The first table below looks at the demand for Performance Testing skills in IT contracts advertised for the Glasgow region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Performance Testing over the 3 months to 22 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 Glasgow 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
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Performance Testing
Rank 73 59 52
Rank change year-on-year
-14 -7
Contract jobs citing Performance Testing 4 1 7
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Glasgow 0.417% 0.127% 1.019%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.615% 0.188% 1.486%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 5
Average daily rate £331 £338 £388
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-1.85% -12.90%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £326 £338 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £336 £338 £400
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
Glasgow
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
650 531 471
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Glasgow 67.78% 67.64% 68.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 340 284 274
Average daily rate £338 £338 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -3.57%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £260 £235 £288
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £450 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £365 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
- -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 22 14
Average hourly rate £9.25 £25.00 £40.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-63.00% -37.50%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.00 £25.00 £29.00
% change year-on-year
+24.00% -13.79%
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 Glasgow region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

Glasgow 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 Glasgow region.

Glasgow 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 Glasgow region.

Glasgow Performance Testing Hourly Rate Trend

Performance Testing
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Glasgow 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%) SQL
2 2 (50.00%) VBScript
2 2 (50.00%) .NET
2 2 (50.00%) C#
2 2 (50.00%) .NET Framework
2 2 (50.00%) Test Scripting
2 2 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (50.00%) PowerShell
3 1 (25.00%) Talend Open Studio
3 1 (25.00%) Test Automation
3 1 (25.00%) HP Quality Center
3 1 (25.00%) Security Architecture
3 1 (25.00%) Build Automation
3 1 (25.00%) Talend
3 1 (25.00%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (25.00%) C
3 1 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (25.00%) Performance Management
3 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared
3 1 (25.00%) Java EE
3 1 (25.00%) Test Management
3 1 (25.00%) Java
3 1 (25.00%) Banking
3 1 (25.00%) Retail
3 1 (25.00%) Automated Testing
3 1 (25.00%) Retail Banking
3 1 (25.00%) Change Management
3 1 (25.00%) Regression Testing
3 1 (25.00%) VMware
3 1 (25.00%) Oracle

Performance Testing
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Glasgow 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 2 (50.00%) .NET
1 2 (50.00%) .NET Framework
2 1 (25.00%) Java EE
2 1 (25.00%) ASP.NET
2 1 (25.00%) XML
2 1 (25.00%) XSD
Applications
1 1 (25.00%) MS Excel
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Talend Open Studio
1 1 (25.00%) Visual Studio
1 1 (25.00%) LoadRunner
General
1 1 (25.00%) Banking
1 1 (25.00%) Retail
1 1 (25.00%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Tester
1 2 (50.00%) Performance Tester
2 1 (25.00%) .NET Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Senior .NET Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Developer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) UNIX
1 1 (25.00%) Windows
1 1 (25.00%) Linux
1 1 (25.00%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Test Scripting
2 1 (25.00%) Test Automation
2 1 (25.00%) Security Architecture
2 1 (25.00%) Build Automation
2 1 (25.00%) Performance Management
2 1 (25.00%) Test Management
2 1 (25.00%) Automated Testing
2 1 (25.00%) Change Management
2 1 (25.00%) Regression Testing
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) SQL
2 2 (50.00%) VBScript
2 2 (50.00%) C#
2 2 (50.00%) PowerShell
3 1 (25.00%) C
3 1 (25.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Talend
1 1 (25.00%) VMware
1 1 (25.00%) Oracle
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (25.00%) HP