The first table below looks at the demand for Performance 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 Performance Testing over the 3 months to 17 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Performance Testing
Rank 17 16 -
Rank change year-on-year
-1 -
Contract jobs citing Performance Testing 2 1 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Hounslow 3.509% 1.282% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.000% 1.667% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Average daily rate £450 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £413 £375
% change year-on-year
-21.21% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £32.00 £31.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+1.58% -10.00%
All Processes & Methodologies
Hounslow
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
50 60 41
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Hounslow 87.72% 76.92% 63.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 35 35 24
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 £256 £201
10% offered a daily rate of more than £470 £475 £398
UK excluding London average daily rate £363 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
-0.68% -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.60 £25.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year
+26.40% -16.66%
Performance Testing
London

Performance Testing
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Hounslow 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 Hounslow region.

Hounslow Performance Testing Daily Rate Trend

Performance Testing
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Hounslow 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 3 (100.00%) QA
2 2 (66.67%) Grails
2 2 (66.67%) jQuery
2 2 (66.67%) Hudson
2 2 (66.67%) REST
2 2 (66.67%) Continuous Improvement
2 2 (66.67%) Kanban
2 2 (66.67%) Groovy
2 2 (66.67%) Jenkins
2 2 (66.67%) JavaScript
2 2 (66.67%) JUnit
2 2 (66.67%) CSS
2 2 (66.67%) HTML
2 2 (66.67%) Publishing
2 2 (66.67%) Scrum
2 2 (66.67%) Agile Software Development
2 2 (66.67%) TDD
2 2 (66.67%) Pair Programming
2 2 (66.67%) Content Management
3 1 (33.33%) Java
3 1 (33.33%) Web Services
3 1 (33.33%) HTTP
3 1 (33.33%) HP
3 1 (33.33%) LoadRunner
3 1 (33.33%) Benchmarking
3 1 (33.33%) SQL
3 1 (33.33%) J2EE
3 1 (33.33%) MySQL
3 1 (33.33%) C
3 1 (33.33%) Capacity Planning

Performance Testing
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Hounslow 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 2 (66.67%) HTML
1 2 (66.67%) CSS
1 2 (66.67%) Grails
1 2 (66.67%) jQuery
1 2 (66.67%) REST
2 1 (33.33%) Web Services
2 1 (33.33%) J2EE
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) JUnit
1 2 (66.67%) Hudson
1 2 (66.67%) Jenkins
2 1 (33.33%) LoadRunner
General
1 2 (66.67%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Test Manager
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Scrum
1 2 (66.67%) Agile Software Development
1 2 (66.67%) TDD
1 2 (66.67%) Pair Programming
1 2 (66.67%) Content Management
1 2 (66.67%) Kanban
1 2 (66.67%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (33.33%) Test Strategy
2 1 (33.33%) Capacity Planning
2 1 (33.33%) Test Management
2 1 (33.33%) Benchmarking
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) JavaScript
1 2 (66.67%) Groovy
2 1 (33.33%) SQL
2 1 (33.33%) C
2 1 (33.33%) Java
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (100.00%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) HP