Reading Test Scripting Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Test Scripting (Test Scripts) skills within the Reading region with a comparison to our Processes & Methodologies category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Test Scripting over the 3 months to 20 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Test Scripting (Test Scripts)
Location Aberdeen Abingdon Amersham Atherstone Basildon Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Berkshire Birmingham Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Bridgend Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Chippenham City of London Coventry Crawley Croydon Dartford Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset Durham East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh England Essex Exeter Fareham Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Guildford Halifax Hampshire Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire Home Counties Hove Kent Lancashire Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Liverpool London Maidenhead Manchester Marlow Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Plymouth Poole Preston Reading Rugby Runcorn Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Sidcup Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Staffordshire Staines Stockton-on-Tees Stoke-on-Trent Sunbury-on-Thames Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Teesside Telford Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Wallington Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Wilmslow Wiltshire Windsor Wirral Wokingham Worcester Worcestershire York Yorkshire	3 months to 20 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	51	63
Rank change on same period last year	+12
Matching contract IT job ads	29	12
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.038 %	0.012 %
As % of the category below	4.441 %	1.835 %
Daily rates quoted	11	1
Average minimum daily rate	£331	£400
Average daily rate	£369	£475
% change on same period last year	-22.29 %
Average maximum daily rate	£407	£550
UK excluding London average daily rate	£323	£319
% change on same period last year	+1.25 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	2
Average minimum hourly rate	-	£20.00
Average hourly rate	-	£20.31
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	£20.63
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£29.92	£30.00
% change on same period last year	-0.27 %
Processes & Methodologies Reading
Matching contract IT job ads	653	654
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.862 %	0.651 %
Daily rates quoted	169	238
Average minimum daily rate	£340	£350
Average daily rate	£366	£386
% change on same period last year	-5.01 %
Average maximum daily rate	£393	£421
UK excluding London average daily rate	£380	£377
% change on same period last year	+0.71 %
Hourly rates quoted	47	60
Average minimum hourly rate	£34.18	£33.75
Average hourly rate	£37.91	£35.40
% change on same period last year	+7.08 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£41.64	£37.05
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£30.34	£30.18
% change on same period last year	+0.55 %
Test Scripting Berkshire

We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

Test Scripting
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Test Scripting across the Reading region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

Test Scripting
Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Test Scripting across the Reading region.

Test Scripting
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Test Scripting across the Reading region over the 3 months to 20 August 2008.

Test Scripting
Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Test Scripting across the Reading region.

Test Scripting
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Reading region citing Test Scripting 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 Test Scripting.

1 21 (33.87 %) TestDirector 2 12 (19.35 %) User Acceptance Testing 3 11 (17.74 %) Windows 4 10 (16.13 %) SQL 4 10 (16.13 %) Windows Server 2003 5 9 (14.52 %) SAP 5 9 (14.52 %) Telecoms 5 9 (14.52 %) Software Testing 6 8 (12.90 %) Security Cleared 7 7 (11.29 %) StarTeam 7 7 (11.29 %) Java 7 7 (11.29 %) AIX 7 7 (11.29 %) Windows XP 8 6 (9.677 %) Borland 8 6 (9.677 %) SAP BW

8 6 (9.677 %) UNIX 8 6 (9.677 %) J2EE 8 6 (9.677 %) Finance 8 6 (9.677 %) DTV 8 6 (9.677 %) Sarbanes-Oxley 8 6 (9.677 %) SC Cleared 8 6 (9.677 %) V-Model 9 5 (8.065 %) Integration Testing 9 5 (8.065 %) Manual Testing 9 5 (8.065 %) WebSphere 9 5 (8.065 %) OpenView Configuration Management 9 5 (8.065 %) LoadRunner 9 5 (8.065 %) Microsoft 9 5 (8.065 %) ISEB 10 4 (6.452 %) MS Excel

