The first table below looks at the demand for System Testing skills in IT contracts advertised for the Hampshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited System Testing over the 3 months to 24 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 Hampshire 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
System Testing
Rank 92 81 88
Rank change year-on-year
-11 +7
Contract jobs citing System Testing 11 13 17
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Hampshire 0.721% 0.817% 0.919%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.066% 1.282% 1.430%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 6 8
Average daily rate £338 £388 £305
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-12.90% +27.04%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £308 £325 £271
10% offered a daily rate of more than £350 £450 £348
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £326
% change year-on-year
- -0.15%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 5 3
Average hourly rate - £31.00 £27.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- +12.72%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.00 £30.00 £27.25
% change year-on-year
- +10.09%
All Processes & Methodologies
Hampshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
1032 1014 1189
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Hampshire 67.63% 63.73% 64.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 583 476 533
Average daily rate £370 £375 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-1.33% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £288 £265 £263
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £500 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £365 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
- -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 69 99 130
Average hourly rate £35.00 £31.00 £35.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+12.90% -11.42%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.20 £14.43 £13.30
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £45.00 £42.50 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.00 £25.00 £29.50
% change year-on-year
+20.00% -15.25%
System Testing
South East

System Testing
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Hampshire System Testing Jobs Demand Trend

System Testing
Daily Rate Trend

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

Hampshire System Testing Daily Rate Trend

System Testing
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hampshire System Testing Hourly Rate Trend

System Testing
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing System Testing within the Hampshire region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Basingstoke -9 3 - -
Gosport - 3 £350 -
Bordon - 1 - -
System Testing
South East

System Testing
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Hampshire region citing System 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 System Testing.

1 14 (56.00%) Security Cleared
2 13 (52.00%) SC Cleared
3 12 (48.00%) Oracle
4 10 (40.00%) ITIL
5 9 (36.00%) Windows
5 9 (36.00%) MS Office
5 9 (36.00%) Microsoft
5 9 (36.00%) Windows Server 2003
6 8 (32.00%) SQL
6 8 (32.00%) HTML
6 8 (32.00%) JavaScript
6 8 (32.00%) MS Excel
6 8 (32.00%) Unit Testing
7 7 (28.00%) HP
8 6 (24.00%) Military
8 6 (24.00%) HP Quality Center
9 5 (20.00%) Oracle 11g
9 5 (20.00%) jQuery
9 5 (20.00%) Ajax
9 5 (20.00%) Oracle 10g
9 5 (20.00%) CSS
10 4 (16.00%) ASP.NET
10 4 (16.00%) .NET
10 4 (16.00%) Oracle 8/8i
10 4 (16.00%) Linux
10 4 (16.00%) JSP
10 4 (16.00%) HNC
10 4 (16.00%) HND
10 4 (16.00%) Shell Script
10 4 (16.00%) PL/SQL

