The first table below looks at the demand for Test Scripting 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 Test Scripting over the 3 months to 18 June 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
18 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Test Scripting (Test Scripts)
Rank 34 46 31
Rank change year-on-year
+12 -15
Contract jobs citing Test Scripting 4 2 5
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cambridge 1.270% 0.456% 1.799%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.198% 0.930% 2.976%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 1 5
Average daily rate £375 £300 £335
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+25.00% -10.44%
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 £27.63 £28.25 £17.50
% change year-on-year
-2.21% +61.42%
All Processes & Methodologies
Cambridge
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
182 215 168
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cambridge 57.78% 48.97% 60.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 103 109 103
Average daily rate £350 £385 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-9.09% +2.66%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £235 £275 £275
10% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £463 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £370 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
+1.36% -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 32 16
Average hourly rate £40.00 £41.75 £35.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-4.19% +19.28%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £30.00 £17.50 £24.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £42.50 £56.50 £44.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.00 £25.00 £29.00
% change year-on-year
+24.00% -13.79%
Test Scripting
Cambridgeshire

Test Scripting
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Cambridge Test Scripting Jobs Demand Trend

Test Scripting
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Test Scripting across the Cambridge region.

Cambridge Test Scripting Daily Rate Trend

Test Scripting
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Test Scripting across the Cambridge region.

Cambridge Test Scripting Hourly Rate Trend

Test Scripting
Top 29 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cambridge region citing Test Scripting 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 Test Scripting.

1 5 (50.00%) Software Testing
1 5 (50.00%) ISTQB
1 5 (50.00%) HP Quality Center
2 4 (40.00%) User Acceptance Testing
2 4 (40.00%) ISEB
3 3 (30.00%) Java
3 3 (30.00%) Selenium
3 3 (30.00%) Scrum
3 3 (30.00%) HP
4 2 (20.00%) Oracle EBS R12
4 2 (20.00%) JIRA
4 2 (20.00%) WebDriver
4 2 (20.00%) SQL
4 2 (20.00%) Oracle
4 2 (20.00%) SAP
4 2 (20.00%) Oracle Reports
4 2 (20.00%) SAP HR
4 2 (20.00%) Regression Testing
4 2 (20.00%) Finance
5 1 (10.00%) QuickTest Pro
5 1 (10.00%) Oracle Financials
5 1 (10.00%) HTTP
5 1 (10.00%) HTTPS
5 1 (10.00%) XML
5 1 (10.00%) UNIX
5 1 (10.00%) Twitter
5 1 (10.00%) Non-Functional Testing
5 1 (10.00%) Test Management
5 1 (10.00%) QA

Test Scripting
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cambridge region citing Test Scripting 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 Test Scripting. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (10.00%) XML
Business Applications
1 2 (20.00%) SAP HR
1 2 (20.00%) Oracle EBS R12
2 1 (10.00%) Oracle Financials
Communications & Networking
1 1 (10.00%) HTTP
1 1 (10.00%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (20.00%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 3 (30.00%) Selenium
2 2 (20.00%) WebDriver
2 2 (20.00%) JIRA
3 1 (10.00%) QuickTest Pro
General
1 2 (20.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 5 (50.00%) Test Analyst
1 5 (50.00%) Analyst
2 2 (20.00%) Test Manager
2 2 (20.00%) Senior Analyst
2 2 (20.00%) Senior Test Analyst
2 2 (20.00%) SAP Test Analyst
2 2 (20.00%) Senior SAP Test Analyst
2 2 (20.00%) UAT Test Manager
2 2 (20.00%) SAP Analyst
2 2 (20.00%) Test Leader
2 2 (20.00%) UAT Manager
3 1 (10.00%) Senior Tester
3 1 (10.00%) Tester
Operating Systems
1 1 (10.00%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (50.00%) Software Testing
2 4 (40.00%) User Acceptance Testing
3 3 (30.00%) Scrum
4 2 (20.00%) Regression Testing
5 1 (10.00%) Test Management
5 1 (10.00%) Non-Functional Testing
Programming Languages
1 3 (30.00%) Java
2 2 (20.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (50.00%) ISTQB
2 4 (40.00%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (10.00%) QA
Systems Management
1 5 (50.00%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 3 (30.00%) HP
2 2 (20.00%) Oracle
2 2 (20.00%) SAP
3 1 (10.00%) Twitter