Hertfordshire User Acceptance Testing Contracts

This section looks at the demand for User Acceptance Testing (UAT) skills within the Hertfordshire region with a comparison to our Processes & Methodologies category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited User Acceptance Testing over the 3 months to 21 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

User Acceptance Testing (UAT)
Location Aberdeen Abingdon Aldershot Andover Basildon Basingstoke Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Blackpool Bournemouth Bracknell Brentwood Bridgend Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Carlisle Cheltenham Cheshire Chester City of London Colchester County Antrim Coventry Crawley Croydon Cumbria Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset Durham East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh England Essex Exeter Farnborough Gatwick Glamorgan Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Guildford Halifax Hampshire Harrogate Havant Hertfordshire High Wycombe Home Counties Horsham Ipswich Kent Knutsford Lancashire Leeds Liverpool London Luton M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Northumberland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Poole Portsmouth Reading Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Skelmersdale Slough Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southend-on-Sea Staffordshire Staines Stockport Stoke-on-Trent Street Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Tadworth Taunton Telford Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Uttoxeter Uxbridge Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Welwyn Garden City West Drayton West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Wigan Wilmslow Wiltshire Windsor Wokingham Worthing York Yorkshire	3 months to 21 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	55	67
Rank change on same period last year	+12
Matching contract IT job ads	27	26
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.036 %	0.026 %
As % of the category below	3.037 %	2.723 %
Daily rates quoted	17	19
Average minimum daily rate	£343	£354
Average daily rate	£373	£366
% change on same period last year	+1.84 %
Average maximum daily rate	£404	£378
UK excluding London average daily rate	£341	£349
% change on same period last year	-2.33 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	3
Average minimum hourly rate	-	£12.00
Average hourly rate	-	£13.50
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	£15.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£33.52	£24.60
% change on same period last year	+36.26 %
Processes & Methodologies Hertfordshire
Matching contract IT job ads	889	955
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	1.173 %	0.951 %
Daily rates quoted	330	396
Average minimum daily rate	£377	£354
Average daily rate	£404	£374
% change on same period last year	+8.00 %
Average maximum daily rate	£431	£395
UK excluding London average daily rate	£380	£377
% change on same period last year	+0.74 %
Hourly rates quoted	96	90
Average minimum hourly rate	£29.89	£26.44
Average hourly rate	£30.48	£28.44
% change on same period last year	+7.17 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£31.07	£30.44
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£30.30	£30.18
% change on same period last year	+0.42 %
User Acceptance Testing East of England

We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

User Acceptance Testing
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing User Acceptance Testing across the Hertfordshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

User Acceptance Testing
Daily Rate Trend

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

User Acceptance Testing
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing User Acceptance Testing across the Hertfordshire region over the 3 months to 21 August 2008.

User Acceptance Testing
Hourly Rate Trend

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

User Acceptance Testing
Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing User Acceptance Testing within the Hertfordshire region over the 3 months to 21 August 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
Watford	+12	8	£400	-
Welwyn Garden City	-	1	£350	-

User Acceptance Testing East of England

User Acceptance Testing
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Hertfordshire 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 19 (37.25 %) .NET 1 19 (37.25 %) Retail 2 17 (33.33 %) SQL Server 3 10 (19.61 %) Microsoft 4 9 (17.65 %) UML 5 8 (15.69 %) XSL 5 8 (15.69 %) XML 5 8 (15.69 %) C 5 8 (15.69 %) C# 5 8 (15.69 %) Project Management 5 8 (15.69 %) SQL Server 2005 6 7 (13.73 %) Commerce Server 2007 6 7 (13.73 %) Finance 6 7 (13.73 %) E-Commerce 6 7 (13.73 %) Commerce Server

6 7 (13.73 %) SAP 7 6 (11.76 %) SQL 7 6 (11.76 %) B2C 8 5 (9.804 %) Six Sigma 8 5 (9.804 %) ADO.NET 8 5 (9.804 %) ASP.NET 8 5 (9.804 %) XHTML 8 5 (9.804 %) Lean Six Sigma 8 5 (9.804 %) Content Management 9 4 (7.843 %) Software Testing 9 4 (7.843 %) Test Scripting 9 4 (7.843 %) WebServices 9 4 (7.843 %) UNIX 9 4 (7.843 %) Transact-SQL 9 4 (7.843 %) VB

