The first table below looks at the demand for User Acceptance Testing 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 User Acceptance Testing over the 3 months to 17 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 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
User Acceptance Testing (UAT)
Rank 31 25 24
Rank change year-on-year
-6 -1
Contract jobs citing User Acceptance Testing 5 2 3
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Bracknell 2.146% 1.389% 1.676%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.378% 2.174% 2.632%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 2 1
Average daily rate £300 £375 £295
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-20.00% +27.11%
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £350 £350
% change year-on-year
-7.14% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.00 £26.28 £23.00
% change year-on-year
+14.15% +14.26%
All Processes & Methodologies
Bracknell
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
148 92 114
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Bracknell 63.52% 63.89% 63.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 52 30 37
Average daily rate £413 £350 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+17.85% -6.66%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £175 £240 £200
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £450 £1,000
UK excluding London average daily rate £363 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
-0.68% -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 6 16
Average hourly rate £17.33 £12.75 £33.25
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+35.88% -61.65%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £14.29 £9.50 £14.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £37.50 £14.50 £47.30
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.60 £25.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year
+26.40% -16.66%
User Acceptance Testing
Berkshire

User Acceptance Testing
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Bracknell User Acceptance Testing Jobs Demand Trend

User Acceptance Testing
Daily Rate Trend

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

Bracknell User Acceptance Testing Daily Rate Trend

User Acceptance Testing
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing User Acceptance Testing across the Bracknell region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

Bracknell User Acceptance Testing Daily Rate Histogram

User Acceptance Testing
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Bracknell User Acceptance Testing Hourly Rate Trend

User Acceptance Testing
Top 27 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Bracknell 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 3 (37.50%) Remedy
1 3 (37.50%) Subversion
1 3 (37.50%) Service Management
1 3 (37.50%) Service Delivery
1 3 (37.50%) ITIL
2 2 (25.00%) Project Management
2 2 (25.00%) Windows
3 1 (12.50%) UML
3 1 (12.50%) RUP
3 1 (12.50%) DSDM
3 1 (12.50%) MS Excel
3 1 (12.50%) E-Commerce
3 1 (12.50%) Data Modelling
3 1 (12.50%) Microsoft
3 1 (12.50%) PRINCE2
3 1 (12.50%) Telecoms
3 1 (12.50%) Validation
3 1 (12.50%) Migration
3 1 (12.50%) Scrum
3 1 (12.50%) QA
3 1 (12.50%) Use Case
3 1 (12.50%) Test Scripting
3 1 (12.50%) Time Management
3 1 (12.50%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
3 1 (12.50%) Data Validation
3 1 (12.50%) Waterfall
3 1 (12.50%) Root Cause Analysis

User Acceptance Testing
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Bracknell 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.

Applications
1 1 (12.50%) MS Excel
Development Applications
1 3 (37.50%) Subversion
General
1 1 (12.50%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 3 (37.50%) Analyst
2 2 (25.00%) Technical Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) Coordinator
3 1 (12.50%) Business Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) Junior
3 1 (12.50%) Test Manager
3 1 (12.50%) Business Systems Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) Systems Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) Project Coordinator
Operating Systems
1 2 (25.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (37.50%) Service Management
1 3 (37.50%) Service Delivery
1 3 (37.50%) ITIL
2 2 (25.00%) Project Management
3 1 (12.50%) PRINCE2
3 1 (12.50%) UML
3 1 (12.50%) RUP
3 1 (12.50%) DSDM
3 1 (12.50%) E-Commerce
3 1 (12.50%) Data Modelling
3 1 (12.50%) Validation
3 1 (12.50%) Migration
3 1 (12.50%) Scrum
3 1 (12.50%) Use Case
3 1 (12.50%) Test Scripting
3 1 (12.50%) Time Management
3 1 (12.50%) Data Validation
3 1 (12.50%) Waterfall
3 1 (12.50%) Root Cause Analysis
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) QA
Vendors
1 3 (37.50%) Remedy
2 1 (12.50%) Microsoft