The first table below looks at the demand for Load 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 Load Testing over the 3 months to 22 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
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Load Testing
Rank 67 79 -
Rank change year-on-year
+12 -
Contract jobs citing Load Testing 4 2 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Reading 0.465% 0.176% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.696% 0.277% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 0
Average daily rate £475 £120 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+295.83% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £450 £388 £289
% change year-on-year
+16.12% +34.19%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £32.50 £29.50 -
% change year-on-year
+10.16% -
All Processes & Methodologies
Reading
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
575 721 685
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Reading 66.78% 63.36% 66.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 249 269 307
Average daily rate £390 £370 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+5.40% +5.71%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £235 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £550 £550
UK excluding London average daily rate £365 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
- -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 24 18
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 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £30.00 £23.80 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.00 £25.00 £29.00
% change year-on-year
+24.00% -13.79%
Load Testing
Berkshire

Load Testing
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Reading Load Testing Jobs Demand Trend

Load Testing
Daily Rate Trend

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

Reading Load Testing Daily Rate Trend

Load Testing
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Reading region citing Load 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 Load Testing.

1 4 (100.00%) C#
1 4 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 4 (100.00%) Visual Studio
1 4 (100.00%) Games
1 4 (100.00%) Cloud Computing
1 4 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 4 (100.00%) Test Strategy
2 3 (75.00%) ISTQB
2 3 (75.00%) Degree
2 3 (75.00%) Computer Science
3 2 (50.00%) WCF
3 2 (50.00%) Performance Testing
3 2 (50.00%) Automated Testing
3 2 (50.00%) Web Services
3 2 (50.00%) MS Excel
3 2 (50.00%) MS Visio
3 2 (50.00%) Data Mining
3 2 (50.00%) Microsoft
3 2 (50.00%) Code Coverage
3 2 (50.00%) IIS
3 2 (50.00%) C++
3 2 (50.00%) SQL
3 2 (50.00%) C
3 2 (50.00%) Windows Azure
3 2 (50.00%) Software Architecture
3 2 (50.00%) Process Architecture
3 2 (50.00%) Game Development
3 2 (50.00%) Kinect
3 2 (50.00%) REST
3 2 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement

Load Testing
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Reading region citing Load 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 Load Testing. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 2 (50.00%) WCF
1 2 (50.00%) Web Services
1 2 (50.00%) REST
Application Platforms
1 2 (50.00%) IIS
1 2 (50.00%) Windows Azure
Applications
1 2 (50.00%) MS Excel
1 2 (50.00%) MS Visio
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (100.00%) SQL Server
2 2 (50.00%) Data Mining
Development Applications
1 4 (100.00%) Visual Studio
General
1 4 (100.00%) Games
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) Software Engineer
1 4 (100.00%) Software Development Engineer
1 4 (100.00%) Development Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (100.00%) Cloud Computing
2 3 (75.00%) Computer Science
3 2 (50.00%) Kinect
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 4 (100.00%) Test Strategy
2 2 (50.00%) Performance Testing
2 2 (50.00%) Automated Testing
2 2 (50.00%) Code Coverage
2 2 (50.00%) Software Architecture
2 2 (50.00%) Process Architecture
2 2 (50.00%) Game Development
2 2 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) C#
2 2 (50.00%) C++
2 2 (50.00%) SQL
2 2 (50.00%) C
Qualifications
1 3 (75.00%) ISTQB
1 3 (75.00%) Degree
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft