The first table below looks at the demand for System 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 System Testing over the 3 months to 19 June 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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
System Testing
Rank 165 169 159
Rank change year-on-year
+4 -10
Contract jobs citing System Testing 45 43 93
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 0.664% 0.555% 0.929%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.895% 0.768% 1.308%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 28 63
Average daily rate £350 £500 £550
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-30.00% -9.09%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £325 £265 £350
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £638 £650
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £328
% change year-on-year
- -0.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Average hourly rate - - £13.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.50 £32.50 £27.82
% change year-on-year
-6.15% +16.84%
All Processes & Methodologies
City of London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
5027 5597 7112
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 74.14% 72.30% 71.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 3796 4123 5235
Average daily rate £450 £475 £500
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-5.26% -5.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £310 £301 £325
10% offered a daily rate of more than £600 £625 £650
UK excluding London average daily rate £370 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
+1.36% -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 93 82 123
Average hourly rate £31.25 £25.00 £25.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+25.00% -
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £17.00 £16.65 £14.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £125.00 £47.85 £54.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.00 £25.00 £29.00
% change year-on-year
+24.00% -13.79%
System Testing
London

System Testing
Jobs Demand Trend

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

City of London System Testing Jobs Demand Trend

System Testing
Daily Rate Trend

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

City of London System Testing Daily Rate Trend

System Testing
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing System Testing across the City of London region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

City of London System Testing Daily Rate Histogram

System Testing
Hourly Rate Trend

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

City of London System Testing Hourly Rate Trend

System Testing
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region citing System 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 System Testing.

1 34 (44.16%) SQL
1 34 (44.16%) User Acceptance Testing
2 30 (38.96%) Banking
3 29 (37.66%) Windows
4 28 (36.36%) Finance
5 23 (29.87%) C#
6 21 (27.27%) Investment Banking
7 17 (22.08%) .NET
8 15 (19.48%) SQL Server
8 15 (19.48%) Active Directory
9 13 (16.88%) Citrix
9 13 (16.88%) Oracle
9 13 (16.88%) VB
9 13 (16.88%) MSI
9 13 (16.88%) Microsoft App-V
9 13 (16.88%) AppSense
9 13 (16.88%) Application Packaging
9 13 (16.88%) PowerShell
9 13 (16.88%) Windows 7
10 10 (12.99%) Agile Software Development
10 10 (12.99%) Risk Management
11 9 (11.69%) Project Management
11 9 (11.69%) Microsoft
12 8 (10.39%) ASP.NET
12 8 (10.39%) Computer Science
12 8 (10.39%) QA
12 8 (10.39%) Degree
12 8 (10.39%) Multithreading
13 7 (9.091%) Asset Management
13 7 (9.091%) Migration

