The first table below looks at the demand for Test Scripting skills in IT contracts advertised for the Nottingham region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Test Scripting over the 3 months to 22 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 Nottingham 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
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Test Scripting (Test Scripts)
Rank 32 27 27
Rank change year-on-year
-5 0
Contract jobs citing Test Scripting 5 3 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Nottingham 1.748% 1.327% 0.870%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.488% 1.875% 1.379%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 1
Average daily rate £275 - £225
UK excluding London average daily rate £330 £300 £318
% change year-on-year
+10.00% -5.51%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £26.00 £27.50 £18.75
% change year-on-year
-5.45% +46.66%
All Processes & Methodologies
Nottingham
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
201 160 145
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Nottingham 70.28% 70.80% 63.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 89 79 46
Average daily rate £350 £338 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+3.70% -3.57%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £260 £250 £259
10% offered a daily rate of more than £463 £500 £425
UK excluding London average daily rate £365 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
- -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 12 8
Average hourly rate £27.50 £17.50 £26.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+57.14% -32.69%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £19.39 £8.50 £14.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £35.00 £30.00 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.00 £25.00 £29.00
% change year-on-year
+24.00% -13.79%
Test Scripting
Nottinghamshire

Test Scripting
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Test Scripting across the Nottingham region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

Nottingham Test Scripting Jobs Demand Trend

Test Scripting
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Test Scripting across the Nottingham region.

Nottingham Test Scripting Daily Rate Trend

Test Scripting
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Test Scripting across the Nottingham region.

Nottingham Test Scripting Hourly Rate Trend

Test Scripting
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Nottingham 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 (33.33%) Migration
1 3 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
1 3 (33.33%) Integration Testing
1 3 (33.33%) Manual Testing
2 2 (22.22%) Data Migration
2 2 (22.22%) User Acceptance Testing
2 2 (22.22%) Test Strategy
2 2 (22.22%) Finance
2 2 (22.22%) ISEB
3 1 (11.11%) SAP BW
3 1 (11.11%) TIBCO
3 1 (11.11%) SAP FI
3 1 (11.11%) JavaScript
3 1 (11.11%) PL/SQL
3 1 (11.11%) SQL
3 1 (11.11%) ABAP
3 1 (11.11%) Oracle
3 1 (11.11%) SAP
3 1 (11.11%) UNIX
3 1 (11.11%) SOA
3 1 (11.11%) Business Intelligence
3 1 (11.11%) HP
3 1 (11.11%) Scrum
3 1 (11.11%) SAP FI/CO
3 1 (11.11%) SAP CO
3 1 (11.11%) Agile Software Development
3 1 (11.11%) Retail
3 1 (11.11%) Billing
3 1 (11.11%) SAP Retail
3 1 (11.11%) Software Testing

Test Scripting
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Nottingham 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.

Application Platforms
1 1 (11.11%) ESB
Business Applications
1 1 (11.11%) SAP FI
1 1 (11.11%) SAP FI/CO
1 1 (11.11%) SAP CO
1 1 (11.11%) SAP Retail
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (11.11%) SAP BW
Development Applications
1 1 (11.11%) TestComplete
General
1 2 (22.22%) Finance
2 1 (11.11%) Retail
2 1 (11.11%) Billing
Job Titles
1 3 (33.33%) Analyst
1 3 (33.33%) Test Analyst
2 2 (22.22%) Test Leader
2 2 (22.22%) Test Manager
3 1 (11.11%) Tester
3 1 (11.11%) Programme Manager
3 1 (11.11%) Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Senior Manager
3 1 (11.11%) Software Tester
3 1 (11.11%) Senior Test Manager
3 1 (11.11%) SAP Test Analyst
3 1 (11.11%) Programme Test Manager
3 1 (11.11%) SAP Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 1 (11.11%) Statistics
Operating Systems
1 1 (11.11%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (33.33%) Migration
1 3 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
1 3 (33.33%) Integration Testing
1 3 (33.33%) Manual Testing
2 2 (22.22%) Data Migration
2 2 (22.22%) User Acceptance Testing
2 2 (22.22%) Test Strategy
3 1 (11.11%) SOA
3 1 (11.11%) Business Intelligence
3 1 (11.11%) Scrum
3 1 (11.11%) Agile Software Development
3 1 (11.11%) Software Testing
3 1 (11.11%) Automation Testing
3 1 (11.11%) Performance Testing
3 1 (11.11%) Test Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (11.11%) JavaScript
1 1 (11.11%) PL/SQL
1 1 (11.11%) SQL
1 1 (11.11%) ABAP
Qualifications
1 2 (22.22%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (11.11%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (11.11%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 1 (11.11%) TIBCO
1 1 (11.11%) Oracle
1 1 (11.11%) SAP
1 1 (11.11%) HP
Nottingham, Nottinghamshire
ISEB or ISTQB qualified to foundation level. -Definition and creation of test scripts for internal QA and system testing purposes... -Good knowledge of Agile development techniques such as “...
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Posted: 17 May 2013