City of London QuickTest Pro Contracts

This section looks at the demand for HP QuickTest Professional (QTP) skills within the City of London region with a comparison to our Development Applications category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT job ads that have cited QuickTest Pro over the 3 months to 18 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

HP QuickTest Professional (QTP)
Location Aberdeen Basingstoke Berkshire Birmingham Bournemouth Bracknell Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cheshire City of London Derby Derbyshire Docklands, London Dorset East Midlands East of England Edinburgh England Essex Glasgow Godalming Guildford Hammersmith Hampshire Harlow Havant Hertfordshire Ipswich Leeds London Manchester Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Upon Tyne Norfolk North East North West Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Poole Reading Redhill Scotland Shropshire South East South West Stevenage Suffolk Surrey Swansea Swindon Tadworth Telford Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Wales Watford West Midlands West Wales West Yorkshire Wiltshire Yorkshire	3 months to 18 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	188	142
Rank change on same period last year	-46
Matching contract IT job ads	35	57
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.046 %	0.058 %
As % of the category below	5.279 %	10.40 %
Daily rates quoted	24	27
Average minimum daily rate	£310	£375
Average daily rate	£380	£401
% change on same period last year	-5.25 %
Average maximum daily rate	£449	£427
UK excluding London average daily rate	£319	£317
% change on same period last year	+0.66 %
Hourly rates quoted	1	0
Average minimum hourly rate	£50.00	-
Average hourly rate	£55.00	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	£60.00	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£32.19	£32.08
% change on same period last year	+0.34 %
Development Applications City of London
Matching contract IT job ads	663	548
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.880 %	0.562 %
Daily rates quoted	362	263
Average minimum daily rate	£363	£426
Average daily rate	£403	£457
% change on same period last year	-11.71 %
Average maximum daily rate	£444	£488
UK excluding London average daily rate	£331	£330
% change on same period last year	+0.24 %
Hourly rates quoted	16	7
Average minimum hourly rate	£31.12	£18.00
Average hourly rate	£33.44	£20.07
% change on same period last year	+66.61 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£35.76	£22.14
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£33.35	£33.70
% change on same period last year	-1.04 %
QuickTest Pro London

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.

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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 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.

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Daily Rate Trend

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

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Daily Rate Histogram

The 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 18 July 2008.

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Hourly Rate Trend

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

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 July 2008, 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 32 (32.99 %) TestDirector 1 32 (32.99 %) LoadRunner 2 30 (30.93 %) Finance 3 26 (26.80 %) WinRunner 3 26 (26.80 %) SQL 4 21 (21.65 %) Banking 5 20 (20.62 %) Agile Software Development 6 18 (18.56 %) QA 6 18 (18.56 %) Test Scripting 7 17 (17.53 %) Oracle 8 16 (16.49 %) Selenium 8 16 (16.49 %) Scrum 9 15 (15.46 %) Java 10 14 (14.43 %) Investment Banking 10 14 (14.43 %) Automated Testing

11 13 (13.40 %) HP 12 12 (12.37 %) UNIX 13 11 (11.34 %) FitNesse 13 11 (11.34 %) Test Management 14 10 (10.31 %) SAP 15 9 (9.278 %) ASP 15 9 (9.278 %) C# 15 9 (9.278 %) Integration Testing 16 8 (8.247 %) Investment Management 16 8 (8.247 %) Datawarehouse 16 8 (8.247 %) ISEB 17 7 (7.216 %) Front Office 17 7 (7.216 %) Windows 17 7 (7.216 %) VB 17 7 (7.216 %) Software Testing

