The first table below looks at the demand for User Acceptance 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 User Acceptance Testing over the 3 months to 23 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 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
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
User Acceptance Testing (UAT)
Rank 28 16 14
Rank change year-on-year
-12 -2
Contract jobs citing User Acceptance Testing 4 5 7
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Guildford 1.860% 4.202% 5.263%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.685% 7.042% 9.722%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 4 3
Average daily rate £320 £344 £275
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-6.90% +25.00%
UK excluding London average daily rate £330 £350 £350
% change year-on-year
-5.71% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.00 £26.28 £23.00
% change year-on-year
+14.15% +14.26%
All Processes & Methodologies
Guildford
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
149 71 72
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Guildford 69.30% 59.66% 54.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 73 34 36
Average daily rate £425 £370 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+14.86% +13.84%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £281 £325 £163
10% offered a daily rate of more than £525 £425 £475
UK excluding London average daily rate £365 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
- -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 4 1
Average hourly rate £37.50 £27.50 £32.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+36.36% -15.38%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.45 £25.00 £29.00
% change year-on-year
+21.78% -13.79%
User Acceptance Testing
Surrey

User Acceptance Testing
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Guildford User Acceptance Testing Jobs Demand Trend

User Acceptance Testing
Daily Rate Trend

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

Guildford User Acceptance Testing Daily Rate Trend

User Acceptance Testing
Top 28 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Guildford region citing User Acceptance 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 User Acceptance Testing.

1 3 (50.00%) Use Case
1 3 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (33.33%) Requirements Management
2 2 (33.33%) UML
2 2 (33.33%) SLA
2 2 (33.33%) Finance
3 1 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (16.67%) Data Analysis
3 1 (16.67%) Systems Analysis
3 1 (16.67%) MS PowerPoint
3 1 (16.67%) Enterprise Architecture
3 1 (16.67%) IBM
3 1 (16.67%) Microsoft
3 1 (16.67%) Project Management
3 1 (16.67%) MS Excel
3 1 (16.67%) CRM
3 1 (16.67%) ERP
3 1 (16.67%) Data Modelling
3 1 (16.67%) Business Intelligence
3 1 (16.67%) QA
3 1 (16.67%) System Testing
3 1 (16.67%) Change Management
3 1 (16.67%) Management Information System
3 1 (16.67%) BT
3 1 (16.67%) Requirements Engineering
3 1 (16.67%) IBM InfoSphere
3 1 (16.67%) MS Office

User Acceptance Testing
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Guildford region citing User Acceptance 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 User Acceptance Testing. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Applications
1 1 (16.67%) MS PowerPoint
1 1 (16.67%) MS Excel
1 1 (16.67%) MS Office
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) IBM InfoSphere
General
1 2 (33.33%) Finance
Job Titles
1 4 (66.67%) Business Analyst
1 4 (66.67%) Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) Senior Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) Business Intelligence Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) Technical Leader
2 1 (16.67%) Senior Business Intelligence Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) Senior Business Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (50.00%) Use Case
2 2 (33.33%) Requirements Management
2 2 (33.33%) UML
3 1 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (16.67%) Data Analysis
3 1 (16.67%) Systems Analysis
3 1 (16.67%) Enterprise Architecture
3 1 (16.67%) Project Management
3 1 (16.67%) CRM
3 1 (16.67%) ERP
3 1 (16.67%) Data Modelling
3 1 (16.67%) Business Intelligence
3 1 (16.67%) System Testing
3 1 (16.67%) Change Management
3 1 (16.67%) Requirements Engineering
Qualifications
1 3 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (33.33%) SLA
2 1 (16.67%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (16.67%) IBM
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft
1 1 (16.67%) BT