North West LoadRunner Contracts

This section looks at the demand for HP LoadRunner skills within the North West region with a comparison to our Development Applications category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT job ads that have cited LoadRunner over the 3 months to 4 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Basingstoke Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Bracknell Bristol Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cheshire City of London County Antrim Devon Docklands, London Dorking East Anglia East Midlands East of England Edinburgh England Essex Glasgow Guildford Halifax Hampshire Hertfordshire Home Counties Lancashire Leatherhead Leeds Lincolnshire Liverpool London Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Norfolk North East North West Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Plymouth Reading Redhill Scotland Shropshire Skelmersdale South East South Wales South West Southampton Southport Staffordshire Surrey Swindon Telford Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Wales Watford West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wilmslow Wiltshire Woking Yorkshire	3 months to 4 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	112	115
Rank change on same period last year	+3
Matching contract IT job ads	32	18
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.042 %	0.019 %
As % of the category below	9.143 %	4.878 %
Daily rates quoted	15	3
Average minimum daily rate	£314	£300
Average daily rate	£321	£333
% change on same period last year	-3.84 %
Average maximum daily rate	£327	£367
UK excluding London average daily rate	£324	£355
% change on same period last year	-8.80 %
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	£35.36	£34.58
% change on same period last year	+2.23 %
Development Applications North West
Matching contract IT job ads	350	369
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.462 %	0.391 %
Daily rates quoted	66	60
Average minimum daily rate	£314	£275
Average daily rate	£334	£287
% change on same period last year	+16.35 %
Average maximum daily rate	£353	£299
UK excluding London average daily rate	£335	£329
% change on same period last year	+1.79 %
Hourly rates quoted	46	52
Average minimum hourly rate	£23.72	£27.45
Average hourly rate	£25.70	£29.21
% change on same period last year	-12.00 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£27.68	£30.97
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£33.57	£34.00
% change on same period last year	-1.26 %
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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.

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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing LoadRunner across the North West region as a proportion of the total demand within the Development Applications category.

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Daily Rate Trend

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

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Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing LoadRunner across the North West region over the 3 months to 4 July 2008.

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Hourly Rate Trend

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

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Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT job ads citing LoadRunner within the North West region over the 3 months to 4 July 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
Cheshire	-11	11	£304	-
Merseyside	-4	10	£324	-1.70 %
Lancashire	+5	3	-	-
Manchester	-20	2	£380	-

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the North West region citing LoadRunner 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 LoadRunner.

1 23 (51.11 %) Performance Testing 2 10 (22.22 %) Oracle 3 9 (20.00 %) WebLogic 3 9 (20.00 %) Vignette 3 9 (20.00 %) LDAP 3 9 (20.00 %) Unix 3 9 (20.00 %) Sun 3 9 (20.00 %) WebLogic Portal 3 9 (20.00 %) BEA 3 9 (20.00 %) Content Management 4 8 (17.78 %) ISEB 4 8 (17.78 %) TestDirector 5 6 (13.33 %) Intranet 5 6 (13.33 %) Ant 5 6 (13.33 %) CMS

5 6 (13.33 %) Release Management 5 6 (13.33 %) Test Scripting 6 5 (11.11 %) JUnit 6 5 (11.11 %) Finance 7 4 (8.889 %) Solaris 7 4 (8.889 %) Software Testing 8 3 (6.667 %) Test Management 8 3 (6.667 %) Pharmaceutical 8 3 (6.667 %) BIG-IP 8 3 (6.667 %) Retail 8 3 (6.667 %) HP 8 3 (6.667 %) C 8 3 (6.667 %) Validation 8 3 (6.667 %) CONTROL-M 8 3 (6.667 %) Internet

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the North West region citing LoadRunner 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 LoadRunner. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 3 (6.667 %) J2EE 2 1 (2.222 %) WebSphere	Application Platforms 1 9 (20.00 %) WebLogic 1 9 (20.00 %) WebLogic Portal 2 6 (13.33 %) CMS 3 2 (4.444 %) SAS 4 1 (2.222 %) MQSeries
Communications & Networking 1 9 (20.00 %) LDAP 2 6 (13.33 %) Intranet 3 3 (6.667 %) Internet 3 3 (6.667 %) BIG-IP 4 1 (2.222 %) GSM 4 1 (2.222 %) UMTS	Development Applications 1 8 (17.78 %) TestDirector 2 6 (13.33 %) Ant 3 5 (11.11 %) JUnit 4 2 (4.444 %) WinRunner 5 1 (2.222 %) QuickTest Pro
General 1 5 (11.11 %) Finance 2 3 (6.667 %) Pharmaceutical 2 3 (6.667 %) Retail 3 2 (4.444 %) Banking	Job Titles 1 19 (42.22 %) Tester 2 14 (31.11 %) Performance Tester 3 9 (20.00 %) Support Engineer 4 8 (17.78 %) Analyst 4 8 (17.78 %) Test Analyst 5 3 (6.667 %) Test Engineer 5 3 (6.667 %) Team Leader 5 3 (6.667 %) Test Team Leader 5 3 (6.667 %) Performance Engineer 5 3 (6.667 %) Performance Analyst 5 3 (6.667 %) Performance Test Analyst 6 2 (4.444 %) Technical Support Engineer 6 2 (4.444 %) Test Consultant 6 2 (4.444 %) Technical Engineer 6 2 (4.444 %) Consultant 6 2 (4.444 %) Technical Support 6 2 (4.444 %) Test Manager 7 1 (2.222 %) Technical Tester 7 1 (2.222 %) LoadRunner Consultant 7 1 (2.222 %) Functional Analyst
Miscellaneous 1 1 (2.222 %) Mainframe	Operating Systems 1 9 (20.00 %) Unix 2 4 (8.889 %) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies 1 23 (51.11 %) Performance Testing 2 9 (20.00 %) Content Management 3 6 (13.33 %) Release Management 3 6 (13.33 %) Test Scripting 4 4 (8.889 %) Software Testing 5 3 (6.667 %) Validation 5 3 (6.667 %) Test Management 6 2 (4.444 %) Stress Testing 6 2 (4.444 %) Security Cleared 7 1 (2.222 %) SC Cleared 7 1 (2.222 %) BC Cleared 7 1 (2.222 %) Automated Testing	Programming Languages 1 3 (6.667 %) C 2 2 (4.444 %) Java 3 1 (2.222 %) SQL 3 1 (2.222 %) VB 3 1 (2.222 %) VBA
Qualifications 1 8 (17.78 %) ISEB	Systems Management 1 3 (6.667 %) CONTROL-M
Vendors 1 10 (22.22 %) Oracle 2 9 (20.00 %) Vignette 2 9 (20.00 %) Sun 2 9 (20.00 %) BEA 3 3 (6.667 %) HP 4 1 (2.222 %) SAP 4 1 (2.222 %) Symbian