The first table below looks at the demand for Load Testing skills in IT contracts advertised for the Southampton region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Load 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 Southampton 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
Load Testing
Rank 35 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing Load Testing 2 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Southampton 0.664% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.087% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Average daily rate £375 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £450 £388 £289
% change year-on-year
+16.12% +34.19%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £32.50 £29.50 -
% change year-on-year
+10.16% -
All Processes & Methodologies
Southampton
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
184 142 120
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Southampton 61.13% 60.17% 65.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 120 81 58
Average daily rate £370 £400 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-7.50% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £263 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £555 £500 £555
UK excluding London average daily rate £365 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
- -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 17 18
Average hourly rate £27.50 £20.00 £33.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+37.50% -39.39%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £23.00 £17.50 £11.33
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £45.00 £41.50 £42.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.00 £25.00 £29.00
% change year-on-year
+24.00% -13.79%
Load Testing
Hampshire

Load Testing
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Southampton Load Testing Jobs Demand Trend

Load Testing
Daily Rate Trend

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

Southampton Load Testing Daily Rate Trend

Load Testing
Top 14 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Southampton region citing Load 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 Load Testing.

1 2 (66.67%) ISEB
1 2 (66.67%) Scrum
1 2 (66.67%) Xcode
1 2 (66.67%) Performance Testing
1 2 (66.67%) Android
1 2 (66.67%) Test Automation
1 2 (66.67%) Apple iOS
1 2 (66.67%) Selenium
2 1 (33.33%) Spring
2 1 (33.33%) Hibernate
2 1 (33.33%) Java
2 1 (33.33%) JavaScript
2 1 (33.33%) JSP
2 1 (33.33%) JMS

Load Testing
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Southampton region citing Load 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 Load Testing. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (33.33%) Spring
1 1 (33.33%) Hibernate
1 1 (33.33%) JSP
1 1 (33.33%) JMS
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) Xcode
1 2 (66.67%) Selenium
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Tester
1 2 (66.67%) Mobile Tester
2 1 (33.33%) Web Tester
2 1 (33.33%) Java Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Developer
Operating Systems
1 2 (66.67%) Android
1 2 (66.67%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Scrum
1 2 (66.67%) Performance Testing
1 2 (66.67%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) Java
1 1 (33.33%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) ISEB