Liverpool User Acceptance Testing Contracts

This section looks at the demand for User Acceptance Testing (UAT) skills within the Liverpool 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 21 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

User Acceptance Testing (UAT)
Location Aberdeen Abingdon Aldershot Andover Basildon Basingstoke Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Blackpool Bournemouth Bracknell Brentwood Bridgend Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Carlisle Cheltenham Cheshire Chester City of London Colchester County Antrim Coventry Crawley Croydon Cumbria Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset Durham East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh England Essex Exeter Farnborough Gatwick Glamorgan Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Guildford Halifax Hampshire Harrogate Havant Hertfordshire High Wycombe Home Counties Horsham Ipswich Kent Knutsford Lancashire Leeds Liverpool London Luton M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead 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 Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Skelmersdale Slough Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southend-on-Sea Staffordshire Staines Stockport Stoke-on-Trent Street Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Tadworth Taunton Telford Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Uttoxeter Uxbridge Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Welwyn Garden City West Drayton West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Wigan Wilmslow Wiltshire Windsor Wokingham Worthing York Yorkshire	3 months to 21 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	25	35
Rank change on same period last year	+10
Matching contract IT job ads	8	5
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.011 %	0.005 %
As % of the category below	5.263 %	3.268 %
Daily rates quoted	5	1
Average minimum daily rate	£252	£300
Average daily rate	£312	£335
% change on same period last year	-6.86 %
Average maximum daily rate	£372	£370
UK excluding London average daily rate	£341	£349
% change on same period last year	-2.33 %
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	£33.52	£24.60
% change on same period last year	+36.26 %
Processes & Methodologies Liverpool
Matching contract IT job ads	152	153
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.201 %	0.152 %
Daily rates quoted	46	64
Average minimum daily rate	£330	£312
Average daily rate	£368	£331
% change on same period last year	+11.24 %
Average maximum daily rate	£406	£350
UK excluding London average daily rate	£380	£377
% change on same period last year	+0.74 %
Hourly rates quoted	10	5
Average minimum hourly rate	£23.33	£24.00
Average hourly rate	£25.00	£28.20
% change on same period last year	-11.34 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£26.67	£32.40
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£30.30	£30.18
% change on same period last year	+0.42 %
User Acceptance Testing Merseyside

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 Liverpool 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 Liverpool region.

User Acceptance Testing
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing User Acceptance Testing across the Liverpool region over the 3 months to 21 August 2008.

User Acceptance Testing
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Liverpool 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 7 (58.33 %) Test Scripting 2 4 (33.33 %) Security Cleared 2 4 (33.33 %) Validation 2 4 (33.33 %) XML 2 4 (33.33 %) XSD 3 3 (25.00 %) ISEB 3 3 (25.00 %) SQL 3 3 (25.00 %) Oracle 3 3 (25.00 %) Government 3 3 (25.00 %) Auditing 3 3 (25.00 %) QA 4 2 (16.67 %) HP 4 2 (16.67 %) Retail 4 2 (16.67 %) TestDirector 4 2 (16.67 %) CRM

5 1 (8.333 %) TOAD 5 1 (8.333 %) XML Schema 5 1 (8.333 %) UNIX 5 1 (8.333 %) Windows 5 1 (8.333 %) Oracle Reports 5 1 (8.333 %) Tomcat 5 1 (8.333 %) JUnit 5 1 (8.333 %) CSS 5 1 (8.333 %) HTML 5 1 (8.333 %) Java 5 1 (8.333 %) JavaScript 5 1 (8.333 %) PL/SQL 5 1 (8.333 %) Spring 5 1 (8.333 %) Automated Testing 5 1 (8.333 %) AJAX

User Acceptance Testing
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Liverpool 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 4 (33.33 %) XML 1 4 (33.33 %) XSD 2 1 (8.333 %) XML Schema 2 1 (8.333 %) CSS 2 1 (8.333 %) HTML 2 1 (8.333 %) Spring 2 1 (8.333 %) AJAX 2 1 (8.333 %) Hibernate	Application Platforms 1 1 (8.333 %) Tomcat
Business Applications 1 1 (8.333 %) Oracle CRM	Database & Business Intelligence 1 1 (8.333 %) TOAD 1 1 (8.333 %) Oracle Reports
Development Applications 1 2 (16.67 %) TestDirector 2 1 (8.333 %) JUnit	General 1 3 (25.00 %) Government 1 3 (25.00 %) Auditing 2 2 (16.67 %) Retail 3 1 (8.333 %) Banking
Job Titles 1 7 (58.33 %) Analyst 1 7 (58.33 %) Test Analyst 2 3 (25.00 %) Tester 3 2 (16.67 %) Developer 4 1 (8.333 %) Functional Analyst 4 1 (8.333 %) UAT Tester 4 1 (8.333 %) Java Developer 4 1 (8.333 %) Oracle Developer 4 1 (8.333 %) Functional Test Analyst	Operating Systems 1 1 (8.333 %) UNIX 1 1 (8.333 %) Windows
Processes & Methodologies 1 7 (58.33 %) Test Scripting 2 4 (33.33 %) Security Cleared 2 4 (33.33 %) Validation 3 2 (16.67 %) CRM 4 1 (8.333 %) Automated Testing 4 1 (8.333 %) Agile Software Development 4 1 (8.333 %) Regression Testing 4 1 (8.333 %) E-business 4 1 (8.333 %) Risk Management 4 1 (8.333 %) Integration Testing 4 1 (8.333 %) Test Management 4 1 (8.333 %) Web Development 4 1 (8.333 %) System Testing 4 1 (8.333 %) SC Cleared	Programming Languages 1 3 (25.00 %) SQL 2 1 (8.333 %) Java 2 1 (8.333 %) JavaScript 2 1 (8.333 %) PL/SQL
Qualifications 1 3 (25.00 %) ISEB	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 3 (25.00 %) QA
Vendors 1 3 (25.00 %) Oracle 2 2 (16.67 %) HP