M4 Corridor Performance Testing Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Performance Testing skills within the M4 Corridor region with a comparison to our Processes & Methodologies category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Performance Testing over the 3 months to 4 September 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Performance Testing
Location Basildon Basingstoke Bath Berkshire Bridgend Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Cheshire City of London Coventry Devon Docklands, London East Midlands East of England Edinburgh England Essex Farnham Glasgow Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harlow Hertfordshire Hounslow Lancashire Leeds Liverpool Livingston London M4 Corridor Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne North East North West Oxfordshire Peterborough Plymouth Reading Scotland Shropshire Skelmersdale Somerset South East South Wales South West Southwark Staines Stevenage Stockport Surrey Swindon Telford Tyne and Wear UK Wales Warrington West Lothian West Midlands West Yorkshire Wiltshire Wokingham Yorkshire	3 months to 4 Sep 2008	Same period last year
Rank	22	-
Rank change on same period last year	-
Matching contract IT job ads	2	0
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.003 %	0.000 %
As % of the category below	1.724 %	0.000 %
Daily rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum daily rate	-	-
Average daily rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£367	£355
% change on same period last year	+3.43 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum hourly rate	-	-
Average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£44.02	£40.16
% change on same period last year	+9.61 %
Processes & Methodologies M4 Corridor
Matching contract IT job ads	116	112
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.156 %	0.112 %
Daily rates quoted	32	25
Average minimum daily rate	£381	£382
Average daily rate	£409	£400
% change on same period last year	+2.25 %
Average maximum daily rate	£436	£417
UK excluding London average daily rate	£378	£376
% change on same period last year	+0.59 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	4
Average minimum hourly rate	-	£39.14
Average hourly rate	-	£39.14
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	£39.14
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£30.41	£30.42
% change on same period last year	-0.02 %
Performance Testing South East

We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

Performance Testing
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Performance Testing across the M4 Corridor region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

Performance Testing
Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Performance Testing across the M4 Corridor region.

Performance Testing
Top 1 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 4 September 2008, IT contractor jobs across the M4 Corridor 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 2 (100.00 %) SAP

Performance Testing
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 4 September 2008, IT contractor jobs across the M4 Corridor 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.

Job Titles 1 2 (100.00 %) Test Manager 1 2 (100.00 %) SAP Manager 1 2 (100.00 %) SAP Test Manager

Vendors 1 2 (100.00 %) SAP