The first table below looks at the demand for Test Scripting skills in IT contracts advertised for the Norfolk region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Test Scripting over the 3 months to 22 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 Norfolk 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
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Test Scripting (Test Scripts)
Rank 29 31 31
Rank change year-on-year
+2 0
Contract jobs citing Test Scripting 2 2 7
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Norfolk 1.093% 0.755% 2.652%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.818% 0.976% 3.723%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 1
Average daily rate £288 £306 £200
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-6.12% +53.12%
UK excluding London average daily rate £330 £300 £318
% change year-on-year
+10.00% -5.51%
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
Norfolk
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
110 205 188
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Norfolk 60.11% 77.36% 71.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 69 100 58
Average daily rate £285 £340 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-16.17% -9.33%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £197 £202 £239
10% offered a daily rate of more than £383 £525 £550
UK excluding London average daily rate £365 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
- -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 11 7
Average hourly rate £37.50 £23.00 £14.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+63.04% +64.28%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £19.00 £15.00 £7.90
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £40.00 £33.00 £25.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.00 £25.00 £29.00
% change year-on-year
+24.00% -13.79%
Test Scripting
East of England

Test Scripting
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Norfolk 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 Norfolk region.

Norfolk 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 Norfolk region.

Norfolk Test Scripting Hourly Rate Trend

Test Scripting
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Test Scripting within the Norfolk region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Norwich - 1 £290 -
Test Scripting
East of England

Test Scripting
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Norfolk 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 2 (66.67%) MS Project
1 2 (66.67%) User Acceptance Testing
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft
1 2 (66.67%) QA
2 1 (33.33%) Selenium
2 1 (33.33%) ISEB
2 1 (33.33%) QuickTest Pro
2 1 (33.33%) Internet
2 1 (33.33%) Project Management
2 1 (33.33%) Performance Testing
2 1 (33.33%) Integration Testing
2 1 (33.33%) Web Testing
2 1 (33.33%) Test Management
2 1 (33.33%) Manual Testing
2 1 (33.33%) System Testing
2 1 (33.33%) BPMN
2 1 (33.33%) Test Automation
2 1 (33.33%) Waterfall
2 1 (33.33%) Agile Project Management
2 1 (33.33%) Regression Testing
2 1 (33.33%) Finance
2 1 (33.33%) Bugzilla
2 1 (33.33%) Agile Software Development
2 1 (33.33%) Asset Management
2 1 (33.33%) Systems Analysis
2 1 (33.33%) Software Testing
2 1 (33.33%) Web Development
2 1 (33.33%) Degree
2 1 (33.33%) JIRA
2 1 (33.33%) MS Office

Test Scripting
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Norfolk 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 (33.33%) ASP.NET
1 1 (33.33%) XML
1 1 (33.33%) .NET
Applications
1 2 (66.67%) MS Project
2 1 (33.33%) MS Office
2 1 (33.33%) MS Visio
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) Internet
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Selenium
1 1 (33.33%) QuickTest Pro
1 1 (33.33%) Bugzilla
1 1 (33.33%) JIRA
General
1 1 (33.33%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Business Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Tester
2 1 (33.33%) Test Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Business Process Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Process Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) UAT Tester
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) User Acceptance Testing
2 1 (33.33%) Project Management
2 1 (33.33%) Performance Testing
2 1 (33.33%) Integration Testing
2 1 (33.33%) Web Testing
2 1 (33.33%) Test Management
2 1 (33.33%) Manual Testing
2 1 (33.33%) System Testing
2 1 (33.33%) BPMN
2 1 (33.33%) Test Automation
2 1 (33.33%) Waterfall
2 1 (33.33%) Agile Project Management
2 1 (33.33%) Regression Testing
2 1 (33.33%) Agile Software Development
2 1 (33.33%) Asset Management
2 1 (33.33%) Systems Analysis
2 1 (33.33%) Software Testing
2 1 (33.33%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) C#
1 1 (33.33%) C++
1 1 (33.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) ISEB
1 1 (33.33%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (66.67%) QA
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft