East Midlands System Testing Contracts

This section looks at the demand for System Testing skills within the East Midlands region with a comparison to our Processes & Methodologies category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited System Testing over the 3 months to 29 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Abingdon Atherstone Basingstoke Berkshire Birmingham Bristol Buckinghamshire Bury St Edmunds Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Cheltenham Cheshire City of London Clapham Croydon Daventry Devon Docklands, London Dorset East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh England Essex Exeter Farnborough Glasgow Gloucestershire Guildford Halifax Hampshire Harrow Hayes Hertfordshire Kettering Knutsford Lancashire Leeds Leicestershire Liverpool London Loughborough M4 Corridor Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Norfolk North West Northampton Northamptonshire Norwich Nottinghamshire Oxfordshire Plymouth Poole Reading Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Staines Suffolk Surrey Swindon Telford UK Wales Warwickshire Watford West Drayton West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Windsor Yeovil Yorkshire	3 months to 29 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	84	78
Rank change on same period last year	-6
Matching contract IT job ads	8	19
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.011 %	0.019 %
As % of the category below	0.817 %	1.957 %
Daily rates quoted	1	1
Average minimum daily rate	£714	£172
Average daily rate	£714	£172
% change on same period last year	+315.30 %
Average maximum daily rate	£714	£172
UK excluding London average daily rate	£336	£327
% change on same period last year	+2.89 %
Hourly rates quoted	4	9
Average minimum hourly rate	£35.00	£22.80
Average hourly rate	£39.00	£23.78
% change on same period last year	+64.03 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£43.00	£24.75
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£30.02	£32.03
% change on same period last year	-6.27 %
Processes & Methodologies East Midlands
Matching contract IT job ads	979	971
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	1.305 %	0.969 %
Daily rates quoted	358	221
Average minimum daily rate	£384	£360
Average daily rate	£408	£381
% change on same period last year	+6.94 %
Average maximum daily rate	£432	£403
UK excluding London average daily rate	£379	£376
% change on same period last year	+0.60 %
Hourly rates quoted	66	108
Average minimum hourly rate	£27.73	£25.82
Average hourly rate	£30.32	£27.56
% change on same period last year	+10.01 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£32.90	£29.29
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£30.35	£30.32
% change on same period last year	+0.10 %
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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 East Midlands 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 East Midlands 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 East Midlands region.

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Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing System Testing across the East Midlands region over the 3 months to 29 August 2008.

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Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing System Testing within the East Midlands region over the 3 months to 29 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
Northamptonshire	0	5	-	-
Leicestershire	+3	1	-	-
Nottinghamshire	-11	1	£714	-

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 29 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the East Midlands 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 6 (42.86 %) Java 2 5 (35.71 %) Retail 2 5 (35.71 %) Retail-J 3 4 (28.57 %) MS Office 3 4 (28.57 %) MS Excel 3 4 (28.57 %) Microsoft 4 3 (21.43 %) Configuration Management 4 3 (21.43 %) Assembly Language 4 3 (21.43 %) C 5 2 (14.29 %) Papyrus 5 2 (14.29 %) DTS 5 2 (14.29 %) Oracle 5 2 (14.29 %) SQL Server 5 2 (14.29 %) Degree 5 2 (14.29 %) Unit Testing

6 1 (7.143 %) Test Scripting 6 1 (7.143 %) JSP 440 6 1 (7.143 %) Load Testing 6 1 (7.143 %) MS Project 6 1 (7.143 %) .NET 6 1 (7.143 %) J2EE 6 1 (7.143 %) E-Commerce 6 1 (7.143 %) PRINCE2 6 1 (7.143 %) Oracle 9i 6 1 (7.143 %) Empirix 6 1 (7.143 %) EPoS 6 1 (7.143 %) SQL Server 2000 6 1 (7.143 %) Project Management 6 1 (7.143 %) Oracle 10g 6 1 (7.143 %) JDeveloper

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 29 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the East Midlands 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 (7.143 %) .NET 1 1 (7.143 %) J2EE	Application Platforms 1 2 (14.29 %) Papyrus
Applications 1 4 (28.57 %) MS Office 1 4 (28.57 %) MS Excel 2 1 (7.143 %) MS Project	Business Applications 1 5 (35.71 %) Retail-J
Database & Business Intelligence 1 2 (14.29 %) DTS 1 2 (14.29 %) SQL Server 2 1 (7.143 %) Oracle 9i 2 1 (7.143 %) SQL Server 2000 2 1 (7.143 %) Oracle 10g	Development Applications 1 1 (7.143 %) JDeveloper
General 1 5 (35.71 %) Retail 2 1 (7.143 %) Government 2 1 (7.143 %) Military	Job Titles 1 5 (35.71 %) Tester 2 2 (14.29 %) Developer 2 2 (14.29 %) Consultant 3 1 (7.143 %) Project Manager 3 1 (7.143 %) Technical Consultant 3 1 (7.143 %) Test Manager 3 1 (7.143 %) Senior Consultant 3 1 (7.143 %) Software Consultant 3 1 (7.143 %) Data Consultant
Miscellaneous 1 1 (7.143 %) EPoS 1 1 (7.143 %) Replication	Processes & Methodologies 1 3 (21.43 %) Configuration Management 2 2 (14.29 %) Unit Testing 3 1 (7.143 %) Test Scripting 3 1 (7.143 %) Load Testing 3 1 (7.143 %) E-Commerce 3 1 (7.143 %) PRINCE2 3 1 (7.143 %) Project Management 3 1 (7.143 %) E-business 3 1 (7.143 %) Technical Architecture 3 1 (7.143 %) Information Management
Programming Languages 1 6 (42.86 %) Java 2 3 (21.43 %) Assembly Language 2 3 (21.43 %) C	Qualifications 1 2 (14.29 %) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 1 (7.143 %) JSP 440	Vendors 1 4 (28.57 %) Microsoft 2 2 (14.29 %) Oracle 3 1 (7.143 %) Empirix 3 1 (7.143 %) VMware