The first table below looks at the demand for Load 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 Load 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 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Load Testing
Rank 57 65 71
Rank change year-on-year
+8 +6
Contract jobs citing Load Testing 4 2 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cheshire 0.554% 0.248% 0.201%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.735% 0.407% 0.290%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 2
Average daily rate £425 - £305
90% offered a daily rate of more than £405 - £293
10% offered a daily rate of more than £445 - £317
UK excluding London average daily rate £450 £425 £289
% change year-on-year
+5.88% +47.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £32.50 £29.50 -
% change year-on-year
+10.16% -
All Processes & Methodologies
Cheshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
544 491 690
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cheshire 75.35% 60.77% 69.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 228 253 388
Average daily rate £375 £355 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+5.63% +9.23%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £226 £270 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £465 £500 £425
UK excluding London average daily rate £363 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
-0.68% -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 12 25
Average hourly rate £40.00 £22.41 £19.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+78.49% +17.94%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.50 £13.95 £11.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £50.83 £31.10 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.60 £25.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year
+26.40% -16.66%
Load Testing
North West

Load Testing
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Cheshire Load Testing Jobs Demand Trend

Load Testing
Daily Rate Trend

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

Cheshire Load Testing Daily Rate Trend

Load Testing
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Load Testing within the Cheshire region over the 3 months to 17 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 £425 -
Load Testing
North West

Load Testing
Top 26 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cheshire region citing Load 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 Load Testing.

1 4 (100.00%) SQL
1 4 (100.00%) T-SQL
1 4 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 4 (100.00%) Data Warehouse
1 4 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 4 (100.00%) OLTP
1 4 (100.00%) SQL Server 2000
1 4 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 4 (100.00%) Replication
1 4 (100.00%) SQL Server 2005
1 4 (100.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
1 4 (100.00%) Unit Testing
1 4 (100.00%) Data Integration
1 4 (100.00%) SQL Server 2008
1 4 (100.00%) SQL Server 2012
2 3 (75.00%) NoSQL
2 3 (75.00%) IDMS
2 3 (75.00%) Agile Software Development
2 3 (75.00%) Change Management
2 3 (75.00%) VLDB
2 3 (75.00%) ITIL
2 3 (75.00%) MySQL
3 2 (50.00%) Degree
3 2 (50.00%) Computer Science
3 2 (50.00%) Retail
4 1 (25.00%) E-Commerce

Load Testing
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 4 (100.00%) Data Warehouse
1 4 (100.00%) OLTP
1 4 (100.00%) SQL Server 2000
1 4 (100.00%) SQL Server 2005
1 4 (100.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
1 4 (100.00%) SQL Server 2008
1 4 (100.00%) SQL Server 2012
2 3 (75.00%) MySQL
2 3 (75.00%) NoSQL
2 3 (75.00%) IDMS
2 3 (75.00%) VLDB
General
1 2 (50.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) DBA
2 2 (50.00%) SQL DBA
Miscellaneous
1 4 (100.00%) Replication
1 4 (100.00%) Data Integration
2 2 (50.00%) Computer Science
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 4 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 4 (100.00%) Unit Testing
2 3 (75.00%) Agile Software Development
2 3 (75.00%) Change Management
2 3 (75.00%) ITIL
3 1 (25.00%) E-Commerce
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) SQL
1 4 (100.00%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) Degree