Swindon Test Scripting Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Test Scripting (Test Scripts) skills within the Swindon 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 6 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Test Scripting (Test Scripts)
Location Aberdeen Abingdon Amersham Basildon Basingstoke Bath Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Blackpool Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentford Bridgend Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Burgess Hill Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Channel Islands Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Chippenham City of London County Antrim Coventry Croydon Darlington Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset Durham East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edinburgh England Essex Exeter Fareham Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Hampshire Havant Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire Hove Hull Isleworth Lancashire Leeds Liverpool London M4 Corridor Maidenhead Manchester Marlow Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Preston Reading Rugby Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southend-on-Sea Staffordshire Staines Stockton-on-Tees Stoke-on-Trent Sunbury-on-Thames Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Teesside Telford Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Wallington Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Wiltshire Windsor Wokingham York Yorkshire	3 months to 6 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	33	43
Rank change on same period last year	+10
Matching contract IT job ads	18	5
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.025 %	0.005 %
As % of the category below	4.724 %	1.416 %
Daily rates quoted	10	1
Average minimum daily rate	£350	£200
Average daily rate	£370	£225
% change on same period last year	+64.55 %
Average maximum daily rate	£391	£250
UK excluding London average daily rate	£326	£318
% change on same period last year	+2.61 %
Hourly rates quoted	5	0
Average minimum hourly rate	£36.00	-
Average hourly rate	£38.60	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	£41.20	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£31.33	£27.65
% change on same period last year	+13.31 %
Processes & Methodologies Swindon
Matching contract IT job ads	381	353
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.532 %	0.355 %
Daily rates quoted	151	101
Average minimum daily rate	£412	£376
Average daily rate	£437	£407
% change on same period last year	+7.42 %
Average maximum daily rate	£462	£437
UK excluding London average daily rate	£378	£372
% change on same period last year	+1.69 %
Hourly rates quoted	27	24
Average minimum hourly rate	£25.68	£28.52
Average hourly rate	£27.02	£29.39
% change on same period last year	-8.04 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£28.36	£30.25
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£29.30	£30.27
% change on same period last year	-3.20 %
Test Scripting Wiltshire

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 Swindon 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 Swindon region.

Test Scripting
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Test Scripting across the Swindon region over the 3 months to 6 October 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 Swindon region.

Test Scripting
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Test Scripting across the Swindon region over the 3 months to 6 October 2008.

Test Scripting
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 6 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Swindon 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 14 (53.85 %) Finance 2 13 (50.00 %) ISEB 3 12 (46.15 %) User Acceptance Testing 4 9 (34.62 %) Banking 5 7 (26.92 %) Insurance 5 7 (26.92 %) CA Clarity 5 7 (26.92 %) Pensions 5 7 (26.92 %) Oracle 6 4 (15.38 %) SQL 7 3 (11.54 %) System Testing 7 3 (11.54 %) Oracle EBS 7 3 (11.54 %) TestDirector 8 2 (7.692 %) Borland 8 2 (7.692 %) HP 8 2 (7.692 %) Government

8 2 (7.692 %) C 8 2 (7.692 %) SAP 8 2 (7.692 %) JavaScript 8 2 (7.692 %) .NET 8 2 (7.692 %) WinRunner 8 2 (7.692 %) Datawarehouse 8 2 (7.692 %) XML 8 2 (7.692 %) SC Cleared 8 2 (7.692 %) BC Cleared 8 2 (7.692 %) Security Cleared 8 2 (7.692 %) AJAX 8 2 (7.692 %) Local Government 9 1 (3.846 %) QA 9 1 (3.846 %) Performance Testing 9 1 (3.846 %) Integration Testing

Test Scripting
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 6 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Swindon 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 (7.692 %) .NET 1 2 (7.692 %) XML 1 2 (7.692 %) AJAX 2 1 (3.846 %) XHTML 2 1 (3.846 %) CSS	Applications 1 7 (26.92 %) CA Clarity
Business Applications 1 3 (11.54 %) Oracle EBS	Database & Business Intelligence 1 2 (7.692 %) Datawarehouse
Development Applications 1 3 (11.54 %) TestDirector 2 2 (7.692 %) WinRunner 3 1 (3.846 %) QuickTest Pro 3 1 (3.846 %) SilkPerformer	General 1 14 (53.85 %) Finance 2 9 (34.62 %) Banking 3 7 (26.92 %) Insurance 3 7 (26.92 %) Pensions 4 2 (7.692 %) Local Government 4 2 (7.692 %) Government
Job Titles 1 12 (46.15 %) Analyst 1 12 (46.15 %) Test Analyst 2 6 (23.08 %) Tester 3 4 (15.38 %) UAT Analyst 4 3 (11.54 %) Test Engineer 5 2 (7.692 %) Senior Tester 5 2 (7.692 %) Web Developer 5 2 (7.692 %) Functional Tester 5 2 (7.692 %) Developer 5 2 (7.692 %) Performance Engineer 6 1 (3.846 %) Oracle Trainer 6 1 (3.846 %) Trainer 6 1 (3.846 %) Automation Test Analyst 6 1 (3.846 %) Applications Developer 6 1 (3.846 %) Performance Tester 6 1 (3.846 %) Senior Test Engineer 6 1 (3.846 %) Web Applications Developer	Processes & Methodologies 1 12 (46.15 %) User Acceptance Testing 2 3 (11.54 %) System Testing 3 2 (7.692 %) SC Cleared 3 2 (7.692 %) BC Cleared 3 2 (7.692 %) Security Cleared 4 1 (3.846 %) PRINCE2 4 1 (3.846 %) CRM 4 1 (3.846 %) Quality Management 4 1 (3.846 %) Regression Testing 4 1 (3.846 %) Validation 4 1 (3.846 %) Software Testing 4 1 (3.846 %) Performance Testing 4 1 (3.846 %) Integration Testing
Programming Languages 1 4 (15.38 %) SQL 2 2 (7.692 %) C 2 2 (7.692 %) JavaScript 3 1 (3.846 %) C# 3 1 (3.846 %) VB 3 1 (3.846 %) VB.NET	Qualifications 1 13 (50.00 %) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 1 (3.846 %) QA	Vendors 1 7 (26.92 %) Oracle 2 2 (7.692 %) SAP 2 2 (7.692 %) HP 2 2 (7.692 %) Borland 3 1 (3.846 %) IBM