The first table below looks at the demand for Test Scripting skills in IT contracts advertised for the Renfrewshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Test Scripting over the 3 months to 19 June 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 Renfrewshire 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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Test Scripting (Test Scripts)
Rank 14 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing Test Scripting 9 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Renfrewshire 14.52% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 19.57% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 8 0 0
Average daily rate £360 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £300 £325
% change year-on-year
+8.33% -7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.63 £27.00 £17.50
% change year-on-year
+2.31% +54.28%
All Processes & Methodologies
Renfrewshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
46 5 4
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Renfrewshire 74.19% 10.20% 50.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 3 2
Average daily rate £370 £280 £238
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+32.14% +17.89%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £333 £267 £208
10% offered a daily rate of more than £525 £328 £268
UK excluding London average daily rate £370 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
+1.36% -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.00 £25.00 £29.00
% change year-on-year
+24.00% -13.79%
Test Scripting
Scotland

Test Scripting
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Renfrewshire Test Scripting Jobs Demand Trend

Test Scripting
Daily Rate Trend

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

Renfrewshire Test Scripting Daily Rate Trend

Test Scripting
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Test Scripting within the Renfrewshire region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
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Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
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Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
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Test Scripting
Scotland

Test Scripting
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Renfrewshire 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 14 (100.00%) Windows
1 14 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 13 (92.86%) SC Cleared
3 11 (78.57%) Windows Server 2003
3 11 (78.57%) TestDirector
4 10 (71.43%) Windows XP
5 9 (64.29%) HP Quality Center
6 8 (57.14%) OpenView Configuration Management
7 6 (42.86%) Citrix
8 5 (35.71%) Veritas
8 5 (35.71%) Borland
8 5 (35.71%) Netcool
8 5 (35.71%) PDA
8 5 (35.71%) StarTeam
8 5 (35.71%) Windows Server 2008
9 4 (28.57%) VMware
10 3 (21.43%) VMware ESX
10 3 (21.43%) Clustering
10 3 (21.43%) QuickTest Pro
10 3 (21.43%) McAfee
10 3 (21.43%) WinRunner
10 3 (21.43%) Active Directory
10 3 (21.43%) HP
10 3 (21.43%) AIX
10 3 (21.43%) SQL
10 3 (21.43%) Test Automation
10 3 (21.43%) McAfee ePO
11 2 (14.29%) HP Operations Orchestration
11 2 (14.29%) Information Assurance
11 2 (14.29%) XPath

Test Scripting
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Renfrewshire 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 2 (14.29%) HTML
1 2 (14.29%) XML
1 2 (14.29%) XSL
Application Platforms
1 1 (7.143%) CMS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (14.29%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.143%) MySQL
1 1 (7.143%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 11 (78.57%) TestDirector
2 5 (35.71%) StarTeam
3 3 (21.43%) QuickTest Pro
3 3 (21.43%) WinRunner
General
1 1 (7.143%) Telecoms
1 1 (7.143%) Finance
Job Titles
1 6 (42.86%) Tester
2 5 (35.71%) Test Engineer
3 3 (21.43%) Consultant
4 1 (7.143%) Management Consultant
4 1 (7.143%) Technical Consultant
4 1 (7.143%) Technical Engineer
4 1 (7.143%) Configuration Management Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 5 (35.71%) PDA
2 3 (21.43%) Clustering
3 1 (7.143%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 14 (100.00%) Windows
2 11 (78.57%) Windows Server 2003
3 10 (71.43%) Windows XP
4 5 (35.71%) Windows Server 2008
5 3 (21.43%) AIX
6 1 (7.143%) Solaris
6 1 (7.143%) Windows Vista
6 1 (7.143%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (21.43%) Test Automation
2 2 (14.29%) Information Assurance
3 1 (7.143%) Configuration Management
3 1 (7.143%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (21.43%) SQL
2 2 (14.29%) XPath
2 2 (14.29%) JavaScript
3 1 (7.143%) C
3 1 (7.143%) Jython
Qualifications
1 14 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 13 (92.86%) SC Cleared
3 1 (7.143%) DV Cleared
System Software
1 3 (21.43%) VMware ESX
1 3 (21.43%) Active Directory
2 1 (7.143%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 9 (64.29%) HP Quality Center
2 8 (57.14%) OpenView Configuration Management
3 5 (35.71%) Netcool
4 3 (21.43%) McAfee ePO
5 2 (14.29%) HP Operations Orchestration
6 1 (7.143%) HP SiteScope
6 1 (7.143%) HP UCMDB
Vendors
1 6 (42.86%) Citrix
2 5 (35.71%) Veritas
2 5 (35.71%) Borland
3 4 (28.57%) VMware
4 3 (21.43%) McAfee
4 3 (21.43%) HP
5 1 (7.143%) EMC