The first table below looks at the demand for Integration Testing skills in IT contracts advertised for the Reading region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Integration 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 Reading 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
Integration Testing
Rank 68 76 65
Rank change year-on-year
+8 -11
Contract jobs citing Integration Testing 3 4 15
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Reading 0.355% 0.375% 1.451%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.526% 0.593% 2.180%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 7
Average daily rate £365 £425 £263
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-14.11% +61.90%
UK excluding London average daily rate £358 £388 £361
% change year-on-year
-7.74% +7.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £36.00 £32.75 £37.50
% change year-on-year
+9.92% -12.66%
All Processes & Methodologies
Reading
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
570 674 688
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Reading 67.46% 63.23% 66.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 245 261 305
Average daily rate £389 £368 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+5.78% +5.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £228 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £550 £550
UK excluding London average daily rate £363 £363 £375
% change year-on-year
- -3.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 24 17
Average hourly rate £16.00 £14.50 £27.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+10.34% -47.27%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.20 £11.00 £14.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £30.00 £23.80 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £32.00 £25.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year
+28.00% -16.66%
Integration Testing
Berkshire

Integration Testing
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Reading Integration Testing Jobs Demand Trend

Integration Testing
Daily Rate Trend

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

Reading Integration Testing Daily Rate Trend

Integration Testing
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 8 (40.00%) SAP
1 8 (40.00%) GPRS
1 8 (40.00%) GSM
1 8 (40.00%) UMTS
1 8 (40.00%) Telecoms
1 8 (40.00%) User Acceptance Testing
2 7 (35.00%) Manufacturing
2 7 (35.00%) SAP Oil and Gas
3 6 (30.00%) SS7
3 6 (30.00%) Root Cause Analysis
3 6 (30.00%) Network Design
3 6 (30.00%) SIGTRAN
4 5 (25.00%) UNIX
5 4 (20.00%) Linux
5 4 (20.00%) J2EE
5 4 (20.00%) Configuration Management
6 3 (15.00%) EMC
6 3 (15.00%) Java
6 3 (15.00%) Documentum
6 3 (15.00%) SAP Portal
7 2 (10.00%) Business Transformation
7 2 (10.00%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (10.00%) Release Management
7 2 (10.00%) BSS
7 2 (10.00%) Stress Testing
7 2 (10.00%) CDMA
7 2 (10.00%) B2B
7 2 (10.00%) MS Visio
7 2 (10.00%) Microsoft
7 2 (10.00%) Ant

Integration Testing
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 4 (20.00%) J2EE
2 2 (10.00%) Web Services
2 2 (10.00%) WebSphere
3 1 (5.000%) JSON
3 1 (5.000%) Velocity
3 1 (5.000%) FreeMarker
3 1 (5.000%) XML
3 1 (5.000%) XSLT
3 1 (5.000%) JMS
3 1 (5.000%) Hibernate
3 1 (5.000%) Spring
Application Platforms
1 3 (15.00%) Documentum
1 3 (15.00%) SAP Portal
2 1 (5.000%) Jetty
2 1 (5.000%) WebSphere Application Server
2 1 (5.000%) Tomcat
Applications
1 2 (10.00%) MS Excel
1 2 (10.00%) MS Visio
1 2 (10.00%) MS PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 7 (35.00%) SAP Oil and Gas
2 2 (10.00%) SAP CRM
2 2 (10.00%) SAP CS
2 2 (10.00%) SAP PM
3 1 (5.000%) Agresso
3 1 (5.000%) SAP SD
Communications & Networking
1 8 (40.00%) GPRS
1 8 (40.00%) GSM
1 8 (40.00%) UMTS
2 6 (30.00%) SS7
2 6 (30.00%) SIGTRAN
3 2 (10.00%) CDMA
3 2 (10.00%) Wireless
3 2 (10.00%) BSS
4 1 (5.000%) LDAP
Development Applications
1 2 (10.00%) Ant
1 2 (10.00%) StarTeam
2 1 (5.000%) JUnit
General
1 8 (40.00%) Telecoms
2 7 (35.00%) Manufacturing
3 2 (10.00%) Banking
3 2 (10.00%) Finance
4 1 (5.000%) Retail
Job Titles
1 7 (35.00%) Consultant
2 6 (30.00%) Network Engineer
2 6 (30.00%) Support Engineer
2 6 (30.00%) Network Support
2 6 (30.00%) Network Support Engineer
3 4 (20.00%) SAP Consultant
4 3 (15.00%) Documentum Consultant
5 2 (10.00%) OSS Architect
5 2 (10.00%) Configuration Engineer
5 2 (10.00%) Solutions Architect
5 2 (10.00%) Architect
6 1 (5.000%) Tester
6 1 (5.000%) Developer
6 1 (5.000%) Configuration Manager
6 1 (5.000%) Functional Consultant
6 1 (5.000%) Java Developer
6 1 (5.000%) SAP SD Consultant
6 1 (5.000%) SAP CRM Consultant
6 1 (5.000%) Senior Tester
6 1 (5.000%) SAP PM Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 2 (10.00%) Client/Server
1 2 (10.00%) Management Information System
1 2 (10.00%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (5.000%) Open Source
Operating Systems
1 5 (25.00%) UNIX
2 4 (20.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (40.00%) User Acceptance Testing
2 6 (30.00%) Root Cause Analysis
2 6 (30.00%) Network Design
3 4 (20.00%) Configuration Management
4 2 (10.00%) Service Delivery
4 2 (10.00%) CRM
4 2 (10.00%) Stress Testing
4 2 (10.00%) Business Transformation
4 2 (10.00%) B2B
4 2 (10.00%) Release Management
5 1 (5.000%) Performance Testing
5 1 (5.000%) Analytics
5 1 (5.000%) Unit Testing
5 1 (5.000%) Test Scripting
5 1 (5.000%) Continuous Integration
5 1 (5.000%) Multithreading
5 1 (5.000%) Time Management
5 1 (5.000%) Data Migration
5 1 (5.000%) OWASP
5 1 (5.000%) Change Control
Programming Languages
1 3 (15.00%) Java
2 1 (5.000%) SQL
2 1 (5.000%) Jython
2 1 (5.000%) Bash shell
Vendors
1 8 (40.00%) SAP
2 3 (15.00%) EMC
3 2 (10.00%) Microsoft
4 1 (5.000%) IBM