Load Testing Contracts in London
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for Load 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 Load 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 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
23 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Load Testing
Rank 349 396 354
Rank change year-on-year
+47 -42
Contract jobs citing Load Testing 28 14 81
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 0.129% 0.052% 0.256%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.173% 0.072% 0.360%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 8 49
Average daily rate £369 £381 £425
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-3.21% -10.29%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £310 £335 £340
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £423 £550
UK excluding London average daily rate £450 £388 £290
% change year-on-year
+16.12% +33.62%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £32.50 £29.50 -
% change year-on-year
+10.16% -
All Processes & Methodologies
London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category		 16159 19342 22494
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 74.68% 71.82% 71.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 11074 12704 14813
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 £310
10% offered a daily rate of more than £600 £600 £625
UK excluding London average daily rate £365 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
- -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 250 336 351
Average hourly rate £30.50 £26.36 £27.45
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+15.69% -3.96%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £14.00 £15.00 £14.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £110.00 £45.00 £50.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.45 £25.00 £29.00
% change year-on-year
+21.78% -13.79%
Load Testing
England

Load Testing
Jobs Demand Trend

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

London Load Testing Jobs Demand Trend

Load Testing
Daily Rate Trend

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

London Load Testing Daily Rate Trend

Load Testing
Daily Rate Histogram

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

London Load Testing Daily Rate Histogram

Load Testing
Hourly Rate Trend

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

London Load Testing Hourly Rate Trend

Load Testing
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Load Testing within the London region over the 3 months to 23 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 +17 4 £275 -31.25%
Load Testing
England

Load Testing
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London region citing Load 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 Load Testing.

1 19 (32.20%) Oracle
2 13 (22.03%) SQL
2 13 (22.03%) Java
3 12 (20.34%) Agile Software Development
4 11 (18.64%) Linux
4 11 (18.64%) E-Commerce
5 10 (16.95%) WebSphere
5 10 (16.95%) QA
6 9 (15.25%) CMS
6 9 (15.25%) SQL Server
6 9 (15.25%) WebSphere Application Server
6 9 (15.25%) JSP
7 8 (13.56%) ITIL
7 8 (13.56%) MySQL
7 8 (13.56%) .NET
7 8 (13.56%) UNIX
7 8 (13.56%) Windows
7 8 (13.56%) JMeter
7 8 (13.56%) Content Management
7 8 (13.56%) Test Scripting
7 8 (13.56%) Test Automation
8 7 (11.86%) Selenium
8 7 (11.86%) Oracle 11g
8 7 (11.86%) jQuery
8 7 (11.86%) Performance Testing
8 7 (11.86%) JSON
8 7 (11.86%) Oracle BPM
8 7 (11.86%) HP SiteScope
8 7 (11.86%) Workflow
8 7 (11.86%) Regression Testing

