The first table below looks at the demand for Performance Testing skills in IT contracts advertised for the Salford region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Performance Testing 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 Salford 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
Performance Testing
Rank - - -
Contract jobs citing Performance Testing 0 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Salford - - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category - - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £338 £400 £400
% change year-on-year
-15.62% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £32.00 £31.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+3.22% -11.42%
All Processes & Methodologies
Salford
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
19 16 6
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Salford 79.17% 66.67% 75.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 14 4
Average daily rate £323 £275 £425
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+17.27% -35.29%
UK excluding London average daily rate £370 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
+1.36% -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Average hourly rate - £20.00 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.00 £25.00 £29.00
% change year-on-year
+24.00% -13.79%
Performance Testing
Manchester

Performance Testing
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Salford Performance Testing Jobs Demand Trend

Performance Testing
Daily Rate Trend

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

Salford Performance Testing Daily Rate Trend

Performance Testing
Top 16 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Salford region citing Performance 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 Performance Testing.

1 4 (100.00%) C++
1 4 (100.00%) Java
1 4 (100.00%) ActionScript
1 4 (100.00%) Web Services
1 4 (100.00%) OOP
1 4 (100.00%) OO
1 4 (100.00%) Flash
1 4 (100.00%) Internet
1 4 (100.00%) Agile Software Development
1 4 (100.00%) TDD
1 4 (100.00%) Subversion
1 4 (100.00%) MTASC
1 4 (100.00%) ActionScript 2.0
1 4 (100.00%) Memory Management
1 4 (100.00%) Scrum
1 4 (100.00%) Embedded Systems

Performance Testing
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Salford region citing Performance 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 Performance Testing. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 4 (100.00%) Web Services
1 4 (100.00%) Flash
Communications & Networking
1 4 (100.00%) Internet
Development Applications
1 4 (100.00%) Subversion
1 4 (100.00%) MTASC
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Flash Developer
1 3 (75.00%) Flash ActionScript Developer
1 3 (75.00%) ActionScript Developer
1 3 (75.00%) Developer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (100.00%) Embedded Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) OOP
1 4 (100.00%) OO
1 4 (100.00%) Agile Software Development
1 4 (100.00%) TDD
1 4 (100.00%) Memory Management
1 4 (100.00%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) C++
1 4 (100.00%) Java
1 4 (100.00%) ActionScript
1 4 (100.00%) ActionScript 2.0