Performance 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 Performance 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 Performance Testing 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 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
22 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Performance Testing
Rank 275 296 231
Rank change year-on-year
+21 -65
Contract jobs citing Performance Testing 112 122 218
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 0.509% 0.446% 0.711%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.683% 0.621% 0.999%
Number of daily rates quoted 84 75 131
Average daily rate £400 £415 £390
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-3.61% +6.41%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £275 £325 £265
10% offered a daily rate of more than £593 £540 £550
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £400 £375
% change year-on-year
-18.75% +6.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Average hourly rate - £37.50 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £32.00 £31.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+1.58% -10.00%
All Processes & Methodologies
London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category		 16410 19631 21812
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 74.61% 71.81% 71.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 11259 12893 14383
Average daily rate £450 £450 £485
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -7.21%
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 256 338 344
Average hourly rate £32.00 £27.50 £27.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+16.36% -
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 £31.00 £25.00 £29.00
% change year-on-year
+24.00% -13.79%
Performance Testing
England

Performance Testing
Jobs Demand Trend

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

London Performance Testing Jobs Demand Trend

Performance Testing
Daily Rate Trend

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

London Performance Testing Daily Rate Trend

Performance Testing
Daily Rate Histogram

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

London Performance Testing Daily Rate Histogram

Performance Testing
Hourly Rate Trend

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

London Performance Testing Hourly Rate Trend

Performance Testing
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Performance Testing 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 -3 25 £381 -19.73%
Canary Wharf +4 9 £650 -
Brentford - 6 £400 -
Hounslow -2 2 £450 -
Uxbridge - 1 £470 -
Croydon - 1 - -
Hammersmith - 1 - -
Performance Testing
England

Performance Testing
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 64 (28.96%) SQL
2 51 (23.08%) Finance
3 49 (22.17%) Java
4 47 (21.27%) Test Scripting
5 46 (20.81%) QA
6 43 (19.46%) Agile Software Development
7 42 (19.00%) LoadRunner
8 39 (17.65%) Microsoft
9 33 (14.93%) UNIX
10 32 (14.48%) Banking
11 31 (14.03%) JavaScript
12 30 (13.57%) Linux
13 29 (13.12%) SQL Server
14 27 (12.22%) Oracle
14 27 (12.22%) IBM
14 27 (12.22%) Software Testing
15 26 (11.76%) TDD
16 24 (10.86%) Front Office
16 24 (10.86%) .NET
17 23 (10.41%) User Acceptance Testing
17 23 (10.41%) Hudson
18 22 (9.955%) Test Automation
18 22 (9.955%) Degree
18 22 (9.955%) JUnit
18 22 (9.955%) SAP
19 21 (9.502%) Unit Testing
19 21 (9.502%) HP Quality Center
20 20 (9.050%) Rational Performance Tester
20 20 (9.050%) HTML
20 20 (9.050%) XML

