LoadRunner 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 LoadRunner 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 LoadRunner over the 3 months to 22 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 Development Applications 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
22 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
HP LoadRunner
Rank 344 383 297
Rank change year-on-year
+39 -86
Contract jobs citing LoadRunner 43 35 137
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 0.196% 0.128% 0.447%
As % of the Development Applications category 1.616% 1.337% 3.924%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 26 84
Average daily rate £353 £475 £356
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-25.78% +33.33%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £275 £338 £265
10% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £538 £475
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £355
% change year-on-year
- -1.40%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - £24.00
All Development Applications
London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Development Applications category		 2661 2617 3491
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 12.10% 9.572% 11.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 1968 1778 2389
Average daily rate £413 £425 £450
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-2.94% -5.55%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £300 £288 £298
10% offered a daily rate of more than £550 £575 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £330 £325
% change year-on-year
-1.51% +1.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 38 30
Average hourly rate £41.50 £35.75 £28.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+16.08% +27.67%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £33.72 £22.20 £18.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £48.40 £45.00 £49.30
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+7.14% -
LoadRunner
England

LoadRunner
Jobs Demand Trend

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

London LoadRunner Jobs Demand Trend

LoadRunner
Daily Rate Trend

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

London LoadRunner Daily Rate Trend

LoadRunner
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing LoadRunner across the London region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013.

London LoadRunner Daily Rate Histogram

LoadRunner
Hourly Rate Trend

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

London LoadRunner Hourly Rate Trend

LoadRunner
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing LoadRunner within the London region over the 3 months to 22 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 +8 8 £372 -0.73%
Docklands, London - 2 £313 -
Hounslow - 1 - -
LoadRunner
England

LoadRunner
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London region citing LoadRunner 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 LoadRunner.

1 42 (46.67%) Performance Testing
2 30 (33.33%) HP
3 21 (23.33%) Test Scripting
3 21 (23.33%) HP Quality Center
4 20 (22.22%) Banking
4 20 (22.22%) IBM
5 19 (21.11%) QuickTest Pro
5 19 (21.11%) JMeter
6 17 (18.89%) Finance
6 17 (18.89%) Microsoft
6 17 (18.89%) Java
6 17 (18.89%) Software Testing
6 17 (18.89%) QA
6 17 (18.89%) Rational Performance Tester
7 16 (17.78%) SQL
8 15 (16.67%) ISEB
9 12 (13.33%) J2EE
9 12 (13.33%) SAP
9 12 (13.33%) Test Strategy
10 10 (11.11%) MS Excel
11 9 (10.00%) UNIX
11 9 (10.00%) JUnit
11 9 (10.00%) WinRunner
11 9 (10.00%) Eclipse
11 9 (10.00%) Service Delivery
11 9 (10.00%) Degree
12 8 (8.889%) ISTQB
12 8 (8.889%) Change Control
13 7 (7.778%) Web Services
13 7 (7.778%) ITIL

