Stress Testing Contracts in the North West
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for Stress Testing skills in IT contracts advertised for the North West region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Stress Testing over the 3 months to 24 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 North West 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
24 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Stress Testing
Rank 112 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing Stress Testing 6 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the North West 0.257% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.363% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 6 0 0
Average daily rate £350 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £469 £333
% change year-on-year
-25.33% +40.97%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - £27.50
Search 9 Stress Testing jobs in the North West
All Processes & Methodologies
North West
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category		 1655 1920 1976
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the North West 71.00% 61.72% 64.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 814 983 1018
Average daily rate £350 £350 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +7.69%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £236 £238 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £500 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £365 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
- -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 83 81 96
Average hourly rate £21.00 £18.00 £20.30
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+16.66% -11.30%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.25 £13.30 £12.90
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £49.00 £37.50 £38.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.00 £25.00 £29.50
% change year-on-year
+20.00% -15.25%
Stress Testing
England

Stress Testing
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Stress Testing across the North West region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

North West Stress Testing Jobs Demand Trend

Stress Testing
Daily Rate Trend

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

North West Stress Testing Daily Rate Trend

Stress Testing
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Stress Testing within the North West region over the 3 months to 24 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
Manchester - 5 £350 -
Lancashire - 1 £330 -
Stress Testing
England

Stress Testing
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the North West region citing Stress 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 Stress Testing.

1 4 (50.00%) Cognos
1 4 (50.00%) Data Quality
2 3 (37.50%) IBM
3 2 (25.00%) zOS
3 2 (25.00%) RACF
3 2 (25.00%) Configuration Management
3 2 (25.00%) Project Management
3 2 (25.00%) DB2
3 2 (25.00%) CICS
3 2 (25.00%) CA
3 2 (25.00%) User Acceptance Testing
3 2 (25.00%) VSAM
4 1 (12.50%) Credit Risk
4 1 (12.50%) VMware
4 1 (12.50%) Asset Management
4 1 (12.50%) Performance Testing
4 1 (12.50%) HP Quality Center
4 1 (12.50%) LoadRunner
4 1 (12.50%) SOAP
4 1 (12.50%) Web Services
4 1 (12.50%) UNIX
4 1 (12.50%) Windows
4 1 (12.50%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (12.50%) Data Modelling
4 1 (12.50%) FTP
4 1 (12.50%) HTTP
4 1 (12.50%) TCP/IP
4 1 (12.50%) TOAD
4 1 (12.50%) HP
4 1 (12.50%) Oracle

Stress Testing
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the North West region citing Stress 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 Stress Testing. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (12.50%) SOAP
1 1 (12.50%) Web Services
Application Platforms
1 2 (25.00%) CICS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (12.50%) FTP
1 1 (12.50%) HTTP
1 1 (12.50%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (25.00%) DB2
2 1 (12.50%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (12.50%) TOAD
2 1 (12.50%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (12.50%) LoadRunner
Job Titles
1 2 (25.00%) CICS Programmer
1 2 (25.00%) Programmer
1 2 (25.00%) Systems Programmer
1 2 (25.00%) CICS Systems Programmer
2 1 (12.50%) Performance Test Consultant
2 1 (12.50%) IT Project Manager
2 1 (12.50%) Test Consultant
2 1 (12.50%) Project Manager
2 1 (12.50%) Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) VSAM
2 1 (12.50%) Credit Risk
Operating Systems
1 2 (25.00%) zOS
2 1 (12.50%) UNIX
2 1 (12.50%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (25.00%) Configuration Management
1 2 (25.00%) Project Management
1 2 (25.00%) User Acceptance Testing
2 1 (12.50%) Asset Management
2 1 (12.50%) Performance Testing
2 1 (12.50%) Data Modelling
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (50.00%) Data Quality
System Software
1 2 (25.00%) RACF
Systems Management
1 1 (12.50%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 4 (50.00%) Cognos
2 3 (37.50%) IBM
3 2 (25.00%) CA
4 1 (12.50%) VMware
4 1 (12.50%) HP
4 1 (12.50%) Oracle
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