Performance Testing Contracts in the East of England
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for Performance Testing skills in IT contracts advertised for the East of England region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Performance Testing over the 3 months to 24 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 East of England 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
24 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Performance Testing
Rank 107 124 112
Rank change year-on-year
+17 -12
Contract jobs citing Performance Testing 7 8 15
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the East of England 0.327% 0.271% 0.567%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.491% 0.420% 0.873%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 1 11
Average daily rate £325 £425 £335
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-23.52% +26.86%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £304 £425 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £400 £425 £475
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £400 £375
% change year-on-year
-18.75% +6.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 0
Average hourly rate - £38.75 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £32.00 £31.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+1.58% -10.00%
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All Processes & Methodologies
East of England
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category		 1427 1903 1718
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the East of England 66.71% 64.40% 64.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 813 915 776
Average daily rate £375 £363 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+3.44% -3.33%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £250 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £500 £550
UK excluding London average daily rate £365 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
- -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 122 154 186
Average hourly rate £35.22 £31.00 £32.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+13.61% -3.12%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £19.08 £12.28 £13.88
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £43.00 £49.00 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.00 £25.00 £29.50
% change year-on-year
+20.00% -15.25%
Performance Testing
England

Performance Testing
Jobs Demand Trend

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

East of England Performance Testing Jobs Demand Trend

Performance Testing
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Performance Testing across the East of England region.

East of England Performance Testing Daily Rate Trend

Performance Testing
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Performance Testing across the East of England region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

East of England Performance Testing Daily Rate Histogram

Performance Testing
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Performance Testing across the East of England region.

East of England Performance Testing Hourly Rate Trend

Performance Testing
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Performance Testing within the East of England region over the 3 months to 24 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
Cambridgeshire +12 3 £450 -
Hertfordshire +8 3 £325 -23.52%
Norfolk - 1 £290 -
Performance Testing
England

Performance Testing
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the East of England region citing Performance 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 Performance Testing.

1 9 (64.29%) SQL
2 6 (42.86%) XML
3 5 (35.71%) .NET
3 5 (35.71%) Test Automation
4 4 (28.57%) User Acceptance Testing
4 4 (28.57%) C#
4 4 (28.57%) Windows
5 3 (21.43%) ISEB
5 3 (21.43%) CA
5 3 (21.43%) Microsoft
5 3 (21.43%) Active Directory
5 3 (21.43%) E-Commerce
5 3 (21.43%) Load Testing
5 3 (21.43%) Fiddler
5 3 (21.43%) Integration Testing
5 3 (21.43%) Web Testing
5 3 (21.43%) Test Scripting
5 3 (21.43%) QA
5 3 (21.43%) Splunk
6 2 (14.29%) Manual Testing
6 2 (14.29%) User Stories
6 2 (14.29%) PowerShell
6 2 (14.29%) SharePoint
6 2 (14.29%) Waterfall
6 2 (14.29%) Software Testing
6 2 (14.29%) ISTQB
6 2 (14.29%) Degree
6 2 (14.29%) BizTalk Server
6 2 (14.29%) Risk Management
6 2 (14.29%) Scrum

Performance Testing
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the East of England region citing Performance 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 Performance Testing. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 6 (42.86%) XML
2 5 (35.71%) .NET
3 1 (7.143%) XSLT
3 1 (7.143%) HTML
3 1 (7.143%) ASP.NET
3 1 (7.143%) CSS
3 1 (7.143%) Ajax
3 1 (7.143%) WCF
3 1 (7.143%) jQuery
3 1 (7.143%) HTML5
Application Platforms
1 2 (14.29%) SharePoint
1 2 (14.29%) BizTalk Server
2 1 (7.143%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (7.143%) MS Project
1 1 (7.143%) MS Office
1 1 (7.143%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (7.143%) Dynamics NAV
1 1 (7.143%) Adaptiv
Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.143%) HTTP
1 1 (7.143%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.143%) SQL Server
1 1 (7.143%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 3 (21.43%) Fiddler
2 1 (7.143%) Visual Studio
2 1 (7.143%) QuickTest Pro
2 1 (7.143%) Bugzilla
2 1 (7.143%) JIRA
2 1 (7.143%) Selenium
2 1 (7.143%) Git (software)
General
1 1 (7.143%) Telecoms
1 1 (7.143%) Finance
1 1 (7.143%) Games
1 1 (7.143%) Banking
1 1 (7.143%) Retail
Job Titles
1 3 (21.43%) Tester
1 3 (21.43%) Analyst
1 3 (21.43%) Server Engineer
1 3 (21.43%) Windows Server Engineer
2 2 (14.29%) Test Manager
2 2 (14.29%) Test Analyst
3 1 (7.143%) Performance Tester
3 1 (7.143%) Test Engineer
3 1 (7.143%) Senior Software Engineer
3 1 (7.143%) Software Engineer
3 1 (7.143%) QA Manager
3 1 (7.143%) Performance Engineer
3 1 (7.143%) QA Analyst
3 1 (7.143%) Software Analyst
3 1 (7.143%) QA Test Manager
3 1 (7.143%) Web Tester
3 1 (7.143%) Performance Test Engineer
3 1 (7.143%) Test Leader
Miscellaneous
1 1 (7.143%) Mathematics
1 1 (7.143%) Physics
1 1 (7.143%) Computer Science
1 1 (7.143%) Market Risk
1 1 (7.143%) Hedge funds
1 1 (7.143%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 4 (28.57%) Windows
2 1 (7.143%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (35.71%) Test Automation
2 4 (28.57%) User Acceptance Testing
3 3 (21.43%) E-Commerce
3 3 (21.43%) Load Testing
3 3 (21.43%) Integration Testing
3 3 (21.43%) Web Testing
3 3 (21.43%) Test Scripting
4 2 (14.29%) Manual Testing
4 2 (14.29%) User Stories
4 2 (14.29%) Waterfall
4 2 (14.29%) Software Testing
4 2 (14.29%) Risk Management
4 2 (14.29%) Scrum
4 2 (14.29%) OO
5 1 (7.143%) SOA
5 1 (7.143%) ETL
5 1 (7.143%) OOP
5 1 (7.143%) Validation
5 1 (7.143%) Project Management
5 1 (7.143%) Quality Management
Programming Languages
1 9 (64.29%) SQL
2 4 (28.57%) C#
3 2 (14.29%) PowerShell
3 2 (14.29%) VB
4 1 (7.143%) C++
4 1 (7.143%) JavaScript
4 1 (7.143%) Perl
4 1 (7.143%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (21.43%) ISEB
2 2 (14.29%) ISTQB
2 2 (14.29%) Degree
3 1 (7.143%) PhD
3 1 (7.143%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (21.43%) QA
System Software
1 3 (21.43%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (21.43%) Splunk
Vendors
1 3 (21.43%) CA
1 3 (21.43%) Microsoft
2 1 (7.143%) Oracle
2 1 (7.143%) SunGard
2 1 (7.143%) HP
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