The first table below looks at the demand for QuickTest Pro 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 QuickTest Pro over the 3 months to 17 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 Development Applications 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
HP QuickTest Professional (QTP)
Rank 68 80 79
Rank change year-on-year
+12 -1
Contract jobs citing QuickTest Pro 2 1 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Reading 0.241% 0.094% 0.095%
As % of the Development Applications category 1.961% 1.250% 0.917%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
Average daily rate £338 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £300 £320
% change year-on-year
+8.33% -6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £24.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year
- -20.00%
All Development Applications
Reading
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Development Applications category
102 80 109
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Reading 12.29% 7.519% 10.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 37 17 33
Average daily rate £350 £315 £313
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+11.11% +0.80%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £201 £235 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £373 £375
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £330 £325
% change year-on-year
-1.51% +1.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 1 6
Average hourly rate £15.00 £11.00 £18.75
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+36.36% -41.33%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £14.40 £11.00 £16.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £16.40 £11.00 £23.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+7.14% -
QuickTest Pro
Berkshire

QuickTest Pro
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing QuickTest Pro across the Reading region as a proportion of the total demand within the Development Applications category.

Reading QuickTest Pro Jobs Demand Trend

QuickTest Pro
Daily Rate Trend

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

Reading QuickTest Pro Daily Rate Trend

QuickTest Pro
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Reading QuickTest Pro Hourly Rate Trend

QuickTest Pro
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Reading region citing QuickTest Pro 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 QuickTest Pro.

1 5 (62.50%) Finance
2 4 (50.00%) SQL
2 4 (50.00%) Test Scripting
3 3 (37.50%) Informatica
3 3 (37.50%) Test Automation
3 3 (37.50%) HP Quality Center
3 3 (37.50%) ETL
3 3 (37.50%) Agile Software Development
4 2 (25.00%) Information Management
4 2 (25.00%) Automated Testing
4 2 (25.00%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
4 2 (25.00%) HP
4 2 (25.00%) Java
4 2 (25.00%) Windows
4 2 (25.00%) LoadRunner
4 2 (25.00%) QA
4 2 (25.00%) Selenium
4 2 (25.00%) Performance Testing
4 2 (25.00%) TestComplete
5 1 (12.50%) V-Model
5 1 (12.50%) WebDriver
5 1 (12.50%) Linux
5 1 (12.50%) Python
5 1 (12.50%) PL/SQL
5 1 (12.50%) .NET
5 1 (12.50%) Oracle
5 1 (12.50%) SQL Server
5 1 (12.50%) Visual Studio
5 1 (12.50%) ASP.NET

QuickTest Pro
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Reading region citing QuickTest Pro 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 QuickTest Pro. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (12.50%) .NET
1 1 (12.50%) ASP.NET
1 1 (12.50%) .NET Framework
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (25.00%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (12.50%) TOAD
2 1 (12.50%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (12.50%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (25.00%) LoadRunner
1 2 (25.00%) Selenium
1 2 (25.00%) TestComplete
2 1 (12.50%) WebDriver
2 1 (12.50%) Visual Studio
General
1 5 (62.50%) Finance
Job Titles
1 5 (62.50%) Tester
2 3 (37.50%) Analyst
3 2 (25.00%) Test Analyst
3 2 (25.00%) Senior Tester
3 2 (25.00%) Performance Analyst
3 2 (25.00%) Performance Test Analyst
4 1 (12.50%) Senior Software Tester
4 1 (12.50%) Automation Tester
4 1 (12.50%) Senior Analyst
4 1 (12.50%) Software Tester
4 1 (12.50%) Test Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (12.50%) Computer Science
Operating Systems
1 2 (25.00%) Windows
2 1 (12.50%) Linux
2 1 (12.50%) SUSE
2 1 (12.50%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (50.00%) Test Scripting
2 3 (37.50%) ETL
2 3 (37.50%) Agile Software Development
2 3 (37.50%) Test Automation
3 2 (25.00%) Information Management
3 2 (25.00%) Automated Testing
3 2 (25.00%) Performance Testing
3 2 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
4 1 (12.50%) Regression Testing
4 1 (12.50%) V-Model
Programming Languages
1 4 (50.00%) SQL
2 2 (25.00%) Java
3 1 (12.50%) PL/SQL
3 1 (12.50%) Python
3 1 (12.50%) C#
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) ISEB
1 1 (12.50%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (25.00%) QA
Systems Management
1 3 (37.50%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 3 (37.50%) Informatica
2 2 (25.00%) HP
3 1 (12.50%) Oracle
3 1 (12.50%) Microsoft
Reading, Berkshire
Selenium, QTP, TestComplete) Experience of working within an Agile environment... Strong SQL knowledge and experience (Postgresql an advantage) Experience of Server OS (Linux, Windows Server, Suse and Ubuntu)...
Experis IT
Rate: £275 - £375 per day
Posted: 13 May 2013