Thames Valley User Acceptance Testing Contracts

This section looks at the demand for User Acceptance Testing (UAT) skills within the Thames Valley 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 20 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

User Acceptance Testing (UAT)
Location Aberdeen Abingdon Aldershot Andover Basildon Basingstoke Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Blackpool Bournemouth Bracknell Brentwood Bridgend Brighton 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 Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh England Essex Exeter Farnborough Gatwick Glamorgan Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Guildford Halifax Hampshire Harrogate Havant Hertfordshire High Wycombe Home Counties Horsham Ipswich Kent Knutsford Lancashire Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Liverpool London Luton M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Northumberland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Poole Portsmouth Reading Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Skelmersdale Slough Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southend-on-Sea Staffordshire Staines Stockport Stoke-on-Trent Street Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Tadworth Taunton Telford Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Uttoxeter Uxbridge Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Welwyn Garden City West Drayton West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Wigan Wilmslow Wiltshire Windsor Wokingham Worthing York Yorkshire	3 months to 20 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	35	43
Rank change on same period last year	+8
Matching contract IT job ads	6	12
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.008 %	0.012 %
As % of the category below	2.970 %	4.286 %
Daily rates quoted	1	3
Average minimum daily rate	£360	£517
Average daily rate	£360	£517
% change on same period last year	-30.32 %
Average maximum daily rate	£360	£517
UK excluding London average daily rate	£340	£349
% change on same period last year	-2.46 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum hourly rate	-	-
Average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£33.52	£24.60
% change on same period last year	+36.26 %
Processes & Methodologies Thames Valley
Matching contract IT job ads	202	280
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.267 %	0.279 %
Daily rates quoted	28	43
Average minimum daily rate	£345	£352
Average daily rate	£375	£372
% change on same period last year	+0.79 %
Average maximum daily rate	£406	£393
UK excluding London average daily rate	£380	£377
% change on same period last year	+0.71 %
Hourly rates quoted	14	16
Average minimum hourly rate	£38.75	£32.76
Average hourly rate	£39.22	£34.67
% change on same period last year	+13.13 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£39.69	£36.57
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£30.34	£30.18
% change on same period last year	+0.55 %
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 Thames Valley 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 Thames Valley region.

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 Thames Valley region.

User Acceptance Testing
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Thames Valley 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 3 (33.33 %) SQL Server 1 3 (33.33 %) Project Management 1 3 (33.33 %) Test Scripting 2 2 (22.22 %) Finance 2 2 (22.22 %) Business Continuity 2 2 (22.22 %) BCP 2 2 (22.22 %) SQL 2 2 (22.22 %) QuickTest Pro 3 1 (11.11 %) Rational Robot 3 1 (11.11 %) Oracle 3 1 (11.11 %) MS Excel 3 1 (11.11 %) MS Access 3 1 (11.11 %) CRM 3 1 (11.11 %) Datawarehouse 3 1 (11.11 %) WinRunner

3 1 (11.11 %) TestDirector 3 1 (11.11 %) Change Management 3 1 (11.11 %) Oracle EBS 3 1 (11.11 %) Telecoms 3 1 (11.11 %) DTV 3 1 (11.11 %) Billing 3 1 (11.11 %) Aerospace 3 1 (11.11 %) Automotive 3 1 (11.11 %) Chemicals 3 1 (11.11 %) Migration 3 1 (11.11 %) Bugzilla 3 1 (11.11 %) Thunderhead 3 1 (11.11 %) Manual Testing 3 1 (11.11 %) BC Cleared 3 1 (11.11 %) Security Cleared

User Acceptance Testing
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Thames Valley 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.

Applications 1 1 (11.11 %) MS Excel	Business Applications 1 1 (11.11 %) Oracle EBS
Database & Business Intelligence 1 3 (33.33 %) SQL Server 2 1 (11.11 %) MS Access 2 1 (11.11 %) Datawarehouse	Development Applications 1 2 (22.22 %) QuickTest Pro 2 1 (11.11 %) Rational Robot 2 1 (11.11 %) WinRunner 2 1 (11.11 %) TestDirector 2 1 (11.11 %) Bugzilla
General 1 2 (22.22 %) Finance 2 1 (11.11 %) Telecoms 2 1 (11.11 %) Billing 2 1 (11.11 %) Aerospace 2 1 (11.11 %) Automotive 2 1 (11.11 %) Chemicals	Job Titles 1 3 (33.33 %) Analyst 2 2 (22.22 %) Test Analyst 2 2 (22.22 %) IT Manager 3 1 (11.11 %) Project Manager 3 1 (11.11 %) Test Engineer 3 1 (11.11 %) IT Project Manager 3 1 (11.11 %) E-Business Analyst 3 1 (11.11 %) Oracle Analyst 3 1 (11.11 %) UAT Analyst 3 1 (11.11 %) Software Analyst 3 1 (11.11 %) Test Manager
Miscellaneous 1 1 (11.11 %) DTV	Processes & Methodologies 1 3 (33.33 %) Project Management 1 3 (33.33 %) Test Scripting 2 2 (22.22 %) Business Continuity 2 2 (22.22 %) BCP 3 1 (11.11 %) CRM 3 1 (11.11 %) Change Management 3 1 (11.11 %) Migration 3 1 (11.11 %) Manual Testing 3 1 (11.11 %) BC Cleared 3 1 (11.11 %) Security Cleared
Programming Languages 1 2 (22.22 %) SQL	Vendors 1 1 (11.11 %) Oracle 1 1 (11.11 %) Thunderhead