Newbury User Acceptance Testing Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for User Acceptance Testing (UAT) skills within the Newbury region with a comparison to our Processes & Methodologies category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited User Acceptance Testing over the 3 months to 8 January 2009 with a comparison to the same period last year.

User Acceptance Testing (UAT)
Location Addlestone Andover Basingstoke Benfleet Berkshire Birmingham Blackpool Brentford Brighton Bristol Buckingham Buckinghamshire Burton-upon-Trent Camberley Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Chelmsford Chertsey Cheshire Chester City of London Cobham Croydon Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Doncaster Dorset East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh England Essex Exeter Fareham Farnborough Feltham Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Guildford Hammersmith Hampshire Hereford Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Home Counties Ipswich Isle of Man Isleworth Kent Lancashire Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Liverpool Livingston London Lytham St Annes M4 Corridor Macclesfield Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newport Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Norwich Osterley Paddington Peterborough Reading Scotland Shropshire Slough Solihull Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Staffordshire Staines Stoke-on-Trent Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Surrey Sussex Swindon Telford Thames Ditton Thames Valley UK Uxbridge Wales Warwick Warwickshire Welwyn Garden City West Lothian West Malling West Midlands West Yorkshire Wiltshire Woking Worcester Worcestershire York Yorkshire	3 months to 8 Jan 2009	Same period last year
Rank	10	21
Rank change on same period last year	+11
Matching contract IT job ads	6	1
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.012 %	0.001 %
As % of the category below	8.333 %	1.149 %
Daily rates quoted	0	1
Average minimum daily rate	-	£250
Average daily rate	-	£285
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	£320
UK excluding London average daily rate	£348	£345
% change on same period last year	+0.79 %
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	£23.10	£29.12
% change on same period last year	-20.67 %
Processes & Methodologies Newbury
Matching contract IT job ads	72	87
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.144 %	0.109 %
Daily rates quoted	15	13
Average minimum daily rate	£330	£337
Average daily rate	£356	£356
% change on same period last year	+0.03 %
Average maximum daily rate	£383	£376
UK excluding London average daily rate	£381	£376
% change on same period last year	+1.41 %
Hourly rates quoted	4	4
Average minimum hourly rate	£22.50	£20.50
Average hourly rate	£24.00	£21.94
% change on same period last year	+9.40 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£25.50	£23.38
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£27.65	£28.89
% change on same period last year	-4.31 %
User Acceptance Testing Berkshire

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.

User Acceptance Testing
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing User Acceptance Testing across the Newbury region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

User Acceptance Testing
Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing User Acceptance Testing across the Newbury region.

User Acceptance Testing
Top 19 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 8 January 2009, IT contractor jobs across the Newbury 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 12 (100.00 %) Telecoms 2 4 (33.33 %) ITIL 2 4 (33.33 %) Remedy 2 4 (33.33 %) Configuration Management 2 4 (33.33 %) Requirements Analysis 2 4 (33.33 %) Business Analysis 3 3 (25.00 %) Billing 4 2 (16.67 %) Migration 4 2 (16.67 %) INAP 4 2 (16.67 %) TestDirector 4 2 (16.67 %) UNIX 4 2 (16.67 %) SMS 4 2 (16.67 %) Integration Testing 4 2 (16.67 %) Test Scripting 4 2 (16.67 %) Service Management

5 1 (8.333 %) Unit Testing 5 1 (8.333 %) Incident Management 5 1 (8.333 %) ISEB 5 1 (8.333 %) Internet

User Acceptance Testing
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 8 January 2009, IT contractor jobs across the Newbury 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.

Communications & Networking 1 2 (16.67 %) SMS 1 2 (16.67 %) INAP 2 1 (8.333 %) Internet	Development Applications 1 2 (16.67 %) TestDirector
General 1 12 (100.00 %) Telecoms 2 3 (25.00 %) Billing	Job Titles 1 8 (66.67 %) Business Analyst 1 8 (66.67 %) Analyst 2 3 (25.00 %) IT Business Analyst 3 2 (16.67 %) Process Designer 3 2 (16.67 %) Test Engineer 4 1 (8.333 %) Test Specialist 4 1 (8.333 %) Integration Engineer 4 1 (8.333 %) Test Analyst 4 1 (8.333 %) Test and Integration Engineer
Operating Systems 1 2 (16.67 %) UNIX	Processes & Methodologies 1 4 (33.33 %) ITIL 1 4 (33.33 %) Configuration Management 1 4 (33.33 %) Business Analysis 1 4 (33.33 %) Requirements Analysis 2 2 (16.67 %) Service Management 2 2 (16.67 %) Migration 2 2 (16.67 %) Integration Testing 2 2 (16.67 %) Test Scripting 3 1 (8.333 %) Unit Testing 3 1 (8.333 %) Incident Management
Qualifications 1 1 (8.333 %) ISEB	Vendors 1 4 (33.33 %) Remedy