Surrey User Acceptance Testing Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for User Acceptance Testing (UAT) 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 User Acceptance Testing over the 3 months to 8 September 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

User Acceptance Testing (UAT)
Location Aberdeen Abingdon Aldershot Andover Basildon Basingstoke Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Blackpool Bournemouth Bracknell Brentwood Bridgend Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Carlisle Cheltenham Cheshire Chester City of London Colchester County Antrim Coventry Crawley Croydon Cumbria Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset Durham East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh England Essex Exeter Farnborough Gatwick Glamorgan Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Halifax Hampshire Harrogate Hertfordshire High Wycombe Horsham Ipswich Kent Lancashire Leeds Liverpool London M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Manchester Market Drayton Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newport Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Poole Portsmouth Reading Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Skelmersdale Slough Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southend-on-Sea Staines Stockport Street Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Tadworth Taunton Telford Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Welwyn Garden City West Drayton West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Wigan Wiltshire Windsor Wokingham Worthing York Yorkshire	3 months to 8 Sep 2008	Same period last year
Rank	56	78
Rank change on same period last year	+22
Matching contract IT job ads	39	33
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.053 %	0.033 %
As % of the category below	3.504 %	2.692 %
Daily rates quoted	6	12
Average minimum daily rate	£463	£298
Average daily rate	£498	£310
% change on same period last year	+60.40 %
Average maximum daily rate	£533	£323
UK excluding London average daily rate	£338	£348
% change on same period last year	-3.08 %
Hourly rates quoted	3	1
Average minimum hourly rate	£22.46	£10.00
Average hourly rate	£25.96	£10.00
% change on same period last year	+159.60 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£29.46	£10.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£31.96	£27.87
% change on same period last year	+14.66 %
Processes & Methodologies Surrey
Matching contract IT job ads	1113	1226
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	1.509 %	1.214 %
Daily rates quoted	340	384
Average minimum daily rate	£334	£353
Average daily rate	£354	£371
% change on same period last year	-4.66 %
Average maximum daily rate	£373	£390
UK excluding London average daily rate	£377	£375
% change on same period last year	+0.61 %
Hourly rates quoted	90	110
Average minimum hourly rate	£30.17	£25.38
Average hourly rate	£32.32	£26.92
% change on same period last year	+20.06 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£34.48	£28.46
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£30.40	£30.42
% change on same period last year	-0.08 %
User Acceptance Testing 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.

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 Surrey 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 Surrey region.

User Acceptance Testing
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing User Acceptance Testing across the Surrey region over the 3 months to 8 September 2008.

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 Surrey region.

User Acceptance Testing
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing User Acceptance Testing across the Surrey region over the 3 months to 8 September 2008.

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 Surrey region over the 3 months to 8 September 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
Sunbury-on-Thames	-	5	-	-
Staines	-13	3	-	-
Tadworth	-	1	-	-

User Acceptance Testing South East

User Acceptance Testing
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 8 September 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Surrey 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 19 (26.39 %) Finance 2 18 (25.00 %) Sophis 3 17 (23.61 %) System Testing 4 14 (19.44 %) Derivative 4 14 (19.44 %) ISEB 5 13 (18.06 %) Windows 6 11 (15.28 %) Investment Management 6 11 (15.28 %) Sophis VALUE 7 10 (13.89 %) Insurance 7 10 (13.89 %) Business Analysis 7 10 (13.89 %) Fixed Income 7 10 (13.89 %) SAP 7 10 (13.89 %) SQL 8 8 (11.11 %) Test Scripting 9 7 (9.722 %) Integration Testing

9 7 (9.722 %) WebSphere Message Broker 9 7 (9.722 %) Data Migration 9 7 (9.722 %) Migration 9 7 (9.722 %) XML 9 7 (9.722 %) UNIX 9 7 (9.722 %) WebSphere MQ 10 6 (8.333 %) SAP FI 10 6 (8.333 %) Active Directory 10 6 (8.333 %) Business Intelligence 10 6 (8.333 %) Microsoft 10 6 (8.333 %) AIX 10 6 (8.333 %) Java 10 6 (8.333 %) SAP FI/CO 10 6 (8.333 %) SAP CO 11 5 (6.944 %) MS PowerPoint

User Acceptance Testing
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 8 September 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Surrey 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.

