Middlesex User Acceptance Testing Contracts

This section looks at the demand for User Acceptance Testing (UAT) 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 User Acceptance Testing over the 3 months to 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

User Acceptance Testing (UAT)
Location Abingdon Aldershot Andover Basildon Basingstoke Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Blackpool Borehamwood Bournemouth Bracknell Brentwood Bridgend Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Carlisle Cheltenham Cheshire Chester City of London Colchester County Antrim Coventry Crawley Croydon Cumbria Devon Docklands, London Dorset Dundee Durham East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh England Essex Exeter Farnborough Gatwick Glamorgan Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Guildford Halifax Hampshire Havant Herefordshire Hertfordshire Home Counties Horsham Ipswich Kent Knutsford Lancashire Leamington Spa Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Liverpool London Luton M4 Corridor Macclesfield Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Northumberland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Poole Portsmouth Reading Rickmansworth Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Skelmersdale Slough Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Staffordshire Staines Stockport Stoke-on-Trent Street Suffolk Surrey Sussex Swindon Tadworth Taunton Telford Thames Valley Tunbridge Wells Tyne and Wear UK Uttoxeter Uxbridge Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Welwyn Garden City West Drayton West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wigan Wilmslow Wiltshire Winchester Windsor Wokingham Worthing York Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	37	33
Rank change on same period last year	-4
Matching contract IT job ads	10	16
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.013 %	0.016 %
As % of the category below	2.747 %	4.324 %
Daily rates quoted	3	7
Average minimum daily rate	£367	£364
Average daily rate	£387	£379
% change on same period last year	+2.13 %
Average maximum daily rate	£407	£393
UK excluding London average daily rate	£344	£347
% change on same period last year	-1.01 %
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	£28.64	£21.57
% change on same period last year	+32.75 %
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 %
User Acceptance 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.

User Acceptance Testing
Demand Trend

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

User Acceptance Testing
Daily Rate Trend

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

User Acceptance Testing
Daily Rate Histogram

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

User Acceptance Testing
Hourly Rate Trend

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

User Acceptance Testing
Hourly Rate Histogram

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

User Acceptance Testing
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Middlesex 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 5 (31.25 %) Oracle 2 4 (25.00 %) Finance 2 4 (25.00 %) Datawarehouse 2 4 (25.00 %) Pharmaceutical 3 3 (18.75 %) Project Management 3 3 (18.75 %) Test Scripting 4 2 (12.50 %) Test Management 4 2 (12.50 %) Migration 4 2 (12.50 %) Oracle Applications 4 2 (12.50 %) Oracle Financials 4 2 (12.50 %) BizTalk Server 5 1 (6.250 %) DataStage 5 1 (6.250 %) PRINCE 5 1 (6.250 %) Cognos 5 1 (6.250 %) Java

5 1 (6.250 %) MS Visio 5 1 (6.250 %) Data Modelling 5 1 (6.250 %) Business Intelligence 5 1 (6.250 %) IBM 5 1 (6.250 %) ISEB 5 1 (6.250 %) MS Project 5 1 (6.250 %) PeopleSoft 5 1 (6.250 %) SAP 5 1 (6.250 %) Business Analysis 5 1 (6.250 %) SAP Oil and Gas 5 1 (6.250 %) Software Testing 5 1 (6.250 %) Requirements Management 5 1 (6.250 %) Auditing 5 1 (6.250 %) QA 5 1 (6.250 %) Performance Testing

User Acceptance Testing
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Middlesex 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 Platforms 1 2 (12.50 %) BizTalk Server	Applications 1 1 (6.250 %) MS Project 1 1 (6.250 %) MS Visio
Business Applications 1 2 (12.50 %) Oracle Financials 1 2 (12.50 %) Oracle Applications 2 1 (6.250 %) SAP Oil and Gas	Database & Business Intelligence 1 4 (25.00 %) Datawarehouse 2 1 (6.250 %) DataStage
General 1 4 (25.00 %) Pharmaceutical 1 4 (25.00 %) Finance 2 1 (6.250 %) Retail 2 1 (6.250 %) Insurance 2 1 (6.250 %) Auditing	Job Titles 1 5 (31.25 %) Analyst 2 4 (25.00 %) Project Manager 3 3 (18.75 %) Business Analyst 3 3 (18.75 %) Test Manager 4 2 (12.50 %) Test Analyst 4 2 (12.50 %) Functional Consultant 4 2 (12.50 %) Consultant 4 2 (12.50 %) Development Manager 4 2 (12.50 %) Oracle Consultant 4 2 (12.50 %) Oracle Functional Consultant 4 2 (12.50 %) Oracle Applications Consultant 4 2 (12.50 %) Oracle Applications Functional Consulta… 5 1 (6.250 %) Oracle Project Manager 5 1 (6.250 %) UAT Analyst 5 1 (6.250 %) Junior Test Analyst 5 1 (6.250 %) Junior Analyst 5 1 (6.250 %) Architect 5 1 (6.250 %) Development Project Manager 5 1 (6.250 %) QA Engineer 5 1 (6.250 %) Applications Consultant
Processes & Methodologies 1 3 (18.75 %) Project Management 1 3 (18.75 %) Test Scripting 2 2 (12.50 %) Test Management 2 2 (12.50 %) Migration 3 1 (6.250 %) Document Management 3 1 (6.250 %) Systems Analysis 3 1 (6.250 %) Business Analysis 3 1 (6.250 %) Software Testing 3 1 (6.250 %) Requirements Management 3 1 (6.250 %) Performance Testing 3 1 (6.250 %) Data Modelling 3 1 (6.250 %) Business Intelligence 3 1 (6.250 %) PRINCE	Programming Languages 1 1 (6.250 %) Java
Qualifications 1 1 (6.250 %) ISEB	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 1 (6.250 %) QA
Vendors 1 5 (31.25 %) Oracle 2 1 (6.250 %) PeopleSoft 2 1 (6.250 %) SAP 2 1 (6.250 %) Cognos 2 1 (6.250 %) IBM