The first table below looks at the demand for System Testing skills in IT contracts advertised for the Stirling region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited System Testing 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 Stirling 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
System Testing
Rank 20 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing System Testing 3 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Stirling 2.727% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.488% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.00 £30.00 £27.75
% change year-on-year
- +8.10%
All Processes & Methodologies
Stirling
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
86 23 44
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Stirling 78.18% 62.16% 62.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 51 6 24
Average daily rate £350 £525 £388
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-33.33% +35.48%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £350 £330
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £525 £565
UK excluding London average daily rate £363 £363 £375
% change year-on-year
- -3.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 1
Average hourly rate £15.50 - £7.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £32.00 £25.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year
+28.00% -16.66%
System Testing
Scotland

System Testing
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Stirling System Testing Jobs Demand Trend

System Testing
Daily Rate Trend

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

Stirling System Testing Daily Rate Trend

System Testing
Top 26 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Stirling region citing System 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 System Testing.

1 4 (100.00%) User Acceptance Testing
1 4 (100.00%) HP Quality Center
2 3 (75.00%) Test Strategy
2 3 (75.00%) Test Management
2 3 (75.00%) Software Testing
2 3 (75.00%) ISTQB
2 3 (75.00%) Web Development
2 3 (75.00%) Degree
2 3 (75.00%) Oracle
2 3 (75.00%) ISEB
2 3 (75.00%) Management Information System
2 3 (75.00%) ISEB Practitioner
3 1 (25.00%) Investment Banking
3 1 (25.00%) Banking
3 1 (25.00%) Workflow
3 1 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (25.00%) XML Messaging
3 1 (25.00%) Process Management
3 1 (25.00%) XML
3 1 (25.00%) UML
3 1 (25.00%) MS Visio
3 1 (25.00%) TOAD
3 1 (25.00%) HP
3 1 (25.00%) Use Case
3 1 (25.00%) Pega
3 1 (25.00%) SQL

System Testing
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 1 (25.00%) XML
1 1 (25.00%) XML Messaging
Applications
1 1 (25.00%) MS Visio
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) TOAD
General
1 1 (25.00%) Banking
1 1 (25.00%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Tester
1 3 (75.00%) Systems Tester
2 1 (25.00%) IT Business Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Business Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 3 (75.00%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) User Acceptance Testing
2 3 (75.00%) Test Management
2 3 (75.00%) Test Strategy
2 3 (75.00%) Software Testing
2 3 (75.00%) Web Development
3 1 (25.00%) Use Case
3 1 (25.00%) UML
3 1 (25.00%) Process Management
3 1 (25.00%) Workflow
3 1 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (75.00%) ISEB
1 3 (75.00%) ISEB Practitioner
1 3 (75.00%) ISTQB
1 3 (75.00%) Degree
Systems Management
1 4 (100.00%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) Oracle
2 1 (25.00%) HP
2 1 (25.00%) Pega
Stirlingshire
Key skills include; *Exposure to Investment Banking *Use case modelling with experience of other UML diagrams and techniques *Perform detailed functional analysis (data, systems and interfaces) *Development lifecycle...
Head Resourcing
Posted: 16 May 2013