The first table below looks at the demand for Performance Testing 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 Performance Testing over the 3 months to 22 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 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
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Performance Testing
Rank 37 31 34
Rank change year-on-year
-6 +3
Contract jobs citing Performance Testing 3 10 3
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Swindon 1.027% 2.740% 0.949%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.364% 4.049% 1.316%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 10 3
Average daily rate £425 £388 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+9.67% +3.33%
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £400 £375
% change year-on-year
-18.75% +6.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £32.00 £31.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+1.58% -10.00%
All Processes & Methodologies
Swindon
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
220 247 228
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Swindon 75.34% 67.67% 72.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 176 179 138
Average daily rate £425 £425 £438
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -2.85%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £325 £250 £263
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £500 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £365 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
- -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 3 10
Average hourly rate £15.50 £22.50 £21.75
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-31.11% +3.44%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.40 £15.70 £11.15
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £18.00 £30.50 £34.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.00 £25.00 £29.00
% change year-on-year
+24.00% -13.79%
Performance Testing
Wiltshire

Performance Testing
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Swindon Performance Testing Jobs Demand Trend

Performance Testing
Daily Rate Trend

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

Swindon Performance Testing Daily Rate Trend

Performance Testing
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Swindon Performance Testing Hourly Rate Trend

Performance Testing
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Swindon region citing Performance 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 Performance Testing.

1 6 (100.00%) Finance
1 6 (100.00%) User Acceptance Testing
2 4 (66.67%) HP Quality Center
2 4 (66.67%) Banking
2 4 (66.67%) Retail
2 4 (66.67%) Retail Banking
2 4 (66.67%) WinRunner
2 4 (66.67%) LoadRunner
2 4 (66.67%) PRINCE2
2 4 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 4 (66.67%) HP
2 4 (66.67%) ISEB
3 2 (33.33%) Informatica
3 2 (33.33%) JDeveloper
3 2 (33.33%) XQuery
3 2 (33.33%) SOA
3 2 (33.33%) ETL
3 2 (33.33%) Linux
3 2 (33.33%) Oracle Reports
3 2 (33.33%) CRM
3 2 (33.33%) Siebel
3 2 (33.33%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (33.33%) PL/SQL
3 2 (33.33%) SQL
3 2 (33.33%) Oracle
3 2 (33.33%) XSLT
3 2 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
3 2 (33.33%) Shell Script
3 2 (33.33%) ESB
3 2 (33.33%) BPEL

Performance Testing
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Swindon region citing Performance 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 Performance Testing. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 2 (33.33%) XSLT
2 1 (16.67%) Oracle Fusion
2 1 (16.67%) Middleware
Application Platforms
1 2 (33.33%) ESB
1 2 (33.33%) Oracle Workflow
Business Applications
1 2 (33.33%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (16.67%) Oracle EBS R12
2 1 (16.67%) Oracle ERP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (16.67%) ATM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (33.33%) Oracle Reports
1 2 (33.33%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (33.33%) Oracle BI EE
2 1 (16.67%) Oracle 11g
2 1 (16.67%) Oracle 10g
Development Applications
1 4 (66.67%) WinRunner
1 4 (66.67%) LoadRunner
2 2 (33.33%) JDeveloper
General
1 6 (100.00%) Finance
2 4 (66.67%) Banking
2 4 (66.67%) Retail
2 4 (66.67%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 4 (66.67%) Test Manager
2 2 (33.33%) Developer
2 2 (33.33%) OBIEE Developer
Operating Systems
1 2 (33.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) User Acceptance Testing
2 4 (66.67%) PRINCE2
3 2 (33.33%) SOA
3 2 (33.33%) ETL
3 2 (33.33%) CRM
3 2 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
3 2 (33.33%) BPEL
3 2 (33.33%) Workflow
4 1 (16.67%) E-business
4 1 (16.67%) Data Security
4 1 (16.67%) ERP
Programming Languages
1 2 (33.33%) XQuery
1 2 (33.33%) PL/SQL
1 2 (33.33%) SQL
1 2 (33.33%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 4 (66.67%) ISEB
Systems Management
1 4 (66.67%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 4 (66.67%) Microsoft
1 4 (66.67%) HP
2 2 (33.33%) Informatica
2 2 (33.33%) Siebel
2 2 (33.33%) Oracle
Swindon, South West
a) Desirable: Familiarity with Oracle EBS technical skills ( SOA (BPEL, ESB, J-Developer, XSLT, XQUERY), OA Framework, SQL, PL/SQL, Workflow Builder, Shell Scripting, Linux. Strong knowledge on...
Hays Specialist Recruitment Ltd
Rate: £400.00 - £450.00 per day
Posted: 14 May 2013