The first table below looks at the demand for Load Testing skills in IT contracts advertised for the Cambridgeshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Load Testing over the 3 months to 24 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 Cambridgeshire 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Load Testing
Rank 47 60 50
Rank change year-on-year
+13 -10
Contract jobs citing Load Testing 3 2 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cambridgeshire 0.548% 0.292% 0.189%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.984% 0.508% 0.299%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 1
Average daily rate £450 - £250
UK excluding London average daily rate £450 £388 £290
% change year-on-year
+16.12% +33.62%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £32.50 £32.25 -
% change year-on-year
+0.77% -
All Processes & Methodologies
Cambridgeshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
305 394 335
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cambridgeshire 55.76% 57.43% 63.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 167 196 170
Average daily rate £375 £395 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-5.06% +5.33%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £275 £251
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £550 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £365 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
- -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 33 43
Average hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £27.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-5.88% +54.54%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £26.50 £12.00 £12.45
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £42.50 £56.50 £37.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.00 £25.00 £29.50
% change year-on-year
+20.00% -15.25%
Load Testing
East of England

Load Testing
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Cambridgeshire Load Testing Jobs Demand Trend

Load Testing
Daily Rate Trend

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

Cambridgeshire Load Testing Daily Rate Trend

Load Testing
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cambridgeshire region citing Load 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 Load Testing.

1 3 (75.00%) Automated Testing
1 3 (75.00%) QA
1 3 (75.00%) Security Testing
1 3 (75.00%) Software Testing
2 2 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 2 (50.00%) Test Strategy
2 2 (50.00%) C#
2 2 (50.00%) SQL
2 2 (50.00%) Project Management
3 1 (25.00%) Penetration Testing
3 1 (25.00%) .NET
3 1 (25.00%) CSS
3 1 (25.00%) XML
3 1 (25.00%) OO
3 1 (25.00%) SOA
3 1 (25.00%) HTTP
3 1 (25.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (25.00%) ISEB
3 1 (25.00%) JavaScript
3 1 (25.00%) Ajax
3 1 (25.00%) WCF
3 1 (25.00%) jQuery
3 1 (25.00%) Performance Testing
3 1 (25.00%) Unit Testing
3 1 (25.00%) Multithreading
3 1 (25.00%) Manual Testing
3 1 (25.00%) Git (software)
3 1 (25.00%) Test Automation
3 1 (25.00%) Network Architecture
3 1 (25.00%) HTML5

Load Testing
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cambridgeshire region citing Load 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 Load Testing. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (25.00%) .NET
1 1 (25.00%) CSS
1 1 (25.00%) XML
1 1 (25.00%) Ajax
1 1 (25.00%) WCF
1 1 (25.00%) jQuery
1 1 (25.00%) HTML5
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) HTTP
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Git (software)
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Software Manager
1 2 (50.00%) Testing Manager
1 2 (50.00%) Software Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Test Manager
1 2 (50.00%) QA Manager
2 1 (25.00%) Test Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Software Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Software Test Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Enterprise Software
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Automated Testing
1 3 (75.00%) Security Testing
1 3 (75.00%) Software Testing
2 2 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 2 (50.00%) Test Strategy
2 2 (50.00%) Project Management
3 1 (25.00%) Penetration Testing
3 1 (25.00%) OO
3 1 (25.00%) SOA
3 1 (25.00%) Performance Testing
3 1 (25.00%) Unit Testing
3 1 (25.00%) Multithreading
3 1 (25.00%) Manual Testing
3 1 (25.00%) Test Automation
3 1 (25.00%) Network Architecture
3 1 (25.00%) CQRS
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) C#
1 2 (50.00%) SQL
2 1 (25.00%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) ISEB
1 1 (25.00%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (75.00%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft
Cambridgeshire, South East
Providing knowledge and insight into both emerging technologies and new opportunities around existing technologies Scope of the Software Developer / .Net Developer role: - Developing and supporting enterprise scale applications...
NBS Recruitment
Rate: £0 - £400 per day
Posted: 24 May 2013