The first table below looks at the demand for QuickTest Pro skills in IT contracts advertised for the Leicestershire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited QuickTest Pro over the 3 months to 19 June 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 Development Applications category for the Leicestershire 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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
HP QuickTest Professional (QTP)
Rank 29 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing QuickTest Pro 4 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Leicestershire 1.869% - -
As % of the Development Applications category 11.76% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 0
Average daily rate £325 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £300 £350
% change year-on-year
+8.33% -14.28%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £25.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year
- -16.66%
All Development Applications
Leicestershire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Development Applications category
34 25 43
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Leicestershire 15.89% 10.82% 20.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 7 13
Average daily rate £325 £350 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-7.14% +7.69%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £288 £270 £249
10% offered a daily rate of more than £375 £413 £408
UK excluding London average daily rate £330 £325 £325
% change year-on-year
+1.53% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 5
Average hourly rate £35.00 - £32.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.50 £36.75 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+2.04% +5.00%
QuickTest Pro
East Midlands

QuickTest Pro
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing QuickTest Pro across the Leicestershire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Development Applications category.

Leicestershire QuickTest Pro Jobs Demand Trend

QuickTest Pro
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing QuickTest Pro across the Leicestershire region.

Leicestershire QuickTest Pro Daily Rate Trend

QuickTest Pro
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing QuickTest Pro within the Leicestershire region over the 3 months to 19 June 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
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QuickTest Pro
East Midlands

QuickTest Pro
Top 19 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Leicestershire region citing QuickTest Pro 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 QuickTest Pro.

1 4 (100.00%) E-Commerce
1 4 (100.00%) Scrum
1 4 (100.00%) Extreme Programming
1 4 (100.00%) Agile Software Development
1 4 (100.00%) TDD
1 4 (100.00%) Retail
1 4 (100.00%) WebSphere
1 4 (100.00%) QA
1 4 (100.00%) Selenium
1 4 (100.00%) Java
1 4 (100.00%) BDD
1 4 (100.00%) Automation Testing
2 3 (75.00%) Cucumber
3 2 (50.00%) WebDriver
4 1 (25.00%) Gherkin
4 1 (25.00%) SQL
4 1 (25.00%) XML
4 1 (25.00%) UNIX
4 1 (25.00%) OO

QuickTest Pro
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Leicestershire region citing QuickTest Pro 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 QuickTest Pro. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 4 (100.00%) WebSphere
2 1 (25.00%) Gherkin
2 1 (25.00%) XML
Development Applications
1 4 (100.00%) Selenium
2 3 (75.00%) Cucumber
3 2 (50.00%) WebDriver
General
1 4 (100.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) Tester
1 4 (100.00%) Agile Tester
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) E-Commerce
1 4 (100.00%) Scrum
1 4 (100.00%) Extreme Programming
1 4 (100.00%) Agile Software Development
1 4 (100.00%) TDD
1 4 (100.00%) BDD
1 4 (100.00%) Automation Testing
2 1 (25.00%) OO
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) Java
2 1 (25.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (100.00%) QA