Cheshire Performance Testing Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Performance Testing skills within the Cheshire region with a comparison to our Processes & Methodologies category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Performance Testing over the 3 months to 21 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Performance Testing
Location Basildon Basingstoke Bath Belfast Berkshire Blackpool Bridgend Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Cheshire City of London County Antrim Coventry Devon Docklands, London East Midlands East of England Edinburgh England Essex Farnham Glasgow Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harlow Hertfordshire Hounslow Kent Lancashire Leeds Liverpool Livingston London M4 Corridor Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne North East North West Northern Ireland Oxfordshire Peterborough Plymouth Reading Scotland Shropshire Skelmersdale Somerset South East South Wales South West Southwark Staines Stevenage Stockport Surrey Swansea Swindon Telford Tyne and Wear UK Wales Warrington West Lothian West Midlands West Wales West Yorkshire Wilmslow Wiltshire Wokingham Yorkshire	3 months to 21 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	59	57
Rank change on same period last year	-2
Matching contract IT job ads	3	4
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.004 %	0.004 %
As % of the category below	0.595 %	0.899 %
Daily rates quoted	2	0
Average minimum daily rate	£350	-
Average daily rate	£350	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	£350	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£370	£355
% change on same period last year	+4.27 %
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	£44.29	£40.26
% change on same period last year	+10.01 %
Processes & Methodologies Cheshire
Matching contract IT job ads	504	445
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.665 %	0.443 %
Daily rates quoted	155	132
Average minimum daily rate	£349	£311
Average daily rate	£359	£326
% change on same period last year	+10.11 %
Average maximum daily rate	£369	£341
UK excluding London average daily rate	£380	£377
% change on same period last year	+0.74 %
Hourly rates quoted	62	19
Average minimum hourly rate	£23.16	£21.82
Average hourly rate	£24.83	£23.13
% change on same period last year	+7.34 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£26.50	£24.44
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£30.30	£30.18
% change on same period last year	+0.42 %
Performance Testing North West

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.

Performance Testing
Demand Trend

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

Performance Testing
Daily Rate Trend

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

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Hourly Rate Trend

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

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Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Performance Testing within the Cheshire region over the 3 months to 21 August 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
Warrington	0	1	-	-
Wilmslow	-	1	£300	-

Performance Testing North West

Performance Testing
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Cheshire region citing Performance 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 Performance Testing.

1 13 (81.25 %) LoadRunner 2 10 (62.50 %) LDAP 2 10 (62.50 %) Sun 2 10 (62.50 %) WebLogic Portal 2 10 (62.50 %) Oracle 2 10 (62.50 %) WebLogic 2 10 (62.50 %) Vignette 2 10 (62.50 %) BEA 2 10 (62.50 %) Content Management 3 7 (43.75 %) Release Management 3 7 (43.75 %) CMS 3 7 (43.75 %) Ant 4 6 (37.50 %) JUnit 5 5 (31.25 %) Intranet 6 3 (18.75 %) Pharmaceutical

6 3 (18.75 %) C 6 3 (18.75 %) J2EE 6 3 (18.75 %) Validation 6 3 (18.75 %) BIG-IP 7 2 (12.50 %) Test Management 7 2 (12.50 %) Finance 7 2 (12.50 %) Internet 7 2 (12.50 %) ISEB 8 1 (6.250 %) ITIL 8 1 (6.250 %) PRINCE2 8 1 (6.250 %) Identity Management 8 1 (6.250 %) ISEB Practitioner 8 1 (6.250 %) User Acceptance Testing 8 1 (6.250 %) Stress Testing 8 1 (6.250 %) Software Testing

Performance Testing
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Cheshire region citing Performance 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 Performance Testing. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 3 (18.75 %) J2EE	Application Platforms 1 10 (62.50 %) WebLogic Portal 1 10 (62.50 %) WebLogic 2 7 (43.75 %) CMS
Communications & Networking 1 10 (62.50 %) LDAP 2 5 (31.25 %) Intranet 3 3 (18.75 %) BIG-IP 4 2 (12.50 %) Internet	Development Applications 1 13 (81.25 %) LoadRunner 2 7 (43.75 %) Ant 3 6 (37.50 %) JUnit
General 1 3 (18.75 %) Pharmaceutical 2 2 (12.50 %) Finance	Job Titles 1 10 (62.50 %) Support Engineer 2 4 (25.00 %) Tester 3 2 (12.50 %) Performance Tester 3 2 (12.50 %) Technical Support Engineer 3 2 (12.50 %) Technical Engineer 3 2 (12.50 %) Test Manager 3 2 (12.50 %) Technical Support 4 1 (6.250 %) Architect
Processes & Methodologies 1 10 (62.50 %) Content Management 2 7 (43.75 %) Release Management 3 3 (18.75 %) Validation 4 2 (12.50 %) Test Management 5 1 (6.250 %) ITIL 5 1 (6.250 %) PRINCE2 5 1 (6.250 %) Identity Management 5 1 (6.250 %) User Acceptance Testing 5 1 (6.250 %) Stress Testing 5 1 (6.250 %) Software Testing	Programming Languages 1 3 (18.75 %) C
Qualifications 1 2 (12.50 %) ISEB 2 1 (6.250 %) ISEB Practitioner	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 1 (6.250 %) QA
Vendors 1 10 (62.50 %) Sun 1 10 (62.50 %) Oracle 1 10 (62.50 %) Vignette 1 10 (62.50 %) BEA