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Test Scripting Contracts in the South West
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills
Browse 14 Test Scripting job vacancies in the South West

The first table below looks at the demand for Test Scripting skills in IT contracts advertised for the South West region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Test Scripting 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 West 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
Test Scripting (Test Scripts)
Rank 67 57 65
Rank change year-on-year
-10 +8
Contract jobs citing Test Scripting 35 87 71
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South West 1.742% 2.782% 2.346%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.589% 4.085% 3.669%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 66 42
Average daily rate £335 £318 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+5.51% -15.33%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £230 £260
10% offered a daily rate of more than £418 £425 £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £300 £325
% change year-on-year
+8.33% -7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 2
Average hourly rate £43.50 - £15.25
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.63 £27.00 £17.50
% change year-on-year
+2.31% +54.28%
All Processes & Methodologies
South West
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category		 1352 2130 1935
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South West 67.30% 68.12% 63.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 845 1316 985
Average daily rate £375 £378 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-0.66% +0.66%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £265 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £500 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £370 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
+1.36% -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 61 111 148
Average hourly rate £29.00 £25.00 £31.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+16.00% -20.63%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.64 £11.46 £14.95
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £42.50 £40.90 £39.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.00 £25.00 £29.00
% change year-on-year
+24.00% -13.79%
Test Scripting
England

Test Scripting
Jobs Demand Trend

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

South West Test Scripting Jobs Demand Trend

Test Scripting
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Test Scripting across the South West region.

South West Test Scripting Daily Rate Trend

Test Scripting
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Test Scripting across the South West region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

South West Test Scripting Daily Rate Histogram

Test Scripting
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Test Scripting across the South West region.

South West Test Scripting Hourly Rate Trend

Test Scripting
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Test Scripting within the South West 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
Dorset +2 14 £350 +16.66% 2
Bristol +12 7 £380 +23.57% 5
Gloucestershire -2 3 £331 +10.41% 1
Somerset -12 3 £250 -34.64%
Wiltshire -9 2 £400 +21.21% 4
Test Scripting
England

Test Scripting
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South West region citing Test Scripting 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 Test Scripting.

1 30 (29.13%) ISEB
2 28 (27.18%) Finance
2 28 (27.18%) SQL
2 28 (27.18%) Retail
2 28 (27.18%) Software Testing
3 24 (23.30%) User Acceptance Testing
4 21 (20.39%) Microsoft
5 19 (18.45%) Oracle
5 19 (18.45%) ITIL
6 18 (17.48%) Time Management
7 17 (16.50%) Degree
8 16 (15.53%) Security Cleared
9 15 (14.56%) QA
9 15 (14.56%) ISTQB
10 14 (13.59%) HP Quality Center
10 14 (13.59%) Test Strategy
10 14 (13.59%) E-Commerce
11 13 (12.62%) Data Modelling
12 12 (11.65%) System Testing
12 12 (11.65%) Test Management
13 11 (10.68%) SC Cleared
13 11 (10.68%) Business Analysis
13 11 (10.68%) EPoS
13 11 (10.68%) .NET
14 10 (9.709%) UML
14 10 (9.709%) Mobile Commerce
14 10 (9.709%) ATG
14 10 (9.709%) Automated Testing
14 10 (9.709%) Banking
15 9 (8.738%) Agile Software Development