Test Scripting
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Reading region citing Test Scripting 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 Test Scripting. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 6 (9.677 %) J2EE 2 5 (8.065 %) WebSphere 3 3 (4.839 %) .NET 4 2 (3.226 %) MHP 5 1 (1.613 %) ASP.NET	Application Platforms 1 2 (3.226 %) SharePoint 1 2 (3.226 %) IIS
Applications 1 4 (6.452 %) MS Excel 2 1 (1.613 %) MS Office	Business Applications 1 3 (4.839 %) SAP FI-AR 1 3 (4.839 %) SAP FI 2 2 (3.226 %) Oracle EBS 3 1 (1.613 %) Oracle Payroll 3 1 (1.613 %) SAP HR
Communications & Networking 1 2 (3.226 %) DVB	Database & Business Intelligence 1 6 (9.677 %) SAP BW 2 4 (6.452 %) SQL Server 3 2 (3.226 %) DB2 3 2 (3.226 %) GIS 4 1 (1.613 %) Oracle Reports
Development Applications 1 21 (33.87 %) TestDirector 2 7 (11.29 %) StarTeam 3 5 (8.065 %) LoadRunner 4 3 (4.839 %) WinRunner 4 3 (4.839 %) QuickTest Pro 5 1 (1.613 %) JMeter 5 1 (1.613 %) MSI 5 1 (1.613 %) Flash	General 1 9 (14.52 %) Telecoms 2 6 (9.677 %) Finance 3 4 (6.452 %) Government 4 2 (3.226 %) Construction 4 2 (3.226 %) Electric 4 2 (3.226 %) Pensions 4 2 (3.226 %) Retail 5 1 (1.613 %) FMCG 5 1 (1.613 %) Multimedia 5 1 (1.613 %) Banking 5 1 (1.613 %) Insurance 5 1 (1.613 %) Military 5 1 (1.613 %) Health
Job Titles 1 25 (40.32 %) Tester 2 11 (17.74 %) Analyst 3 10 (16.13 %) Test Analyst 4 9 (14.52 %) Consultant 5 8 (12.90 %) SAP Consultant 6 6 (9.677 %) Functional Analyst 6 6 (9.677 %) Test Engineer 7 5 (8.065 %) Functional Test Analyst 8 4 (6.452 %) Test Manager 8 4 (6.452 %) Systems Tester 8 4 (6.452 %) Team Leader 9 3 (4.839 %) Test Team Leader 9 3 (4.839 %) SAP FI Consultant 10 2 (3.226 %) Web Tester 11 1 (1.613 %) Senior Test Engineer 11 1 (1.613 %) Test Consultant 11 1 (1.613 %) Integration Engineer 11 1 (1.613 %) Software Tester 11 1 (1.613 %) SAP HR Consultant 11 1 (1.613 %) Technical Specialist	Miscellaneous 1 6 (9.677 %) DTV 2 4 (6.452 %) STB 3 3 (4.839 %) PDA 3 3 (4.839 %) Management Information System 4 2 (3.226 %) MediaHighway 5 1 (1.613 %) Replication 5 1 (1.613 %) Client/Server
Operating Systems 1 11 (17.74 %) Windows 2 10 (16.13 %) Windows Server 2003 3 7 (11.29 %) AIX 3 7 (11.29 %) Windows XP 4 6 (9.677 %) UNIX 5 1 (1.613 %) Windows 2000 Server 5 1 (1.613 %) Solaris	Processes & Methodologies 1 12 (19.35 %) User Acceptance Testing 2 9 (14.52 %) Software Testing 3 8 (12.90 %) Security Cleared 4 6 (9.677 %) SC Cleared 4 6 (9.677 %) V-Model 5 5 (8.065 %) Integration Testing 5 5 (8.065 %) Manual Testing 6 4 (6.452 %) Performance Testing 6 4 (6.452 %) Unit Testing 7 2 (3.226 %) CRM 7 2 (3.226 %) Regression Testing 7 2 (3.226 %) Automated Testing 7 2 (3.226 %) Business Analysis 7 2 (3.226 %) Use Case 7 2 (3.226 %) Stress Testing 7 2 (3.226 %) System Testing 8 1 (1.613 %) Asset Management 8 1 (1.613 %) Penetration Testing 8 1 (1.613 %) Load Balancing 8 1 (1.613 %) Validation
Programming Languages 1 10 (16.13 %) SQL 2 7 (11.29 %) Java	Qualifications 1 5 (8.065 %) ISEB 2 1 (1.613 %) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 6 (9.677 %) Sarbanes-Oxley 2 4 (6.452 %) QA	Systems Management 1 5 (8.065 %) OpenView Configuration Management 2 3 (4.839 %) Tivoli 3 1 (1.613 %) CA SiteMinder
Vendors 1 9 (14.52 %) SAP 2 6 (9.677 %) Borland 3 5 (8.065 %) Microsoft 4 3 (4.839 %) Oracle 5 2 (3.226 %) Kerridge 5 2 (3.226 %) OpenTV 6 1 (1.613 %) ESRI 6 1 (1.613 %) Manugistics 6 1 (1.613 %) Progress 6 1 (1.613 %) MicroStrategy