The first table below looks at the demand for Test Scripting skills in IT contracts advertised for the Middlesex region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Test Scripting 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 Middlesex 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
Test Scripting (Test Scripts)
Rank 23 32 31
Rank change year-on-year
+9 -1
Contract jobs citing Test Scripting 5 1 8
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Middlesex 2.381% 0.314% 2.381%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.247% 0.465% 2.930%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 5
Average daily rate £350 £340 £500
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+2.94% -32.00%
UK excluding London average daily rate £330 £300 £318
% change year-on-year
+10.00% -5.51%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
Average hourly rate £23.00 - £27.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £26.00 £27.50 £18.75
% change year-on-year
-5.45% +46.66%
All Processes & Methodologies
Middlesex
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
154 215 273
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Middlesex 73.33% 67.61% 81.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 98 110 116
Average daily rate £383 £375 £425
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+2.00% -11.76%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £260 £300
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £525 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £365 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
- -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 10 11
Average hourly rate £16.00 £39.00 £37.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-58.97% +4.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £15.40 £27.00 £29.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £21.60 £50.50 £38.52
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.00 £25.00 £29.00
% change year-on-year
+24.00% -13.79%
Test Scripting
South East

Test Scripting
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Middlesex Test Scripting Jobs Demand Trend

Test Scripting
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Test Scripting across the Middlesex region.

Middlesex Test Scripting Daily Rate Trend

Test Scripting
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Test Scripting across the Middlesex region.

Middlesex Test Scripting Hourly Rate Trend

Test Scripting
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Middlesex region citing Test Scripting 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 Test Scripting.

1 2 (28.57%) SAP
1 2 (28.57%) Citrix
1 2 (28.57%) Change Management
1 2 (28.57%) Performance Testing
1 2 (28.57%) Finance
1 2 (28.57%) Migration
2 1 (14.29%) Scrum
2 1 (14.29%) Risk Assessment
2 1 (14.29%) Load Testing
2 1 (14.29%) Unit Testing
2 1 (14.29%) Data Cleansing
2 1 (14.29%) Test Automation
2 1 (14.29%) Windows 7
2 1 (14.29%) WebDriver
2 1 (14.29%) Open Source
2 1 (14.29%) SAP Data Services
2 1 (14.29%) NetScaler
2 1 (14.29%) Agile Software Development
2 1 (14.29%) Retail
2 1 (14.29%) Automated Testing
2 1 (14.29%) Local Government
2 1 (14.29%) Civica
2 1 (14.29%) Software Testing
2 1 (14.29%) Dynamics AX
2 1 (14.29%) QA
2 1 (14.29%) Selenium
2 1 (14.29%) User Acceptance Testing
2 1 (14.29%) Regression Testing
2 1 (14.29%) JMeter
2 1 (14.29%) SAP BW

Test Scripting
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Middlesex region citing Test Scripting 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 Test Scripting. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (14.29%) Web Services
Applications
1 1 (14.29%) MS Office
1 1 (14.29%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Dynamics AX
Communications & Networking
1 1 (14.29%) NetScaler
1 1 (14.29%) 3G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (14.29%) SAP Data Services
1 1 (14.29%) SAP BW
Development Applications
1 1 (14.29%) WebDriver
1 1 (14.29%) Selenium
1 1 (14.29%) JMeter
General
1 2 (28.57%) Finance
2 1 (14.29%) Retail
2 1 (14.29%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 2 (28.57%) Analyst
1 2 (28.57%) Test Analyst
1 2 (28.57%) Consultant
1 2 (28.57%) SAP Consultant
2 1 (14.29%) Test Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) ERP Manager
2 1 (14.29%) Test Leader
2 1 (14.29%) Agile Test Analyst
2 1 (14.29%) QA Leader
2 1 (14.29%) Project Support Officer
2 1 (14.29%) Support Manager
2 1 (14.29%) QA Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) QA Test Analyst
2 1 (14.29%) QA Analyst
2 1 (14.29%) Project Officer
2 1 (14.29%) Lead Test Analyst
2 1 (14.29%) Customer Support Manager
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Open Source
Operating Systems
1 1 (14.29%) Windows 7
1 1 (14.29%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (28.57%) Change Management
1 2 (28.57%) Performance Testing
1 2 (28.57%) Migration
2 1 (14.29%) Scrum
2 1 (14.29%) Risk Assessment
2 1 (14.29%) Load Testing
2 1 (14.29%) Unit Testing
2 1 (14.29%) Data Cleansing
2 1 (14.29%) Test Automation
2 1 (14.29%) Agile Software Development
2 1 (14.29%) Automated Testing
2 1 (14.29%) Software Testing
2 1 (14.29%) User Acceptance Testing
2 1 (14.29%) Regression Testing
2 1 (14.29%) E-Commerce
2 1 (14.29%) ERP
2 1 (14.29%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 1 (14.29%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) QA
Vendors
1 2 (28.57%) SAP
1 2 (28.57%) Citrix
2 1 (14.29%) Civica
2 1 (14.29%) Microsoft