across the Berkshire region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008.

User Acceptance Testing
Hourly Rate Trend

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

User Acceptance Testing
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing User Acceptance Testing across the Berkshire region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008.

User Acceptance Testing
Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing User Acceptance Testing within the Berkshire region over the 3 months to 25 July 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
Reading	+3	17	£344	+104.81 %
Windsor	+2	10	£340	-24.44 %
Slough	-10	10	£263	-26.53 %
Newbury	+14	4	-	-
Wokingham	+3	2	-	-
Bracknell	+23	1	-	-

User Acceptance Testing South East

User Acceptance Testing
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Berkshire region citing User Acceptance 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 User Acceptance Testing.

1 33 (29.73 %) SQL 2 29 (26.13 %) Test Scripting 3 24 (21.62 %) Telecoms 4 17 (15.32 %) System Testing 5 15 (13.51 %) TestDirector 6 13 (11.71 %) ISEB 6 13 (11.71 %) XML 7 12 (10.81 %) VB 7 12 (10.81 %) .NET 8 11 (9.910 %) Validation 8 11 (9.910 %) Billing 8 11 (9.910 %) HTML 8 11 (9.910 %) ASP.NET 8 11 (9.910 %) Microsoft 8 11 (9.910 %) Data Analysis

9 10 (9.009 %) Integration Testing 9 10 (9.009 %) DTV 9 10 (9.009 %) CRM 9 10 (9.009 %) Siebel 9 10 (9.009 %) JavaScript 9 10 (9.009 %) SQL Server 10 9 (8.108 %) VB.NET 10 9 (8.108 %) DHTML 10 9 (8.108 %) Transact-SQL 10 9 (8.108 %) COM+ 10 9 (8.108 %) Oracle 10 9 (8.108 %) XSL 10 9 (8.108 %) ASP 10 9 (8.108 %) Degree 11 8 (7.207 %) QA

