The first table below looks at the demand for HP Quality Center skills in IT contracts advertised for the Swindon region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited HP Quality Center over the 3 months to 23 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 Systems Management category for the Swindon 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
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
HP Quality Center (HP QC)
Rank 31 24 21
Rank change year-on-year
-7 -3
Contract jobs citing HP Quality Center 8 14 16
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Swindon 2.740% 3.867% 4.969%
As % of the Systems Management category 61.54% 66.67% 57.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 12 11
Average daily rate £388 £340 £449
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+13.97% -24.19%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £303 £312 £325
10% offered a daily rate of more than £520 £519 £453
UK excluding London average daily rate £339 £310 £325
% change year-on-year
+9.27% -4.61%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.25 £29.50 £31.25
% change year-on-year
+26.27% -5.60%
All Systems Management
Swindon
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Systems Management category
13 21 28
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Swindon 4.452% 5.801% 8.696%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 18 19
Average daily rate £470 £405 £382
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+16.04% +6.15%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £303 £326 £325
10% offered a daily rate of more than £520 £466 £449
UK excluding London average daily rate £330 £325 £300
% change year-on-year
+1.53% +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.00 £17.50 £24.00
% change year-on-year
+14.28% -27.08%
HP Quality Center
Wiltshire

HP Quality Center
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing HP Quality Center across the Swindon region as a proportion of the total demand within the Systems Management category.

Swindon HP Quality Center Jobs Demand Trend

HP Quality Center
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing HP Quality Center across the Swindon region.

Swindon HP Quality Center Daily Rate Trend

HP Quality Center
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing HP Quality Center across the Swindon region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

Swindon HP Quality Center Daily Rate Histogram

HP Quality Center
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing HP Quality Center across the Swindon region.

Swindon HP Quality Center Hourly Rate Trend

HP Quality Center
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Swindon region citing HP Quality Center 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 HP Quality Center.

1 15 (65.22%) ISEB
1 15 (65.22%) Banking
1 15 (65.22%) User Acceptance Testing
2 14 (60.87%) Retail
2 14 (60.87%) HP
3 13 (56.52%) Finance
4 10 (43.48%) Retail Banking
5 7 (30.43%) Web Services
5 7 (30.43%) Integration Testing
6 6 (26.09%) SC Cleared
6 6 (26.09%) Security Cleared
7 5 (21.74%) Test Strategy
7 5 (21.74%) Microsoft
8 4 (17.39%) WinRunner
8 4 (17.39%) LoadRunner
8 4 (17.39%) PRINCE2
8 4 (17.39%) Performance Testing
9 3 (13.04%) TDD
9 3 (13.04%) Telecoms
10 2 (8.696%) Stakeholder Management
10 2 (8.696%) Firewall
11 1 (4.348%) AppFabric
11 1 (4.348%) Test Scripting
11 1 (4.348%) Data Validation
11 1 (4.348%) ISTQB
11 1 (4.348%) QA
11 1 (4.348%) WCF
11 1 (4.348%) Wealth Management
11 1 (4.348%) UNIX
11 1 (4.348%) Windows

HP Quality Center
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Swindon region citing HP Quality Center 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 HP Quality Center. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 7 (30.43%) Web Services
2 1 (4.348%) AppFabric
2 1 (4.348%) WCF
2 1 (4.348%) .NET
2 1 (4.348%) ASP.NET
Application Platforms
1 1 (4.348%) IIS
Applications
1 1 (4.348%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 2 (8.696%) Firewall
2 1 (4.348%) ATM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.348%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (17.39%) WinRunner
1 4 (17.39%) LoadRunner
General
1 15 (65.22%) Banking
2 14 (60.87%) Retail
3 13 (56.52%) Finance
4 10 (43.48%) Retail Banking
5 3 (13.04%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 12 (52.17%) Analyst
1 12 (52.17%) Test Analyst
2 10 (43.48%) Tester
2 10 (43.48%) UAT Test Analyst
2 10 (43.48%) UAT Analyst
3 9 (39.13%) UAT Tester
3 9 (39.13%) Test Manager
4 3 (13.04%) Lead Tester
4 3 (13.04%) Lead Test Analyst
4 3 (13.04%) Test Engineer
5 2 (8.696%) Senior Analyst
5 2 (8.696%) Senior Test Analyst
5 2 (8.696%) Senior Test Engineer
5 2 (8.696%) Test Leader
6 1 (4.348%) Senior Tester
6 1 (4.348%) Infrastructure Manager
6 1 (4.348%) Infrastructure Engineer
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.348%) UNIX
1 1 (4.348%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (65.22%) User Acceptance Testing
2 7 (30.43%) Integration Testing
3 5 (21.74%) Test Strategy
4 4 (17.39%) PRINCE2
4 4 (17.39%) Performance Testing
5 3 (13.04%) TDD
6 2 (8.696%) Stakeholder Management
7 1 (4.348%) Test Scripting
7 1 (4.348%) Data Validation
7 1 (4.348%) Wealth Management
7 1 (4.348%) ETL
7 1 (4.348%) Supplier Management
7 1 (4.348%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (4.348%) C
Qualifications
1 15 (65.22%) ISEB
2 6 (26.09%) SC Cleared
2 6 (26.09%) Security Cleared
3 1 (4.348%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.348%) QA
Vendors
1 14 (60.87%) HP
2 5 (21.74%) Microsoft
3 1 (4.348%) VMware