The first table below looks at the demand for Functional Testing skills in IT contracts advertised for the City of London region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Functional Testing over the 3 months to 21 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 City of London 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
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Functional Testing
Rank 197 214 227
Rank change year-on-year
+17 +13
Contract jobs citing Functional Testing 6 3 9
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 0.093% 0.038% 0.093%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.127% 0.053% 0.129%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 3 7
Average daily rate £415 £350 £450
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+18.57% -22.22%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £333 £250 £405
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £370 £505
UK excluding London average daily rate £275 £425 £300
% change year-on-year
-35.29% +41.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Processes & Methodologies
City of London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
4714 5628 6972
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 73.36% 71.58% 72.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 3547 4064 5163
Average daily rate £450 £463 £500
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-2.70% -7.50%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £313 £300 £325
10% offered a daily rate of more than £600 £625 £650
UK excluding London average daily rate £363 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
-0.68% -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 78 97 96
Average hourly rate £41.50 £24.00 £25.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+72.91% -4.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £18.50 £15.00 £14.68
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £135.00 £47.50 £50.95
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.50 £25.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year
+26.00% -16.66%
Functional Testing
London

Functional Testing
Jobs Demand Trend

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

City of London Functional Testing Jobs Demand Trend

Functional Testing
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Functional Testing across the City of London region.

City of London Functional Testing Daily Rate Trend

Functional Testing
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Functional Testing across the City of London region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

City of London Functional Testing Daily Rate Histogram

Functional Testing
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region citing Functional 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 Functional Testing.

1 9 (52.94%) User Acceptance Testing
2 5 (29.41%) Finance
3 4 (23.53%) Banking
3 4 (23.53%) Investment Banking
3 4 (23.53%) Test Scripting
4 3 (17.65%) Front Office
4 3 (17.65%) SSL
4 3 (17.65%) Microsoft
4 3 (17.65%) Active Directory
4 3 (17.65%) SAN
4 3 (17.65%) Windows Server 2003
4 3 (17.65%) Windows
4 3 (17.65%) LDAP
4 3 (17.65%) Cognos
4 3 (17.65%) MS Exchange
4 3 (17.65%) POP3
4 3 (17.65%) SMTP
4 3 (17.65%) TCP/IP
4 3 (17.65%) thinkFolio
4 3 (17.65%) NAS
4 3 (17.65%) Business Continuity
4 3 (17.65%) Exchange Server 2003
4 3 (17.65%) LatentZero
4 3 (17.65%) Tesseract
4 3 (17.65%) Minerva
4 3 (17.65%) Sentinel
4 3 (17.65%) Asset Management
4 3 (17.65%) Windows Server 2008
4 3 (17.65%) Exchange Server 2010
4 3 (17.65%) Non-Functional Testing

Functional Testing
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region citing Functional 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 Functional Testing. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 2 (11.76%) .NET
1 2 (11.76%) Middleware
Application Platforms
1 3 (17.65%) MS Exchange
1 3 (17.65%) Exchange Server 2003
1 3 (17.65%) Exchange Server 2010
2 2 (11.76%) Lotus Notes
Business Applications
1 3 (17.65%) LatentZero
1 3 (17.65%) Tesseract
1 3 (17.65%) Minerva
1 3 (17.65%) Sentinel
2 1 (5.882%) Eagle PACE
Communications & Networking
1 3 (17.65%) SSL
1 3 (17.65%) SAN
1 3 (17.65%) LDAP
1 3 (17.65%) POP3
1 3 (17.65%) SMTP
1 3 (17.65%) TCP/IP
1 3 (17.65%) NAS
2 1 (5.882%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (11.76%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 2 (11.76%) Team Foundation Server
2 1 (5.882%) JUnit
2 1 (5.882%) Eclipse
2 1 (5.882%) Selenium
2 1 (5.882%) Cucumber
2 1 (5.882%) Jenkins
2 1 (5.882%) SpecFlow
General
1 5 (29.41%) Finance
2 4 (23.53%) Banking
2 4 (23.53%) Investment Banking
3 3 (17.65%) Front Office
4 1 (5.882%) Telecoms
4 1 (5.882%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 15 (88.24%) Analyst
2 11 (64.71%) Test Analyst
3 4 (23.53%) Business Analyst
4 3 (17.65%) Infrastructure Analyst
5 2 (11.76%) Siebel Analyst
6 1 (5.882%) Programme Manager
6 1 (5.882%) Test Manager
6 1 (5.882%) Programme Test Manager
6 1 (5.882%) Senior Test Analyst
6 1 (5.882%) MI Analyst
6 1 (5.882%) Senior Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 1 (5.882%) Blackberry
Operating Systems
1 3 (17.65%) Windows Server 2003
1 3 (17.65%) Windows
1 3 (17.65%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (52.94%) User Acceptance Testing
2 4 (23.53%) Test Scripting
3 3 (17.65%) Business Continuity
3 3 (17.65%) Asset Management
3 3 (17.65%) Non-Functional Testing
4 2 (11.76%) Migration
4 2 (11.76%) Test Automation
4 2 (11.76%) Performance Testing
4 2 (11.76%) Integration Testing
4 2 (11.76%) Project Management
4 2 (11.76%) Risk Analysis
4 2 (11.76%) CRM
4 2 (11.76%) Regression Testing
5 1 (5.882%) Business Intelligence
5 1 (5.882%) Wealth Management
5 1 (5.882%) Test Management
5 1 (5.882%) Investment Management
5 1 (5.882%) Enterprise Data Management
5 1 (5.882%) Software Testing
5 1 (5.882%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (11.76%) C++
1 2 (11.76%) Java
2 1 (5.882%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (11.76%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (11.76%) QA
System Software
1 3 (17.65%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 3 (17.65%) Microsoft
1 3 (17.65%) Cognos
1 3 (17.65%) thinkFolio
2 2 (11.76%) Siebel
2 2 (11.76%) Lotus
2 2 (11.76%) Citrix
3 1 (5.882%) Oracle
3 1 (5.882%) Cadis