Canary Wharf User Acceptance Testing Contracts

This section looks at the demand for User Acceptance Testing (UAT) skills within the Canary Wharf region with a comparison to our Processes & Methodologies category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT job ads that have cited User Acceptance Testing over the 3 months to 4 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

User Acceptance Testing (UAT)
Location Amersham Andover Basildon Basingstoke Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Blackpool Borehamwood Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentwood Bridgend Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Camberley Canary Wharf Cardiff Carlisle Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chester City of London Colchester County Antrim Coventry Crawley Croydon Cumbria Devon Docklands, London Dorking Dorset Dundee Durham East Midlands East of England East Sussex Eastleigh Edinburgh England Essex Exeter Farnborough Gatwick Glasgow Gloucestershire Guildford Hampshire Havant Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Home Counties Ipswich Kent Knutsford Lancashire Leamington Spa Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Liverpool London Luton M4 Corridor Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Northumberland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxfordshire Portsmouth Reading Rickmansworth Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Skelmersdale Slough Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Staffordshire Staines Stoke-on-Trent Suffolk Surrey Sussex Swindon Taunton Telford Thames Ditton Thames Valley Tunbridge Wells Tyne and Wear UK Uttoxeter Wales Warwick Warwickshire Watford Welwyn Garden City West Drayton West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wigan Wilmslow Wiltshire Winchester Windsor Worthing Yorkshire	3 months to 4 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	38	33
Rank change on same period last year	-5
Matching contract IT job ads	10	18
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.013 %	0.019 %
As % of the category below	4.049 %	8.451 %
Daily rates quoted	5	11
Average minimum daily rate	£470	£387
Average daily rate	£500	£400
% change on same period last year	+25.07 %
Average maximum daily rate	£530	£412
UK excluding London average daily rate	£355	£347
% change on same period last year	+2.32 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum hourly rate	-	-
Average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£27.20	£20.92
% change on same period last year	+30.04 %
Processes & Methodologies Canary Wharf
Matching contract IT job ads	247	213
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.326 %	0.226 %
Daily rates quoted	131	83
Average minimum daily rate	£427	£439
Average daily rate	£445	£458
% change on same period last year	-2.72 %
Average maximum daily rate	£464	£476
UK excluding London average daily rate	£384	£374
% change on same period last year	+2.50 %
Hourly rates quoted	13	6
Average minimum hourly rate	£38.84	£20.78
Average hourly rate	£39.68	£22.89
% change on same period last year	+73.37 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£40.53	£25.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£29.40	£30.19
% change on same period last year	-2.62 %
User Acceptance Testing London

We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

User Acceptance Testing
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing User Acceptance Testing across the Canary Wharf region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

User Acceptance Testing
Daily Rate Trend

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

User Acceptance Testing
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing User Acceptance Testing across the Canary Wharf region over the 3 months to 4 July 2008.

User Acceptance Testing
Hourly Rate Trend

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

User Acceptance Testing
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Canary Wharf region citing User Acceptance 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 User Acceptance Testing.

1 15 (41.67 %) Derivative 2 13 (36.11 %) Banking 3 11 (30.56 %) Fixed Income 4 9 (25.00 %) Risk Management 5 8 (22.22 %) Government 5 8 (22.22 %) Change Management 6 7 (19.44 %) Workflow 6 7 (19.44 %) Investment Banking 7 6 (16.67 %) Finance 7 6 (16.67 %) Oracle 8 5 (13.89 %) Business Analysis 8 5 (13.89 %) Performance Testing 9 4 (11.11 %) Test Scripting 9 4 (11.11 %) QA 9 4 (11.11 %) Interest Rate Derivative

9 4 (11.11 %) SQL 9 4 (11.11 %) Unix 9 4 (11.11 %) Oracle Workflow 10 3 (8.333 %) Oracle HRMS 10 3 (8.333 %) Retail 10 3 (8.333 %) RAD 10 3 (8.333 %) SAN 10 3 (8.333 %) Equity Derivative 10 3 (8.333 %) Test Management 11 2 (5.556 %) System Testing 11 2 (5.556 %) Investment Management 11 2 (5.556 %) Degree 11 2 (5.556 %) Data Analysis 11 2 (5.556 %) PRINCE2 11 2 (5.556 %) Siebel

