Cheshire Test Scripting Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Test Scripting (Test Scripts) 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 Test Scripting over the 3 months to 20 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Test Scripting (Test Scripts)
Location Aberdeen Abingdon Amersham Atherstone Basildon Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Berkshire Birmingham Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Bridgend Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Chippenham City of London Coventry Crawley Croydon Dartford Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset Durham East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh England Essex Exeter Fareham Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Guildford Halifax Hampshire Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire Home Counties Hove Kent Lancashire Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Liverpool London Maidenhead Manchester Marlow Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Plymouth Poole Preston Reading Rugby Runcorn Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Sidcup Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Staffordshire Staines Stockton-on-Tees Stoke-on-Trent Sunbury-on-Thames Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Teesside Telford Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Wallington Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Wilmslow Wiltshire Windsor Wirral Wokingham Worcester Worcestershire York Yorkshire	3 months to 20 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	45	39
Rank change on same period last year	-6
Matching contract IT job ads	15	23
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.020 %	0.023 %
As % of the category below	2.953 %	5.169 %
Daily rates quoted	3	11
Average minimum daily rate	£305	£215
Average daily rate	£325	£227
% change on same period last year	+43.28 %
Average maximum daily rate	£345	£239
UK excluding London average daily rate	£323	£319
% change on same period last year	+1.25 %
Hourly rates quoted	1	0
Average minimum hourly rate	£35.00	-
Average hourly rate	£35.00	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	£35.00	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£29.92	£30.00
% change on same period last year	-0.27 %
Processes & Methodologies Cheshire
Matching contract IT job ads	508	445
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.670 %	0.443 %
Daily rates quoted	157	132
Average minimum daily rate	£347	£311
Average daily rate	£358	£326
% change on same period last year	+9.75 %
Average maximum daily rate	£369	£341
UK excluding London average daily rate	£380	£377
% change on same period last year	+0.71 %
Hourly rates quoted	62	19
Average minimum hourly rate	£23.55	£21.82
Average hourly rate	£25.24	£23.13
% change on same period last year	+9.09 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£26.93	£24.44
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£30.34	£30.18
% change on same period last year	+0.55 %
Test Scripting 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.

Test Scripting
Demand Trend

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

Test Scripting
Daily Rate Trend

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

Test Scripting
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Test Scripting across the Cheshire region over the 3 months to 20 August 2008.

Test Scripting
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Test Scripting
Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Test Scripting within the Cheshire region over the 3 months to 20 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
Chester	+5	9	-	-
Warrington	-	2	£380	-
Runcorn	-	1	-	-
Wilmslow	-	1	-	-

Test Scripting North West

Test Scripting
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Cheshire 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 12 (52.17 %) User Acceptance Testing 2 9 (39.13 %) Finance 3 8 (34.78 %) ISEB 3 8 (34.78 %) Microsoft 4 6 (26.09 %) Regression Testing 4 6 (26.09 %) Banking 5 5 (21.74 %) TestDirector 6 4 (17.39 %) BizTalk Server 6 4 (17.39 %) CRM 6 4 (17.39 %) Windows 6 4 (17.39 %) InfoPath 6 4 (17.39 %) Use Case 7 3 (13.04 %) Incident Management 8 2 (8.696 %) International Banking 8 2 (8.696 %) Marketing

8 2 (8.696 %) WinRunner 8 2 (8.696 %) Document Management 8 2 (8.696 %) Oracle 8 2 (8.696 %) WebLogic 8 2 (8.696 %) MS Project 8 2 (8.696 %) MS Office 8 2 (8.696 %) E-Commerce 8 2 (8.696 %) Windows XP 8 2 (8.696 %) UNIX 8 2 (8.696 %) MS Excel 8 2 (8.696 %) Project Management 8 2 (8.696 %) Test Management 8 2 (8.696 %) System Testing 8 2 (8.696 %) Spreadsheet 8 2 (8.696 %) V-Model

