Dorset Test Scripting Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Test Scripting (Test Scripts) skills within the Dorset 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 21 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Test Scripting (Test Scripts)
Location Aberdeen Abingdon Amersham Atherstone Basildon Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Berkshire Birmingham Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Bridgend Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Chippenham City of London Coventry Crawley Croydon Dartford Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset Durham East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh England Essex Exeter Fareham Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Guildford Halifax Hampshire Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire Home Counties Hove Kent Lancashire Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Liverpool London Maidenhead Manchester Marlow Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Plymouth Poole Preston Reading Rugby Runcorn Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Sidcup Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Staffordshire Staines Stockton-on-Tees Stoke-on-Trent Sunbury-on-Thames Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Teesside Telford Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Wallington Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Wilmslow Wiltshire Windsor Wokingham Worcester Worcestershire York Yorkshire	3 months to 21 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	22	24
Rank change on same period last year	+2
Matching contract IT job ads	24	20
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.032 %	0.020 %
As % of the category below	8.511 %	7.092 %
Daily rates quoted	10	12
Average minimum daily rate	£253	£326
Average daily rate	£284	£349
% change on same period last year	-18.67 %
Average maximum daily rate	£315	£372
UK excluding London average daily rate	£324	£319
% change on same period last year	+1.35 %
Hourly rates quoted	5	1
Average minimum hourly rate	£31.20	£15.00
Average hourly rate	£32.60	£17.50
% change on same period last year	+86.28 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£34.00	£20.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£29.72	£30.00
% change on same period last year	-0.94 %
Processes & Methodologies Dorset
Matching contract IT job ads	282	282
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.372 %	0.281 %
Daily rates quoted	117	157
Average minimum daily rate	£358	£365
Average daily rate	£378	£382
% change on same period last year	-0.84 %
Average maximum daily rate	£399	£398
UK excluding London average daily rate	£380	£377
% change on same period last year	+0.74 %
Hourly rates quoted	44	18
Average minimum hourly rate	£30.56	£32.06
Average hourly rate	£32.50	£33.76
% change on same period last year	-3.74 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£34.45	£35.47
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£30.30	£30.18
% change on same period last year	+0.42 %
Test Scripting South West

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 Dorset 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 Dorset region.

Test Scripting
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Test Scripting across the Dorset region over the 3 months to 21 August 2008.

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 Dorset region.

Test Scripting
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Test Scripting across the Dorset region over the 3 months to 21 August 2008.

Test Scripting
Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Test Scripting within the Dorset region over the 3 months to 21 August 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	+8	7	£273	-14.01 %
Poole	-3	2	£325	-3.56 %

Test Scripting South West

Test Scripting
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Dorset 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 11 (30.56 %) Windows 2 8 (22.22 %) Microsoft 2 8 (22.22 %) Pensions 3 7 (19.44 %) User Acceptance Testing 3 7 (19.44 %) Security Cleared 4 6 (16.67 %) Government 5 5 (13.89 %) Banking 6 4 (11.11 %) Automated Testing 6 4 (11.11 %) Aerospace 7 3 (8.333 %) Scrum 7 3 (8.333 %) Visual Studio 7 3 (8.333 %) CRM 7 3 (8.333 %) Windows XP 7 3 (8.333 %) C++ 7 3 (8.333 %) QA

7 3 (8.333 %) Lagan 7 3 (8.333 %) Manual Testing 7 3 (8.333 %) Retail 8 2 (5.556 %) Six Sigma 8 2 (5.556 %) TDD 8 2 (5.556 %) Data Analysis 8 2 (5.556 %) System Testing 8 2 (5.556 %) C# 8 2 (5.556 %) Business Intelligence 8 2 (5.556 %) Military 8 2 (5.556 %) LabVIEW 8 2 (5.556 %) GAP Analysis 8 2 (5.556 %) Electronics 9 1 (2.778 %) Telecoms 9 1 (2.778 %) Finance

Test Scripting
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Dorset 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 (2.778 %) .NET 1 1 (2.778 %) AJAX	Communications & Networking 1 1 (2.778 %) VoIP
Development Applications 1 3 (8.333 %) Visual Studio 2 2 (5.556 %) LabVIEW	General 1 8 (22.22 %) Pensions 2 6 (16.67 %) Government 3 5 (13.89 %) Banking 4 4 (11.11 %) Aerospace 5 3 (8.333 %) Retail 6 2 (5.556 %) Military 6 2 (5.556 %) Electronics 7 1 (2.778 %) Telecoms 7 1 (2.778 %) Finance 7 1 (2.778 %) Electric 7 1 (2.778 %) Retail Banking 7 1 (2.778 %) Local Government
Job Titles 1 16 (44.44 %) Analyst 2 14 (38.89 %) Test Engineer 3 12 (33.33 %) Business Analyst 4 6 (16.67 %) Integration Engineer 5 5 (13.89 %) Tester 6 4 (11.11 %) Banking Business Analyst 6 4 (11.11 %) Test Analyst 7 3 (8.333 %) Systems Engineer 7 3 (8.333 %) CRM Business Analyst 7 3 (8.333 %) Installations Engineer 7 3 (8.333 %) Systems Test Engineer 8 2 (5.556 %) Systems Tester 9 1 (2.778 %) Software Engineer 9 1 (2.778 %) Senior Tester 9 1 (2.778 %) Software Test Engineer 9 1 (2.778 %) Team Leader 9 1 (2.778 %) Web Tester 9 1 (2.778 %) Real Time Software Engineer 9 1 (2.778 %) Real Time Engineer 9 1 (2.778 %) Applications Tester	Miscellaneous 1 1 (2.778 %) Firmware 1 1 (2.778 %) PDA
Operating Systems 1 11 (30.56 %) Windows 2 3 (8.333 %) Windows XP 3 1 (2.778 %) Linux	Processes & Methodologies 1 7 (19.44 %) User Acceptance Testing 1 7 (19.44 %) Security Cleared 2 4 (11.11 %) Automated Testing 3 3 (8.333 %) Scrum 3 3 (8.333 %) CRM 3 3 (8.333 %) Manual Testing 4 2 (5.556 %) Six Sigma 4 2 (5.556 %) TDD 4 2 (5.556 %) Data Analysis 4 2 (5.556 %) System Testing 4 2 (5.556 %) Business Intelligence 4 2 (5.556 %) GAP Analysis 5 1 (2.778 %) E-Commerce 5 1 (2.778 %) SC Cleared 5 1 (2.778 %) Software Testing 5 1 (2.778 %) Usability Testing 5 1 (2.778 %) Software Engineering 5 1 (2.778 %) Business Analysis
Programming Languages 1 3 (8.333 %) C++ 2 2 (5.556 %) C# 3 1 (2.778 %) C 3 1 (2.778 %) Java 3 1 (2.778 %) Perl 3 1 (2.778 %) SQL	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 3 (8.333 %) QA
Vendors 1 8 (22.22 %) Microsoft 2 3 (8.333 %) Lagan