The first table below looks at the demand for User Acceptance 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 User Acceptance Testing over the 3 months to 22 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
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
User Acceptance Testing (UAT)
Rank 35 47 -
Rank change year-on-year
+12 -
Contract jobs citing User Acceptance Testing 2 2 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cambridge 0.595% 0.467% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.075% 0.885% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 0
Average daily rate £388 £388 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+0.06% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £330 £350 £350
% change year-on-year
-5.71% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.00 £26.14 £23.00
% change year-on-year
+14.76% +13.65%
All Processes & Methodologies
Cambridge
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
186 226 144
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cambridge 55.36% 52.80% 57.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 101 111 90
Average daily rate £350 £350 £350
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £275 £265
10% offered a daily rate of more than £434 £550 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £365 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
- -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 21 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 £35.00 £13.50
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%
User Acceptance Testing
Cambridgeshire

User Acceptance Testing
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Cambridge User Acceptance Testing Jobs Demand Trend

User Acceptance Testing
Daily Rate Trend

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

Cambridge User Acceptance Testing Daily Rate Trend

User Acceptance Testing
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Cambridge User Acceptance Testing Hourly Rate Trend

User Acceptance Testing
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cambridge region citing User Acceptance 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 User Acceptance Testing.

1 4 (44.44%) Test Scripting
2 3 (33.33%) Oracle
2 3 (33.33%) Finance
2 3 (33.33%) Software Testing
3 2 (22.22%) ISTQB
3 2 (22.22%) Scrum
3 2 (22.22%) Service Delivery
3 2 (22.22%) Oracle Reports
3 2 (22.22%) MS Visio
3 2 (22.22%) BPMN
3 2 (22.22%) Oracle EBS R12
3 2 (22.22%) HP Quality Center
3 2 (22.22%) Workflow
3 2 (22.22%) Test Management
4 1 (11.11%) Test Automation
4 1 (11.11%) HTTP
4 1 (11.11%) ASP.NET
4 1 (11.11%) C#
4 1 (11.11%) DHTML
4 1 (11.11%) .NET
4 1 (11.11%) Oracle Financials
4 1 (11.11%) Disaster Recovery
4 1 (11.11%) Publishing
4 1 (11.11%) E-Learning
4 1 (11.11%) Banking
4 1 (11.11%) Asset Management
4 1 (11.11%) Investment Banking
4 1 (11.11%) QA
4 1 (11.11%) WCF
4 1 (11.11%) LINQ

User Acceptance Testing
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cambridge region citing User Acceptance 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 User Acceptance Testing. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (11.11%) ASP.NET
1 1 (11.11%) DHTML
1 1 (11.11%) .NET
1 1 (11.11%) WCF
1 1 (11.11%) LINQ
1 1 (11.11%) NHibernate
Applications
1 2 (22.22%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (22.22%) Oracle EBS R12
2 1 (11.11%) Oracle Financials
Communications & Networking
1 1 (11.11%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (22.22%) Oracle Reports
General
1 3 (33.33%) Finance
2 1 (11.11%) Publishing
2 1 (11.11%) Banking
2 1 (11.11%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 3 (33.33%) Test Manager
2 2 (22.22%) UAT Test Manager
2 2 (22.22%) Test Leader
2 2 (22.22%) UAT Manager
3 1 (11.11%) Testing Manager
3 1 (11.11%) Software Testing Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Project Manager
3 1 (11.11%) Software Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Analyst
3 1 (11.11%) QA Manager
3 1 (11.11%) Release Manager
3 1 (11.11%) Change Manager
3 1 (11.11%) C# Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Bid Manager
3 1 (11.11%) QA Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Software Manager
Miscellaneous
1 1 (11.11%) E-Learning
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (44.44%) Test Scripting
2 3 (33.33%) Software Testing
3 2 (22.22%) Scrum
3 2 (22.22%) Service Delivery
3 2 (22.22%) BPMN
3 2 (22.22%) Workflow
3 2 (22.22%) Test Management
4 1 (11.11%) Test Automation
4 1 (11.11%) Disaster Recovery
4 1 (11.11%) Asset Management
4 1 (11.11%) Integration Testing
Programming Languages
1 1 (11.11%) C#
Qualifications
1 2 (22.22%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (11.11%) QA
Systems Management
1 2 (22.22%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 3 (33.33%) Oracle
Cambridge, East Anglia
test, lead, manager, UAT, R12, oracle, My clinet has an urgent requirement for a Test lead, They have identified the below: Produce a full range of test scenario...
iKonnect
Rate: £350 - £400 per annum
Posted: 18 May 2013
Cambridge, Cambridgeshire
test, lead, manager, UAT, R12, oracle, My clinet has an urgent requirement for a Test lead, They have identified the below: Produce a full range of test scenario...
iKas International
Rate: £350 - £400 per annum
Posted: 17 May 2013
Cambridge, East Anglia
We are looking for a Test Lead - Oracle R12Oracle R12 Upgrade Project has identified a need to resource the position of "Test Lead" to address some specific areas...
Hudson
Rate: £400 - £401 per day
Posted: 18 May 2013