Test Scripting Contracts in Bradford
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Hourly Rate Trend Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for Test Scripting skills in IT contracts advertised for the Bradford region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Test Scripting 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 Bradford 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
Test Scripting (Test Scripts)
Rank 20 17 17
Rank change year-on-year
-3 0
Contract jobs citing Test Scripting 5 11 8
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Bradford 3.165% 6.918% 6.504%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.505% 10.38% 8.791%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 4 1
Average daily rate - £275 £330
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -16.66%
UK excluding London average daily rate £330 £300 £315
% change year-on-year
+10.00% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £26.00 £27.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-5.45% +37.50%
All Processes & Methodologies
Bradford
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category		 111 106 91
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Bradford 70.25% 66.67% 73.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 52 29 19
Average daily rate £320 £214 £245
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+49.70% -12.75%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £212 £150 £188
10% offered a daily rate of more than £465 £397 £339
UK excluding London average daily rate £363 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
-0.68% -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 2 0
Average hourly rate £12.42 £32.50 -
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-61.78% -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.60 £25.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year
+26.40% -16.66%
Test Scripting
West Yorkshire

Test Scripting
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Bradford 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 Bradford region.

Bradford Test Scripting Daily Rate Trend

Test Scripting
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Bradford Test Scripting Hourly Rate Trend

Test Scripting
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Bradford 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 6 (42.86%) TDD
1 6 (42.86%) Feature Driven Development
2 4 (28.57%) STB
3 3 (21.43%) CMS
3 3 (21.43%) Unit Testing
3 3 (21.43%) .NET
3 3 (21.43%) C#
3 3 (21.43%) HTML
3 3 (21.43%) JavaScript
3 3 (21.43%) SQL Server
3 3 (21.43%) ASP.NET
3 3 (21.43%) CSS
3 3 (21.43%) SharePoint
3 3 (21.43%) EPiServer CMS
3 3 (21.43%) EPiServer
4 2 (14.29%) SQL Server 2005
4 2 (14.29%) SQL Server 2008
4 2 (14.29%) Web Application Development
4 2 (14.29%) HTML5
4 2 (14.29%) Java
4 2 (14.29%) Oracle
4 2 (14.29%) Broadband
5 1 (7.143%) Finance
5 1 (7.143%) Test Management
5 1 (7.143%) Performance Testing
5 1 (7.143%) ISEB
5 1 (7.143%) Informatica
5 1 (7.143%) LoadRunner
5 1 (7.143%) PL/SQL
5 1 (7.143%) SQL

Test Scripting
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Bradford 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 3 (21.43%) HTML
1 3 (21.43%) .NET
1 3 (21.43%) ASP.NET
1 3 (21.43%) CSS
2 2 (14.29%) HTML5
Application Platforms
1 3 (21.43%) SharePoint
1 3 (21.43%) CMS
1 3 (21.43%) EPiServer CMS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (14.29%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (21.43%) SQL Server
2 2 (14.29%) SQL Server 2005
2 2 (14.29%) SQL Server 2008
3 1 (7.143%) Oracle BI EE
3 1 (7.143%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 1 (7.143%) LoadRunner
General
1 1 (7.143%) Finance
Job Titles
1 6 (42.86%) Architect
1 6 (42.86%) Test Architect
2 3 (21.43%) C# .NET Developer
2 3 (21.43%) C# ASP.NET Developer
2 3 (21.43%) .NET Developer
2 3 (21.43%) C# Developer
2 3 (21.43%) ASP.NET Developer
2 3 (21.43%) Developer
3 2 (14.29%) Analyst
3 2 (14.29%) Test Analyst
4 1 (7.143%) Web Developer
4 1 (7.143%) Performance Tester
4 1 (7.143%) Test Team Leader
4 1 (7.143%) Test Manager
4 1 (7.143%) Tester
4 1 (7.143%) Team Leader
4 1 (7.143%) .NET Web Developer
4 1 (7.143%) C# Web Developer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (28.57%) STB
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (42.86%) TDD
1 6 (42.86%) Feature Driven Development
2 3 (21.43%) Unit Testing
3 2 (14.29%) Web Application Development
4 1 (7.143%) ETL
4 1 (7.143%) Test Management
4 1 (7.143%) Performance Testing
Programming Languages
1 3 (21.43%) C#
1 3 (21.43%) JavaScript
2 2 (14.29%) Java
3 1 (7.143%) PL/SQL
3 1 (7.143%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (7.143%) ISEB
Vendors
1 3 (21.43%) EPiServer
2 2 (14.29%) Oracle
3 1 (7.143%) Informatica
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