User Acceptance Testing Contracts in the Midlands
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Hourly Rate Trend Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for User Acceptance Testing skills in IT contracts advertised for the Midlands 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 Midlands 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 23 20 15
Rank change year-on-year
-3 -5
Contract jobs citing User Acceptance Testing 3 8 22
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the Midlands 1.744% 3.008% 6.414%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.679% 6.107% 9.910%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 6 5
Average daily rate £350 £328 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+6.87% -6.42%
UK excluding London average daily rate £328 £350 £350
% change year-on-year
-6.42% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 4
Average hourly rate - - £27.25
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.00 £26.28 £23.00
% change year-on-year
+14.15% +14.26%
All Processes & Methodologies
Midlands
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category		 112 131 222
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the Midlands 65.12% 49.25% 64.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 56 55 52
Average daily rate £450 £375 £445
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+20.00% -15.73%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £325 £250 £290
10% offered a daily rate of more than £600 £550 £550
UK excluding London average daily rate £365 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
- -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 8 58
Average hourly rate £32.00 £21.00 £24.75
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+52.38% -15.15%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.00 £25.00 £29.50
% change year-on-year
+20.00% -15.25%
User Acceptance Testing
England

User Acceptance Testing
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Midlands 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 Midlands region.

Midlands User Acceptance Testing Daily Rate Trend

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 Midlands region.

Midlands User Acceptance Testing Hourly Rate Trend

User Acceptance Testing
Top 28 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Midlands 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 3 (42.86%) MS Excel
1 3 (42.86%) Test Scripting
2 2 (28.57%) Microsoft
2 2 (28.57%) MS Office
2 2 (28.57%) Time Management
2 2 (28.57%) SC Cleared
2 2 (28.57%) Security Cleared
2 2 (28.57%) Test Management
2 2 (28.57%) Root Cause Analysis
3 1 (14.29%) SharePoint 2010
3 1 (14.29%) Hyperion Planning
3 1 (14.29%) Hyperion
3 1 (14.29%) Integration Testing
3 1 (14.29%) System Testing
3 1 (14.29%) SharePoint
3 1 (14.29%) ETL
3 1 (14.29%) RDBMS
3 1 (14.29%) SQL
3 1 (14.29%) T-SQL
3 1 (14.29%) Oracle
3 1 (14.29%) SQL Server
3 1 (14.29%) WebLogic
3 1 (14.29%) IIS
3 1 (14.29%) Finance
3 1 (14.29%) Migration
3 1 (14.29%) Essbase
3 1 (14.29%) Software Testing
3 1 (14.29%) SQL Server Integration Services

User Acceptance Testing
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Midlands 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 1 (14.29%) SharePoint 2010
1 1 (14.29%) SharePoint
1 1 (14.29%) WebLogic
1 1 (14.29%) IIS
Applications
1 3 (42.86%) MS Excel
2 2 (28.57%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Hyperion Planning
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (14.29%) RDBMS
1 1 (14.29%) SQL Server
1 1 (14.29%) Essbase
1 1 (14.29%) SQL Server Integration Services
General
1 1 (14.29%) Finance
Job Titles
1 6 (85.71%) Analyst
2 4 (57.14%) Test Analyst
3 2 (28.57%) UAT Analyst
3 2 (28.57%) Business Analyst
3 2 (28.57%) UAT Test Analyst
4 1 (14.29%) Consultant
4 1 (14.29%) DBA
4 1 (14.29%) Technical Analyst
4 1 (14.29%) Hyperion Consultant
4 1 (14.29%) Technical Test Analyst
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (42.86%) Test Scripting
2 2 (28.57%) Time Management
2 2 (28.57%) Test Management
2 2 (28.57%) Root Cause Analysis
3 1 (14.29%) Integration Testing
3 1 (14.29%) System Testing
3 1 (14.29%) ETL
3 1 (14.29%) Migration
3 1 (14.29%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 1 (14.29%) SQL
1 1 (14.29%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (28.57%) SC Cleared
1 2 (28.57%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 2 (28.57%) Microsoft
2 1 (14.29%) Hyperion
2 1 (14.29%) Oracle
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