Oxfordshire User Acceptance Testing Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for User Acceptance Testing (UAT) skills within the Oxfordshire 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 5 September 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

User Acceptance Testing (UAT)
Location Aberdeen Abingdon Aldershot Andover Basildon Basingstoke Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Blackpool Bournemouth Bracknell Brentwood Bridgend Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Carlisle Cheltenham Cheshire Chester City of London Colchester County Antrim Coventry Crawley Croydon Cumbria Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset Durham East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh England Essex Exeter Farnborough Gatwick Glamorgan Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Halifax Hampshire Harrogate Hertfordshire High Wycombe Horsham Ipswich Kent Lancashire Leeds Liverpool London M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead 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 Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Poole Portsmouth Reading Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Skelmersdale Slough Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southend-on-Sea Staines Stockport Street Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Tadworth Taunton Telford Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Welwyn Garden City West Drayton West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Wigan Wiltshire Windsor Wokingham Worthing York Yorkshire	3 months to 5 Sep 2008	Same period last year
Rank	52	56
Rank change on same period last year	+4
Matching contract IT job ads	4	2
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.005 %	0.002 %
As % of the category below	1.198 %	0.816 %
Daily rates quoted	0	1
Average minimum daily rate	-	£400
Average daily rate	-	£450
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	£500
UK excluding London average daily rate	£337	£347
% change on same period last year	-2.94 %
Hourly rates quoted	1	0
Average minimum hourly rate	£20.00	-
Average hourly rate	£22.50	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	£25.00	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£31.96	£27.23
% change on same period last year	+17.39 %
Processes & Methodologies Oxfordshire
Matching contract IT job ads	334	245
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.451 %	0.242 %
Daily rates quoted	100	53
Average minimum daily rate	£311	£319
Average daily rate	£335	£345
% change on same period last year	-2.73 %
Average maximum daily rate	£359	£371
UK excluding London average daily rate	£378	£375
% change on same period last year	+0.59 %
Hourly rates quoted	54	33
Average minimum hourly rate	£23.40	£21.81
Average hourly rate	£24.78	£24.04
% change on same period last year	+3.07 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£26.15	£26.27
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£30.41	£30.41
% change on same period last year	+0.01 %
User Acceptance Testing South East

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 Oxfordshire 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 Oxfordshire 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 Oxfordshire region.

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 Oxfordshire region over the 3 months to 5 September 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
Abingdon	-	1	-	-
Oxford	+1	1	-	-

User Acceptance Testing South East

User Acceptance Testing
Top 27 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 5 September 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Oxfordshire 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 (71.43 %) SQL 2 4 (57.14 %) Sybase 2 4 (57.14 %) SC Cleared 2 4 (57.14 %) Security Cleared 3 3 (42.86 %) System Testing 3 3 (42.86 %) UNIX 4 2 (28.57 %) MS Excel 4 2 (28.57 %) E-Commerce 4 2 (28.57 %) MS Office 4 2 (28.57 %) Penetration Testing 4 2 (28.57 %) Software Testing 4 2 (28.57 %) Regression Testing 4 2 (28.57 %) QA 4 2 (28.57 %) Use Case 4 2 (28.57 %) Stress Testing

4 2 (28.57 %) Integration Testing 5 1 (14.29 %) Fat Client 5 1 (14.29 %) Validation 5 1 (14.29 %) Degree 5 1 (14.29 %) Computer Science 5 1 (14.29 %) ISEB 5 1 (14.29 %) Citrix 5 1 (14.29 %) TestDirector 5 1 (14.29 %) Thin Client 5 1 (14.29 %) Windows 5 1 (14.29 %) Solaris 5 1 (14.29 %) Linux

User Acceptance Testing
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 5 September 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Oxfordshire 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.

Applications 1 2 (28.57 %) MS Office 1 2 (28.57 %) MS Excel	Development Applications 1 1 (14.29 %) TestDirector
Job Titles 1 3 (42.86 %) Applications Support 2 2 (28.57 %) QA Tester 2 2 (28.57 %) Tester 3 1 (14.29 %) Analyst 3 1 (14.29 %) Test Analyst	Miscellaneous 1 1 (14.29 %) Thin Client 1 1 (14.29 %) Computer Science 1 1 (14.29 %) Fat Client
Operating Systems 1 3 (42.86 %) UNIX 2 1 (14.29 %) Windows 2 1 (14.29 %) Solaris 2 1 (14.29 %) Linux	Processes & Methodologies 1 4 (57.14 %) SC Cleared 1 4 (57.14 %) Security Cleared 2 3 (42.86 %) System Testing 3 2 (28.57 %) E-Commerce 3 2 (28.57 %) Regression Testing 3 2 (28.57 %) Penetration Testing 3 2 (28.57 %) Software Testing 3 2 (28.57 %) Use Case 3 2 (28.57 %) Stress Testing 3 2 (28.57 %) Integration Testing 4 1 (14.29 %) Validation
Programming Languages 1 5 (71.43 %) SQL	Qualifications 1 1 (14.29 %) ISEB 1 1 (14.29 %) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 2 (28.57 %) QA	Vendors 1 4 (57.14 %) Sybase 2 1 (14.29 %) Citrix