Docklands, London User Acceptance Testing Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for User Acceptance Testing (UAT) skills within the Docklands, London region with a comparison to our Processes & Methodologies category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited User Acceptance Testing over the 3 months to 6 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

User Acceptance Testing (UAT)
Location Aberdeen Abingdon Aldershot Andover Basildon Basingstoke Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Blackpool Bournemouth Brentford Brentwood Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Cheltenham Cheshire Chester City of London County Antrim Coventry Crawley Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset Dunstable East Anglia East Midlands East of England Edinburgh England Essex Exeter Farnborough Fleetwood Glamorgan Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Halifax Hampshire Harrogate Hertfordshire High Wycombe Horsham Ipswich Isleworth Kent Lancashire Leeds Liverpool London M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Manchester Market Drayton Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newport Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Poole Pudsey Reading Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Skelmersdale Slough Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southend-on-Sea Staines Stockport Street Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Tadworth Telford Thames Valley Tyne and Wear Tyneside UK Uxbridge Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Wiltshire Windsor Wokingham Worcestershire York Yorkshire	3 months to 6 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	43	52
Rank change on same period last year	+9
Matching contract IT job ads	25	52
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.035 %	0.052 %
As % of the category below	5.365 %	5.721 %
Daily rates quoted	6	23
Average minimum daily rate	£467	£432
Average daily rate	£508	£465
% change on same period last year	+9.29 %
Average maximum daily rate	£550	£498
UK excluding London average daily rate	£351	£351
% change on same period last year	+0.09 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	2
Average minimum hourly rate	-	£35.00
Average hourly rate	-	£35.00
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	£35.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£30.99	£28.41
% change on same period last year	+9.07 %
Processes & Methodologies Docklands, London
Matching contract IT job ads	466	909
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.651 %	0.913 %
Daily rates quoted	241	389
Average minimum daily rate	£403	£433
Average daily rate	£426	£461
% change on same period last year	-7.72 %
Average maximum daily rate	£448	£490
UK excluding London average daily rate	£378	£372
% change on same period last year	+1.69 %
Hourly rates quoted	6	6
Average minimum hourly rate	£18.63	£25.14
Average hourly rate	£19.63	£25.79
% change on same period last year	-23.89 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£20.63	£26.43
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£29.30	£30.27
% change on same period last year	-3.20 %
User Acceptance Testing London

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.

User Acceptance Testing
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing User Acceptance Testing across the Docklands, London region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

User Acceptance Testing
Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing User Acceptance Testing across the Docklands, London region.

User Acceptance Testing
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing User Acceptance Testing across the Docklands, London region over the 3 months to 6 October 2008.

User Acceptance Testing
Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing User Acceptance Testing across the Docklands, London region.

User Acceptance Testing
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 6 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Docklands, London 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 22 (36.67 %) Finance 1 22 (36.67 %) Banking 2 18 (30.00 %) Derivative 3 16 (26.67 %) Investment Banking 4 15 (25.00 %) System Testing 5 14 (23.33 %) SQL 6 11 (18.33 %) IBM 7 10 (16.67 %) Performance Testing 8 9 (15.00 %) Test Scripting 8 9 (15.00 %) TestDirector 8 9 (15.00 %) Automated Testing 9 8 (13.33 %) Rational Robot 9 8 (13.33 %) Oracle 9 8 (13.33 %) Web Testing 10 7 (11.67 %) PeopleSoft

10 7 (11.67 %) UML 10 7 (11.67 %) MS Excel 10 7 (11.67 %) ClearQuest 10 7 (11.67 %) Back Office 10 7 (11.67 %) Fixed Income 10 7 (11.67 %) General Ledger 11 6 (10.00 %) Front Office 11 6 (10.00 %) MS Access 11 6 (10.00 %) LoadRunner 12 5 (8.333 %) Windows 12 5 (8.333 %) Equity Derivative 13 4 (6.667 %) Business Analysis 13 4 (6.667 %) Degree 13 4 (6.667 %) XML 13 4 (6.667 %) SAP

