Gloucestershire Load Testing Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Load 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 Load Testing over the 3 months to 5 September 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Bath Bristol Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf City of London Docklands, London East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh England Glasgow Gloucestershire Hove Lichfield London Nottingham Nottinghamshire Peterborough Scotland Solihull Somerset South East South West Staffordshire Surrey Thames Valley UK West Midlands	3 months to 5 Sep 2008	Same period last year
Rank	-	-
Rank change on same period last year	-
Matching contract IT job ads	0	0
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.000 %	0.000 %
As % of the category below	0.000 %	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	£378	£354
% change on same period last year	+6.81 %
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	£51.70	£38.50
% change on same period last year	+34.28 %
Processes & Methodologies Gloucestershire
Matching contract IT job ads	442	381
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.597 %	0.376 %
Daily rates quoted	133	143
Average minimum daily rate	£378	£387
Average daily rate	£388	£399
% change on same period last year	-2.87 %
Average maximum daily rate	£398	£412
UK excluding London average daily rate	£378	£375
% change on same period last year	+0.59 %
Hourly rates quoted	31	43
Average minimum hourly rate	£25.05	£29.39
Average hourly rate	£30.28	£30.07
% change on same period last year	+0.69 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£35.51	£30.76
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£30.41	£30.41
% change on same period last year	+0.01 %
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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.

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Demand Trend

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

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Daily Rate Trend

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

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Top 5 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 5 September 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Gloucestershire region citing Load 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 Load Testing.

1 1 (100.00 %) Visual Studio 1 1 (100.00 %) Microsoft 1 1 (100.00 %) Regression Testing 1 1 (100.00 %) Stress Testing 1 1 (100.00 %) Manual Testing

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 5 September 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Gloucestershire region citing Load 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 Load Testing. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Development Applications 1 1 (100.00 %) Visual Studio	Job Titles 1 1 (100.00 %) Tester 1 1 (100.00 %) Software Tester
Processes & Methodologies 1 1 (100.00 %) Regression Testing 1 1 (100.00 %) Stress Testing 1 1 (100.00 %) Manual Testing	Vendors 1 1 (100.00 %) Microsoft