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Stress Testing Contracts in the South East
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Hourly Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for Stress 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 Stress Testing over the 3 months to 19 June 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
19 Jun 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Stress Testing
Rank 219 246 236
Rank change year-on-year
+27 -10
Contract jobs citing Stress Testing 1 1 10
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South East 0.012% 0.010% 0.094%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.018% 0.015% 0.147%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 5
Average daily rate £350 - £360
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £450 £406
% change year-on-year
-22.22% +10.76%
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		 5512 6610 6800
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South East 68.83% 66.13% 64.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 2869 3135 3151
Average daily rate £375 £370 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+1.35% -1.33%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £250 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £525 £500 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £370 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
+1.36% -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 229 312 351
Average hourly rate £30.00 £30.00 £30.00
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.50 £12.88 £12.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £45.00 £47.50 £45.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.00 £25.00 £29.00
% change year-on-year
+24.00% -13.79%
Stress Testing
England

Stress Testing
Jobs Demand Trend

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

South East Stress Testing Jobs Demand Trend

Stress Testing
Daily Rate Trend

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

South East Stress Testing Daily Rate Trend

Stress Testing
Hourly Rate Trend

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

South East Stress Testing Hourly Rate Trend

Stress Testing
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Stress Testing within the South East region over the 3 months to 19 June 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		 Find
Job
Vacancies
Hampshire - 1 £350 -
Surrey - - - -
West Sussex - - - -
Berkshire - - - -
Buckinghamshire - - - -
Stress Testing
England

Stress Testing
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South East region citing Stress 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 Stress Testing.

1 5 (45.45%) MS Visio
1 5 (45.45%) ISEB
1 5 (45.45%) LoadRunner
2 4 (36.36%) Web Services
2 4 (36.36%) Software Testing
2 4 (36.36%) ISTQB
2 4 (36.36%) Test Scripting
3 3 (27.27%) Android
3 3 (27.27%) HP Quality Center
3 3 (27.27%) Apple iOS
3 3 (27.27%) User Acceptance Testing
3 3 (27.27%) QA
3 3 (27.27%) Selenium
3 3 (27.27%) JSON
3 3 (27.27%) Telecoms
3 3 (27.27%) Finance
3 3 (27.27%) Objective-C
3 3 (27.27%) C#
3 3 (27.27%) SAP
3 3 (27.27%) HTML
3 3 (27.27%) Java
3 3 (27.27%) JavaScript
3 3 (27.27%) SAP BW
3 3 (27.27%) CCA
3 3 (27.27%) QuickTest Pro
3 3 (27.27%) MS Excel
4 2 (18.18%) Client/Server
4 2 (18.18%) Configuration Management
4 2 (18.18%) CDMA
4 2 (18.18%) GPRS

Stress Testing
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South East region citing Stress 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 Stress Testing. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 4 (36.36%) Web Services
2 3 (27.27%) JSON
2 3 (27.27%) HTML
3 2 (18.18%) .NET
3 2 (18.18%) J2EE
3 2 (18.18%) SOAP
3 2 (18.18%) XML
3 2 (18.18%) soapUI
3 2 (18.18%) REST
Applications
1 5 (45.45%) MS Visio
2 3 (27.27%) MS Excel
3 2 (18.18%) MS PowerPoint
Communications & Networking
1 2 (18.18%) CDMA
1 2 (18.18%) GPRS
1 2 (18.18%) GSM
1 2 (18.18%) UMTS
1 2 (18.18%) VoIP
1 2 (18.18%) HTTP
1 2 (18.18%) BSS
1 2 (18.18%) Wireshark
2 1 (9.091%) IPv6
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (27.27%) SAP BW
Development Applications
1 5 (45.45%) LoadRunner
2 3 (27.27%) Selenium
2 3 (27.27%) QuickTest Pro
3 1 (9.091%) JMeter
3 1 (9.091%) SilkPerformer
General
1 3 (27.27%) Telecoms
1 3 (27.27%) Finance
2 2 (18.18%) Manufacturing
3 1 (9.091%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 6 (54.55%) Analyst
1 6 (54.55%) Test Analyst
2 3 (27.27%) SAP Analyst
2 3 (27.27%) SAP Test Analyst
3 2 (18.18%) Architect
3 2 (18.18%) Solutions Architect
3 2 (18.18%) OSS Architect
4 1 (9.091%) Test Leader
4 1 (9.091%) IP Engineer
4 1 (9.091%) Performance Test Analyst
4 1 (9.091%) Software Test Analyst
4 1 (9.091%) QA Analyst
4 1 (9.091%) Performance Analyst
4 1 (9.091%) Test Engineer
4 1 (9.091%) Senior Tester
4 1 (9.091%) QA Test Analyst
4 1 (9.091%) Tester
Miscellaneous
1 2 (18.18%) Client/Server
1 2 (18.18%) Replication
1 2 (18.18%) Management Information System
1 2 (18.18%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (9.091%) Smart Meter
2 1 (9.091%) Smartphone
2 1 (9.091%) Blackberry
Operating Systems
1 3 (27.27%) Android
1 3 (27.27%) Apple iOS
2 1 (9.091%) Windows Mobile
2 1 (9.091%) Windows
2 1 (9.091%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (36.36%) Software Testing
1 4 (36.36%) Test Scripting
2 3 (27.27%) User Acceptance Testing
3 2 (18.18%) Configuration Management
3 2 (18.18%) B2B
3 2 (18.18%) Agile Software Development
3 2 (18.18%) Service Delivery
3 2 (18.18%) Release Management
3 2 (18.18%) Integration Testing
3 2 (18.18%) Test Strategy
3 2 (18.18%) Business Transformation
3 2 (18.18%) Analytics
4 1 (9.091%) Change Control
4 1 (9.091%) Test Automation
4 1 (9.091%) Manual Testing
4 1 (9.091%) SAP Implementation
4 1 (9.091%) Load Testing
4 1 (9.091%) Load Balancing
Programming Languages
1 3 (27.27%) Objective-C
1 3 (27.27%) C#
1 3 (27.27%) Java
1 3 (27.27%) JavaScript
2 2 (18.18%) VB
2 2 (18.18%) C++
3 1 (9.091%) C
3 1 (9.091%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (45.45%) ISEB
2 4 (36.36%) ISTQB
3 3 (27.27%) CCA
4 1 (9.091%) SC Cleared
4 1 (9.091%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (27.27%) QA
Systems Management
1 3 (27.27%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 3 (27.27%) SAP
2 2 (18.18%) Microsoft
3 1 (9.091%) Oracle
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