Regression 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 Regression 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 Regression Testing 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 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
23 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Regression Testing
Rank 169 174 194
Rank change year-on-year
+5 +20
Contract jobs citing Regression Testing 30 45 51
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 0.472% 0.572% 0.511%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.644% 0.798% 0.712%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 34 26
Average daily rate £450 £425 £383
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+5.88% +11.11%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £272 £225 £238
10% offered a daily rate of more than £550 £625 £513
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £375 £320
% change year-on-year
-20.00% +17.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 2
Average hourly rate - £38.00 £81.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -53.37%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £36.25 £29.50 £29.50
% change year-on-year
+22.88% -
All Processes & Methodologies
City of London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category		 4658 5642 7164
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 73.33% 71.67% 71.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 3513 4087 5301
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 77 94 100
Average hourly rate £41.50 £22.50 £25.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+84.44% -10.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £17.90 £15.00 £14.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £135.00 £47.50 £50.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.45 £25.00 £29.00
% change year-on-year
+21.78% -13.79%
Regression Testing
London

Regression Testing
Jobs Demand Trend

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

City of London Regression Testing Jobs Demand Trend

Regression Testing
Daily Rate Trend

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

City of London Regression Testing Daily Rate Trend

Regression Testing
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Regression Testing across the City of London region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

City of London Regression Testing Daily Rate Histogram

Regression Testing
Hourly Rate Trend

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

City of London Regression Testing Hourly Rate Trend

Regression Testing
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region citing Regression 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 Regression Testing.

1 24 (45.28%) Finance
2 20 (37.74%) QA
3 19 (35.85%) SQL
4 18 (33.96%) Banking
5 15 (28.30%) Investment Banking
5 15 (28.30%) User Acceptance Testing
6 13 (24.53%) .NET
7 11 (20.75%) HP Quality Center
8 10 (18.87%) Performance Testing
8 10 (18.87%) JIRA
8 10 (18.87%) SQL Server
8 10 (18.87%) Derivative
9 9 (16.98%) UNIX
9 9 (16.98%) Microsoft
9 9 (16.98%) Test Scripting
10 8 (15.09%) Degree
10 8 (15.09%) Test Strategy
10 8 (15.09%) Oracle
11 7 (13.21%) Subversion
11 7 (13.21%) C++
11 7 (13.21%) HP
11 7 (13.21%) E-Commerce
11 7 (13.21%) TCP/IP
12 6 (11.32%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 6 (11.32%) Java
12 6 (11.32%) C#
12 6 (11.32%) Test Management
12 6 (11.32%) Market Risk
12 6 (11.32%) Test Automation
12 6 (11.32%) Integration Testing