Performance Testing
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 24 (10.86%) .NET
2 20 (9.050%) HTML
2 20 (9.050%) XML
3 19 (8.597%) CSS
4 17 (7.692%) JMS
4 17 (7.692%) Middleware
4 17 (7.692%) Web Services
5 14 (6.335%) jQuery
6 13 (5.882%) Ajax
6 13 (5.882%) J2EE
7 11 (4.977%) REST
8 9 (4.072%) Grails
8 9 (4.072%) .NET Framework
8 9 (4.072%) WebSphere
8 9 (4.072%) SOAP
9 7 (3.167%) soapUI
10 5 (2.262%) WCF
10 5 (2.262%) Spring
10 5 (2.262%) ASP.NET
11 4 (1.810%) Swing
Application Platforms
1 11 (4.977%) Confluence
2 6 (2.715%) CMS
3 4 (1.810%) WebSphere Application Server
3 4 (1.810%) MS Exchange
3 4 (1.810%) Commerce Server
3 4 (1.810%) Oracle Coherence
3 4 (1.810%) TIBCO EMS
4 3 (1.357%) Exchange Server 2010
4 3 (1.357%) Lync
4 3 (1.357%) Drupal
5 2 (0.905%) Tomcat
5 2 (0.905%) Lotus Notes
5 2 (0.905%) IIS
5 2 (0.905%) FileNet
5 2 (0.905%) IBM HTTP Server
5 2 (0.905%) ESB
5 2 (0.905%) Exchange Server 2003
6 1 (0.452%) CloudStack
6 1 (0.452%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 1 (0.452%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 17 (7.692%) MS Excel
2 4 (1.810%) MS Office
3 3 (1.357%) MS PowerPoint
4 2 (0.905%) MS Project
5 1 (0.452%) Mingle
5 1 (0.452%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (2.262%) Tesseract
1 5 (2.262%) Minerva
1 5 (2.262%) Sentinel
2 4 (1.810%) LatentZero
2 4 (1.810%) Capstone
3 2 (0.905%) Oracle Financials
3 2 (0.905%) Oracle Applications
3 2 (0.905%) SAP CRM
3 2 (0.905%) SAP IS-U
3 2 (0.905%) Oracle EBS R12
4 1 (0.452%) SAP BPC
4 1 (0.452%) SAP Oil and Gas
4 1 (0.452%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.452%) Remedy ITSM
4 1 (0.452%) Google Analytics
4 1 (0.452%) BASE24
4 1 (0.452%) FLEXCUBE
4 1 (0.452%) WebTrends
Communications & Networking
1 15 (6.787%) HTTP
2 7 (3.167%) TCP/IP
3 6 (2.715%) HTTPS
4 4 (1.810%) SAN
5 3 (1.357%) NAS
5 3 (1.357%) Cisco IPT
5 3 (1.357%) Firewall
6 2 (0.905%) LDAP
6 2 (0.905%) POP3
6 2 (0.905%) SMTP
6 2 (0.905%) SSL
6 2 (0.905%) Network Security
7 1 (0.452%) Unified Communications
7 1 (0.452%) Fibre Channel
7 1 (0.452%) xDSL
7 1 (0.452%) iSCSI
7 1 (0.452%) DWDM
7 1 (0.452%) Internet
7 1 (0.452%) VPN
7 1 (0.452%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (13.12%) SQL Server
2 8 (3.620%) Oracle BI EE
2 8 (3.620%) MongoDB
3 7 (3.167%) NoSQL
3 7 (3.167%) Data Warehouse
4 5 (2.262%) SAP Data Services
5 4 (1.810%) MySQL
5 4 (1.810%) SAP BW
6 3 (1.357%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 3 (1.357%) KDB
6 3 (1.357%) Oracle 8/8i
7 2 (0.905%) DB2
7 2 (0.905%) SAP BI
7 2 (0.905%) Oracle 11g
7 2 (0.905%) QlikView
7 2 (0.905%) IBM InfoSphere
8 1 (0.452%) BusinessObjects Web Intelligence
8 1 (0.452%) SQL Server 2008
8 1 (0.452%) UniData
8 1 (0.452%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 42 (19.00%) LoadRunner
2 23 (10.41%) Hudson
3 22 (9.955%) JUnit
4 20 (9.050%) Rational Performance Tester
5 18 (8.145%) Selenium
5 18 (8.145%) Jenkins
6 17 (7.692%) JIRA
6 17 (7.692%) JMeter
7 10 (4.525%) Visual Studio
7 10 (4.525%) Maven
7 10 (4.525%) Team Foundation Server
8 8 (3.620%) QuickTest Pro
8 8 (3.620%) Subversion
8 8 (3.620%) Git (software)
9 7 (3.167%) Cucumber
10 5 (2.262%) OpenSTA
10 5 (2.262%) Eclipse
11 4 (1.810%) TestNG
11 4 (1.810%) WebDriver
12 3 (1.357%) Ant
General
1 51 (23.08%) Finance
2 32 (14.48%) Banking
3 24 (10.86%) Front Office
4 17 (7.692%) Investment Banking
5 9 (4.072%) Publishing
6 7 (3.167%) Games
7 4 (1.810%) Manufacturing
7 4 (1.810%) Telecoms
7 4 (1.810%) Retail
8 3 (1.357%) Spanish Language
8 3 (1.357%) Back Office
9 1 (0.452%) Wholesale Banking
9 1 (0.452%) Billing
9 1 (0.452%) Law
Job Titles
1 57 (25.79%) Analyst
2 52 (23.53%) Test Analyst
3 38 (17.19%) Tester
4 37 (16.74%) Developer
5 19 (8.597%) Test Manager
6 18 (8.145%) Consultant
7 17 (7.692%) Performance Tester
8 15 (6.787%) Senior Analyst
9 11 (4.977%) QA Analyst
