Performance Testing Contracts in Buckinghamshire
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for Performance Testing skills in IT contracts advertised for the Buckinghamshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Performance 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 Buckinghamshire 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
Performance Testing
Rank 58 71 74
Rank change year-on-year
+13 +3
Contract jobs citing Performance Testing 10 4 4
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Buckinghamshire 1.252% 0.396% 0.380%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.792% 0.593% 0.619%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 2 3
Average daily rate £313 £275 £175
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+13.96% +57.14%
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £400 £375
% change year-on-year
-18.75% +6.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £32.00 £31.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+1.58% -10.00%
All Processes & Methodologies
Buckinghamshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category		 558 674 646
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Buckinghamshire 69.84% 66.80% 61.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 343 318 268
Average daily rate £325 £325 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -7.14%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £188 £200 £196
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £425 £508
UK excluding London average daily rate £363 £363 £375
% change year-on-year
- -3.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 32 49
Average hourly rate £18.00 £15.00 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+20.00% -25.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.50 £10.58 £12.60
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £35.00 £18.50 £45.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £32.00 £25.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year
+28.00% -16.66%
Performance Testing
South East

Performance Testing
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Buckinghamshire Performance Testing Jobs Demand Trend

Performance Testing
Daily Rate Trend

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

Buckinghamshire Performance Testing Daily Rate Trend

Performance Testing
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Performance Testing across the Buckinghamshire region over the 3 months to 20 May 2013.

Buckinghamshire Performance Testing Daily Rate Histogram

Performance Testing
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Buckinghamshire Performance Testing Hourly Rate Trend

Performance Testing
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Performance Testing within the Buckinghamshire region over the 3 months to 20 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)		 Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year		 Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads		 Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months		 Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Milton Keynes +16 6 £425 +112.50%
Beaconsfield - 2 £160 -
Performance Testing
South East

Performance Testing
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Buckinghamshire region citing Performance 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 Performance Testing.

1 10 (47.62%) Finance
1 10 (47.62%) User Acceptance Testing
2 8 (38.10%) ISEB
2 8 (38.10%) QA
2 8 (38.10%) Test Management
2 8 (38.10%) System Testing
2 8 (38.10%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 5 (23.81%) Change Management
4 4 (19.05%) LoadRunner
5 3 (14.29%) EMC
5 3 (14.29%) EMC Centera
5 3 (14.29%) Agile Software Development
5 3 (14.29%) Retail
5 3 (14.29%) Verint
5 3 (14.29%) WebSphere
6 2 (9.524%) SC Cleared
6 2 (9.524%) Security Cleared
6 2 (9.524%) Web Testing
6 2 (9.524%) Root Cause Analysis
6 2 (9.524%) Software Testing
6 2 (9.524%) Wealth Management
6 2 (9.524%) Regression Testing
6 2 (9.524%) Java
6 2 (9.524%) E-Commerce
6 2 (9.524%) SOA
6 2 (9.524%) HP
7 1 (4.762%) HTML
7 1 (4.762%) IBM
7 1 (4.762%) PHP
7 1 (4.762%) MySQL

Performance Testing
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 3 (14.29%) WebSphere
2 1 (4.762%) JSON
2 1 (4.762%) jQuery
2 1 (4.762%) RESTful
2 1 (4.762%) HTML5
2 1 (4.762%) HTML
2 1 (4.762%) CSS
2 1 (4.762%) Web Services
2 1 (4.762%) XML
2 1 (4.762%) LAMP
2 1 (4.762%) Ajax
Application Platforms
1 1 (4.762%) Drupal
1 1 (4.762%) Apache Solr
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.762%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 4 (19.05%) LoadRunner
2 1 (4.762%) Git (software)
General
1 10 (47.62%) Finance
2 3 (14.29%) Retail
Job Titles
1 9 (42.86%) Test Manager
2 5 (23.81%) Consultant
3 4 (19.05%) Test Analyst
3 4 (19.05%) Tester
3 4 (19.05%) Analyst
4 3 (14.29%) Storage Consultant
4 3 (14.29%) EMC Storage Consultant
5 2 (9.524%) Performance Test Analyst
5 2 (9.524%) Architect
5 2 (9.524%) Performance Analyst
5 2 (9.524%) Performance Tester
6 1 (4.762%) Test Specialist
6 1 (4.762%) Performance Manager
6 1 (4.762%) Performance Test Manager
6 1 (4.762%) Test Architect
6 1 (4.762%) Performance Test Specialist
Miscellaneous
1 3 (14.29%) EMC Centera
2 1 (4.762%) Open Source
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (47.62%) User Acceptance Testing
2 8 (38.10%) Test Management
2 8 (38.10%) System Testing
2 8 (38.10%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 5 (23.81%) Change Management
4 3 (14.29%) Agile Software Development
5 2 (9.524%) Software Testing
5 2 (9.524%) Regression Testing
5 2 (9.524%) E-Commerce
5 2 (9.524%) SOA
5 2 (9.524%) Root Cause Analysis
5 2 (9.524%) Wealth Management
5 2 (9.524%) Web Testing
6 1 (4.762%) Technical Architecture
6 1 (4.762%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 2 (9.524%) Java
2 1 (4.762%) PHP
Qualifications
1 8 (38.10%) ISEB
2 2 (9.524%) SC Cleared
2 2 (9.524%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (38.10%) QA
System Software
1 1 (4.762%) Varnish
Vendors
1 3 (14.29%) EMC
1 3 (14.29%) Verint
2 2 (9.524%) HP
3 1 (4.762%) IBM
3 1 (4.762%) Omniture
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