East of England WinRunner Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for HP WinRunner skills within the East of England region with a comparison to our Development Applications category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited WinRunner over the 3 months to 10 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

HP WinRunner
Location Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Bristol Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Channel Islands City of London County Antrim Docklands, London Dorset East Midlands East of England Edinburgh England Essex Farnborough Glasgow Hampshire Harlow Hertfordshire Leeds London M4 Corridor Manchester Midlands North West Northern Ireland Nottingham Nottinghamshire Reading Scotland Solihull South East South Lanarkshire South Wales South West Southampton Stevenage Surrey Swansea Swindon Thames Valley UK Wales Watford West Midlands West Wales West Yorkshire Wiltshire Yorkshire	3 months to 10 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	124	126
Rank change on same period last year	+2
Matching contract IT job ads	10	31
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.014 %	0.031 %
As % of the category below	3.311 %	5.000 %
Daily rates quoted	2	9
Average minimum daily rate	£275	£301
Average daily rate	£288	£303
% change on same period last year	-5.04 %
Average maximum daily rate	£300	£304
UK excluding London average daily rate	£279	£298
% change on same period last year	-6.40 %
Hourly rates quoted	1	6
Average minimum hourly rate	£35.00	£38.50
Average hourly rate	£35.00	£40.67
% change on same period last year	-13.93 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£35.00	£42.83
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£34.33	£33.57
% change on same period last year	+2.27 %
Development Applications East of England
Matching contract IT job ads	302	620
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.425 %	0.627 %
Daily rates quoted	105	175
Average minimum daily rate	£293	£310
Average daily rate	£313	£326
% change on same period last year	-3.99 %
Average maximum daily rate	£333	£342
UK excluding London average daily rate	£324	£328
% change on same period last year	-1.38 %
Hourly rates quoted	45	97
Average minimum hourly rate	£33.79	£33.99
Average hourly rate	£35.05	£35.19
% change on same period last year	-0.40 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£36.31	£36.40
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£32.49	£31.36
% change on same period last year	+3.60 %
WinRunner England

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.

WinRunner
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing WinRunner across the East of England region as a proportion of the total demand within the Development Applications 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 WinRunner across the East of England region.

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Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing WinRunner across the East of England region over the 3 months to 10 October 2008.

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Hourly Rate Trend

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

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Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing WinRunner within the East of England region over the 3 months to 10 October 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
Hertfordshire	+11	5	£288	-7.00 %
Essex	-	4	-	-
Cambridgeshire	+6	2	-	-

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 10 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the East of England region citing WinRunner 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 WinRunner.

1 10 (76.92 %) LoadRunner 2 9 (69.23 %) TestDirector 3 6 (46.15 %) QuickTest Pro 3 6 (46.15 %) ISEB 4 5 (38.46 %) Web Testing 5 4 (30.77 %) Automated Testing 6 3 (23.08 %) AJAX 6 3 (23.08 %) QA 6 3 (23.08 %) Selenium 6 3 (23.08 %) FitNesse 6 3 (23.08 %) Scrum 6 3 (23.08 %) Extreme Programming 6 3 (23.08 %) Agile Software Development 6 3 (23.08 %) Test Management 6 3 (23.08 %) Test Scripting

6 3 (23.08 %) JMeter 6 3 (23.08 %) HTML 6 3 (23.08 %) Java 6 3 (23.08 %) JavaScript 6 3 (23.08 %) SQL 6 3 (23.08 %) .NET 6 3 (23.08 %) CSS 6 3 (23.08 %) WebServices 6 3 (23.08 %) PRINCE2 6 3 (23.08 %) XHTML 7 2 (15.38 %) MS Excel 7 2 (15.38 %) Oracle 7 2 (15.38 %) MS Office 7 2 (15.38 %) PVCS 7 2 (15.38 %) Finance

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 10 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the East of England region citing WinRunner 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 WinRunner. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 3 (23.08 %) HTML 1 3 (23.08 %) .NET 1 3 (23.08 %) CSS 1 3 (23.08 %) WebServices 1 3 (23.08 %) XHTML 1 3 (23.08 %) AJAX 2 1 (7.692 %) WebSphere 2 1 (7.692 %) SOAP	Application Platforms 1 2 (15.38 %) SharePoint 2 1 (7.692 %) MQSeries
Applications 1 2 (15.38 %) MS Office 1 2 (15.38 %) MS Excel 1 2 (15.38 %) MS Visio 1 2 (15.38 %) MS PowerPoint	Business Applications 1 1 (7.692 %) SAP CRM
Database & Business Intelligence 1 1 (7.692 %) RDBMS	Development Applications 1 10 (76.92 %) LoadRunner 2 9 (69.23 %) TestDirector 3 6 (46.15 %) QuickTest Pro 4 3 (23.08 %) JMeter 4 3 (23.08 %) Selenium 4 3 (23.08 %) FitNesse 5 2 (15.38 %) PVCS
General 1 2 (15.38 %) Pharmaceutical 1 2 (15.38 %) Finance 1 2 (15.38 %) Banking 2 1 (7.692 %) Investment Banking	Job Titles 1 7 (53.85 %) Tester 2 2 (15.38 %) Test Coordinator 2 2 (15.38 %) Systems Tester 2 2 (15.38 %) Coordinator 2 2 (15.38 %) Web Tester 3 1 (7.692 %) Test Engineer 3 1 (7.692 %) Test Consultant 3 1 (7.692 %) Software Consultant 3 1 (7.692 %) SAP Tester 3 1 (7.692 %) Analyst 3 1 (7.692 %) Test Analyst 3 1 (7.692 %) Consultant
Operating Systems 1 1 (7.692 %) Solaris	Processes & Methodologies 1 5 (38.46 %) Web Testing 2 4 (30.77 %) Automated Testing 3 3 (23.08 %) Test Management 3 3 (23.08 %) Test Scripting 3 3 (23.08 %) PRINCE2 3 3 (23.08 %) Scrum 3 3 (23.08 %) Extreme Programming 3 3 (23.08 %) Agile Software Development 4 2 (15.38 %) Project Planning 4 2 (15.38 %) Performance Testing 4 2 (15.38 %) Project Management 5 1 (7.692 %) CRM 5 1 (7.692 %) Manual Testing
Programming Languages 1 3 (23.08 %) Java 1 3 (23.08 %) JavaScript 1 3 (23.08 %) SQL 2 1 (7.692 %) Shell Script 2 1 (7.692 %) Perl	Qualifications 1 6 (46.15 %) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 3 (23.08 %) QA	Vendors 1 2 (15.38 %) Oracle 2 1 (7.692 %) SAP 2 1 (7.692 %) HP