User Acceptance Testing Contracts in Halifax
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Hourly Rate Trend Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for User Acceptance Testing skills in IT contracts advertised for the Halifax 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 22 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 Halifax 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
22 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
User Acceptance Testing (UAT)
Rank 9 15 21
Rank change year-on-year
+6 +6
Contract jobs citing User Acceptance Testing 12 16 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Halifax 10.34% 6.957% 1.695%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 13.48% 8.421% 2.439%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 15 1
Average daily rate £313 £295 £600
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+5.93% -50.83%
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 £26.14 £23.00
% change year-on-year
+14.76% +13.65%
All Processes & Methodologies
Halifax
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category		 89 190 82
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Halifax 76.72% 82.61% 69.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 68 162 52
Average daily rate £375 £390 £393
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-3.84% -0.63%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £280 £265 £170
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £500 £493
UK excluding London average daily rate £365 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
- -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 3
Average hourly rate - £15.00 £7.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- +114.28%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.00 £25.00 £29.00
% change year-on-year
+24.00% -13.79%
User Acceptance Testing
West Yorkshire

User Acceptance Testing
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Halifax 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 Halifax region.

Halifax User Acceptance Testing Daily Rate Trend

User Acceptance Testing
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing User Acceptance Testing across the Halifax region.

Halifax User Acceptance Testing Hourly Rate Trend

User Acceptance Testing
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Halifax 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 25 (78.13%) Finance
2 15 (46.88%) Stakeholder Management
2 15 (46.88%) Banking
3 14 (43.75%) Test Scripting
4 13 (40.63%) Retail
5 12 (37.50%) SAP
6 11 (34.38%) Retail Banking
7 10 (31.25%) SAP HR
8 9 (28.13%) SAP Payroll
8 9 (28.13%) HP Quality Center
9 8 (25.00%) MS Project
10 6 (18.75%) ISEB
11 5 (15.63%) Risk Management
11 5 (15.63%) Data Warehouse
11 5 (15.63%) ISTQB
11 5 (15.63%) Test Management
11 5 (15.63%) Business Transformation
12 4 (12.50%) Data Transformation
12 4 (12.50%) FATCA
12 4 (12.50%) Fraud Modelling
12 4 (12.50%) Data Validation
12 4 (12.50%) Data Extraction
12 4 (12.50%) Credit Risk
12 4 (12.50%) Validation
12 4 (12.50%) Data Management
12 4 (12.50%) Software Testing
12 4 (12.50%) Data Modelling
13 3 (9.375%) Project Management
14 2 (6.250%) Test Strategy
14 2 (6.250%) Regression Testing

User Acceptance Testing
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Halifax 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.

Application Development
1 1 (3.125%) HTML
1 1 (3.125%) .NET
Applications
1 8 (25.00%) MS Project
2 1 (3.125%) MS Office
2 1 (3.125%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 10 (31.25%) SAP HR
2 9 (28.13%) SAP Payroll
3 1 (3.125%) SAP HCM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (15.63%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (3.125%) SQL Server 2005
2 1 (3.125%) SAP BW
2 1 (3.125%) SQL Server
2 1 (3.125%) SQL Server 2000
General
1 25 (78.13%) Finance
2 15 (46.88%) Banking
3 13 (40.63%) Retail
4 11 (34.38%) Retail Banking
5 1 (3.125%) Law
Job Titles
1 22 (68.75%) Analyst
2 12 (37.50%) Business Analyst
3 9 (28.13%) Test Analyst
4 6 (18.75%) Consultant
5 4 (12.50%) SAP Business Analyst
5 4 (12.50%) Credit Risk Business Analyst
5 4 (12.50%) SAP HR Business Analyst
5 4 (12.50%) Credit Risk Analyst
5 4 (12.50%) Business Consultant
6 3 (9.375%) Tester
6 3 (9.375%) Test Leader
7 2 (6.250%) SAP Analyst
7 2 (6.250%) Defect Manager
7 2 (6.250%) Test Manager
7 2 (6.250%) Senior Analyst
7 2 (6.250%) Senior Test Analyst
8 1 (3.125%) Banking Business Analyst
8 1 (3.125%) SAP HR/Payroll Consultant
8 1 (3.125%) SAP Tester
8 1 (3.125%) Web Tester
Miscellaneous
1 4 (12.50%) Data Extraction
1 4 (12.50%) Credit Risk
2 1 (3.125%) Mainframe
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (46.88%) Stakeholder Management
2 14 (43.75%) Test Scripting
3 5 (15.63%) Risk Management
3 5 (15.63%) Test Management
3 5 (15.63%) Business Transformation
4 4 (12.50%) Data Transformation
4 4 (12.50%) Fraud Modelling
4 4 (12.50%) Data Validation
4 4 (12.50%) Validation
4 4 (12.50%) Data Management
4 4 (12.50%) Software Testing
4 4 (12.50%) Data Modelling
5 3 (9.375%) Project Management
6 2 (6.250%) Test Strategy
6 2 (6.250%) Regression Testing
6 2 (6.250%) Migration
7 1 (3.125%) Project Planning
7 1 (3.125%) Data Migration
7 1 (3.125%) Use Case
7 1 (3.125%) Performance Testing
Programming Languages
1 1 (3.125%) C#
1 1 (3.125%) Java
1 1 (3.125%) JavaScript
1 1 (3.125%) SQL
1 1 (3.125%) VB
1 1 (3.125%) VB.NET
1 1 (3.125%) VBA
Qualifications
1 6 (18.75%) ISEB
2 5 (15.63%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (12.50%) FATCA
2 2 (6.250%) QA
Systems Management
1 9 (28.13%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 12 (37.50%) SAP
2 2 (6.250%) HP
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