The first table below looks at the demand for Regression Testing skills in IT contracts advertised for the Surrey region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Regression Testing over the 3 months to 21 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 Surrey 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
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Regression Testing
Rank 76 92 93
Rank change year-on-year
+16 +1
Contract jobs citing Regression Testing 4 5 10
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Surrey 0.344% 0.308% 0.549%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.478% 0.451% 0.757%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 4 7
Average daily rate - £275 £320
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -14.06%
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £375 £320
% change year-on-year
-13.33% +17.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £36.25 £21.60 £29.50
% change year-on-year
+67.82% -26.77%
All Processes & Methodologies
Surrey
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
836 1109 1321
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Surrey 71.94% 68.33% 72.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 418 621 683
Average daily rate £415 £350 £413
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+18.57% -15.15%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £275 £250 £285
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £525 £520
UK excluding London average daily rate £363 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
-0.68% -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 42 56 36
Average hourly rate £37.50 £31.50 £33.75
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+19.04% -6.66%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £15.50 £15.55 £14.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £55.12 £41.35 £45.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.50 £25.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year
+26.00% -16.66%
Regression Testing
South East

Regression Testing
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Surrey Regression Testing Jobs Demand Trend

Regression Testing
Daily Rate Trend

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

Surrey Regression Testing Daily Rate Trend

Regression Testing
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Regression Testing across the Surrey region.

Surrey Regression Testing Hourly Rate Trend

Regression Testing
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Regression Testing within the Surrey region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013. 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
(Click each for more statistics)
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
Guildford - 4 - -
Regression Testing
South East

Regression Testing
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Surrey region citing Regression 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 Regression Testing.

1 8 (80.00%) C#
2 6 (60.00%) Continuous Integration
3 5 (50.00%) SQL
3 5 (50.00%) Python
3 5 (50.00%) Scrum
3 5 (50.00%) Degree
3 5 (50.00%) Computer Science
4 4 (40.00%) QA
4 4 (40.00%) JIRA
4 4 (40.00%) Games
4 4 (40.00%) Streaming Video
4 4 (40.00%) Microsoft
4 4 (40.00%) C
4 4 (40.00%) Subversion
4 4 (40.00%) Data Analysis
4 4 (40.00%) Automated Testing
4 4 (40.00%) Software Engineering
4 4 (40.00%) MS Excel
4 4 (40.00%) MS Visio
4 4 (40.00%) Code Coverage
4 4 (40.00%) SOA
4 4 (40.00%) Data Mining
4 4 (40.00%) .NET
4 4 (40.00%) C++
4 4 (40.00%) JavaScript
4 4 (40.00%) Windows
4 4 (40.00%) Test Automation
4 4 (40.00%) Game Development
4 4 (40.00%) Software Architecture
4 4 (40.00%) Process Architecture

Regression Testing
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Surrey region citing Regression 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 Regression Testing. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 4 (40.00%) .NET
2 2 (20.00%) XML
2 2 (20.00%) Silverlight
3 1 (10.00%) soapUI
3 1 (10.00%) REST
3 1 (10.00%) XSLT
3 1 (10.00%) SOAP
3 1 (10.00%) Web Services
3 1 (10.00%) WAP
3 1 (10.00%) WSDL
3 1 (10.00%) XML Schema
3 1 (10.00%) JSON
3 1 (10.00%) WCF
3 1 (10.00%) WPF
3 1 (10.00%) .NET Framework
Application Platforms
1 1 (10.00%) Oracle Coherence
Applications
1 4 (40.00%) MS Excel
1 4 (40.00%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Taleo
Communications & Networking
1 1 (10.00%) CDMA
1 1 (10.00%) GSM
1 1 (10.00%) BSS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (40.00%) Data Mining
2 1 (10.00%) Oracle 11g
2 1 (10.00%) Oracle Reports
2 1 (10.00%) RDBMS
2 1 (10.00%) Oracle 10g
Development Applications
1 4 (40.00%) JIRA
1 4 (40.00%) Subversion
2 1 (10.00%) WebDriver
2 1 (10.00%) Moq
2 1 (10.00%) Hudson
2 1 (10.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (10.00%) JUnit
2 1 (10.00%) JMeter
2 1 (10.00%) Selenium
2 1 (10.00%) NUnit
General
1 4 (40.00%) Games
2 2 (20.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 4 (40.00%) Development Engineer
2 3 (30.00%) Design Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Project Manager
3 1 (10.00%) Tester
3 1 (10.00%) Developer
3 1 (10.00%) C# Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Senior Tester
Miscellaneous
1 5 (50.00%) Computer Science
2 4 (40.00%) Streaming Video
2 4 (40.00%) Visualisation
2 4 (40.00%) Kinect
3 1 (10.00%) SaaS
3 1 (10.00%) Mathematics
3 1 (10.00%) Physics
Operating Systems
1 4 (40.00%) Windows
1 4 (40.00%) Windows 8
2 1 (10.00%) UNIX
2 1 (10.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (60.00%) Continuous Integration
2 5 (50.00%) Scrum
3 4 (40.00%) Data Analysis
3 4 (40.00%) Automated Testing
3 4 (40.00%) Software Engineering
3 4 (40.00%) Code Coverage
3 4 (40.00%) SOA
3 4 (40.00%) Test Automation
3 4 (40.00%) Game Development
3 4 (40.00%) Software Architecture
3 4 (40.00%) Process Architecture
3 4 (40.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 4 (40.00%) Test Strategy
3 4 (40.00%) Analytics
4 1 (10.00%) Use Case
4 1 (10.00%) Release Management
4 1 (10.00%) User Acceptance Testing
4 1 (10.00%) BDD
4 1 (10.00%) Product Management
4 1 (10.00%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 8 (80.00%) C#
2 5 (50.00%) SQL
2 5 (50.00%) Python
3 4 (40.00%) C
3 4 (40.00%) C++
3 4 (40.00%) JavaScript
4 1 (10.00%) sed
4 1 (10.00%) Perl
4 1 (10.00%) PHP
4 1 (10.00%) Java
4 1 (10.00%) AWK
4 1 (10.00%) XPath
Qualifications
1 5 (50.00%) Degree
2 1 (10.00%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (40.00%) QA
Vendors
1 4 (40.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (10.00%) WSO2
2 1 (10.00%) Oracle
2 1 (10.00%) Teradata