Middlesex Test Scripting Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Test Scripting (Test Scripts) skills within the Middlesex region with a comparison to our Processes & Methodologies category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Test Scripting over the 3 months to 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Test Scripting (Test Scripts)
Location Aberdeen Abingdon Amersham Atherstone Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Berkshire Birmingham Bishop's Stortford Bournemouth Bracknell Bridgend Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Chatham Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Chesterfield City of London Coventry Crawley Croydon Dartford Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh England Essex Exeter Glasgow Gloucestershire Guildford Halifax Hampshire Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire Home Counties Hove Kent Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Liverpool London Maidenhead Manchester Marlow Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Plymouth Poole Reading Rugby Runcorn Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Sidcup Slough Solihull Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton St Albans Staines Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Telford Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Wilmslow Wiltshire Winchester Windsor Wirral Wokingham Worcester Worcestershire York Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	39	27
Rank change on same period last year	-12
Matching contract IT job ads	8	22
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.011 %	0.022 %
As % of the category below	2.198 %	5.946 %
Daily rates quoted	3	2
Average minimum daily rate	£230	£275
Average daily rate	£236	£300
% change on same period last year	-21.38 %
Average maximum daily rate	£242	£325
UK excluding London average daily rate	£326	£321
% change on same period last year	+1.35 %
Hourly rates quoted	3	2
Average minimum hourly rate	£33.17	£12.25
Average hourly rate	£33.50	£13.25
% change on same period last year	+152.82 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£33.83	£14.25
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£27.81	£30.86
% change on same period last year	-9.89 %
Processes & Methodologies Middlesex
Matching contract IT job ads	364	370
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.485 %	0.374 %
Daily rates quoted	96	93
Average minimum daily rate	£331	£316
Average daily rate	£355	£338
% change on same period last year	+5.07 %
Average maximum daily rate	£379	£361
UK excluding London average daily rate	£380	£376
% change on same period last year	+1.21 %
Hourly rates quoted	23	13
Average minimum hourly rate	£33.44	£38.64
Average hourly rate	£35.44	£39.35
% change on same period last year	-9.94 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£37.44	£40.07
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£29.33	£30.16
% change on same period last year	-2.72 %
Test Scripting 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.

Test Scripting
Demand Trend

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

Test Scripting
Daily Rate Trend

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

Test Scripting
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Test Scripting across the Middlesex region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008.

Test Scripting
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Test Scripting
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Test Scripting across the Middlesex region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008.

Test Scripting
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, 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 4 (28.57 %) Pharmaceutical 2 3 (21.43 %) SAP 2 3 (21.43 %) Retail 2 3 (21.43 %) Software Testing 2 3 (21.43 %) User Acceptance Testing 3 2 (14.29 %) Performance Testing 3 2 (14.29 %) VMware 3 2 (14.29 %) Use Case 3 2 (14.29 %) VMware Infrastructure 3 2 (14.29 %) WebSphere 3 2 (14.29 %) Refactoring 3 2 (14.29 %) Project Management 3 2 (14.29 %) Windows 3 2 (14.29 %) Data Modelling 3 2 (14.29 %) HP

3 2 (14.29 %) ISEB 3 2 (14.29 %) LoadRunner 4 1 (7.143 %) SAP HR 4 1 (7.143 %) BPR 4 1 (7.143 %) LIMS 4 1 (7.143 %) IBM 4 1 (7.143 %) MS Excel 4 1 (7.143 %) MS Visio 4 1 (7.143 %) Java 4 1 (7.143 %) SQL 4 1 (7.143 %) Transact-SQL 4 1 (7.143 %) MS Project 4 1 (7.143 %) Telecoms 4 1 (7.143 %) Government 4 1 (7.143 %) Document Management

Test Scripting
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, 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 2 (14.29 %) WebSphere	Applications 1 1 (7.143 %) MS Project 1 1 (7.143 %) MS Excel 1 1 (7.143 %) MS Visio 1 1 (7.143 %) MS PowerPoint
Business Applications 1 1 (7.143 %) SAP HR 1 1 (7.143 %) SAP Oil and Gas	Development Applications 1 2 (14.29 %) LoadRunner
General 1 4 (28.57 %) Pharmaceutical 2 3 (21.43 %) Retail 3 1 (7.143 %) Auditing 3 1 (7.143 %) Telecoms 3 1 (7.143 %) Government	Job Titles 1 7 (50.00 %) Analyst 2 6 (42.86 %) Tester 3 4 (28.57 %) Test Analyst 4 3 (21.43 %) Performance Tester 4 3 (21.43 %) Business Analyst 5 2 (14.29 %) Project Manager 6 1 (7.143 %) Junior 6 1 (7.143 %) Manual Tester 6 1 (7.143 %) Senior Tester 6 1 (7.143 %) Project Analyst 6 1 (7.143 %) Junior Test Analyst 6 1 (7.143 %) SAP Test Analyst 6 1 (7.143 %) Junior Analyst 6 1 (7.143 %) SAP Tester 6 1 (7.143 %) Functional Tester 6 1 (7.143 %) SAP Analyst
Miscellaneous 1 1 (7.143 %) LIMS	Operating Systems 1 2 (14.29 %) Windows
Processes & Methodologies 1 3 (21.43 %) User Acceptance Testing 1 3 (21.43 %) Software Testing 2 2 (14.29 %) Refactoring 2 2 (14.29 %) Use Case 2 2 (14.29 %) Performance Testing 2 2 (14.29 %) Data Modelling 2 2 (14.29 %) Project Management 3 1 (7.143 %) Document Management 3 1 (7.143 %) Business Analysis 3 1 (7.143 %) BPR 3 1 (7.143 %) Manual Testing 3 1 (7.143 %) SC Cleared 3 1 (7.143 %) Security Cleared	Programming Languages 1 1 (7.143 %) Java 1 1 (7.143 %) SQL 1 1 (7.143 %) Transact-SQL
Qualifications 1 2 (14.29 %) ISEB	System Software 1 2 (14.29 %) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors 1 3 (21.43 %) SAP 2 2 (14.29 %) HP 2 2 (14.29 %) VMware 3 1 (7.143 %) IBM