The first table below looks at the demand for Integration Testing skills in IT contracts advertised for the Birmingham region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Integration Testing over the 3 months to 20 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 Birmingham 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 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Integration Testing
Rank 46 52 -
Rank change year-on-year
+6 -
Contract jobs citing Integration Testing 1 3 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Birmingham 0.224% 0.483% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.332% 0.787% -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 3 0
Average daily rate - £340 -
UK excluding London average daily rate £358 £388 £361
% change year-on-year
-7.74% +7.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Average hourly rate £37.00 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £36.00 £32.75 £37.50
% change year-on-year
+9.92% -12.66%
All Processes & Methodologies
Birmingham
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
301 381 280
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Birmingham 67.49% 61.35% 57.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 154 209 174
Average daily rate £350 £340 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+2.94% -2.85%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £238 £228 £175
10% offered a daily rate of more than £463 £525 £490
UK excluding London average daily rate £363 £363 £375
% change year-on-year
- -3.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 20 10
Average hourly rate £32.50 £15.00 £14.25
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+116.66% +5.26%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.00 £12.00 £10.99
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £119.80 £34.40 £127.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £32.00 £25.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year
+28.00% -16.66%
Integration Testing
West Midlands

Integration Testing
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Birmingham Integration Testing Jobs Demand Trend

Integration Testing
Daily Rate Trend

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

Birmingham Integration Testing Daily Rate Trend

Integration Testing
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Birmingham Integration Testing Hourly Rate Trend

Integration Testing
Top 18 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Birmingham region citing Integration 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 Integration Testing.

1 6 (100.00%) User Acceptance Testing
2 4 (66.67%) System Testing
2 4 (66.67%) Software Testing
2 4 (66.67%) QA
2 4 (66.67%) UNIX
2 4 (66.67%) Oracle Forms
2 4 (66.67%) Shell Script
2 4 (66.67%) SQL
2 4 (66.67%) J2EE
2 4 (66.67%) Oracle
2 4 (66.67%) Finance
3 2 (33.33%) SAP PLM
3 2 (33.33%) SAP PM
3 2 (33.33%) GAP Analysis
3 2 (33.33%) PLM
3 2 (33.33%) C
3 2 (33.33%) C++
3 2 (33.33%) SAP

Integration Testing
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 4 (66.67%) J2EE
Business Applications
1 2 (33.33%) SAP PM
1 2 (33.33%) SAP PLM
Development Applications
1 4 (66.67%) Oracle Forms
General
1 4 (66.67%) Finance
Job Titles
1 4 (66.67%) Tester
1 4 (66.67%) Systems Tester
2 3 (50.00%) QA Analyst
2 3 (50.00%) Analyst
2 3 (50.00%) Systems Analyst
3 2 (33.33%) Consultant
3 2 (33.33%) SAP CS Consultant
3 2 (33.33%) SAP PLM Consultant
3 2 (33.33%) SAP Consultant
3 2 (33.33%) SAP PM Consultant
Operating Systems
1 4 (66.67%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) User Acceptance Testing
2 4 (66.67%) System Testing
2 4 (66.67%) Software Testing
3 2 (33.33%) GAP Analysis
3 2 (33.33%) PLM
Programming Languages
1 4 (66.67%) SQL
1 4 (66.67%) Shell Script
2 2 (33.33%) C
2 2 (33.33%) C++
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (66.67%) QA
Vendors
1 4 (66.67%) Oracle
2 2 (33.33%) SAP