The first table below looks at the demand for System Testing skills in IT contracts advertised for the Canary Wharf region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited System Testing over the 3 months to 17 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 Canary Wharf 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
System Testing
Rank 52 40 54
Rank change year-on-year
-12 +14
Contract jobs citing System Testing 2 6 3
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Canary Wharf 0.519% 1.622% 0.600%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.631% 2.083% 0.800%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 2 1
Average daily rate - £500 £475
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +5.26%
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.00 £30.00 £27.75
% change year-on-year
- +8.10%
All Processes & Methodologies
Canary Wharf
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
317 288 375
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Canary Wharf 82.34% 77.84% 75.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 242 183 284
Average daily rate £572 £550 £550
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+4.00% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £285 £400 £425
10% offered a daily rate of more than £650 £625 £650
UK excluding London average daily rate £363 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
-0.68% -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 3
Average hourly rate - £65.00 £15.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- +333.33%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.60 £25.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year
+26.40% -16.66%
System Testing
London

System Testing
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Canary Wharf System Testing Jobs Demand Trend

System Testing
Daily Rate Trend

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

Canary Wharf System Testing Daily Rate Trend

System Testing
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing System Testing across the Canary Wharf region.

Canary Wharf System Testing Hourly Rate Trend

System Testing
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Canary Wharf region citing System 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 System Testing.

1 4 (80.00%) Banking
1 4 (80.00%) Investment Banking
2 3 (60.00%) Degree
2 3 (60.00%) Haskell
2 3 (60.00%) Continuous Integration
2 3 (60.00%) KDB
2 3 (60.00%) Multithreading
2 3 (60.00%) TeamCity
2 3 (60.00%) Team Foundation Server
2 3 (60.00%) C#
2 3 (60.00%) .NET
2 3 (60.00%) N-Tier
2 3 (60.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (60.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 3 (60.00%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
2 3 (60.00%) Agile Software Development
2 3 (60.00%) TDD
2 3 (60.00%) F#
3 1 (20.00%) Automated Testing
3 1 (20.00%) User Acceptance Testing
3 1 (20.00%) Performance Testing
3 1 (20.00%) Integration Testing
3 1 (20.00%) Test Scripting
3 1 (20.00%) HP Quality Center
3 1 (20.00%) Manual Testing
3 1 (20.00%) Finance
3 1 (20.00%) ClearQuest
3 1 (20.00%) Rational Robot
3 1 (20.00%) RequisitePro
3 1 (20.00%) HP

System Testing
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Canary Wharf region citing System 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 System Testing. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 3 (60.00%) .NET
Applications
1 1 (20.00%) MS Office
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (60.00%) KDB
Development Applications
1 3 (60.00%) TeamCity
1 3 (60.00%) Team Foundation Server
2 1 (20.00%) QuickTest Pro
2 1 (20.00%) RequisitePro
2 1 (20.00%) ClearQuest
2 1 (20.00%) Rational Robot
2 1 (20.00%) Rational Functional Tester
General
1 4 (80.00%) Banking
1 4 (80.00%) Investment Banking
2 1 (20.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Real Time Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) Software Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) C# Software Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) Real Time Software Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Test Manager
3 1 (20.00%) Test Leader
3 1 (20.00%) Testing Manager
Miscellaneous
1 3 (60.00%) N-Tier
1 3 (60.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Agile Software Development
1 3 (60.00%) TDD
1 3 (60.00%) Continuous Integration
1 3 (60.00%) Multithreading
2 1 (20.00%) Manual Testing
2 1 (20.00%) UML
2 1 (20.00%) Automated Testing
2 1 (20.00%) User Acceptance Testing
2 1 (20.00%) Performance Testing
2 1 (20.00%) Integration Testing
2 1 (20.00%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 3 (60.00%) C#
1 3 (60.00%) Haskell
1 3 (60.00%) F#
Qualifications
1 3 (60.00%) Degree
Systems Management
1 3 (60.00%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
2 1 (20.00%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (20.00%) HP
2 1 (20.00%) IBM