Blackpool User Acceptance Testing Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for User Acceptance Testing (UAT) skills within the Blackpool 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 7 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

User Acceptance Testing (UAT)
Location Aberdeen Abingdon Aldershot Andover Basildon Basingstoke Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Blackpool Bournemouth Brentford Brentwood Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Cheltenham Cheshire Chester City of London County Antrim Coventry Crawley Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset Dunstable East Anglia East Midlands East of England Edinburgh England Essex Exeter Farnborough Fleetwood Glamorgan Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Halifax Hampshire Harrogate Hertfordshire High Wycombe Horsham Ipswich Isleworth Kent Lancashire Leeds Liverpool London M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Manchester Market Drayton Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newport Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Poole Pudsey Reading Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Skelmersdale Slough Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southend-on-Sea Staines Stockport Street Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Tadworth Telford Thames Valley Tyne and Wear Tyneside UK Uxbridge Wales Warwick Warwickshire Watford West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Wiltshire Windsor Wokingham Worcestershire York Yorkshire	3 months to 7 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	6	10
Rank change on same period last year	+4
Matching contract IT job ads	5	2
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.007 %	0.002 %
As % of the category below	19.23 %	7.407 %
Daily rates quoted	0	1
Average minimum daily rate	-	£300
Average daily rate	-	£300
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	£300
UK excluding London average daily rate	£350	£348
% change on same period last year	+0.64 %
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	£30.99	£27.90
% change on same period last year	+11.06 %
Processes & Methodologies Blackpool
Matching contract IT job ads	26	27
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.037 %	0.027 %
Daily rates quoted	5	7
Average minimum daily rate	£424	£336
Average daily rate	£459	£346
% change on same period last year	+32.67 %
Average maximum daily rate	£493	£355
UK excluding London average daily rate	£377	£371
% change on same period last year	+1.63 %
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	£29.32	£30.04
% change on same period last year	-2.39 %
User Acceptance Testing Lancashire

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 Blackpool 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 Blackpool region.

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 Blackpool region.

User Acceptance Testing
Top 6 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 7 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Blackpool 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 8 (100.00 %) Oracle 2 6 (75.00 %) Government 3 3 (37.50 %) Resource Management 4 1 (12.50 %) Oracle EBS 4 1 (12.50 %) Legal 4 1 (12.50 %) Fujitsu

User Acceptance Testing
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 7 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Blackpool 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.

Business Applications 1 1 (12.50 %) Oracle EBS	General 1 6 (75.00 %) Government 2 1 (12.50 %) Legal
Job Titles 1 7 (87.50 %) Test Manager 2 1 (12.50 %) Business Manager	Processes & Methodologies 1 3 (37.50 %) Resource Management
Vendors 1 8 (100.00 %) Oracle 2 1 (12.50 %) Fujitsu