User Acceptance Testing
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Hertfordshire 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 19 (37.25 %) .NET 2 8 (15.69 %) XSL 2 8 (15.69 %) XML 3 5 (9.804 %) ADO.NET 3 5 (9.804 %) ASP.NET 3 5 (9.804 %) XHTML 4 4 (7.843 %) WebServices 5 3 (5.882 %) XSD 6 2 (3.922 %) HTML 7 1 (1.961 %) ASP 7 1 (1.961 %) J2EE 7 1 (1.961 %) ActiveX	Application Platforms 1 7 (13.73 %) Commerce Server 2007 1 7 (13.73 %) Commerce Server 2 4 (7.843 %) SharePoint 3 1 (1.961 %) BizTalk Server 3 1 (1.961 %) WebLogic 3 1 (1.961 %) IIS 3 1 (1.961 %) SharePoint Server 2007
Applications 1 1 (1.961 %) MS Excel	Business Applications 1 3 (5.882 %) SAP HR 2 2 (3.922 %) SAP FI/CO 2 2 (3.922 %) SAP CO 2 2 (3.922 %) SAP FI 3 1 (1.961 %) Oracle 11i 3 1 (1.961 %) SAP HCM 3 1 (1.961 %) SAP Payroll
Communications & Networking 1 3 (5.882 %) DSL 2 1 (1.961 %) SAN 2 1 (1.961 %) Intranet 2 1 (1.961 %) Internet	Database & Business Intelligence 1 17 (33.33 %) SQL Server 2 8 (15.69 %) SQL Server 2005 3 1 (1.961 %) OLAP 3 1 (1.961 %) Oracle 8/8i 3 1 (1.961 %) MS Access 3 1 (1.961 %) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications 1 3 (5.882 %) NUnit	General 1 19 (37.25 %) Retail 2 7 (13.73 %) Finance 3 3 (5.882 %) Insurance 4 2 (3.922 %) Back Office 5 1 (1.961 %) Telecoms 5 1 (1.961 %) Financial Institution
Job Titles 1 19 (37.25 %) Analyst 2 15 (29.41 %) Business Analyst 3 11 (21.57 %) Developer 4 9 (17.65 %) Systems Analyst 5 8 (15.69 %) Business Systems Analyst 6 6 (11.76 %) Consultant 7 5 (9.804 %) Project Manager 7 5 (9.804 %) SAP Consultant 7 5 (9.804 %) Technical Manager 8 4 (7.843 %) Tester 9 3 (5.882 %) Test Manager 9 3 (5.882 %) Test Analyst 9 3 (5.882 %) Release Manager 9 3 (5.882 %) C# Developer 9 3 (5.882 %) Senior Developer 10 2 (3.922 %) SAP PS Consultant 10 2 (3.922 %) Support Manager 10 2 (3.922 %) SAP CO Consultant 10 2 (3.922 %) UAT Tester 10 2 (3.922 %) SAP FI/CO Consultant	Miscellaneous 1 2 (3.922 %) Computer Science 1 2 (3.922 %) Mainframe 1 2 (3.922 %) EPoS
Operating Systems 1 4 (7.843 %) UNIX 2 2 (3.922 %) Windows 3 1 (1.961 %) HPUX 3 1 (1.961 %) Windows 2000	Processes & Methodologies 1 9 (17.65 %) UML 2 8 (15.69 %) Project Management 3 7 (13.73 %) E-Commerce 4 6 (11.76 %) B2C 5 5 (9.804 %) Six Sigma 5 5 (9.804 %) Lean Six Sigma 5 5 (9.804 %) Content Management 6 4 (7.843 %) Software Testing 6 4 (7.843 %) Test Scripting 7 3 (5.882 %) Unit Testing 7 3 (5.882 %) Agile Software Development 7 3 (5.882 %) Business Analysis 7 3 (5.882 %) Automated Testing 7 3 (5.882 %) Scrum 8 2 (3.922 %) Migration 8 2 (3.922 %) Technical Architecture 8 2 (3.922 %) PRINCE2 9 1 (1.961 %) BPR 9 1 (1.961 %) Release Management 9 1 (1.961 %) SAP Implementation
Programming Languages 1 8 (15.69 %) C 1 8 (15.69 %) C# 2 6 (11.76 %) SQL 3 4 (7.843 %) Transact-SQL 3 4 (7.843 %) VB 4 3 (5.882 %) VB6 5 1 (1.961 %) Java 5 1 (1.961 %) JavaScript 5 1 (1.961 %) DHTML 5 1 (1.961 %) ABAP 5 1 (1.961 %) VBScript	Qualifications 1 2 (3.922 %) Degree
System Software 1 1 (1.961 %) Active Directory	Systems Management 1 1 (1.961 %) Systems Management Server (SMS) 1 1 (1.961 %) HP Data Protector
Vendors 1 10 (19.61 %) Microsoft 2 7 (13.73 %) SAP 3 2 (3.922 %) Oracle 3 2 (3.922 %) HP 4 1 (1.961 %) Lawson 4 1 (1.961 %) Sun 4 1 (1.961 %) Amdocs