User Acceptance Testing Contracts in Dorset
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Hourly Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for User Acceptance Testing skills in IT contracts advertised for the Dorset 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 21 May 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 Dorset 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
21 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
User Acceptance Testing (UAT)
Rank 16 19 24
Rank change year-on-year
+3 +5
Contract jobs citing User Acceptance Testing 14 14 16
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Dorset 6.481% 5.185% 5.246%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.434% 7.527% 7.306%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 10 11
Average daily rate £350 £348 £395
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+0.71% -12.02%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £301 £309 £370
10% offered a daily rate of more than £375 £525 £525
UK excluding London average daily rate £328 £350 £350
% change year-on-year
-6.42% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.00 £26.14 £23.00
% change year-on-year
+14.76% +13.65%
All Processes & Methodologies
Dorset
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category		 166 186 219
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Dorset 76.85% 68.89% 71.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 94 114 117
Average daily rate £350 £375 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-6.66% +7.14%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £205 £275 £175
10% offered a daily rate of more than £685 £500 £473
UK excluding London average daily rate £363 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
-0.68% -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 11 9
Average hourly rate £32.00 £27.50 £40.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+16.36% -32.09%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £19.75 £25.75 £22.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £47.50 £40.00 £165.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.50 £25.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year
+26.00% -16.66%
User Acceptance Testing
South West

User Acceptance Testing
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Dorset 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 Dorset region.

Dorset User Acceptance Testing Daily Rate Trend

User Acceptance Testing
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Dorset User Acceptance Testing Hourly Rate Trend

User Acceptance Testing
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing User Acceptance Testing within the Dorset region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)		 Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year		 Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads		 Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months		 Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Bournemouth -1 8 £343 +7.03%
Poole 0 3 £375 -28.57%
User Acceptance Testing
South West

User Acceptance Testing
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Dorset 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 11 (50.00%) SQL
1 11 (50.00%) Finance
2 10 (45.45%) Microsoft
3 9 (40.91%) Test Scripting
4 8 (36.36%) Oracle
5 7 (31.82%) QA
6 6 (27.27%) System Testing
6 6 (27.27%) MS Excel
6 6 (27.27%) ISEB
6 6 (27.27%) Banking
7 5 (22.73%) Retail
7 5 (22.73%) Stakeholder Management
7 5 (22.73%) Risk Management
7 5 (22.73%) Project Management
7 5 (22.73%) Degree
8 4 (18.18%) JIRA
8 4 (18.18%) Resource Management
8 4 (18.18%) Software Testing
8 4 (18.18%) ISTQB
8 4 (18.18%) Time Management
8 4 (18.18%) Change Control
8 4 (18.18%) Enterprise Software
8 4 (18.18%) UNIX
8 4 (18.18%) Linux
8 4 (18.18%) JMeter
8 4 (18.18%) Investment Banking
9 3 (13.64%) Agile Software Development
9 3 (13.64%) VBA
9 3 (13.64%) Java
9 3 (13.64%) Oracle 10g

User Acceptance Testing
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Dorset 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 (9.091%) WebSphere
2 1 (4.545%) Spring
2 1 (4.545%) ASP.NET
2 1 (4.545%) COM
2 1 (4.545%) .NET
2 1 (4.545%) Spring Integration
2 1 (4.545%) ASP.NET MVC
2 1 (4.545%) ASP.NET MVC 3
2 1 (4.545%) .NET Framework
2 1 (4.545%) Spring MVC
2 1 (4.545%) NHibernate
Application Platforms
1 1 (4.545%) Oracle Application Server
1 1 (4.545%) MQSeries
Applications
1 6 (27.27%) MS Excel
2 3 (13.64%) MS PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (4.545%) Agresso
Communications & Networking
1 3 (13.64%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (13.64%) Oracle 10g
1 3 (13.64%) MS Access
2 2 (9.091%) Oracle 11g
2 2 (9.091%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (9.091%) OLTP
2 2 (9.091%) SQL Server
2 2 (9.091%) Oracle Reports
2 2 (9.091%) Oracle 8/8i
3 1 (4.545%) SQL Server 2008
3 1 (4.545%) SQL Server 2005
Development Applications
1 4 (18.18%) JIRA
1 4 (18.18%) JMeter
2 2 (9.091%) WinRunner
2 2 (9.091%) TestDirector
2 2 (9.091%) QuickTest Pro
2 2 (9.091%) Oracle Forms
2 2 (9.091%) Subversion
3 1 (4.545%) NUnit
3 1 (4.545%) Visual Studio
3 1 (4.545%) MSBuild
General
1 11 (50.00%) Finance
2 6 (27.27%) Banking
3 5 (22.73%) Retail
4 4 (18.18%) Investment Banking
5 1 (4.545%) Telecoms
5 1 (4.545%) Wholesale Banking
5 1 (4.545%) Corporate Banking
Job Titles
1 6 (27.27%) Analyst
2 4 (18.18%) Test Leader
2 4 (18.18%) Test Analyst
3 3 (13.64%) Test Manager
3 3 (13.64%) Project Manager
4 2 (9.091%) Infrastructure Support Consultant
4 2 (9.091%) Business Analyst
4 2 (9.091%) Developer
4 2 (9.091%) Support Consultant
4 2 (9.091%) Consultant
4 2 (9.091%) DBA
4 2 (9.091%) Senior Analyst
4 2 (9.091%) Senior Test Analyst
4 2 (9.091%) Infrastructure Consultant
5 1 (4.545%) Technical Test Analyst
5 1 (4.545%) IT Project Manager
5 1 (4.545%) Senior Java Developer
5 1 (4.545%) Java Developer
5 1 (4.545%) C# Developer
5 1 (4.545%) Technical Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 4 (18.18%) Enterprise Software
2 2 (9.091%) Clustering
3 1 (4.545%) Mobile Payment
3 1 (4.545%) SWIFT
Operating Systems
1 4 (18.18%) UNIX
1 4 (18.18%) Linux
2 2 (9.091%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (40.91%) Test Scripting
2 6 (27.27%) System Testing
3 5 (22.73%) Stakeholder Management
3 5 (22.73%) Risk Management
3 5 (22.73%) Project Management
4 4 (18.18%) Resource Management
4 4 (18.18%) Software Testing
4 4 (18.18%) Time Management
4 4 (18.18%) Change Control
5 3 (13.64%) Agile Software Development
5 3 (13.64%) Test Strategy
5 3 (13.64%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 3 (13.64%) Integration Testing
6 2 (9.091%) Performance Testing
6 2 (9.091%) Business Analysis
6 2 (9.091%) Unit Testing
6 2 (9.091%) V-Model
6 2 (9.091%) Test Automation
6 2 (9.091%) Test Management
6 2 (9.091%) E-Commerce
Programming Languages
1 11 (50.00%) SQL
2 3 (13.64%) VBA
2 3 (13.64%) Java
3 2 (9.091%) Shell Script
4 1 (4.545%) C#
Qualifications
1 6 (27.27%) ISEB
2 5 (22.73%) Degree
3 4 (18.18%) ISTQB
4 1 (4.545%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (31.82%) QA
2 2 (9.091%) ISO 9001
Vendors
1 10 (45.45%) Microsoft
2 8 (36.36%) Oracle
3 2 (9.091%) Red Hat
3 2 (9.091%) HP
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