Northampton User Acceptance Testing Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for User Acceptance Testing (UAT) skills within the Northampton 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 21 November 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 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 Market Drayton 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 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 Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Wiltshire Wokingham Worcester Worcestershire Yorkshire	3 months to 21 Nov 2008	Same period last year
Rank	17	29
Rank change on same period last year	+12
Matching contract IT job ads	5	1
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.008 %	0.001 %
As % of the category below	5.556 %	0.962 %
Daily rates quoted	0	1
Average minimum daily rate	-	£250
Average daily rate	-	£265
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	£280
UK excluding London average daily rate	£359	£345
% change on same period last year	+4.04 %
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	£26.56	£21.64
% change on same period last year	+22.70 %
Processes & Methodologies Northampton
Matching contract IT job ads	90	104
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.142 %	0.111 %
Daily rates quoted	57	52
Average minimum daily rate	£435	£390
Average daily rate	£458	£408
% change on same period last year	+12.15 %
Average maximum daily rate	£480	£426
UK excluding London average daily rate	£380	£370
% change on same period last year	+2.76 %
Hourly rates quoted	7	12
Average minimum hourly rate	£25.06	£14.23
Average hourly rate	£25.07	£15.23
% change on same period last year	+64.68 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£25.09	£16.23
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£28.17	£29.91
% change on same period last year	-5.80 %
User Acceptance Testing Northamptonshire

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 Northampton 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 Northampton 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 Northampton region.

User Acceptance Testing
Top 10 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 November 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Northampton 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 5 (45.45 %) Oracle 1 5 (45.45 %) Microsoft 1 5 (45.45 %) Active Directory 2 2 (18.18 %) Use Case 2 2 (18.18 %) Intranet 3 1 (9.091 %) Banking 3 1 (9.091 %) Finance 3 1 (9.091 %) Internet 3 1 (9.091 %) CICS 3 1 (9.091 %) SCOM

User Acceptance Testing
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 November 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Northampton 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 Platforms 1 1 (9.091 %) CICS	Communications & Networking 1 2 (18.18 %) Intranet 2 1 (9.091 %) Internet
General 1 1 (9.091 %) Finance 1 1 (9.091 %) Banking	Job Titles 1 9 (81.82 %) Analyst 2 5 (45.45 %) Support Analyst 2 5 (45.45 %) Applications Support 2 5 (45.45 %) Applications Support Analyst 3 3 (27.27 %) Tester 3 3 (27.27 %) UAT Tester 4 2 (18.18 %) Business Analyst 4 2 (18.18 %) Test Analyst 5 1 (9.091 %) Systems Tester 5 1 (9.091 %) Software Tester
Processes & Methodologies 1 2 (18.18 %) Use Case	System Software 1 5 (45.45 %) Active Directory
Systems Management 1 1 (9.091 %) SCOM	Vendors 1 5 (45.45 %) Oracle 1 5 (45.45 %) Microsoft