Buckinghamshire Manual Testing Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Manual 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 Manual Testing over the 3 months to 29 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Basingstoke Berkshire Birmingham Bournemouth Bracknell Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cheltenham Cheshire City of London Coventry Docklands, London Dorset East Midlands East of England East Sussex England Feltham Glasgow Gloucestershire Hampshire Harrow Hertfordshire Lancashire Leeds Leicester Leicestershire London Macclesfield Manchester Middlesex Milton Keynes Newcastle Upon Tyne Norfolk North East North West Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Peterborough Reading Scotland Shropshire Solihull South East South West Staffordshire Telford Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Warwickshire West Midlands West Yorkshire Yorkshire	3 months to 29 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	80	89
Rank change on same period last year	+9
Matching contract IT job ads	2	3
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.003 %	0.003 %
As % of the category below	0.267 %	0.356 %
Daily rates quoted	0	3
Average minimum daily rate	-	£275
Average daily rate	-	£288
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	£300
UK excluding London average daily rate	£285	£285
% change on same period last year	+0.03 %
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	£24.13	£30.23
% change on same period last year	-20.15 %
Processes & Methodologies Buckinghamshire
Matching contract IT job ads	749	843
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.998 %	0.841 %
Daily rates quoted	270	229
Average minimum daily rate	£336	£326
Average daily rate	£358	£344
% change on same period last year	+3.83 %
Average maximum daily rate	£379	£363
UK excluding London average daily rate	£379	£376
% change on same period last year	+0.60 %
Hourly rates quoted	99	74
Average minimum hourly rate	£24.75	£31.60
Average hourly rate	£25.83	£32.60
% change on same period last year	-20.76 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£26.90	£33.59
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£30.35	£30.32
% change on same period last year	+0.10 %
Manual 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.

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Demand Trend

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

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Daily Rate Trend

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

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Hourly Rate Trend

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

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Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Manual Testing within the Buckinghamshire region over the 3 months to 29 August 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	-	2	-	-

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Top 15 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 29 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Buckinghamshire region citing Manual 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 Manual Testing.

1 4 (50.00 %) Automated Testing 2 3 (37.50 %) J2EE 2 3 (37.50 %) Oracle 2 3 (37.50 %) TestDirector 2 3 (37.50 %) User Acceptance Testing 2 3 (37.50 %) Test Scripting 3 2 (25.00 %) GIS 3 2 (25.00 %) Software Testing 4 1 (12.50 %) Windows Mobile 4 1 (12.50 %) Use Case 4 1 (12.50 %) Data Management 4 1 (12.50 %) Windows 4 1 (12.50 %) Oracle 9i 4 1 (12.50 %) System Testing 4 1 (12.50 %) SQL

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 29 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Buckinghamshire region citing Manual 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 Manual Testing. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 3 (37.50 %) J2EE	Database & Business Intelligence 1 2 (25.00 %) GIS 2 1 (12.50 %) Oracle 9i
Development Applications 1 3 (37.50 %) TestDirector	Job Titles 1 3 (37.50 %) Test Analyst 1 3 (37.50 %) Analyst 2 2 (25.00 %) Tester 3 1 (12.50 %) Test Manager 3 1 (12.50 %) Manual Tester 3 1 (12.50 %) Software Tester 3 1 (12.50 %) Systems Tester 3 1 (12.50 %) Team Leader 3 1 (12.50 %) UAT Test Manager
Operating Systems 1 1 (12.50 %) Windows 1 1 (12.50 %) Windows Mobile	Processes & Methodologies 1 4 (50.00 %) Automated Testing 2 3 (37.50 %) User Acceptance Testing 2 3 (37.50 %) Test Scripting 3 2 (25.00 %) Software Testing 4 1 (12.50 %) Use Case 4 1 (12.50 %) System Testing 4 1 (12.50 %) Data Management
Programming Languages 1 1 (12.50 %) SQL	Vendors 1 3 (37.50 %) Oracle