Coventry QuickTest Pro Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for HP QuickTest Professional (QTP) skills within the Coventry region with a comparison to our Development Applications category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited QuickTest Pro over the 3 months to 13 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

HP QuickTest Professional (QTP)
Location Andover Basingstoke Berkshire Birmingham Bournemouth Bradford Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cheshire City of London Coventry Docklands, London Dorset East Midlands East of England Edinburgh England Essex Farnham Glasgow Guildford Halifax Hampshire Harlow Hertfordshire Ipswich Leeds London M4 Corridor Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury North West Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Reading Salisbury Scotland South East South Lanarkshire South West Southampton Southend-on-Sea Stevenage Suffolk Surrey Swansea Swindon Thames Valley UK Uxbridge Wales Warrington Watford West Midlands West Wales West Yorkshire Wiltshire Yorkshire	3 months to 13 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	-	34
Rank change on same period last year	-
Matching contract IT job ads	0	1
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.000 %	0.001 %
As % of the category below	0.000 %	5.263 %
Daily rates quoted	0	1
Average minimum daily rate	-	£260
Average daily rate	-	£270
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	£280
UK excluding London average daily rate	£303	£318
% change on same period last year	-4.73 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum hourly rate	-	-
Average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£24.13	£45.40
% change on same period last year	-46.86 %
Development Applications Coventry
Matching contract IT job ads	8	19
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.011 %	0.019 %
Daily rates quoted	2	4
Average minimum daily rate	£338	£268
Average daily rate	£353	£275
% change on same period last year	+28.37 %
Average maximum daily rate	£368	£282
UK excluding London average daily rate	£323	£327
% change on same period last year	-1.24 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum hourly rate	-	-
Average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£32.43	£31.25
% change on same period last year	+3.75 %
QuickTest Pro West Midlands

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.

QuickTest Pro
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing QuickTest Pro across the Coventry region as a proportion of the total demand within the Development Applications category.

QuickTest Pro
Daily Rate Trend

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