QuickTest Pro 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 QuickTest Pro 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 QuickTest Pro 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 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
17 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
HP QuickTest Professional (QTP)
Rank 310 321 231
Rank change year-on-year
+11 -90
Contract jobs citing QuickTest Pro 75 85 221
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 0.347% 0.317% 0.707%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.878% 3.314% 6.234%
Number of daily rates quoted 50 67 159
Average daily rate £400 £400 £438
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -8.57%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £212 £300 £270
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £525 £570
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £300 £320
% change year-on-year
+8.33% -6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £24.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year
- -20.00%
All Development Applications
London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Development Applications category		 2606 2565 3545
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 12.07% 9.578% 11.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 1935 1739 2422
Average daily rate £415 £425 £450
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-2.35% -5.55%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £300 £288 £290
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 37 29
Average hourly rate £41.50 £35.00 £28.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+18.57% +25.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £33.70 £22.10 £18.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £48.40 £45.00 £47.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+7.14% -
QuickTest Pro
England

QuickTest Pro
Jobs Demand Trend

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

London QuickTest Pro Jobs Demand Trend

QuickTest Pro
Daily Rate Trend

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

London QuickTest Pro Daily Rate Trend

QuickTest Pro
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing QuickTest Pro across the London region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

London QuickTest Pro Daily Rate Histogram

QuickTest Pro
Hourly Rate Trend

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

London QuickTest Pro Hourly Rate Trend

QuickTest Pro
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing QuickTest Pro 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 +12 23 £450 +12.50%
Docklands, London - 2 £313 -
Canary Wharf - 1 - -
Hammersmith - 1 - -
QuickTest Pro
England

QuickTest Pro
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 75 (53.57%) QA
2 57 (40.71%) Selenium
3 50 (35.71%) SQL
4 46 (32.86%) HP Quality Center
4 46 (32.86%) Banking
5 41 (29.29%) Finance
6 37 (26.43%) Agile Software Development
7 36 (25.71%) Investment Banking
8 33 (23.57%) ITIL
9 31 (22.14%) PRINCE2
9 31 (22.14%) Regression Testing
9 31 (22.14%) Risk Management
9 31 (22.14%) Scrum
9 31 (22.14%) Test Management
10 30 (21.43%) ISEB
11 29 (20.71%) Automated Testing
12 28 (20.00%) Equities
12 28 (20.00%) Microsoft
13 27 (19.29%) Fixed Income
14 26 (18.57%) Configuration Management
15 25 (17.86%) Test Scripting
16 24 (17.14%) Test Automation
16 24 (17.14%) RUP
16 24 (17.14%) Java
16 24 (17.14%) .NET
17 23 (16.43%) UML
17 23 (16.43%) MS Excel
18 22 (15.71%) Project Management
18 22 (15.71%) Derivative
19 21 (15.00%) IT Governance

