Dorset System Testing Contracts

This section looks at the demand for System Testing skills within the Dorset region with a comparison to our Processes & Methodologies category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT job ads that have cited System Testing over the 3 months to 4 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Atherstone Basingstoke Bath Bedfordshire Berkshire Birmingham Bournemouth Bracknell Bridgwater Bristol Buckinghamshire Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Chertsey Cheshire Chippenham City of London Coventry Croydon Devon Docklands, London Dorking Dorset East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh England Essex Farnborough Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Guildford Hampshire Havant Hayes Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire Ipswich Knutsford Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Liverpool London Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Norfolk North West North Yorkshire Norwich Nottinghamshire Oxfordshire Plymouth Poole Reading Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Staines Stockport Suffolk Surrey Swindon Telford UK Wales Warwickshire Watford West Drayton West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Windsor Witham Yeovil Yorkshire	3 months to 4 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	35	39
Rank change on same period last year	+4
Matching contract IT job ads	5	8
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.007 %	0.008 %
As % of the category below	2.262 %	3.065 %
Daily rates quoted	0	3
Average minimum daily rate	-	£297
Average daily rate	-	£318
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	£340
UK excluding London average daily rate	£363	£324
% change on same period last year	+11.88 %
Hourly rates quoted	1	0
Average minimum hourly rate	£12.56	-
Average hourly rate	£14.09	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	£15.61	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£32.91	£32.37
% change on same period last year	+1.66 %
Processes & Methodologies Dorset
Matching contract IT job ads	221	261
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.291 %	0.277 %
Daily rates quoted	118	143
Average minimum daily rate	£373	£375
Average daily rate	£393	£392
% change on same period last year	+0.33 %
Average maximum daily rate	£413	£409
UK excluding London average daily rate	£384	£374
% change on same period last year	+2.50 %
Hourly rates quoted	12	23
Average minimum hourly rate	£30.77	£34.16
Average hourly rate	£34.06	£37.13
% change on same period last year	-8.27 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£37.35	£40.09
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£29.40	£30.19
% change on same period last year	-2.62 %
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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.

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Demand Trend

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

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Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing System Testing across the Dorset region.

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Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing System Testing across the Dorset region.

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Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT job ads citing System Testing within the Dorset region over the 3 months to 4 July 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
Bournemouth	-	3	-	-
Poole	-3	1	-	-

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Top 24 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Dorset region citing System 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 System Testing.

1 3 (37.50 %) GAP Analysis 1 3 (37.50 %) UML 1 3 (37.50 %) Health 1 3 (37.50 %) Requirements Analysis 1 3 (37.50 %) Use Case 1 3 (37.50 %) User Acceptance Testing 2 2 (25.00 %) Business Analysis 2 2 (25.00 %) Unit Testing 2 2 (25.00 %) Test Scripting 2 2 (25.00 %) Manual Testing 2 2 (25.00 %) PDM 2 2 (25.00 %) Sarbanes-Oxley 2 2 (25.00 %) RPG 2 2 (25.00 %) SQL 3 1 (12.50 %) Telecoms

3 1 (12.50 %) .NET 3 1 (12.50 %) ASP.NET 3 1 (12.50 %) XML 3 1 (12.50 %) XSLT 3 1 (12.50 %) C# 3 1 (12.50 %) VoIP 3 1 (12.50 %) Internet 3 1 (12.50 %) Automated Testing 3 1 (12.50 %) Usability Testing

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Dorset region citing System 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 System Testing. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 1 (12.50 %) .NET 1 1 (12.50 %) ASP.NET 1 1 (12.50 %) XML 1 1 (12.50 %) XSLT	Communications & Networking 1 1 (12.50 %) VoIP 1 1 (12.50 %) Internet
General 1 3 (37.50 %) Health 2 1 (12.50 %) Telecoms	Job Titles 1 4 (50.00 %) Analyst 2 3 (37.50 %) Business Analyst 2 3 (37.50 %) Developer 2 3 (37.50 %) UML Business Analyst 3 2 (25.00 %) Applications Developer 4 1 (12.50 %) Systems Tester 4 1 (12.50 %) Test Engineer 4 1 (12.50 %) Telecoms Engineer 4 1 (12.50 %) Tester 4 1 (12.50 %) Test Analyst 4 1 (12.50 %) Web Developer
Processes & Methodologies 1 3 (37.50 %) UML 1 3 (37.50 %) GAP Analysis 1 3 (37.50 %) Requirements Analysis 1 3 (37.50 %) Use Case 1 3 (37.50 %) User Acceptance Testing 2 2 (25.00 %) PDM 2 2 (25.00 %) Unit Testing 2 2 (25.00 %) Test Scripting 2 2 (25.00 %) Manual Testing 2 2 (25.00 %) Business Analysis 3 1 (12.50 %) Automated Testing 3 1 (12.50 %) Usability Testing	Programming Languages 1 2 (25.00 %) RPG 1 2 (25.00 %) SQL 2 1 (12.50 %) C#
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 2 (25.00 %) Sarbanes-Oxley