Chester User Acceptance Testing Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for User Acceptance Testing (UAT) skills within the Chester 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 4 December 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

User Acceptance Testing (UAT)
Location Aberdeen Basildon Basingstoke Bedfordshire Benfleet Berkshire Birmingham Blackpool Bournemouth Brentford Brighton Bristol Buckingham Buckinghamshire Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Chelmsford Cheshire Chester City of London Cobham Coventry Crawley Croydon Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset Dunstable East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh England Essex Exeter Fareham Farnborough Feltham Fleetwood Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Hereford Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Home Counties Ipswich Isleworth Kent Lancashire Leeds Leicestershire Liverpool London Lytham St Annes M4 Corridor Macclesfield Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newport Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Osterley Oxford Oxfordshire Paddington Peterborough Pudsey Reading Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Skelmersdale Slough Solihull Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Staines Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Telford Thames Ditton Thames Valley Tyne and Wear Tyneside UK Uxbridge Wales Warwick Warwickshire Welwyn Garden City West Malling West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Wiltshire Wokingham Worcester Worcestershire York Yorkshire	3 months to 4 Dec 2008	Same period last year
Rank	19	26
Rank change on same period last year	+7
Matching contract IT job ads	12	4
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.019 %	0.004 %
As % of the category below	8.392 %	3.774 %
Daily rates quoted	2	1
Average minimum daily rate	£288	£200
Average daily rate	£288	£250
% change on same period last year	+15.00 %
Average maximum daily rate	£288	£300
UK excluding London average daily rate	£360	£346
% change on same period last year	+3.77 %
Hourly rates quoted	1	0
Average minimum hourly rate	£30.00	-
Average hourly rate	£35.00	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	£40.00	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£27.02	£26.68
% change on same period last year	+1.26 %
Processes & Methodologies Chester
Matching contract IT job ads	143	106
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.232 %	0.116 %
Daily rates quoted	17	15
Average minimum daily rate	£303	£268
Average daily rate	£306	£281
% change on same period last year	+9.06 %
Average maximum daily rate	£310	£294
UK excluding London average daily rate	£381	£373
% change on same period last year	+2.16 %
Hourly rates quoted	39	7
Average minimum hourly rate	£24.98	£31.21
Average hourly rate	£26.12	£31.21
% change on same period last year	-16.28 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£27.27	£31.21
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£28.22	£29.56
% change on same period last year	-4.53 %
User Acceptance Testing Cheshire

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 Chester 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 Chester 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 Chester region.

User Acceptance Testing
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 4 December 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Chester 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 15 (65.22 %) Test Scripting 2 14 (60.87 %) Finance 3 9 (39.13 %) Banking 3 9 (39.13 %) E-Commerce 4 8 (34.78 %) ISEB 4 8 (34.78 %) Incident Management 5 6 (26.09 %) Regression Testing 6 4 (17.39 %) Marketing 7 3 (13.04 %) Use Case 7 3 (13.04 %) Internet Marketing 7 3 (13.04 %) InfoPath 7 3 (13.04 %) Migration 7 3 (13.04 %) Microsoft 7 3 (13.04 %) CRM 7 3 (13.04 %) BizTalk Server

7 3 (13.04 %) Internet 7 3 (13.04 %) Oracle 8 2 (8.696 %) PRINCE2 8 2 (8.696 %) TestDirector 8 2 (8.696 %) Retail 8 2 (8.696 %) Retail Banking 8 2 (8.696 %) V-Model 9 1 (4.348 %) International Banking 9 1 (4.348 %) Online Banking 9 1 (4.348 %) Web Testing 9 1 (4.348 %) Windows Vista 9 1 (4.348 %) Application Packaging 9 1 (4.348 %) Time Management 9 1 (4.348 %) PRINCE2 Practitioner 9 1 (4.348 %) Data Migration

User Acceptance Testing
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 4 December 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Chester 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 (4.348 %) Application Packaging	Application Platforms 1 3 (13.04 %) BizTalk Server
Applications 1 3 (13.04 %) InfoPath 2 1 (4.348 %) MS Project 2 1 (4.348 %) MS Excel 2 1 (4.348 %) MS Visio 2 1 (4.348 %) MS PowerPoint	Business Applications 1 1 (4.348 %) Oracle 11i 1 1 (4.348 %) Oracle EBS 1 1 (4.348 %) Oracle Applications 1 1 (4.348 %) SoftGrid
Communications & Networking 1 3 (13.04 %) Internet 2 1 (4.348 %) ATM	Database & Business Intelligence 1 1 (4.348 %) Oracle Reports 1 1 (4.348 %) Oracle 9i 1 1 (4.348 %) Datawarehouse 1 1 (4.348 %) Oracle Discoverer
Development Applications 1 2 (8.696 %) TestDirector 2 1 (4.348 %) MSI 2 1 (4.348 %) Oracle Forms	General 1 14 (60.87 %) Finance 2 9 (39.13 %) Banking 3 4 (17.39 %) Marketing 4 2 (8.696 %) Retail 4 2 (8.696 %) Retail Banking 5 1 (4.348 %) International Banking 5 1 (4.348 %) Online Banking 5 1 (4.348 %) Financial Institution
Job Titles 1 9 (39.13 %) Tester 2 6 (26.09 %) Analyst 2 6 (26.09 %) Test Analyst 3 2 (8.696 %) Test Manager 3 2 (8.696 %) Project Manager 3 2 (8.696 %) Senior Analyst 3 2 (8.696 %) Senior Test Analyst 3 2 (8.696 %) UAT Analyst 4 1 (4.348 %) Senior Tester 4 1 (4.348 %) UAT Tester 4 1 (4.348 %) Test Coordinator 4 1 (4.348 %) Service Manager 4 1 (4.348 %) Oracle Developer 4 1 (4.348 %) Coordinator 4 1 (4.348 %) Developer 4 1 (4.348 %) Applications Specialist	Operating Systems 1 1 (4.348 %) UNIX 1 1 (4.348 %) Windows 1 1 (4.348 %) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies 1 15 (65.22 %) Test Scripting 2 9 (39.13 %) E-Commerce 3 8 (34.78 %) Incident Management 4 6 (26.09 %) Regression Testing 5 3 (13.04 %) Migration 5 3 (13.04 %) Use Case 5 3 (13.04 %) Internet Marketing 5 3 (13.04 %) CRM 6 2 (8.696 %) V-Model 6 2 (8.696 %) PRINCE2 7 1 (4.348 %) ITIL 7 1 (4.348 %) Systems Analysis 7 1 (4.348 %) ERP 7 1 (4.348 %) Project Management 7 1 (4.348 %) Service Management 7 1 (4.348 %) Time Management 7 1 (4.348 %) Data Migration 7 1 (4.348 %) Web Testing	Programming Languages 1 1 (4.348 %) C 1 1 (4.348 %) PL/SQL 1 1 (4.348 %) SQL
Qualifications 1 8 (34.78 %) ISEB 2 1 (4.348 %) PRINCE2 Certification 2 1 (4.348 %) ITIL Certification 2 1 (4.348 %) PRINCE2 Practitioner	System Software 1 1 (4.348 %) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors 1 3 (13.04 %) Oracle 1 3 (13.04 %) Microsoft 2 1 (4.348 %) VMware