The first table below looks at the demand for User Acceptance Testing skills in IT contracts advertised for the Coventry region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited User Acceptance Testing over the 3 months to 17 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 Coventry 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
User Acceptance Testing (UAT)
Rank 20 13 19
Rank change year-on-year
-7 +6
Contract jobs citing User Acceptance Testing 13 18 8
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Coventry 6.075% 7.087% 4.188%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.879% 10.40% 5.594%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 12 2
Average daily rate £394 £345 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+14.13% -13.75%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £389 £303 £280
10% offered a daily rate of more than £399 £400 £520
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £350 £350
% change year-on-year
-7.14% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 0
Average hourly rate £32.00 £29.00 -
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+10.34% -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.00 £26.28 £23.00
% change year-on-year
+14.15% +14.26%
All Processes & Methodologies
Coventry
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
165 173 143
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Coventry 77.10% 68.11% 74.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 47 67 61
Average daily rate £375 £340 £404
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+10.29% -15.73%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £163 £250 £265
10% offered a daily rate of more than £550 £450 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £363 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
-0.68% -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 46 17 4
Average hourly rate £37.80 £30.00 £31.15
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+26.00% -3.69%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.60 £25.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year
+26.40% -16.66%
User Acceptance Testing
West Midlands

User Acceptance Testing
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Coventry User Acceptance Testing Jobs Demand Trend

User Acceptance Testing
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing User Acceptance Testing across the Coventry region.

Coventry User Acceptance Testing Daily Rate Trend

User Acceptance Testing
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing User Acceptance Testing across the Coventry region.

Coventry User Acceptance Testing Hourly Rate Trend

User Acceptance Testing
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Coventry region citing User Acceptance 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 User Acceptance Testing.

1 7 (41.18%) Automotive
1 7 (41.18%) Manufacturing
1 7 (41.18%) Logistics
1 7 (41.18%) Integration Testing
2 6 (35.29%) Validation
3 4 (23.53%) Automated Testing
3 4 (23.53%) Finance
3 4 (23.53%) SAP
3 4 (23.53%) Marketing
4 3 (17.65%) Test Scripting
4 3 (17.65%) Stakeholder Management
5 2 (11.76%) Project Management
5 2 (11.76%) SQL
5 2 (11.76%) VB.NET
5 2 (11.76%) .NET
5 2 (11.76%) CRM
5 2 (11.76%) SharePoint
5 2 (11.76%) Test Strategy
5 2 (11.76%) Business Analysis
5 2 (11.76%) Degree
6 1 (5.882%) Problem Management
6 1 (5.882%) Matrix Management
6 1 (5.882%) SAP Implementation
6 1 (5.882%) Unit Testing
6 1 (5.882%) Capita
6 1 (5.882%) WebSphere
6 1 (5.882%) Business Transformation
6 1 (5.882%) Windows 7
6 1 (5.882%) Windows XP
6 1 (5.882%) MS Visio

User Acceptance Testing
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Coventry region citing User Acceptance 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 User Acceptance Testing. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 2 (11.76%) .NET
2 1 (5.882%) Middleware
2 1 (5.882%) WebSphere
Application Platforms
1 2 (11.76%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (5.882%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (5.882%) SAP QM
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.882%) Ethernet
1 1 (5.882%) 3G
1 1 (5.882%) Firewall
1 1 (5.882%) 2G
General
1 7 (41.18%) Automotive
1 7 (41.18%) Manufacturing
2 4 (23.53%) Finance
2 4 (23.53%) Marketing
3 1 (5.882%) Billing
Job Titles
1 5 (29.41%) Test Manager
2 4 (23.53%) Business Analyst
2 4 (23.53%) Analyst
3 3 (17.65%) Consultant
4 2 (11.76%) Project Manager
5 1 (5.882%) Management Consultant
5 1 (5.882%) Field Service Engineer
5 1 (5.882%) Field Engineer
5 1 (5.882%) SAP Consultant
5 1 (5.882%) Test Consultant
5 1 (5.882%) SAP QM Consultant
5 1 (5.882%) SAP Business Analyst
5 1 (5.882%) Technical Leader
5 1 (5.882%) SAP Analyst
5 1 (5.882%) Test Leader
Miscellaneous
1 1 (5.882%) Firmware
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.882%) Windows
1 1 (5.882%) Windows XP
1 1 (5.882%) VMS
1 1 (5.882%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (41.18%) Logistics
1 7 (41.18%) Integration Testing
2 6 (35.29%) Validation
3 4 (23.53%) Automated Testing
4 3 (17.65%) Stakeholder Management
4 3 (17.65%) Test Scripting
5 2 (11.76%) Test Strategy
5 2 (11.76%) CRM
5 2 (11.76%) Project Management
5 2 (11.76%) Business Analysis
6 1 (5.882%) Problem Management
6 1 (5.882%) Matrix Management
6 1 (5.882%) SAP Implementation
6 1 (5.882%) Unit Testing
6 1 (5.882%) PLM
6 1 (5.882%) Information Management
6 1 (5.882%) Quality Management
6 1 (5.882%) Business Transformation
Programming Languages
1 2 (11.76%) SQL
1 2 (11.76%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 2 (11.76%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.882%) SLA
Vendors
1 4 (23.53%) SAP
2 1 (5.882%) IBM
2 1 (5.882%) Cramer
2 1 (5.882%) Capita