Performance Testing Contracts in the City of London
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for Performance 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 Performance Testing over the 3 months to 22 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
22 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Performance Testing
Rank 180 177 167
Rank change year-on-year
-3 -10
Contract jobs citing Performance Testing 25 38 74
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 0.389% 0.476% 0.766%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.531% 0.665% 1.066%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 24 39
Average daily rate £381 £475 £450
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-19.73% +5.55%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £273 £333 £324
10% offered a daily rate of more than £550 £550 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £400 £375
% change year-on-year
-18.75% +6.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £32.00 £31.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+1.58% -10.00%
All Processes & Methodologies
City of London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category		 4709 5713 6944
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 73.25% 71.60% 71.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 3551 4136 5135
Average daily rate £450 £460 £500
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-2.17% -8.00%
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 £365 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
- -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 80 96 98
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 £18.00 £15.00 £14.70
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £135.00 £47.50 £50.80
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.00 £25.00 £29.00
% change year-on-year
+24.00% -13.79%
Performance Testing
London

Performance Testing
Jobs Demand Trend

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

City of London Performance Testing Jobs Demand Trend

Performance Testing
Daily Rate Trend

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

City of London Performance Testing Daily Rate Trend

Performance Testing
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Performance Testing across the City of London region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013.

City of London Performance Testing Daily Rate Histogram

Performance Testing
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Performance Testing across the City of London region.

City of London Performance Testing Hourly Rate Trend

Performance Testing
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region citing Performance 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 Performance Testing.

1 20 (40.82%) QA
2 18 (36.73%) Finance
2 18 (36.73%) Banking
3 16 (32.65%) SQL
4 13 (26.53%) .NET
5 12 (24.49%) Investment Banking
6 11 (22.45%) Agile Software Development
7 10 (20.41%) UNIX
7 10 (20.41%) Java
7 10 (20.41%) LoadRunner
8 9 (18.37%) Microsoft
8 9 (18.37%) C++
8 9 (18.37%) Regression Testing
8 9 (18.37%) Derivative
8 9 (18.37%) Test Scripting
9 8 (16.33%) Test Automation
9 8 (16.33%) Front Office
9 8 (16.33%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 7 (14.29%) Linux
10 7 (14.29%) SQL Server
10 7 (14.29%) Middleware
10 7 (14.29%) Migration
10 7 (14.29%) JIRA
11 6 (12.24%) Stress Testing
11 6 (12.24%) User Acceptance Testing
11 6 (12.24%) HP Quality Center
11 6 (12.24%) VBScript
11 6 (12.24%) E-Commerce
12 5 (10.20%) Python
12 5 (10.20%) ISEB

