Staffordshire User Acceptance Testing Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for User Acceptance Testing (UAT) skills within the Staffordshire 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 7 January 2009 with a comparison to the same period last year.

User Acceptance Testing (UAT)
Location Addlestone Andover Basingstoke Benfleet Berkshire Birmingham Blackpool Brentford Brighton Bristol Buckingham Buckinghamshire Burton-upon-Trent Camberley Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Chelmsford Chertsey Cheshire Chester City of London Cobham Croydon Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Doncaster Dorset East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh England Essex Exeter Fareham Farnborough Feltham Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Hammersmith Hampshire Hereford Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Home Counties Ipswich Isle of Man Isleworth Kent Lancashire Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Liverpool London Lytham St Annes M4 Corridor Macclesfield Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newport Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Norwich Osterley Paddington Peterborough Reading Salisbury Scotland Shropshire Slough Solihull Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Staffordshire Staines Stoke-on-Trent Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Surrey Sussex Swindon Telford Thames Ditton Thames Valley UK Uxbridge Wales Warwick Warwickshire Welwyn Garden City West Malling West Midlands West Yorkshire Wiltshire Woking Worcester Worcestershire York Yorkshire	3 months to 7 Jan 2009	Same period last year
Rank	32	16
Rank change on same period last year	-16
Matching contract IT job ads	2	5
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.004 %	0.006 %
As % of the category below	1.460 %	8.621 %
Daily rates quoted	0	2
Average minimum daily rate	-	£525
Average daily rate	-	£550
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	£575
UK excluding London average daily rate	£344	£345
% change on same period last year	-0.23 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum hourly rate	-	-
Average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£31.73	£29.12
% change on same period last year	+8.94 %
Processes & Methodologies Staffordshire
Matching contract IT job ads	137	58
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.273 %	0.073 %
Daily rates quoted	53	16
Average minimum daily rate	£338	£403
Average daily rate	£376	£417
% change on same period last year	-9.67 %
Average maximum daily rate	£415	£430
UK excluding London average daily rate	£381	£376
% change on same period last year	+1.40 %
Hourly rates quoted	16	8
Average minimum hourly rate	£21.11	£29.07
Average hourly rate	£24.80	£31.47
% change on same period last year	-21.17 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£28.50	£33.87
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£27.73	£28.90
% change on same period last year	-4.04 %
User Acceptance Testing West Midlands

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 Staffordshire 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 Staffordshire 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 Staffordshire region.

User Acceptance Testing
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing User Acceptance Testing within the Staffordshire region over the 3 months to 7 January 2009. 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	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
Burton-upon-Trent	0	1	-	-
Stoke-on-Trent	-11	1	-	-

User Acceptance Testing West Midlands

User Acceptance Testing
Top 5 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 7 January 2009, IT contractor jobs across the Staffordshire 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 2 (100.00 %) LAN 1 2 (100.00 %) Government 1 2 (100.00 %) Migration 1 2 (100.00 %) Data Migration 2 1 (50.00 %) Criminal Justice

User Acceptance Testing
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 7 January 2009, IT contractor jobs across the Staffordshire 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.

Communications & Networking 1 2 (100.00 %) LAN	General 1 2 (100.00 %) Government 2 1 (50.00 %) Criminal Justice
Job Titles 1 2 (100.00 %) Tester 2 1 (50.00 %) UAT Tester	Processes & Methodologies 1 2 (100.00 %) Migration 1 2 (100.00 %) Data Migration