The first table below looks at the demand for User Acceptance 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 User Acceptance Testing over the 3 months to 24 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
User Acceptance Testing (UAT)
Rank 62 55 55
Rank change year-on-year
-7 0
Contract jobs citing User Acceptance Testing 13 28 17
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Manchester 1.393% 2.167% 1.631%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.964% 3.427% 2.515%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 12 10
Average daily rate £325 £338 £298
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-3.70% +13.44%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £277 £280 £258
10% offered a daily rate of more than £433 £448 £375
UK excluding London average daily rate £328 £350 £350
% change year-on-year
-6.42% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.00 £26.28 £23.00
% change year-on-year
+14.15% +14.26%
All Processes & Methodologies
Manchester
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
662 817 676
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Manchester 70.95% 63.24% 64.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 342 407 306
Average daily rate £325 £325 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +8.33%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £225 £195
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £450 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £365 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
- -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 41 35 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 £13.03 £12.01 £11.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £77.50 £34.50 £27.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.00 £25.00 £29.50
% change year-on-year
+20.00% -15.25%
User Acceptance Testing
North West

User Acceptance Testing
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Manchester User Acceptance Testing Jobs Demand Trend

User Acceptance Testing
Daily Rate Trend

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

Manchester User Acceptance Testing Daily Rate Trend

User Acceptance Testing
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing User Acceptance Testing across the Manchester region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Manchester User Acceptance Testing Daily Rate Histogram

User Acceptance Testing
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Manchester User Acceptance Testing Hourly Rate Trend

User Acceptance Testing
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Manchester region citing User Acceptance 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 User Acceptance Testing.

1 7 (29.17%) Oracle
1 7 (29.17%) Windows
2 6 (25.00%) SQL
2 6 (25.00%) Active Directory
3 5 (20.83%) CICS
3 5 (20.83%) CA
3 5 (20.83%) IBM
3 5 (20.83%) DB2
3 5 (20.83%) Finance
3 5 (20.83%) VSAM
4 4 (16.67%) Systems Analysis
4 4 (16.67%) Oracle EBS
4 4 (16.67%) Banking
4 4 (16.67%) Billing
4 4 (16.67%) HFM
4 4 (16.67%) Oracle BI EE
4 4 (16.67%) Revenue Management
4 4 (16.67%) Oracle EBS R12
4 4 (16.67%) ITIL
4 4 (16.67%) Citrix
4 4 (16.67%) Oracle Financials
4 4 (16.67%) Hyperion
5 3 (12.50%) Firewall
5 3 (12.50%) Mainframe
5 3 (12.50%) CheckPoint
5 3 (12.50%) Windows Server 2003
5 3 (12.50%) Internet
5 3 (12.50%) Tivoli
5 3 (12.50%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
5 3 (12.50%) JCL