Test Scripting
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 11 (10.68%) .NET
2 7 (6.796%) Web Services
3 6 (5.825%) ASP.NET
4 3 (2.913%) LAMP
5 1 (0.971%) XML
5 1 (0.971%) XSD
5 1 (0.971%) XSLT
Application Platforms
1 3 (2.913%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.971%) Apache
Applications
1 2 (1.942%) MS Excel
2 1 (0.971%) MS Office
2 1 (0.971%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (3.883%) Lawson
2 3 (2.913%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.971%) Oracle Retail
3 1 (0.971%) assyst
3 1 (0.971%) SAP FI
3 1 (0.971%) SAP HR
3 1 (0.971%) SAP CO
3 1 (0.971%) SAP FI/CO
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.942%) DSL
1 2 (1.942%) FTP
1 2 (1.942%) Internet
2 1 (0.971%) LTE
2 1 (0.971%) SSH
2 1 (0.971%) Extranet
2 1 (0.971%) HTTP
2 1 (0.971%) DNS
2 1 (0.971%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (6.796%) TOAD
2 6 (5.825%) Oracle 10g
2 6 (5.825%) Oracle 11g
3 5 (4.854%) Oracle BI EE
4 4 (3.883%) Data Warehouse
4 4 (3.883%) Oracle Reports
4 4 (3.883%) Data Mart
5 3 (2.913%) SQL Server
6 2 (1.942%) SAP BW
7 1 (0.971%) SQL Server 2005
Development Applications
1 7 (6.796%) Visual Studio
2 6 (5.825%) JMeter
2 6 (5.825%) QuickTest Pro
2 6 (5.825%) JIRA
3 5 (4.854%) TestDirector
4 3 (2.913%) Team Foundation Server
5 2 (1.942%) WinRunner
5 2 (1.942%) Selenium
6 1 (0.971%) WebDriver
6 1 (0.971%) Oracle Forms
6 1 (0.971%) LoadRunner
General
1 28 (27.18%) Finance
1 28 (27.18%) Retail
2 10 (9.709%) Banking
3 6 (5.825%) Retail Banking
4 3 (2.913%) Military
5 2 (1.942%) Legal
5 2 (1.942%) Telecoms
5 2 (1.942%) Investment Banking
6 1 (0.971%) Local Government
6 1 (0.971%) Corporate Banking
6 1 (0.971%) Financial Institution
6 1 (0.971%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 54 (52.43%) Analyst
2 33 (32.04%) Test Analyst
3 29 (28.16%) Tester
4 13 (12.62%) Business Analyst
5 10 (9.709%) Developer
5 10 (9.709%) Test Manager
6 9 (8.738%) Software Tester
6 9 (8.738%) Systems Tester
7 7 (6.796%) Support Analyst
7 7 (6.796%) Applications Support
7 7 (6.796%) Senior Analyst
8 6 (5.825%) Senior Test Analyst
8 6 (5.825%) Help Desk Analyst
9 5 (4.854%) Test Leader
9 5 (4.854%) Oracle Developer
10 4 (3.883%) Test Engineer
11 3 (2.913%) OBIEE Developer
11 3 (2.913%) Dynamics CRM Developer
11 3 (2.913%) CRM Developer
11 3 (2.913%) Systems Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 11 (10.68%) EPoS
2 7 (6.796%) Mobile App
3 5 (4.854%) Enterprise Software
3 5 (4.854%) EMV
4 4 (3.883%) APACS
5 2 (1.942%) NHS
5 2 (1.942%) CMDB
6 1 (0.971%) Mobile Payment
6 1 (0.971%) Credit Risk
6 1 (0.971%) Chip and PIN
6 1 (0.971%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 7 (6.796%) Windows
2 4 (3.883%) UNIX
3 3 (2.913%) Linux
4 2 (1.942%) Windows XP
4 2 (1.942%) Windows 7
5 1 (0.971%) Windows Server 2012
5 1 (0.971%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (27.18%) Software Testing
2 24 (23.30%) User Acceptance Testing
3 19 (18.45%) ITIL
4 18 (17.48%) Time Management
5 14 (13.59%) Test Strategy
5 14 (13.59%) E-Commerce
6 13 (12.62%) Data Modelling
7 12 (11.65%) System Testing
7 12 (11.65%) Test Management
8 11 (10.68%) Business Analysis
9 10 (9.709%) UML
9 10 (9.709%) Mobile Commerce
9 10 (9.709%) Automated Testing
10 9 (8.738%) Agile Software Development
10 9 (8.738%) Service Delivery
10 9 (8.738%) Project Management
10 9 (8.738%) PRINCE2
11 8 (7.767%) Incident Management
11 8 (7.767%) Test Automation
12 7 (6.796%) Systems Analysis
Programming Languages
1 28 (27.18%) SQL
2 7 (6.796%) C
3 6 (5.825%) PL/SQL
4 4 (3.883%) C#
5 2 (1.942%) VBScript
6 1 (0.971%) C-shell
6 1 (0.971%) Bash shell
6 1 (0.971%) VB6
6 1 (0.971%) Korn
6 1 (0.971%) VB
6 1 (0.971%) VB.NET
6 1 (0.971%) Java
6 1 (0.971%) PHP
6 1 (0.971%) Shell Script
6 1 (0.971%) Assembly Language
6 1 (0.971%) Embedded C
Qualifications
1 30 (29.13%) ISEB
2 17 (16.50%) Degree
3 16 (15.53%) Security Cleared
4 15 (14.56%) ISTQB
5 11 (10.68%) SC Cleared
6 7 (6.796%) ISEB Practitioner
7 6 (5.825%) PRINCE2 Certification
8 4 (3.883%) BC Cleared
8 4 (3.883%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.971%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.971%) ACCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (14.56%) QA
2 3 (2.913%) ISO 9001
3 2 (1.942%) GAMP
3 2 (1.942%) GMP
4 1 (0.971%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (1.942%) Microsoft App-V
2 1 (0.971%) Samba
Systems Management
1 14 (13.59%) HP Quality Center
2 5 (4.854%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
Vendors
1 21 (20.39%) Microsoft
2 19 (18.45%) Oracle
3 10 (9.709%) ATG
4 8 (7.767%) HP
5 7 (6.796%) SAP
6 4 (3.883%) Kronos
6 4 (3.883%) Fiserv
7 2 (1.942%) Citrix
7 2 (1.942%) Altiris
8 1 (0.971%) VeriFone
8 1 (0.971%) Red Hat
System Test Analyst - Bournemouth
Bournemouth, Dorset
Keywords - System Test Analyst, Insurance, ISEB, define test requirements, test scripts, test cases, System Testing, Integration testing, test preparation, test execution, defect management, query writing, status reporting, Waterfall,...
Circle Recruitment
Rate: £250 - £315 per day
Posted: 13 June 2013
Core Build Test Lead - Windows 7
Bristol, Avon
1 X windows 7 test lead to start time June for 3 month initially... Tools and technical knowledge Any deployment tools such as CA Unicenter or SCCM knowledge...
Sanderson
Posted: 17 June 2013
Oracle Developer
Exeter, South West
OBIEE repository design; c... Development using PL/SQL and SQL in a 10g/11g environment using Data Modeller, TOAD and other development tools; e... Reviewing, tuning and testing...
Capita Resourcing
Posted: 12 June 2013
Python Scripting
Devon, South West
Our exclusive client in Devon has a requirement for a scripting software engineer to create and run continuous test scripts in Python, Bash or Perl... The ideal candidate...
Computer Futures
Posted: 24 May 2013
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