Surrey Test Scripting Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Test Scripting (Test Scripts) skills within the Surrey region with a comparison to our Processes & Methodologies category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Test Scripting over the 3 months to 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Test Scripting (Test Scripts)
Location Aberdeen Abingdon Amersham Atherstone Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Berkshire Birmingham Bishop's Stortford Bournemouth Bracknell Bridgend Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Chatham Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Chesterfield City of London Coventry Crawley Croydon Dartford Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh England Essex Exeter Glasgow Gloucestershire Guildford Halifax Hampshire Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire Home Counties Hove Kent Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Liverpool London Maidenhead Manchester Marlow Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Plymouth Poole Reading Rugby Runcorn Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Sidcup Slough Solihull Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton St Albans Staines Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Telford Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Wilmslow Wiltshire Winchester Windsor Wirral Wokingham Worcester Worcestershire York Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	85	74
Rank change on same period last year	-11
Matching contract IT job ads	27	37
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.036 %	0.037 %
As % of the category below	2.219 %	3.104 %
Daily rates quoted	8	8
Average minimum daily rate	£424	£334
Average daily rate	£436	£368
% change on same period last year	+18.50 %
Average maximum daily rate	£449	£403
UK excluding London average daily rate	£326	£321
% change on same period last year	+1.35 %
Hourly rates quoted	1	4
Average minimum hourly rate	£8.00	£44.54
Average hourly rate	£8.00	£46.41
% change on same period last year	-82.76 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£8.00	£48.29
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£27.81	£30.86
% change on same period last year	-9.89 %
Processes & Methodologies Surrey
Matching contract IT job ads	1217	1192
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	1.622 %	1.206 %
Daily rates quoted	403	348
Average minimum daily rate	£340	£353
Average daily rate	£359	£374
% change on same period last year	-4.07 %
Average maximum daily rate	£378	£395
UK excluding London average daily rate	£380	£376
% change on same period last year	+1.21 %
Hourly rates quoted	89	93
Average minimum hourly rate	£27.34	£29.74
Average hourly rate	£28.76	£30.96
% change on same period last year	-7.12 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£30.18	£32.18
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£29.33	£30.16
% change on same period last year	-2.72 %
Test Scripting South East

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.

Test Scripting
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Test Scripting across the Surrey region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

Test Scripting
Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Test Scripting across the Surrey region.

Test Scripting
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Test Scripting across the Surrey region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008.

Test Scripting
Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Test Scripting across the Surrey region.

Test Scripting
Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Test Scripting within the Surrey region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
Guildford	+13	6	£513	+60.41 %
Staines	-	3	£475	-

Test Scripting South East

Test Scripting
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Surrey 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 19 (43.18 %) ISEB 2 13 (29.55 %) SAP 3 12 (27.27 %) User Acceptance Testing 4 11 (25.00 %) Software Testing 4 11 (25.00 %) Finance 5 10 (22.73 %) Insurance 6 9 (20.45 %) Oracle 6 9 (20.45 %) SQL 7 7 (15.91 %) SAP HR 8 5 (11.36 %) QuickTest Pro 8 5 (11.36 %) Migration 8 5 (11.36 %) Java 9 4 (9.091 %) WebLogic 9 4 (9.091 %) Business Intelligence 9 4 (9.091 %) Regression Testing

9 4 (9.091 %) Integration Testing 9 4 (9.091 %) Data Migration 9 4 (9.091 %) Banking 10 3 (6.818 %) Pensions 10 3 (6.818 %) Business Analysis 10 3 (6.818 %) General Ledger 10 3 (6.818 %) QA 10 3 (6.818 %) System Testing 10 3 (6.818 %) JMeter 10 3 (6.818 %) BPR 10 3 (6.818 %) Microsoft 10 3 (6.818 %) TestDirector 10 3 (6.818 %) VBScript 11 2 (4.545 %) .NET 11 2 (4.545 %) J2EE