User Acceptance Testing
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Manchester region citing User Acceptance 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 User Acceptance Testing. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 3 (12.50%) Middleware
1 3 (12.50%) .NET
1 3 (12.50%) WebSphere
2 2 (8.333%) .NET Framework
2 2 (8.333%) Application Packaging
2 2 (8.333%) ASP.NET MVC 3
2 2 (8.333%) ASP.NET MVC
2 2 (8.333%) ASP.NET
3 1 (4.167%) SOAP
3 1 (4.167%) Web Services
3 1 (4.167%) XML
Application Platforms
1 5 (20.83%) CICS
2 3 (12.50%) WebLogic
3 2 (8.333%) CMS
3 2 (8.333%) Sitecore CMS
4 1 (4.167%) MS Exchange
Applications
1 2 (8.333%) MS Excel
2 1 (4.167%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 4 (16.67%) Oracle EBS
1 4 (16.67%) HFM
1 4 (16.67%) Oracle EBS R12
1 4 (16.67%) Oracle Financials
2 2 (8.333%) Dynamics AX
Communications & Networking
1 3 (12.50%) Firewall
1 3 (12.50%) Internet
1 3 (12.50%) SAN
1 3 (12.50%) TCP/IP
1 3 (12.50%) SNA
2 1 (4.167%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (20.83%) DB2
2 4 (16.67%) Oracle BI EE
3 3 (12.50%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (12.50%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (8.333%) InstallShield
2 1 (4.167%) Selenium
General
1 5 (20.83%) Finance
2 4 (16.67%) Banking
2 4 (16.67%) Billing
3 3 (12.50%) Retail
4 1 (4.167%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 6 (25.00%) Analyst
2 4 (16.67%) Test Analyst
2 4 (16.67%) Systems Support
3 3 (12.50%) Applications Packager
4 2 (8.333%) Systems Programmer
4 2 (8.333%) CICS Systems Programmer
4 2 (8.333%) UAT Analyst
4 2 (8.333%) Developer
4 2 (8.333%) C# Developer
4 2 (8.333%) C# ASP.NET Developer
4 2 (8.333%) CICS Programmer
4 2 (8.333%) C# .NET Developer
4 2 (8.333%) UAT Test Analyst
4 2 (8.333%) Designer
4 2 (8.333%) Agile Test Analyst
4 2 (8.333%) Business Analyst
4 2 (8.333%) Programmer
5 1 (4.167%) QA Manager
5 1 (4.167%) Software Engineer
5 1 (4.167%) Architect
Miscellaneous
1 5 (20.83%) VSAM
2 3 (12.50%) Mainframe
2 3 (12.50%) Mobile Banking
2 3 (12.50%) IBM Mainframe
2 3 (12.50%) Online Banking
2 3 (12.50%) PKI
3 1 (4.167%) Management Information System
3 1 (4.167%) Thin Client
3 1 (4.167%) Smartcard
3 1 (4.167%) Blackberry
3 1 (4.167%) iPad
3 1 (4.167%) Fat Client
3 1 (4.167%) E-Learning
3 1 (4.167%) Statistics
Operating Systems
1 7 (29.17%) Windows
2 3 (12.50%) Windows Server 2003
2 3 (12.50%) AIX
2 3 (12.50%) Windows Server 2008
3 2 (8.333%) Windows 7
3 2 (8.333%) zOS
4 1 (4.167%) Windows 2000
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (16.67%) Systems Analysis
1 4 (16.67%) Revenue Management
1 4 (16.67%) ITIL
2 3 (12.50%) ETL
2 3 (12.50%) Test Scripting
2 3 (12.50%) Stakeholder Management
3 2 (8.333%) Business Analysis
3 2 (8.333%) Software Testing
3 2 (8.333%) MVC
3 2 (8.333%) Stress Testing
3 2 (8.333%) Integration Testing
3 2 (8.333%) ERP
3 2 (8.333%) Configuration Management
3 2 (8.333%) Project Management
4 1 (4.167%) Change Management
4 1 (4.167%) Regression Testing
4 1 (4.167%) E-Commerce
4 1 (4.167%) PRINCE2
4 1 (4.167%) Test Automation
4 1 (4.167%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 6 (25.00%) SQL
2 3 (12.50%) JCL
2 3 (12.50%) C#
3 1 (4.167%) C
Qualifications
1 1 (4.167%) ISEB
1 1 (4.167%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (12.50%) QA
2 1 (4.167%) SLA
System Software
1 6 (25.00%) Active Directory
2 3 (12.50%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
2 3 (12.50%) Hyper-V
2 3 (12.50%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (8.333%) RACF
Systems Management
1 3 (12.50%) Tivoli
2 2 (8.333%) SCCM
Vendors
1 7 (29.17%) Oracle
2 5 (20.83%) CA
2 5 (20.83%) IBM
3 4 (16.67%) Citrix
3 4 (16.67%) Hyperion
4 3 (12.50%) CheckPoint
4 3 (12.50%) Cisco
4 3 (12.50%) HP
4 3 (12.50%) Microsoft
4 3 (12.50%) VMware
4 3 (12.50%) Brocade
5 2 (8.333%) Sitecore
6 1 (4.167%) Avaya
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