North East Test Scripting Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Test Scripting (Test Scripts) skills within the North East region with a comparison to our Processes & Methodologies category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Test Scripting over the 3 months to 2 December 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Test Scripting (Test Scripts)
Location Basingstoke Bath Belfast Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Blackpool Bracknell Bradford Bradford-on-Avon Brentford Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Burgess Hill Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Channel Islands Cheltenham Cheshire Chester City of London County Antrim Coventry Crawley Croydon Darlington Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset Durham East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edinburgh England Essex Exeter Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Gosport Hammersmith Hampshire Havant Hertfordshire Hull Isleworth Lancashire Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Liverpool London M4 Corridor Maidenhead Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Osterley Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Plymouth Portsmouth Reading Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Solihull Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Staffordshire Staines Stoke-on-Trent Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Surrey Sussex Swindon Taunton Telford Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Windsor Wokingham Worcester Worcestershire Worthing Yeovil York Yorkshire	3 months to 2 Dec 2008	Same period last year
Rank	38	56
Rank change on same period last year	+18
Matching contract IT job ads	10	6
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.016 %	0.006 %
As % of the category below	4.608 %	1.370 %
Daily rates quoted	0	1
Average minimum daily rate	-	£200
Average daily rate	-	£225
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	£250
UK excluding London average daily rate	£323	£311
% change on same period last year	+3.78 %
Hourly rates quoted	1	1
Average minimum hourly rate	£17.00	£60.00
Average hourly rate	£18.00	£60.00
% change on same period last year	-70.00 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£19.00	£60.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£30.67	£28.39
% change on same period last year	+8.02 %
Processes & Methodologies North East
Matching contract IT job ads	217	438
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.349 %	0.470 %
Daily rates quoted	54	141
Average minimum daily rate	£321	£321
Average daily rate	£355	£333
% change on same period last year	+6.43 %
Average maximum daily rate	£389	£346
UK excluding London average daily rate	£381	£372
% change on same period last year	+2.31 %
Hourly rates quoted	20	37
Average minimum hourly rate	£21.99	£39.68
Average hourly rate	£23.12	£42.61
% change on same period last year	-45.73 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£24.26	£45.53
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£28.24	£29.63
% change on same period last year	-4.68 %
Test Scripting England

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.

Test Scripting
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Test Scripting across the North East region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

Test Scripting
Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Test Scripting across the North East region.

Test Scripting
Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Test Scripting across the North East region.

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 North East region over the 3 months to 2 December 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
Tyne and Wear	+14	5	-	-
Durham	-	3	-	-

Test Scripting England

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Top 28 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 2 December 2008, IT contractor jobs across the North East 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 10 (47.62 %) LoadRunner 2 5 (23.81 %) Performance Testing 2 5 (23.81 %) Security Cleared 3 4 (19.05 %) SC Cleared 3 4 (19.05 %) Finance 3 4 (19.05 %) HTTP 3 4 (19.05 %) SAP 3 4 (19.05 %) XML 4 3 (14.29 %) Quality Management 4 3 (14.29 %) Risk Analysis 5 2 (9.524 %) Capita 5 2 (9.524 %) Windows 5 2 (9.524 %) SQL 5 2 (9.524 %) Mainframe 6 1 (4.762 %) HP

6 1 (4.762 %) Sybase 6 1 (4.762 %) UNIX 6 1 (4.762 %) Software Testing 6 1 (4.762 %) Incident Management 6 1 (4.762 %) Pensions 6 1 (4.762 %) WebSphere 6 1 (4.762 %) Agile Software Development 6 1 (4.762 %) Banking 6 1 (4.762 %) Data Analysis 6 1 (4.762 %) User Acceptance Testing 6 1 (4.762 %) Programme Management 6 1 (4.762 %) Stress Testing 6 1 (4.762 %) Test Management

Test Scripting
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 2 December 2008, IT contractor jobs across the North East 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 4 (19.05 %) XML 2 1 (4.762 %) WebSphere	Communications & Networking 1 4 (19.05 %) HTTP
Development Applications 1 10 (47.62 %) LoadRunner	General 1 4 (19.05 %) Finance 2 1 (4.762 %) Banking 2 1 (4.762 %) Pensions
Job Titles 1 9 (42.86 %) Test Manager 2 5 (23.81 %) Tester 2 5 (23.81 %) Performance Tester 3 4 (19.05 %) Test Engineer 4 3 (14.29 %) Performance Engineer 4 3 (14.29 %) Programme Manager 4 3 (14.29 %) Project Manager 5 2 (9.524 %) Programme Test Manager 5 2 (9.524 %) Analyst 6 1 (4.762 %) Test Analyst 6 1 (4.762 %) Functional Analyst 6 1 (4.762 %) Functional Test Analyst 6 1 (4.762 %) Data Analyst	Miscellaneous 1 2 (9.524 %) Mainframe
Operating Systems 1 2 (9.524 %) Windows 2 1 (4.762 %) UNIX	Processes & Methodologies 1 5 (23.81 %) Performance Testing 1 5 (23.81 %) Security Cleared 2 4 (19.05 %) SC Cleared 3 3 (14.29 %) Risk Analysis 3 3 (14.29 %) Quality Management 4 1 (4.762 %) Programme Management 4 1 (4.762 %) Agile Software Development 4 1 (4.762 %) Data Analysis 4 1 (4.762 %) Software Testing 4 1 (4.762 %) Incident Management 4 1 (4.762 %) User Acceptance Testing 4 1 (4.762 %) Stress Testing 4 1 (4.762 %) Test Management
Programming Languages 1 2 (9.524 %) SQL	Vendors 1 4 (19.05 %) SAP 2 2 (9.524 %) Capita 3 1 (4.762 %) Sybase 3 1 (4.762 %) HP