System Testing Contracts in Reading
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for System 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 System Testing over the 3 months to 24 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
24 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
System Testing
Rank 63 79 77
Rank change year-on-year
+16 -2
Contract jobs citing System Testing 7 5 8
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Reading 0.838% 0.448% 0.768%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.268% 0.712% 1.156%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 3 7
Average daily rate £338 £350 £263
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-3.57% +33.33%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £268 £310 £262
10% offered a daily rate of more than £408 £350 £315
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £326
% change year-on-year
- -0.15%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 0
Average hourly rate £30.00 £10.00 -
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+200.00% -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.00 £30.00 £27.25
% change year-on-year
- +10.09%
All Processes & Methodologies
Reading
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category		 552 702 692
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Reading 66.11% 62.96% 66.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 242 270 310
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 £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 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 £30.00 £25.00 £29.50
% change year-on-year
+20.00% -15.25%
System Testing
Berkshire

System Testing
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Reading System Testing Jobs Demand Trend

System Testing
Daily Rate Trend

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

Reading System Testing Daily Rate Trend

System Testing
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing System Testing across the Reading region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Reading System Testing Daily Rate Histogram

System Testing
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Reading System Testing Hourly Rate Trend

System Testing
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Reading region citing System 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 System Testing.

1 12 (57.14%) Java
1 12 (57.14%) Finance
2 10 (47.62%) Hibernate
2 10 (47.62%) Spring
2 10 (47.62%) Maven
2 10 (47.62%) JUnit
2 10 (47.62%) Apache
2 10 (47.62%) Tomcat
2 10 (47.62%) Eclipse
2 10 (47.62%) Apache CXF
3 8 (38.10%) Struts2
3 8 (38.10%) Struts
3 8 (38.10%) jQuery
4 6 (28.57%) Subversion
4 6 (28.57%) Jenkins
5 5 (23.81%) SOA
6 4 (19.05%) Microsoft
6 4 (19.05%) Active Directory
6 4 (19.05%) MS Office
6 4 (19.05%) Windows
6 4 (19.05%) Retail
6 4 (19.05%) PowerShell
7 3 (14.29%) Web Testing
7 3 (14.29%) HP Quality Center
7 3 (14.29%) SharePoint 2010
7 3 (14.29%) soapUI
7 3 (14.29%) REST
7 3 (14.29%) DbVisualizer
7 3 (14.29%) Handset
7 3 (14.29%) ISTQB

System Testing
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Reading region citing System 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 System Testing. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 10 (47.62%) Hibernate
1 10 (47.62%) Spring
1 10 (47.62%) Apache CXF
2 8 (38.10%) Struts2
2 8 (38.10%) Struts
2 8 (38.10%) jQuery
3 3 (14.29%) soapUI
3 3 (14.29%) REST
3 3 (14.29%) WebSphere
3 3 (14.29%) SOAP
3 3 (14.29%) Web Services
3 3 (14.29%) XML
4 1 (4.762%) HTML5
4 1 (4.762%) HTML
Application Platforms
1 10 (47.62%) Apache
1 10 (47.62%) Tomcat
2 3 (14.29%) SharePoint 2010
2 3 (14.29%) Exchange Server 2007
2 3 (14.29%) SharePoint
2 3 (14.29%) WebSphere Application Server
2 3 (14.29%) MS Exchange
Applications
1 4 (19.05%) MS Office
2 2 (9.524%) MS Visio
3 1 (4.762%) MS Excel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (14.29%) DbVisualizer
1 3 (14.29%) SQL Server
2 2 (9.524%) IDOL
2 2 (9.524%) SQL Server 2005
2 2 (9.524%) SQL Server 2008
3 1 (4.762%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 10 (47.62%) Maven
1 10 (47.62%) JUnit
1 10 (47.62%) Eclipse
2 6 (28.57%) Subversion
2 6 (28.57%) Jenkins
3 1 (4.762%) Cucumber
General
1 12 (57.14%) Finance
2 4 (19.05%) Retail
3 1 (4.762%) Banking
Job Titles
1 10 (47.62%) Analyst
2 7 (33.33%) Analyst Programmer
2 7 (33.33%) Programmer
3 6 (28.57%) Developer
4 5 (23.81%) Senior Programmer
4 5 (23.81%) Senior Analyst
4 5 (23.81%) Senior Analyst Programmer
5 3 (14.29%) Front-End Developer
5 3 (14.29%) Administrator
5 3 (14.29%) Test Analyst
5 3 (14.29%) Systems Administrator
6 2 (9.524%) Senior Systems Administrator
7 1 (4.762%) Desktop Analyst
7 1 (4.762%) ETL Developer
7 1 (4.762%) Test Engineer
7 1 (4.762%) Systems Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (14.29%) Handset
Operating Systems
1 4 (19.05%) Windows
2 2 (9.524%) UNIX
3 1 (4.762%) Windows Server 2008
3 1 (4.762%) Windows XP
3 1 (4.762%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (23.81%) SOA
2 3 (14.29%) Web Testing
2 3 (14.29%) Software Testing
3 2 (9.524%) Project Management
3 2 (9.524%) Disaster Recovery
3 2 (9.524%) Test Scripting
4 1 (4.762%) Continuous Integration
4 1 (4.762%) Waterfall
4 1 (4.762%) Data Migration
4 1 (4.762%) Performance Testing
4 1 (4.762%) Migration
4 1 (4.762%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 12 (57.14%) Java
2 4 (19.05%) PowerShell
3 3 (14.29%) Groovy
3 3 (14.29%) SQL
4 2 (9.524%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 3 (14.29%) ISTQB
1 3 (14.29%) ISEB
2 1 (4.762%) Degree
2 1 (4.762%) SC Cleared
2 1 (4.762%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 4 (19.05%) Active Directory
2 3 (14.29%) ISA Server
3 2 (9.524%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (4.762%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 3 (14.29%) HP Quality Center
1 3 (14.29%) SCCM
1 3 (14.29%) SCOM
Vendors
1 4 (19.05%) Microsoft
2 3 (14.29%) VMware
2 3 (14.29%) Clearswift
3 1 (4.762%) HP
3 1 (4.762%) Informatica
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