Test Scripting
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Cheshire 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 (4.348 %) JSP 1 1 (4.348 %) Adobe Flex	Application Platforms 1 4 (17.39 %) BizTalk Server 2 2 (8.696 %) WebLogic 3 1 (4.348 %) Apache
Applications 1 4 (17.39 %) InfoPath 2 2 (8.696 %) MS Project 2 2 (8.696 %) MS Office 2 2 (8.696 %) MS Excel 2 2 (8.696 %) Spreadsheet	Communications & Networking 1 1 (4.348 %) Internet 1 1 (4.348 %) 3G
Development Applications 1 5 (21.74 %) TestDirector 2 2 (8.696 %) WinRunner 3 1 (4.348 %) WebLogic Workshop 3 1 (4.348 %) Rational Robot 3 1 (4.348 %) QuickTest Pro	General 1 9 (39.13 %) Finance 2 6 (26.09 %) Banking 3 2 (8.696 %) International Banking 3 2 (8.696 %) Marketing 4 1 (4.348 %) Pharmaceutical 4 1 (4.348 %) Financial Institution 4 1 (4.348 %) Government 4 1 (4.348 %) Retail 4 1 (4.348 %) Online Banking 4 1 (4.348 %) Retail Banking
Job Titles 1 11 (47.83 %) Analyst 2 10 (43.48 %) Test Analyst 3 4 (17.39 %) Tester 4 2 (8.696 %) UAT Analyst 4 2 (8.696 %) Project Administrator 4 2 (8.696 %) Administrator 4 2 (8.696 %) Test Manager 5 1 (4.348 %) UAT Test Manager 5 1 (4.348 %) Coordinator 5 1 (4.348 %) Developer 5 1 (4.348 %) Web Developer 5 1 (4.348 %) Applications Developer 5 1 (4.348 %) Support Analyst 5 1 (4.348 %) Applications Support 5 1 (4.348 %) Infrastructure Analyst 5 1 (4.348 %) Senior Analyst 5 1 (4.348 %) Test Coordinator 5 1 (4.348 %) Java Developer 5 1 (4.348 %) Applications Support Analyst 5 1 (4.348 %) Senior Test Analyst	Miscellaneous 1 1 (4.348 %) IBM Mainframe 1 1 (4.348 %) Mainframe 1 1 (4.348 %) Blackberry
Operating Systems 1 4 (17.39 %) Windows 2 2 (8.696 %) Windows XP 2 2 (8.696 %) UNIX 3 1 (4.348 %) Windows 2000 Server 3 1 (4.348 %) Windows Server 2003	Processes & Methodologies 1 12 (52.17 %) User Acceptance Testing 2 6 (26.09 %) Regression Testing 3 4 (17.39 %) CRM 3 4 (17.39 %) Use Case 4 3 (13.04 %) Incident Management 5 2 (8.696 %) Document Management 5 2 (8.696 %) E-Commerce 5 2 (8.696 %) Project Management 5 2 (8.696 %) Test Management 5 2 (8.696 %) System Testing 5 2 (8.696 %) V-Model 6 1 (4.348 %) DV Cleared 6 1 (4.348 %) Security Cleared 6 1 (4.348 %) Internet Marketing 6 1 (4.348 %) Integration Testing 6 1 (4.348 %) Web Testing 6 1 (4.348 %) SOA 6 1 (4.348 %) Workflow 6 1 (4.348 %) Validation 6 1 (4.348 %) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages 1 1 (4.348 %) Java 1 1 (4.348 %) VBScript	Qualifications 1 8 (34.78 %) ISEB
System Software 1 1 (4.348 %) Active Directory	Vendors 1 8 (34.78 %) Microsoft 2 2 (8.696 %) Oracle 3 1 (4.348 %) CODA 3 1 (4.348 %) Citrix 3 1 (4.348 %) IBM