The first table below looks at the demand for Performance Testing skills in IT contracts advertised for the Nottinghamshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Performance Testing over the 3 months to 20 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 Nottinghamshire 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
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Performance Testing
Rank - 37 -
Contract jobs citing Performance Testing 0 2 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Nottinghamshire - 0.702% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category - 1.036% -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £400 £375
% change year-on-year
-18.75% +6.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £32.00 £31.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+1.58% -10.00%
All Processes & Methodologies
Nottinghamshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
227 193 176
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Nottinghamshire 68.17% 67.72% 59.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 104 102 59
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 £265 £261 £263
10% offered a daily rate of more than £463 £475 £425
UK excluding London average daily rate £363 £363 £375
% change year-on-year
- -3.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 12 8
Average hourly rate £27.50 £17.50 £23.25
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+57.14% -24.73%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £17.00 £8.50 £14.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £35.00 £30.00 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £32.00 £25.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year
+28.00% -16.66%
Performance Testing
East Midlands

Performance Testing
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Nottinghamshire Performance Testing Jobs Demand Trend

Performance Testing
Daily Rate Trend

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

Nottinghamshire Performance Testing Daily Rate Trend

Performance Testing
Top 20 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Nottinghamshire region citing Performance 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 Performance Testing.

1 3 (50.00%) soapUI
2 2 (33.33%) QA
2 2 (33.33%) User Acceptance Testing
3 1 (16.67%) Finance
3 1 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (16.67%) BASE24
3 1 (16.67%) ISO 8583
3 1 (16.67%) Retail
3 1 (16.67%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 1 (16.67%) Wincor Nixdorf
3 1 (16.67%) SQL
3 1 (16.67%) T-SQL
3 1 (16.67%) SQL Server
3 1 (16.67%) EPoS
3 1 (16.67%) EFT
3 1 (16.67%) Integration Testing
3 1 (16.67%) Test Scripting
3 1 (16.67%) VeriFone
3 1 (16.67%) Test Strategy
3 1 (16.67%) Functional Testing

Performance Testing
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Nottinghamshire region citing Performance 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 Performance Testing. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 3 (50.00%) soapUI
Business Applications
1 1 (16.67%) BASE24
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) SQL Server
1 1 (16.67%) SQL Server Reporting Services
General
1 1 (16.67%) Finance
1 1 (16.67%) Retail
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Tester
1 3 (50.00%) Performance Tester
2 2 (33.33%) Programme Test Manager
2 2 (33.33%) Programme Manager
2 2 (33.33%) Test Manager
3 1 (16.67%) DBA
3 1 (16.67%) Test Programme Manager
3 1 (16.67%) SQL Server DBA
3 1 (16.67%) SQL DBA
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) EPoS
1 1 (16.67%) EFT
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (33.33%) User Acceptance Testing
2 1 (16.67%) Integration Testing
2 1 (16.67%) Test Scripting
2 1 (16.67%) Test Strategy
2 1 (16.67%) Functional Testing
2 1 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (16.67%) SQL
1 1 (16.67%) T-SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (33.33%) QA
2 1 (16.67%) ISO 8583
Vendors
1 1 (16.67%) Wincor Nixdorf
1 1 (16.67%) VeriFone