The first table below looks at the demand for Web 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 Web 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
Web Testing
Rank - - 45
Contract jobs citing Web Testing 0 0 6
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cambridgeshire - - 1.134%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category - - 1.791%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 5
Average daily rate - - £225
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £310 £225
% change year-on-year
+4.83% +37.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £29.00 - -
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%
Web Testing
East of England

Web Testing
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Cambridgeshire Web Testing Jobs Demand Trend

Web Testing
Daily Rate Trend

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

Cambridgeshire Web Testing Daily Rate Trend

Web Testing
Top 17 Related IT Skills

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

1 2 (100.00%) Scrum
2 1 (50.00%) Ruby
2 1 (50.00%) ISTQB
2 1 (50.00%) Matrix Management
2 1 (50.00%) Performance Testing
2 1 (50.00%) V-Model
2 1 (50.00%) Test Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Waterfall
2 1 (50.00%) Java
2 1 (50.00%) SQL
2 1 (50.00%) XML
2 1 (50.00%) UNIX
2 1 (50.00%) Windows
2 1 (50.00%) Linux
2 1 (50.00%) HP
2 1 (50.00%) ISEB
2 1 (50.00%) JMeter

Web Testing
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 1 (50.00%) XML
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) JMeter
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Test Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Test Leader
1 1 (50.00%) Test Manager
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) UNIX
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
1 1 (50.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Scrum
2 1 (50.00%) Matrix Management
2 1 (50.00%) Performance Testing
2 1 (50.00%) V-Model
2 1 (50.00%) Test Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Ruby
1 1 (50.00%) Java
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) ISTQB
1 1 (50.00%) ISEB
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) HP