The first table below looks at the demand for Compatibility Testing skills in IT contracts advertised for the Cambridge region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Compatibility Testing over the 3 months to 21 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 Cambridge 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
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Compatibility Testing
Rank - - -
Contract jobs citing Compatibility Testing 0 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cambridge - - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category - - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £375 £265 £305
% change year-on-year
+41.50% -13.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £16.75 -
All Processes & Methodologies
Cambridge
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
187 220 137
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cambridge 55.65% 53.01% 56.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 102 108 84
Average daily rate £350 £350 £350
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £273 £265
10% offered a daily rate of more than £429 £550 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £363 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
-0.68% -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 20 17
Average hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £31.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-5.88% +34.92%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £34.75 £37.25 £13.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £42.50 £56.85 £44.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.50 £25.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year
+26.00% -16.66%
Compatibility Testing
Cambridgeshire

Compatibility Testing
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Cambridge Compatibility Testing Jobs Demand Trend

Compatibility Testing
Top 13 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cambridge region citing Compatibility 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 Compatibility Testing.

1 2 (100.00%) Java
1 2 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 2 (100.00%) PHP
1 2 (100.00%) Photoshop
1 2 (100.00%) CSS
1 2 (100.00%) XML
1 2 (100.00%) XSLT
1 2 (100.00%) Ruby
1 2 (100.00%) Ajax
1 2 (100.00%) jQuery
1 2 (100.00%) GIMP
1 2 (100.00%) HTML5
1 2 (100.00%) CSS3

Compatibility Testing
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cambridge region citing Compatibility 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 Compatibility Testing. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 2 (100.00%) CSS
1 2 (100.00%) XML
1 2 (100.00%) XSLT
1 2 (100.00%) Ajax
1 2 (100.00%) jQuery
1 2 (100.00%) HTML5
1 2 (100.00%) CSS3
Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Photoshop
1 2 (100.00%) GIMP
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Developer
1 2 (100.00%) Web Developer
1 2 (100.00%) Applications Developer
1 2 (100.00%) Web Applications Developer
1 2 (100.00%) UI Developer
1 2 (100.00%) UI Programmer
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Java
1 2 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 2 (100.00%) PHP
1 2 (100.00%) Ruby