The first table below looks at the demand for QuickTest Pro 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 QuickTest Pro over the 3 months to 24 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 Development Applications 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
HP QuickTest Professional (QTP)
Rank 182 197 182
Rank change year-on-year
+15 -15
Contract jobs citing QuickTest Pro 21 21 63
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 0.329% 0.267% 0.643%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.675% 3.221% 6.269%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 20 35
Average daily rate £450 £400 £450
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+12.50% -11.11%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £278 £324 £325
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £476 £550
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £300 £325
% change year-on-year
+8.33% -7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £18.50 £30.00
% change year-on-year
- -38.33%
All Development Applications
City of London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Development Applications category
785 652 1005
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 12.31% 8.290% 10.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 602 489 757
Average daily rate £405 £438 £475
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-7.42% -7.89%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £325 £275 £300
10% offered a daily rate of more than £550 £600 £650
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £330 £325
% change year-on-year
-1.51% +1.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 11 7
Average hourly rate £42.00 £37.00 £25.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+13.51% +48.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £41.50 £16.20 £13.70
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £51.50 £39.70 £75.30
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+7.14% -
QuickTest Pro
London

QuickTest Pro
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing QuickTest Pro across the City of London region as a proportion of the total demand within the Development Applications category.

City of London QuickTest Pro Jobs Demand Trend

QuickTest Pro
Daily Rate Trend

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

City of London QuickTest Pro Daily Rate Trend

QuickTest Pro
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing QuickTest Pro across the City of London region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

City of London QuickTest Pro Daily Rate Histogram

QuickTest Pro
Hourly Rate Trend

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

City of London QuickTest Pro Hourly Rate Trend

QuickTest Pro
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region citing QuickTest Pro 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 QuickTest Pro.

1 28 (73.68%) QA
2 20 (52.63%) Banking
3 19 (50.00%) Finance
4 18 (47.37%) SQL
5 17 (44.74%) Investment Banking
6 16 (42.11%) Agile Software Development
6 16 (42.11%) Selenium
7 15 (39.47%) Derivative
8 12 (31.58%) Test Automation
9 11 (28.95%) HP Quality Center
9 11 (28.95%) Java
10 10 (26.32%) .NET
10 10 (26.32%) Automated Testing
11 9 (23.68%) Front Office
12 8 (21.05%) Oracle
12 8 (21.05%) C++
12 8 (21.05%) TDD
13 7 (18.42%) Cucumber
13 7 (18.42%) Market Risk
13 7 (18.42%) Risk Management
13 7 (18.42%) HP
14 6 (15.79%) ISEB
14 6 (15.79%) E-Commerce
14 6 (15.79%) WebDriver
14 6 (15.79%) Test Scripting
14 6 (15.79%) Ruby
14 6 (15.79%) Analytics
15 5 (13.16%) Risk Analytics
15 5 (13.16%) Basel III
15 5 (13.16%) Test Strategy

