The first table below looks at the demand for User Acceptance 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 User Acceptance Testing over the 3 months to 21 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
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
User Acceptance Testing (UAT)
Rank 36 34 29
Rank change year-on-year
-2 -5
Contract jobs citing User Acceptance Testing 6 3 4
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Nottinghamshire 1.791% 1.053% 1.356%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.620% 1.571% 2.247%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 3
Average daily rate £300 - £325
UK excluding London average daily rate £328 £350 £350
% change year-on-year
-6.42% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.00 £26.14 £23.00
% change year-on-year
+14.76% +13.65%
All Processes & Methodologies
Nottinghamshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
229 191 178
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Nottinghamshire 68.36% 67.02% 60.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 105 101 60
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 £263 £263
10% offered a daily rate of more than £463 £475 £425
UK excluding London average daily rate £363 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
-0.68% -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 12 9
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 £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 £31.50 £25.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year
+26.00% -16.66%
User Acceptance Testing
East Midlands

User Acceptance Testing
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Nottinghamshire User Acceptance Testing Jobs Demand Trend

User Acceptance Testing
Daily Rate Trend

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

Nottinghamshire User Acceptance Testing Daily Rate Trend

User Acceptance Testing
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing User Acceptance Testing within the Nottinghamshire region over the 3 months to 21 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
Nottingham -8 3 - -
User Acceptance Testing
East Midlands

User Acceptance Testing
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Nottinghamshire 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 (29.41%) Retail
1 5 (29.41%) Test Scripting
1 5 (29.41%) HP Quality Center
2 4 (23.53%) SQL Server 2008
2 4 (23.53%) Smart Meter
2 4 (23.53%) SQL Server
2 4 (23.53%) Microsoft
3 3 (17.65%) C#
3 3 (17.65%) .NET
3 3 (17.65%) IIS
3 3 (17.65%) SAP
3 3 (17.65%) ASP.NET
3 3 (17.65%) Web Services
3 3 (17.65%) SAP ECC
3 3 (17.65%) System Testing
3 3 (17.65%) Data Migration
3 3 (17.65%) SQL Server 2012
3 3 (17.65%) Integration Testing
3 3 (17.65%) WCF
3 3 (17.65%) Migration
4 2 (11.76%) Scrum
4 2 (11.76%) Performance Testing
4 2 (11.76%) QA
4 2 (11.76%) Manual Testing
4 2 (11.76%) Test Strategy
4 2 (11.76%) Finance
5 1 (5.882%) Publishing
5 1 (5.882%) Management Information System
5 1 (5.882%) Billing
5 1 (5.882%) Content Management

User Acceptance Testing
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Nottinghamshire 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 Development
1 3 (17.65%) .NET
1 3 (17.65%) ASP.NET
1 3 (17.65%) Web Services
1 3 (17.65%) WCF
Application Platforms
1 3 (17.65%) IIS
2 1 (5.882%) SharePoint
2 1 (5.882%) SharePoint 2010
Business Applications
1 3 (17.65%) SAP ECC
2 1 (5.882%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (5.882%) BASE24
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.882%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (23.53%) SQL Server 2008
1 4 (23.53%) SQL Server
2 3 (17.65%) SQL Server 2012
3 1 (5.882%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 1 (5.882%) SQL Server 2005
3 1 (5.882%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 1 (5.882%) SQL Server Analysis Services
General
1 5 (29.41%) Retail
2 2 (11.76%) Finance
3 1 (5.882%) Publishing
3 1 (5.882%) Billing
Job Titles
1 5 (29.41%) Test Analyst
1 5 (29.41%) Analyst
2 4 (23.53%) Test Manager
3 3 (17.65%) SAP Analyst
3 3 (17.65%) Deployment Engineer
3 3 (17.65%) SAP Test Analyst
4 2 (11.76%) Programme Test Manager
4 2 (11.76%) Test Leader
4 2 (11.76%) Tester
4 2 (11.76%) Programme Manager
5 1 (5.882%) Senior Manager
5 1 (5.882%) Administrator
5 1 (5.882%) UAT Tester
5 1 (5.882%) SharePoint Administrator
5 1 (5.882%) Test Programme Manager
5 1 (5.882%) Senior Test Manager
5 1 (5.882%) Manual Test Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 4 (23.53%) Smart Meter
2 1 (5.882%) Management Information System
2 1 (5.882%) Statistics
2 1 (5.882%) EPoS
2 1 (5.882%) EFT
2 1 (5.882%) SaaS
2 1 (5.882%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.882%) Windows Server 2003
1 1 (5.882%) Windows
1 1 (5.882%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (29.41%) Test Scripting
2 3 (17.65%) System Testing
2 3 (17.65%) Data Migration
2 3 (17.65%) Integration Testing
2 3 (17.65%) Migration
3 2 (11.76%) Scrum
3 2 (11.76%) Performance Testing
3 2 (11.76%) Manual Testing
3 2 (11.76%) Test Strategy
4 1 (5.882%) Content Management
4 1 (5.882%) Information Management
4 1 (5.882%) CRM
4 1 (5.882%) Functional Testing
4 1 (5.882%) Test Automation
4 1 (5.882%) Test Management
4 1 (5.882%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (17.65%) C#
2 1 (5.882%) PowerShell
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (11.76%) QA
2 1 (5.882%) ISO 8583
Systems Management
1 5 (29.41%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 4 (23.53%) Microsoft
2 3 (17.65%) SAP
3 1 (5.882%) Wincor Nixdorf
3 1 (5.882%) VeriFone