Gloucestershire Automated Testing Contracts

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

Automated Testing
Location Basingstoke Berkshire Birmingham Bracknell Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Cardiff City of London Clapham Croydon Docklands, London Dorset East Midlands East of England East Sussex England Essex Gloucester Gloucestershire Hammersmith Hampshire Harlow Hertfordshire Hinckley Hove Kingston Upon Thames Leeds Leicestershire London Manchester Middlesex Milton Keynes North West Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Petersfield Reading Scotland South East South Wales South West Southampton Stevenage Surrey Swansea Swindon UK Wales Watford West Bromwich West Midlands West Wales West Yorkshire Wiltshire Yorkshire	3 months to 21 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	54	-
Rank change on same period last year	-
Matching contract IT job ads	1	0
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.001 %	0.000 %
As % of the category below	0.233 %	0.000 %
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	£313	£312
% change on same period last year	+0.33 %
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	£35.61	£35.10
% change on same period last year	+1.46 %
Processes & Methodologies Gloucestershire
Matching contract IT job ads	430	374
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.567 %	0.372 %
Daily rates quoted	137	137
Average minimum daily rate	£376	£387
Average daily rate	£386	£399
% change on same period last year	-3.18 %
Average maximum daily rate	£396	£411
UK excluding London average daily rate	£380	£377
% change on same period last year	+0.74 %
Hourly rates quoted	33	47
Average minimum hourly rate	£25.97	£28.97
Average hourly rate	£31.22	£29.66
% change on same period last year	+5.24 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£36.47	£30.35
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£30.30	£30.18
% change on same period last year	+0.42 %
Automated Testing South West

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.

Automated Testing
Demand Trend

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

Automated Testing
Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Automated Testing across the Gloucestershire region.

Automated Testing
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Automated Testing
Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Automated Testing within the Gloucestershire 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
Gloucester	-	1	-	-

Automated Testing South West

Automated Testing
Top 19 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Gloucestershire region citing Automated 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 Automated Testing.

1 1 (33.33 %) Finance 1 1 (33.33 %) Unified Process 1 1 (33.33 %) Pensions 1 1 (33.33 %) Manual Testing 1 1 (33.33 %) DV Cleared 1 1 (33.33 %) Security Cleared 1 1 (33.33 %) V-Model 1 1 (33.33 %) Java 1 1 (33.33 %) J2EE 1 1 (33.33 %) UNIX 1 1 (33.33 %) Windows 1 1 (33.33 %) Linux 1 1 (33.33 %) Windows 2000 1 1 (33.33 %) RUP 1 1 (33.33 %) IBM

1 1 (33.33 %) ISEB 1 1 (33.33 %) TestDirector 1 1 (33.33 %) Configuration Management 1 1 (33.33 %) Project Management

Automated Testing
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development 1 1 (33.33 %) J2EE	Development Applications 1 1 (33.33 %) TestDirector
General 1 1 (33.33 %) Finance 1 1 (33.33 %) Pensions	Job Titles 1 2 (66.67 %) Tester 2 1 (33.33 %) Analyst 2 1 (33.33 %) Test Analyst 2 1 (33.33 %) Technical Tester 2 1 (33.33 %) Integration Test Analyst 2 1 (33.33 %) Integration Analyst
Operating Systems 1 1 (33.33 %) UNIX 1 1 (33.33 %) Windows 1 1 (33.33 %) Linux 1 1 (33.33 %) Windows 2000	Processes & Methodologies 1 1 (33.33 %) Unified Process 1 1 (33.33 %) Manual Testing 1 1 (33.33 %) DV Cleared 1 1 (33.33 %) Security Cleared 1 1 (33.33 %) V-Model 1 1 (33.33 %) RUP 1 1 (33.33 %) Configuration Management 1 1 (33.33 %) Project Management
Programming Languages 1 1 (33.33 %) Java	Qualifications 1 1 (33.33 %) ISEB
Vendors 1 1 (33.33 %) IBM