The first table below looks at the demand for Load Testing skills in IT contracts advertised for the Brighton region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Load Testing over the 3 months to 21 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 Brighton 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
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Load Testing
Rank - - -
Contract jobs citing Load Testing 0 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Brighton - - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category - - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £450 £400 £288
% change year-on-year
+12.50% +39.13%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £32.50 £29.50 -
% change year-on-year
+10.16% -
All Processes & Methodologies
Brighton
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
104 180 89
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Brighton 73.24% 70.59% 68.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 56 89 49
Average daily rate £350 £400 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-12.50% +6.66%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £225 £275
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £525 £425
UK excluding London average daily rate £363 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
-0.68% -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 4 3
Average hourly rate £32.50 £22.00 £45.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+47.72% -51.11%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.50 £25.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year
+26.00% -16.66%
Load Testing
East Sussex

Load Testing
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Brighton Load Testing Jobs Demand Trend

Load Testing
Daily Rate Trend

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

Brighton Load Testing Daily Rate Trend

Load Testing
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Brighton region citing Load 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 Load Testing.

1 3 (75.00%) LoadRunner
1 3 (75.00%) Performance Testing
1 3 (75.00%) Stress Testing
2 2 (50.00%) SilkPerformer
2 2 (50.00%) Rational Performance Tester
2 2 (50.00%) HP
2 2 (50.00%) ISEB
3 1 (25.00%) Empirix
3 1 (25.00%) Apache CXF
3 1 (25.00%) Test Automation
3 1 (25.00%) WebDriver
3 1 (25.00%) JProfiler
3 1 (25.00%) Cucumber
3 1 (25.00%) BDD
3 1 (25.00%) REST
3 1 (25.00%) Gradle
3 1 (25.00%) Jenkins
3 1 (25.00%) Finance
3 1 (25.00%) Games
3 1 (25.00%) Hibernate
3 1 (25.00%) Java
3 1 (25.00%) JavaScript
3 1 (25.00%) J2EE
3 1 (25.00%) Oracle
3 1 (25.00%) JUnit
3 1 (25.00%) SOAP
3 1 (25.00%) Web Services
3 1 (25.00%) Apache
3 1 (25.00%) IBM
3 1 (25.00%) TDD

Load Testing
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Brighton region citing Load 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 Load Testing. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (25.00%) Apache CXF
1 1 (25.00%) REST
1 1 (25.00%) Hibernate
1 1 (25.00%) J2EE
1 1 (25.00%) SOAP
1 1 (25.00%) Web Services
1 1 (25.00%) Spring
1 1 (25.00%) Ajax
1 1 (25.00%) Grails
1 1 (25.00%) jQuery
Application Platforms
1 1 (25.00%) Apache
Development Applications
1 3 (75.00%) LoadRunner
2 2 (50.00%) SilkPerformer
2 2 (50.00%) Rational Performance Tester
3 1 (25.00%) WebDriver
3 1 (25.00%) JProfiler
3 1 (25.00%) Cucumber
3 1 (25.00%) Gradle
3 1 (25.00%) Jenkins
3 1 (25.00%) JUnit
3 1 (25.00%) Maven
3 1 (25.00%) Checkstyle
3 1 (25.00%) FitNesse
General
1 1 (25.00%) Finance
1 1 (25.00%) Games
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Performance Tester
1 2 (50.00%) Tester
2 1 (25.00%) Testing Consultant
2 1 (25.00%) Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Test Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Consultant
2 1 (25.00%) Java Developer
2 1 (25.00%) J2EE Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Performance Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Performance Test Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Java/J2EE Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Performance Test Consultant
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Performance Testing
1 3 (75.00%) Stress Testing
2 1 (25.00%) Test Automation
2 1 (25.00%) BDD
2 1 (25.00%) TDD
2 1 (25.00%) Penetration Testing
2 1 (25.00%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) Java
1 1 (25.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (25.00%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) ISEB
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) HP
2 1 (25.00%) Empirix
2 1 (25.00%) Oracle
2 1 (25.00%) IBM