The first table below looks at the demand for Functional Testing skills in IT contracts advertised for the Hounslow region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Functional 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 Hounslow 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
Functional Testing
Rank 17 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing Functional Testing 1 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Hounslow 1.667% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.923% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £275 £425 £288
% change year-on-year
-35.29% +47.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Processes & Methodologies
Hounslow
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
52 59 43
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Hounslow 86.67% 76.62% 61.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 37 33 23
Average daily rate £450 £350 £330
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+28.57% +6.06%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £400 £238 £201
10% offered a daily rate of more than £470 £475 £404
UK excluding London average daily rate £365 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
- -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.00 £25.00 £29.50
% change year-on-year
+20.00% -15.25%
Functional Testing
London

Functional Testing
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Hounslow Functional Testing Jobs Demand Trend

Functional Testing
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 2 (100.00%) HTML
1 2 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 2 (100.00%) Perl
1 2 (100.00%) Python
1 2 (100.00%) ISEB
1 2 (100.00%) DRM
1 2 (100.00%) Regression Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Games
1 2 (100.00%) Scrum
1 2 (100.00%) Cocoa
1 2 (100.00%) Objective-C
1 2 (100.00%) Agile Software Development
1 2 (100.00%) TDD
1 2 (100.00%) STB
1 2 (100.00%) Ruby
1 2 (100.00%) IPTV
1 2 (100.00%) ISTQB
1 2 (100.00%) JIRA
1 2 (100.00%) Wireshark
1 2 (100.00%) Selenium
1 2 (100.00%) User Acceptance Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Test Scripting
1 2 (100.00%) Manual Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Android
1 2 (100.00%) Video on Demand
1 2 (100.00%) Cucumber
1 2 (100.00%) BDD
1 2 (100.00%) Apple iOS
1 2 (100.00%) Cocoa Touch
1 2 (100.00%) User Stories

Functional Testing
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 2 (100.00%) HTML
1 2 (100.00%) Cocoa
1 2 (100.00%) Cocoa Touch
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) Wireshark
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) JIRA
1 2 (100.00%) Selenium
1 2 (100.00%) Cucumber
General
1 2 (100.00%) Games
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Tester
1 2 (100.00%) Senior Tester
2 1 (50.00%) Agile Tester
2 1 (50.00%) Senior Agile Tester
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) STB
1 2 (100.00%) IPTV
1 2 (100.00%) Video on Demand
1 2 (100.00%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Android
1 2 (100.00%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) DRM
1 2 (100.00%) Regression Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Scrum
1 2 (100.00%) Agile Software Development
1 2 (100.00%) TDD
1 2 (100.00%) User Acceptance Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Test Scripting
1 2 (100.00%) Manual Testing
1 2 (100.00%) BDD
1 2 (100.00%) User Stories
1 2 (100.00%) Automation Testing
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 2 (100.00%) Perl
1 2 (100.00%) Python
1 2 (100.00%) Objective-C
1 2 (100.00%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) ISEB
1 2 (100.00%) ISTQB