Test Scripting 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 Test Scripting 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 Test Scripting 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 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
21 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Test Scripting (Test Scripts)
Rank 83 88 101
Rank change year-on-year
+5 +13
Contract jobs citing Test Scripting 37 43 25
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the East of England 1.697% 1.464% 0.967%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.550% 2.269% 1.481%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 29 15
Average daily rate £325 £325 £275
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +18.18%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £210 £290 £208
10% offered a daily rate of more than £470 £413 £365
UK excluding London average daily rate £329 £300 £315
% change year-on-year
+9.58% -4.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 1
Average hourly rate - £29.50 £13.75
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- +114.54%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £26.00 £27.50 £18.75
% change year-on-year
-5.45% +46.66%
All Processes & Methodologies
East of England
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category		 1451 1895 1688
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the East of England 66.56% 64.52% 65.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 818 925 768
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 £250 £250 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £500 £550
UK excluding London average daily rate £363 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
-0.68% -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 133 155 185
Average hourly rate £35.03 £31.25 £32.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+12.08% -3.84%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £19.39 £12.37 £14.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £43.00 £49.00 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.50 £25.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year
+26.00% -16.66%
Test Scripting
England

Test Scripting
Jobs Demand Trend

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

East of England Test Scripting Jobs Demand Trend

Test Scripting
Daily Rate Trend

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

East of England Test Scripting Daily Rate Trend

Test Scripting
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Test Scripting across the East of England region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

East of England Test Scripting Daily Rate Histogram

Test Scripting
Hourly Rate Trend

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

East of England Test Scripting Hourly Rate Trend

Test Scripting
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Test Scripting within the East of England 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
Hertfordshire +6 12 £250 -29.82%
Suffolk +6 12 £450 +38.46%
Cambridgeshire +14 7 £375 -25.00%
Essex -3 4 £313 +8.69%
Norfolk +1 2 £288 -6.12%
Test Scripting
England

Test Scripting
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the East of England 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 40 (38.83%) User Acceptance Testing
2 39 (37.86%) ISEB
3 34 (33.01%) SQL
4 27 (26.21%) Finance
5 21 (20.39%) QA
6 19 (18.45%) HP Quality Center
7 18 (17.48%) Integration Testing
8 16 (15.53%) System Testing
8 16 (15.53%) ISTQB
9 15 (14.56%) Selenium
9 15 (14.56%) Migration
9 15 (14.56%) Java
10 14 (13.59%) Web Services
11 13 (12.62%) Scrum
12 12 (11.65%) JIRA
13 11 (10.68%) Software Testing
13 11 (10.68%) Agile Software Development
13 11 (10.68%) HP
14 10 (9.709%) ETL
15 9 (8.738%) Bugzilla
15 9 (8.738%) Automated Testing
15 9 (8.738%) SOAP
15 9 (8.738%) Linux
15 9 (8.738%) Manual Testing
16 8 (7.767%) Test Automation
16 8 (7.767%) WebDriver
16 8 (7.767%) FogBugz
16 8 (7.767%) Continuous Integration
16 8 (7.767%) XML
16 8 (7.767%) MS Visio