QuickTest Pro
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region citing QuickTest Pro 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 QuickTest Pro. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 10 (26.32%) .NET
2 3 (7.895%) Web Services
3 2 (5.263%) XML
4 1 (2.632%) Gherkin
4 1 (2.632%) WPF
4 1 (2.632%) Ajax
4 1 (2.632%) JMS
4 1 (2.632%) Motif
4 1 (2.632%) Middleware
4 1 (2.632%) SOAP
4 1 (2.632%) J2EE
4 1 (2.632%) UDDI
4 1 (2.632%) WSDL
Application Platforms
1 5 (13.16%) TIBCO EMS
2 1 (2.632%) Liferay
2 1 (2.632%) MSMQ
2 1 (2.632%) Tomcat
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.632%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (13.16%) Data Warehouse
2 4 (10.53%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 16 (42.11%) Selenium
2 7 (18.42%) Cucumber
3 6 (15.79%) WebDriver
4 5 (13.16%) SilkTest
4 5 (13.16%) JIRA
5 4 (10.53%) JMeter
6 3 (7.895%) LoadRunner
7 2 (5.263%) TestDirector
7 2 (5.263%) FitNesse
8 1 (2.632%) Hudson
8 1 (2.632%) Visual Studio Team System
8 1 (2.632%) TeamCity
8 1 (2.632%) Team Foundation Server
8 1 (2.632%) PHPUnit
8 1 (2.632%) Subversion
8 1 (2.632%) Maven
8 1 (2.632%) JUnit
8 1 (2.632%) Visual Studio
General
1 20 (52.63%) Banking
2 19 (50.00%) Finance
3 17 (44.74%) Investment Banking
4 9 (23.68%) Front Office
5 2 (5.263%) Back Office
5 2 (5.263%) Billing
Job Titles
1 27 (71.05%) Analyst
2 22 (57.89%) Test Analyst
3 13 (34.21%) QA Analyst
4 8 (21.05%) QA Test Analyst
5 7 (18.42%) Automation Test Analyst
5 7 (18.42%) Automation Analyst
6 5 (13.16%) Test Data Analyst
6 5 (13.16%) Data Analyst
6 5 (13.16%) QA Engineer
7 4 (10.53%) Senior Analyst
7 4 (10.53%) Senior Test Analyst
8 3 (7.895%) Test Automation Analyst
8 3 (7.895%) Developer Analyst
8 3 (7.895%) Tester
8 3 (7.895%) Developer
9 2 (5.263%) Test Leader
10 1 (2.632%) Senior QA Analyst
10 1 (2.632%) Senior QA Engineer
10 1 (2.632%) Senior QA Test Analyst
10 1 (2.632%) Senior Tester
Miscellaneous
1 15 (39.47%) Derivative
2 7 (18.42%) Market Risk
3 5 (13.16%) Credit Risk
3 5 (13.16%) Credit Derivative
4 4 (10.53%) Fixed Income
5 3 (7.895%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 2 (5.263%) Contract for Difference
6 2 (5.263%) Equity Derivative
7 1 (2.632%) Reference Data
7 1 (2.632%) Statistics
7 1 (2.632%) Open Source
7 1 (2.632%) Kindle
7 1 (2.632%) Computer Science
7 1 (2.632%) Equities
7 1 (2.632%) Grid Computing
Operating Systems
1 5 (13.16%) UNIX
2 2 (5.263%) Linux
3 1 (2.632%) Windows XP
3 1 (2.632%) Windows
3 1 (2.632%) Windows 2000
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (42.11%) Agile Software Development
2 12 (31.58%) Test Automation
3 10 (26.32%) Automated Testing
4 8 (21.05%) TDD
5 7 (18.42%) Risk Management
6 6 (15.79%) E-Commerce
6 6 (15.79%) Test Scripting
6 6 (15.79%) Analytics
7 5 (13.16%) Risk Analytics
7 5 (13.16%) Test Strategy
7 5 (13.16%) Regression Testing
7 5 (13.16%) Data Modelling
8 4 (10.53%) Agile Testing
9 3 (7.895%) Automation Testing
9 3 (7.895%) Waterfall
9 3 (7.895%) Software Testing
10 2 (5.263%) ITIL
10 2 (5.263%) Configuration Management
10 2 (5.263%) Migration
10 2 (5.263%) Security Testing
Programming Languages
1 18 (47.37%) SQL
2 11 (28.95%) Java
3 8 (21.05%) C++
4 6 (15.79%) Ruby
5 5 (13.16%) C#
6 4 (10.53%) Perl
6 4 (10.53%) VB
7 2 (5.263%) Python
7 2 (5.263%) VBA
7 2 (5.263%) Jython
8 1 (2.632%) VBScript
8 1 (2.632%) C
8 1 (2.632%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 6 (15.79%) ISEB
2 4 (10.53%) ISTQB
3 1 (2.632%) SC Cleared
3 1 (2.632%) Security Cleared
3 1 (2.632%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (73.68%) QA
2 5 (13.16%) Basel III
3 1 (2.632%) ISO 9001
3 1 (2.632%) SLA
Systems Management
1 11 (28.95%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 8 (21.05%) Oracle
2 7 (18.42%) HP
3 5 (13.16%) TIBCO
4 2 (5.263%) Sybase
4 2 (5.263%) Microsoft
5 1 (2.632%) Microgen
5 1 (2.632%) Yahoo!
5 1 (2.632%) Murex
5 1 (2.632%) PeopleSoft
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