Peterborough QuickTest Pro Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for HP QuickTest Professional (QTP) skills within the Peterborough region with a comparison to our Development Applications category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited QuickTest Pro over the 3 months to 9 January 2009 with a comparison to the same period last year.

HP QuickTest Professional (QTP)
Location Basingstoke Berkshire Bicester Bradford Brighton Buckinghamshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Cheshire Chester City of London Devon Docklands, London East of England East Sussex England Essex Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Gosport Guildford Hampshire Ipswich Leeds London Middlesex Milton Keynes Newbury Newport North West Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Portsmouth Pudsey Reading Scotland South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Staines Suffolk Surrey Swindon Thames Valley UK Wales Warrington West Midlands West Yorkshire Wiltshire Yorkshire	3 months to 9 Jan 2009	Same period last year
Rank	-	-
Rank change on same period last year	-
Matching contract IT job ads	0	0
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.000 %	0.000 %
As % of the category below	0.000 %	0.000 %
Daily rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum daily rate	-	-
Average daily rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£297	£327
% change on same period last year	-9.26 %
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	£22.14	£38.82
% change on same period last year	-42.97 %
Development Applications Peterborough
Matching contract IT job ads	4	13
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.008 %	0.016 %
Daily rates quoted	1	3
Average minimum daily rate	£280	£387
Average daily rate	£290	£392
% change on same period last year	-26.06 %
Average maximum daily rate	£300	£398
UK excluding London average daily rate	£317	£340
% change on same period last year	-6.87 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	1
Average minimum hourly rate	-	£25.00
Average hourly rate	-	£27.50
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	£30.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£31.44	£32.16
% change on same period last year	-2.26 %
QuickTest Pro Cambridgeshire

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.

QuickTest Pro
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing QuickTest Pro across the Peterborough region as a proportion of the total demand within the Development Applications category.

QuickTest Pro
Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing QuickTest Pro across the Peterborough region.