Leeds Test Scripting Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Test Scripting (Test Scripts) skills within the Leeds region with a comparison to our Processes & Methodologies category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Test Scripting over the 3 months to 10 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Test Scripting (Test Scripts)
Location Aberdeen Abingdon Amersham Basildon Basingstoke Bath Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Blackpool Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentford Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Burgess Hill Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Channel Islands Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Chippenham City of London County Antrim Coventry Croydon Darlington Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset Durham East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edinburgh England Essex Fareham Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Hampshire Havant Hertfordshire Hove Hull Isleworth Lancashire Leeds Liverpool London M4 Corridor Maidenhead Manchester Marlow Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Preston Reading Rugby Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southend-on-Sea Staffordshire Staines Stockton-on-Tees Stoke-on-Trent Sunbury-on-Thames Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Teesside Telford Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Wallington Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Wiltshire Windsor Wokingham York Yorkshire	3 months to 10 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	50	68
Rank change on same period last year	+18
Matching contract IT job ads	27	11
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.038 %	0.011 %
As % of the category below	3.605 %	1.478 %
Daily rates quoted	13	4
Average minimum daily rate	£247	£209
Average daily rate	£261	£215
% change on same period last year	+21.49 %
Average maximum daily rate	£275	£220
UK excluding London average daily rate	£325	£315
% change on same period last year	+3.03 %
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	£32.00	£27.39
% change on same period last year	+16.81 %
Processes & Methodologies Leeds
Matching contract IT job ads	749	744
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	1.055 %	0.752 %
Daily rates quoted	197	156
Average minimum daily rate	£338	£351
Average daily rate	£359	£375
% change on same period last year	-4.43 %
Average maximum daily rate	£380	£400
UK excluding London average daily rate	£377	£370
% change on same period last year	+1.87 %
Hourly rates quoted	21	42
Average minimum hourly rate	£22.77	£25.74
Average hourly rate	£24.83	£26.72
% change on same period last year	-7.07 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£26.89	£27.70
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£29.44	£30.00
% change on same period last year	-1.89 %
Test Scripting West Yorkshire

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.

Test Scripting
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Test Scripting across the Leeds region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

Test Scripting
Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Test Scripting across the Leeds region.

Test Scripting
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Test Scripting across the Leeds region over the 3 months to 10 October 2008.

Test Scripting
Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Test Scripting across the Leeds region.

Test Scripting
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 10 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Leeds region citing Test Scripting 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 Test Scripting.

1 22 (55.00 %) User Acceptance Testing 2 13 (32.50 %) ISEB 3 10 (25.00 %) NHS 3 10 (25.00 %) SQL 3 10 (25.00 %) Manual Testing 4 9 (22.50 %) Finance 5 8 (20.00 %) Java 6 6 (15.00 %) Client/Server 6 6 (15.00 %) Government 6 6 (15.00 %) Health 6 6 (15.00 %) Integration Testing 6 6 (15.00 %) Software Testing 7 5 (12.50 %) System Testing 7 5 (12.50 %) Microsoft 8 4 (10.00 %) TestDirector

8 4 (10.00 %) QuickTest Pro 8 4 (10.00 %) QA 9 3 (7.500 %) Test Management 9 3 (7.500 %) Time Management 9 3 (7.500 %) BusinessObjects 9 3 (7.500 %) Computer Science 9 3 (7.500 %) Automated Testing 9 3 (7.500 %) Insurance 9 3 (7.500 %) Project Management 9 3 (7.500 %) Business Objects 9 3 (7.500 %) MS Office 9 3 (7.500 %) V-Model 10 2 (5.000 %) InvestOne 10 2 (5.000 %) Windows 10 2 (5.000 %) MS Excel

Test Scripting
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 10 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Leeds region citing Test Scripting 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 Test Scripting. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 1 (2.500 %) SWT	Application Platforms 1 1 (2.500 %) SharePoint
Applications 1 3 (7.500 %) MS Office 2 2 (5.000 %) MS Excel	Business Applications 1 2 (5.000 %) InvestOne
Database & Business Intelligence 1 3 (7.500 %) BusinessObjects 2 1 (2.500 %) SQL Server	Development Applications 1 4 (10.00 %) TestDirector 1 4 (10.00 %) QuickTest Pro 2 2 (5.000 %) JUnit 3 1 (2.500 %) Eclipse 3 1 (2.500 %) WinRunner 3 1 (2.500 %) QARun
General 1 9 (22.50 %) Finance 2 6 (15.00 %) Government 2 6 (15.00 %) Health 3 3 (7.500 %) Insurance 4 1 (2.500 %) Pensions	Job Titles 1 25 (62.50 %) Analyst 2 22 (55.00 %) Test Analyst 3 15 (37.50 %) Tester 4 5 (12.50 %) Manual Tester 5 4 (10.00 %) Systems Tester 6 3 (7.500 %) UAT Analyst 6 3 (7.500 %) Coordinator 7 2 (5.000 %) Project Manager 7 2 (5.000 %) Systems Analyst 7 2 (5.000 %) Systems Test Analyst 7 2 (5.000 %) QA Analyst 8 1 (2.500 %) UAT Tester 8 1 (2.500 %) Team Leader 8 1 (2.500 %) QA Test Analyst 8 1 (2.500 %) Test Team Leader 8 1 (2.500 %) Java Developer 8 1 (2.500 %) Test Manager 8 1 (2.500 %) Business Analyst 8 1 (2.500 %) Developer
Miscellaneous 1 10 (25.00 %) NHS 2 6 (15.00 %) Client/Server 3 3 (7.500 %) Computer Science 4 2 (5.000 %) NPfIT	Operating Systems 1 2 (5.000 %) Windows
Processes & Methodologies 1 22 (55.00 %) User Acceptance Testing 2 10 (25.00 %) Manual Testing 3 6 (15.00 %) Integration Testing 3 6 (15.00 %) Software Testing 4 5 (12.50 %) System Testing 5 3 (7.500 %) Time Management 5 3 (7.500 %) Test Management 5 3 (7.500 %) Automated Testing 5 3 (7.500 %) Project Management 5 3 (7.500 %) V-Model 6 2 (5.000 %) Cost-Benefit Analysis 7 1 (2.500 %) Regression Testing 7 1 (2.500 %) Migration 7 1 (2.500 %) PRINCE2 7 1 (2.500 %) DSDM 7 1 (2.500 %) Enterprise Architecture 7 1 (2.500 %) Requirements Analysis 7 1 (2.500 %) Use Case 7 1 (2.500 %) Systems Analysis 7 1 (2.500 %) Data Migration	Programming Languages 1 10 (25.00 %) SQL 2 8 (20.00 %) Java 3 1 (2.500 %) VB 3 1 (2.500 %) C 3 1 (2.500 %) C#
Qualifications 1 13 (32.50 %) ISEB 2 2 (5.000 %) Degree	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 4 (10.00 %) QA
Vendors 1 5 (12.50 %) Microsoft 2 3 (7.500 %) Business Objects 3 1 (2.500 %) Oracle 3 1 (2.500 %) HP