The first table below looks at the demand for System Testing 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 System Testing over the 3 months to 20 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 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
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
System Testing
Rank 48 62 48
Rank change year-on-year
+14 -14
Contract jobs citing System Testing 6 3 6
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Milton Keynes 1.156% 0.418% 1.010%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.600% 0.629% 1.724%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 0 4
Average daily rate £300 - £188
90% offered a daily rate of more than £273 - £175
10% offered a daily rate of more than £408 - £242
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Average hourly rate £13.50 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.00 £30.00 £27.75
% change year-on-year
- +8.10%
All Processes & Methodologies
Milton Keynes
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
375 477 348
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Milton Keynes 72.25% 66.43% 58.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 233 219 156
Average daily rate £345 £325 £340
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+6.15% -4.41%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £213 £210 £175
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £413 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £363 £363 £375
% change year-on-year
- -3.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 28 34
Average hourly rate £18.45 £15.00 £25.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+22.96% -40.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.50 £10.58 £10.60
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £35.00 £17.00 £45.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £32.00 £25.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year
+28.00% -16.66%
System Testing
Buckinghamshire

System Testing
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Milton Keynes System Testing Jobs Demand Trend

System Testing
Daily Rate Trend

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

Milton Keynes System Testing Daily Rate Trend

System Testing
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing System Testing across the Milton Keynes region over the 3 months to 20 May 2013.

Milton Keynes System Testing Daily Rate Histogram

System Testing
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing System Testing across the Milton Keynes region.

Milton Keynes System Testing Hourly Rate Trend

System Testing
Top 29 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Milton Keynes region citing System 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 System Testing.

1 4 (40.00%) SQL
2 3 (30.00%) T-SQL
2 3 (30.00%) .NET
2 3 (30.00%) SQL Server
2 3 (30.00%) User Acceptance Testing
2 3 (30.00%) Test Strategy
3 2 (20.00%) SAP FI
3 2 (20.00%) Finance
3 2 (20.00%) SAP
3 2 (20.00%) Oracle
4 1 (10.00%) SOAP
4 1 (10.00%) SharePoint
4 1 (10.00%) TOAD
4 1 (10.00%) Internet
4 1 (10.00%) Extranet
4 1 (10.00%) Migration
4 1 (10.00%) Oracle Payroll
4 1 (10.00%) SAP FI/CO
4 1 (10.00%) Web Testing
4 1 (10.00%) Manual Testing
4 1 (10.00%) Security Cleared
4 1 (10.00%) Market Research
4 1 (10.00%) HP Quality Center
4 1 (10.00%) Waterfall
4 1 (10.00%) soapUI
4 1 (10.00%) Content Management
4 1 (10.00%) Automated Testing
4 1 (10.00%) SAP CO
4 1 (10.00%) Functional Testing

System Testing
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Milton Keynes region citing System 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 System Testing. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 3 (30.00%) .NET
2 1 (10.00%) SOAP
2 1 (10.00%) soapUI
Application Platforms
1 1 (10.00%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 2 (20.00%) SAP FI
2 1 (10.00%) Oracle Payroll
2 1 (10.00%) SAP FI/CO
2 1 (10.00%) SAP CO
Communications & Networking
1 1 (10.00%) Internet
1 1 (10.00%) Extranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (30.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (10.00%) TOAD
General
1 2 (20.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 3 (30.00%) Developer
1 3 (30.00%) Analyst
1 3 (30.00%) Test Analyst
1 3 (30.00%) SQL Database Developer
1 3 (30.00%) Database Developer
1 3 (30.00%) SQL Developer
2 2 (20.00%) Payroll Manager
2 2 (20.00%) Test Manager
3 1 (10.00%) Administrator
3 1 (10.00%) SharePoint Administrator
3 1 (10.00%) SAP Test Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) Manual Test Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) SAP Tester
3 1 (10.00%) SAP Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) Implementation Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) Tester
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (30.00%) User Acceptance Testing
1 3 (30.00%) Test Strategy
2 1 (10.00%) Functional Testing
2 1 (10.00%) Migration
2 1 (10.00%) Content Management
2 1 (10.00%) Automated Testing
2 1 (10.00%) Web Testing
2 1 (10.00%) Manual Testing
2 1 (10.00%) Market Research
2 1 (10.00%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 4 (40.00%) SQL
2 3 (30.00%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (10.00%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 1 (10.00%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 2 (20.00%) Oracle
1 2 (20.00%) SAP