9 11 (4.977%) Senior Test Analyst
10 10 (4.525%) Architect
10 10 (4.525%) Test Engineer
11 9 (4.072%) Performance Test Analyst
11 9 (4.072%) Performance Analyst
11 9 (4.072%) Java Developer
11 9 (4.072%) Senior Developer
12 8 (3.620%) SAP Consultant
13 7 (3.167%) DevOps Engineer
13 7 (3.167%) Technical Architect
14 6 (2.715%) QA Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 16 (7.240%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
1 16 (7.240%) Derivative
2 13 (5.882%) Open Source
3 8 (3.620%) Computer Science
4 7 (3.167%) Mathematics
5 6 (2.715%) Fixed Income
6 5 (2.262%) New Media
6 5 (2.262%) Equities
7 4 (1.810%) N-Tier
7 4 (1.810%) Management Information System
7 4 (1.810%) Credit Derivative
7 4 (1.810%) STB
7 4 (1.810%) Grid Computing
7 4 (1.810%) Online Games
7 4 (1.810%) iPhone
7 4 (1.810%) Mobile App
8 3 (1.357%) Enterprise Software
8 3 (1.357%) Physics
8 3 (1.357%) Data Integration
8 3 (1.357%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 33 (14.93%) UNIX
2 30 (13.57%) Linux
3 11 (4.977%) Windows
4 5 (2.262%) Windows Server 2008
5 3 (1.357%) Windows Server 2003
6 2 (0.905%) Android
6 2 (0.905%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.452%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.452%) Mac OS X
7 1 (0.452%) zOS
7 1 (0.452%) OpenVMS
7 1 (0.452%) AIX
7 1 (0.452%) HPUX
7 1 (0.452%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (21.27%) Test Scripting
2 43 (19.46%) Agile Software Development
3 27 (12.22%) Software Testing
4 26 (11.76%) TDD
5 23 (10.41%) User Acceptance Testing
6 22 (9.955%) Test Automation
7 21 (9.502%) Unit Testing
8 20 (9.050%) Regression Testing
9 19 (8.597%) Migration
10 18 (8.145%) E-Commerce
11 17 (7.692%) Business Intelligence
12 16 (7.240%) Continuous Integration
13 15 (6.787%) Test Strategy
14 14 (6.335%) Scrum
14 14 (6.335%) Stress Testing
14 14 (6.335%) Automated Testing
15 12 (5.430%) Content Management
15 12 (5.430%) Multithreading
16 11 (4.977%) Change Management
16 11 (4.977%) GAP Analysis
Programming Languages
1 64 (28.96%) SQL
2 49 (22.17%) Java
3 31 (14.03%) JavaScript
4 17 (7.692%) C#
5 11 (4.977%) C++
6 10 (4.525%) Shell Script
7 9 (4.072%) Groovy
8 8 (3.620%) Python
8 8 (3.620%) T-SQL
8 8 (3.620%) VBScript
8 8 (3.620%) PowerShell
9 7 (3.167%) Bash shell
10 6 (2.715%) VB
10 6 (2.715%) C
11 5 (2.262%) Jython
11 5 (2.262%) Perl
12 3 (1.357%) Ruby
12 3 (1.357%) VBA
13 2 (0.905%) PHP
13 2 (0.905%) F#
Qualifications
1 22 (9.955%) Degree
2 17 (7.692%) ISEB
3 8 (3.620%) ISTQB
4 3 (1.357%) Security Cleared
5 2 (0.905%) ISEB Practitioner
6 1 (0.452%) SC Cleared
6 1 (0.452%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 46 (20.81%) QA
2 1 (0.452%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 4 (1.810%) Active Directory
2 3 (1.357%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (0.905%) vSphere
3 2 (0.905%) VMware ESXi
3 2 (0.905%) vCloud
4 1 (0.452%) Xen
4 1 (0.452%) NFS
Systems Management
1 21 (9.502%) HP Quality Center
2 8 (3.620%) Puppet
3 1 (0.452%) Symantec Enterprise Vault
3 1 (0.452%) HP SiteScope
3 1 (0.452%) Splunk
3 1 (0.452%) Data Guard
3 1 (0.452%) Munin
3 1 (0.452%) HP Operations Orchestration
3 1 (0.452%) BladeLogic
3 1 (0.452%) SCOM
3 1 (0.452%) NetBackup
3 1 (0.452%) Norton AntiVirus
3 1 (0.452%) MAILsweeper
3 1 (0.452%) Nagios
3 1 (0.452%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 39 (17.65%) Microsoft
2 27 (12.22%) Oracle
2 27 (12.22%) IBM
3 22 (9.955%) SAP
4 15 (6.787%) HP
5 7 (3.167%) TIBCO
6 6 (2.715%) VMware
7 5 (2.262%) Siebel
8 4 (1.810%) Sybase
8 4 (1.810%) Adobe
8 4 (1.810%) DataSynapse
9 3 (1.357%) Capita
9 3 (1.357%) Citrix
9 3 (1.357%) MicroStrategy
10 2 (0.905%) Business Objects
10 2 (0.905%) Sun
10 2 (0.905%) NetApp
10 2 (0.905%) BMC
10 2 (0.905%) Lotus
10 2 (0.905%) Informatica
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