The first table below looks at the demand for Test Scripting 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 Test Scripting over the 3 months to 23 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
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Test Scripting (Test Scripts)
Rank 46 50 51
Rank change year-on-year
+4 +1
Contract jobs citing Test Scripting 9 11 5
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Milton Keynes 1.698% 1.556% 0.817%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.350% 2.366% 1.458%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 9 4
Average daily rate £250 £325 £175
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-23.07% +85.71%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £252 £171
10% offered a daily rate of more than £280 £350 £254
UK excluding London average daily rate £330 £300 £320
% change year-on-year
+10.00% -6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £26.00 £27.50 £18.75
% change year-on-year
-5.45% +46.66%
All Processes & Methodologies
Milton Keynes
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
383 465 343
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Milton Keynes 72.26% 65.77% 56.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 235 212 153
Average daily rate £350 £325 £338
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.69% -3.70%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £225 £175
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £405 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £365 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
- -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 25 31
Average hourly rate £16.50 £14.75 £15.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+11.86% -1.66%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.50 £10.58 £10.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £22.50 £17.00 £47.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.45 £25.00 £29.00
% change year-on-year
+21.78% -13.79%
Test Scripting
Buckinghamshire

Test Scripting
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Milton Keynes Test Scripting Jobs Demand Trend

Test Scripting
Daily Rate Trend

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

Milton Keynes Test Scripting Daily Rate Trend

Test Scripting
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Milton Keynes Test Scripting Hourly Rate Trend

Test Scripting
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Milton Keynes region citing Test Scripting 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 Test Scripting.

1 6 (30.00%) User Acceptance Testing
1 6 (30.00%) Test Strategy
2 5 (25.00%) HP
2 5 (25.00%) SQL
3 4 (20.00%) ITIL
3 4 (20.00%) Windows
3 4 (20.00%) MS Excel
3 4 (20.00%) MS Exchange
3 4 (20.00%) LAN
3 4 (20.00%) WAN
3 4 (20.00%) DHCP
3 4 (20.00%) TCP/IP
3 4 (20.00%) DNS
3 4 (20.00%) Active Directory
3 4 (20.00%) SAN
3 4 (20.00%) Windows Server 2003
3 4 (20.00%) Blackberry
3 4 (20.00%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
3 4 (20.00%) Configuration Management
3 4 (20.00%) Firewall
3 4 (20.00%) Validation
3 4 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 4 (20.00%) Integration Testing
3 4 (20.00%) DV Cleared
3 4 (20.00%) Security Cleared
3 4 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (20.00%) Windows Server 2008
3 4 (20.00%) Windows 7
3 4 (20.00%) Exchange Server 2007
3 4 (20.00%) Exchange Server 2010

Test Scripting
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Milton Keynes region citing Test Scripting 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 Test Scripting. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (5.000%) BPEL4WS
1 1 (5.000%) WebSphere
1 1 (5.000%) SOAP
1 1 (5.000%) WSDL
Application Platforms
1 4 (20.00%) MS Exchange
1 4 (20.00%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
1 4 (20.00%) Exchange Server 2007
1 4 (20.00%) Exchange Server 2010
1 4 (20.00%) Exchange Server 2003
2 1 (5.000%) ESB
2 1 (5.000%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 4 (20.00%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 4 (20.00%) LAN
1 4 (20.00%) WAN
1 4 (20.00%) DHCP
1 4 (20.00%) TCP/IP
1 4 (20.00%) DNS
1 4 (20.00%) SAN
1 4 (20.00%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.000%) BODI
1 1 (5.000%) BusinessObjects Web Intelligence
1 1 (5.000%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (5.000%) Oracle Reports
General
1 2 (10.00%) Retail
2 1 (5.000%) Billing
2 1 (5.000%) Finance
2 1 (5.000%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 11 (55.00%) Analyst
2 10 (50.00%) Test Analyst
3 4 (20.00%) Test Manager
3 4 (20.00%) Integration Engineer
4 3 (15.00%) SAP Test Manager
4 3 (15.00%) SAP Manager
5 2 (10.00%) Business Analyst
6 1 (5.000%) Business Test Analyst
6 1 (5.000%) Test Leader
6 1 (5.000%) UAT Manager
Miscellaneous
1 4 (20.00%) Blackberry
2 1 (5.000%) EPoS
Operating Systems
1 4 (20.00%) Windows
1 4 (20.00%) Windows Server 2003
1 4 (20.00%) Windows Server 2008
1 4 (20.00%) Windows 7
1 4 (20.00%) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (30.00%) User Acceptance Testing
1 6 (30.00%) Test Strategy
2 4 (20.00%) ITIL
2 4 (20.00%) Configuration Management
2 4 (20.00%) Validation
2 4 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 4 (20.00%) Integration Testing
3 3 (15.00%) Test Management
4 1 (5.000%) Logistics
4 1 (5.000%) Business Analysis
4 1 (5.000%) Software Testing
4 1 (5.000%) Risk Assessment
4 1 (5.000%) Programme Management
4 1 (5.000%) Fault Management
4 1 (5.000%) Performance Management
4 1 (5.000%) V-Model
4 1 (5.000%) Project Management
4 1 (5.000%) Workflow
4 1 (5.000%) CRM
4 1 (5.000%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 5 (25.00%) SQL
2 1 (5.000%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 4 (20.00%) DV Cleared
1 4 (20.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (10.00%) ISEB
3 1 (5.000%) ISEB Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (10.00%) QA
2 1 (5.000%) Data Quality
System Software
1 4 (20.00%) Active Directory
1 4 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (10.00%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 5 (25.00%) HP
2 4 (20.00%) VMware
3 3 (15.00%) SAP
4 1 (5.000%) Oracle
4 1 (5.000%) Business Objects