The first table below looks at the demand for Performance Testing skills in IT contracts advertised for the Crawley region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Performance 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 Crawley 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
Performance Testing
Rank 22 32 22
Rank change year-on-year
+10 -10
Contract jobs citing Performance Testing 2 3 3
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Crawley 1.333% 1.141% 2.542%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.818% 1.429% 3.571%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Average daily rate £300 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £413 £375
% change year-on-year
-21.21% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
Average hourly rate - - £36.25
UK excluding London average hourly rate £32.00 £31.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+1.58% -10.00%
All Processes & Methodologies
Crawley
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
110 210 84
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Crawley 73.33% 79.85% 71.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 79 126 35
Average daily rate £375 £313 £388
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+20.00% -19.35%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £313 £275 £300
10% offered a daily rate of more than £438 £475 £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £363 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
-0.68% -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 1 7
Average hourly rate £32.50 £14.50 £50.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+124.13% -71.00%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.60 £25.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year
+26.40% -16.66%
Performance Testing
West Sussex

Performance Testing
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Crawley Performance Testing Jobs Demand Trend

Performance Testing
Daily Rate Trend

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

Crawley Performance Testing Daily Rate Trend

Performance Testing
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Crawley Performance Testing Hourly Rate Trend

Performance Testing
Top 22 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Crawley region citing Performance 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 Performance Testing.

1 4 (80.00%) Test Scripting
2 3 (60.00%) Load Testing
2 3 (60.00%) SAP
3 2 (40.00%) CRM
3 2 (40.00%) CA
3 2 (40.00%) SAP CRM
3 2 (40.00%) Billing
3 2 (40.00%) SAP IS-U
3 2 (40.00%) Smart Meter
4 1 (20.00%) HP Quality Center
4 1 (20.00%) Test Strategy
4 1 (20.00%) User Stories
4 1 (20.00%) User Acceptance Testing
4 1 (20.00%) Automated Testing
4 1 (20.00%) SAP PI
4 1 (20.00%) Selenium
4 1 (20.00%) SAP FI-CA
4 1 (20.00%) SAP XI
4 1 (20.00%) Agile Software Development
4 1 (20.00%) TDD
4 1 (20.00%) SAP FI
4 1 (20.00%) Web Services

Performance Testing
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 1 (20.00%) Web Services
1 1 (20.00%) SAP XI
1 1 (20.00%) SAP PI
Business Applications
1 2 (40.00%) SAP CRM
1 2 (40.00%) SAP IS-U
2 1 (20.00%) SAP FI
2 1 (20.00%) SAP FI-CA
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Selenium
General
1 2 (40.00%) Billing
Job Titles
1 4 (80.00%) Analyst
1 4 (80.00%) Test Analyst
2 2 (40.00%) Performance Analyst
2 2 (40.00%) Performance Test Analyst
2 2 (40.00%) SAP Test Analyst
2 2 (40.00%) SAP Analyst
3 1 (20.00%) Systems Analyst
3 1 (20.00%) Systems Test Analyst
3 1 (20.00%) Test Manager
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Smart Meter
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Test Scripting
2 3 (60.00%) Load Testing
3 2 (40.00%) CRM
4 1 (20.00%) Agile Software Development
4 1 (20.00%) TDD
4 1 (20.00%) Automated Testing
4 1 (20.00%) User Acceptance Testing
4 1 (20.00%) Test Strategy
4 1 (20.00%) User Stories
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) SAP
2 2 (40.00%) CA