The first table below looks at the demand for Performance Testing skills in IT contracts advertised for the Guildford region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Performance Testing over the 3 months to 19 June 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 Guildford 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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Performance Testing
Rank - - -
Contract jobs citing Performance Testing 0 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Guildford - - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category - - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £338 £400 £400
% change year-on-year
-15.62% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £32.00 £31.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+3.22% -11.42%
All Processes & Methodologies
Guildford
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
127 77 78
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Guildford 64.14% 62.10% 54.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 59 38 41
Average daily rate £400 £425 £315
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-5.88% +34.92%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £211 £325 £163
10% offered a daily rate of more than £525 £425 £438
UK excluding London average daily rate £370 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
+1.36% -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 7 2
Average hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £32.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+7.14% +7.69%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.00 £25.00 £29.00
% change year-on-year
+24.00% -13.79%
Performance Testing
Surrey

Performance Testing
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Guildford 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 Guildford region.

Guildford 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 Guildford region.

Guildford Performance Testing Hourly Rate Trend

Performance Testing
Top 8 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Guildford 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 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
1 1 (100.00%) .NET
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle 8/8i
1 1 (100.00%) JSF
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Test Strategy

Performance Testing
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Guildford 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 1 (100.00%) .NET
1 1 (100.00%) JSF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle 8/8i
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Test Manager
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle