The first table below looks at the demand for QuickTest Pro 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 QuickTest Pro 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 Development Applications 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
18 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
HP QuickTest Professional (QTP)
Rank - 57 -
Contract jobs citing QuickTest Pro 0 6 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cambridgeshire - 0.838% -
As % of the Development Applications category - 6.316% -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 5 0
Average daily rate - £450 -
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £300 £341
% change year-on-year
+8.33% -12.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £24.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year
- -20.00%
All Development Applications
Cambridgeshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Development Applications category
66 95 70
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cambridgeshire 11.32% 13.27% 11.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 41 37
Average daily rate £350 £338 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+3.70% +12.50%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £264 £275 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £450 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £330 £330 £325
% change year-on-year
- +1.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 15 14
Average hourly rate £35.50 £35.00 £32.25
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+1.42% +8.52%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £30.00 £35.00 £19.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £42.50 £48.10 £42.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.50 £36.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+4.16% +2.85%
QuickTest Pro
East of England

QuickTest Pro
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing QuickTest Pro across the Cambridgeshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Development Applications category.

Cambridgeshire QuickTest Pro Jobs Demand Trend

QuickTest Pro
Daily Rate Trend

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

Cambridgeshire QuickTest Pro Daily Rate Trend

QuickTest Pro
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing QuickTest Pro within the Cambridgeshire region over the 3 months to 18 June 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
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Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
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Vacancies
Cambridge - - - - 1
QuickTest Pro
East of England

QuickTest Pro
Top 18 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cambridgeshire region citing QuickTest Pro 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 QuickTest Pro.

1 2 (66.67%) Magik
1 2 (66.67%) Agile Software Development
1 2 (66.67%) Continuous Integration
2 1 (33.33%) HP Quality Center
2 1 (33.33%) Twitter
2 1 (33.33%) Non-Functional Testing
2 1 (33.33%) Software Testing
2 1 (33.33%) JIRA
2 1 (33.33%) Selenium
2 1 (33.33%) Test Scripting
2 1 (33.33%) Finance
2 1 (33.33%) Java
2 1 (33.33%) SQL
2 1 (33.33%) UNIX
2 1 (33.33%) HTTP
2 1 (33.33%) HTTPS
2 1 (33.33%) HP
2 1 (33.33%) ISEB

QuickTest Pro
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cambridgeshire region citing QuickTest Pro 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 QuickTest Pro. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) HTTP
1 1 (33.33%) HTTPS
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) JIRA
1 1 (33.33%) Selenium
General
1 1 (33.33%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Test Analyst
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Agile Software Development
1 2 (66.67%) Continuous Integration
2 1 (33.33%) Non-Functional Testing
2 1 (33.33%) Software Testing
2 1 (33.33%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Magik
2 1 (33.33%) Java
2 1 (33.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) ISEB
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) HP
1 1 (33.33%) Twitter
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