The first table below looks at the demand for Functional 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 Functional Testing 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 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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Functional Testing
Rank 370 384 420
Rank change year-on-year
+14 +36
Contract jobs citing Functional Testing 14 26 23
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 0.061% 0.098% 0.073%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.082% 0.136% 0.103%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 15 19
Average daily rate £375 £350 £450
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.14% -22.22%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £306 £235 £185
10% offered a daily rate of more than £505 £393 £530
UK excluding London average daily rate £275 £290 £313
% change year-on-year
-5.17% -7.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Processes & Methodologies
London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
17065 19078 22245
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 74.84% 71.75% 70.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 11706 12560 14646
Average daily rate £450 £450 £475
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -5.26%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £300 £300 £301
10% offered a daily rate of more than £600 £600 £625
UK excluding London average daily rate £370 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
+1.36% -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 254 324 348
Average hourly rate £26.66 £26.00 £25.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+2.53% +4.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.97 £15.00 £14.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £55.00 £45.00 £53.38
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.00 £25.00 £29.00
% change year-on-year
+24.00% -13.79%
Functional Testing
England

Functional Testing
Jobs Demand Trend

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

London Functional Testing Jobs Demand Trend

Functional Testing
Daily Rate Trend

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

London Functional Testing Daily Rate Trend

Functional Testing
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Functional Testing across the London region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

London Functional Testing Daily Rate Histogram

Functional Testing
Hourly Rate Trend

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

London Functional Testing Hourly Rate Trend

Functional Testing
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Functional Testing within the London 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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Job
Vacancies
City of London -6 3 £475 +35.71% 2
Functional Testing
England

Functional Testing
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London region citing Functional 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 Functional Testing.

1 16 (53.33%) User Acceptance Testing
2 11 (36.67%) Test Scripting
3 9 (30.00%) Regression Testing
3 9 (30.00%) Finance
4 8 (26.67%) ISEB
5 7 (23.33%) Siebel
5 7 (23.33%) Agile Software Development
6 6 (20.00%) Banking
6 6 (20.00%) Integration Testing
7 5 (16.67%) Investment Management
7 5 (16.67%) Selenium
7 5 (16.67%) ISTQB
7 5 (16.67%) Cognos
7 5 (16.67%) Windows
7 5 (16.67%) Scrum
7 5 (16.67%) Automation Testing
8 4 (13.33%) Intranet
8 4 (13.33%) Perl
8 4 (13.33%) Data Warehouse
8 4 (13.33%) E-Commerce
8 4 (13.33%) JIRA
8 4 (13.33%) QA
8 4 (13.33%) Investment Banking
8 4 (13.33%) Cucumber
9 3 (10.00%) BDD
9 3 (10.00%) Apple iOS
9 3 (10.00%) Exchange Server 2010
9 3 (10.00%) Video on Demand
9 3 (10.00%) Non-Functional Testing
9 3 (10.00%) Cocoa Touch

