System Testing Contracts in Hertfordshire
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Hourly Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for System 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 System 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 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
22 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
System Testing
Rank 60 71 61
Rank change year-on-year
+11 -10
Contract jobs citing System Testing 4 4 3
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Hertfordshire 0.614% 0.409% 0.351%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.862% 0.622% 0.568%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 3 2
Average daily rate £360 £388 £425
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-7.09% -8.82%
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £326
% change year-on-year
- -0.15%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.00 £30.00 £27.25
% change year-on-year
- +10.09%
All Processes & Methodologies
Hertfordshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category		 464 643 528
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Hertfordshire 71.27% 65.81% 61.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 259 290 228
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 £265 £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 56 76
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 £12.00 £16.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £39.60 £49.00 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.00 £25.00 £29.00
% change year-on-year
+24.00% -13.79%
System Testing
East of England

System Testing
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Hertfordshire 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 Hertfordshire region.

Hertfordshire 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 Hertfordshire region.

Hertfordshire 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 Hertfordshire region over the 3 months to 22 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
Watford - 2 - -
System Testing
East of England

System Testing
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Hertfordshire 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 7 (77.78%) SQL
2 4 (44.44%) SAP
2 4 (44.44%) Retail
3 3 (33.33%) LSMW
3 3 (33.33%) Automated Testing
3 3 (33.33%) WebSphere
3 3 (33.33%) Data Migration
3 3 (33.33%) DbVisualizer
3 3 (33.33%) IBM
3 3 (33.33%) HP
3 3 (33.33%) QuickTest Pro
3 3 (33.33%) LoadRunner
3 3 (33.33%) Migration
3 3 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
3 3 (33.33%) BAPI
3 3 (33.33%) Regression Testing
3 3 (33.33%) Finance
3 3 (33.33%) XML
3 3 (33.33%) UNIX
3 3 (33.33%) Flash
3 3 (33.33%) MQSeries
3 3 (33.33%) E-Commerce
3 3 (33.33%) J2EE
3 3 (33.33%) DB2
3 3 (33.33%) HTML
3 3 (33.33%) Java
3 3 (33.33%) JavaScript
4 2 (22.22%) Teradata
5 1 (11.11%) Agile Software Development
5 1 (11.11%) Test Strategy

System Testing
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Hertfordshire 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 3 (33.33%) WebSphere
1 3 (33.33%) BAPI
1 3 (33.33%) XML
1 3 (33.33%) Flash
1 3 (33.33%) J2EE
1 3 (33.33%) HTML
Application Platforms
1 3 (33.33%) MQSeries
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (33.33%) DbVisualizer
1 3 (33.33%) DB2
2 1 (11.11%) Crystal Reports
2 1 (11.11%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 3 (33.33%) LSMW
1 3 (33.33%) QuickTest Pro
1 3 (33.33%) LoadRunner
General
1 4 (44.44%) Retail
2 3 (33.33%) Finance
3 1 (11.11%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 4 (44.44%) Business Analyst
1 4 (44.44%) Analyst
2 3 (33.33%) SAP Business Analyst
2 3 (33.33%) SAP Analyst
2 3 (33.33%) Tester
3 2 (22.22%) Data Migration Analyst
3 2 (22.22%) Data Analyst
3 2 (22.22%) SAP Data Migration Analyst
3 2 (22.22%) SAP Data Analyst
4 1 (11.11%) SAP Manager
4 1 (11.11%) SAP Test Manager
4 1 (11.11%) Delphi Developer
4 1 (11.11%) Developer
4 1 (11.11%) Test Manager
Operating Systems
1 3 (33.33%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (33.33%) Automated Testing
1 3 (33.33%) Data Migration
1 3 (33.33%) Migration
1 3 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
1 3 (33.33%) Regression Testing
1 3 (33.33%) E-Commerce
2 1 (11.11%) Agile Software Development
2 1 (11.11%) Test Strategy
2 1 (11.11%) Agile Project Management
2 1 (11.11%) User Acceptance Testing
2 1 (11.11%) Unit Testing
2 1 (11.11%) Integration Testing
2 1 (11.11%) Test Scripting
2 1 (11.11%) Systems Analysis
2 1 (11.11%) Requirements Analysis
2 1 (11.11%) Project Management
2 1 (11.11%) ETL
2 1 (11.11%) OOP
Programming Languages
1 7 (77.78%) SQL
2 3 (33.33%) Java
2 3 (33.33%) JavaScript
3 1 (11.11%) Delphi
3 1 (11.11%) PL/SQL
Vendors
1 4 (44.44%) SAP
2 3 (33.33%) IBM
2 3 (33.33%) HP
3 2 (22.22%) Teradata
4 1 (11.11%) Oracle
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