QuickTest Pro Contracts in Buckinghamshire
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for QuickTest Pro 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 QuickTest Pro over the 3 months to 23 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 Development Applications 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
23 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
HP QuickTest Professional (QTP)
Rank 45 52 71
Rank change year-on-year
+7 +19
Contract jobs citing QuickTest Pro 22 21 5
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Buckinghamshire 2.713% 2.128% 0.460%
As % of the Development Applications category 37.29% 31.34% 6.944%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 14 2
Average daily rate £288 £294 £275
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-2.29% +7.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £207 £234 £215
10% offered a daily rate of more than £393 £339 £335
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £300 £325
% change year-on-year
+8.33% -7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £18.50 £30.00
% change year-on-year
- -38.33%
All Development Applications
Buckinghamshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Development Applications category		 59 67 72
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Buckinghamshire 7.275% 6.788% 6.624%
Number of daily rates quoted 40 42 32
Average daily rate £350 £300 £290
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+16.66% +3.44%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £265 £200 £175
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £375 £345
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £330 £325
% change year-on-year
-1.51% +1.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
Average hourly rate - - £36.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+7.14% -
QuickTest Pro
South East

QuickTest Pro
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing QuickTest Pro across the Buckinghamshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Development Applications category.

Buckinghamshire QuickTest Pro Jobs Demand Trend

QuickTest Pro
Daily Rate Trend

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

Buckinghamshire QuickTest Pro Daily Rate Trend

QuickTest Pro
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing QuickTest Pro across the Buckinghamshire region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

Buckinghamshire QuickTest Pro Daily Rate Histogram

QuickTest Pro
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing QuickTest Pro within the Buckinghamshire region over the 3 months to 23 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 +5 16 £256 -14.58%
QuickTest Pro
South East

QuickTest Pro
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Buckinghamshire region citing QuickTest Pro 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 QuickTest Pro.

1 21 (72.41%) Finance
2 15 (51.72%) Banking
3 14 (48.28%) Automation Testing
4 12 (41.38%) HP Quality Center
5 10 (34.48%) Retail
5 10 (34.48%) Retail Banking
6 9 (31.03%) Agile Software Development
6 9 (31.03%) Selenium
7 8 (27.59%) SQL
8 7 (24.14%) SOAP
8 7 (24.14%) HP
9 6 (20.69%) Automated Testing
9 6 (20.69%) soapUI
10 5 (17.24%) WCF
11 4 (13.79%) ATM
12 3 (10.34%) Spanish Language
12 3 (10.34%) WebDriver
13 2 (6.897%) QA
13 2 (6.897%) Team Foundation Server
13 2 (6.897%) Test Automation
13 2 (6.897%) Software Testing
13 2 (6.897%) Scrum
13 2 (6.897%) Windows
13 2 (6.897%) Java
13 2 (6.897%) .NET
13 2 (6.897%) Remedy
14 1 (3.448%) MySQL
14 1 (3.448%) Visual Studio
14 1 (3.448%) ASP.NET
14 1 (3.448%) Perl

QuickTest Pro
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Buckinghamshire region citing QuickTest Pro 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 QuickTest Pro. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 7 (24.14%) SOAP
2 6 (20.69%) soapUI
3 5 (17.24%) WCF
4 2 (6.897%) .NET
5 1 (3.448%) ASP.NET
5 1 (3.448%) Web Services
5 1 (3.448%) WebSphere
Communications & Networking
1 4 (13.79%) ATM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.448%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 9 (31.03%) Selenium
2 3 (10.34%) WebDriver
3 2 (6.897%) Team Foundation Server
4 1 (3.448%) Visual Studio
4 1 (3.448%) LoadRunner
4 1 (3.448%) NUnit
4 1 (3.448%) Subversion
4 1 (3.448%) WATIR
4 1 (3.448%) MSTest
4 1 (3.448%) WatiN
General
1 21 (72.41%) Finance
2 15 (51.72%) Banking
3 10 (34.48%) Retail
3 10 (34.48%) Retail Banking
4 3 (10.34%) Spanish Language
5 1 (3.448%) Automotive
5 1 (3.448%) Welsh Language
Job Titles
1 13 (44.83%) Analyst
1 13 (44.83%) Test Analyst
2 10 (34.48%) Tester
3 4 (13.79%) Automated Tester
4 3 (10.34%) Test Manager
4 3 (10.34%) Automation Test Analyst
4 3 (10.34%) Automation Analyst
5 2 (6.897%) Senior Analyst
5 2 (6.897%) Junior Tester
5 2 (6.897%) Test Engineer
5 2 (6.897%) Senior Test Analyst
5 2 (6.897%) Junior
6 1 (3.448%) Senior Tester
6 1 (3.448%) Technical Tester
6 1 (3.448%) QA Engineer
6 1 (3.448%) Senior Test Manager
6 1 (3.448%) Senior Manager
6 1 (3.448%) QA Manager
6 1 (3.448%) Functional Tester
6 1 (3.448%) Senior QA Manager
Operating Systems
1 2 (6.897%) Windows
2 1 (3.448%) Linux
2 1 (3.448%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (48.28%) Automation Testing
2 9 (31.03%) Agile Software Development
3 6 (20.69%) Automated Testing
4 2 (6.897%) Test Automation
4 2 (6.897%) Software Testing
4 2 (6.897%) Scrum
5 1 (3.448%) TDD
5 1 (3.448%) Incident Management
5 1 (3.448%) Web Testing
5 1 (3.448%) Test Management
5 1 (3.448%) Manual Testing
5 1 (3.448%) V-Model
5 1 (3.448%) Resource Management
5 1 (3.448%) Waterfall
5 1 (3.448%) BDD
5 1 (3.448%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 8 (27.59%) SQL
2 2 (6.897%) Java
3 1 (3.448%) Perl
3 1 (3.448%) C#
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.897%) QA
2 1 (3.448%) ISO 8583
Systems Management
1 12 (41.38%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 7 (24.14%) HP
2 2 (6.897%) Remedy
Functional Tester/Tester - CRM Structural Systems
Milton Keynes
Tester - CRM Structural Systems, banking and savings, payment and credit cardsKey Skills: - Testing - Structural Systems - QC Mercury - Partenon - Remedy - BKSAbout the role of Functional Tester: - Preparation and execution...
Centum Recruitment Limited
Posted: 22 May 2013
About us| Contact us| Copyright| Disclaimer| Privacy Policy & Cookies
Last Updated Thursday 23 May 2013
IT Jobs Watch, Tracking the IT Job Market
Copyright © 2004-2013 Paradigm Software (UK) Limited. All rights reserved.