LoadRunner
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London region citing LoadRunner 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 LoadRunner. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 12 (13.33%) J2EE
2 7 (7.778%) Web Services
3 4 (4.444%) FIX Protocol
3 4 (4.444%) .NET
4 3 (3.333%) XML
4 3 (3.333%) SOAP
4 3 (3.333%) Middleware
5 2 (2.222%) WebSphere
5 2 (2.222%) WPF
5 2 (2.222%) UDDI
5 2 (2.222%) WSDL
6 1 (1.111%) JMS
6 1 (1.111%) Ajax
Application Platforms
1 2 (2.222%) Exchange Server 2003
1 2 (2.222%) Lync
1 2 (2.222%) MS Exchange
2 1 (1.111%) WebSphere Application Server
2 1 (1.111%) Apache
2 1 (1.111%) IBM HTTP Server
2 1 (1.111%) Rendezvous
2 1 (1.111%) Liferay
Applications
1 10 (11.11%) MS Excel
2 3 (3.333%) MS Office
3 1 (1.111%) MS PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 3 (3.333%) WebTrends
1 3 (3.333%) Google Analytics
2 1 (1.111%) Oracle 11i
2 1 (1.111%) Summit
2 1 (1.111%) SAP WM
2 1 (1.111%) Oracle EBS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (4.444%) DNS
2 3 (3.333%) HTTP
3 2 (2.222%) Network Security
3 2 (2.222%) NAS
3 2 (2.222%) Fibre Channel
3 2 (2.222%) NetScaler
3 2 (2.222%) SAN
3 2 (2.222%) DHCP
3 2 (2.222%) Ethernet
3 2 (2.222%) TCP/IP
4 1 (1.111%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (4.444%) MongoDB
1 4 (4.444%) SQL Server
2 2 (2.222%) SQL Server 2005
2 2 (2.222%) SQL Server 2008
2 2 (2.222%) DB2
3 1 (1.111%) MySQL
3 1 (1.111%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (1.111%) BusinessObjects
3 1 (1.111%) SAP BI
Development Applications
1 19 (21.11%) QuickTest Pro
1 19 (21.11%) JMeter
2 17 (18.89%) Rational Performance Tester
3 9 (10.00%) JUnit
3 9 (10.00%) WinRunner
3 9 (10.00%) Eclipse
4 7 (7.778%) Selenium
5 3 (3.333%) TestDirector
5 3 (3.333%) Hudson
6 2 (2.222%) SilkPerformer
6 2 (2.222%) WebScarab
6 2 (2.222%) JIRA
6 2 (2.222%) Git (software)
6 2 (2.222%) Cucumber
6 2 (2.222%) GitHub
6 2 (2.222%) Jenkins
6 2 (2.222%) MSI
6 2 (2.222%) InstallShield
6 2 (2.222%) Bugzilla
6 2 (2.222%) Visual Studio
General
1 20 (22.22%) Banking
2 17 (18.89%) Finance
3 5 (5.556%) Spanish Language
4 4 (4.444%) Investment Banking
5 3 (3.333%) Manufacturing
5 3 (3.333%) Retail
6 2 (2.222%) Telecoms
6 2 (2.222%) Games
7 1 (1.111%) Wholesale Banking
7 1 (1.111%) Corporate Banking
Job Titles
1 23 (25.56%) Analyst
1 23 (25.56%) Test Analyst
2 20 (22.22%) Test Manager
3 16 (17.78%) Tester
4 14 (15.56%) Consultant
5 13 (14.44%) Performance Tester
6 9 (10.00%) Architect
6 9 (10.00%) Test Leader
7 8 (8.889%) Senior Analyst
7 8 (8.889%) Senior Test Analyst
8 5 (5.556%) Technical Architect
8 5 (5.556%) Technical Consultant
8 5 (5.556%) Performance Analyst
8 5 (5.556%) Performance Test Analyst
9 4 (4.444%) Performance Manager
9 4 (4.444%) Performance Test Manager
9 4 (4.444%) Java Architect
9 4 (4.444%) Systems Architect
9 4 (4.444%) Test Specialist
9 4 (4.444%) Java Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 3 (3.333%) Replication
1 3 (3.333%) Mainframe
1 3 (3.333%) Cloud Computing
1 3 (3.333%) Derivative
2 2 (2.222%) Data Conversion
2 2 (2.222%) Ergonomics
2 2 (2.222%) Mobile App
2 2 (2.222%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (1.111%) Equities
3 1 (1.111%) New Media
3 1 (1.111%) Open Source
3 1 (1.111%) Computer Science
3 1 (1.111%) Statistics
Operating Systems
