Scotland Test Scripting Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Test Scripting (Test Scripts) skills within the Scotland 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 5 September 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 Darlington 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 Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Plymouth Poole Preston Reading Rugby Runcorn Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Sidcup Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southend-on-Sea 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 Wiltshire Windsor Wokingham Worcester Worcestershire York Yorkshire	3 months to 5 Sep 2008	Same period last year
Rank	72	87
Rank change on same period last year	+15
Matching contract IT job ads	31	40
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.042 %	0.039 %
As % of the category below	2.618 %	2.569 %
Daily rates quoted	5	9
Average minimum daily rate	£261	£231
Average daily rate	£268	£246
% change on same period last year	+8.77 %
Average maximum daily rate	£275	£262
UK excluding London average daily rate	£322	£318
% change on same period last year	+1.11 %
Hourly rates quoted	1	1
Average minimum hourly rate	£20.00	£12.00
Average hourly rate	£22.50	£14.00
% change on same period last year	+60.71 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£25.00	£16.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£29.51	£29.96
% change on same period last year	-1.47 %
Processes & Methodologies Scotland
Matching contract IT job ads	1184	1557
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	1.600 %	1.535 %
Daily rates quoted	303	367
Average minimum daily rate	£299	£322
Average daily rate	£322	£341
% change on same period last year	-5.40 %
Average maximum daily rate	£345	£359
UK excluding London average daily rate	£378	£375
% change on same period last year	+0.59 %
Hourly rates quoted	61	62
Average minimum hourly rate	£23.71	£26.86
Average hourly rate	£25.22	£28.28
% change on same period last year	-10.80 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£26.73	£29.69
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£30.41	£30.41
% change on same period last year	+0.01 %
Test Scripting UK

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 Scotland 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 Scotland region.

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Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Test Scripting across the Scotland region over the 3 months to 5 September 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 Scotland region.

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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 Scotland region over the 3 months to 5 September 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
Edinburgh	-12	12	£180	-23.63 %
Glasgow	+20	8	£262	+7.90 %
Aberdeen	-	1	£375	-

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 5 September 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Scotland 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 33 (61.11 %) Finance 2 26 (48.15 %) User Acceptance Testing 3 18 (33.33 %) TestDirector 4 17 (31.48 %) ISEB 5 14 (25.93 %) Oracle 6 13 (24.07 %) V-Model 6 13 (24.07 %) Banking 7 10 (18.52 %) Business Objects 7 10 (18.52 %) BusinessObjects 7 10 (18.52 %) Datawarehouse 8 8 (14.81 %) PVCS 9 7 (12.96 %) Oracle Financials 9 7 (12.96 %) Pensions 10 6 (11.11 %) Retail Banking 10 6 (11.11 %) Retail

10 6 (11.11 %) Software Testing 11 4 (7.407 %) QuickTest Pro 11 4 (7.407 %) WebServices 11 4 (7.407 %) General Ledger 11 4 (7.407 %) Test Management 12 3 (5.556 %) ISTQB 12 3 (5.556 %) Regression Testing 12 3 (5.556 %) WinRunner 12 3 (5.556 %) ISEB Practitioner 12 3 (5.556 %) SAP PM 12 3 (5.556 %) SAP 12 3 (5.556 %) Crystal Reports 12 3 (5.556 %) .NET 12 3 (5.556 %) Java 12 3 (5.556 %) SQL

