Test Scripting Contracts in Edinburgh
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for Test Scripting 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 Test Scripting 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 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
24 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Test Scripting (Test Scripts)
Rank 44 40 43
Rank change year-on-year
-4 +3
Contract jobs citing Test Scripting 13 23 25
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Edinburgh 1.561% 2.116% 1.931%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.277% 3.164% 2.917%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 11 17
Average daily rate £315 £300 £338
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+5.00% -11.11%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £263 £250 £268
10% offered a daily rate of more than £408 £390 £482
UK excluding London average daily rate £329 £300 £320
% change year-on-year
+9.58% -6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 5 0
Average hourly rate - £32.00 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £25.50 £27.50 £18.75
% change year-on-year
-7.27% +46.66%
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All Processes & Methodologies
Edinburgh
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category		 571 727 857
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Edinburgh 68.55% 66.88% 66.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 269 362 465
Average daily rate £413 £375 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+10.00% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £270 £246 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £525 £475 £535
UK excluding London average daily rate £365 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
- -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 16 8
Average hourly rate £20.00 £27.50 £17.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-27.27% +57.14%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.00 £12.88 £14.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £25.45 £39.00 £43.75
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.00 £25.00 £29.50
% change year-on-year
+20.00% -15.25%
Test Scripting
Scotland

Test Scripting
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Edinburgh 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 Edinburgh region.

Edinburgh 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 Edinburgh region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Edinburgh 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 Edinburgh region.

Edinburgh Test Scripting Hourly Rate Trend

Test Scripting
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Edinburgh 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 15 (55.56%) Finance
2 11 (40.74%) Banking
3 10 (37.04%) HP Quality Center
4 8 (29.63%) User Acceptance Testing
5 7 (25.93%) ISEB
6 6 (22.22%) SQL
7 4 (14.81%) Regression Testing
7 4 (14.81%) Workflow
7 4 (14.81%) System Testing
8 2 (7.407%) Retail
8 2 (7.407%) Data Management
8 2 (7.407%) Front Arena
8 2 (7.407%) Business Analysis
8 2 (7.407%) Software Testing
8 2 (7.407%) SQL Server 2005
8 2 (7.407%) Windows Server 2008
8 2 (7.407%) SQL Server 2008
8 2 (7.407%) XPath
8 2 (7.407%) Use Case
8 2 (7.407%) C#
8 2 (7.407%) Management Information System
8 2 (7.407%) Windows Server 2003
8 2 (7.407%) T-SQL
8 2 (7.407%) .NET
8 2 (7.407%) SQL Server
8 2 (7.407%) Visual Studio
8 2 (7.407%) XQuery
8 2 (7.407%) XML
8 2 (7.407%) XSL
8 2 (7.407%) Windows

Test Scripting
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Edinburgh 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 2 (7.407%) .NET
1 2 (7.407%) XML
1 2 (7.407%) XSL
2 1 (3.704%) COM
Application Platforms
1 1 (3.704%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (3.704%) MS Excel
1 1 (3.704%) MS Project
Business Applications
1 2 (7.407%) Front Arena
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.704%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (7.407%) SQL Server 2005
1 2 (7.407%) SQL Server 2008
1 2 (7.407%) SQL Server
2 1 (3.704%) MS Access
2 1 (3.704%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 2 (7.407%) Visual Studio
2 1 (3.704%) QuickTest Pro
General
1 15 (55.56%) Finance
2 11 (40.74%) Banking
3 2 (7.407%) Retail
4 1 (3.704%) Retail Banking
4 1 (3.704%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 20 (74.07%) Analyst
2 16 (59.26%) Test Analyst
3 3 (11.11%) Security Analyst
4 2 (7.407%) IT Security Analyst
4 2 (7.407%) UAT Analyst
4 2 (7.407%) Test Leader
4 2 (7.407%) UAT Test Analyst
4 2 (7.407%) Tester
4 2 (7.407%) Developer
4 2 (7.407%) Software Developer
5 1 (3.704%) Architect
5 1 (3.704%) Test Architect
5 1 (3.704%) Automated Test Analyst
5 1 (3.704%) Manual Test Analyst
5 1 (3.704%) Senior Analyst
5 1 (3.704%) Manual Tester
5 1 (3.704%) Systems Tester
5 1 (3.704%) Senior Test Analyst
5 1 (3.704%) Senior Tester
Miscellaneous
1 2 (7.407%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 2 (7.407%) Windows Server 2008
1 2 (7.407%) Windows Server 2003
1 2 (7.407%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (29.63%) User Acceptance Testing
2 4 (14.81%) Regression Testing
2 4 (14.81%) Workflow
2 4 (14.81%) System Testing
3 2 (7.407%) Data Management
3 2 (7.407%) Business Analysis
3 2 (7.407%) Software Testing
3 2 (7.407%) Use Case
4 1 (3.704%) ETL
4 1 (3.704%) Project Management
4 1 (3.704%) Waterfall
4 1 (3.704%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (3.704%) Project Governance
4 1 (3.704%) V-Model
4 1 (3.704%) Performance Testing
4 1 (3.704%) Unit Testing
4 1 (3.704%) Manual Testing
4 1 (3.704%) Supplier Management
4 1 (3.704%) Stakeholder Management
4 1 (3.704%) Agile Software Development
Programming Languages
1 6 (22.22%) SQL
2 2 (7.407%) XPath
2 2 (7.407%) C#
2 2 (7.407%) T-SQL
2 2 (7.407%) XQuery
Qualifications
1 7 (25.93%) ISEB
2 1 (3.704%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.704%) Sarbanes-Oxley
1 1 (3.704%) Basel II
1 1 (3.704%) QA
Systems Management
1 10 (37.04%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 1 (3.704%) Microsoft
1 1 (3.704%) HP
1 1 (3.704%) SAP
1 1 (3.704%) Business Objects
1 1 (3.704%) Hyperion
1 1 (3.704%) Pega
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