Performance Testing
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region citing Performance 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 Performance Testing. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 13 (26.53%) .NET
2 7 (14.29%) Middleware
3 5 (10.20%) Web Services
4 4 (8.163%) FIX Protocol
5 2 (4.082%) .NET Framework
5 2 (4.082%) WCF
5 2 (4.082%) HTML
5 2 (4.082%) XML
5 2 (4.082%) CSS
5 2 (4.082%) SOAP
6 1 (2.041%) STL
6 1 (2.041%) JDBC
6 1 (2.041%) COM
6 1 (2.041%) COM+
6 1 (2.041%) J2EE
6 1 (2.041%) Swing
6 1 (2.041%) XSLT
6 1 (2.041%) JMS
6 1 (2.041%) Ajax
6 1 (2.041%) soapUI
Application Platforms
1 5 (10.20%) Confluence
2 3 (6.122%) MS Exchange
3 2 (4.082%) Exchange Server 2010
4 1 (2.041%) Lotus Notes
4 1 (2.041%) Tomcat
4 1 (2.041%) ActiveMQ
4 1 (2.041%) Exchange Server 2003
4 1 (2.041%) Amazon AWS
4 1 (2.041%) Drupal
Applications
1 2 (4.082%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (2.041%) SAP CRM
1 1 (2.041%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (2.041%) SAP IS-U
Communications & Networking
1 5 (10.20%) TCP/IP
2 3 (6.122%) HTTP
3 2 (4.082%) Network Security
3 2 (4.082%) SAN
4 1 (2.041%) HTTPS
4 1 (2.041%) SSL
4 1 (2.041%) POP3
4 1 (2.041%) SMTP
4 1 (2.041%) LDAP
4 1 (2.041%) NAS
4 1 (2.041%) Cisco IPT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (14.29%) SQL Server
2 1 (2.041%) DB2
2 1 (2.041%) UniData
2 1 (2.041%) MongoDB
2 1 (2.041%) NoSQL
2 1 (2.041%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 10 (20.41%) LoadRunner
2 7 (14.29%) JIRA
3 5 (10.20%) Subversion
4 4 (8.163%) Selenium
4 4 (8.163%) Team Foundation Server
5 3 (6.122%) Hudson
5 3 (6.122%) Rational Performance Tester
5 3 (6.122%) Git (software)
6 2 (4.082%) Cucumber
6 2 (4.082%) JMeter
6 2 (4.082%) WinRunner
6 2 (4.082%) QuickTest Pro
7 1 (2.041%) JUnit
7 1 (2.041%) Visual Studio
7 1 (2.041%) Maven
7 1 (2.041%) Jenkins
7 1 (2.041%) Talend Open Studio
7 1 (2.041%) TestNG
7 1 (2.041%) TestComplete
7 1 (2.041%) OpenSTA
General
1 18 (36.73%) Finance
1 18 (36.73%) Banking
2 12 (24.49%) Investment Banking
3 8 (16.33%) Front Office
4 2 (4.082%) Back Office
5 1 (2.041%) Law
5 1 (2.041%) Publishing
5 1 (2.041%) Games
Job Titles
1 21 (42.86%) Analyst
2 20 (40.82%) Test Analyst
3 10 (20.41%) Tester
4 5 (10.20%) Test Manager
4 5 (10.20%) Developer
4 5 (10.20%) QA Analyst
5 4 (8.163%) Test Engineer
5 4 (8.163%) QA Test Analyst
6 3 (6.122%) Lead Test Analyst
7 2 (4.082%) Performance Test Analyst
7 2 (4.082%) Performance Analyst
7 2 (4.082%) QA Engineer
7 2 (4.082%) Junior Tester
7 2 (4.082%) Senior Test Analyst
7 2 (4.082%) Junior
7 2 (4.082%) Senior Analyst
7 2 (4.082%) Integration Manager
7 2 (4.082%) C++ Developer
8 1 (2.041%) C# Developer
8 1 (2.041%) Java Developer
Miscellaneous
1 9 (18.37%) Derivative
2 8 (16.33%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 4 (8.163%) Mathematics
3 4 (8.163%) Credit Derivative
4 3 (6.122%) Client/Server
4 3 (6.122%) Fixed Income
5 2 (4.082%) Ergonomics
5 2 (4.082%) Computer Science
5 2 (4.082%) Data Conversion
5 2 (4.082%) Open Source
6 1 (2.041%) N-Tier
6 1 (2.041%) Equities
6 1 (2.041%) Mainframe
6 1 (2.041%) Management Information System
6 1 (2.041%) STB
6 1 (2.041%) Mobile App
6 1 (2.041%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (2.041%) Kindle
6 1 (2.041%) Online Games
6 1 (2.041%) Spread Betting
Operating Systems
1 10 (20.41%) UNIX
2 7 (14.29%) Linux
3 1 (2.041%) Windows
3 1 (2.041%) Windows Server 2003
3 1 (2.041%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (22.45%) Agile Software Development
2 9 (18.37%) Regression Testing
2 9 (18.37%) Test Scripting
3 8 (16.33%) Test Automation
4 7 (14.29%) Migration
5 6 (12.24%) Stress Testing
5 6 (12.24%) User Acceptance Testing
5 6 (12.24%) E-Commerce
6 4 (8.163%) Unit Testing
6 4 (8.163%) Security Testing
6 4 (8.163%) Root Cause Analysis
6 4 (8.163%) Scrum
7 3 (6.122%) CRM
7 3 (6.122%) Disaster Recovery
7 3 (6.122%) Penetration Testing
7 3 (6.122%) Test Strategy
7 3 (6.122%) BDD
7 3 (6.122%) Continuous Integration
7 3 (6.122%) Multithreading
7 3 (6.122%) Risk Analysis
Programming Languages
1 16 (32.65%) SQL
2 10 (20.41%) Java
3 9 (18.37%) C++
4 6 (12.24%) VBScript
5 5 (10.20%) Python
5 5 (10.20%) VB
5 5 (10.20%) C#
6 4 (8.163%) PowerShell
6 4 (8.163%) JavaScript
6 4 (8.163%) Perl
6 4 (8.163%) T-SQL
7 3 (6.122%) VBA
8 2 (4.082%) F#
8 2 (4.082%) C
9 1 (2.041%) PHP
9 1 (2.041%) Shell Script
9 1 (2.041%) Jython
9 1 (2.041%) Ruby
9 1 (2.041%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 5 (10.20%) ISEB
1 5 (10.20%) Degree
2 3 (6.122%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (40.82%) QA
2 1 (2.041%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 1 (2.041%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 6 (12.24%) HP Quality Center
2 1 (2.041%) Splunk
2 1 (2.041%) Puppet
Vendors
1 9 (18.37%) Microsoft
2 3 (6.122%) IBM
2 3 (6.122%) HP
3 2 (4.082%) Oracle
3 2 (4.082%) SAP
4 1 (2.041%) Sybase
4 1 (2.041%) Citrix
4 1 (2.041%) Interwoven
4 1 (2.041%) NetApp
4 1 (2.041%) Lotus
4 1 (2.041%) VMware
4 1 (2.041%) Talend
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City of London
Knowledge of credit derivatives, bonds, swaps and commodities trading is beneficial... Technical Skills *.NET and Microsoft Technologies *Experience using PerfMon *PowerShell, basic scripting skills *Knowledge of MS SQL...
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Rate: £400 - £500 per day
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City, London
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