User Acceptance Testing 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 User Acceptance 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 User Acceptance Testing over the 3 months to 17 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
17 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
User Acceptance Testing (UAT)
Rank 29 29 26
Rank change year-on-year
0 -3
Contract jobs citing User Acceptance Testing 30 38 54
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Edinburgh 3.704% 3.436% 4.033%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.455% 5.135% 6.129%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 20 24
Average daily rate £325 £330 £338
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-1.51% -2.22%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £249 £265 £279
10% offered a daily rate of more than £369 £430 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £350 £350
% change year-on-year
-7.14% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 3
Average hourly rate £19.75 - £14.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.00 £26.28 £23.00
% change year-on-year
+14.15% +14.26%
All Processes & Methodologies
Edinburgh
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category		 550 740 881
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Edinburgh 67.90% 66.91% 65.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 255 373 484
Average daily rate £413 £375 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+10.00% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £263 £240 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £525 £488 £549
UK excluding London average daily rate £363 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
-0.68% -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 16 9
Average hourly rate £19.50 £25.75 £16.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-24.27% +60.93%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.00 £14.37 £10.45
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £35.35 £32.00 £32.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.60 £25.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year
+26.40% -16.66%
User Acceptance Testing
Scotland

User Acceptance Testing
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Edinburgh User Acceptance Testing Jobs Demand Trend

User Acceptance Testing
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing User Acceptance Testing across the Edinburgh region.

Edinburgh User Acceptance Testing Daily Rate Trend

User Acceptance Testing
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing User Acceptance Testing across the Edinburgh region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

Edinburgh User Acceptance Testing Daily Rate Histogram

User Acceptance Testing
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing User Acceptance Testing across the Edinburgh region.

Edinburgh User Acceptance Testing Hourly Rate Trend

User Acceptance Testing
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Edinburgh region citing User Acceptance 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 User Acceptance Testing.

1 29 (55.77%) Finance
2 16 (30.77%) Banking
3 14 (26.92%) HP Quality Center
4 9 (17.31%) ISEB
4 9 (17.31%) Microsoft
5 8 (15.38%) Stakeholder Management
6 7 (13.46%) Test Scripting
7 6 (11.54%) System Testing
7 6 (11.54%) ISTQB
8 5 (9.615%) SQL
9 4 (7.692%) Project Planning
9 4 (7.692%) Use Case
9 4 (7.692%) Test Strategy
9 4 (7.692%) Business Analysis
9 4 (7.692%) Retail
9 4 (7.692%) .NET
9 4 (7.692%) MS Office
9 4 (7.692%) SharePoint
9 4 (7.692%) Migration
10 3 (5.769%) Basel II
10 3 (5.769%) TestDirector
10 3 (5.769%) UML
10 3 (5.769%) Oracle
10 3 (5.769%) Business Objects
10 3 (5.769%) C#
10 3 (5.769%) MS PowerPoint
10 3 (5.769%) Retail Banking
10 3 (5.769%) Credit Risk
11 2 (3.846%) Degree
11 2 (3.846%) Usability Testing

