The first table below looks at the demand for Test Scripting skills in IT contracts advertised for the Bracknell region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Test Scripting over the 3 months to 19 June 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 Bracknell 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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Test Scripting (Test Scripts)
Rank 19 14 21
Rank change year-on-year
-5 +7
Contract jobs citing Test Scripting 17 9 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Bracknell 6.667% 6.164% 0.719%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.43% 9.677% 1.124%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 2 1
Average daily rate - £350 £225
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +55.55%
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £300 £325
% change year-on-year
+8.33% -7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Average hourly rate - £27.00 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.63 £27.00 £17.50
% change year-on-year
+2.31% +54.28%
All Processes & Methodologies
Bracknell
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
163 93 89
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Bracknell 63.92% 63.70% 64.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 59 39 31
Average daily rate £413 £350 £399
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+17.85% -12.28%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £175 £178 £194
10% offered a daily rate of more than £463 £450 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £370 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
+1.36% -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 5 17
Average hourly rate £17.50 £27.00 £38.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-35.18% -28.94%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £14.50 £13.90 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £66.50 £27.00 £47.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.00 £25.00 £29.00
% change year-on-year
+24.00% -13.79%
Test Scripting
Berkshire

Test Scripting
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Bracknell 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 Bracknell region.

Bracknell Test Scripting Daily Rate Trend

Test Scripting
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Bracknell 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 21 (80.77%) Windows
2 18 (69.23%) Migration
2 18 (69.23%) VMware
2 18 (69.23%) SC Cleared
2 18 (69.23%) Security Cleared
3 17 (65.38%) Oracle
4 16 (61.54%) SQL Server
4 16 (61.54%) VMware Infrastructure
5 14 (53.85%) Windows Server 2008
5 14 (53.85%) SQL
6 13 (50.00%) Regression Testing
6 13 (50.00%) HP Quality Center
7 11 (42.31%) Oracle 8/8i
7 11 (42.31%) HP
8 10 (38.46%) Windows Server 2003
9 9 (34.62%) Non-Functional Testing
10 8 (30.77%) Windows 7
10 8 (30.77%) LoadRunner
10 8 (30.77%) LAN
10 8 (30.77%) WAN
10 8 (30.77%) Windows XP
10 8 (30.77%) Tomcat
10 8 (30.77%) Active Directory
10 8 (30.77%) IIS
10 8 (30.77%) VMware ESX
10 8 (30.77%) Validation
11 5 (19.23%) VMware Workstation
11 5 (19.23%) QA
11 5 (19.23%) NetApp
11 5 (19.23%) Test Automation

Test Scripting
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Bracknell 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 (3.846%) EDI
1 1 (3.846%) JSP
1 1 (3.846%) XML
1 1 (3.846%) XSL
1 1 (3.846%) HTML
Application Platforms
1 8 (30.77%) Tomcat
1 8 (30.77%) IIS
Communications & Networking
1 8 (30.77%) LAN
1 8 (30.77%) WAN
2 3 (11.54%) TCP/IP
2 3 (11.54%) NAS
3 2 (7.692%) SAN
4 1 (3.846%) VLAN
4 1 (3.846%) IPv6
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (61.54%) SQL Server
2 11 (42.31%) Oracle 8/8i
3 1 (3.846%) Oracle 10g
Development Applications
1 8 (30.77%) LoadRunner
General
1 3 (11.54%) Retail
Job Titles
1 8 (30.77%) Tester
1 8 (30.77%) Analyst
2 5 (19.23%) Test Manager
2 5 (19.23%) Systems Analyst
3 4 (15.38%) Test Analyst
3 4 (15.38%) Business Systems Analyst
3 4 (15.38%) Business Analyst
4 2 (7.692%) Storage Engineer
4 2 (7.692%) Test Engineer
4 2 (7.692%) Test Specialist
4 2 (7.692%) Data Migration Specialist
5 1 (3.846%) Test Team Leader
5 1 (3.846%) Systems Tester
5 1 (3.846%) Consultant
5 1 (3.846%) Technical Consultant
5 1 (3.846%) Integration Tester
5 1 (3.846%) Systems Test Analyst
5 1 (3.846%) QA Tester
5 1 (3.846%) QA Engineer
5 1 (3.846%) Senior Tester
Miscellaneous
1 3 (11.54%) Field-Programmable Gate Array
Operating Systems
1 21 (80.77%) Windows
2 14 (53.85%) Windows Server 2008
3 10 (38.46%) Windows Server 2003
4 8 (30.77%) Windows 7
4 8 (30.77%) Windows XP
5 3 (11.54%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (69.23%) Migration
2 13 (50.00%) Regression Testing
3 9 (34.62%) Non-Functional Testing
4 8 (30.77%) Validation
5 5 (19.23%) Test Automation
5 5 (19.23%) Integration Testing
5 5 (19.23%) Data Migration
6 4 (15.38%) E-Commerce
6 4 (15.38%) UML
6 4 (15.38%) RUP
6 4 (15.38%) Use Case
7 3 (11.54%) Business Continuity
7 3 (11.54%) Disaster Recovery
7 3 (11.54%) User Acceptance Testing
7 3 (11.54%) Agile Software Development
7 3 (11.54%) Data Modelling
7 3 (11.54%) System Testing
7 3 (11.54%) Product Management
8 2 (7.692%) Waterfall
8 2 (7.692%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 14 (53.85%) SQL
2 1 (3.846%) Java
2 1 (3.846%) JavaScript
2 1 (3.846%) PL/SQL
2 1 (3.846%) Bash shell
Qualifications
1 18 (69.23%) SC Cleared
1 18 (69.23%) Security Cleared
2 2 (7.692%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (19.23%) QA
System Software
1 16 (61.54%) VMware Infrastructure
2 8 (30.77%) Active Directory
2 8 (30.77%) VMware ESX
3 5 (19.23%) VMware Workstation
4 3 (11.54%) NFS
Systems Management
1 13 (50.00%) HP Quality Center
2 3 (11.54%) Legato
3 1 (3.846%) SCOM
Vendors
1 18 (69.23%) VMware
2 17 (65.38%) Oracle
3 11 (42.31%) HP
4 5 (19.23%) NetApp
5 3 (11.54%) Veritas