Regression Testing
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 13 (24.53%) .NET
2 4 (7.547%) XML
3 2 (3.774%) .NET Framework
4 1 (1.887%) WPF
4 1 (1.887%) Gherkin
4 1 (1.887%) ASP.NET
4 1 (1.887%) XSD
4 1 (1.887%) Motif
4 1 (1.887%) Java SE
Application Platforms
1 4 (7.547%) Confluence
2 1 (1.887%) Tomcat
2 1 (1.887%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.887%) CMS
Applications
1 4 (7.547%) MS Excel
2 2 (3.774%) MS Office
3 1 (1.887%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (1.887%) MS Project
3 1 (1.887%) MS Visio
3 1 (1.887%) MS PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (3.774%) Oracle Financials
Communications & Networking
1 7 (13.21%) TCP/IP
2 2 (3.774%) VPN
2 2 (3.774%) HTTP
2 2 (3.774%) Network Security
3 1 (1.887%) FTP
3 1 (1.887%) BSS
3 1 (1.887%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (18.87%) SQL Server
2 3 (5.660%) Oracle Reports
2 3 (5.660%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (3.774%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 2 (3.774%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 2 (3.774%) SQLPlus
3 2 (3.774%) OLAP
3 2 (3.774%) Oracle OLAP
4 1 (1.887%) SQL Server 2008
4 1 (1.887%) Business Intelligence Development Studio
4 1 (1.887%) Oracle 8/8i
4 1 (1.887%) Data Mining
Development Applications
1 10 (18.87%) JIRA
2 7 (13.21%) Subversion
3 5 (9.434%) QuickTest Pro
4 4 (7.547%) Maven
5 3 (5.660%) Cucumber
5 3 (5.660%) Git (software)
5 3 (5.660%) Selenium
5 3 (5.660%) FitNesse
5 3 (5.660%) MSBuild
5 3 (5.660%) Visual Studio
5 3 (5.660%) Ant
5 3 (5.660%) LoadRunner
6 2 (3.774%) Bugzilla
6 2 (3.774%) WinRunner
6 2 (3.774%) Oracle Forms
6 2 (3.774%) Oracle APEX
7 1 (1.887%) Hudson
7 1 (1.887%) Team Foundation Server
7 1 (1.887%) Talend Open Studio
7 1 (1.887%) SpecFlow
General
1 24 (45.28%) Finance
2 18 (33.96%) Banking
3 15 (28.30%) Investment Banking
4 4 (7.547%) Front Office
5 2 (3.774%) Telecoms
5 2 (3.774%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 22 (41.51%) Analyst
2 18 (33.96%) Test Analyst
3 9 (16.98%) Test Manager
4 8 (15.09%) QA Analyst
5 6 (11.32%) Tester
6 5 (9.434%) Developer
6 5 (9.434%) QA Test Analyst
7 3 (5.660%) Agile Test Analyst
7 3 (5.660%) Release Analyst
7 3 (5.660%) Software Tester
8 2 (3.774%) C++ Developer
8 2 (3.774%) Senior Tester
8 2 (3.774%) Senior Analyst
8 2 (3.774%) Programmer
8 2 (3.774%) Quality Engineer
8 2 (3.774%) Software Test Analyst
8 2 (3.774%) Trainee Analyst
8 2 (3.774%) Trainee Test Analyst
8 2 (3.774%) Trainee
8 2 (3.774%) Senior Programmer
Miscellaneous
1 10 (18.87%) Derivative
2 6 (11.32%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 6 (11.32%) Market Risk
3 5 (9.434%) Credit Risk
3 5 (9.434%) Computer Science
3 5 (9.434%) Credit Derivative
4 3 (5.660%) Open Source
5 2 (3.774%) STB
5 2 (3.774%) MPEG
5 2 (3.774%) Digital Media
5 2 (3.774%) Ergonomics
5 2 (3.774%) Data Conversion
6 1 (1.887%) Mathematics
6 1 (1.887%) Physics
6 1 (1.887%) PMI
6 1 (1.887%) Grid Computing
6 1 (1.887%) Replication
6 1 (1.887%) Fixed Income
6 1 (1.887%) Equities
Operating Systems
1 9 (16.98%) UNIX
2 4 (7.547%) Linux
3 3 (5.660%) Windows
4 2 (3.774%) Android
4 2 (3.774%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (28.30%) User Acceptance Testing
2 10 (18.87%) Performance Testing
3 9 (16.98%) Test Scripting
4 8 (15.09%) Test Strategy
5 7 (13.21%) E-Commerce
6 6 (11.32%) Test Management
6 6 (11.32%) Test Automation
6 6 (11.32%) Integration Testing
7 5 (9.434%) Stress Testing
7 5 (9.434%) Migration
8 4 (7.547%) Agile Software Development
8 4 (7.547%) Automated Testing
9 3 (5.660%) BDD
9 3 (5.660%) User Experience Design
9 3 (5.660%) Monte Carlo Method
9 3 (5.660%) Web Testing
9 3 (5.660%) Time Management
9 3 (5.660%) Manual Testing
9 3 (5.660%) Unit Testing
9 3 (5.660%) Security Testing
Programming Languages
1 19 (35.85%) SQL
2 7 (13.21%) C++
3 6 (11.32%) Java
3 6 (11.32%) C#
4 5 (9.434%) PowerShell
4 5 (9.434%) Perl
5 4 (7.547%) Python
5 4 (7.547%) JavaScript
5 4 (7.547%) VBScript
5 4 (7.547%) VB.NET
6 2 (3.774%) Ruby
6 2 (3.774%) VBA
6 2 (3.774%) VB
6 2 (3.774%) PL/SQL
6 2 (3.774%) Lua
6 2 (3.774%) Bash shell
6 2 (3.774%) Scala
7 1 (1.887%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 8 (15.09%) Degree
2 5 (9.434%) ISEB
2 5 (9.434%) ISTQB
3 1 (1.887%) HND
3 1 (1.887%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (37.74%) QA
Systems Management
1 11 (20.75%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 9 (16.98%) Microsoft
2 8 (15.09%) Oracle
3 7 (13.21%) HP
4 2 (3.774%) Siebel
5 1 (1.887%) Microgen
5 1 (1.887%) Sitecore
5 1 (1.887%) Talend
5 1 (1.887%) PeopleSoft
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