The first table below looks at the demand for System 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 System 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 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
System Testing
Rank 79 56 58
Rank change year-on-year
-23 +2
Contract jobs citing System Testing 1 4 5
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Glasgow 0.106% 0.518% 0.714%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.156% 0.763% 1.050%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 3 2
Average daily rate - £375 £369
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +1.69%
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.00 £30.00 £27.75
% change year-on-year
- +8.10%
All Processes & Methodologies
Glasgow
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
641 524 476
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Glasgow 68.05% 67.88% 68.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 339 285 285
Average daily rate £338 £350 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-3.57% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £260 £236 £300
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £450 £499
UK excluding London average daily rate £363 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
-0.68% -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 £31.60 £25.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year
+26.40% -16.66%
System Testing
Scotland

System Testing
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Glasgow System Testing Jobs Demand Trend

System Testing
Daily Rate Trend

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

Glasgow System Testing Daily Rate Trend

System Testing
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Glasgow System Testing Hourly Rate Trend

System Testing
Top 27 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Glasgow region citing System 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 System Testing.

1 4 (80.00%) Finance
2 3 (60.00%) Java
2 3 (60.00%) UNIX
3 2 (40.00%) SQL
3 2 (40.00%) Shell Script
3 2 (40.00%) Sybase IQ
3 2 (40.00%) Derivative
3 2 (40.00%) Equity Derivative
3 2 (40.00%) User Acceptance Testing
3 2 (40.00%) Sybase
4 1 (20.00%) Test Scripting
4 1 (20.00%) HP Quality Center
4 1 (20.00%) Waterfall
4 1 (20.00%) Test Strategy
4 1 (20.00%) Data Transformation
4 1 (20.00%) WebSphere
4 1 (20.00%) Market Risk
4 1 (20.00%) Agile Software Development
4 1 (20.00%) Retail
4 1 (20.00%) Business Analysis
4 1 (20.00%) Business Continuity
4 1 (20.00%) Telecoms
4 1 (20.00%) Oracle
4 1 (20.00%) SQL Server
4 1 (20.00%) ETL
4 1 (20.00%) Business Intelligence
4 1 (20.00%) Microsoft

System Testing
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 1 (20.00%) WebSphere
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (40.00%) Sybase IQ
2 1 (20.00%) SQL Server
General
1 4 (80.00%) Finance
2 1 (20.00%) Retail
2 1 (20.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Developer
1 2 (40.00%) Analyst
1 2 (40.00%) Sybase Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Test Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Senior Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Support Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Applications Support
2 1 (20.00%) Test Team Leader
2 1 (20.00%) Applications Support Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Team Leader
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Derivative
1 2 (40.00%) Equity Derivative
2 1 (20.00%) Market Risk
Operating Systems
1 3 (60.00%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (40.00%) User Acceptance Testing
2 1 (20.00%) Test Scripting
2 1 (20.00%) Waterfall
2 1 (20.00%) Test Strategy
2 1 (20.00%) Data Transformation
2 1 (20.00%) ETL
2 1 (20.00%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (20.00%) Business Continuity
2 1 (20.00%) Agile Software Development
2 1 (20.00%) Business Analysis
Programming Languages
1 3 (60.00%) Java
2 2 (40.00%) SQL
2 2 (40.00%) Shell Script
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Sybase
2 1 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (20.00%) Oracle