QuickTest Pro Contracts in the East Midlands
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Hourly Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for QuickTest Pro skills in IT contracts advertised for the East Midlands region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited QuickTest Pro over the 3 months to 17 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 Development Applications category for the East Midlands 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
17 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
HP QuickTest Professional (QTP)
Rank 79 84 -
Rank change year-on-year
+5 -
Contract jobs citing QuickTest Pro 5 2 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the East Midlands 0.397% 0.147% -
As % of the Development Applications category 4.505% 1.563% -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 2 0
Average daily rate £325 £275 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+18.39% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £300 £320
% change year-on-year
+8.33% -6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £24.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year
- -20.00%
All Development Applications
East Midlands
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Development Applications category		 111 128 130
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the East Midlands 8.803% 9.377% 9.503%
Number of daily rates quoted 44 66 39
Average daily rate £308 £313 £320
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-1.60% -2.26%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £276 £219 £214
10% offered a daily rate of more than £400 £475 £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £330 £325
% change year-on-year
-1.51% +1.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 2 29
Average hourly rate £35.00 £27.50 £32.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+27.27% -15.38%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+7.14% -
QuickTest Pro
England

QuickTest Pro
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing QuickTest Pro across the East Midlands region as a proportion of the total demand within the Development Applications category.

East Midlands QuickTest Pro Jobs Demand Trend

QuickTest Pro
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing QuickTest Pro across the East Midlands region.

East Midlands QuickTest Pro Daily Rate Trend

QuickTest Pro
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing QuickTest Pro across the East Midlands region.

East Midlands QuickTest Pro Hourly Rate Trend

QuickTest Pro
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing QuickTest Pro within the East Midlands region over the 3 months to 17 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
Leicestershire - 2 £325 -
Northamptonshire +14 1 £275 +0.18%
Derbyshire - 1 - -
QuickTest Pro
England

QuickTest Pro
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the East Midlands region citing QuickTest Pro 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 QuickTest Pro.

1 4 (50.00%) XML
1 4 (50.00%) Project Management
2 3 (37.50%) SOAP
2 3 (37.50%) LoadRunner
2 3 (37.50%) Middleware
2 3 (37.50%) JMS
2 3 (37.50%) SOA
2 3 (37.50%) WSDL
2 3 (37.50%) IBM
2 3 (37.50%) WS-I
2 3 (37.50%) HP
2 3 (37.50%) Stakeholder Management
2 3 (37.50%) Retail
2 3 (37.50%) BPEL
2 3 (37.50%) XPath
2 3 (37.50%) QA
2 3 (37.50%) Finance
2 3 (37.50%) Time Management
3 2 (25.00%) BDD
3 2 (25.00%) WebSphere
3 2 (25.00%) Automation Testing
3 2 (25.00%) Selenium
3 2 (25.00%) Scrum
3 2 (25.00%) Extreme Programming
3 2 (25.00%) Agile Software Development
3 2 (25.00%) TDD
3 2 (25.00%) Java
3 2 (25.00%) SQL
3 2 (25.00%) E-Commerce
4 1 (12.50%) UNIX

QuickTest Pro
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the East Midlands region citing QuickTest Pro 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 QuickTest Pro. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 4 (50.00%) XML
2 3 (37.50%) JMS
2 3 (37.50%) WSDL
2 3 (37.50%) WS-I
2 3 (37.50%) Middleware
2 3 (37.50%) SOAP
3 2 (25.00%) WebSphere
Development Applications
1 3 (37.50%) LoadRunner
2 2 (25.00%) Selenium
3 1 (12.50%) Cucumber
General
1 3 (37.50%) Finance
1 3 (37.50%) Retail
2 1 (12.50%) Retail Banking
2 1 (12.50%) Banking
Job Titles
1 3 (37.50%) Architect
1 3 (37.50%) Test Architect
2 2 (25.00%) Agile Tester
2 2 (25.00%) Tester
2 2 (25.00%) Analyst
2 2 (25.00%) Test Analyst
Operating Systems
1 1 (12.50%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (50.00%) Project Management
2 3 (37.50%) Stakeholder Management
2 3 (37.50%) BPEL
2 3 (37.50%) Time Management
2 3 (37.50%) SOA
3 2 (25.00%) Automation Testing
3 2 (25.00%) BDD
3 2 (25.00%) Scrum
3 2 (25.00%) Extreme Programming
3 2 (25.00%) Agile Software Development
3 2 (25.00%) TDD
3 2 (25.00%) E-Commerce
4 1 (12.50%) OO
4 1 (12.50%) Migration
4 1 (12.50%) Functional Testing
4 1 (12.50%) Waterfall
4 1 (12.50%) Software Testing
4 1 (12.50%) User Acceptance Testing
4 1 (12.50%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 3 (37.50%) XPath
2 2 (25.00%) Java
2 2 (25.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (37.50%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (12.50%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 3 (37.50%) IBM
1 3 (37.50%) HP
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