The first table below looks at the demand for User Acceptance Testing skills in IT contracts advertised for the Derby 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 19 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 Derby 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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
User Acceptance Testing (UAT)
Rank 14 17 23
Rank change year-on-year
+3 +6
Contract jobs citing User Acceptance Testing 1 5 9
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Derby 1.538% 4.348% 3.982%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.222% 6.494% 5.625%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 4 8
Average daily rate £375 £218 £425
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+72.41% -48.82%
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
Derby
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
45 77 160
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Derby 69.23% 66.96% 70.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 27 74
Average daily rate £250 £350 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-28.57% -12.50%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £70 £175 £349
10% offered a daily rate of more than £453 £465 £538
UK excluding London average daily rate £370 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
+1.36% -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 9 14
Average hourly rate £35.50 £55.00 £42.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-35.45% +29.41%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.00 £25.00 £29.00
% change year-on-year
+24.00% -13.79%
User Acceptance Testing
Derbyshire

User Acceptance Testing
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Derby 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 Derby region.

Derby User Acceptance Testing Daily Rate Trend

User Acceptance Testing
Top 16 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Derby 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 2 (66.67%) C++
1 2 (66.67%) Java
1 2 (66.67%) .NET
1 2 (66.67%) Business Analysis
1 2 (66.67%) Knowledge Management
1 2 (66.67%) Waterfall
2 1 (33.33%) C#
2 1 (33.33%) SharePoint 2010
2 1 (33.33%) Supplier Management
2 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (33.33%) XML
2 1 (33.33%) SharePoint
2 1 (33.33%) Project Management
2 1 (33.33%) SQL
2 1 (33.33%) VBA
2 1 (33.33%) HTML

User Acceptance Testing
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Derby 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 (66.67%) .NET
2 1 (33.33%) XML
2 1 (33.33%) HTML
Application Platforms
1 1 (33.33%) SharePoint 2010
1 1 (33.33%) SharePoint
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Business Analyst
1 2 (66.67%) Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Business Systems Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Systems Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Technical Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Technical Business Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Project Manager
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Business Analysis
1 2 (66.67%) Knowledge Management
1 2 (66.67%) Waterfall
2 1 (33.33%) Supplier Management
2 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (33.33%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) C++
1 2 (66.67%) Java
2 1 (33.33%) C#
2 1 (33.33%) SQL
2 1 (33.33%) VBA