The first table below looks at the demand for Compatibility Testing skills in IT contracts advertised for the London region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Compatibility Testing over the 3 months to 17 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 London 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Compatibility Testing
Rank 383 392 433
Rank change year-on-year
+9 +41
Contract jobs citing Compatibility Testing 2 14 4
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 0.009% 0.052% 0.013%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.012% 0.073% 0.018%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 10 4
Average daily rate £400 £300 £369
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+33.33% -18.64%
UK excluding London average daily rate £375 £258 £305
% change year-on-year
+45.63% -15.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £16.75 -
All Processes & Methodologies
London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
16095 19235 22284
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 74.54% 71.82% 71.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 11073 12624 14702
Average daily rate £450 £450 £480
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -6.25%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £300 £300 £303
10% offered a daily rate of more than £600 £600 £625
UK excluding London average daily rate £363 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
-0.68% -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 249 334 354
Average hourly rate £30.00 £29.00 £28.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+3.44% +3.57%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £14.00 £15.00 £14.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £135.00 £45.00 £50.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.60 £25.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year
+26.40% -16.66%
Compatibility Testing
England

Compatibility Testing
Jobs Demand Trend

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

London Compatibility Testing Jobs Demand Trend

Compatibility Testing
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Compatibility Testing across the London region.

London Compatibility Testing Daily Rate Trend

Compatibility Testing
Hourly Rate Trend

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

London Compatibility Testing Hourly Rate Trend

Compatibility Testing
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Compatibility Testing within the London region over the 3 months to 17 May 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
City of London +5 1 £400 +33.33%
Compatibility Testing
England

Compatibility Testing
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London region citing Compatibility 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 Compatibility Testing.

1 4 (100.00%) HTML
1 4 (100.00%) CSS
2 3 (75.00%) JavaScript
2 3 (75.00%) Web Services
2 3 (75.00%) Ruby
2 3 (75.00%) Ajax
2 3 (75.00%) Cucumber
2 3 (75.00%) BDD
2 3 (75.00%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (50.00%) Capybara
3 2 (50.00%) Agile Software Development
3 2 (50.00%) Test Automation
3 2 (50.00%) RESTful
3 2 (50.00%) SOAP
3 2 (50.00%) E-Commerce
4 1 (25.00%) Scrum
4 1 (25.00%) B2C
4 1 (25.00%) XML
4 1 (25.00%) UNIX
4 1 (25.00%) Linux
4 1 (25.00%) OOP
4 1 (25.00%) PHP
4 1 (25.00%) SQL
4 1 (25.00%) RSpec
4 1 (25.00%) Subversion
4 1 (25.00%) Hudson
4 1 (25.00%) Gherkin
4 1 (25.00%) JSON
4 1 (25.00%) QA
4 1 (25.00%) Firebug

Compatibility Testing
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London region citing Compatibility 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 Compatibility Testing. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 4 (100.00%) HTML
1 4 (100.00%) CSS
2 3 (75.00%) Web Services
2 3 (75.00%) Ajax
3 2 (50.00%) RESTful
3 2 (50.00%) SOAP
4 1 (25.00%) XML
4 1 (25.00%) Gherkin
4 1 (25.00%) JSON
Development Applications
1 3 (75.00%) Cucumber
2 2 (50.00%) Capybara
3 1 (25.00%) Jenkins
3 1 (25.00%) Hudson
3 1 (25.00%) Subversion
3 1 (25.00%) Firebug
3 1 (25.00%) Fiddler
3 1 (25.00%) Git (software)
3 1 (25.00%) RSpec
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Test Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Test Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Web Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Web Test Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Front-End Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Automation Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (75.00%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) UNIX
1 1 (25.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) BDD
2 2 (50.00%) Test Automation
2 2 (50.00%) E-Commerce
2 2 (50.00%) Agile Software Development
3 1 (25.00%) Continuous Integration
3 1 (25.00%) B2C
3 1 (25.00%) Scrum
3 1 (25.00%) OOP
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) JavaScript
1 3 (75.00%) Ruby
2 1 (25.00%) PHP
2 1 (25.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) QA