Cheshire User Acceptance Testing Contracts

This section looks at the demand for User Acceptance Testing (UAT) 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 User Acceptance Testing over the 3 months to 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

User Acceptance Testing (UAT)
Location Abingdon Aldershot Andover Basildon Basingstoke Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Blackpool Borehamwood Bournemouth Bracknell Brentwood Bridgend Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Carlisle Cheltenham Cheshire Chester City of London Colchester County Antrim Coventry Crawley Croydon Cumbria Devon Docklands, London Dorset Dundee Durham East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh England Essex Exeter Farnborough Gatwick Glamorgan Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Guildford Halifax Hampshire Havant Herefordshire Hertfordshire Home Counties Horsham Ipswich Kent Knutsford Lancashire Leamington Spa Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Liverpool London Luton M4 Corridor Macclesfield Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Northumberland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Poole Portsmouth Reading Rickmansworth Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Skelmersdale Slough Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Staffordshire Staines Stockport Stoke-on-Trent Street Suffolk Surrey Sussex Swindon Tadworth Taunton Telford Thames Valley Tunbridge Wells Tyne and Wear UK Uttoxeter Uxbridge Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Welwyn Garden City West Drayton West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wigan Wilmslow Wiltshire Winchester Windsor Wokingham Worthing York Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	57	41
Rank change on same period last year	-16
Matching contract IT job ads	13	20
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.017 %	0.020 %
As % of the category below	2.281 %	5.063 %
Daily rates quoted	1	10
Average minimum daily rate	£350	£227
Average daily rate	£350	£232
% change on same period last year	+50.86 %
Average maximum daily rate	£350	£237
UK excluding London average daily rate	£344	£347
% change on same period last year	-1.01 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	3
Average minimum hourly rate	-	£18.33
Average hourly rate	-	£18.33
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	£18.33
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£28.64	£21.57
% change on same period last year	+32.75 %
Processes & Methodologies Cheshire
Matching contract IT job ads	570	395
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.760 %	0.400 %
Daily rates quoted	183	124
Average minimum daily rate	£340	£313
Average daily rate	£352	£328
% change on same period last year	+7.37 %
Average maximum daily rate	£364	£343
UK excluding London average daily rate	£380	£376
% change on same period last year	+1.21 %
Hourly rates quoted	57	18
Average minimum hourly rate	£24.87	£20.99
Average hourly rate	£26.69	£22.40
% change on same period last year	+19.14 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£28.51	£23.81
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£29.33	£30.16
% change on same period last year	-2.72 %
User Acceptance 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.

User Acceptance Testing
Demand Trend

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

User Acceptance Testing
Daily Rate Trend

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

User Acceptance Testing
Hourly Rate Trend

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

User Acceptance Testing
Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing User Acceptance Testing within the Cheshire region over the 3 months to 25 July 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	+3	8	-	-
Knutsford	-	2	-	-
Warrington	-	1	-	-
Wilmslow	-2	1	-	-
Macclesfield	-1	1	£350	-

User Acceptance Testing North West

User Acceptance Testing
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Cheshire region citing User Acceptance 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 User Acceptance Testing.

1 14 (43.75 %) Finance 2 9 (28.13 %) SQL 2 9 (28.13 %) Test Scripting 3 8 (25.00 %) Windows 3 8 (25.00 %) Citrix 3 8 (25.00 %) Migration 4 7 (21.88 %) Altiris 4 7 (21.88 %) VMware 4 7 (21.88 %) SAN 4 7 (21.88 %) LAN 4 7 (21.88 %) WAN 4 7 (21.88 %) IIS 5 6 (18.75 %) Project Management 6 5 (15.63 %) Financial Institution 6 5 (15.63 %) Banking

6 5 (15.63 %) PRINCE2 6 5 (15.63 %) ISEB 7 4 (12.50 %) Microsoft 7 4 (12.50 %) Regression Testing 8 3 (9.375 %) Systems Analysis 8 3 (9.375 %) TestDirector 8 3 (9.375 %) BizTalk Server 8 3 (9.375 %) MS Project 8 3 (9.375 %) CRM 8 3 (9.375 %) InfoPath 8 3 (9.375 %) System Testing 8 3 (9.375 %) Test Management 8 3 (9.375 %) International Banking 8 3 (9.375 %) Use Case 9 2 (6.250 %) Incident Management

