Lancashire User Acceptance Testing Contracts

This section looks at the demand for User Acceptance Testing (UAT) skills within the Lancashire 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 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

User Acceptance Testing (UAT)
Location Abingdon Aldershot Andover Basildon Basingstoke Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Blackpool Borehamwood Bournemouth Bracknell Brentwood Bridgend Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Carlisle Cheltenham Cheshire Chester City of London Colchester County Antrim Coventry Crawley Croydon Cumbria Devon Docklands, London Dorset Dundee Durham East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh England Essex Exeter Farnborough Gatwick Glamorgan Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Guildford Halifax Hampshire Havant Herefordshire Hertfordshire Home Counties Horsham Ipswich Kent Knutsford Lancashire Leamington Spa Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Liverpool London Luton M4 Corridor Macclesfield 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 Rickmansworth Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Skelmersdale Slough Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Staffordshire Staines Stockport Stoke-on-Trent Street Suffolk Surrey Sussex Swindon Tadworth Taunton Telford Thames Valley Tunbridge Wells Tyne and Wear UK Uttoxeter Uxbridge Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Welwyn Garden City West Drayton West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wigan Wilmslow Wiltshire Winchester Windsor Wokingham Worthing York Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	24	40
Rank change on same period last year	+16
Matching contract IT job ads	11	6
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.015 %	0.006 %
As % of the category below	6.471 %	1.770 %
Daily rates quoted	1	4
Average minimum daily rate	£800	£344
Average daily rate	£800	£361
% change on same period last year	+121.83 %
Average maximum daily rate	£800	£378
UK excluding London average daily rate	£344	£347
% change on same period last year	-1.01 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum hourly rate	-	-
Average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£28.64	£21.57
% change on same period last year	+32.75 %
Processes & Methodologies Lancashire
Matching contract IT job ads	170	339
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.227 %	0.343 %
Daily rates quoted	40	89
Average minimum daily rate	£381	£345
Average daily rate	£393	£354
% change on same period last year	+11.02 %
Average maximum daily rate	£405	£363
UK excluding London average daily rate	£380	£376
% change on same period last year	+1.21 %
Hourly rates quoted	31	28
Average minimum hourly rate	£22.43	£23.59
Average hourly rate	£24.39	£26.56
% change on same period last year	-8.14 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£26.36	£29.52
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£29.33	£30.16
% change on same period last year	-2.72 %
User Acceptance Testing North West

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 Lancashire 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 Lancashire region.

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 Lancashire 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 Lancashire region over the 3 months to 25 July 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
Blackpool	-	8	-	-
Skelmersdale	-	1	-	-

User Acceptance Testing North West

User Acceptance Testing
Top 29 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Lancashire 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 9 (52.94 %) Oracle 2 7 (41.18 %) Government 3 4 (23.53 %) Finance 4 3 (17.65 %) Resource Management 4 3 (17.65 %) SAP Implementation 4 3 (17.65 %) System Testing 4 3 (17.65 %) Business Analysis 4 3 (17.65 %) SAP HR 4 3 (17.65 %) SAP 5 2 (11.76 %) Insurance 5 2 (11.76 %) TestDirector 5 2 (11.76 %) Migration 6 1 (5.882 %) Fujitsu 6 1 (5.882 %) Performance Testing 6 1 (5.882 %) Test Management

6 1 (5.882 %) Banking 6 1 (5.882 %) VB6 6 1 (5.882 %) Legal 6 1 (5.882 %) Software Testing 6 1 (5.882 %) Pensions 6 1 (5.882 %) Oracle EBS 6 1 (5.882 %) SQL Server 6 1 (5.882 %) ASP 6 1 (5.882 %) ASP.NET 6 1 (5.882 %) ISEB 6 1 (5.882 %) C# 6 1 (5.882 %) VB 6 1 (5.882 %) VB.NET 6 1 (5.882 %) .NET

User Acceptance Testing
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Lancashire 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 1 (5.882 %) .NET 1 1 (5.882 %) ASP 1 1 (5.882 %) ASP.NET	Business Applications 1 3 (17.65 %) SAP HR 2 1 (5.882 %) Oracle EBS
Database & Business Intelligence 1 1 (5.882 %) SQL Server	Development Applications 1 2 (11.76 %) TestDirector
General 1 7 (41.18 %) Government 2 4 (23.53 %) Finance 3 2 (11.76 %) Insurance 4 1 (5.882 %) Pensions 4 1 (5.882 %) Legal 4 1 (5.882 %) Banking	Job Titles 1 9 (52.94 %) Test Manager 2 3 (17.65 %) HR Specialist 3 2 (11.76 %) Analyst 3 2 (11.76 %) Business Manager 3 2 (11.76 %) UAT Analyst 3 2 (11.76 %) Test Analyst 4 1 (5.882 %) Senior Manager 4 1 (5.882 %) Test Coordinator 4 1 (5.882 %) .NET Developer 4 1 (5.882 %) ASP.NET Developer 4 1 (5.882 %) SQL Developer 4 1 (5.882 %) SQL Server Developer 4 1 (5.882 %) Senior Test Manager 4 1 (5.882 %) Coordinator 4 1 (5.882 %) Developer
Processes & Methodologies 1 3 (17.65 %) Resource Management 1 3 (17.65 %) SAP Implementation 1 3 (17.65 %) Business Analysis 1 3 (17.65 %) System Testing 2 2 (11.76 %) Migration 3 1 (5.882 %) Software Testing 3 1 (5.882 %) Performance Testing 3 1 (5.882 %) Test Management	Programming Languages 1 1 (5.882 %) C# 1 1 (5.882 %) VB 1 1 (5.882 %) VB.NET 1 1 (5.882 %) VB6
Qualifications 1 1 (5.882 %) ISEB	Vendors 1 9 (52.94 %) Oracle 2 3 (17.65 %) SAP 3 1 (5.882 %) Fujitsu