Test Scripting Contracts in Glasgow
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for Test Scripting 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 Test Scripting 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
Test Scripting (Test Scripts)
Rank 66 54 39
Rank change year-on-year
-12 -15
Contract jobs citing Test Scripting 14 6 24
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Glasgow 1.486% 0.777% 3.429%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.184% 1.145% 5.042%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 4 18
Average daily rate £320 £278 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+15.31% -20.71%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £260 £244 £235
10% offered a daily rate of more than £371 £297 £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £330 £300 £315
% change year-on-year
+10.00% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Average hourly rate £45.00 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £26.00 £27.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-5.45% +37.50%
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%
Test Scripting
Scotland

Test Scripting
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Glasgow Test Scripting Jobs Demand Trend

Test Scripting
Daily Rate Trend

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

Glasgow Test Scripting Daily Rate Trend

Test Scripting
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Test Scripting across the Glasgow region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

Glasgow Test Scripting Daily Rate Histogram

Test Scripting
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Glasgow Test Scripting Hourly Rate Trend

Test Scripting
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Glasgow 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 11 (34.38%) ISEB
1 11 (34.38%) Finance
1 11 (34.38%) HP Quality Center
2 10 (31.25%) Oracle
3 9 (28.13%) Java
3 9 (28.13%) SQL
3 9 (28.13%) Regression Testing
4 7 (21.88%) Eclipse
4 7 (21.88%) HTML
4 7 (21.88%) JavaScript
4 7 (21.88%) Ant
4 7 (21.88%) XML
4 7 (21.88%) Workflow
4 7 (21.88%) Spring
4 7 (21.88%) Maven
5 6 (18.75%) JSF
5 6 (18.75%) Hibernate
5 6 (18.75%) Unit Testing
5 6 (18.75%) QA
5 6 (18.75%) Struts
5 6 (18.75%) J2EE
5 6 (18.75%) RDBMS
5 6 (18.75%) JDeveloper
6 5 (15.63%) Change Management
6 5 (15.63%) Tapestry
7 4 (12.50%) Security Cleared
7 4 (12.50%) Data Warehouse
7 4 (12.50%) Windows
8 3 (9.375%) Windows XP
8 3 (9.375%) TestDirector

Test Scripting
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Glasgow 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 7 (21.88%) HTML
1 7 (21.88%) XML
1 7 (21.88%) Spring
2 6 (18.75%) JSF
2 6 (18.75%) J2EE
2 6 (18.75%) Struts
2 6 (18.75%) Hibernate
3 5 (15.63%) Tapestry
4 2 (6.250%) JSTL
4 2 (6.250%) JSP
4 2 (6.250%) Servlets
5 1 (3.125%) SOAP
5 1 (3.125%) XSL
5 1 (3.125%) JMS
5 1 (3.125%) EJB
5 1 (3.125%) JDBC
5 1 (3.125%) .NET
5 1 (3.125%) iBATIS
5 1 (3.125%) JFace
5 1 (3.125%) soapUI
Application Platforms
1 1 (3.125%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 1 (3.125%) Front Arena
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.125%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (18.75%) RDBMS
2 4 (12.50%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 7 (21.88%) Ant
1 7 (21.88%) Eclipse
1 7 (21.88%) Maven
2 6 (18.75%) JDeveloper
3 3 (9.375%) TestDirector
4 2 (6.250%) QuickTest Pro
5 1 (3.125%) LoadRunner
5 1 (3.125%) Subversion
5 1 (3.125%) WinRunner
5 1 (3.125%) JUnit
5 1 (3.125%) PVCS
5 1 (3.125%) Selenium
5 1 (3.125%) TestComplete
5 1 (3.125%) Talend Open Studio
5 1 (3.125%) Hudson
5 1 (3.125%) Eclipse RCP
General
1 11 (34.38%) Finance
2 3 (9.375%) Banking
3 2 (6.250%) Retail
3 2 (6.250%) Investment Banking
4 1 (3.125%) Retail Banking
4 1 (3.125%) Legal
4 1 (3.125%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 17 (53.13%) Analyst
2 13 (40.63%) Test Analyst
3 7 (21.88%) Tester
4 4 (12.50%) Analyst Programmer
4 4 (12.50%) Programmer
4 4 (12.50%) Java Analyst Programmer
4 4 (12.50%) Java Programmer
5 3 (9.375%) Developer
5 3 (9.375%) Java Developer
6 2 (6.250%) Senior Analyst
6 2 (6.250%) Test Engineer
6 2 (6.250%) Senior Test Analyst
6 2 (6.250%) Consultant
6 2 (6.250%) Performance Tester
6 2 (6.250%) Technical Tester
7 1 (3.125%) Banking Business Analyst
7 1 (3.125%) Business Test Analyst
7 1 (3.125%) Automation Test Analyst
7 1 (3.125%) Investment Banking Business Analyst
7 1 (3.125%) QA Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 2 (6.250%) PDA
1 2 (6.250%) Derivative
2 1 (3.125%) Equity Derivative
2 1 (3.125%) Mashup
2 1 (3.125%) Swaptions
2 1 (3.125%) Cloud Computing
2 1 (3.125%) SaaS
2 1 (3.125%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (3.125%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 4 (12.50%) Windows
2 3 (9.375%) Windows XP
2 3 (9.375%) Windows Server 2003
3 2 (6.250%) Windows Server 2008
3 2 (6.250%) UNIX
3 2 (6.250%) Linux
4 1 (3.125%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (28.13%) Regression Testing
2 7 (21.88%) Workflow
3 6 (18.75%) Unit Testing
4 5 (15.63%) Change Management
5 3 (9.375%) User Acceptance Testing
6 2 (6.250%) Performance Testing
6 2 (6.250%) Software Testing
6 2 (6.250%) Test Automation
6 2 (6.250%) Waterfall
6 2 (6.250%) Migration
6 2 (6.250%) Asset Management
6 2 (6.250%) Automated Testing
6 2 (6.250%) MVC
6 2 (6.250%) SOA
7 1 (3.125%) ETL
7 1 (3.125%) Business Intelligence
7 1 (3.125%) Project Management
7 1 (3.125%) Risk Management
7 1 (3.125%) OOA/OOD
7 1 (3.125%) OO
Programming Languages
1 9 (28.13%) Java
1 9 (28.13%) SQL
2 7 (21.88%) JavaScript
3 1 (3.125%) C
3 1 (3.125%) C#
3 1 (3.125%) C++
3 1 (3.125%) T-SQL
3 1 (3.125%) XPath
Qualifications
1 11 (34.38%) ISEB
2 4 (12.50%) Security Cleared
3 2 (6.250%) SC Cleared
4 1 (3.125%) DV Cleared
4 1 (3.125%) Sun Certification
4 1 (3.125%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (18.75%) QA
System Software
1 1 (3.125%) Active Directory
1 1 (3.125%) VMware ESX
Systems Management
1 11 (34.38%) HP Quality Center
2 2 (6.250%) Netcool
2 2 (6.250%) OpenView Configuration Management
3 1 (3.125%) HP Operations Orchestration
3 1 (3.125%) McAfee ePO
Vendors
1 10 (31.25%) Oracle
2 2 (6.250%) Sybase
2 2 (6.250%) SAP
2 2 (6.250%) HP
2 2 (6.250%) Citrix
2 2 (6.250%) Veritas
3 1 (3.125%) TIBCO
3 1 (3.125%) McAfee
3 1 (3.125%) VMware
3 1 (3.125%) Talend
3 1 (3.125%) Microsoft
3 1 (3.125%) Sun
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