The first table below looks at the demand for Rational Performance Tester skills in IT contracts advertised for the East Sussex region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Rational Performance Tester 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 Development Applications category for the East Sussex 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
IBM Rational Performance Tester (RPT)
Rank - - -
Contract jobs citing Rational Performance Tester 0 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in East Sussex - - -
As % of the Development Applications category - - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £363 £425 £303
% change year-on-year
-14.70% +40.49%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Development Applications
East Sussex
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Development Applications category
21 35 23
As % of all contract IT jobs located in East Sussex 9.211% 10.87% 12.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 15 18
Average daily rate £350 £300 £331
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+16.66% -9.43%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £300 £213 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £410 £343 £376
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £330 £325
% change year-on-year
-1.51% +1.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+7.14% -
Rational Performance Tester
South East

Rational Performance Tester
Top 10 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the East Sussex region citing Rational Performance Tester 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 Rational Performance Tester.

1 2 (100.00%) HP
1 2 (100.00%) ISEB
1 2 (100.00%) LoadRunner
1 2 (100.00%) SilkPerformer
1 2 (100.00%) Performance Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Load Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Stress Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Empirix
2 1 (50.00%) Oracle
2 1 (50.00%) IBM

Rational Performance Tester
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the East Sussex region citing Rational Performance Tester 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 Rational Performance Tester. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) LoadRunner
1 2 (100.00%) SilkPerformer
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Tester
1 2 (100.00%) Performance Tester
2 1 (50.00%) Performance Test Analyst
2 1 (50.00%) Performance Analyst
2 1 (50.00%) Analyst
2 1 (50.00%) Test Analyst
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Performance Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Load Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Stress Testing
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) ISEB
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) HP
2 1 (50.00%) Empirix
2 1 (50.00%) Oracle
2 1 (50.00%) IBM