The first table below looks at the demand for Functional Testing skills in IT contracts advertised for the Slough region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Functional Testing over the 3 months to 21 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 Slough 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
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Functional Testing
Rank - - -
Contract jobs citing Functional Testing 0 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Slough - - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category - - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £275 £425 £300
% change year-on-year
-35.29% +41.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Processes & Methodologies
Slough
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
147 115 204
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Slough 59.04% 56.65% 66.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 79 66 111
Average daily rate £375 £419 £310
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-10.44% +35.08%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £255 £290 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £550 £450 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £363 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
-0.68% -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 5 14
Average hourly rate £22.50 £14.40 £40.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+56.25% -64.00%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.50 £25.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year
+26.00% -16.66%
Functional Testing
Berkshire

Functional Testing
Top 28 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Slough region citing Functional 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 Functional Testing.

1 1 (100.00%) HTML
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (100.00%) Servlets
1 1 (100.00%) Struts
1 1 (100.00%) XML
1 1 (100.00%) XSLT
1 1 (100.00%) Solaris
1 1 (100.00%) Apache
1 1 (100.00%) Tomcat
1 1 (100.00%) XHTML
1 1 (100.00%) Eclipse
1 1 (100.00%) IntelliJ
1 1 (100.00%) MVC
1 1 (100.00%) TDD
1 1 (100.00%) Subversion
1 1 (100.00%) Spring
1 1 (100.00%) GigaSpaces
1 1 (100.00%) Velocity
1 1 (100.00%) JSR 168
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
1 1 (100.00%) Alfresco
1 1 (100.00%) Groovy
1 1 (100.00%) Liferay
1 1 (100.00%) Scala
1 1 (100.00%) Open Source
1 1 (100.00%) MongoDB
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub

Functional Testing
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Slough region citing Functional 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 Functional Testing. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (100.00%) HTML
1 1 (100.00%) Servlets
1 1 (100.00%) Struts
1 1 (100.00%) XML
1 1 (100.00%) XSLT
1 1 (100.00%) XHTML
1 1 (100.00%) Spring
1 1 (100.00%) Velocity
1 1 (100.00%) JSR 168
Application Platforms
1 1 (100.00%) Apache
1 1 (100.00%) Tomcat
1 1 (100.00%) Alfresco
1 1 (100.00%) Liferay
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Eclipse
1 1 (100.00%) IntelliJ
1 1 (100.00%) Subversion
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Java Developer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Open Source
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) MVC
1 1 (100.00%) TDD
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (100.00%) Groovy
1 1 (100.00%) Scala
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) GigaSpaces