The first table below looks at the demand for Performance Testing skills in IT contracts advertised for the Leeds region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Performance Testing over the 3 months to 22 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 Leeds 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
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Performance Testing
Rank 52 57 52
Rank change year-on-year
+5 -5
Contract jobs citing Performance Testing 16 14 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Leeds 2.128% 1.568% 0.322%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.914% 2.194% 0.478%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 5 2
Average daily rate £250 £425 £425
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-41.17% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £340 £345
10% offered a daily rate of more than £300 £470 £505
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £400 £375
% change year-on-year
-18.75% +6.66%
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
Leeds
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
549 638 418
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Leeds 73.01% 71.44% 67.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 311 377 205
Average daily rate £310 £345 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-10.14% -1.42%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £245 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £451 £475
UK excluding London average daily rate £365 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
- -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 16 22
Average hourly rate £33.50 £14.00 £17.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+139.28% -20.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.50 £11.40 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £38.00 £62.50 £25.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.00 £25.00 £29.00
% change year-on-year
+24.00% -13.79%
Performance Testing
West Yorkshire

Performance Testing
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Leeds 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 Leeds region.

Leeds Performance Testing Daily Rate Trend

Performance Testing
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Performance Testing across the Leeds region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013.

Leeds Performance Testing Daily Rate Histogram

Performance Testing
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Leeds Performance Testing Hourly Rate Trend

Performance Testing
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Leeds 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 16 (64.00%) Oracle
2 11 (44.00%) SQL
3 9 (36.00%) Linux
4 8 (32.00%) Web Services
4 8 (32.00%) Test Automation
5 7 (28.00%) SSL
5 7 (28.00%) Java
5 7 (28.00%) Load Balancing
6 6 (24.00%) Incident Management
6 6 (24.00%) Ruby
6 6 (24.00%) Oracle EBS
6 6 (24.00%) Telecoms
6 6 (24.00%) Configuration Management
6 6 (24.00%) Perl
6 6 (24.00%) PHP
6 6 (24.00%) C++
6 6 (24.00%) MySQL
6 6 (24.00%) DNS
6 6 (24.00%) ETL
6 6 (24.00%) DHCP
6 6 (24.00%) TCP/IP
6 6 (24.00%) Apache
6 6 (24.00%) Python
6 6 (24.00%) Data Warehouse
6 6 (24.00%) Client/Server
6 6 (24.00%) Data Modelling
6 6 (24.00%) nginx
6 6 (24.00%) Amazon EC2
6 6 (24.00%) Amazon S3
6 6 (24.00%) Amazon AWS

Performance Testing
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Leeds 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 8 (32.00%) Web Services
2 6 (24.00%) Node.js
3 2 (8.000%) Gherkin
3 2 (8.000%) XML
3 2 (8.000%) ASP
3 2 (8.000%) .NET
3 2 (8.000%) HTML
Application Platforms
1 6 (24.00%) Apache
1 6 (24.00%) nginx
1 6 (24.00%) Amazon EC2
1 6 (24.00%) Amazon S3
1 6 (24.00%) Amazon AWS
1 6 (24.00%) Route 53
Applications
1 2 (8.000%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 6 (24.00%) Oracle EBS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (28.00%) SSL
2 6 (24.00%) DNS
2 6 (24.00%) DHCP
2 6 (24.00%) TCP/IP
3 3 (12.00%) HTTP
4 1 (4.000%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (24.00%) MySQL
1 6 (24.00%) Data Warehouse
1 6 (24.00%) Oracle BI EE
1 6 (24.00%) MongoDB
1 6 (24.00%) Redis
1 6 (24.00%) Amazon RDS
2 5 (20.00%) Oracle 11g
3 1 (4.000%) Oracle OWB
3 1 (4.000%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 1 (4.000%) SQL Server
3 1 (4.000%) Oracle 8/8i
Development Applications
1 3 (12.00%) LoadRunner
1 3 (12.00%) Visual Studio
1 3 (12.00%) Rational Performance Tester
2 2 (8.000%) Talend Open Studio
2 2 (8.000%) TeamCity
2 2 (8.000%) WebDriver
2 2 (8.000%) Cucumber
2 2 (8.000%) SpecFlow
2 2 (8.000%) Selenium
2 2 (8.000%) MSI
3 1 (4.000%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 6 (24.00%) Telecoms
2 1 (4.000%) Retail
Job Titles
1 10 (40.00%) Tester
2 7 (28.00%) Performance Tester
3 6 (24.00%) Operations Engineer
4 4 (16.00%) Designer
4 4 (16.00%) OBIEE Developer
4 4 (16.00%) Developer
5 2 (8.000%) Agile Tester
5 2 (8.000%) Performance Test Analyst
5 2 (8.000%) Performance Analyst
5 2 (8.000%) Architect
5 2 (8.000%) Analyst
5 2 (8.000%) Test Analyst
6 1 (4.000%) Technical Architect
6 1 (4.000%) Consultant
6 1 (4.000%) DBA
6 1 (4.000%) SQL Server DBA
6 1 (4.000%) SQL DBA
6 1 (4.000%) Business Architect
6 1 (4.000%) OBIEE Architect
6 1 (4.000%) Business Intelligence Architect
Miscellaneous
1 6 (24.00%) Client/Server
1 6 (24.00%) Data Integration
Operating Systems
1 9 (36.00%) Linux
2 2 (8.000%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (32.00%) Test Automation
2 7 (28.00%) Load Balancing
3 6 (24.00%) Incident Management
3 6 (24.00%) Configuration Management
3 6 (24.00%) ETL
3 6 (24.00%) Data Modelling
3 6 (24.00%) Kanban
3 6 (24.00%) Capacity Management
4 3 (12.00%) Benchmarking
4 3 (12.00%) SOA
4 3 (12.00%) Web Testing
4 3 (12.00%) Test Scripting
5 2 (8.000%) Continuous Integration
5 2 (8.000%) Manual Testing
5 2 (8.000%) User Acceptance Testing
5 2 (8.000%) Automated Testing
5 2 (8.000%) Agile Testing
5 2 (8.000%) Business Intelligence
5 2 (8.000%) Software Testing
5 2 (8.000%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 11 (44.00%) SQL
2 7 (28.00%) Java
3 6 (24.00%) Ruby
3 6 (24.00%) Perl
3 6 (24.00%) PHP
3 6 (24.00%) C++
3 6 (24.00%) Python
3 6 (24.00%) Bash shell
4 4 (16.00%) PL/SQL
5 2 (8.000%) C#
5 2 (8.000%) VB
6 1 (4.000%) T-SQL
6 1 (4.000%) BeanShell
Qualifications
1 3 (12.00%) Security Cleared
1 3 (12.00%) SC Cleared
2 1 (4.000%) BC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (12.00%) QA
System Software
1 2 (8.000%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 6 (24.00%) Puppet
Vendors
1 16 (64.00%) Oracle
2 3 (12.00%) HP
3 2 (8.000%) Talend
3 2 (8.000%) VMware
3 2 (8.000%) Microsoft
4 1 (4.000%) Informatica
4 1 (4.000%) IBM
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