The first table below looks at the demand for Load Testing skills in IT contracts advertised for the Hertfordshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Load 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 Hertfordshire 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
Load Testing
Rank - - 63
Contract jobs citing Load Testing 0 0 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Hertfordshire - - 0.114%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category - - 0.183%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £450 £388 £290
% change year-on-year
+16.12% +33.62%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £32.50 £32.25 -
% change year-on-year
+0.77% -
All Processes & Methodologies
Hertfordshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
457 647 547
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Hertfordshire 71.74% 66.22% 62.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 254 289 238
Average daily rate £400 £375 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+6.66% -6.25%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £262 £250 £275
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £475 £575
UK excluding London average daily rate £365 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
- -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 55 78
Average hourly rate £21.50 £33.75 £35.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-36.29% -3.57%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.05 £11.75 £16.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £39.60 £49.00 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.00 £25.00 £29.50
% change year-on-year
+20.00% -15.25%
Load Testing
East of England

Load Testing
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Hertfordshire Load Testing Jobs Demand Trend

Load Testing
Daily Rate Trend

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

Hertfordshire Load Testing Daily Rate Trend

Load Testing
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Hertfordshire 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%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (100.00%) J2EE
1 1 (100.00%) JUnit
1 1 (100.00%) SOAP
1 1 (100.00%) Web Services
1 1 (100.00%) Apache
1 1 (100.00%) LoadRunner
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
1 1 (100.00%) Hibernate
1 1 (100.00%) TDD
1 1 (100.00%) Penetration Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Spring
1 1 (100.00%) Maven
1 1 (100.00%) Checkstyle
1 1 (100.00%) Ajax
1 1 (100.00%) FitNesse
1 1 (100.00%) Grails
1 1 (100.00%) jQuery
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
1 1 (100.00%) Groovy
1 1 (100.00%) Apache CXF
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) WebDriver
1 1 (100.00%) JProfiler
1 1 (100.00%) Cucumber
1 1 (100.00%) BDD
1 1 (100.00%) REST
1 1 (100.00%) Gradle
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins

Load Testing
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Hertfordshire 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.

Application Development
1 1 (100.00%) J2EE
1 1 (100.00%) SOAP
1 1 (100.00%) Web Services
1 1 (100.00%) Hibernate
1 1 (100.00%) Spring
1 1 (100.00%) Ajax
1 1 (100.00%) Grails
1 1 (100.00%) jQuery
1 1 (100.00%) Apache CXF
1 1 (100.00%) REST
Application Platforms
1 1 (100.00%) Apache
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) JUnit
1 1 (100.00%) LoadRunner
1 1 (100.00%) Maven
1 1 (100.00%) Checkstyle
1 1 (100.00%) FitNesse
1 1 (100.00%) WebDriver
1 1 (100.00%) JProfiler
1 1 (100.00%) Cucumber
1 1 (100.00%) Gradle
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Java Developer
1 1 (100.00%) J2EE Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Java/J2EE Developer
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) TDD
1 1 (100.00%) Penetration Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) BDD
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (100.00%) Groovy