User Acceptance Testing
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Cheshire region citing User Acceptance 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 User Acceptance Testing. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 1 (3.125 %) Application Packaging	Application Platforms 1 7 (21.88 %) IIS 2 3 (9.375 %) BizTalk Server
Applications 1 3 (9.375 %) MS Project 1 3 (9.375 %) InfoPath 2 2 (6.250 %) MS Excel 3 1 (3.125 %) MS Visio 3 1 (3.125 %) MS PowerPoint	Business Applications 1 1 (3.125 %) Oracle Applications
Communications & Networking 1 7 (21.88 %) LAN 1 7 (21.88 %) WAN 1 7 (21.88 %) SAN	Database & Business Intelligence 1 1 (3.125 %) Oracle Reports 1 1 (3.125 %) Oracle 9i 1 1 (3.125 %) Datawarehouse 1 1 (3.125 %) Oracle Discoverer
Development Applications 1 3 (9.375 %) TestDirector 2 1 (3.125 %) Oracle Forms	General 1 14 (43.75 %) Finance 2 5 (15.63 %) Banking 2 5 (15.63 %) Financial Institution 3 3 (9.375 %) International Banking 4 1 (3.125 %) Marketing 4 1 (3.125 %) Retail
Job Titles 1 7 (21.88 %) Analyst 1 7 (21.88 %) Applications Packager 2 4 (12.50 %) Test Manager 2 4 (12.50 %) Test Analyst 3 3 (9.375 %) Business Analyst 3 3 (9.375 %) Tester 3 3 (9.375 %) UAT Test Manager 4 2 (6.250 %) Developer 4 2 (6.250 %) Project Leader 5 1 (3.125 %) Test Coordinator 5 1 (3.125 %) Service Manager 5 1 (3.125 %) Oracle Developer 5 1 (3.125 %) Server Engineer 5 1 (3.125 %) Infrastructure Specialist 5 1 (3.125 %) Change Consultant 5 1 (3.125 %) Server Specialist 5 1 (3.125 %) UAT Analyst 5 1 (3.125 %) Coordinator 5 1 (3.125 %) Project Manager 5 1 (3.125 %) Web Developer	Miscellaneous 1 1 (3.125 %) Client/Server 1 1 (3.125 %) Mainframe 1 1 (3.125 %) IBM Mainframe
Operating Systems 1 8 (25.00 %) Windows 2 2 (6.250 %) UNIX	Processes & Methodologies 1 9 (28.13 %) Test Scripting 2 8 (25.00 %) Migration 3 6 (18.75 %) Project Management 4 5 (15.63 %) PRINCE2 5 4 (12.50 %) Regression Testing 6 3 (9.375 %) CRM 6 3 (9.375 %) System Testing 6 3 (9.375 %) Test Management 6 3 (9.375 %) Systems Analysis 6 3 (9.375 %) Use Case 7 2 (6.250 %) Business Analysis 7 2 (6.250 %) Incident Management 7 2 (6.250 %) PRINCE 7 2 (6.250 %) Risk Management 8 1 (3.125 %) Validation 8 1 (3.125 %) Stakeholder Management 8 1 (3.125 %) Programme Management 8 1 (3.125 %) Service Management 8 1 (3.125 %) Integration Testing 8 1 (3.125 %) ITIL
Programming Languages 1 9 (28.13 %) SQL 2 1 (3.125 %) Java 2 1 (3.125 %) PL/SQL	Qualifications 1 5 (15.63 %) ISEB 2 1 (3.125 %) PRINCE2 Certification 2 1 (3.125 %) ITIL Certification 2 1 (3.125 %) Degree
System Software 1 1 (3.125 %) Active Directory	Vendors 1 8 (25.00 %) Citrix 2 7 (21.88 %) VMware 2 7 (21.88 %) Altiris 3 4 (12.50 %) Microsoft 4 2 (6.250 %) CheckPoint 4 2 (6.250 %) Oracle 5 1 (3.125 %) SAP 5 1 (3.125 %) IBM 5 1 (3.125 %) webMethods