The first table below looks at the demand for Performance 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 Performance Testing over the 3 months to 23 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
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Performance Testing
Rank 59 75 69
Rank change year-on-year
+16 -6
Contract jobs citing Performance Testing 6 4 13
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Reading 0.715% 0.359% 1.220%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.071% 0.567% 1.831%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 1 6
Average daily rate £438 £350 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+25.00% -0.07%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £373 £350 £335
10% offered a daily rate of more than £485 £350 £385
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £400 £375
% change year-on-year
-18.75% +6.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £32.00 £31.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+1.58% -10.00%
All Processes & Methodologies
Reading
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
560 705 710
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Reading 66.75% 63.23% 66.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 245 268 317
Average daily rate £388 £370 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+4.72% +5.71%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £264 £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 19
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 £30.45 £25.00 £29.00
% change year-on-year
+21.78% -13.79%
Performance Testing
Berkshire

Performance Testing
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Reading Performance Testing Jobs Demand Trend

Performance Testing
Daily Rate Trend

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

Reading Performance Testing Daily Rate Trend

Performance Testing
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Performance Testing across the Reading region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

Reading Performance Testing Daily Rate Histogram

Performance Testing
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Performance Testing across the Reading region.

Reading Performance Testing Hourly Rate Trend

Performance Testing
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Reading region citing Performance 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 Performance Testing.

1 4 (40.00%) HP
2 3 (30.00%) Telecoms
2 3 (30.00%) C#
2 3 (30.00%) Visual Studio
2 3 (30.00%) SAP
2 3 (30.00%) Siebel
2 3 (30.00%) ERP
2 3 (30.00%) ISTQB
2 3 (30.00%) BSS
2 3 (30.00%) Data Management
2 3 (30.00%) SAP HCM
3 2 (20.00%) Load Testing
3 2 (20.00%) Test Scripting
3 2 (20.00%) Degree
3 2 (20.00%) UNIX
3 2 (20.00%) Java
3 2 (20.00%) SQL
3 2 (20.00%) SQL Server
3 2 (20.00%) Games
3 2 (20.00%) XML
3 2 (20.00%) ISEB
3 2 (20.00%) Test Automation
3 2 (20.00%) Windows Azure
3 2 (20.00%) Test Strategy
3 2 (20.00%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (10.00%) Team Foundation Server
4 1 (10.00%) DbVisualizer
4 1 (10.00%) Windows Phone 8
4 1 (10.00%) Analytics
4 1 (10.00%) Windows Phone

Performance Testing
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Reading region citing Performance 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 Performance Testing. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 2 (20.00%) XML
2 1 (10.00%) soapUI
2 1 (10.00%) REST
2 1 (10.00%) XSLT
2 1 (10.00%) Hibernate
2 1 (10.00%) SOAP
2 1 (10.00%) Web Services
2 1 (10.00%) JMS
2 1 (10.00%) JSON
2 1 (10.00%) Velocity
2 1 (10.00%) Silverlight
2 1 (10.00%) FreeMarker
2 1 (10.00%) Spring
Application Platforms
1 2 (20.00%) Windows Azure
2 1 (10.00%) Tomcat
2 1 (10.00%) Jetty
Applications
1 1 (10.00%) MS Office
1 1 (10.00%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (30.00%) SAP HCM
Communications & Networking
1 3 (30.00%) BSS
2 1 (10.00%) LDAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (20.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (10.00%) DbVisualizer
2 1 (10.00%) MS Access
Development Applications
1 3 (30.00%) Visual Studio
2 1 (10.00%) Team Foundation Server
2 1 (10.00%) JProfiler
2 1 (10.00%) LoadRunner
2 1 (10.00%) Ant
2 1 (10.00%) JUnit
General
1 3 (30.00%) Telecoms
2 2 (20.00%) Games
3 1 (10.00%) Banking
3 1 (10.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 3 (30.00%) Tester
2 2 (20.00%) Performance Tester
2 2 (20.00%) Software Development Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Analyst
2 2 (20.00%) Test Analyst
2 2 (20.00%) Software Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Development Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Performance Test Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Test Leader
3 1 (10.00%) Performance Test Leader
3 1 (10.00%) Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Consultant
3 1 (10.00%) Java Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Test Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Senior Tester
3 1 (10.00%) Desktop Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) Performance Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Senior Performance Tester
Miscellaneous
1 2 (20.00%) Cloud Computing
2 1 (10.00%) Open Source
2 1 (10.00%) DTV
2 1 (10.00%) Handset
2 1 (10.00%) STB
2 1 (10.00%) Computer Science
2 1 (10.00%) Statistics
Operating Systems
1 2 (20.00%) UNIX
2 1 (10.00%) Windows Phone 8
2 1 (10.00%) Windows Phone
2 1 (10.00%) Windows Phone 7
2 1 (10.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (30.00%) ERP
1 3 (30.00%) Data Management
2 2 (20.00%) Load Testing
2 2 (20.00%) Test Scripting
2 2 (20.00%) Test Automation
2 2 (20.00%) Test Strategy
3 1 (10.00%) Analytics
3 1 (10.00%) MVVM
3 1 (10.00%) Business Intelligence
3 1 (10.00%) Agile Software Development
3 1 (10.00%) Predictive Analytics
3 1 (10.00%) Multithreading
3 1 (10.00%) System Testing
3 1 (10.00%) Time Management
3 1 (10.00%) OWASP
3 1 (10.00%) Integration Testing
3 1 (10.00%) User Acceptance Testing
3 1 (10.00%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 3 (30.00%) C#
2 2 (20.00%) Java
2 2 (20.00%) SQL
3 1 (10.00%) Bash shell
3 1 (10.00%) Shell Script
3 1 (10.00%) XAML
3 1 (10.00%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 3 (30.00%) ISTQB
2 2 (20.00%) Degree
2 2 (20.00%) ISEB
3 1 (10.00%) SC Cleared
3 1 (10.00%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 1 (10.00%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 4 (40.00%) HP
2 3 (30.00%) SAP
2 3 (30.00%) Siebel