The first table below looks at the demand for User Acceptance 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 User Acceptance Testing over the 3 months to 23 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
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
User Acceptance Testing (UAT)
Rank 49 49 24
Rank change year-on-year
0 -25
Contract jobs citing User Acceptance Testing 25 19 31
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Leeds 3.406% 2.157% 4.829%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.655% 3.021% 7.159%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 10 14
Average daily rate £325 £275 £425
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+18.18% -35.29%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £169 £208
10% offered a daily rate of more than £370 £354 £493
UK excluding London average daily rate £330 £350 £350
% change year-on-year
-5.71% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Average hourly rate - - £11.82
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.00 £26.28 £23.00
% change year-on-year
+14.15% +14.26%
All Processes & Methodologies
Leeds
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
537 629 433
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Leeds 73.16% 71.40% 67.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 304 373 209
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 £240 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £453 £475
UK excluding London average daily rate £365 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
- -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 15 23
Average hourly rate £34.00 £14.00 £17.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+142.85% -20.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.20 £11.40 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £38.00 £62.50 £25.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.45 £25.00 £29.00
% change year-on-year
+21.78% -13.79%
User Acceptance Testing
West Yorkshire

User Acceptance Testing
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Leeds 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 Leeds region.

Leeds User Acceptance Testing Daily Rate Trend

User Acceptance Testing
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing User Acceptance Testing across the Leeds region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

Leeds User Acceptance Testing Daily Rate Histogram

User Acceptance Testing
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Leeds User Acceptance Testing Hourly Rate Trend

User Acceptance Testing
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Leeds 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 12 (24.00%) SQL
1 12 (24.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 10 (20.00%) Finance
2 10 (20.00%) Microsoft
3 9 (18.00%) .NET
3 9 (18.00%) UML
4 8 (16.00%) Oracle
4 8 (16.00%) Maximo
4 8 (16.00%) Asset Management
4 8 (16.00%) Logistics
4 8 (16.00%) BPMN
5 7 (14.00%) Systems Analysis
5 7 (14.00%) HTML
5 7 (14.00%) MS Excel
5 7 (14.00%) ISEB
6 6 (12.00%) Visual Studio
6 6 (12.00%) Migration
6 6 (12.00%) Software Testing
7 5 (10.00%) QA
7 5 (10.00%) Retail
7 5 (10.00%) Test Management
7 5 (10.00%) Business Analysis
7 5 (10.00%) C#
7 5 (10.00%) PRINCE2
7 5 (10.00%) MS Office
7 5 (10.00%) Project Management
7 5 (10.00%) Root Cause Analysis
8 4 (8.000%) Agile Testing
8 4 (8.000%) HP Quality Center
8 4 (8.000%) Windows

User Acceptance Testing
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Leeds 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 9 (18.00%) .NET
2 7 (14.00%) HTML
3 4 (8.000%) XML
4 3 (6.000%) NHibernate
4 3 (6.000%) ASP
4 3 (6.000%) Web Services
4 3 (6.000%) Gherkin
5 1 (2.000%) ASP.NET
Application Platforms
1 1 (2.000%) ESB
1 1 (2.000%) BizTalk Server
Applications
1 7 (14.00%) MS Excel
2 5 (10.00%) MS Office
3 2 (4.000%) MS PowerPoint
4 1 (2.000%) MS Project
Business Applications
1 8 (16.00%) Maximo
2 3 (6.000%) ResourceLink
3 2 (4.000%) SAP PM
4 1 (2.000%) SAP IS-U
4 1 (2.000%) SAP CO
4 1 (2.000%) SAP FI/CO
4 1 (2.000%) SAP FI
Communications & Networking
1 3 (6.000%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (6.000%) SQL Server
2 2 (4.000%) Oracle Reports
2 2 (4.000%) Oracle OWB
3 1 (2.000%) BODI
3 1 (2.000%) SQL Server 2005
3 1 (2.000%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (2.000%) DTS
3 1 (2.000%) BusinessObjects
3 1 (2.000%) SQL Server 2000
3 1 (2.000%) SAP Data Services
3 1 (2.000%) Oracle BI EE
Development Applications
1 6 (12.00%) Visual Studio
2 3 (6.000%) Selenium
2 3 (6.000%) NUnit
2 3 (6.000%) MSI
2 3 (6.000%) TeamCity
2 3 (6.000%) WebDriver
2 3 (6.000%) MSTest
2 3 (6.000%) Cucumber
2 3 (6.000%) SpecFlow
3 1 (2.000%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 10 (20.00%) Finance
2 5 (10.00%) Retail
3 4 (8.000%) Banking
4 2 (4.000%) Telecoms
4 2 (4.000%) Retail Banking
5 1 (2.000%) Private Banking
5 1 (2.000%) Manufacturing
5 1 (2.000%) Advertising
5 1 (2.000%) Games
Job Titles
1 26 (52.00%) Analyst
2 12 (24.00%) Business Analyst
3 7 (14.00%) Test Analyst
4 5 (10.00%) UAT Analyst
4 5 (10.00%) Test Leader
5 3 (6.000%) SEO Executive
5 3 (6.000%) Architect
5 3 (6.000%) Consultant
5 3 (6.000%) Tester
5 3 (6.000%) Developer
5 3 (6.000%) Agile Tester
6 2 (4.000%) Project Manager
6 2 (4.000%) Applications Architect
6 2 (4.000%) Oracle Developer
7 1 (2.000%) SAP CS Consultant
7 1 (2.000%) UAT Test Manager
7 1 (2.000%) SAP Consultant
7 1 (2.000%) Change Analyst
7 1 (2.000%) Contracts Manager
7 1 (2.000%) Business Project Manager
Miscellaneous
1 3 (6.000%) Data Integration
2 1 (2.000%) Statistics
2 1 (2.000%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 4 (8.000%) Windows
2 1 (2.000%) Windows XP
2 1 (2.000%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (24.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 9 (18.00%) UML
3 8 (16.00%) Asset Management
3 8 (16.00%) Logistics
3 8 (16.00%) BPMN
4 7 (14.00%) Systems Analysis
5 6 (12.00%) Migration
5 6 (12.00%) Software Testing
6 5 (10.00%) Test Management
6 5 (10.00%) Business Analysis
6 5 (10.00%) PRINCE2
6 5 (10.00%) Project Management
6 5 (10.00%) Root Cause Analysis
7 4 (8.000%) Agile Testing
7 4 (8.000%) Scrum
7 4 (8.000%) Manual Testing
8 3 (6.000%) Requirements Analysis
8 3 (6.000%) Pay per click
8 3 (6.000%) Integration Testing
8 3 (6.000%) Agile Software Development
Programming Languages
1 12 (24.00%) SQL
2 5 (10.00%) C#
3 4 (8.000%) PL/SQL
3 4 (8.000%) VB
4 3 (6.000%) JavaScript
5 1 (2.000%) VB.NET
5 1 (2.000%) VBA
Qualifications
1 7 (14.00%) ISEB
2 4 (8.000%) ISTQB
3 1 (2.000%) SC Cleared
3 1 (2.000%) BC Cleared
3 1 (2.000%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (10.00%) QA
2 1 (2.000%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (2.000%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (6.000%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (8.000%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 10 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 8 (16.00%) Oracle
3 4 (8.000%) SAP
4 3 (6.000%) Google
4 3 (6.000%) VMware
5 1 (2.000%) Business Objects
5 1 (2.000%) HP
5 1 (2.000%) Avaya
5 1 (2.000%) Informatica
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