Load Testing
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London region citing Load 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 Load Testing. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 10 (16.95%) WebSphere
2 9 (15.25%) JSP
3 8 (13.56%) .NET
4 7 (11.86%) jQuery
4 7 (11.86%) JSON
4 7 (11.86%) Middleware
4 7 (11.86%) Web Services
5 6 (10.17%) XML
5 6 (10.17%) XSLT
5 6 (10.17%) J2EE
5 6 (10.17%) Java EE
6 3 (5.085%) Lucene
6 3 (5.085%) CSS
7 2 (3.390%) JDBC
7 2 (3.390%) Servlets
7 2 (3.390%) SOAP
7 2 (3.390%) Struts
7 2 (3.390%) JMS
7 2 (3.390%) Hibernate
7 2 (3.390%) JMX
Application Platforms
1 9 (15.25%) CMS
1 9 (15.25%) WebSphere Application Server
2 7 (11.86%) IIS
3 6 (10.17%) WebSphere MQ
3 6 (10.17%) Oracle Workflow
3 6 (10.17%) IBM HTTP Server
4 5 (8.475%) AquaLogic
4 5 (8.475%) SharePoint
5 4 (6.780%) Apache Solr
6 3 (5.085%) SharePoint 2010
6 3 (5.085%) Apache
6 3 (5.085%) Tomcat
7 2 (3.390%) WebLogic
7 2 (3.390%) Windows Azure
7 2 (3.390%) Amazon AWS
8 1 (1.695%) Rendezvous
8 1 (1.695%) Commerce Server
Business Applications
1 7 (11.86%) Oracle BPM
2 6 (10.17%) AquaLogic BPM
3 2 (3.390%) SAP CRM
3 2 (3.390%) SAP IS-U
4 1 (1.695%) Oracle EBS R12
4 1 (1.695%) Oracle Applications
Communications & Networking
1 6 (10.17%) BIG-IP
2 3 (5.085%) HTTP
3 2 (3.390%) HTTPS
3 2 (3.390%) Internet
3 2 (3.390%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (15.25%) SQL Server
2 8 (13.56%) MySQL
3 7 (11.86%) Oracle 11g
3 7 (11.86%) Oracle 10g
4 2 (3.390%) Oracle 8/8i
5 1 (1.695%) Oracle OLAP
5 1 (1.695%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (1.695%) OLTP
5 1 (1.695%) RDBMS
5 1 (1.695%) SAP BW
5 1 (1.695%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (1.695%) DB2
5 1 (1.695%) OLAP
Development Applications
1 8 (13.56%) JMeter
2 7 (11.86%) Selenium
3 6 (10.17%) Visual Studio
3 6 (10.17%) JUnit
3 6 (10.17%) LoadRunner
3 6 (10.17%) Introscope
4 5 (8.475%) Git (software)
4 5 (8.475%) Eclipse
5 3 (5.085%) Maven
5 3 (5.085%) Subversion
5 3 (5.085%) JIRA
5 3 (5.085%) Team Foundation Server
5 3 (5.085%) Cucumber
6 2 (3.390%) QuickTest Pro
6 2 (3.390%) WebDriver
6 2 (3.390%) Hudson
6 2 (3.390%) FitNesse
7 1 (1.695%) MSTest
General
1 6 (10.17%) Games
2 4 (6.780%) Banking
2 4 (6.780%) Investment Banking
3 3 (5.085%) Retail
4 2 (3.390%) Publishing
5 1 (1.695%) Corporate Banking
5 1 (1.695%) Spanish Language
5 1 (1.695%) Front Office
5 1 (1.695%) Finance
5 1 (1.695%) Telecoms
5 1 (1.695%) Billing
Job Titles
1 10 (16.95%) Tester
1 10 (16.95%) Developer
2 7 (11.86%) Test Manager
3 6 (10.17%) Architect
3 6 (10.17%) Consultant
4 4 (6.780%) Performance Tester
4 4 (6.780%) Java Consultant
4 4 (6.780%) Systems Architect
4 4 (6.780%) Test Analyst
4 4 (6.780%) Analyst
4 4 (6.780%) Test Leader
4 4 (6.780%) Java Architect
5 3 (5.085%) DBA
5 3 (5.085%) PHP Developer
5 3 (5.085%) Oracle DBA
6 2 (3.390%) QA Engineer
6 2 (3.390%) Systems Tester
6 2 (3.390%) Administrator
6 2 (3.390%) Integration Tester
6 2 (3.390%) Performance Test Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 3 (5.085%) Open Source
2 2 (3.390%) iDTV
3 1 (1.695%) Online Games
3 1 (1.695%) Cloud Computing
3 1 (1.695%) Smart Meter
3 1 (1.695%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 11 (18.64%) Linux
2 8 (13.56%) UNIX
2 8 (13.56%) Windows
3 5 (8.475%) Apple iOS
4 1 (1.695%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (20.34%) Agile Software Development
2 11 (18.64%) E-Commerce
3 8 (13.56%) ITIL
3 8 (13.56%) Content Management
3 8 (13.56%) Test Scripting
3 8 (13.56%) Test Automation
4 7 (11.86%) Performance Testing
4 7 (11.86%) Workflow
4 7 (11.86%) Regression Testing
4 7 (11.86%) SOA
5 6 (10.17%) Data Modelling
5 6 (10.17%) Process Management
5 6 (10.17%) Capacity Management
5 6 (10.17%) Load Balancing
5 6 (10.17%) Software Testing
5 6 (10.17%) User Acceptance Testing
5 6 (10.17%) Release Management
5 6 (10.17%) Problem Management
6 5 (8.475%) Scrum
7 4 (6.780%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 13 (22.03%) SQL
1 13 (22.03%) Java
2 6 (10.17%) JavaScript
2 6 (10.17%) PL/SQL
3 5 (8.475%) PHP
4 2 (3.390%) C
4 2 (3.390%) C#
4 2 (3.390%) Ruby
5 1 (1.695%) Python
5 1 (1.695%) Perl
5 1 (1.695%) ABAP
Qualifications
1 3 (5.085%) Degree
2 1 (1.695%) SC Cleared
2 1 (1.695%) Security Cleared
2 1 (1.695%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (16.95%) QA
Systems Management
1 7 (11.86%) HP SiteScope
2 1 (1.695%) Data Guard
Vendors
1 19 (32.20%) Oracle
2 6 (10.17%) F5
3 4 (6.780%) HP
4 3 (5.085%) Microsoft
4 3 (5.085%) SAP
5 2 (3.390%) JBoss
5 2 (3.390%) ATG
6 1 (1.695%) VMware
6 1 (1.695%) IBM
6 1 (1.695%) Citrix
6 1 (1.695%) CA
6 1 (1.695%) Red Hat
6 1 (1.695%) Sybase
C# Developer - 3 Month Contract
West London
We are looking for high calibre C# Developers with at least 1 year experience of Ruby & Cucumber automated tests, TDD, BDD and Agile... Excellent working knowledge of ASP ...
BBC Worldwide Ltd
Posted: 22 May 2013
Test Lead /Performance Testing / Scrum - Urgent
City of London
I am looking for a strong Tester, someone who is confident in their manual testing ability. You will be strong with performance testing and load testing. You will...
Real Staffing
Posted: 15 May 2013
PHP / Symphony CMS
London
PHP / Symphony / Symphony CMS / XSLT / JavaScript / RWDAn experienced PHP Developer is required for the back- and end build of a publishing platform for a well- and known fashion...
OPUS
Rate: GBP300 to GBP320 per day
Posted: 30 April 2013
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