The first table below looks at the demand for QuickTest Pro skills in IT contracts advertised for the Milton Keynes region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited QuickTest Pro over the 3 months to 17 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 Development Applications category for the Milton Keynes 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
HP QuickTest Professional (QTP)
Rank 36 47 54
Rank change year-on-year
+11 +7
Contract jobs citing QuickTest Pro 16 16 4
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Milton Keynes 3.119% 2.201% 0.670%
As % of the Development Applications category 42.11% 38.10% 11.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 10 2
Average daily rate £256 £300 £275
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-14.58% +9.09%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £202 £278 £215
10% offered a daily rate of more than £400 £327 £335
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £300 £320
% change year-on-year
+8.33% -6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £24.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year
- -20.00%
All Development Applications
Milton Keynes
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Development Applications category
38 42 35
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Milton Keynes 7.407% 5.777% 5.863%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 26 15
Average daily rate £400 £300 £200
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+33.33% +50.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £243 £265 £110
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £375 £300
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £330 £325
% change year-on-year
-1.51% +1.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 3
Average hourly rate - £36.50 £36.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+7.14% -
QuickTest Pro
Buckinghamshire

QuickTest Pro
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing QuickTest Pro across the Milton Keynes region as a proportion of the total demand within the Development Applications category.

Milton Keynes QuickTest Pro Jobs Demand Trend

QuickTest Pro
Daily Rate Trend

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

Milton Keynes QuickTest Pro Daily Rate Trend

QuickTest Pro
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing QuickTest Pro across the Milton Keynes region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

Milton Keynes QuickTest Pro Daily Rate Histogram

QuickTest Pro
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Milton Keynes 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 18 (90.00%) Finance
2 13 (65.00%) Banking
3 11 (55.00%) HP Quality Center
3 11 (55.00%) Automation Testing
4 9 (45.00%) Retail
4 9 (45.00%) Retail Banking
5 3 (15.00%) SOAP
5 3 (15.00%) ATM
5 3 (15.00%) Agile Software Development
5 3 (15.00%) Selenium
6 2 (10.00%) Team Foundation Server
6 2 (10.00%) Test Automation
6 2 (10.00%) WebDriver
6 2 (10.00%) soapUI
6 2 (10.00%) HP
6 2 (10.00%) Remedy
6 2 (10.00%) Spanish Language
7 1 (5.000%) Automated Testing
7 1 (5.000%) Software Testing
7 1 (5.000%) Incident Management
7 1 (5.000%) QA
7 1 (5.000%) WebSphere
7 1 (5.000%) Resource Management
7 1 (5.000%) Automotive
7 1 (5.000%) Scrum
7 1 (5.000%) Web Services
7 1 (5.000%) Windows
7 1 (5.000%) Java
7 1 (5.000%) SQL
7 1 (5.000%) .NET

QuickTest Pro
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Milton Keynes 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 3 (15.00%) SOAP
2 2 (10.00%) soapUI
3 1 (5.000%) .NET
3 1 (5.000%) Web Services
3 1 (5.000%) WebSphere
3 1 (5.000%) WCF
Communications & Networking
1 3 (15.00%) ATM
Development Applications
1 3 (15.00%) Selenium
2 2 (10.00%) Team Foundation Server
2 2 (10.00%) WebDriver
3 1 (5.000%) Visual Studio
General
1 18 (90.00%) Finance
2 13 (65.00%) Banking
3 9 (45.00%) Retail
3 9 (45.00%) Retail Banking
4 2 (10.00%) Spanish Language
5 1 (5.000%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 10 (50.00%) Analyst
1 10 (50.00%) Test Analyst
2 5 (25.00%) Tester
3 3 (15.00%) Test Manager
4 2 (10.00%) Junior
4 2 (10.00%) Senior Analyst
4 2 (10.00%) Senior Test Analyst
4 2 (10.00%) Junior Tester
4 2 (10.00%) Automation Analyst
4 2 (10.00%) Automation Test Analyst
5 1 (5.000%) Functional Tester
5 1 (5.000%) Test Leader
5 1 (5.000%) Automation Engineer
5 1 (5.000%) Test Automation Engineer
5 1 (5.000%) Testing Manager
5 1 (5.000%) Head of Testing
5 1 (5.000%) Senior Test Manager
5 1 (5.000%) Senior QA Manager
5 1 (5.000%) Technical Tester
5 1 (5.000%) Test Engineer
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.000%) Windows
1 1 (5.000%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (55.00%) Automation Testing
2 3 (15.00%) Agile Software Development
3 2 (10.00%) Test Automation
4 1 (5.000%) Waterfall
4 1 (5.000%) Test Strategy
4 1 (5.000%) Scrum
4 1 (5.000%) Automated Testing
4 1 (5.000%) Software Testing
4 1 (5.000%) Incident Management
4 1 (5.000%) Resource Management
4 1 (5.000%) Web Testing
4 1 (5.000%) Test Management
4 1 (5.000%) Manual Testing
4 1 (5.000%) V-Model
Programming Languages
1 1 (5.000%) Java
1 1 (5.000%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.000%) QA
Systems Management
1 11 (55.00%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 2 (10.00%) HP
1 2 (10.00%) Remedy