Functional Testing
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London region citing Functional 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 Functional Testing. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 3 (10.00%) Cocoa Touch
1 3 (10.00%) HTML
1 3 (10.00%) Cocoa
2 2 (6.667%) Middleware
2 2 (6.667%) .NET
3 1 (3.333%) REST
3 1 (3.333%) SOAP
3 1 (3.333%) Web Services
3 1 (3.333%) XSL
Application Platforms
1 3 (10.00%) Exchange Server 2010
1 3 (10.00%) Exchange Server 2003
1 3 (10.00%) MS Exchange
2 2 (6.667%) IBM Notes
Applications
1 1 (3.333%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 3 (10.00%) LatentZero
1 3 (10.00%) Tesseract
1 3 (10.00%) Minerva
1 3 (10.00%) Sentinel
2 1 (3.333%) Eagle PACE
2 1 (3.333%) SAP SD
Communications & Networking
1 4 (13.33%) Intranet
2 3 (10.00%) NAS
2 3 (10.00%) Wireshark
2 3 (10.00%) LDAP
2 3 (10.00%) POP3
2 3 (10.00%) SMTP
2 3 (10.00%) TCP/IP
2 3 (10.00%) SSL
2 3 (10.00%) SAN
3 2 (6.667%) CTI
3 2 (6.667%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (13.33%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (6.667%) DataStage
3 1 (3.333%) Oracle BI EE
Development Applications
1 5 (16.67%) Selenium
2 4 (13.33%) JIRA
2 4 (13.33%) Cucumber
3 1 (3.333%) SpecFlow
3 1 (3.333%) Jenkins
3 1 (3.333%) Team Foundation Server
3 1 (3.333%) JBehave
3 1 (3.333%) WebDriver
3 1 (3.333%) Eclipse
3 1 (3.333%) JUnit
3 1 (3.333%) QuickTest Pro
General
1 9 (30.00%) Finance
2 6 (20.00%) Banking
3 4 (13.33%) Investment Banking
4 3 (10.00%) Marketing
4 3 (10.00%) Games
4 3 (10.00%) Front Office
5 1 (3.333%) Corporate Banking
5 1 (3.333%) Billing
5 1 (3.333%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 19 (63.33%) Analyst
2 15 (50.00%) Test Analyst
3 4 (13.33%) Business Analyst
3 4 (13.33%) Siebel Analyst
3 4 (13.33%) Functional Test Analyst
3 4 (13.33%) Functional Analyst
4 3 (10.00%) Senior Test Consultant
4 3 (10.00%) Senior Tester
4 3 (10.00%) Test Consultant
4 3 (10.00%) Tester
4 3 (10.00%) Senior Consultant
4 3 (10.00%) Consultant
4 3 (10.00%) Infrastructure Analyst
5 2 (6.667%) Test Manager
5 2 (6.667%) Senior Test Analyst
5 2 (6.667%) Senior Analyst
6 1 (3.333%) Agile Tester
6 1 (3.333%) Senior Agile Tester
6 1 (3.333%) Test Leader
6 1 (3.333%) Agile Test Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 3 (10.00%) Video on Demand
1 3 (10.00%) Mobile App
1 3 (10.00%) STB
1 3 (10.00%) IPTV
2 2 (6.667%) Blackberry
3 1 (3.333%) FMCG
3 1 (3.333%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 5 (16.67%) Windows
2 3 (10.00%) Apple iOS
2 3 (10.00%) Android
2 3 (10.00%) Windows Server 2008
2 3 (10.00%) Windows Server 2003
3 1 (3.333%) Linux
3 1 (3.333%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (53.33%) User Acceptance Testing
2 11 (36.67%) Test Scripting
3 9 (30.00%) Regression Testing
4 7 (23.33%) Agile Software Development
5 6 (20.00%) Integration Testing
6 5 (16.67%) Investment Management
6 5 (16.67%) Scrum
6 5 (16.67%) Automation Testing
7 4 (13.33%) E-Commerce
8 3 (10.00%) BDD
8 3 (10.00%) Non-Functional Testing
8 3 (10.00%) User Stories
8 3 (10.00%) Manual Testing
8 3 (10.00%) TDD
8 3 (10.00%) Asset Management
8 3 (10.00%) ETL
8 3 (10.00%) CRM
8 3 (10.00%) DRM
8 3 (10.00%) Business Continuity
8 3 (10.00%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 4 (13.33%) Perl
2 3 (10.00%) Ruby
2 3 (10.00%) Python
2 3 (10.00%) SQL
2 3 (10.00%) JavaScript
2 3 (10.00%) Objective-C
3 2 (6.667%) Java
4 1 (3.333%) sed
4 1 (3.333%) C++
4 1 (3.333%) AWK
Qualifications
1 8 (26.67%) ISEB
2 5 (16.67%) ISTQB
3 2 (6.667%) Degree
4 1 (3.333%) DV Cleared
4 1 (3.333%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (13.33%) QA
System Software
1 3 (10.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (3.333%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 7 (23.33%) Siebel
2 5 (16.67%) Cognos
3 3 (10.00%) Microsoft
3 3 (10.00%) Oracle
3 3 (10.00%) thinkFolio
4 2 (6.667%) Lotus
4 2 (6.667%) Citrix
5 1 (3.333%) Cadis
5 1 (3.333%) SAP
5 1 (3.333%) Informatica
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