North East User Acceptance Testing Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for User Acceptance Testing (UAT) 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 User Acceptance Testing over the 3 months to 2 December 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

User Acceptance Testing (UAT)
Location Aberdeen Basildon Basingstoke Bedfordshire Belfast Benfleet Berkshire Birmingham Blackpool Bournemouth Brentford Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Chelmsford Cheltenham Cheshire Chester City of London Cobham County Antrim Coventry Crawley Croydon Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset Dunstable East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh England Essex Exeter Fareham Farnborough Feltham Fleetwood Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Hereford Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Home Counties Ipswich Isleworth Kent Lancashire Leeds Leicestershire Liverpool London Lytham St Annes M4 Corridor Macclesfield Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newport Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Osterley Oxford Oxfordshire Paddington Peterborough Pudsey Reading Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Skelmersdale Slough Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Staines Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Telford Thames Ditton Thames Valley Tyne and Wear Tyneside UK Uxbridge Wales Warwick Warwickshire Welwyn Garden City West Malling West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Wiltshire Wokingham Worcester Worcestershire York Yorkshire	3 months to 2 Dec 2008	Same period last year
Rank	44	45
Rank change on same period last year	+1
Matching contract IT job ads	4	17
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.006 %	0.018 %
As % of the category below	1.843 %	3.881 %
Daily rates quoted	1	5
Average minimum daily rate	£600	£294
Average daily rate	£600	£296
% change on same period last year	+102.70 %
Average maximum daily rate	£600	£298
UK excluding London average daily rate	£359	£346
% change on same period last year	+3.62 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	2
Average minimum hourly rate	-	£33.50
Average hourly rate	-	£36.00
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	£38.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£27.52	£26.68
% change on same period last year	+3.13 %
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 %
User Acceptance Testing 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.

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 North East 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 North East region.

User Acceptance Testing
Hourly Rate Trend

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

User Acceptance Testing
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing User Acceptance Testing 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	+2	2	£600	+102.70 %

User Acceptance Testing England

User Acceptance Testing
Top 23 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 2 December 2008, IT contractor jobs across the North East 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 2 (33.33 %) SQL 2 1 (16.67 %) Migration 2 1 (16.67 %) Retail 2 1 (16.67 %) ISEB Practitioner 2 1 (16.67 %) Data Analysis 2 1 (16.67 %) Statistical Analysis 2 1 (16.67 %) Test Management 2 1 (16.67 %) Test Scripting 2 1 (16.67 %) Data Migration 2 1 (16.67 %) J2EE 2 1 (16.67 %) Oracle 2 1 (16.67 %) JSP 2 1 (16.67 %) Servlets 2 1 (16.67 %) J2SE 2 1 (16.67 %) JBuilder

2 1 (16.67 %) ERP 2 1 (16.67 %) ISO9001 2 1 (16.67 %) Oracle 10g 2 1 (16.67 %) JDeveloper 2 1 (16.67 %) ISEB 2 1 (16.67 %) CICS 2 1 (16.67 %) Borland 2 1 (16.67 %) Java

User Acceptance Testing
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 2 December 2008, IT contractor jobs across the North East 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.

Application Development 1 1 (16.67 %) J2EE 1 1 (16.67 %) JSP 1 1 (16.67 %) Servlets 1 1 (16.67 %) J2SE	Application Platforms 1 1 (16.67 %) CICS
Database & Business Intelligence 1 1 (16.67 %) Oracle 10g	Development Applications 1 1 (16.67 %) JBuilder 1 1 (16.67 %) JDeveloper
General 1 1 (16.67 %) Retail	Job Titles 1 2 (33.33 %) Analyst 2 1 (16.67 %) Test Manager 2 1 (16.67 %) Support Analyst 2 1 (16.67 %) Applications Support 2 1 (16.67 %) Data Analyst 2 1 (16.67 %) Java Developer 2 1 (16.67 %) Applications Support Analyst 2 1 (16.67 %) Systems Architect 2 1 (16.67 %) Architect 2 1 (16.67 %) Tester 2 1 (16.67 %) Developer
Processes & Methodologies 1 1 (16.67 %) ERP 1 1 (16.67 %) Migration 1 1 (16.67 %) Data Analysis 1 1 (16.67 %) Statistical Analysis 1 1 (16.67 %) Test Management 1 1 (16.67 %) Test Scripting 1 1 (16.67 %) Data Migration	Programming Languages 1 2 (33.33 %) SQL 2 1 (16.67 %) Java
Qualifications 1 1 (16.67 %) ISEB 1 1 (16.67 %) ISEB Practitioner	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 1 (16.67 %) ISO9001
Vendors 1 1 (16.67 %) Oracle 1 1 (16.67 %) Borland