South Wales User Acceptance Testing Contracts

This section looks at the demand for User Acceptance Testing (UAT) skills within the South Wales region with a comparison to our Processes & Methodologies category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited User Acceptance Testing over the 3 months to 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

User Acceptance Testing (UAT)
Location Abingdon Aldershot Andover Basildon Basingstoke Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Blackpool Borehamwood Bournemouth Bracknell Brentwood Bridgend Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Carlisle Cheltenham Cheshire Chester City of London Colchester County Antrim Coventry Crawley Croydon Cumbria Devon Docklands, London Dorset Dundee Durham East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh England Essex Exeter Farnborough Gatwick Glamorgan Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Guildford Halifax Hampshire Havant Herefordshire Hertfordshire Home Counties Horsham Ipswich Kent Knutsford Lancashire Leamington Spa Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Liverpool London Luton M4 Corridor Macclesfield Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Northumberland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Poole Portsmouth Reading Rickmansworth Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Skelmersdale Slough Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Staffordshire Staines Stockport Stoke-on-Trent Street Suffolk Surrey Sussex Swindon Tadworth Taunton Telford Thames Valley Tunbridge Wells Tyne and Wear UK Uttoxeter Uxbridge Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Welwyn Garden City West Drayton West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wigan Wilmslow Wiltshire Winchester Windsor Wokingham Worthing York Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	45	35
Rank change on same period last year	-10
Matching contract IT job ads	10	16
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.013 %	0.016 %
As % of the category below	2.273 %	4.313 %
Daily rates quoted	1	6
Average minimum daily rate	£350	£282
Average daily rate	£375	£303
% change on same period last year	+23.79 %
Average maximum daily rate	£400	£324
UK excluding London average daily rate	£344	£347
% change on same period last year	-1.01 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	1
Average minimum hourly rate	-	£25.00
Average hourly rate	-	£25.00
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	£25.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£28.64	£21.57
% change on same period last year	+32.75 %
Processes & Methodologies South Wales
Matching contract IT job ads	440	371
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.586 %	0.375 %
Daily rates quoted	121	87
Average minimum daily rate	£348	£374
Average daily rate	£378	£404
% change on same period last year	-6.52 %
Average maximum daily rate	£408	£434
UK excluding London average daily rate	£380	£376
% change on same period last year	+1.21 %
Hourly rates quoted	70	39
Average minimum hourly rate	£30.54	£22.51
Average hourly rate	£31.92	£23.50
% change on same period last year	+35.83 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£33.30	£24.49
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£29.33	£30.16
% change on same period last year	-2.72 %
User Acceptance Testing Wales

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.

User Acceptance Testing
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing User Acceptance Testing across the South Wales region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

User Acceptance Testing
Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing User Acceptance Testing across the South Wales region.

User Acceptance Testing
Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing User Acceptance Testing across the South Wales region.

User Acceptance Testing
Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing User Acceptance Testing within the South Wales region over the 3 months to 25 July 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
Bridgend	-	4	£375	-
Glamorgan	-	1	-	-
Newport	-	1	-	-
Cardiff	-14	1	-	-

User Acceptance Testing Wales

User Acceptance Testing
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the South Wales region citing User Acceptance 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 User Acceptance Testing.

1 6 (35.29 %) NHS 1 6 (35.29 %) Integration Testing 2 4 (23.53 %) Performance Testing 2 4 (23.53 %) Health 2 4 (23.53 %) Visual Studio 2 4 (23.53 %) SAP 3 3 (17.65 %) Test Management 4 2 (11.76 %) ISEB Practitioner 4 2 (11.76 %) AJAX 4 2 (11.76 %) Project Management 4 2 (11.76 %) Education 4 2 (11.76 %) Government 4 2 (11.76 %) ASP.NET 4 2 (11.76 %) CSS 4 2 (11.76 %) SOAP

4 2 (11.76 %) WebServices 4 2 (11.76 %) XML 4 2 (11.76 %) C# 4 2 (11.76 %) HTML 4 2 (11.76 %) Java 4 2 (11.76 %) JavaScript 4 2 (11.76 %) VB 4 2 (11.76 %) .NET 4 2 (11.76 %) SQL Server 4 2 (11.76 %) IIS 4 2 (11.76 %) SAP BW 4 2 (11.76 %) Microsoft 4 2 (11.76 %) ISEB 4 2 (11.76 %) RAD 4 2 (11.76 %) RUP

User Acceptance Testing
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the South Wales region citing User Acceptance 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 User Acceptance Testing. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 2 (11.76 %) HTML 1 2 (11.76 %) .NET 1 2 (11.76 %) ASP.NET 1 2 (11.76 %) CSS 1 2 (11.76 %) SOAP 1 2 (11.76 %) WebServices 1 2 (11.76 %) XML 1 2 (11.76 %) AJAX	Application Platforms 1 2 (11.76 %) IIS 2 1 (5.882 %) Lotus Notes
Business Applications 1 1 (5.882 %) SAP HR 1 1 (5.882 %) SAP R/3 1 1 (5.882 %) SAP Payroll	Communications & Networking 1 1 (5.882 %) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence 1 2 (11.76 %) SQL Server 1 2 (11.76 %) SAP BW	Development Applications 1 4 (23.53 %) Visual Studio
General 1 4 (23.53 %) Health 2 2 (11.76 %) Education 2 2 (11.76 %) Government	Job Titles 1 4 (23.53 %) Test Manager 2 3 (17.65 %) Developer 3 2 (11.76 %) .NET Developer 3 2 (11.76 %) SAP Consultant 3 2 (11.76 %) ASP.NET Developer 3 2 (11.76 %) Team Leader 3 2 (11.76 %) Consultant 3 2 (11.76 %) Test Team Leader 3 2 (11.76 %) Project Manager 4 1 (5.882 %) SAP BW Consultant 4 1 (5.882 %) Payroll Manager 4 1 (5.882 %) SAP Manager 4 1 (5.882 %) SAP Test Manager 4 1 (5.882 %) Analyst 4 1 (5.882 %) Test Analyst
Miscellaneous 1 6 (35.29 %) NHS 2 1 (5.882 %) Statistics	Operating Systems 1 2 (11.76 %) Windows 1 2 (11.76 %) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies 1 6 (35.29 %) Integration Testing 2 4 (23.53 %) Performance Testing 3 3 (17.65 %) Test Management 4 2 (11.76 %) RAD 4 2 (11.76 %) RUP 4 2 (11.76 %) SOA 4 2 (11.76 %) B2C 4 2 (11.76 %) Project Management 5 1 (5.882 %) Risk Management 5 1 (5.882 %) Asset Management 5 1 (5.882 %) Requirements Management 5 1 (5.882 %) Test Scripting 5 1 (5.882 %) Security Cleared 5 1 (5.882 %) Unit Testing 5 1 (5.882 %) PRINCE2	Programming Languages 1 2 (11.76 %) C# 1 2 (11.76 %) Java 1 2 (11.76 %) JavaScript 1 2 (11.76 %) VB
Qualifications 1 2 (11.76 %) ISEB 1 2 (11.76 %) ISEB Practitioner 2 1 (5.882 %) Degree 2 1 (5.882 %) PRINCE2 Practitioner 2 1 (5.882 %) Cisco Certification 2 1 (5.882 %) CCNP	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 1 (5.882 %) QA
Vendors 1 4 (23.53 %) SAP 2 2 (11.76 %) Microsoft 3 1 (5.882 %) Lotus 3 1 (5.882 %) Cisco