Test Scripting Contracts in Cheltenham
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Hourly Rate Trend Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for Test Scripting skills in IT contracts advertised for the Cheltenham 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 Cheltenham 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 17 12 -
Rank change year-on-year
-5 -
Contract jobs citing Test Scripting 1 38 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cheltenham 1.333% 15.02% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.923% 19.29% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 10 0
Average daily rate £288 £425 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-32.35% -
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
Cheltenham
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category		 52 197 51
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cheltenham 69.33% 77.87% 52.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 108 21
Average daily rate £343 £425 £310
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-19.41% +37.09%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £300 £374 £275
10% offered a daily rate of more than £400 £500 £445
UK excluding London average daily rate £363 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
-0.68% -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 11 7
Average hourly rate £40.00 £25.00 £36.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+60.00% -30.55%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £25.00 £25.00 £22.28
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £45.00 £37.00 £39.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.50 £25.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year
+26.00% -16.66%
Test Scripting
Gloucestershire

Test Scripting
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Cheltenham 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 Cheltenham region.

Cheltenham Test Scripting Daily Rate Trend

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 Cheltenham region.

Cheltenham Test Scripting Hourly Rate Trend

Test Scripting
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cheltenham 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 3 (50.00%) Oracle
1 3 (50.00%) ITIL
1 3 (50.00%) Service Management
1 3 (50.00%) Degree
2 2 (33.33%) Oracle Application Server
2 2 (33.33%) Business Continuity
2 2 (33.33%) SCSA
2 2 (33.33%) DV Cleared
2 2 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 2 (33.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (33.33%) Project Management
2 2 (33.33%) ITSM
2 2 (33.33%) Data Security
2 2 (33.33%) PRINCE2 Certification
2 2 (33.33%) Sun Certification
2 2 (33.33%) ITIL Certification
2 2 (33.33%) PRINCE2
2 2 (33.33%) UNIX
2 2 (33.33%) Solaris
2 2 (33.33%) Linux
2 2 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 2 (33.33%) Sun
3 1 (16.67%) Citrix
3 1 (16.67%) C
3 1 (16.67%) SQL
3 1 (16.67%) Apache
3 1 (16.67%) Windows XP
3 1 (16.67%) DNS
3 1 (16.67%) Windows
3 1 (16.67%) WebLogic

Test Scripting
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cheltenham 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 1 (16.67%) XML
1 1 (16.67%) XSD
1 1 (16.67%) XSLT
Application Platforms
1 2 (33.33%) Oracle Application Server
2 1 (16.67%) Apache
2 1 (16.67%) WebLogic
Communications & Networking
1 1 (16.67%) DNS
1 1 (16.67%) DSL
1 1 (16.67%) SSH
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Visual Studio
1 1 (16.67%) TestDirector
1 1 (16.67%) Team Foundation Server
Job Titles
1 2 (33.33%) UNIX Systems Administrator
1 2 (33.33%) UNIX Administrator
1 2 (33.33%) Analyst
1 2 (33.33%) Test Analyst
1 2 (33.33%) Systems Administrator
2 1 (16.67%) Systems Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Tester
2 1 (16.67%) Systems Tester
2 1 (16.67%) Solaris Systems Administrator
2 1 (16.67%) Solaris Administrator
2 1 (16.67%) Linux Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 2 (33.33%) UNIX
1 2 (33.33%) Solaris
1 2 (33.33%) Linux
2 1 (16.67%) Windows XP
2 1 (16.67%) Windows
2 1 (16.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (16.67%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (50.00%) ITIL
1 3 (50.00%) Service Management
2 2 (33.33%) Business Continuity
2 2 (33.33%) Project Management
2 2 (33.33%) ITSM
2 2 (33.33%) Data Security
2 2 (33.33%) PRINCE2
3 1 (16.67%) Migration
3 1 (16.67%) Service Delivery
3 1 (16.67%) V-Model
3 1 (16.67%) Test Strategy
3 1 (16.67%) Software Deployment
3 1 (16.67%) Automated Testing
3 1 (16.67%) TDD
3 1 (16.67%) User Acceptance Testing
3 1 (16.67%) Unit Testing
3 1 (16.67%) Continuous Integration
3 1 (16.67%) Manual Testing
Programming Languages
1 1 (16.67%) C
1 1 (16.67%) SQL
1 1 (16.67%) Shell Script
1 1 (16.67%) C-shell
1 1 (16.67%) Bash shell
1 1 (16.67%) Korn
Qualifications
1 3 (50.00%) Degree
2 2 (33.33%) SCSA
2 2 (33.33%) DV Cleared
2 2 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 2 (33.33%) PRINCE2 Certification
2 2 (33.33%) Sun Certification
2 2 (33.33%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (33.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) Samba
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 3 (50.00%) Oracle
2 2 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 2 (33.33%) Sun
3 1 (16.67%) Citrix
3 1 (16.67%) Red Hat
3 1 (16.67%) Altiris
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