The first table below looks at the demand for Integration Testing skills in IT contracts advertised for the Lancashire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Integration 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 Lancashire 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
Integration Testing
Rank 28 43 29
Rank change year-on-year
+15 -14
Contract jobs citing Integration Testing 2 1 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Lancashire 1.020% 0.231% 0.893%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.653% 0.408% 1.724%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Average daily rate £213 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £363 £394 £363
% change year-on-year
-7.93% +8.62%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
Average hourly rate - - £35.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £36.00 £35.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year
+2.85% -6.66%
All Processes & Methodologies
Lancashire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
121 245 116
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Lancashire 61.73% 56.71% 51.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 59 141 53
Average daily rate £315 £375 £328
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-16.00% +14.50%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £220 £190 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £422 £489 £430
UK excluding London average daily rate £363 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
-0.68% -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 9 16
Average hourly rate £21.00 £20.00 £35.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+5.00% -42.85%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £17.90 £16.00 £21.94
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £65.07 £21.50 £37.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.60 £25.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year
+26.40% -16.66%
Integration Testing
North West

Integration Testing
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Lancashire Integration Testing Jobs Demand Trend

Integration Testing
Daily Rate Trend

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

Lancashire Integration Testing Daily Rate Trend

Integration Testing
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Integration Testing across the Lancashire region.

Lancashire Integration Testing Hourly Rate Trend

Integration Testing
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Integration Testing within the Lancashire region over the 3 months to 17 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
Preston - 1 - -
Integration Testing
North West

Integration Testing
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Lancashire region citing Integration 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 Integration Testing.

1 2 (40.00%) Military
1 2 (40.00%) Oracle
2 1 (20.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (20.00%) IIS
2 1 (20.00%) ASP.NET
2 1 (20.00%) COM
2 1 (20.00%) DCOM
2 1 (20.00%) SOAP
2 1 (20.00%) Web Services
2 1 (20.00%) XML
2 1 (20.00%) XSD
2 1 (20.00%) HND
2 1 (20.00%) Windows
2 1 (20.00%) UML
2 1 (20.00%) ActiveX
2 1 (20.00%) MSMQ
2 1 (20.00%) MS Visio
2 1 (20.00%) SLA
2 1 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (20.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (20.00%) Internet
2 1 (20.00%) SQL Server 2000
2 1 (20.00%) VB6
2 1 (20.00%) Subversion
2 1 (20.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 1 (20.00%) Ajax
2 1 (20.00%) SQL Server 2005
2 1 (20.00%) .NET Remoting
2 1 (20.00%) WCF
2 1 (20.00%) Silverlight

Integration Testing
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Lancashire region citing Integration 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 Integration Testing. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (20.00%) HTML
1 1 (20.00%) .NET
1 1 (20.00%) ASP.NET
1 1 (20.00%) COM
1 1 (20.00%) DCOM
1 1 (20.00%) SOAP
1 1 (20.00%) Web Services
1 1 (20.00%) XML
1 1 (20.00%) XSD
1 1 (20.00%) ActiveX
1 1 (20.00%) Ajax
1 1 (20.00%) .NET Remoting
1 1 (20.00%) WCF
1 1 (20.00%) Silverlight
Application Platforms
1 1 (20.00%) IIS
1 1 (20.00%) MSMQ
Applications
1 1 (20.00%) MS Visio
Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) SQL Server
1 1 (20.00%) SQL Server 2000
1 1 (20.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
1 1 (20.00%) SQL Server 2005
1 1 (20.00%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Subversion
1 1 (20.00%) TortoiseSVN
General
1 2 (40.00%) Military
2 1 (20.00%) Avionics
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Test Engineer
1 3 (60.00%) Systems Test Engineer
1 3 (60.00%) Systems Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) Integration Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) Systems Integration Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Test Leader
3 1 (20.00%) .NET Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Developer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (20.00%) UML
1 1 (20.00%) MVC
1 1 (20.00%) MVVM
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) C#
1 1 (20.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (20.00%) SQL
1 1 (20.00%) VB
1 1 (20.00%) VBA
1 1 (20.00%) VB6
1 1 (20.00%) sed
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) HND
1 1 (20.00%) BC Cleared
1 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Oracle
2 1 (20.00%) Microsoft