Application Development 1 7 (9.722 %) XML 2 4 (5.556 %) WebSphere 3 3 (4.167 %) XSD 3 3 (4.167 %) XSLT 3 3 (4.167 %) .NET 4 1 (1.389 %) ASP 4 1 (1.389 %) ASP.NET 4 1 (1.389 %) CSS 4 1 (1.389 %) WebServices 4 1 (1.389 %) AJAX 4 1 (1.389 %) Application Packaging 4 1 (1.389 %) HTML	Application Platforms 1 7 (9.722 %) WebSphere MQ 1 7 (9.722 %) WebSphere Message Broker 2 1 (1.389 %) Lotus Notes 2 1 (1.389 %) Oracle Workflow
Applications 1 5 (6.944 %) MS Visio 1 5 (6.944 %) MS PowerPoint 1 5 (6.944 %) Spreadsheet 2 1 (1.389 %) InfoPath 2 1 (1.389 %) MS Office 2 1 (1.389 %) MS Excel	Business Applications 1 11 (15.28 %) Sophis VALUE 2 6 (8.333 %) SAP FI 2 6 (8.333 %) SAP FI/CO 2 6 (8.333 %) SAP CO 3 1 (1.389 %) AWD 3 1 (1.389 %) SAP HR
Communications & Networking 1 1 (1.389 %) SMS 1 1 (1.389 %) Intranet 1 1 (1.389 %) Extranet	Database & Business Intelligence 1 3 (4.167 %) SQL Server 2 2 (2.778 %) SQL Server 2000 3 1 (1.389 %) RDBMS 3 1 (1.389 %) SQL Server 7
Development Applications 1 5 (6.944 %) QuickTest Pro 2 4 (5.556 %) TestPartner 3 3 (4.167 %) WinRunner 3 3 (4.167 %) TestDirector 4 1 (1.389 %) Visual Studio 4 1 (1.389 %) VSS/SourceSafe 4 1 (1.389 %) StarTeam 4 1 (1.389 %) QARun 4 1 (1.389 %) NUnit	General 1 19 (26.39 %) Finance 2 10 (13.89 %) Insurance 3 5 (6.944 %) Banking 4 4 (5.556 %) General Ledger 5 3 (4.167 %) Billing 5 3 (4.167 %) Government 6 2 (2.778 %) Back Office 6 2 (2.778 %) Retail 6 2 (2.778 %) Local Government 6 2 (2.778 %) Pensions 7 1 (1.389 %) Investment Banking 7 1 (1.389 %) Financial Institution
Job Titles 1 28 (38.89 %) Analyst 2 20 (27.78 %) Tester 3 14 (19.44 %) Test Analyst 4 8 (11.11 %) Test Manager 4 8 (11.11 %) Business Analyst 5 5 (6.944 %) Systems Tester 5 5 (6.944 %) SAP Test Analyst 5 5 (6.944 %) SAP Analyst 6 4 (5.556 %) Technical Analyst 6 4 (5.556 %) Software Tester 6 4 (5.556 %) Coordinator 7 3 (4.167 %) Trainer 7 3 (4.167 %) Developer 7 3 (4.167 %) Consultant 7 3 (4.167 %) Applications Support 7 3 (4.167 %) SAP Tester 7 3 (4.167 %) Sophis Business Analyst 8 2 (2.778 %) SAP Test Manager 8 2 (2.778 %) SAP Integration Manager 8 2 (2.778 %) SAP Manager	Miscellaneous 1 14 (19.44 %) Derivative 2 10 (13.89 %) Fixed Income 3 3 (4.167 %) E-Learning 4 2 (2.778 %) Client/Server
Operating Systems 1 13 (18.06 %) Windows 2 7 (9.722 %) UNIX 3 6 (8.333 %) AIX 4 5 (6.944 %) Windows Vista 5 4 (5.556 %) Windows Server 2003 6 2 (2.778 %) Windows XP 7 1 (1.389 %) Windows 2000 7 1 (1.389 %) Windows NT	Processes & Methodologies 1 17 (23.61 %) System Testing 2 11 (15.28 %) Investment Management 3 10 (13.89 %) Business Analysis 4 8 (11.11 %) Test Scripting 5 7 (9.722 %) Data Migration 5 7 (9.722 %) Integration Testing 5 7 (9.722 %) Migration 6 6 (8.333 %) Business Intelligence 7 5 (6.944 %) Regression Testing 8 4 (5.556 %) Validation 8 4 (5.556 %) Automated Testing 8 4 (5.556 %) PRINCE2 8 4 (5.556 %) Software Testing 9 3 (4.167 %) Web Testing 9 3 (4.167 %) Project Management 9 3 (4.167 %) ITIL 9 3 (4.167 %) Change Management 9 3 (4.167 %) Systems Analysis 9 3 (4.167 %) Logistics 10 2 (2.778 %) Risk Management
Programming Languages 1 10 (13.89 %) SQL 2 6 (8.333 %) Java 3 4 (5.556 %) VBScript 4 3 (4.167 %) VB 4 3 (4.167 %) Transact-SQL 5 2 (2.778 %) VB.NET 6 1 (1.389 %) VBA 6 1 (1.389 %) JavaScript 6 1 (1.389 %) C 6 1 (1.389 %) C#	Qualifications 1 14 (19.44 %) ISEB 2 3 (4.167 %) Degree 3 2 (2.778 %) PRINCE2 Certification 3 2 (2.778 %) ISEB Practitioner 3 2 (2.778 %) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 4 (5.556 %) QA	System Software 1 6 (8.333 %) Active Directory
Systems Management 1 2 (2.778 %) Systems Management Server (SMS) 1 2 (2.778 %) SCCM	Vendors 1 18 (25.00 %) Sophis 2 10 (13.89 %) SAP 3 6 (8.333 %) Microsoft 4 4 (5.556 %) Compuware 4 4 (5.556 %) Citrix 5 2 (2.778 %) CODA 5 2 (2.778 %) Oracle 6 1 (1.389 %) McAfee Security 6 1 (1.389 %) Lotus 6 1 (1.389 %) HP