The first table below looks at the demand for Functional Testing skills in IT contracts advertised for the Manchester region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Functional Testing 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 Processes & Methodologies category for the Manchester 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
Functional Testing
Rank - 83 70
Contract jobs citing Functional Testing 0 1 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Manchester - 0.077% 0.096%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category - 0.120% 0.149%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 1 0
Average daily rate - £340 -
UK excluding London average daily rate £275 £425 £300
% change year-on-year
-35.29% +41.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Processes & Methodologies
Manchester
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
643 835 671
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Manchester 70.35% 64.18% 64.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 324 413 300
Average daily rate £325 £325 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +8.33%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £230 £195
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £456 £454
UK excluding London average daily rate £363 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
-0.68% -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 39 41 38
Average hourly rate £17.50 £17.50 £18.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -2.77%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.00 £12.01 £11.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £80.50 £37.00 £27.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.60 £25.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year
+26.40% -16.66%
Functional Testing
North West

Functional Testing
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Manchester Functional Testing Jobs Demand Trend

Functional Testing
Daily Rate Trend

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

Manchester Functional Testing Daily Rate Trend

Functional Testing
Top 5 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Manchester region citing Functional 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 Functional Testing.

1 1 (100.00%) SQL
1 1 (100.00%) Regression Testing
1 1 (100.00%) WinForms
1 1 (100.00%) Software Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Test Scripting

Functional Testing
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Manchester region citing Functional 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 Functional Testing. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (100.00%) WinForms
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Regression Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Software Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) SQL