The first table below looks at the demand for User Acceptance 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 User Acceptance Testing over the 3 months to 20 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 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
20 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
User Acceptance Testing (UAT)
Rank 26 22 26
Rank change year-on-year
-4 +4
Contract jobs citing User Acceptance Testing 2 12 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Crawley 1.190% 4.563% 1.282%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.538% 5.660% 1.786%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 2
Average daily rate - - £350
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £350 £350
% change year-on-year
-7.14% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.50 £22.50 £23.00
% change year-on-year
-8.88% -2.17%
All Processes & Methodologies
Crawley
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
130 212 112
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Crawley 77.38% 80.61% 71.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 99 126 79
Average daily rate £355 £313 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+13.60% -16.66%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £313 £275 £275
10% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £466 £425
UK excluding London average daily rate £370 £363 £375
% change year-on-year
+2.06% -3.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 2 2
Average hourly rate £32.50 £26.00 £35.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+25.00% -25.71%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.50 £25.00 £29.00
% change year-on-year
+22.00% -13.79%
User Acceptance Testing
West Sussex

User Acceptance Testing
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Crawley 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 Crawley region.

Crawley User Acceptance Testing Daily Rate Trend

User Acceptance Testing
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Crawley 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 3 (50.00%) Test Scripting
2 2 (33.33%) System Testing
2 2 (33.33%) Software Testing
2 2 (33.33%) Performance Testing
2 2 (33.33%) Requirements Analysis
2 2 (33.33%) SAP
2 2 (33.33%) HP
2 2 (33.33%) ISEB
2 2 (33.33%) HP Quality Center
2 2 (33.33%) Test Strategy
2 2 (33.33%) Non-Functional Testing
2 2 (33.33%) Test Management
3 1 (16.67%) User Stories
3 1 (16.67%) Service Delivery
3 1 (16.67%) Change Management
3 1 (16.67%) Regression Testing
3 1 (16.67%) SAP CRM
3 1 (16.67%) Agile Software Development
3 1 (16.67%) TDD
3 1 (16.67%) TestPartner
3 1 (16.67%) Logistics
3 1 (16.67%) Automated Testing
3 1 (16.67%) LoadRunner
3 1 (16.67%) XML
3 1 (16.67%) PRINCE2
3 1 (16.67%) Windows
3 1 (16.67%) AIX
3 1 (16.67%) CRM
3 1 (16.67%) IBM
3 1 (16.67%) JIRA

User Acceptance Testing
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Crawley 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 1 (16.67%) XML
1 1 (16.67%) SAP PI
Business Applications
1 1 (16.67%) SAP CRM
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) TestPartner
1 1 (16.67%) LoadRunner
1 1 (16.67%) JIRA
1 1 (16.67%) Selenium
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Analyst
2 2 (33.33%) Test Analyst
2 2 (33.33%) Test Leader
3 1 (16.67%) Performance Test Leader
3 1 (16.67%) Systems Analyst
3 1 (16.67%) Change Analyst
3 1 (16.67%) Systems Test Analyst
3 1 (16.67%) Programme Manager
3 1 (16.67%) Deployment Analyst
3 1 (16.67%) Programme Test Manager
3 1 (16.67%) Test Manager
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Smart Meter
Operating Systems
1 1 (16.67%) Windows
1 1 (16.67%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (50.00%) Test Scripting
2 2 (33.33%) System Testing
2 2 (33.33%) Software Testing
2 2 (33.33%) Performance Testing
2 2 (33.33%) Requirements Analysis
2 2 (33.33%) Test Strategy
2 2 (33.33%) Non-Functional Testing
2 2 (33.33%) Test Management
3 1 (16.67%) User Stories
3 1 (16.67%) Service Delivery
3 1 (16.67%) Change Management
3 1 (16.67%) Regression Testing
3 1 (16.67%) Agile Software Development
3 1 (16.67%) TDD
3 1 (16.67%) Logistics
3 1 (16.67%) Automated Testing
3 1 (16.67%) PRINCE2
3 1 (16.67%) CRM
3 1 (16.67%) Load Balancing
3 1 (16.67%) Risk Analysis
Programming Languages
1 1 (16.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (33.33%) ISEB
2 1 (16.67%) ISTQB
Systems Management
1 2 (33.33%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) SAP
1 2 (33.33%) HP
2 1 (16.67%) IBM
2 1 (16.67%) Oracle