System Testing
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region citing System 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 System Testing. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 17 (22.08%) .NET
2 13 (16.88%) Application Packaging
3 8 (10.39%) ASP.NET
4 4 (5.195%) HTML
5 3 (3.896%) WPF
6 2 (2.597%) Middleware
6 2 (2.597%) CSS
6 2 (2.597%) Ajax
6 2 (2.597%) .NET Framework
6 2 (2.597%) jQuery
7 1 (1.299%) CAML
7 1 (1.299%) HTML5
7 1 (1.299%) ASP.NET MVC
7 1 (1.299%) WebSphere
7 1 (1.299%) ISPF
7 1 (1.299%) WCF
7 1 (1.299%) MDX
7 1 (1.299%) ActiveMQ
7 1 (1.299%) SOAP
7 1 (1.299%) Web Services
Application Platforms
1 6 (7.792%) SharePoint
2 4 (5.195%) SharePoint 2010
3 1 (1.299%) SharePoint Server
3 1 (1.299%) Drupal
3 1 (1.299%) CMS
Applications
1 5 (6.494%) MS Excel
2 3 (3.896%) MS Office
3 1 (1.299%) InfoPath
3 1 (1.299%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (5.195%) Front Arena
2 3 (3.896%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (2.597%) Oracle Financials
4 1 (1.299%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (1.299%) Maximo
4 1 (1.299%) Tridion
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.597%) TCP/IP
1 2 (2.597%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (19.48%) SQL Server
2 6 (7.792%) SQL Server 2008
3 5 (6.494%) SQL Server 2005
3 5 (6.494%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 5 (6.494%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (3.896%) Oracle 8/8i
5 2 (2.597%) TOAD
5 2 (2.597%) RDBMS
5 2 (2.597%) DTS
5 2 (2.597%) SQL Server 2000
5 2 (2.597%) Oracle Reports
5 2 (2.597%) DB2
5 2 (2.597%) Microsoft Analysis Services
5 2 (2.597%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 2 (2.597%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 2 (2.597%) Oracle 11g
6 1 (1.299%) Oracle BI EE
6 1 (1.299%) NonStop SQL
6 1 (1.299%) UniData
Development Applications
1 13 (16.88%) MSI
2 5 (6.494%) JIRA
2 5 (6.494%) Subversion
2 5 (6.494%) Visual Studio
3 2 (2.597%) Bugzilla
3 2 (2.597%) Team Foundation Server
4 1 (1.299%) Selenium
4 1 (1.299%) FitNesse
4 1 (1.299%) VSS/SourceSafe
4 1 (1.299%) ClearCase
General
1 30 (38.96%) Banking
2 28 (36.36%) Finance
3 21 (27.27%) Investment Banking
4 4 (5.195%) Financial Institution
5 3 (3.896%) Front Office
5 3 (3.896%) Back Office
5 3 (3.896%) Advertising
6 2 (2.597%) Retail
7 1 (1.299%) Publishing
7 1 (1.299%) Law
Job Titles
1 28 (36.36%) Developer
2 25 (32.47%) Analyst
3 8 (10.39%) Test Analyst
4 7 (9.091%) Business Analyst
4 7 (9.091%) Systems Analyst
5 5 (6.494%) Python Developer
5 5 (6.494%) C# Developer
6 4 (5.195%) Consultant
6 4 (5.195%) .NET Developer
6 4 (5.195%) SharePoint Developer
6 4 (5.195%) Front Arena Developer
7 3 (3.896%) WPF Developer
7 3 (3.896%) Data Warehouse Developer
8 2 (2.597%) Oracle DBA
8 2 (2.597%) Oracle Developer
8 2 (2.597%) Release Analyst
8 2 (2.597%) DBA
8 2 (2.597%) Tester
8 2 (2.597%) Junior
8 2 (2.597%) Business Systems Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 8 (10.39%) Computer Science
2 6 (7.792%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 6 (7.792%) Derivative
2 6 (7.792%) Credit Risk
3 3 (3.896%) Mathematics
3 3 (3.896%) Market Risk
3 3 (3.896%) Grid Computing
4 2 (2.597%) Client/Server
4 2 (2.597%) Blackberry
4 2 (2.597%) SWIFT
4 2 (2.597%) Reference Data
4 2 (2.597%) Data Conversion
5 1 (1.299%) IBM Mainframe
5 1 (1.299%) FMCG
5 1 (1.299%) iPhone
5 1 (1.299%) Visualisation
5 1 (1.299%) Open Source
5 1 (1.299%) Mobile App
5 1 (1.299%) Taxonomies
5 1 (1.299%) Physics
Operating Systems
1 29 (37.66%) Windows
2 13 (16.88%) Windows 7
3 3 (3.896%) Android
3 3 (3.896%) Apple iOS
4 2 (2.597%) Linux
4 2 (2.597%) Windows Server 2008
5 1 (1.299%) Windows Phone
5 1 (1.299%) Windows Server 2012
5 1 (1.299%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (44.16%) User Acceptance Testing
2 10 (12.99%) Agile Software Development
2 10 (12.99%) Risk Management
3 9 (11.69%) Project Management
4 8 (10.39%) Multithreading
5 7 (9.091%) Asset Management
5 7 (9.091%) Migration
6 6 (7.792%) Workflow
6 6 (7.792%) Integration Testing
6 6 (7.792%) Test Scripting
7 5 (6.494%) Unit Testing
7 5 (6.494%) Waterfall
7 5 (6.494%) Software Testing
8 4 (5.195%) Web Development
8 4 (5.195%) Change Control
8 4 (5.195%) Performance Testing
8 4 (5.195%) Security Testing
9 3 (3.896%) Test Strategy
9 3 (3.896%) Analytics
9 3 (3.896%) Inmon Methodology
Programming Languages
1 34 (44.16%) SQL
2 23 (29.87%) C#
3 13 (16.88%) VB
3 13 (16.88%) PowerShell
4 7 (9.091%) Java
4 7 (9.091%) Python
5 6 (7.792%) T-SQL
6 5 (6.494%) JavaScript
7 4 (5.195%) VB.NET
8 2 (2.597%) C++
8 2 (2.597%) COBOL
8 2 (2.597%) Perl
8 2 (2.597%) PL/SQL
8 2 (2.597%) Lua
8 2 (2.597%) Bash shell
9 1 (1.299%) MATLAB
9 1 (1.299%) C
Qualifications
1 8 (10.39%) Degree
2 6 (7.792%) ISEB
3 2 (2.597%) Security Cleared
3 2 (2.597%) SC Cleared
4 1 (1.299%) BC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (10.39%) QA
2 3 (3.896%) Basel III
3 2 (2.597%) Basel II
4 1 (1.299%) SLA
System Software
1 15 (19.48%) Active Directory
2 13 (16.88%) Microsoft App-V
3 2 (2.597%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (1.299%) XenApp
4 1 (1.299%) VMware ESX
Systems Management
1 4 (5.195%) Control-M
1 4 (5.195%) HP Quality Center
2 1 (1.299%) SCCM
2 1 (1.299%) Sysprep
Vendors
1 13 (16.88%) Citrix
1 13 (16.88%) Oracle
1 13 (16.88%) AppSense
2 9 (11.69%) Microsoft
3 3 (3.896%) IBM
4 2 (2.597%) HP
4 2 (2.597%) VMware
4 2 (2.597%) Serena
4 2 (2.597%) Remedy
5 1 (1.299%) Altiris
5 1 (1.299%) Telerik
5 1 (1.299%) OpenLink
5 1 (1.299%) Sybase
5 1 (1.299%) Business Objects
5 1 (1.299%) Mercator
5 1 (1.299%) Siebel