The first table below looks at the demand for Functional Testing skills in IT contracts advertised for the South East region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Functional 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 South East 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
Functional Testing
Rank 223 239 234
Rank change year-on-year
+16 -5
Contract jobs citing Functional Testing 6 7 8
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South East 0.076% 0.068% 0.078%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.112% 0.104% 0.121%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 2 4
Average daily rate £288 £346 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-16.96% +15.41%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £254 £293 £265
10% offered a daily rate of more than £363 £399 £370
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
South East
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
5379 6721 6614
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South East 67.90% 64.97% 64.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 2783 3216 3013
Average daily rate £375 £360 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+4.16% -4.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £255 £250 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £525 £500 £514
UK excluding London average daily rate £365 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
- -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 215 327 363
Average hourly rate £26.98 £25.50 £35.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+5.78% -27.14%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.37 £13.50 £13.54
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £50.00 £45.00 £45.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.00 £25.00 £29.00
% change year-on-year
+24.00% -13.79%
Functional Testing
England

Functional Testing
Jobs Demand Trend

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

South East Functional Testing Jobs Demand Trend

Functional Testing
Daily Rate Trend

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

South East Functional Testing Daily Rate Trend

Functional Testing
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Functional Testing across the South East region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013.

South East Functional Testing Daily Rate Histogram

Functional Testing
Hourly Rate Trend

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

South East Functional Testing Hourly Rate Trend

Functional Testing
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Functional Testing within the South East 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
Hampshire +2 4 £288 -
Berkshire +13 1 £400 -
Buckinghamshire +4 1 £270 -3.57%
Functional Testing
England

Functional Testing
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South East 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 4 (33.33%) JavaScript
1 4 (33.33%) HTML
1 4 (33.33%) Oracle
1 4 (33.33%) Security Cleared
1 4 (33.33%) HP Quality Center
2 3 (25.00%) User Acceptance Testing
2 3 (25.00%) soapUI
2 3 (25.00%) SC Cleared
2 3 (25.00%) SQL
2 3 (25.00%) .NET
2 3 (25.00%) ASP.NET
2 3 (25.00%) HP
3 2 (16.67%) Windows Server 2003
3 2 (16.67%) JSP
3 2 (16.67%) Windows 2000
3 2 (16.67%) Windows XP
3 2 (16.67%) Java
3 2 (16.67%) SOAP
3 2 (16.67%) UNIX
3 2 (16.67%) Windows
3 2 (16.67%) Oracle EBS
3 2 (16.67%) Agile Software Development
3 2 (16.67%) QA
3 2 (16.67%) Windows Server 2008
3 2 (16.67%) Selenium
4 1 (8.333%) WCF
4 1 (8.333%) WebDriver
4 1 (8.333%) Open Source
4 1 (8.333%) MongoDB
4 1 (8.333%) Security Testing

Functional Testing
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South East 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 4 (33.33%) HTML
2 3 (25.00%) soapUI
2 3 (25.00%) .NET
2 3 (25.00%) ASP.NET
3 2 (16.67%) JSP
3 2 (16.67%) SOAP
4 1 (8.333%) WCF
4 1 (8.333%) Velocity
4 1 (8.333%) JSR 168
4 1 (8.333%) Spring
4 1 (8.333%) Struts
4 1 (8.333%) XML
4 1 (8.333%) XSLT
4 1 (8.333%) J2EE
4 1 (8.333%) XHTML
4 1 (8.333%) Servlets
Application Platforms
1 1 (8.333%) Alfresco
1 1 (8.333%) Liferay
1 1 (8.333%) Apache
1 1 (8.333%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (8.333%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (16.67%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (8.333%) SAP FI
Communications & Networking
1 1 (8.333%) Wireshark
1 1 (8.333%) TCP/IP
1 1 (8.333%) HTTPS
1 1 (8.333%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (8.333%) MongoDB
1 1 (8.333%) TOAD
1 1 (8.333%) Oracle 8/8i
Development Applications
1 2 (16.67%) Selenium
2 1 (8.333%) WebDriver
2 1 (8.333%) GitHub
2 1 (8.333%) JIRA
2 1 (8.333%) Subversion
2 1 (8.333%) Eclipse
2 1 (8.333%) IntelliJ
General
1 1 (8.333%) Retail
1 1 (8.333%) Finance
Job Titles
1 7 (58.33%) Analyst
2 6 (50.00%) Test Analyst
3 2 (16.67%) Tester
3 2 (16.67%) Test Manager
3 2 (16.67%) Technical Analyst
3 2 (16.67%) Technical Test Analyst
3 2 (16.67%) Functional Analyst
3 2 (16.67%) Functional Test Analyst
4 1 (8.333%) SAP Analyst
4 1 (8.333%) Agile Test Analyst
4 1 (8.333%) SAP Test Analyst
4 1 (8.333%) Functional Tester
4 1 (8.333%) Release Manager
4 1 (8.333%) Manual Tester
4 1 (8.333%) Java Developer
4 1 (8.333%) Technical Manager
4 1 (8.333%) Author
4 1 (8.333%) Technical Author
4 1 (8.333%) Developer
4 1 (8.333%) Systems Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 1 (8.333%) Open Source
Operating Systems
1 2 (16.67%) Windows Server 2003
1 2 (16.67%) Windows 2000
1 2 (16.67%) Windows XP
1 2 (16.67%) UNIX
1 2 (16.67%) Windows
1 2 (16.67%) Windows Server 2008
2 1 (8.333%) Solaris
2 1 (8.333%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (25.00%) User Acceptance Testing
2 2 (16.67%) Agile Software Development
3 1 (8.333%) Security Testing
3 1 (8.333%) Test Scripting
3 1 (8.333%) Continuous Integration
3 1 (8.333%) System Testing
3 1 (8.333%) Data Migration
3 1 (8.333%) User Stories
3 1 (8.333%) Automated Testing
3 1 (8.333%) TDD
3 1 (8.333%) Validation
3 1 (8.333%) Migration
3 1 (8.333%) Regression Testing
3 1 (8.333%) E-business
3 1 (8.333%) MVC
Programming Languages
1 4 (33.33%) JavaScript
2 3 (25.00%) SQL
3 2 (16.67%) Java
4 1 (8.333%) Groovy
4 1 (8.333%) Scala
Qualifications
1 4 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 3 (25.00%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (16.67%) QA
System Software
1 1 (8.333%) Nmap
Systems Management
1 4 (33.33%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 4 (33.33%) Oracle
2 3 (25.00%) HP
3 1 (8.333%) GigaSpaces
3 1 (8.333%) SAP
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