User Acceptance Testing
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 6 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Docklands, London 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 4 (6.667 %) XML 2 1 (1.667 %) XHTML 2 1 (1.667 %) Hibernate 2 1 (1.667 %) Spring 2 1 (1.667 %) Oracle Fusion 2 1 (1.667 %) .NET 2 1 (1.667 %) ASP 2 1 (1.667 %) CSS 2 1 (1.667 %) WebServices	Application Platforms 1 4 (6.667 %) Documentum 2 1 (1.667 %) CMS 2 1 (1.667 %) WebLogic
Applications 1 7 (11.67 %) MS Excel 2 3 (5.000 %) MS Office 3 2 (3.333 %) MS Project	Business Applications 1 2 (3.333 %) Summit 2 1 (1.667 %) Global One
Communications & Networking 1 1 (1.667 %) SAN	Database & Business Intelligence 1 6 (10.00 %) MS Access 2 4 (6.667 %) Crystal Reports 2 4 (6.667 %) SAP BW 3 3 (5.000 %) Oracle 10g 4 2 (3.333 %) Oracle Reports 5 1 (1.667 %) Oracle 8/8i 5 1 (1.667 %) Datawarehouse 5 1 (1.667 %) ETL 5 1 (1.667 %) BusinessObjects 5 1 (1.667 %) BusinessObjects XI 5 1 (1.667 %) BusinessObjects Web Intelligence 5 1 (1.667 %) SQL Server
Development Applications 1 9 (15.00 %) TestDirector 2 8 (13.33 %) Rational Robot 3 7 (11.67 %) ClearQuest 4 6 (10.00 %) LoadRunner 5 4 (6.667 %) Rational Rose 6 3 (5.000 %) RequisitePro 6 3 (5.000 %) PowerBuilder 7 1 (1.667 %) Ant 7 1 (1.667 %) JUnit 7 1 (1.667 %) ClearCase	General 1 22 (36.67 %) Finance 1 22 (36.67 %) Banking 2 16 (26.67 %) Investment Banking 3 7 (11.67 %) General Ledger 3 7 (11.67 %) Back Office 4 6 (10.00 %) Front Office 5 1 (1.667 %) Marketing
Job Titles 1 25 (41.67 %) Test Manager 2 22 (36.67 %) Analyst 3 8 (13.33 %) Business Analyst 4 5 (8.333 %) Developer 4 5 (8.333 %) Systems Analyst 5 4 (6.667 %) Support Analyst 5 4 (6.667 %) Tester 5 4 (6.667 %) MI Analyst 5 4 (6.667 %) Analyst Developer 6 3 (5.000 %) Systems Support 6 3 (5.000 %) Systems Support Analyst 6 3 (5.000 %) Project Manager 7 2 (3.333 %) Coordinator 7 2 (3.333 %) Test Analyst 7 2 (3.333 %) Applications Support 7 2 (3.333 %) Test Coordinator 7 2 (3.333 %) Summit Business Analyst 7 2 (3.333 %) UAT Tester 7 2 (3.333 %) Banking Business Analyst 8 1 (1.667 %) Business Change Analyst	Miscellaneous 1 18 (30.00 %) Derivative 2 7 (11.67 %) Fixed Income 3 5 (8.333 %) Equity Derivative 4 3 (5.000 %) Interest Rate Derivative 4 3 (5.000 %) Client/Server 5 2 (3.333 %) W3C 5 2 (3.333 %) Credit Derivative 5 2 (3.333 %) Market Risk 6 1 (1.667 %) Credit Risk 6 1 (1.667 %) Management Information System 6 1 (1.667 %) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems 1 5 (8.333 %) Windows 2 4 (6.667 %) UNIX 3 3 (5.000 %) Linux 3 3 (5.000 %) Windows XP 3 3 (5.000 %) Red Hat Linux 4 1 (1.667 %) Solaris	Processes & Methodologies 1 15 (25.00 %) System Testing 2 10 (16.67 %) Performance Testing 3 9 (15.00 %) Automated Testing 3 9 (15.00 %) Test Scripting 4 8 (13.33 %) Web Testing 5 7 (11.67 %) UML 6 4 (6.667 %) RUP 6 4 (6.667 %) Business Analysis 7 3 (5.000 %) Risk Management 8 2 (3.333 %) Migration 8 2 (3.333 %) Software Testing 8 2 (3.333 %) Asset Management 8 2 (3.333 %) Integration Testing 8 2 (3.333 %) Time Management 8 2 (3.333 %) Data Migration 9 1 (1.667 %) Data Architecture 9 1 (1.667 %) Load Testing 9 1 (1.667 %) Unit Testing 9 1 (1.667 %) Logistics 9 1 (1.667 %) Systems Analysis
Programming Languages 1 14 (23.33 %) SQL 2 4 (6.667 %) VB 3 2 (3.333 %) VBA 3 2 (3.333 %) VB6 3 2 (3.333 %) C# 3 2 (3.333 %) C++ 4 1 (1.667 %) JavaScript 4 1 (1.667 %) PL/SQL 4 1 (1.667 %) VBScript	Qualifications 1 4 (6.667 %) Degree 2 2 (3.333 %) ISEB 3 1 (1.667 %) ISEB Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 1 (1.667 %) Sarbanes-Oxley 1 1 (1.667 %) QA	System Software 1 1 (1.667 %) Tivoli Workload Scheduler 1 1 (1.667 %) NetBackup 1 1 (1.667 %) Oracle RMAN 1 1 (1.667 %) Oracle RAC
Systems Management 1 1 (1.667 %) Tivoli 1 1 (1.667 %) Tivoli Storage Manager	Vendors 1 11 (18.33 %) IBM 2 8 (13.33 %) Oracle 3 7 (11.67 %) PeopleSoft 4 4 (6.667 %) SAP 5 3 (5.000 %) Red Hat 6 1 (1.667 %) TIBCO 6 1 (1.667 %) Reuters 6 1 (1.667 %) Bloomberg 6 1 (1.667 %) OpenLink 6 1 (1.667 %) Sophis 6 1 (1.667 %) Cognos 6 1 (1.667 %) Business Objects 6 1 (1.667 %) Microsoft 6 1 (1.667 %) VERITAS