The first table below looks at the demand for Test Scripting 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 Test Scripting over the 3 months to 24 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Test Scripting (Test Scripts)
Rank 23 32 25
Rank change year-on-year
+9 -7
Contract jobs citing Test Scripting 2 3 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Crawley 1.342% 1.083% 1.639%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.802% 1.357% 2.326%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 2
Average daily rate £300 £300 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -14.28%
UK excluding London average daily rate £329 £300 £320
% change year-on-year
+9.58% -6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £25.50 £27.50 £18.75
% change year-on-year
-7.27% +46.66%
All Processes & Methodologies
Crawley
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
111 221 86
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Crawley 74.50% 79.78% 70.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 85 134 39
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 £275
10% offered a daily rate of more than £438 £475 £413
UK excluding London average daily rate £365 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
- -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 1 6
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 £30.00 £25.00 £29.50
% change year-on-year
+20.00% -15.25%
Test Scripting
West Sussex

Test Scripting
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Crawley Test Scripting Jobs Demand Trend

Test Scripting
Daily Rate Trend

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

Crawley Test Scripting Daily Rate Trend

Test Scripting
Top 27 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Crawley region citing Test Scripting 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 Test Scripting.

1 5 (62.50%) Performance Testing
2 4 (50.00%) Selenium
2 4 (50.00%) SAP
3 2 (25.00%) Web Services
3 2 (25.00%) CRM
3 2 (25.00%) CA
3 2 (25.00%) SAP CRM
3 2 (25.00%) Billing
3 2 (25.00%) Automated Testing
3 2 (25.00%) Regression Testing
3 2 (25.00%) Load Testing
3 2 (25.00%) SAP IS-U
3 2 (25.00%) User Acceptance Testing
3 2 (25.00%) Smart Meter
3 2 (25.00%) HP Quality Center
3 2 (25.00%) Test Strategy
4 1 (12.50%) SAP PI
4 1 (12.50%) User Stories
4 1 (12.50%) System Testing
4 1 (12.50%) Migration
4 1 (12.50%) SAP FI-CA
4 1 (12.50%) JIRA
4 1 (12.50%) SAP XI
4 1 (12.50%) Agile Software Development
4 1 (12.50%) TDD
4 1 (12.50%) SAP FI
4 1 (12.50%) ISEB

Test Scripting
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Crawley region citing Test Scripting 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 Test Scripting. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 2 (25.00%) Web Services
2 1 (12.50%) SAP PI
2 1 (12.50%) SAP XI
Business Applications
1 2 (25.00%) SAP CRM
1 2 (25.00%) SAP IS-U
2 1 (12.50%) SAP FI-CA
2 1 (12.50%) SAP FI
Development Applications
1 4 (50.00%) Selenium
2 1 (12.50%) JIRA
General
1 2 (25.00%) Billing
Job Titles
1 8 (100.00%) Analyst
1 8 (100.00%) Test Analyst
2 2 (25.00%) Performance Analyst
2 2 (25.00%) Performance Test Analyst
2 2 (25.00%) SAP Test Analyst
2 2 (25.00%) SAP Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) Systems Test Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) Systems Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) Smart Meter
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (62.50%) Performance Testing
2 2 (25.00%) CRM
2 2 (25.00%) Automated Testing
2 2 (25.00%) Regression Testing
2 2 (25.00%) Load Testing
2 2 (25.00%) User Acceptance Testing
2 2 (25.00%) Test Strategy
3 1 (12.50%) User Stories
3 1 (12.50%) System Testing
3 1 (12.50%) Migration
3 1 (12.50%) Agile Software Development
3 1 (12.50%) TDD
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) ISEB
Systems Management
1 2 (25.00%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 4 (50.00%) SAP
2 2 (25.00%) CA
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