User Acceptance Testing
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Canary Wharf region citing User Acceptance 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 User Acceptance Testing. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms 1 4 (11.11 %) Oracle Workflow	Applications 1 1 (2.778 %) MS PowerPoint
Business Applications 1 3 (8.333 %) Oracle HRMS 2 1 (2.778 %) Global One 2 1 (2.778 %) Summit	Communications & Networking 1 3 (8.333 %) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence 1 1 (2.778 %) SQL Server 1 1 (2.778 %) Oracle Reports 1 1 (2.778 %) Oracle 8/8i 1 1 (2.778 %) Datawarehouse 1 1 (2.778 %) Oracle Discoverer 1 1 (2.778 %) SQL Server 2000 1 1 (2.778 %) SQL Server 2005	Development Applications 1 1 (2.778 %) Ant 1 1 (2.778 %) TestDirector
General 1 13 (36.11 %) Banking 2 8 (22.22 %) Government 3 7 (19.44 %) Investment Banking 4 6 (16.67 %) Finance 5 3 (8.333 %) Retail 6 2 (5.556 %) Publishing 6 2 (5.556 %) Front Office 7 1 (2.778 %) Back Office 7 1 (2.778 %) Retail Banking 7 1 (2.778 %) Private Banking	Job Titles 1 15 (41.67 %) Analyst 2 12 (33.33 %) Business Analyst 3 6 (16.67 %) Test Manager 4 4 (11.11 %) Tester 4 4 (11.11 %) Developer 5 3 (8.333 %) Consultant 5 3 (8.333 %) Oracle Consultant 5 3 (8.333 %) Oracle HR Consultant 6 2 (5.556 %) UAT Tester 6 2 (5.556 %) VBA Developer 6 2 (5.556 %) Excel VBA Developer 6 2 (5.556 %) Excel Developer 6 2 (5.556 %) Equity Derivatives Business Analyst 6 2 (5.556 %) Project Manager 6 2 (5.556 %) Test Analyst 6 2 (5.556 %) RAD Developer 7 1 (2.778 %) Business Developer 7 1 (2.778 %) Coordinator 7 1 (2.778 %) DBA 7 1 (2.778 %) Senior Manager
Miscellaneous 1 15 (41.67 %) Derivative 2 11 (30.56 %) Fixed Income 3 4 (11.11 %) Interest Rate Derivative 4 3 (8.333 %) Equity Derivative 5 1 (2.778 %) DTCC 5 1 (2.778 %) CMDB 5 1 (2.778 %) Credit Risk 5 1 (2.778 %) Market Risk 5 1 (2.778 %) Clustering 5 1 (2.778 %) Asset Management	Operating Systems 1 4 (11.11 %) Unix 2 2 (5.556 %) Windows
Processes & Methodologies 1 9 (25.00 %) Risk Management 2 8 (22.22 %) Change Management 3 7 (19.44 %) Workflow 4 5 (13.89 %) Business Analysis 4 5 (13.89 %) Performance Testing 5 4 (11.11 %) Test Scripting 6 3 (8.333 %) Test Management 6 3 (8.333 %) RAD 7 2 (5.556 %) PRINCE2 7 2 (5.556 %) Migration 7 2 (5.556 %) Project Management 7 2 (5.556 %) Data Analysis 7 2 (5.556 %) System Testing 7 2 (5.556 %) Investment Management 8 1 (2.778 %) Data Migration 8 1 (2.778 %) Disaster Recovery 8 1 (2.778 %) E-business 8 1 (2.778 %) Matrix Management 8 1 (2.778 %) Stakeholder Management 8 1 (2.778 %) Programme Management	Programming Languages 1 4 (11.11 %) SQL 2 2 (5.556 %) VB 2 2 (5.556 %) VBA 2 2 (5.556 %) Shell Script 2 2 (5.556 %) C# 3 1 (2.778 %) Java 3 1 (2.778 %) Perl 3 1 (2.778 %) PL/SQL
Qualifications 1 2 (5.556 %) Degree 2 1 (2.778 %) ISEB	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 4 (11.11 %) QA 2 1 (2.778 %) Sarbanes-Oxley
Vendors 1 6 (16.67 %) Oracle 2 2 (5.556 %) Siebel 3 1 (2.778 %) Calypso 3 1 (2.778 %) Cognos