Buckinghamshire Automated Testing Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Automated Testing skills within the Buckinghamshire region with a comparison to our Processes & Methodologies category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Automated Testing over the 3 months to 21 November 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Automated Testing
Location Basingstoke Berkshire Birmingham Bracknell Bradford Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cheshire Chester City of London Docklands, London Dorset East Midlands East of England Edinburgh England Glasgow Hampshire Hertfordshire Lancashire Leeds London Manchester Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newport North West Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Scotland Sheffield South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Sunbury-on-Thames Surrey Sussex Swansea UK Wales Watford West Midlands West Wales West Yorkshire Wigan Worcester Worcestershire Yorkshire	3 months to 21 Nov 2008	Same period last year
Rank	78	78
Rank change on same period last year	0
Matching contract IT job ads	1	9
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.002 %	0.010 %
As % of the category below	0.128 %	1.240 %
Daily rates quoted	1	5
Average minimum daily rate	£300	£305
Average daily rate	£325	£326
% change on same period last year	-0.15 %
Average maximum daily rate	£350	£346
UK excluding London average daily rate	£295	£312
% change on same period last year	-5.35 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum hourly rate	-	-
Average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£28.75	£35.03
% change on same period last year	-17.91 %
Processes & Methodologies Buckinghamshire
Matching contract IT job ads	781	726
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	1.230 %	0.778 %
Daily rates quoted	307	208
Average minimum daily rate	£312	£331
Average daily rate	£328	£351
% change on same period last year	-6.61 %
Average maximum daily rate	£345	£372
UK excluding London average daily rate	£380	£370
% change on same period last year	+2.76 %
Hourly rates quoted	80	105
Average minimum hourly rate	£20.87	£24.48
Average hourly rate	£21.57	£25.31
% change on same period last year	-14.77 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£22.28	£26.15
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£28.17	£29.91
% change on same period last year	-5.80 %
Automated Testing South East

We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

Automated Testing
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Automated Testing across the Buckinghamshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

Automated Testing
Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Automated Testing across the Buckinghamshire region.

Automated Testing
Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Automated Testing across the Buckinghamshire region.

Automated Testing
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Automated Testing within the Buckinghamshire region over the 3 months to 21 November 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
Milton Keynes	-3	1	£325	-

Automated Testing South East

Automated Testing
Top 16 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 November 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Buckinghamshire region citing Automated 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 Automated Testing.

1 2 (66.67 %) QuickTest Pro 1 2 (66.67 %) .NET 1 2 (66.67 %) SQL Server 1 2 (66.67 %) Test Scripting 2 1 (33.33 %) VME 2 1 (33.33 %) COBOL 2 1 (33.33 %) SQL 2 1 (33.33 %) VB 2 1 (33.33 %) Windows 2 1 (33.33 %) IBM 2 1 (33.33 %) Microsoft 2 1 (33.33 %) HP 2 1 (33.33 %) JCL 2 1 (33.33 %) Regression Testing 2 1 (33.33 %) Construction

2 1 (33.33 %) TestPartner

Automated Testing
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 November 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Buckinghamshire region citing Automated 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 Automated Testing. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 2 (66.67 %) .NET	Database & Business Intelligence 1 2 (66.67 %) SQL Server
Development Applications 1 2 (66.67 %) QuickTest Pro 2 1 (33.33 %) TestPartner	General 1 1 (33.33 %) Construction
Job Titles 1 1 (33.33 %) Tester 1 1 (33.33 %) Analyst 1 1 (33.33 %) Test Analyst	Operating Systems 1 1 (33.33 %) Windows 1 1 (33.33 %) VME
Processes & Methodologies 1 2 (66.67 %) Test Scripting 2 1 (33.33 %) Regression Testing	Programming Languages 1 1 (33.33 %) COBOL 1 1 (33.33 %) SQL 1 1 (33.33 %) VB 1 1 (33.33 %) JCL
Vendors 1 1 (33.33 %) IBM 1 1 (33.33 %) Microsoft 1 1 (33.33 %) HP