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 July 2008, 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 9 (9.278 %) ASP 2 5 (5.155 %) .NET 2 5 (5.155 %) XML 3 4 (4.124 %) XSLT 3 4 (4.124 %) AJAX 4 3 (3.093 %) XHTML 4 3 (3.093 %) CSS 5 2 (2.062 %) Middleware 5 2 (2.062 %) HTML 6 1 (1.031 %) .NET Framework 6 1 (1.031 %) Flex 2 6 1 (1.031 %) Adobe Flex 6 1 (1.031 %) WCF 6 1 (1.031 %) Adobe AIR 6 1 (1.031 %) J2EE	Application Platforms 1 3 (3.093 %) WebLogic 2 2 (2.062 %) CMS
Applications 1 1 (1.031 %) MS Office 1 1 (1.031 %) MS Excel	Business Applications 1 5 (5.155 %) SAP PM 2 1 (1.031 %) SAP SRM 2 1 (1.031 %) SAP R/3
Communications & Networking 1 2 (2.062 %) Broadband 2 1 (1.031 %) Internet	Database & Business Intelligence 1 8 (8.247 %) Datawarehouse 2 5 (5.155 %) Oracle Reports 3 4 (4.124 %) TOAD 4 2 (2.062 %) Oracle 10g 4 2 (2.062 %) SQL Server 4 2 (2.062 %) Reference Data 5 1 (1.031 %) SAP BW 5 1 (1.031 %) SQL Server 7 5 1 (1.031 %) RDBMS 5 1 (1.031 %) MS Access
Development Applications 1 32 (32.99 %) TestDirector 1 32 (32.99 %) LoadRunner 2 26 (26.80 %) WinRunner 3 16 (16.49 %) Selenium 4 11 (11.34 %) FitNesse 5 4 (4.124 %) NUnit 6 2 (2.062 %) PVCS 6 2 (2.062 %) ClearQuest 6 2 (2.062 %) JMeter 6 2 (2.062 %) SilkPerformer 6 2 (2.062 %) SilkTest 6 2 (2.062 %) SilkCentral 7 1 (1.031 %) JIRA 7 1 (1.031 %) JUnit 7 1 (1.031 %) Subversion	General 1 30 (30.93 %) Finance 2 21 (21.65 %) Banking 3 14 (14.43 %) Investment Banking 4 7 (7.216 %) Front Office 5 6 (6.186 %) Insurance 6 5 (5.155 %) Games 6 5 (5.155 %) Government 7 2 (2.062 %) Financial Institution 7 2 (2.062 %) Back Office 8 1 (1.031 %) Law 8 1 (1.031 %) Legal 8 1 (1.031 %) Criminal Justice 8 1 (1.031 %) Corporate Banking 8 1 (1.031 %) Private Banking
Job Titles 1 45 (46.39 %) Analyst 2 39 (40.21 %) Tester 3 38 (39.18 %) Test Analyst 4 16 (16.49 %) Test Manager 5 7 (7.216 %) SAP Test Analyst 5 7 (7.216 %) Functional Tester 5 7 (7.216 %) SAP Analyst 6 6 (6.186 %) QA Analyst 7 5 (5.155 %) Functional Test Analyst 7 5 (5.155 %) SAP Tester 7 5 (5.155 %) Developer 7 5 (5.155 %) Senior Analyst 7 5 (5.155 %) Software Tester 7 5 (5.155 %) Senior Test Analyst 7 5 (5.155 %) Functional Analyst 8 4 (4.124 %) Software Developer 9 3 (3.093 %) Test Specialist 9 3 (3.093 %) CRM Manager 10 2 (2.062 %) Test Engineer 10 2 (2.062 %) Performance Tester	Miscellaneous 1 7 (7.216 %) Fixed Income 2 5 (5.155 %) Derivative 3 4 (4.124 %) Asset Management 3 4 (4.124 %) Foreign Exchange (FX) 4 2 (2.062 %) N-Tier 4 2 (2.062 %) Grid Computing 4 2 (2.062 %) Streaming Media 4 2 (2.062 %) Equity Derivative 4 2 (2.062 %) Credit Risk 4 2 (2.062 %) Data Integration 5 1 (1.031 %) RIA 5 1 (1.031 %) Web 2.0 5 1 (1.031 %) Interest Rate Derivative 5 1 (1.031 %) Credit Derivative 5 1 (1.031 %) Client/Server 5 1 (1.031 %) AS400
Operating Systems 1 12 (12.37 %) UNIX 2 7 (7.216 %) Windows 3 4 (4.124 %) Solaris	Processes & Methodologies 1 20 (20.62 %) Agile Software Development 2 18 (18.56 %) Test Scripting 3 16 (16.49 %) Scrum 4 14 (14.43 %) Automated Testing 5 11 (11.34 %) Test Management 6 9 (9.278 %) Integration Testing 7 8 (8.247 %) Investment Management 8 7 (7.216 %) Software Testing 9 6 (6.186 %) Configuration Management 9 6 (6.186 %) Migration 9 6 (6.186 %) Performance Testing 9 6 (6.186 %) Unit Testing 10 5 (5.155 %) Security Cleared 10 5 (5.155 %) User Acceptance Testing 10 5 (5.155 %) Regression Testing 10 5 (5.155 %) TDD 11 4 (4.124 %) Refactoring 11 4 (4.124 %) Release Management 11 4 (4.124 %) CRM 11 4 (4.124 %) Web Testing
Programming Languages 1 26 (26.80 %) SQL 2 15 (15.46 %) Java 3 9 (9.278 %) C# 4 7 (7.216 %) VB 5 6 (6.186 %) VBScript 6 4 (4.124 %) C++ 7 2 (2.062 %) JavaScript 7 2 (2.062 %) PL/SQL 7 2 (2.062 %) Shell Script	Qualifications 1 8 (8.247 %) ISEB 2 2 (2.062 %) ISTQB 2 2 (2.062 %) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 18 (18.56 %) QA 2 1 (1.031 %) Basel II	Vendors 1 17 (17.53 %) Oracle 2 13 (13.40 %) HP 3 10 (10.31 %) SAP 4 3 (3.093 %) Murex 5 2 (2.062 %) Reuters 5 2 (2.062 %) Bloomberg 5 2 (2.062 %) Sophis 5 2 (2.062 %) Segue 5 2 (2.062 %) BEA 5 2 (2.062 %) Empirix 5 2 (2.062 %) Borland 6 1 (1.031 %) TIBCO 6 1 (1.031 %) Adobe 6 1 (1.031 %) Sybase 6 1 (1.031 %) Interwoven