The first table below looks at the demand for User Acceptance 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 User Acceptance Testing over the 3 months to 20 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
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
User Acceptance Testing (UAT)
Rank 20 28 24
Rank change year-on-year
+8 -4
Contract jobs citing User Acceptance Testing 7 7 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Brighton 4.930% 2.734% 0.769%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.731% 3.889% 1.099%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 5 0
Average daily rate £300 £400 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-25.00% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £326 £350 £350
% change year-on-year
-6.78% -
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
Brighton
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
104 180 91
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Brighton 73.24% 70.31% 70.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 56 89 50
Average daily rate £350 £400 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-12.50% +14.28%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £225 £275
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £525 £415
UK excluding London average daily rate £363 £363 £375
% change year-on-year
- -3.33%
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 £32.00 £25.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year
+28.00% -16.66%
User Acceptance Testing
East Sussex

User Acceptance Testing
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Brighton 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 Brighton region.

Brighton 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 Brighton region over the 3 months to 20 May 2013.

Brighton 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 Brighton region.

Brighton User Acceptance Testing Hourly Rate Trend

User Acceptance Testing
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Brighton 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 5 (62.50%) QA
1 5 (62.50%) Selenium
1 5 (62.50%) Performance Testing
1 5 (62.50%) Gherkin
1 5 (62.50%) Scrum
1 5 (62.50%) Agile Software Development
1 5 (62.50%) TDD
1 5 (62.50%) .NET
2 2 (25.00%) JavaScript
2 2 (25.00%) HP
2 2 (25.00%) ASP.NET
2 2 (25.00%) CSS
2 2 (25.00%) Regression Testing
2 2 (25.00%) Back Office
2 2 (25.00%) MVC
2 2 (25.00%) Finance
2 2 (25.00%) Agile Testing
2 2 (25.00%) ASP.NET MVC 4
2 2 (25.00%) Automated Testing
2 2 (25.00%) HP Quality Center
2 2 (25.00%) ASP.NET MVC
2 2 (25.00%) SpecFlow
2 2 (25.00%) jQuery
3 1 (12.50%) ISTQB
3 1 (12.50%) Credit Risk
3 1 (12.50%) Test Management
3 1 (12.50%) System Testing
3 1 (12.50%) SC Cleared
3 1 (12.50%) Security Cleared
3 1 (12.50%) Stakeholder Management

User Acceptance Testing
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Brighton 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.

Application Development
1 5 (62.50%) .NET
1 5 (62.50%) Gherkin
2 2 (25.00%) ASP.NET MVC 4
2 2 (25.00%) ASP.NET
2 2 (25.00%) CSS
2 2 (25.00%) jQuery
2 2 (25.00%) ASP.NET MVC
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (12.50%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 5 (62.50%) Selenium
2 2 (25.00%) SpecFlow
General
1 2 (25.00%) Back Office
1 2 (25.00%) Finance
2 1 (12.50%) Banking
Job Titles
1 7 (87.50%) Analyst
1 7 (87.50%) Test Analyst
2 5 (62.50%) Tester
2 5 (62.50%) Automated Tester
3 2 (25.00%) QA Analyst
4 1 (12.50%) Lead Test Analyst
4 1 (12.50%) Test Manager
Miscellaneous
1 1 (12.50%) Credit Risk
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (62.50%) Scrum
1 5 (62.50%) Agile Software Development
1 5 (62.50%) TDD
1 5 (62.50%) Performance Testing
2 2 (25.00%) Regression Testing
2 2 (25.00%) MVC
2 2 (25.00%) Automated Testing
2 2 (25.00%) Agile Testing
3 1 (12.50%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (12.50%) Test Management
3 1 (12.50%) System Testing
Programming Languages
1 2 (25.00%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) ISEB
1 1 (12.50%) ISTQB
1 1 (12.50%) SC Cleared
1 1 (12.50%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (62.50%) QA
Systems Management
1 2 (25.00%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 2 (25.00%) HP