Test Scripting
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the East of England 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 14 (13.59%) Web Services
2 9 (8.738%) SOAP
3 8 (7.767%) XML
4 5 (4.854%) .NET
5 3 (2.913%) HTML
5 3 (2.913%) soapUI
5 3 (2.913%) Gherkin
6 2 (1.942%) XSLT
7 1 (0.971%) Middleware
7 1 (0.971%) ASP.NET
7 1 (0.971%) CSS
7 1 (0.971%) J2EE
Application Platforms
1 7 (6.796%) Confluence
2 3 (2.913%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
2 3 (2.913%) MS Exchange
2 3 (2.913%) Exchange Server 2010
3 2 (1.942%) SharePoint
Applications
1 8 (7.767%) MS Visio
2 6 (5.825%) MS Office
3 5 (4.854%) MS Project
3 5 (4.854%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (1.942%) SAP HR
2 1 (0.971%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.971%) Oracle Financials
2 1 (0.971%) Oracle EBS R12
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.971%) SAN
1 1 (0.971%) Internet
1 1 (0.971%) HTTP
1 1 (0.971%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (6.796%) Data Warehouse
2 6 (5.825%) SQL Server
3 5 (4.854%) Data Mining
4 3 (2.913%) SQL Server 2008
5 1 (0.971%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 15 (14.56%) Selenium
2 12 (11.65%) JIRA
3 9 (8.738%) Bugzilla
4 8 (7.767%) WebDriver
4 8 (7.767%) FogBugz
5 5 (4.854%) QuickTest Pro
6 4 (3.883%) JBehave
7 3 (2.913%) Visual Studio
7 3 (2.913%) SpecFlow
7 3 (2.913%) Cucumber
8 2 (1.942%) MonkeyTalk
9 1 (0.971%) Rational Rose
9 1 (0.971%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 27 (26.21%) Finance
2 4 (3.883%) Retail
3 3 (2.913%) Pharmaceutical
4 2 (1.942%) German Language
4 2 (1.942%) General Ledger
5 1 (0.971%) Multimedia
5 1 (0.971%) Games
5 1 (0.971%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 68 (66.02%) Analyst
2 42 (40.78%) Test Analyst
3 21 (20.39%) Business Analyst
4 16 (15.53%) Tester
5 10 (9.709%) QA Analyst
6 8 (7.767%) Test Leader
7 7 (6.796%) Test Manager
8 4 (3.883%) Technical Business Analyst
8 4 (3.883%) Insurance Business Analyst
8 4 (3.883%) Senior Analyst
8 4 (3.883%) Technical Analyst
8 4 (3.883%) Senior Test Analyst
8 4 (3.883%) Senior Tester
9 3 (2.913%) QA Test Analyst
9 3 (2.913%) Systems Analyst
9 3 (2.913%) NHS Business Analyst
10 2 (1.942%) SAP Analyst
10 2 (1.942%) Build Engineer
10 2 (1.942%) UAT Manager
10 2 (1.942%) UAT Test Manager
Miscellaneous
1 7 (6.796%) Client/Server
1 7 (6.796%) NHS
2 4 (3.883%) IIBA
3 3 (2.913%) Blackberry
4 2 (1.942%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 1 (0.971%) Clustering
5 1 (0.971%) Mathematics
5 1 (0.971%) Computer Science
5 1 (0.971%) iPad
5 1 (0.971%) iPhone
5 1 (0.971%) FMCG
Operating Systems
1 9 (8.738%) Linux
2 6 (5.825%) Windows
3 3 (2.913%) Windows Server 2003
3 3 (2.913%) UNIX
3 3 (2.913%) Windows Server 2008
4 1 (0.971%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.971%) Windows 7
4 1 (0.971%) Android
4 1 (0.971%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (38.83%) User Acceptance Testing
2 18 (17.48%) Integration Testing
3 16 (15.53%) System Testing
4 15 (14.56%) Migration
5 13 (12.62%) Scrum
6 11 (10.68%) Software Testing
6 11 (10.68%) Agile Software Development
7 10 (9.709%) ETL
8 9 (8.738%) Automated Testing
8 9 (8.738%) Manual Testing
9 8 (7.767%) Test Automation
9 8 (7.767%) Continuous Integration
9 8 (7.767%) Systems Analysis
9 8 (7.767%) Business Analysis
10 7 (6.796%) Change Management
10 7 (6.796%) Data Migration
10 7 (6.796%) Build Automation
10 7 (6.796%) BDD
11 6 (5.825%) UML
11 6 (5.825%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 34 (33.01%) SQL
2 15 (14.56%) Java
3 6 (5.825%) VB
3 6 (5.825%) C#
4 1 (0.971%) C
4 1 (0.971%) C++
4 1 (0.971%) VB.NET
4 1 (0.971%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 39 (37.86%) ISEB
2 16 (15.53%) ISTQB
3 5 (4.854%) Degree
3 5 (4.854%) Security Cleared
4 2 (1.942%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (20.39%) QA
2 2 (1.942%) Solvency II
3 1 (0.971%) HL7
3 1 (0.971%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (1.942%) XenApp
2 1 (0.971%) Microsoft App-V
2 1 (0.971%) Xen
2 1 (0.971%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 19 (18.45%) HP Quality Center
2 3 (2.913%) Symantec Enterprise Vault
3 1 (0.971%) YUM
3 1 (0.971%) SCCM
Vendors
1 11 (10.68%) HP
2 7 (6.796%) Microsoft
3 5 (4.854%) Capita
3 5 (4.854%) Oracle
3 5 (4.854%) SAP
4 4 (3.883%) Remedy
4 4 (3.883%) Civica
5 3 (2.913%) Symantec
5 3 (2.913%) Sun
6 2 (1.942%) Atlassian
6 2 (1.942%) Citrix
7 1 (0.971%) Red Hat
7 1 (0.971%) CODA
7 1 (0.971%) SunGard
7 1 (0.971%) Twitter
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