Bournemouth Test Scripting Contracts

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

Test Scripting (Test Scripts)
Location Basingstoke Bath Belfast Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Blackpool Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Bradford-on-Avon Brentford Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Burgess Hill Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Channel Islands Cheltenham Cheshire Chester City of London County Antrim Coventry Crawley Croydon Darlington Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset Durham East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edinburgh England Essex Exeter Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Gosport Hammersmith Hampshire Havant Hertfordshire Hull Isleworth Lancashire Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Liverpool London M4 Corridor Maidenhead Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Osterley Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Plymouth Portsmouth Preston Reading Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Solihull Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southend-on-Sea Staffordshire Staines Stockton-on-Tees Stoke-on-Trent Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Surrey Sussex Swindon Taunton Telford Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Wokingham Worcester Worcestershire Worthing Yeovil York Yorkshire	3 months to 21 Nov 2008	Same period last year
Rank	15	24
Rank change on same period last year	+9
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	2.778 %	3.571 %
Daily rates quoted	1	2
Average minimum daily rate	£100	£300
Average daily rate	£175	£325
% change on same period last year	-46.15 %
Average maximum daily rate	£250	£350
UK excluding London average daily rate	£321	£314
% change on same period last year	+2.17 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	1
Average minimum hourly rate	-	£40.00
Average hourly rate	-	£40.00
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	£40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£29.96	£27.90
% change on same period last year	+7.39 %
Processes & Methodologies Bournemouth
Matching contract IT job ads	36	84
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.057 %	0.090 %
Daily rates quoted	22	52
Average minimum daily rate	£294	£343
Average daily rate	£323	£365
% change on same period last year	-11.39 %
Average maximum daily rate	£352	£387
UK excluding London average daily rate	£380	£370
% change on same period last year	+2.76 %
Hourly rates quoted	4	6
Average minimum hourly rate	£32.50	£35.73
Average hourly rate	£37.13	£38.11
% change on same period last year	-2.59 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£41.75	£40.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£28.17	£29.91
% change on same period last year	-5.80 %
Test Scripting Dorset

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.

Test Scripting
Demand Trend

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

Test Scripting
Daily Rate Trend

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

Test Scripting
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Test Scripting
Top 19 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 November 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Bournemouth 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 3 (37.50 %) CRM 1 3 (37.50 %) Business Intelligence 1 3 (37.50 %) Lagan 1 3 (37.50 %) User Acceptance Testing 2 2 (25.00 %) Pensions 2 2 (25.00 %) Windows 2 2 (25.00 %) Local Government 2 2 (25.00 %) Microsoft 2 2 (25.00 %) C# 2 2 (25.00 %) C++ 2 2 (25.00 %) Business Analysis 2 2 (25.00 %) GAP Analysis 2 2 (25.00 %) Government 2 2 (25.00 %) Military 3 1 (12.50 %) AJAX

3 1 (12.50 %) SQL 3 1 (12.50 %) .NET 3 1 (12.50 %) Visual Studio 3 1 (12.50 %) E-Commerce

Test Scripting
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 November 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Bournemouth 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 1 (12.50 %) .NET 1 1 (12.50 %) AJAX	Development Applications 1 1 (12.50 %) Visual Studio
General 1 2 (25.00 %) Government 1 2 (25.00 %) Military 1 2 (25.00 %) Local Government 1 2 (25.00 %) Pensions	Job Titles 1 5 (62.50 %) Analyst 1 5 (62.50 %) Business Analyst 2 3 (37.50 %) CRM Business Analyst 3 2 (25.00 %) Test Engineer 3 2 (25.00 %) Integration Engineer 4 1 (12.50 %) Applications Tester 4 1 (12.50 %) Web Tester 4 1 (12.50 %) Tester
Operating Systems 1 2 (25.00 %) Windows	Processes & Methodologies 1 3 (37.50 %) CRM 1 3 (37.50 %) Business Intelligence 1 3 (37.50 %) User Acceptance Testing 2 2 (25.00 %) GAP Analysis 2 2 (25.00 %) Business Analysis 3 1 (12.50 %) E-Commerce
Programming Languages 1 2 (25.00 %) C# 1 2 (25.00 %) C++ 2 1 (12.50 %) SQL	Vendors 1 3 (37.50 %) Lagan 2 2 (25.00 %) Microsoft