Slough QuickTest Pro Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for HP QuickTest Professional (QTP) skills within the Slough region with a comparison to our Development Applications category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited QuickTest Pro over the 3 months to 5 September 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

HP QuickTest Professional (QTP)
Location Andover Basingstoke Berkshire Birmingham Bournemouth Bracknell Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cheshire City of London Derby Derbyshire Docklands, London Dorset East Midlands East of England Edinburgh England Essex Farnham Glasgow Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harlow Hertfordshire Leeds London M4 Corridor Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Norfolk North West Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Reading Scotland Shropshire Slough South East South Lanarkshire South West Southampton Southend-on-Sea Stevenage Surrey Swansea Swindon Telford Thames Valley UK Uxbridge Wales Warrington Watford West Midlands West Wales West Yorkshire Wiltshire Yorkshire	3 months to 5 Sep 2008	Same period last year
Rank	-	35
Rank change on same period last year	-
Matching contract IT job ads	0	1
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.000 %	0.001 %
As % of the category below	0.000 %	3.571 %
Daily rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum daily rate	-	-
Average daily rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£313	£332
% change on same period last year	-5.62 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum hourly rate	-	-
Average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.83	£36.56
% change on same period last year	-34.80 %
Development Applications Slough
Matching contract IT job ads	39	28
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.053 %	0.028 %
Daily rates quoted	12	6
Average minimum daily rate	£223	£375
Average daily rate	£245	£460
% change on same period last year	-46.86 %
Average maximum daily rate	£267	£546
UK excluding London average daily rate	£327	£335
% change on same period last year	-2.53 %
Hourly rates quoted	10	12
Average minimum hourly rate	£39.40	£38.20
Average hourly rate	£39.90	£38.50
% change on same period last year	+3.63 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£40.40	£38.80
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£33.31	£33.09
% change on same period last year	+0.68 %
QuickTest Pro Berkshire

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.

QuickTest Pro
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing QuickTest Pro across the Slough region as a proportion of the total demand within the Development Applications category.