Test Scripting
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Surrey 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 Development 1 2 (4.545 %) .NET 1 2 (4.545 %) J2EE 2 1 (2.273 %) COM 2 1 (2.273 %) SOAP 2 1 (2.273 %) XML	Application Platforms 1 4 (9.091 %) WebLogic 2 2 (4.545 %) IIS 2 2 (4.545 %) SharePoint 3 1 (2.273 %) Lotus Notes
Applications 1 2 (4.545 %) MS Office 2 1 (2.273 %) MS Excel	Business Applications 1 7 (15.91 %) SAP HR 2 2 (4.545 %) SAP FI 2 2 (4.545 %) SAP FI/CO 2 2 (4.545 %) SAP CO 3 1 (2.273 %) Infinys 3 1 (2.273 %) SAP Oil and Gas
Communications & Networking 1 1 (2.273 %) LDAP 1 1 (2.273 %) HTTP 1 1 (2.273 %) Internet	Database & Business Intelligence 1 2 (4.545 %) SQL Server 1 2 (4.545 %) Datawarehouse 2 1 (2.273 %) GIS 2 1 (2.273 %) SQL Server 2005
Development Applications 1 5 (11.36 %) QuickTest Pro 2 3 (6.818 %) JMeter 2 3 (6.818 %) TestDirector 3 2 (4.545 %) LoadRunner 3 2 (4.545 %) Oracle Forms 4 1 (2.273 %) WinRunner 4 1 (2.273 %) NUnit 4 1 (2.273 %) WebLOAD	General 1 11 (25.00 %) Finance 2 10 (22.73 %) Insurance 3 4 (9.091 %) Banking 4 3 (6.818 %) Pensions 4 3 (6.818 %) General Ledger 5 2 (4.545 %) Investment Banking 6 1 (2.273 %) Marketing 6 1 (2.273 %) Retail 6 1 (2.273 %) Billing 6 1 (2.273 %) Pharmaceutical 6 1 (2.273 %) Telecoms 6 1 (2.273 %) Education 6 1 (2.273 %) Government 6 1 (2.273 %) Manufacturing
Job Titles 1 28 (63.64 %) Analyst 2 25 (56.82 %) Test Analyst 3 9 (20.45 %) Tester 4 7 (15.91 %) SAP Analyst 4 7 (15.91 %) SAP Test Analyst 5 4 (9.091 %) Test Manager 6 3 (6.818 %) Business Analyst 6 3 (6.818 %) Functional Tester 6 3 (6.818 %) Non-Functional Tester 7 2 (4.545 %) Business Data Analyst 7 2 (4.545 %) SAP Manager 7 2 (4.545 %) Test Engineer 7 2 (4.545 %) Senior Analyst 7 2 (4.545 %) Integration Manager 7 2 (4.545 %) Data Analyst 7 2 (4.545 %) Senior Test Analyst 8 1 (2.273 %) Senior Test Engineer 8 1 (2.273 %) QA Engineer 8 1 (2.273 %) Technical Test Analyst 8 1 (2.273 %) Business Manager	Miscellaneous 1 1 (2.273 %) Client/Server
Operating Systems 1 2 (4.545 %) Windows 1 2 (4.545 %) Linux 2 1 (2.273 %) Windows 2000 2 1 (2.273 %) Windows XP	Processes & Methodologies 1 12 (27.27 %) User Acceptance Testing 2 11 (25.00 %) Software Testing 3 5 (11.36 %) Migration 4 4 (9.091 %) Regression Testing 4 4 (9.091 %) Business Intelligence 4 4 (9.091 %) Integration Testing 4 4 (9.091 %) Data Migration 5 3 (6.818 %) Business Analysis 5 3 (6.818 %) System Testing 5 3 (6.818 %) BPR 6 2 (4.545 %) Project Management 6 2 (4.545 %) Risk Management 6 2 (4.545 %) Workflow 6 2 (4.545 %) Asset Management 6 2 (4.545 %) Automated Testing 6 2 (4.545 %) Data Mapping 6 2 (4.545 %) SC Cleared 6 2 (4.545 %) DV Cleared 6 2 (4.545 %) Security Cleared 6 2 (4.545 %) Load Testing
Programming Languages 1 9 (20.45 %) SQL 2 5 (11.36 %) Java 3 3 (6.818 %) VBScript 4 2 (4.545 %) PL/SQL 4 2 (4.545 %) C 4 2 (4.545 %) C# 5 1 (2.273 %) JavaScript 5 1 (2.273 %) VB	Qualifications 1 19 (43.18 %) ISEB 2 2 (4.545 %) Degree 3 1 (2.273 %) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 3 (6.818 %) QA 2 1 (2.273 %) Sarbanes-Oxley	Vendors 1 13 (29.55 %) SAP 2 9 (20.45 %) Oracle 3 3 (6.818 %) Microsoft 4 2 (4.545 %) HP 4 2 (4.545 %) CODA 5 1 (2.273 %) Lotus