Derbyshire Test Scripting Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Test Scripting (Test Scripts) skills within the Derbyshire region with a comparison to our Processes & Methodologies category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Test Scripting over the 3 months to 20 November 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Test Scripting (Test Scripts)
Location Basingstoke Bath Belfast Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Blackpool Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Bradford-on-Avon Brentford Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Burgess Hill Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Channel Islands Cheltenham Cheshire Chester City of London County Antrim Coventry Crawley Croydon Darlington Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset Durham East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edinburgh England Essex Exeter Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Gosport Hammersmith Hampshire Havant Hertfordshire Hull Isleworth Lancashire Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Liverpool London M4 Corridor Maidenhead Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Osterley Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Plymouth Portsmouth Preston Reading Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Solihull Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southend-on-Sea Staffordshire Staines Stockton-on-Tees Stoke-on-Trent Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Surrey Sussex Swindon Taunton Telford Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Wokingham Worcester Worcestershire Worthing Yeovil York Yorkshire	3 months to 20 Nov 2008	Same period last year
Rank	30	38
Rank change on same period last year	+8
Matching contract IT job ads	1	3
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.002 %	0.003 %
As % of the category below	0.893 %	1.685 %
Daily rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum daily rate	-	-
Average daily rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£321	£314
% change on same period last year	+2.27 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum hourly rate	-	-
Average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£29.96	£27.81
% change on same period last year	+7.73 %
Processes & Methodologies Derbyshire
Matching contract IT job ads	112	178
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.176 %	0.194 %
Daily rates quoted	16	36
Average minimum daily rate	£342	£288
Average daily rate	£368	£306
% change on same period last year	+20.29 %
Average maximum daily rate	£394	£324
UK excluding London average daily rate	£380	£369
% change on same period last year	+2.93 %
Hourly rates quoted	21	19
Average minimum hourly rate	£32.86	£27.92
Average hourly rate	£35.69	£31.19
% change on same period last year	+14.42 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£38.52	£34.46
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£28.09	£29.91
% change on same period last year	-6.09 %
Test Scripting East Midlands

We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

Test Scripting
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Test Scripting across the Derbyshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

Test Scripting
Daily Rate Trend

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

Test Scripting
Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Test Scripting across the Derbyshire region.

Test Scripting
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Test Scripting within the Derbyshire region over the 3 months to 20 November 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
Derby	+3	1	-	-

Test Scripting East Midlands

Test Scripting
Top 26 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 November 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Derbyshire 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 3 (100.00 %) ISEB 2 2 (66.67 %) Software Testing 3 1 (33.33 %) Windows SharePoint Services 3 1 (33.33 %) Requirements Analysis 3 1 (33.33 %) SharePoint Server 2007 3 1 (33.33 %) Release Management 3 1 (33.33 %) Integration Testing 3 1 (33.33 %) Bugzilla 3 1 (33.33 %) Delphi 3 1 (33.33 %) DHTML 3 1 (33.33 %) HTML 3 1 (33.33 %) Java 3 1 (33.33 %) JavaScript 3 1 (33.33 %) SQL 3 1 (33.33 %) .NET

3 1 (33.33 %) Oracle 3 1 (33.33 %) ASP.NET 3 1 (33.33 %) CSS 3 1 (33.33 %) ITIL 3 1 (33.33 %) Windows 3 1 (33.33 %) UML 3 1 (33.33 %) OOA/OOD 3 1 (33.33 %) MS Excel 3 1 (33.33 %) SharePoint 3 1 (33.33 %) OOD 3 1 (33.33 %) Microsoft

Test Scripting
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 November 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Derbyshire 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 1 (33.33 %) HTML 1 1 (33.33 %) .NET 1 1 (33.33 %) ASP.NET 1 1 (33.33 %) CSS 1 1 (33.33 %) Windows SharePoint Services	Application Platforms 1 1 (33.33 %) SharePoint 1 1 (33.33 %) SharePoint Server 2007
Applications 1 1 (33.33 %) MS Excel	Development Applications 1 1 (33.33 %) Bugzilla
Job Titles 1 2 (66.67 %) Tester 1 2 (66.67 %) Software Tester	Operating Systems 1 1 (33.33 %) Windows
Processes & Methodologies 1 2 (66.67 %) Software Testing 2 1 (33.33 %) Requirements Analysis 2 1 (33.33 %) Release Management 2 1 (33.33 %) Integration Testing 2 1 (33.33 %) ITIL 2 1 (33.33 %) UML 2 1 (33.33 %) OOA/OOD 2 1 (33.33 %) OOD	Programming Languages 1 1 (33.33 %) Delphi 1 1 (33.33 %) DHTML 1 1 (33.33 %) Java 1 1 (33.33 %) JavaScript 1 1 (33.33 %) SQL
Qualifications 1 3 (100.00 %) ISEB	Vendors 1 1 (33.33 %) Oracle 1 1 (33.33 %) Microsoft