The first table below looks at the demand for User Acceptance 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 User Acceptance Testing over the 3 months to 19 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 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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
User Acceptance Testing (UAT)
Rank 16 14 -
Rank change year-on-year
-2 -
Contract jobs citing User Acceptance Testing 2 1 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Hounslow 3.571% 1.124% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.000% 1.515% -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 1 0
Average daily rate - £475 -
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £350 £350
% change year-on-year
-7.14% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.50 £22.50 £23.00
% change year-on-year
-8.88% -2.17%
All Processes & Methodologies
Hounslow
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
50 66 40
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Hounslow 89.29% 74.16% 53.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 39 18
Average daily rate £400 £400 £330
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +21.21%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £325 £295 £267
10% offered a daily rate of more than £488 £475 £376
UK excluding London average daily rate £370 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
+1.36% -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Average hourly rate - £34.00 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.00 £25.00 £29.00
% change year-on-year
+24.00% -13.79%
User Acceptance Testing
London

User Acceptance Testing
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Hounslow User Acceptance Testing Jobs Demand Trend

User Acceptance Testing
Daily Rate Trend

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

Hounslow User Acceptance Testing Daily Rate Trend

User Acceptance Testing
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Hounslow 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 4 (100.00%) Scrum
1 4 (100.00%) Agile Software Development
1 4 (100.00%) User Stories
2 3 (75.00%) Mobile App
2 3 (75.00%) Automation Testing
2 3 (75.00%) Cucumber
2 3 (75.00%) BDD
2 3 (75.00%) Apple iOS
2 3 (75.00%) Video on Demand
2 3 (75.00%) Functional Testing
2 3 (75.00%) Cocoa Touch
2 3 (75.00%) TDD
2 3 (75.00%) STB
2 3 (75.00%) Ruby
2 3 (75.00%) IPTV
2 3 (75.00%) ISTQB
2 3 (75.00%) Cocoa
2 3 (75.00%) Objective-C
2 3 (75.00%) JIRA
2 3 (75.00%) Wireshark
2 3 (75.00%) Selenium
2 3 (75.00%) Test Scripting
2 3 (75.00%) Manual Testing
2 3 (75.00%) Android
2 3 (75.00%) HTML
2 3 (75.00%) JavaScript
2 3 (75.00%) Perl
2 3 (75.00%) Python
2 3 (75.00%) ISEB
2 3 (75.00%) DRM

User Acceptance Testing
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Hounslow 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 3 (75.00%) Cocoa Touch
1 3 (75.00%) Cocoa
1 3 (75.00%) HTML
2 1 (25.00%) SOAP
2 1 (25.00%) Web Services
2 1 (25.00%) XSL
2 1 (25.00%) REST
Communications & Networking
1 3 (75.00%) Wireshark
Development Applications
1 3 (75.00%) Cucumber
1 3 (75.00%) JIRA
1 3 (75.00%) Selenium
2 1 (25.00%) JBehave
2 1 (25.00%) WebDriver
General
1 3 (75.00%) Games
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Senior Tester
1 3 (75.00%) Tester
2 1 (25.00%) Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Business Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Agile Tester
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Agile Tester
Miscellaneous
1 3 (75.00%) Mobile App
1 3 (75.00%) Video on Demand
1 3 (75.00%) STB
1 3 (75.00%) IPTV
2 1 (25.00%) Blackberry
Operating Systems
1 3 (75.00%) Apple iOS
1 3 (75.00%) Android
2 1 (25.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Scrum
1 4 (100.00%) Agile Software Development
1 4 (100.00%) User Stories
2 3 (75.00%) Automation Testing
2 3 (75.00%) BDD
2 3 (75.00%) Functional Testing
2 3 (75.00%) TDD
2 3 (75.00%) Test Scripting
2 3 (75.00%) Manual Testing
2 3 (75.00%) DRM
2 3 (75.00%) Regression Testing
3 1 (25.00%) UML
3 1 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) Ruby
1 3 (75.00%) Objective-C
1 3 (75.00%) JavaScript
1 3 (75.00%) Perl
1 3 (75.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (75.00%) ISTQB
1 3 (75.00%) ISEB
2 1 (25.00%) Degree