Test Scripting
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 5 September 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Scotland 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 4 (7.407 %) WebServices 2 3 (5.556 %) .NET 3 2 (3.704 %) XML 3 2 (3.704 %) Spring 4 1 (1.852 %) Tapestry 4 1 (1.852 %) WebSphere 4 1 (1.852 %) UDDI 4 1 (1.852 %) XML Schema 4 1 (1.852 %) Hibernate 4 1 (1.852 %) J2EE 4 1 (1.852 %) ASP 4 1 (1.852 %) EJB 4 1 (1.852 %) JSP 4 1 (1.852 %) Servlets 4 1 (1.852 %) SOAP	Application Platforms 1 1 (1.852 %) Lotus Domino 1 1 (1.852 %) WebSphere MQ 1 1 (1.852 %) ESB 1 1 (1.852 %) WebSphere Message Broker
Applications 1 1 (1.852 %) MS Office	Business Applications 1 7 (12.96 %) Oracle Financials 2 3 (5.556 %) SAP PM
Communications & Networking 1 1 (1.852 %) LDAP 1 1 (1.852 %) SMTP 1 1 (1.852 %) HTTP 1 1 (1.852 %) SNMP 1 1 (1.852 %) IMAP	Database & Business Intelligence 1 10 (18.52 %) Datawarehouse 1 10 (18.52 %) BusinessObjects 2 3 (5.556 %) Crystal Reports 2 3 (5.556 %) Oracle Reports 3 2 (3.704 %) TOAD 3 2 (3.704 %) SQL Server 2005 3 2 (3.704 %) SQL Server 4 1 (1.852 %) SQL Server Integration Services 4 1 (1.852 %) RDBMS
Development Applications 1 18 (33.33 %) TestDirector 2 8 (14.81 %) PVCS 3 4 (7.407 %) QuickTest Pro 4 3 (5.556 %) LoadRunner 4 3 (5.556 %) WinRunner	General 1 33 (61.11 %) Finance 2 13 (24.07 %) Banking 3 7 (12.96 %) Pensions 4 6 (11.11 %) Retail Banking 4 6 (11.11 %) Retail 5 4 (7.407 %) General Ledger
Job Titles 1 28 (51.85 %) Analyst 2 27 (50.00 %) Test Analyst 3 8 (14.81 %) Tester 4 6 (11.11 %) Test Manager 5 4 (7.407 %) Test Team Leader 5 4 (7.407 %) Team Leader 6 3 (5.556 %) Programmer 7 2 (3.704 %) Consultant 7 2 (3.704 %) Business Analyst 7 2 (3.704 %) Senior Analyst 7 2 (3.704 %) Systems Tester 7 2 (3.704 %) Test Engineer 7 2 (3.704 %) SAP Consultant 7 2 (3.704 %) Senior Test Analyst 7 2 (3.704 %) Senior Test Engineer 7 2 (3.704 %) SAP PM Consultant 7 2 (3.704 %) Performance Engineer 7 2 (3.704 %) Business Test Analyst 7 2 (3.704 %) Systems Programmer 8 1 (1.852 %) SAP Test Analyst	Miscellaneous 1 2 (3.704 %) Mainframe 2 1 (1.852 %) Client/Server 2 1 (1.852 %) N-Tier 2 1 (1.852 %) Blackberry
Operating Systems 1 2 (3.704 %) Windows NT 1 2 (3.704 %) Windows XP 1 2 (3.704 %) OS/390 1 2 (3.704 %) zOS 1 2 (3.704 %) Windows 2 1 (1.852 %) AIX 2 1 (1.852 %) Solaris 2 1 (1.852 %) UNIX	Processes & Methodologies 1 26 (48.15 %) User Acceptance Testing 2 13 (24.07 %) V-Model 3 6 (11.11 %) Software Testing 4 4 (7.407 %) Test Management 5 3 (5.556 %) E-Commerce 5 3 (5.556 %) Regression Testing 6 2 (3.704 %) GAP Analysis 6 2 (3.704 %) Project Management 6 2 (3.704 %) B2B 6 2 (3.704 %) Wealth Management 6 2 (3.704 %) Stakeholder Management 6 2 (3.704 %) CRM 6 2 (3.704 %) Web Testing 7 1 (1.852 %) Manual Testing 7 1 (1.852 %) System Testing 7 1 (1.852 %) Data Migration 7 1 (1.852 %) BPEL 7 1 (1.852 %) Penetration Testing 7 1 (1.852 %) Automated Testing 7 1 (1.852 %) SAP Implementation
Programming Languages 1 3 (5.556 %) Java 1 3 (5.556 %) SQL 2 1 (1.852 %) VB 2 1 (1.852 %) VBA 2 1 (1.852 %) C#	Qualifications 1 17 (31.48 %) ISEB 2 3 (5.556 %) ISEB Practitioner 2 3 (5.556 %) ISTQB 3 2 (3.704 %) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 1 (1.852 %) QA	Vendors 1 14 (25.93 %) Oracle 2 10 (18.52 %) Business Objects 3 3 (5.556 %) SAP 4 1 (1.852 %) IBM 4 1 (1.852 %) Compuware 4 1 (1.852 %) CA