The first table below looks at the demand for Rational Performance Tester 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 Rational Performance Tester over the 3 months to 23 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
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
IBM Rational Performance Tester (RPT)
Rank 195 217 244
Rank change year-on-year
+22 +27
Contract jobs citing Rational Performance Tester 4 2 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 0.063% 0.025% 0.010%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.508% 0.306% 0.097%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 1
Average daily rate £336 - £525
UK excluding London average daily rate £375 £436 £303
% change year-on-year
-14.04% +44.21%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Development Applications
City of London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Development Applications category
787 653 1030
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 12.39% 8.295% 10.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 604 487 777
Average daily rate £413 £428 £475
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-3.50% -10.00%
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% -
Rational Performance Tester
London

Rational Performance Tester
Jobs Demand Trend

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

City of London Rational Performance Tester Jobs Demand Trend

Rational Performance Tester
Daily Rate Trend

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

City of London Rational Performance Tester Daily Rate Trend

Rational Performance Tester
Top 16 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region citing Rational Performance Tester 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 Rational Performance Tester.

1 5 (100.00%) IBM
1 5 (100.00%) LoadRunner
2 4 (80.00%) Performance Testing
3 2 (40.00%) Agile Software Development
3 2 (40.00%) WebSphere
3 2 (40.00%) Shell Script
3 2 (40.00%) Microsoft
3 2 (40.00%) HP
3 2 (40.00%) Java
3 2 (40.00%) VBA
3 2 (40.00%) DB2
3 2 (40.00%) Web Services
3 2 (40.00%) UNIX
3 2 (40.00%) Capacity Planning
3 2 (40.00%) Splunk
3 2 (40.00%) Enterprise Software

Rational Performance Tester
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region citing Rational Performance Tester 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 Rational Performance Tester. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 2 (40.00%) WebSphere
1 2 (40.00%) Web Services
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (40.00%) DB2
Development Applications
1 5 (100.00%) LoadRunner
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Analyst
1 3 (60.00%) Test Analyst
2 2 (40.00%) Test Specialist
2 2 (40.00%) Performance Analyst
2 2 (40.00%) Performance Test Analyst
2 2 (40.00%) Performance Test Specialist
3 1 (20.00%) Senior Analyst
3 1 (20.00%) Senior Test Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 2 (40.00%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Performance Testing
2 2 (40.00%) Agile Software Development
2 2 (40.00%) Capacity Planning
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) Shell Script
1 2 (40.00%) Java
1 2 (40.00%) VBA
Systems Management
1 2 (40.00%) Splunk
Vendors
1 5 (100.00%) IBM
2 2 (40.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (40.00%) HP