QuickTest Pro
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 24 (17.14%) .NET
2 7 (5.000%) Web Services
3 6 (4.286%) SOAP
4 5 (3.571%) Gherkin
4 5 (3.571%) XML
5 4 (2.857%) J2EE
5 4 (2.857%) FIX Protocol
5 4 (2.857%) WPF
6 3 (2.143%) soapUI
7 2 (1.429%) UDDI
7 2 (1.429%) WSDL
7 2 (1.429%) Middleware
8 1 (0.714%) Motif
8 1 (0.714%) Ajax
8 1 (0.714%) XSD
8 1 (0.714%) JMS
Application Platforms
1 8 (5.714%) MSMQ
2 7 (5.000%) TIBCO EMS
3 3 (2.143%) Tomcat
4 2 (1.429%) MS Exchange
4 2 (1.429%) Exchange Server 2003
5 1 (0.714%) Liferay
Applications
1 23 (16.43%) MS Excel
2 21 (15.00%) MS Visio
2 21 (15.00%) MS Project
3 3 (2.143%) MS Office
4 1 (0.714%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (0.714%) BusinessWorks
1 1 (0.714%) Endur
1 1 (0.714%) Summit
1 1 (0.714%) Dynamics AX
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.429%) TCP/IP
1 2 (1.429%) DNS
1 2 (1.429%) SAN
1 2 (1.429%) NetScaler
1 2 (1.429%) Ethernet
2 1 (0.714%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (8.571%) SQL Server
2 7 (5.000%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (1.429%) SQL Server 2005
3 2 (1.429%) SQL Server 2008
4 1 (0.714%) RDBMS
4 1 (0.714%) DB2
Development Applications
1 57 (40.71%) Selenium
2 18 (12.86%) LoadRunner
3 15 (10.71%) Cucumber
4 13 (9.286%) JIRA
5 10 (7.143%) JMeter
6 9 (6.429%) WebDriver
6 9 (6.429%) FitNesse
7 6 (4.286%) TeamCity
7 6 (4.286%) SilkTest
7 6 (4.286%) WinRunner
8 5 (3.571%) TestDirector
9 4 (2.857%) Subversion
9 4 (2.857%) Maven
10 3 (2.143%) JUnit
10 3 (2.143%) Visual Studio
10 3 (2.143%) Hudson
10 3 (2.143%) Team Foundation Server
10 3 (2.143%) Visual Studio Team System
11 2 (1.429%) WebScarab
11 2 (1.429%) Bugzilla
General
1 46 (32.86%) Banking
2 41 (29.29%) Finance
3 36 (25.71%) Investment Banking
4 20 (14.29%) Front Office
5 5 (3.571%) Multimedia
5 5 (3.571%) Billing
6 3 (2.143%) Back Office
7 2 (1.429%) Spanish Language
8 1 (0.714%) German Language
8 1 (0.714%) Law
8 1 (0.714%) Legal
8 1 (0.714%) Games
Job Titles
1 66 (47.14%) Analyst
2 46 (32.86%) Test Analyst
3 26 (18.57%) Tester
4 17 (12.14%) QA Analyst
5 12 (8.571%) Test Manager
6 11 (7.857%) Process Analyst
6 11 (7.857%) Process Improvement Analyst
7 10 (7.143%) QA Manager
8 9 (6.429%) Consultant
8 9 (6.429%) Portfolio Manager
8 9 (6.429%) Automation Test Analyst
8 9 (6.429%) QA Engineer
8 9 (6.429%) Automation Analyst
9 8 (5.714%) Test Consultant
9 8 (5.714%) QA Test Analyst
10 7 (5.000%) QA Tester
10 7 (5.000%) Data Analyst
10 7 (5.000%) Automation Tester
10 7 (5.000%) Test Leader
11 6 (4.286%) QA Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 28 (20.00%) Equities
2 27 (19.29%) Fixed Income
3 22 (15.71%) Derivative
4 21 (15.00%) PMI
5 9 (6.429%) Market Risk
6 7 (5.000%) Credit Risk
6 7 (5.000%) Credit Derivative
7 6 (4.286%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 6 (4.286%) Mobile App
8 5 (3.571%) iPhone
8 5 (3.571%) iPad
8 5 (3.571%) Blackberry
9 4 (2.857%) Open Source
10 2 (1.429%) Enterprise Software
10 2 (1.429%) Reference Data
10 2 (1.429%) Equity Derivative
10 2 (1.429%) Contract for Difference
11 1 (0.714%) Computer Science
11 1 (0.714%) Statistics
11 1 (0.714%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 11 (7.857%) UNIX
2 10 (7.143%) Linux
3 5 (3.571%) Windows 2000
3 5 (3.571%) Windows
3 5 (3.571%) Android
3 5 (3.571%) Apple iOS
4 3 (2.143%) Windows XP
5 2 (1.429%) Windows Server 2003
5 2 (1.429%) Windows Vista
5 2 (1.429%) Windows Server 2008
5 2 (1.429%) Windows 7
5 2 (1.429%) Windows NT
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (26.43%) Agile Software Development
2 33 (23.57%) ITIL
3 31 (22.14%) PRINCE2
3 31 (22.14%) Regression Testing
3 31 (22.14%) Risk Management
3 31 (22.14%) Scrum
3 31 (22.14%) Test Management
4 29 (20.71%) Automated Testing
5 26 (18.57%) Configuration Management
6 25 (17.86%) Test Scripting
7 24 (17.14%) Test Automation
7 24 (17.14%) RUP
8 23 (16.43%) UML
9 22 (15.71%) Project Management
10 21 (15.00%) Six Sigma
10 21 (15.00%) IT Governance
10 21 (15.00%) Portfolio Management
10 21 (15.00%) Project Governance
10 21 (15.00%) Process Improvement
10 21 (15.00%) Performance Management
Programming Languages
1 50 (35.71%) SQL
2 24 (17.14%) Java
3 12 (8.571%) Perl
4 10 (7.143%) C#
4 10 (7.143%) C++
5 9 (6.429%) VB
6 7 (5.000%) Ruby
7 4 (2.857%) VBScript
7 4 (2.857%) Shell Script
8 3 (2.143%) VBA
8 3 (2.143%) Python
9 2 (1.429%) Jython
9 2 (1.429%) JavaScript
9 2 (1.429%) C
10 1 (0.714%) T-SQL
10 1 (0.714%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 30 (21.43%) ISEB
2 21 (15.00%) PMI Certification
2 21 (15.00%) Six Sigma Black Belt
3 19 (13.57%) ISTQB
4 4 (2.857%) Security Cleared
4 4 (2.857%) ISEB Practitioner
5 3 (2.143%) SC Cleared
6 2 (1.429%) Degree
6 2 (1.429%) MCSE
6 2 (1.429%) ITIL Certification
6 2 (1.429%) CCA
6 2 (1.429%) Citrix Certification
6 2 (1.429%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.714%) PRINCE2 Certification
7 1 (0.714%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 75 (53.57%) QA
2 21 (15.00%) COBIT
3 7 (5.000%) Basel III
4 1 (0.714%) ISO 9001
4 1 (0.714%) SLA
4 1 (0.714%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 2 (1.429%) Active Directory
1 2 (1.429%) VMware ESX
1 2 (1.429%) Microsoft App-V
1 2 (1.429%) Citrix Presentation Server
1 2 (1.429%) VMware Infrastructure
1 2 (1.429%) XenApp
1 2 (1.429%) XenServer
1 2 (1.429%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 46 (32.86%) HP Quality Center
2 2 (1.429%) Tivoli
2 2 (1.429%) MOM
2 2 (1.429%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
2 2 (1.429%) SCCM
2 2 (1.429%) SCOM
3 1 (0.714%) Puppet
Vendors
1 28 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 21 (15.00%) HP
3 18 (12.86%) Oracle
4 10 (7.143%) Sybase
4 10 (7.143%) Niku
5 8 (5.714%) TIBCO
6 4 (2.857%) IBM
7 3 (2.143%) Murex
8 2 (1.429%) Compaq
8 2 (1.429%) Dell
8 2 (1.429%) Citrix
8 2 (1.429%) NetApp
8 2 (1.429%) SolarWinds
8 2 (1.429%) VMware
9 1 (0.714%) Capita
9 1 (0.714%) Yahoo!
9 1 (0.714%) Microgen
9 1 (0.714%) JD Edwards
9 1 (0.714%) OpenLink
9 1 (0.714%) ATG
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