Northamptonshire Test Scripting Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Test Scripting (Test Scripts) skills within the Northamptonshire 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 10 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Test Scripting (Test Scripts)
Location Aberdeen Abingdon Amersham Basildon Basingstoke Bath Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Blackpool Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentford Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Burgess Hill Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Channel Islands Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Chippenham City of London County Antrim Coventry Croydon Darlington Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset Durham East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edinburgh England Essex Fareham Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Hampshire Havant Hertfordshire Hove Hull Isleworth Lancashire Leeds Liverpool London M4 Corridor Maidenhead Manchester Marlow Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Preston Reading Rugby Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southend-on-Sea Staffordshire Staines Stockton-on-Tees Stoke-on-Trent Sunbury-on-Thames Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Teesside Telford Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Wallington Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Wiltshire Windsor Wokingham York Yorkshire	3 months to 10 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	30	38
Rank change on same period last year	+8
Matching contract IT job ads	2	4
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.003 %	0.004 %
As % of the category below	1.124 %	2.030 %
Daily rates quoted	2	1
Average minimum daily rate	£425	£200
Average daily rate	£463	£225
% change on same period last year	+105.55 %
Average maximum daily rate	£500	£250
UK excluding London average daily rate	£325	£315
% change on same period last year	+3.03 %
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	£32.00	£27.39
% change on same period last year	+16.81 %
Processes & Methodologies Northamptonshire
Matching contract IT job ads	178	197
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.251 %	0.199 %
Daily rates quoted	122	73
Average minimum daily rate	£427	£370
Average daily rate	£446	£394
% change on same period last year	+13.08 %
Average maximum daily rate	£465	£419
UK excluding London average daily rate	£377	£370
% change on same period last year	+1.87 %
Hourly rates quoted	7	21
Average minimum hourly rate	£33.64	£24.63
Average hourly rate	£37.21	£27.29
% change on same period last year	+36.34 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£40.79	£29.96
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£29.44	£30.00
% change on same period last year	-1.89 %
Test Scripting East Midlands

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 Northamptonshire 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 Northamptonshire region.

Test Scripting
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Test Scripting across the Northamptonshire region over the 3 months to 10 October 2008.

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 Northamptonshire 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 Northamptonshire region over the 3 months to 10 October 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
Northampton	-4	2	£463	+105.55 %

Test Scripting East Midlands

Test Scripting
Top 25 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 10 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Northamptonshire 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 3 (37.50 %) Software Testing 1 3 (37.50 %) User Acceptance Testing 1 3 (37.50 %) Finance 2 2 (25.00 %) Risk Analysis 2 2 (25.00 %) Quality Management 3 1 (12.50 %) Workflow 3 1 (12.50 %) Incident Management 3 1 (12.50 %) Degree 3 1 (12.50 %) JIRA 3 1 (12.50 %) Load Testing 3 1 (12.50 %) Manual Testing 3 1 (12.50 %) Education 3 1 (12.50 %) Government 3 1 (12.50 %) Health 3 1 (12.50 %) Banking

3 1 (12.50 %) Local Government 3 1 (12.50 %) Capita 3 1 (12.50 %) SQL 3 1 (12.50 %) SQL Server 3 1 (12.50 %) Windows 3 1 (12.50 %) MS Excel 3 1 (12.50 %) FoxPro (VFP) 3 1 (12.50 %) Microsoft 3 1 (12.50 %) ISEB 3 1 (12.50 %) Mainframe

Test Scripting
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 10 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Northamptonshire 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.

Applications 1 1 (12.50 %) MS Excel	Database & Business Intelligence 1 1 (12.50 %) SQL Server
Development Applications 1 1 (12.50 %) JIRA	General 1 3 (37.50 %) Finance 2 1 (12.50 %) Education 2 1 (12.50 %) Government 2 1 (12.50 %) Health 2 1 (12.50 %) Banking 2 1 (12.50 %) Local Government
Job Titles 1 4 (50.00 %) Analyst 1 4 (50.00 %) Test Analyst 2 2 (25.00 %) Test Manager 2 2 (25.00 %) Tester 3 1 (12.50 %) Project Manager 3 1 (12.50 %) Senior Analyst 3 1 (12.50 %) Systems Tester 3 1 (12.50 %) Senior Test Analyst 3 1 (12.50 %) UAT Analyst	Miscellaneous 1 1 (12.50 %) Mainframe
Operating Systems 1 1 (12.50 %) Windows	Processes & Methodologies 1 3 (37.50 %) Software Testing 1 3 (37.50 %) User Acceptance Testing 2 2 (25.00 %) Risk Analysis 2 2 (25.00 %) Quality Management 3 1 (12.50 %) Workflow 3 1 (12.50 %) Incident Management 3 1 (12.50 %) Load Testing 3 1 (12.50 %) Manual Testing
Programming Languages 1 1 (12.50 %) SQL 1 1 (12.50 %) FoxPro (VFP)	Qualifications 1 1 (12.50 %) ISEB 1 1 (12.50 %) Degree
Vendors 1 1 (12.50 %) Microsoft 1 1 (12.50 %) Capita