The first table below looks at the demand for Stress 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 Stress Testing over the 3 months to 21 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
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Stress Testing
Rank - 79 78
Contract jobs citing Stress Testing 0 2 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Reading - 0.181% 0.097%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category - 0.289% 0.147%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £469 £333
% change year-on-year
-25.33% +40.97%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Average hourly rate - - £27.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - £27.50
All Processes & Methodologies
Reading
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
574 693 681
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Reading 67.06% 62.71% 66.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 247 267 304
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 £253 £235 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £550 £550
UK excluding London average daily rate £363 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
-0.68% -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 24 16
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 £13.80
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £30.00 £23.80 £41.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.50 £25.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year
+26.00% -16.66%
Stress Testing
Berkshire

Stress Testing
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Reading Stress Testing Jobs Demand Trend

Stress Testing
Daily Rate Trend

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

Reading Stress Testing Daily Rate Trend

Stress Testing
Top 21 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Reading region citing Stress 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 Stress Testing.

1 2 (100.00%) J2EE
1 2 (100.00%) Web Services
1 2 (100.00%) MS Excel
1 2 (100.00%) Client/Server
1 2 (100.00%) MS Visio
1 2 (100.00%) CDMA
1 2 (100.00%) GPRS
1 2 (100.00%) GSM
1 2 (100.00%) UMTS
1 2 (100.00%) B2B
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (100.00%) Configuration Management
1 2 (100.00%) Service Delivery
1 2 (100.00%) Management Information System
1 2 (100.00%) Telecoms
1 2 (100.00%) BSS
1 2 (100.00%) MS PowerPoint
1 2 (100.00%) Release Management
1 2 (100.00%) Integration Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Business Transformation
1 2 (100.00%) Enterprise Software

Stress Testing
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Reading region citing Stress 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 Stress Testing. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 2 (100.00%) J2EE
1 2 (100.00%) Web Services
Applications
1 2 (100.00%) MS Excel
1 2 (100.00%) MS Visio
1 2 (100.00%) MS PowerPoint
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) CDMA
1 2 (100.00%) GPRS
1 2 (100.00%) GSM
1 2 (100.00%) UMTS
1 2 (100.00%) BSS
General
1 2 (100.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Architect
1 2 (100.00%) Solutions Architect
1 2 (100.00%) OSS Architect
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Client/Server
1 2 (100.00%) Management Information System
1 2 (100.00%) Enterprise Software
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) B2B
1 2 (100.00%) Configuration Management
1 2 (100.00%) Service Delivery
1 2 (100.00%) Release Management
1 2 (100.00%) Integration Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Business Transformation
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft