Test Scripting Contracts in Southampton
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Hourly Rate Trend Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for Test Scripting 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 Test Scripting over the 3 months to 20 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
20 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Test Scripting (Test Scripts)
Rank - 30 27
Contract jobs citing Test Scripting 0 1 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Southampton - 0.439% 0.552%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category - 0.714% 0.855%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 1 1
Average daily rate - £300 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -25.00%
UK excluding London average daily rate £330 £300 £315
% change year-on-year
+10.00% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £26.00 £27.50 £18.75
% change year-on-year
-5.45% +46.66%
All Processes & Methodologies
Southampton
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category		 178 140 117
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Southampton 60.34% 61.40% 64.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 115 82 57
Average daily rate £370 £400 £401
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-7.50% -0.12%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £254 £263 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £555 £500 £563
UK excluding London average daily rate £363 £363 £375
% change year-on-year
- -3.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 18 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 £32.00 £25.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year
+28.00% -16.66%
Test Scripting
Hampshire

Test Scripting
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Southampton 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 Southampton region.

Southampton Test Scripting Daily Rate Trend

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 Southampton region.

Southampton Test Scripting Hourly Rate Trend

Test Scripting
Top 14 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Southampton 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 2 (66.67%) SAP
1 2 (66.67%) SOA
1 2 (66.67%) Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) EPoS
1 2 (66.67%) Telecoms
1 2 (66.67%) Finance
1 2 (66.67%) Test Strategy
2 1 (33.33%) Agile Software Development
2 1 (33.33%) TDD
2 1 (33.33%) Selenium
2 1 (33.33%) Cucumber
2 1 (33.33%) CMS
2 1 (33.33%) HP
2 1 (33.33%) TeamSite

Test Scripting
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Southampton 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 Platforms
1 1 (33.33%) TeamSite
1 1 (33.33%) CMS
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Selenium
1 1 (33.33%) Cucumber
General
1 2 (66.67%) Telecoms
1 2 (66.67%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Test Specialist
2 1 (33.33%) Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Test Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) EPoS
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) SOA
1 2 (66.67%) Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) Test Strategy
2 1 (33.33%) Agile Software Development
2 1 (33.33%) TDD
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) SAP
2 1 (33.33%) HP
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