The first table below looks at the demand for Performance Testing skills in IT contracts advertised for the Edinburgh region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Performance Testing 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 Edinburgh 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
Performance Testing
Rank 55 59 53
Rank change year-on-year
+4 -6
Contract jobs citing Performance Testing 2 6 19
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Edinburgh 0.244% 0.547% 1.465%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.362% 0.819% 2.207%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 5 14
Average daily rate - £340 £425
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -20.00%
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £400 £375
% change year-on-year
-18.75% +6.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £32.00 £31.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+1.58% -10.00%
All Processes & Methodologies
Edinburgh
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
553 733 861
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Edinburgh 67.52% 66.82% 66.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 254 364 475
Average daily rate £413 £375 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+10.00% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £263 £250 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £525 £475 £550
UK excluding London average daily rate £363 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
-0.68% -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 17 9
Average hourly rate £20.00 £24.00 £16.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-16.66% +50.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.00 £13.07 £10.45
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £20.50 £32.00 £32.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.50 £25.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year
+26.00% -16.66%
Performance Testing
Scotland

Performance Testing
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Edinburgh 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 Edinburgh region.

Edinburgh Performance Testing Daily Rate Trend

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 Edinburgh region.

Edinburgh Performance Testing Hourly Rate Trend

Performance Testing
Top 22 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Edinburgh 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 3 (75.00%) Finance
2 2 (50.00%) Banking
3 1 (25.00%) WebSphere
3 1 (25.00%) User Acceptance Testing
3 1 (25.00%) Test Management
3 1 (25.00%) Test Scripting
3 1 (25.00%) System Testing
3 1 (25.00%) Pega
3 1 (25.00%) WebSphere Portal
3 1 (25.00%) CA Wily
3 1 (25.00%) Regression Testing
3 1 (25.00%) Workflow
3 1 (25.00%) IBM HTTP Server
3 1 (25.00%) Oracle
3 1 (25.00%) WebSphere Application Server
3 1 (25.00%) UNIX
3 1 (25.00%) AIX
3 1 (25.00%) HTTP
3 1 (25.00%) IBM
3 1 (25.00%) ISEB
3 1 (25.00%) CA
3 1 (25.00%) Project Management

Performance Testing
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Edinburgh 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 1 (25.00%) WebSphere
Application Platforms
1 1 (25.00%) WebSphere Portal
1 1 (25.00%) IBM HTTP Server
1 1 (25.00%) WebSphere Application Server
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) HTTP
General
1 3 (75.00%) Finance
2 2 (50.00%) Banking
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Test Manager
2 1 (25.00%) Test Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Consultant
2 1 (25.00%) Technical Consultant
2 1 (25.00%) Technical Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Oracle Consultant
2 1 (25.00%) Oracle Technical Consultant
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) UNIX
1 1 (25.00%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (25.00%) User Acceptance Testing
1 1 (25.00%) Test Management
1 1 (25.00%) Test Scripting
1 1 (25.00%) System Testing
1 1 (25.00%) Regression Testing
1 1 (25.00%) Workflow
1 1 (25.00%) Project Management
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) ISEB
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) CA Wily
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Pega
1 1 (25.00%) Oracle
1 1 (25.00%) IBM
1 1 (25.00%) CA