Test Scripting Contracts in Cambridgeshire
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for Test Scripting 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 Test Scripting over the 3 months to 21 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
21 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Test Scripting (Test Scripts)
Rank 46 60 44
Rank change year-on-year
+14 -16
Contract jobs citing Test Scripting 7 3 7
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cambridgeshire 1.284% 0.440% 1.373%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.303% 0.761% 2.121%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 1 7
Average daily rate £375 £500 £255
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-25.00% +96.07%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £289 £500 £194
10% offered a daily rate of more than £385 £500 £335
UK excluding London average daily rate £329 £300 £315
% change year-on-year
+9.58% -4.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £26.00 £27.50 £18.75
% change year-on-year
-5.45% +46.66%
All Processes & Methodologies
Cambridgeshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category		 304 394 330
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cambridgeshire 55.78% 57.77% 64.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 168 194 167
Average daily rate £375 £395 £366
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-5.06% +8.07%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £275 £255
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £550 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £363 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
-0.68% -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 32 39
Average hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £28.75
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-5.88% +47.82%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £25.75 £12.00 £12.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £42.50 £56.50 £37.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.50 £25.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year
+26.00% -16.66%
Test Scripting
East of England

Test Scripting
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Cambridgeshire 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 Cambridgeshire region.

Cambridgeshire Test Scripting Daily Rate Trend

Test Scripting
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Test Scripting across the Cambridgeshire region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

Cambridgeshire Test Scripting Daily Rate Histogram

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 Cambridgeshire region.

Cambridgeshire Test Scripting Hourly Rate Trend

Test Scripting
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Test Scripting within the Cambridgeshire region over the 3 months to 21 May 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
(Click each for more statistics)		 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
Cambridge +14 4 £345 -
Peterborough +3 2 £313 -
Test Scripting
East of England

Test Scripting
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cambridgeshire 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 7 (43.75%) HP Quality Center
2 6 (37.50%) Software Testing
2 6 (37.50%) ISEB
3 5 (31.25%) Java
3 5 (31.25%) HP
3 5 (31.25%) Finance
4 4 (25.00%) JIRA
4 4 (25.00%) QA
4 4 (25.00%) Selenium
4 4 (25.00%) User Acceptance Testing
5 3 (18.75%) ISTQB
5 3 (18.75%) SQL
5 3 (18.75%) XML
5 3 (18.75%) UNIX
5 3 (18.75%) Scrum
6 2 (12.50%) Regression Testing
6 2 (12.50%) Risk Management
6 2 (12.50%) Retail
6 2 (12.50%) SAP
6 2 (12.50%) HTML
6 2 (12.50%) SAP HR
6 2 (12.50%) QuickTest Pro
6 2 (12.50%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 2 (12.50%) WebDriver
7 1 (6.250%) XenApp
7 1 (6.250%) Windows 7
7 1 (6.250%) Test Strategy
7 1 (6.250%) Twitter
7 1 (6.250%) Non-Functional Testing
7 1 (6.250%) SCCM

Test Scripting
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cambridgeshire 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 3 (18.75%) XML
2 2 (12.50%) HTML
Business Applications
1 2 (12.50%) SAP HR
Communications & Networking
1 1 (6.250%) HTTP
1 1 (6.250%) HTTPS
Development Applications
1 4 (25.00%) JIRA
1 4 (25.00%) Selenium
2 2 (12.50%) QuickTest Pro
2 2 (12.50%) WebDriver
General
1 5 (31.25%) Finance
2 2 (12.50%) Retail
3 1 (6.250%) General Ledger
Job Titles
1 8 (50.00%) Analyst
2 7 (43.75%) Test Analyst
3 4 (25.00%) Test Manager
4 2 (12.50%) Senior Analyst
4 2 (12.50%) Senior SAP Test Analyst
4 2 (12.50%) Senior Test Analyst
4 2 (12.50%) SAP Test Analyst
4 2 (12.50%) Test Leader
4 2 (12.50%) UAT Manager
4 2 (12.50%) SAP Analyst
4 2 (12.50%) UAT Test Manager
5 1 (6.250%) Business Analyst
5 1 (6.250%) Tester
5 1 (6.250%) Technical Business Analyst
5 1 (6.250%) Senior Tester
5 1 (6.250%) Technical Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 2 (12.50%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 3 (18.75%) UNIX
2 1 (6.250%) Windows 7
2 1 (6.250%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (37.50%) Software Testing
2 4 (25.00%) User Acceptance Testing
3 3 (18.75%) Scrum
4 2 (12.50%) Regression Testing
4 2 (12.50%) Risk Management
5 1 (6.250%) Test Strategy
5 1 (6.250%) Non-Functional Testing
5 1 (6.250%) System Testing
5 1 (6.250%) Agile Software Development
5 1 (6.250%) Release Management
5 1 (6.250%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 5 (31.25%) Java
2 3 (18.75%) SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (37.50%) ISEB
2 3 (18.75%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (25.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (6.250%) XenApp
1 1 (6.250%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 7 (43.75%) HP Quality Center
2 1 (6.250%) SCCM
Vendors
1 5 (31.25%) HP
2 2 (12.50%) SAP
3 1 (6.250%) Twitter
3 1 (6.250%) CODA
3 1 (6.250%) Citrix
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