System Testing
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Hampshire region citing System 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 System Testing. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 8 (32.00%) HTML
2 5 (20.00%) jQuery
2 5 (20.00%) Ajax
2 5 (20.00%) CSS
3 4 (16.00%) ASP.NET
3 4 (16.00%) .NET
3 4 (16.00%) JSP
4 1 (4.000%) KnockoutJS
4 1 (4.000%) Underscore.js
4 1 (4.000%) Kendo UI
4 1 (4.000%) ASP.NET MVC
4 1 (4.000%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
4 1 (4.000%) Spring
4 1 (4.000%) .NET Framework
4 1 (4.000%) Java EE
4 1 (4.000%) JSTL
4 1 (4.000%) Struts
4 1 (4.000%) XML
4 1 (4.000%) J2EE
4 1 (4.000%) COM
Application Platforms
1 4 (16.00%) Oracle Application Server
2 3 (12.00%) Oracle Coherence
3 2 (8.000%) Oracle Workflow
4 1 (4.000%) Oracle 10gAS
4 1 (4.000%) Apache
4 1 (4.000%) Tomcat
4 1 (4.000%) WebLogic
Applications
1 9 (36.00%) MS Office
2 8 (32.00%) MS Excel
3 1 (4.000%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 3 (12.00%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (4.000%) Oracle EBS R12
2 1 (4.000%) Oracle 11i
Communications & Networking
1 4 (16.00%) ATM
2 2 (8.000%) HTTPS
2 2 (8.000%) TCP/IP
2 2 (8.000%) DNS
3 1 (4.000%) Wireshark
3 1 (4.000%) SSL
3 1 (4.000%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (20.00%) Oracle 11g
1 5 (20.00%) Oracle 10g
2 4 (16.00%) Oracle 8/8i
3 3 (12.00%) Oracle OWB
3 3 (12.00%) Oracle BI EE
3 3 (12.00%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (8.000%) Oracle Reports
4 2 (8.000%) SQLPlus
4 2 (8.000%) Oracle Discoverer
4 2 (8.000%) TOAD
5 1 (4.000%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (16.00%) Oracle APEX
2 3 (12.00%) Team Foundation Server
3 2 (8.000%) Subversion
4 1 (4.000%) Jasmine
4 1 (4.000%) Jenkins
4 1 (4.000%) Hudson
4 1 (4.000%) Log4j
4 1 (4.000%) Eclipse
4 1 (4.000%) QuickTest Pro
4 1 (4.000%) LoadRunner
4 1 (4.000%) Ant
4 1 (4.000%) JUnit
4 1 (4.000%) Visual Studio
General
1 6 (24.00%) Military
2 4 (16.00%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 9 (36.00%) Analyst
2 5 (20.00%) Developer
3 4 (16.00%) Test Analyst
3 4 (16.00%) Support Engineer
4 3 (12.00%) Oracle Developer
4 3 (12.00%) Requirements Analyst
5 2 (8.000%) Tester
5 2 (8.000%) Quality Analyst
5 2 (8.000%) Support Analyst
5 2 (8.000%) QA Analyst
5 2 (8.000%) Integration Engineer
5 2 (8.000%) Technical Analyst
6 1 (4.000%) QA Consultant
6 1 (4.000%) Senior Test Analyst
6 1 (4.000%) Senior Tester
6 1 (4.000%) Project Analyst
6 1 (4.000%) Java Developer
6 1 (4.000%) Oracle DBA
6 1 (4.000%) Performance Tester
6 1 (4.000%) Applications Tester
Miscellaneous
1 2 (8.000%) Management Information System
2 1 (4.000%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 9 (36.00%) Windows
1 9 (36.00%) Windows Server 2003
2 4 (16.00%) Linux
2 4 (16.00%) Windows Server 2008
3 3 (12.00%) Oracle Linux
3 3 (12.00%) Windows XP
3 3 (12.00%) UNIX
3 3 (12.00%) Windows 2000
4 1 (4.000%) HPUX
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (40.00%) ITIL
2 8 (32.00%) Unit Testing
3 4 (16.00%) Business Intelligence
3 4 (16.00%) Time Management
3 4 (16.00%) Validation
4 3 (12.00%) Agile Software Development
4 3 (12.00%) Regression Testing
4 3 (12.00%) Test Scripting
4 3 (12.00%) Manual Testing
4 3 (12.00%) Use Case
4 3 (12.00%) Business Analysis
4 3 (12.00%) Software Testing
4 3 (12.00%) Configuration Management
4 3 (12.00%) PRINCE2
4 3 (12.00%) UML
5 2 (8.000%) MODAF
5 2 (8.000%) Migration
5 2 (8.000%) Workflow
5 2 (8.000%) ITIL V3
6 1 (4.000%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 8 (32.00%) SQL
1 8 (32.00%) JavaScript
2 4 (16.00%) Shell Script
2 4 (16.00%) PL/SQL
3 3 (12.00%) Perl
4 1 (4.000%) Java
Qualifications
1 14 (56.00%) Security Cleared
2 13 (52.00%) SC Cleared
3 4 (16.00%) HNC
3 4 (16.00%) HND
4 3 (12.00%) ISTQB
5 2 (8.000%) MCSE
5 2 (8.000%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (8.000%) OCP
5 2 (8.000%) Oracle Certification
5 2 (8.000%) DV Cleared
6 1 (4.000%) HP AIS
6 1 (4.000%) Sun Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (12.00%) TickIT
1 3 (12.00%) QA
1 3 (12.00%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 2 (8.000%) VMware ESX
2 1 (4.000%) Nmap
2 1 (4.000%) Oracle RAC
2 1 (4.000%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 6 (24.00%) HP Quality Center
2 1 (4.000%) Nessus
Vendors
1 12 (48.00%) Oracle
2 9 (36.00%) Microsoft
3 7 (28.00%) HP
4 4 (16.00%) VMware
4 4 (16.00%) Serena
5 2 (8.000%) CA
5 2 (8.000%) Cisco
6 1 (4.000%) ArcSight
6 1 (4.000%) Lumension
Southampton, South East
Large government organisation is looking to hire 3 Application Support Analysts on 6 months contracts to perform the day to day management of software configuration, change requests, system...
Capita Resourcing Ltd
Rate: £250 - £350 per day
Posted: 25 May 2013
Southampton, Hampshire
To Support senior officers by undertaking appropriate research and analysis, providing the outline of a range of possible solutions and recommendations for action on day to day service...
Experis IT
Rate: £100 - £200 per day
Posted: 23 May 2013