The first table below looks at the demand for Performance 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 Performance Testing over the 3 months to 20 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 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
20 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Performance Testing
Rank 53 77 62
Rank change year-on-year
+24 -15
Contract jobs citing Performance Testing 3 3 5
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Hertfordshire 0.464% 0.305% 0.536%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.667% 0.459% 0.879%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 4
Average daily rate £325 £425 £463
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-23.52% -8.10%
UK excluding London average daily rate £344 £400 £400
% change year-on-year
-14.06% -
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
Hertfordshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
450 654 569
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Hertfordshire 69.55% 66.40% 60.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 236 294 257
Average daily rate £400 £350 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+14.28% -6.66%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £250 £265
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £461 £525
UK excluding London average daily rate £370 £363 £375
% change year-on-year
+2.06% -3.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 51 68
Average hourly rate £32.00 £35.00 £35.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-8.57% -
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £15.40 £11.28 £16.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £40.50 £49.00 £37.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.50 £25.00 £29.00
% change year-on-year
+22.00% -13.79%
Performance Testing
East of England

Performance Testing
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Hertfordshire 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 Hertfordshire region.

Hertfordshire 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 Hertfordshire region.

Hertfordshire Performance Testing Hourly Rate Trend

Performance Testing
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Performance Testing within the Hertfordshire region over the 3 months to 20 June 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
Find
Job
Vacancies
Bishop's Stortford - - - -
Borehamwood - - - -
Rickmansworth - - - -
St Albans - - - -
Watford - - - -
Performance Testing
East of England

Performance Testing
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Hertfordshire 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 4 (66.67%) SQL
2 3 (50.00%) Windows
2 3 (50.00%) .NET
2 3 (50.00%) Active Directory
2 3 (50.00%) CA
2 3 (50.00%) E-Commerce
2 3 (50.00%) Fiddler
2 3 (50.00%) User Acceptance Testing
2 3 (50.00%) Test Automation
2 3 (50.00%) Splunk
3 1 (16.67%) Test Strategy
3 1 (16.67%) C#
3 1 (16.67%) Web Testing
3 1 (16.67%) Test Scripting
3 1 (16.67%) Manual Testing
3 1 (16.67%) Time Management
3 1 (16.67%) Security Cleared
3 1 (16.67%) QA
3 1 (16.67%) Problem Management
3 1 (16.67%) Retail
3 1 (16.67%) ETL
3 1 (16.67%) SAS
3 1 (16.67%) Quality Management
3 1 (16.67%) Risk Management
3 1 (16.67%) Telecoms
3 1 (16.67%) Games
3 1 (16.67%) Scrum
3 1 (16.67%) Oracle
3 1 (16.67%) XML
3 1 (16.67%) XSLT

Performance Testing
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Hertfordshire 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 3 (50.00%) .NET
2 1 (16.67%) XML
2 1 (16.67%) XSLT
Application Platforms
1 1 (16.67%) SAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 3 (50.00%) Fiddler
General
1 1 (16.67%) Retail
1 1 (16.67%) Telecoms
1 1 (16.67%) Games
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Server Engineer
1 3 (50.00%) Windows Server Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) QA Test Manager
2 1 (16.67%) Web Tester
2 1 (16.67%) Tester
2 1 (16.67%) Test Manager
2 1 (16.67%) QA Manager
Operating Systems
1 3 (50.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (50.00%) E-Commerce
1 3 (50.00%) User Acceptance Testing
1 3 (50.00%) Test Automation
2 1 (16.67%) Test Strategy
2 1 (16.67%) Web Testing
2 1 (16.67%) Test Scripting
2 1 (16.67%) Manual Testing
2 1 (16.67%) Time Management
2 1 (16.67%) Problem Management
2 1 (16.67%) ETL
2 1 (16.67%) Quality Management
2 1 (16.67%) Risk Management
2 1 (16.67%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 4 (66.67%) SQL
2 1 (16.67%) C#
2 1 (16.67%) VB
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) QA
System Software
1 3 (50.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (50.00%) Splunk
Vendors
1 3 (50.00%) CA
2 1 (16.67%) Oracle