Essex TestDirector Contracts

This section looks at the demand for HP TestDirector for Quality Center skills within the Essex region with a comparison to our Development Applications category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited TestDirector over the 3 months to 21 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

HP TestDirector for Quality Center
Location Aberdeen Abingdon Basildon Basingstoke Bath Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Bracknell Bradford Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Cheltenham Cheshire Chester City of London County Antrim Crawley Dartford Devon Docklands, London Dorset East Anglia East Midlands East of England Edinburgh England Essex Farnborough Gatwick Glasgow Gloucestershire Guildford Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harlow Havant Hertfordshire Kent Leeds Lincolnshire Liverpool London M4 Corridor Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Upon Tyne Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Plymouth Pudsey Reading Scotland Solihull Somerset South East South Wales South West St Albans Staffordshire Stevenage Surrey Swansea Swindon Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warrington Watford West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Wiltshire Windsor Wokingham York Yorkshire	3 months to 21 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	47	50
Rank change on same period last year	+3
Matching contract IT job ads	11	10
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.015 %	0.010 %
As % of the category below	20.75 %	7.299 %
Daily rates quoted	1	7
Average minimum daily rate	£300	£461
Average daily rate	£350	£463
% change on same period last year	-24.41 %
Average maximum daily rate	£400	£465
UK excluding London average daily rate	£301	£317
% change on same period last year	-5.08 %
Hourly rates quoted	4	0
Average minimum hourly rate	£40.00	-
Average hourly rate	£40.63	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	£41.25	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£37.78	£27.98
% change on same period last year	+35.04 %
Development Applications Essex
Matching contract IT job ads	53	137
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.070 %	0.136 %
Daily rates quoted	15	28
Average minimum daily rate	£358	£427
Average daily rate	£391	£450
% change on same period last year	-13.05 %
Average maximum daily rate	£424	£473
UK excluding London average daily rate	£326	£334
% change on same period last year	-2.26 %
Hourly rates quoted	9	30
Average minimum hourly rate	£37.64	£32.08
Average hourly rate	£38.41	£33.04
% change on same period last year	+16.26 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£39.18	£34.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£33.38	£33.52
% change on same period last year	-0.41 %
TestDirector East of 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.

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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing TestDirector across the Essex 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 TestDirector across the Essex region.

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Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing TestDirector across the Essex region.

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Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing TestDirector across the Essex region over the 3 months to 21 August 2008.

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Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing TestDirector within the Essex region over the 3 months to 21 August 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
Harlow	-	2	-	-
Basildon	-	2	-	-

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Essex region citing TestDirector 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 TestDirector.

1 22 (84.62 %) QA 2 19 (73.08 %) J2EE 3 17 (65.38 %) Performance Testing 4 14 (53.85 %) User Acceptance Testing 5 13 (50.00 %) Oracle 6 12 (46.15 %) Configuration Management 7 9 (34.62 %) SQL 8 6 (23.08 %) Selenium 8 6 (23.08 %) FitNesse 9 4 (15.38 %) Pharmaceutical 9 4 (15.38 %) WinRunner 9 4 (15.38 %) LoadRunner 9 4 (15.38 %) Java 9 4 (15.38 %) Client/Server 9 4 (15.38 %) HTTP

9 4 (15.38 %) IBM 9 4 (15.38 %) Software Testing 9 4 (15.38 %) IBM HTTP Server 10 3 (11.54 %) Scrum 10 3 (11.54 %) Extreme Programming 10 3 (11.54 %) Agile Software Development 10 3 (11.54 %) Automated Testing 10 3 (11.54 %) Ruby on Rails 10 3 (11.54 %) Degree 10 3 (11.54 %) Ruby 10 3 (11.54 %) AJAX 10 3 (11.54 %) Web Testing 10 3 (11.54 %) Oracle HTTP Server 10 3 (11.54 %) WebServices 10 3 (11.54 %) Windows

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Essex region citing TestDirector 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 TestDirector. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 19 (73.08 %) J2EE 2 3 (11.54 %) Ruby on Rails 2 3 (11.54 %) AJAX 2 3 (11.54 %) WebServices 2 3 (11.54 %) XHTML 2 3 (11.54 %) .NET 2 3 (11.54 %) CSS 2 3 (11.54 %) HTML 3 2 (7.692 %) Java EE 4 1 (3.846 %) SOAP	Application Platforms 1 4 (15.38 %) IBM HTTP Server 2 3 (11.54 %) Oracle HTTP Server
Communications & Networking 1 4 (15.38 %) HTTP	Database & Business Intelligence 1 3 (11.54 %) Oracle 8/8i 1 3 (11.54 %) Oracle 9i
Development Applications 1 6 (23.08 %) Selenium 1 6 (23.08 %) FitNesse 2 4 (15.38 %) WinRunner 2 4 (15.38 %) LoadRunner 3 3 (11.54 %) Ant 3 3 (11.54 %) JUnit 3 3 (11.54 %) PVCS 3 3 (11.54 %) JMeter 3 3 (11.54 %) QuickTest Pro	General 1 4 (15.38 %) Pharmaceutical 2 1 (3.846 %) Automotive 2 1 (3.846 %) Government 2 1 (3.846 %) Manufacturing
Job Titles 1 5 (19.23 %) Tester 2 4 (15.38 %) Developer 2 4 (15.38 %) Analyst 3 3 (11.54 %) Systems Tester 3 3 (11.54 %) QA Analyst 3 3 (11.54 %) Quality Analyst 4 2 (7.692 %) Software Engineer 4 2 (7.692 %) Systems Test Engineer 4 2 (7.692 %) Systems Engineer 4 2 (7.692 %) Test Engineer 4 2 (7.692 %) Software Test Engineer 5 1 (3.846 %) Team Leader 5 1 (3.846 %) Development Team Leader 5 1 (3.846 %) QA Tester 5 1 (3.846 %) Test Consultant 5 1 (3.846 %) Software Consultant 5 1 (3.846 %) Software Development Team Leader 5 1 (3.846 %) Software Team Leader 5 1 (3.846 %) Web Tester 5 1 (3.846 %) Test Analyst	Miscellaneous 1 4 (15.38 %) Client/Server
Operating Systems 1 3 (11.54 %) Windows	Processes & Methodologies 1 17 (65.38 %) Performance Testing 2 14 (53.85 %) User Acceptance Testing 3 12 (46.15 %) Configuration Management 4 4 (15.38 %) Software Testing 5 3 (11.54 %) Scrum 5 3 (11.54 %) Extreme Programming 5 3 (11.54 %) Agile Software Development 5 3 (11.54 %) Automated Testing 5 3 (11.54 %) Web Testing 6 1 (3.846 %) Change Management 6 1 (3.846 %) Test Scripting 6 1 (3.846 %) Security Cleared
Programming Languages 1 9 (34.62 %) SQL 2 4 (15.38 %) Java 3 3 (11.54 %) Ruby 3 3 (11.54 %) JavaScript	Qualifications 1 3 (11.54 %) Degree 2 1 (3.846 %) ISEB Practitioner 2 1 (3.846 %) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 22 (84.62 %) QA	Vendors 1 13 (50.00 %) Oracle 2 4 (15.38 %) IBM