1 9 (10.00%) UNIX
2 3 (3.333%) Windows
2 3 (3.333%) Linux
3 2 (2.222%) Windows Vista
3 2 (2.222%) Windows Server 2008
3 2 (2.222%) Windows 7
3 2 (2.222%) Windows Server 2003
3 2 (2.222%) VMS
3 2 (2.222%) Windows 2000
3 2 (2.222%) Windows NT
4 1 (1.111%) AIX
4 1 (1.111%) OpenVMS
4 1 (1.111%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (46.67%) Performance Testing
2 21 (23.33%) Test Scripting
3 17 (18.89%) Software Testing
4 12 (13.33%) Test Strategy
5 9 (10.00%) Service Delivery
6 8 (8.889%) Change Control
7 7 (7.778%) ITIL
7 7 (7.778%) BDD
7 7 (7.778%) Agile Software Development
7 7 (7.778%) TDD
7 7 (7.778%) Load Testing
8 6 (6.667%) Matrix Management
8 6 (6.667%) Test Management
8 6 (6.667%) SOA
9 5 (5.556%) Regression Testing
9 5 (5.556%) Configuration Management
9 5 (5.556%) Continuous Integration
9 5 (5.556%) User Acceptance Testing
10 4 (4.444%) Penetration Testing
10 4 (4.444%) Automated Testing
Programming Languages
1 17 (18.89%) Java
2 16 (17.78%) SQL
3 4 (4.444%) Shell Script
3 4 (4.444%) C
4 3 (3.333%) C#
4 3 (3.333%) Perl
4 3 (3.333%) VB
5 2 (2.222%) Ruby
5 2 (2.222%) VBScript
5 2 (2.222%) C++
6 1 (1.111%) VBA
6 1 (1.111%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 15 (16.67%) ISEB
2 9 (10.00%) Degree
3 8 (8.889%) ISTQB
4 4 (4.444%) ISEB Practitioner
5 3 (3.333%) Security Cleared
6 2 (2.222%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
6 2 (2.222%) SC Cleared
6 2 (2.222%) ITIL Certification
6 2 (2.222%) CCA
6 2 (2.222%) Citrix Certification
6 2 (2.222%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (2.222%) MCSE
7 1 (1.111%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (18.89%) QA
2 1 (1.111%) SLA
2 1 (1.111%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 4 (4.444%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (2.222%) Citrix Presentation Server
2 2 (2.222%) Hyper-V
2 2 (2.222%) XenApp
2 2 (2.222%) XenServer
2 2 (2.222%) XenDesktop
2 2 (2.222%) Microsoft App-V
2 2 (2.222%) VMware ESX
2 2 (2.222%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 21 (23.33%) HP Quality Center
2 4 (4.444%) HP SiteScope
3 2 (2.222%) SCCM
3 2 (2.222%) SCOM
3 2 (2.222%) Tivoli
3 2 (2.222%) MOM
3 2 (2.222%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
4 1 (1.111%) Splunk
4 1 (1.111%) CA Wily
Vendors
1 30 (33.33%) HP
2 20 (22.22%) IBM
3 17 (18.89%) Microsoft
4 12 (13.33%) SAP
5 5 (5.556%) Citrix
6 4 (4.444%) RightScale
6 4 (4.444%) VMware
7 3 (3.333%) Oracle
7 3 (3.333%) Google
8 2 (2.222%) SolarWinds
8 2 (2.222%) OPNET
8 2 (2.222%) NetApp
8 2 (2.222%) Compaq
8 2 (2.222%) Dell
9 1 (1.111%) Business Objects
9 1 (1.111%) Murex
9 1 (1.111%) CA
9 1 (1.111%) Fidessa
9 1 (1.111%) Mercator
9 1 (1.111%) Talend
Performance Test Specialist
London
The ideal candidate will have a minimum of 7 years experience in performance testing using tools such as IBM Rational Performance tester or HP Loadrunner... The ideal candidate...
Experis IT
Rate: £300 - £326 per day
Posted: 17 May 2013
Fidessa Test Analyst - EMMA - FIX - Banking - London
London
A major investment bank is seeking a QA analyst to take ownership of a stream of initiatives within their global Equities Flow and Algo trading business... You will...
Hatstand Limited
Rate: £400 - £500 per day
Posted: 16 May 2013
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