Performance Testing Contracts in Scotland
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Hourly Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for Performance Testing skills in IT contracts advertised for the Scotland region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Performance Testing over the 3 months to 22 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 Scotland 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
22 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Performance Testing
Rank 114 93 63
Rank change year-on-year
-21 -30
Contract jobs citing Performance Testing 7 12 47
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Scotland 0.282% 0.448% 1.716%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.414% 0.698% 2.554%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 8 29
Average daily rate £338 £339 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-0.36% -15.31%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £328 £270 £350
10% offered a daily rate of more than £368 £440 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £400 £375
% change year-on-year
-18.75% +6.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 0
Average hourly rate - £31.00 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £32.00 £31.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+1.58% -10.00%
All Processes & Methodologies
Scotland
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category		 1689 1720 1840
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Scotland 68.16% 64.28% 67.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 870 873 954
Average daily rate £360 £350 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+2.85% -6.66%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £262 £225 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £475 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £365 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
- -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 68 49
Average hourly rate £20.50 £24.00 £29.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-14.58% -17.24%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £9.25 £9.50 £9.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £44.00 £35.00 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.00 £25.00 £29.00
% change year-on-year
+24.00% -13.79%
Performance Testing
UK

Performance Testing
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Scotland 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 Scotland region.

Scotland Performance Testing Daily Rate Trend

Performance Testing
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Scotland Performance Testing Hourly Rate Trend

Performance Testing
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Performance Testing within the Scotland region over the 3 months to 22 May 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
(Click each for more statistics)		 Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year		 Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads		 Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months		 Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Glasgow -14 4 £331 -1.85%
Edinburgh -2 2 - -
Performance Testing
UK

Performance Testing
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Scotland 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 (36.36%) Security Cleared
2 3 (27.27%) SC Cleared
2 3 (27.27%) Windows
2 3 (27.27%) SQL
2 3 (27.27%) Finance
2 3 (27.27%) Banking
2 3 (27.27%) Test Scripting
3 2 (18.18%) UNIX
3 2 (18.18%) Test Management
3 2 (18.18%) .NET Framework
3 2 (18.18%) VMware
3 2 (18.18%) Regression Testing
3 2 (18.18%) Clustering
3 2 (18.18%) VBScript
3 2 (18.18%) .NET
3 2 (18.18%) Oracle
3 2 (18.18%) Veritas
3 2 (18.18%) C
3 2 (18.18%) C#
3 2 (18.18%) Performance Management
3 2 (18.18%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (18.18%) PowerShell
4 1 (9.091%) Pega
4 1 (9.091%) Talend Open Studio
4 1 (9.091%) Test Automation
4 1 (9.091%) WebSphere Portal
4 1 (9.091%) HP Quality Center
4 1 (9.091%) CA Wily
4 1 (9.091%) Security Architecture
4 1 (9.091%) Build Automation

Performance Testing
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Scotland 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 2 (18.18%) .NET Framework
1 2 (18.18%) .NET
2 1 (9.091%) ASP.NET
2 1 (9.091%) XML
2 1 (9.091%) XSD
2 1 (9.091%) WebSphere
2 1 (9.091%) Java EE
Application Platforms
1 1 (9.091%) WebSphere Portal
1 1 (9.091%) WebSphere Application Server
1 1 (9.091%) IBM HTTP Server
Applications
1 1 (9.091%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 1 (9.091%) DHCP
1 1 (9.091%) HTTP
1 1 (9.091%) DNS
1 1 (9.091%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (9.091%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (9.091%) Talend Open Studio
1 1 (9.091%) Visual Studio
1 1 (9.091%) LoadRunner
General
1 3 (27.27%) Finance
1 3 (27.27%) Banking
2 1 (9.091%) Retail
2 1 (9.091%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 3 (27.27%) Consultant
2 2 (18.18%) Analyst
2 2 (18.18%) Performance Tester
2 2 (18.18%) Tester
3 1 (9.091%) Performance Management Consultant
3 1 (9.091%) Developer
3 1 (9.091%) Management Consultant
3 1 (9.091%) Design Engineer
3 1 (9.091%) .NET Developer
3 1 (9.091%) Technical Analyst
3 1 (9.091%) Server Engineer
3 1 (9.091%) Oracle Consultant
3 1 (9.091%) Oracle Technical Consultant
3 1 (9.091%) Senior .NET Developer
3 1 (9.091%) Test Manager
3 1 (9.091%) Test Analyst
3 1 (9.091%) Senior Developer
3 1 (9.091%) Applications Consultant
3 1 (9.091%) Technical Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 2 (18.18%) Clustering
2 1 (9.091%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (9.091%) Thin Client
2 1 (9.091%) Fat Client
Operating Systems
1 3 (27.27%) Windows
2 2 (18.18%) UNIX
3 1 (9.091%) Windows Server 2003
3 1 (9.091%) AIX
3 1 (9.091%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (27.27%) Test Scripting
2 2 (18.18%) Test Management
2 2 (18.18%) Regression Testing
2 2 (18.18%) Performance Management
3 1 (9.091%) Test Automation
3 1 (9.091%) Security Architecture
3 1 (9.091%) Build Automation
3 1 (9.091%) Project Management
3 1 (9.091%) Workflow
3 1 (9.091%) Change Management
3 1 (9.091%) Automated Testing
3 1 (9.091%) User Acceptance Testing
3 1 (9.091%) System Testing
Programming Languages
1 3 (27.27%) SQL
2 2 (18.18%) VBScript
2 2 (18.18%) C
2 2 (18.18%) C#
2 2 (18.18%) PowerShell
3 1 (9.091%) Java
Qualifications
1 4 (36.36%) Security Cleared
2 3 (27.27%) SC Cleared
3 1 (9.091%) MCSE
3 1 (9.091%) ISEB
3 1 (9.091%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 2 (18.18%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (9.091%) ISA Server
2 1 (9.091%) VMware ESX
Systems Management
1 1 (9.091%) HP Quality Center
1 1 (9.091%) CA Wily
Vendors
1 2 (18.18%) VMware
1 2 (18.18%) Oracle
1 2 (18.18%) Veritas
2 1 (9.091%) Pega
2 1 (9.091%) Talend
2 1 (9.091%) IBM
2 1 (9.091%) Microsoft
2 1 (9.091%) Compuware
2 1 (9.091%) HP
2 1 (9.091%) Citrix
2 1 (9.091%) BMC
2 1 (9.091%) CA
2 1 (9.091%) OPNET
Contract Performance Tester
Central Belt, Scotland
Performance Testers, Harvey Nash is working with a leading technology organisation in the central belt to recruit a Performance Test analyst to deliver Performance testing solutions and work...
Harvey Nash Consulting (Scotland) Limited
Posted: 1 May 2013
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