The first table below looks at the demand for Test Scripting skills in IT contracts advertised for the Staines 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 Staines 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 - - 32
Contract jobs citing Test Scripting 0 0 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Staines - - 0.830%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category - - 1.053%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 2
Average daily rate - - £488
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £300 £325
% change year-on-year
+8.33% -7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.63 £27.00 £17.50
% change year-on-year
+2.31% +54.28%
All Processes & Methodologies
Staines
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
95 104 190
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Staines 74.22% 77.04% 78.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 33 44
Average daily rate £388 £425 £478
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-8.82% -10.99%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £150 £319 £300
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £570 £525
UK excluding London average daily rate £370 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
+1.36% -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 4 1
Average hourly rate £13.00 £39.00 £40.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-66.66% -2.50%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.00 £25.00 £29.00
% change year-on-year
+24.00% -13.79%
Test Scripting
Surrey

Test Scripting
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Staines 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 Staines region.

Staines 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 Staines region.

Staines Test Scripting Hourly Rate Trend

Test Scripting
Top 19 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Staines 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 3 (75.00%) Windows
1 3 (75.00%) Citrix
1 3 (75.00%) Migration
1 3 (75.00%) Microsoft App-V
1 3 (75.00%) AppSense
1 3 (75.00%) User Acceptance Testing
1 3 (75.00%) Windows 7
1 3 (75.00%) Test Strategy
2 2 (50.00%) Hyper-V
2 2 (50.00%) XenApp
2 2 (50.00%) XenServer
2 2 (50.00%) Agile Software Development
3 1 (25.00%) iPhone
3 1 (25.00%) Apple iOS
3 1 (25.00%) Change Control
3 1 (25.00%) Objective-C
3 1 (25.00%) Configuration Management
3 1 (25.00%) UML
3 1 (25.00%) Data Modelling

Test Scripting
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Staines 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.

Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Test Manager
2 1 (25.00%) iOS Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Senior iOS Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Developer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) iPhone
Operating Systems
1 3 (75.00%) Windows
1 3 (75.00%) Windows 7
2 1 (25.00%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Migration
1 3 (75.00%) User Acceptance Testing
1 3 (75.00%) Test Strategy
2 2 (50.00%) Agile Software Development
3 1 (25.00%) Change Control
3 1 (25.00%) Configuration Management
3 1 (25.00%) UML
3 1 (25.00%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) Objective-C
System Software
1 3 (75.00%) Microsoft App-V
2 2 (50.00%) Hyper-V
2 2 (50.00%) XenApp
2 2 (50.00%) XenServer
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) Citrix
1 3 (75.00%) AppSense