The first table below looks at the demand for Integration Testing skills in IT contracts advertised for the Chester region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Integration 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 Chester 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
Integration Testing
Rank 23 21 20
Rank change year-on-year
-2 -1
Contract jobs citing Integration Testing 1 1 3
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Chester 0.730% 0.870% 1.875%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.909% 1.299% 2.703%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 1
Average daily rate £375 £350 £360
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.14% -2.77%
UK excluding London average daily rate £363 £394 £363
% change year-on-year
-7.93% +8.62%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £36.00 £35.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year
+2.85% -6.66%
All Processes & Methodologies
Chester
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
110 77 111
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Chester 80.29% 66.96% 69.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 32 38
Average daily rate £388 £363 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+6.89% +3.57%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £175 £300 £195
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £435 £425
UK excluding London average daily rate £363 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
-0.68% -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 3 3
Average hourly rate £44.90 £14.00 £16.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+220.71% -15.15%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.60 £25.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year
+26.40% -16.66%
Integration Testing
Cheshire

Integration Testing
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Chester 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 Chester region.

Chester Integration Testing Daily Rate Trend

Integration Testing
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Chester 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 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (100.00%) PL/SQL
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
1 1 (100.00%) J2EE
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle
1 1 (100.00%) JUnit
1 1 (100.00%) CSS
1 1 (100.00%) JSP
1 1 (100.00%) Servlets
1 1 (100.00%) SOAP
1 1 (100.00%) Web Services
1 1 (100.00%) DOM
1 1 (100.00%) XSLT
1 1 (100.00%) Apache
1 1 (100.00%) XHTML
1 1 (100.00%) WSDL
1 1 (100.00%) JAX-RPC
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
1 1 (100.00%) Hibernate
1 1 (100.00%) Agile Software Development
1 1 (100.00%) TDD
1 1 (100.00%) Spring
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Ajax
1 1 (100.00%) Web 2.0
1 1 (100.00%) WebSphere
1 1 (100.00%) XPath
1 1 (100.00%) Apache Axis
1 1 (100.00%) Waterfall

Integration Testing
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Chester 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 1 (100.00%) J2EE
1 1 (100.00%) CSS
1 1 (100.00%) JSP
1 1 (100.00%) Servlets
1 1 (100.00%) SOAP
1 1 (100.00%) Web Services
1 1 (100.00%) DOM
1 1 (100.00%) XSLT
1 1 (100.00%) XHTML
1 1 (100.00%) WSDL
1 1 (100.00%) JAX-RPC
1 1 (100.00%) Hibernate
1 1 (100.00%) Spring
1 1 (100.00%) Ajax
1 1 (100.00%) WebSphere
1 1 (100.00%) Apache Axis
Application Platforms
1 1 (100.00%) Apache
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) JUnit
General
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Java Developer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Web 2.0
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile Software Development
1 1 (100.00%) TDD
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (100.00%) PL/SQL
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
1 1 (100.00%) XPath
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle