Farnborough Test Scripting Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Test Scripting (Test Scripts) skills within the Farnborough region with a comparison to our Processes & Methodologies category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Test Scripting over the 3 months to 21 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Test Scripting (Test Scripts)
Location Aberdeen Abingdon Amersham Atherstone Basildon Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Berkshire Birmingham Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Bridgend Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Chippenham City of London Coventry Crawley Croydon Dartford Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset Durham East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh England Essex Exeter Fareham Farnborough Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Guildford Halifax Hampshire Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire Home Counties Hove Kent Lancashire Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Liverpool London Maidenhead Manchester Marlow Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Plymouth Poole Preston Reading Rugby Runcorn Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Sidcup Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Staffordshire Staines Stockton-on-Tees Stoke-on-Trent Sunbury-on-Thames Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Teesside Telford Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Wallington Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Wilmslow Wiltshire Windsor Wokingham Worcester Worcestershire York Yorkshire	3 months to 21 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	-	20
Rank change on same period last year	-
Matching contract IT job ads	0	2
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.000 %	0.002 %
As % of the category below	0.000 %	2.564 %
Daily rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum daily rate	-	-
Average daily rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£324	£319
% change on same period last year	+1.35 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum hourly rate	-	-
Average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£29.72	£30.00
% change on same period last year	-0.94 %
Processes & Methodologies Farnborough
Matching contract IT job ads	52	78
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.069 %	0.078 %
Daily rates quoted	32	25
Average minimum daily rate	£393	£372
Average daily rate	£402	£379
% change on same period last year	+6.14 %
Average maximum daily rate	£411	£385
UK excluding London average daily rate	£380	£377
% change on same period last year	+0.74 %
Hourly rates quoted	2	4
Average minimum hourly rate	£22.33	£28.00
Average hourly rate	£24.00	£29.83
% change on same period last year	-19.55 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£25.67	£31.67
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£30.30	£30.18
% change on same period last year	+0.42 %
Test Scripting Hampshire

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.

Test Scripting
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Test Scripting across the Farnborough region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

Test Scripting
Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Test Scripting across the Farnborough region.

Test Scripting
Top 6 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Farnborough 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 1 (100.00 %) TestDirector 1 1 (100.00 %) Finance 1 1 (100.00 %) Insurance 1 1 (100.00 %) WebSphere 1 1 (100.00 %) Degree 1 1 (100.00 %) Computer Science

Test Scripting
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Farnborough 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 1 (100.00 %) WebSphere	Development Applications 1 1 (100.00 %) TestDirector
General 1 1 (100.00 %) Finance 1 1 (100.00 %) Insurance	Job Titles 1 1 (100.00 %) Analyst 1 1 (100.00 %) Test Analyst 1 1 (100.00 %) Senior Analyst 1 1 (100.00 %) Senior Test Analyst
Miscellaneous 1 1 (100.00 %) Computer Science	Qualifications 1 1 (100.00 %) Degree