Midlands QuickTest Pro Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for HP QuickTest Professional (QTP) skills within the Midlands region with a comparison to our Development Applications category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited QuickTest Pro over the 3 months to 4 September 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

HP QuickTest Professional (QTP)
Location Aberdeen Andover Basingstoke Berkshire Birmingham Bournemouth Bracknell Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cheshire City of London Derby Derbyshire Docklands, London Dorset East Midlands East of England Edinburgh England Essex Farnham Glasgow Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harlow Hertfordshire Leeds London M4 Corridor Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Norfolk North West Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Reading Scotland Shropshire South East South Lanarkshire South West Southampton Southend-on-Sea Stevenage Surrey Swansea Swindon Telford Thames Valley UK Uxbridge Wales Warrington Watford West Midlands West Wales West Yorkshire Wiltshire Yorkshire	3 months to 4 Sep 2008	Same period last year
Rank	54	74
Rank change on same period last year	+20
Matching contract IT job ads	11	5
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.015 %	0.005 %
As % of the category below	16.18 %	3.521 %
Daily rates quoted	2	0
Average minimum daily rate	£260	-
Average daily rate	£280	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	£300	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£314	£332
% change on same period last year	-5.43 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum hourly rate	-	-
Average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.83	£36.56
% change on same period last year	-34.80 %
Development Applications Midlands
Matching contract IT job ads	68	142
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.092 %	0.142 %
Daily rates quoted	15	16
Average minimum daily rate	£287	£353
Average daily rate	£316	£359
% change on same period last year	-11.96 %
Average maximum daily rate	£346	£365
UK excluding London average daily rate	£326	£336
% change on same period last year	-2.93 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	15
Average minimum hourly rate	-	£28.48
Average hourly rate	-	£28.48
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	£28.48
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£33.22	£33.21
% change on same period last year	+0.01 %
QuickTest Pro England

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.

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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing QuickTest Pro across the Midlands region as a proportion of the total demand within the Development Applications category.

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Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing QuickTest Pro across the Midlands region.

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Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing QuickTest Pro across the Midlands region over the 3 months to 4 September 2008.

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Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing QuickTest Pro across the Midlands region.

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 4 September 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Midlands region citing QuickTest Pro 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 QuickTest Pro.

1 10 (62.50 %) TestDirector 2 9 (56.25 %) Finance 3 7 (43.75 %) Automotive 3 7 (43.75 %) Agile Software Development 3 7 (43.75 %) User Acceptance Testing 3 7 (43.75 %) Financial Institution 4 6 (37.50 %) Test Scripting 5 4 (25.00 %) WinRunner 6 2 (12.50 %) ISEB 6 2 (12.50 %) LoadRunner 6 2 (12.50 %) Pharmaceutical 6 2 (12.50 %) TDD 6 2 (12.50 %) VB 6 2 (12.50 %) .NET 6 2 (12.50 %) J2EE

6 2 (12.50 %) MFC 6 2 (12.50 %) Ant 6 2 (12.50 %) JUnit 6 2 (12.50 %) WebSphere Application Server 6 2 (12.50 %) SAP 6 2 (12.50 %) OO 6 2 (12.50 %) Swing 6 2 (12.50 %) Tomcat 6 2 (12.50 %) AWT 6 2 (12.50 %) Java 6 2 (12.50 %) Adobe 6 2 (12.50 %) Unit Testing 6 2 (12.50 %) WebSphere 6 2 (12.50 %) QA 6 2 (12.50 %) Adobe Flex

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 4 September 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Midlands region citing QuickTest Pro 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 QuickTest Pro. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 2 (12.50 %) .NET 1 2 (12.50 %) J2EE 1 2 (12.50 %) MFC 1 2 (12.50 %) Swing 1 2 (12.50 %) AWT 1 2 (12.50 %) WebSphere 1 2 (12.50 %) Adobe Flex 1 2 (12.50 %) Adobe AIR	Application Platforms 1 2 (12.50 %) WebSphere Application Server 1 2 (12.50 %) Tomcat
Development Applications 1 10 (62.50 %) TestDirector 2 4 (25.00 %) WinRunner 3 2 (12.50 %) LoadRunner 3 2 (12.50 %) Ant 3 2 (12.50 %) JUnit	General 1 9 (56.25 %) Finance 2 7 (43.75 %) Automotive 2 7 (43.75 %) Financial Institution 3 2 (12.50 %) Pharmaceutical 4 1 (6.250 %) Pensions
Job Titles 1 5 (31.25 %) Analyst 1 5 (31.25 %) Test Analyst 2 2 (12.50 %) Consultant 2 2 (12.50 %) SAP Consultant 2 2 (12.50 %) Test Consultant 2 2 (12.50 %) QA Test Analyst 2 2 (12.50 %) QA Analyst 2 2 (12.50 %) Flex Developer 2 2 (12.50 %) Tester 2 2 (12.50 %) Developer	Operating Systems 1 1 (6.250 %) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies 1 7 (43.75 %) Agile Software Development 1 7 (43.75 %) User Acceptance Testing 2 6 (37.50 %) Test Scripting 3 2 (12.50 %) OO 3 2 (12.50 %) Unit Testing 3 2 (12.50 %) TDD 4 1 (6.250 %) Automated Testing	Programming Languages 1 2 (12.50 %) Java 1 2 (12.50 %) VB 2 1 (6.250 %) JavaScript 2 1 (6.250 %) VBScript
Qualifications 1 2 (12.50 %) ISEB	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 2 (12.50 %) QA 2 1 (6.250 %) GMP 2 1 (6.250 %) GLP
Vendors 1 2 (12.50 %) SAP 1 2 (12.50 %) Adobe 2 1 (6.250 %) HP