The first table below looks at the demand for Integration Testing skills in IT contracts advertised for the Cheshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Integration 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 Cheshire 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
Integration Testing
Rank 59 59 64
Rank change year-on-year
0 +5
Contract jobs citing Integration Testing 4 4 8
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cheshire 0.552% 0.501% 0.826%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.726% 0.813% 1.205%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 4 4
Average daily rate £375 £575 £355
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-34.78% +61.97%
UK excluding London average daily rate £351 £380 £363
% change year-on-year
-7.56% +4.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £36.00 £35.00 £37.00
% change year-on-year
+2.85% -5.40%
All Processes & Methodologies
Cheshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
551 492 664
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cheshire 76.10% 61.58% 68.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 229 249 364
Average daily rate £375 £351 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+6.84% +7.84%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £226 £250 £227
10% offered a daily rate of more than £465 £500 £425
UK excluding London average daily rate £365 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
- -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 12 25
Average hourly rate £40.00 £22.41 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+78.49% +12.05%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.50 £13.95 £12.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £45.00 £31.10 £47.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.00 £25.00 £29.50
% change year-on-year
+20.00% -15.25%
Integration Testing
North West

Integration Testing
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Cheshire Integration Testing Jobs Demand Trend

Integration Testing
Daily Rate Trend

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

Cheshire Integration Testing Daily Rate Trend

Integration Testing
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Cheshire Integration Testing Hourly Rate Trend

Integration Testing
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Integration Testing within the Cheshire region over the 3 months to 24 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
Chester -4 1 £375 +7.14%
Integration Testing
North West

Integration Testing
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 4 (100.00%) Java
1 4 (100.00%) SQL
1 4 (100.00%) Oracle
1 4 (100.00%) SOAP
1 4 (100.00%) Web Services
2 3 (75.00%) Apache
2 3 (75.00%) XHTML
2 3 (75.00%) DOM
2 3 (75.00%) XSLT
2 3 (75.00%) JUnit
2 3 (75.00%) CSS
2 3 (75.00%) JSP
2 3 (75.00%) Servlets
2 3 (75.00%) J2EE
2 3 (75.00%) JavaScript
2 3 (75.00%) PL/SQL
2 3 (75.00%) WSDL
2 3 (75.00%) JAX-RPC
2 3 (75.00%) Finance
2 3 (75.00%) Hibernate
2 3 (75.00%) Agile Software Development
2 3 (75.00%) TDD
2 3 (75.00%) Software Engineering
2 3 (75.00%) Ajax
2 3 (75.00%) Web 2.0
2 3 (75.00%) WebSphere
2 3 (75.00%) XPath
2 3 (75.00%) Apache Axis
2 3 (75.00%) Spring
2 3 (75.00%) Waterfall

Integration Testing
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 4 (100.00%) SOAP
1 4 (100.00%) Web Services
2 3 (75.00%) XHTML
2 3 (75.00%) DOM
2 3 (75.00%) XSLT
2 3 (75.00%) CSS
2 3 (75.00%) JSP
2 3 (75.00%) Servlets
2 3 (75.00%) J2EE
2 3 (75.00%) WSDL
2 3 (75.00%) JAX-RPC
2 3 (75.00%) Hibernate
2 3 (75.00%) Ajax
2 3 (75.00%) WebSphere
2 3 (75.00%) Apache Axis
2 3 (75.00%) Spring
3 2 (50.00%) CSS3
3 2 (50.00%) JSF
3 2 (50.00%) ICEfaces
3 2 (50.00%) RichFaces
Application Platforms
1 3 (75.00%) Apache
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) SMTP
1 1 (25.00%) FTP
1 1 (25.00%) HTTP
Development Applications
1 3 (75.00%) JUnit
2 2 (50.00%) JIRA
2 2 (50.00%) Subversion
2 2 (50.00%) Eclipse
General
1 3 (75.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Developer
2 2 (50.00%) Java Developer
3 1 (25.00%) Consultant
3 1 (25.00%) webMethods Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 3 (75.00%) Web 2.0
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) UNIX
1 1 (25.00%) Windows
1 1 (25.00%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Agile Software Development
1 3 (75.00%) TDD
1 3 (75.00%) Software Engineering
1 3 (75.00%) Waterfall
2 2 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
3 1 (25.00%) B2B
3 1 (25.00%) B2C
3 1 (25.00%) EAI
3 1 (25.00%) User Acceptance Testing
3 1 (25.00%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) Java
1 4 (100.00%) SQL
2 3 (75.00%) JavaScript
2 3 (75.00%) PL/SQL
2 3 (75.00%) XPath
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) Oracle
2 2 (50.00%) IBM
2 2 (50.00%) Perforce
3 1 (25.00%) webMethods
3 1 (25.00%) SAP