User Acceptance Testing
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Edinburgh region citing User Acceptance 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 User Acceptance Testing. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 4 (7.692%) .NET
2 2 (3.846%) Web Services
3 1 (1.923%) XML
3 1 (1.923%) XSL
3 1 (1.923%) XSLT
3 1 (1.923%) XHTML
3 1 (1.923%) ASP
3 1 (1.923%) ASP.NET
3 1 (1.923%) COM
3 1 (1.923%) CSS
3 1 (1.923%) HTML
Application Platforms
1 4 (7.692%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.923%) SAS
2 1 (1.923%) CMS
2 1 (1.923%) WebLogic
2 1 (1.923%) IIS
2 1 (1.923%) Apache
Applications
1 4 (7.692%) MS Office
2 3 (5.769%) MS PowerPoint
3 2 (3.846%) MS Project
3 2 (3.846%) MS Excel
4 1 (1.923%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (1.923%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (1.923%) MultiFonds
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.923%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (3.846%) SQL Server
2 1 (1.923%) MS Access
2 1 (1.923%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (1.923%) Data Mining
2 1 (1.923%) RDBMS
2 1 (1.923%) Oracle BI EE
2 1 (1.923%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 3 (5.769%) TestDirector
2 1 (1.923%) RequisitePro
2 1 (1.923%) XDE
2 1 (1.923%) Subversion
2 1 (1.923%) Team Foundation Server
2 1 (1.923%) Visual Studio
General
1 29 (55.77%) Finance
2 16 (30.77%) Banking
3 4 (7.692%) Retail
4 3 (5.769%) Retail Banking
5 1 (1.923%) Corporate Banking
5 1 (1.923%) Investment Banking
5 1 (1.923%) Publishing
5 1 (1.923%) Front Office
5 1 (1.923%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 26 (50.00%) Analyst
2 19 (36.54%) Test Analyst
3 6 (11.54%) Business Analyst
3 6 (11.54%) Test Leader
4 5 (9.615%) UAT Test Analyst
4 5 (9.615%) UAT Analyst
5 4 (7.692%) Test Manager
5 4 (7.692%) Coordinator
6 3 (5.769%) Data Analyst
6 3 (5.769%) Business Data Analyst
7 2 (3.846%) Test Coordinator
7 2 (3.846%) Systems Test Analyst
7 2 (3.846%) Project Manager
7 2 (3.846%) Tester
7 2 (3.846%) Developer
7 2 (3.846%) Systems Analyst
7 2 (3.846%) Consultant
8 1 (1.923%) Technical Project Manager
8 1 (1.923%) Senior Analyst
8 1 (1.923%) .NET Developer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (5.769%) Credit Risk
2 2 (3.846%) Mainframe
3 1 (1.923%) Management Information System
3 1 (1.923%) Copywriting
3 1 (1.923%) Data Extraction
3 1 (1.923%) Semantic Web
3 1 (1.923%) PMI
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (15.38%) Stakeholder Management
2 7 (13.46%) Test Scripting
3 6 (11.54%) System Testing
4 4 (7.692%) Test Strategy
4 4 (7.692%) Migration
4 4 (7.692%) Use Case
4 4 (7.692%) Business Analysis
4 4 (7.692%) Project Planning
5 3 (5.769%) UML
6 2 (3.846%) Project Management
6 2 (3.846%) Workflow
6 2 (3.846%) Agile Software Development
6 2 (3.846%) Asset Management
6 2 (3.846%) Content Management
6 2 (3.846%) Usability Testing
6 2 (3.846%) Test Management
7 1 (1.923%) Manual Testing
7 1 (1.923%) Performance Testing
7 1 (1.923%) Release Management
7 1 (1.923%) Data Analysis
Programming Languages
1 5 (9.615%) SQL
2 3 (5.769%) C#
3 1 (1.923%) JavaScript
3 1 (1.923%) VB
3 1 (1.923%) XQuery
3 1 (1.923%) XPath
Qualifications
1 9 (17.31%) ISEB
2 6 (11.54%) ISTQB
3 2 (3.846%) Degree
4 1 (1.923%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (5.769%) Basel II
2 1 (1.923%) QA
Systems Management
1 14 (26.92%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 9 (17.31%) Microsoft
2 3 (5.769%) Oracle
2 3 (5.769%) Business Objects
3 2 (3.846%) Pega
4 1 (1.923%) Cadis
4 1 (1.923%) IBM
Business/ Data Analyst
Edinburgh, Midlothian
The ideal candidate will previous financial experience, working as an Analyst, helping perform first line analysis on user queries as well as performing user acceptance testing and analysis...
TEKsystems
Rate: £10 - £12 per hour
Posted: 13 May 2013
Test Analyst (Financial Services) - SAS, Hyperion, ETL
Edinburgh, Midlothian
A Test Analyst contract requirement has been identified by our Edinburgh based Financial Services Client. The successful candidate will be carrying out UAT Testing within an MI Team.
Head Resourcing
Rate: £250 - £300 per day
Posted: 17 May 2013
Test Anayst - Edinburgh - 3 Month Contract
Edinburgh, Scotland
My Edinburgh based client currently has a requirement for for a Test Analyst for an initial 3 month duration.
Computer Futures
Posted: 15 May 2013
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