 Test Scripting (Test Scripts) |
| 3 months to
10 Oct 2008 | Same period last year |
| Rank | 32 | 37 |
| Rank change on same period last year |  +5 |
| Matching contract IT job ads | 8 | 21 |
| As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled | 0.011 % | 0.021 % |
| As % of the category below | 4.211 % | 6.087 % |
| Daily rates quoted | 5 | 2 |
| Average minimum daily rate | £234 | £285 |
| Average daily rate | £255 | £285 |
| % change on same period last year | -10.52 % |
| Average maximum daily rate | £276 | £285 |
| UK excluding London average daily rate | £325 | £315 |
| % change on same period last year | +3.03 % |
| Hourly rates quoted | 2 | 4 |
| Average minimum hourly rate | £14.50 | £21.50 |
| Average hourly rate | £16.00 | £21.50 |
| % change on same period last year | -25.58 % |
| Average maximum hourly rate | £17.50 | £21.50 |
| UK excluding London average hourly rate | £32.00 | £27.39 |
| % change on same period last year | +16.81 % |
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| Matching contract IT job ads | 190 | 345 |
| As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled | 0.268 % | 0.349 % |
| Daily rates quoted | 47 | 73 |
| Average minimum daily rate | £288 | £348 |
| Average daily rate | £317 | £364 |
| % change on same period last year | -12.93 % |
| Average maximum daily rate | £346 | £380 |
| UK excluding London average daily rate | £377 | £370 |
| % change on same period last year | +1.87 % |
| Hourly rates quoted | 43 | 53 |
| Average minimum hourly rate | £22.36 | £35.57 |
| Average hourly rate | £24.35 | £38.37 |
| % change on same period last year | -36.53 % |
| Average maximum hourly rate | £26.34 | £41.18 |
| UK excluding London average hourly rate | £29.44 | £30.00 |
| % change on same period last year | -1.89 % |
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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.
The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Test Scripting across the Cambridge region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.