User Acceptance Testing
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Berkshire region citing User Acceptance 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 User Acceptance Testing. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 13 (11.71 %) XML 2 12 (10.81 %) .NET 3 11 (9.910 %) HTML 3 11 (9.910 %) ASP.NET 4 9 (8.108 %) COM+ 4 9 (8.108 %) XSL 4 9 (8.108 %) ASP 5 3 (2.703 %) MHP 6 2 (1.802 %) WinForms 6 2 (1.802 %) Middleware 7 1 (0.901 %) WebServices 7 1 (0.901 %) J2EE 7 1 (0.901 %) .NET Remoting	Application Platforms 1 5 (4.505 %) BizTalk Server
Applications 1 3 (2.703 %) MS Excel 2 2 (1.802 %) MS Office 3 1 (0.901 %) MS Visio 3 1 (0.901 %) MS PowerPoint	Business Applications 1 3 (2.703 %) Great Plains 1 3 (2.703 %) Endur 2 2 (1.802 %) Oracle EBS 2 2 (1.802 %) SAP HR 3 1 (0.901 %) SAP R/3 3 1 (0.901 %) SAP FI 3 1 (0.901 %) Oracle Payroll 3 1 (0.901 %) SAP QM 3 1 (0.901 %) Dynamics GP
Communications & Networking 1 2 (1.802 %) DVB 2 1 (0.901 %) TCAP 2 1 (0.901 %) SCCP 2 1 (0.901 %) INAP 2 1 (0.901 %) GPRS 2 1 (0.901 %) GSM 2 1 (0.901 %) 3GPP 2 1 (0.901 %) WCDMA	Database & Business Intelligence 1 10 (9.009 %) SQL Server 2 7 (6.306 %) Data Mining 2 7 (6.306 %) Data Cleansing 3 3 (2.703 %) TOAD 4 1 (0.901 %) GIS 4 1 (0.901 %) Oracle Reports 4 1 (0.901 %) MS Access
Development Applications 1 15 (13.51 %) TestDirector 2 7 (6.306 %) InterDev 3 2 (1.802 %) TestPartner 3 2 (1.802 %) QADirector 3 2 (1.802 %) Visual Studio	General 1 24 (21.62 %) Telecoms 2 11 (9.910 %) Billing 3 6 (5.405 %) Finance 3 6 (5.405 %) Government 4 3 (2.703 %) Construction 4 3 (2.703 %) Pensions 5 2 (1.802 %) Automotive 6 1 (0.901 %) Financial Institution 6 1 (0.901 %) Back Office 6 1 (0.901 %) Education 6 1 (0.901 %) Health 6 1 (0.901 %) Military 6 1 (0.901 %) FMCG 6 1 (0.901 %) Insurance
Job Titles 1 39 (35.14 %) Analyst 2 19 (17.12 %) Test Analyst 3 12 (10.81 %) Developer 4 11 (9.910 %) Applications Developer 5 10 (9.009 %) Test Manager 6 9 (8.108 %) Tester 6 9 (8.108 %) Test Engineer 7 8 (7.207 %) Business Analyst 8 6 (5.405 %) Consultant 8 6 (5.405 %) CRM Business Analyst 8 6 (5.405 %) UAT Analyst 9 4 (3.604 %) Microsoft Developer 9 4 (3.604 %) Operations Manager 9 4 (3.604 %) Team Leader 10 3 (2.703 %) Siebel Business Analyst 10 3 (2.703 %) Test Team Leader 10 3 (2.703 %) .NET Developer 10 3 (2.703 %) Project Manager 10 3 (2.703 %) Functional Analyst 11 2 (1.802 %) Technical Consultant	Miscellaneous 1 10 (9.009 %) DTV 2 8 (7.207 %) STB 3 7 (6.306 %) N-Tier 4 4 (3.604 %) Management Information System 5 3 (2.703 %) MediaHighway 6 1 (0.901 %) French Language 6 1 (0.901 %) German Language 6 1 (0.901 %) AS400 6 1 (0.901 %) IVR 6 1 (0.901 %) EPoS 6 1 (0.901 %) Client/Server
Operating Systems 1 4 (3.604 %) UNIX 1 4 (3.604 %) Windows 2 2 (1.802 %) Windows NT 3 1 (0.901 %) Windows Mobile 3 1 (0.901 %) Linux	Processes & Methodologies 1 29 (26.13 %) Test Scripting 2 17 (15.32 %) System Testing 3 11 (9.910 %) Validation 3 11 (9.910 %) Data Analysis 4 10 (9.009 %) CRM 4 10 (9.009 %) Integration Testing 5 8 (7.207 %) Test Management 5 8 (7.207 %) Migration 6 7 (6.306 %) Performance Testing 7 6 (5.405 %) Data Migration 8 5 (4.505 %) Software Testing 9 3 (2.703 %) Security Cleared 10 2 (1.802 %) Unit Testing 10 2 (1.802 %) Matrix Management 10 2 (1.802 %) Manual Testing 10 2 (1.802 %) Requirements Analysis 10 2 (1.802 %) Technical Architecture 10 2 (1.802 %) OO 10 2 (1.802 %) Business Analysis 10 2 (1.802 %) Change Management
Programming Languages 1 33 (29.73 %) SQL 2 12 (10.81 %) VB 3 10 (9.009 %) JavaScript 4 9 (8.108 %) Transact-SQL 4 9 (8.108 %) VB.NET 4 9 (8.108 %) DHTML 5 2 (1.802 %) Java 5 2 (1.802 %) C 5 2 (1.802 %) C# 5 2 (1.802 %) VBA 5 2 (1.802 %) VB6	Qualifications 1 13 (11.71 %) ISEB 2 9 (8.108 %) Degree 3 2 (1.802 %) ISEB Practitioner 4 1 (0.901 %) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 8 (7.207 %) QA 2 1 (0.901 %) SLA	System Software 1 1 (0.901 %) NDS
Vendors 1 11 (9.910 %) Microsoft 2 10 (9.009 %) Siebel 3 9 (8.108 %) Oracle 4 7 (6.306 %) SAP 5 3 (2.703 %) OpenLink 5 3 (2.703 %) OpenTV 6 2 (1.802 %) ESRI 6 2 (1.802 %) HP 6 2 (1.802 %) Manugistics 6 2 (1.802 %) PeopleSoft 7 1 (0.901 %) Sybase