Load Testing Contracts
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for Load Testing skills in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Load Testing over the 3 months to 24 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.

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
24 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Load Testing
Rank 470 537 480
Rank change year-on-year
+67 -57
Contract jobs citing Load Testing 59 47 104
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.127% 0.081% 0.170%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.179% 0.119% 0.252%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 25 60
Average daily rate £400 £375 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+6.66% -6.25%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £310 £280 £273
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £425 £505
UK excluding London average daily rate £450 £388 £290
% change year-on-year
+16.12% +33.62%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 0
Average hourly rate £32.50 £32.25 -
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+0.77% -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £32.50 £32.25 -
% change year-on-year
+0.77% -
Search 19 Load Testing jobs
All Processes & Methodologies
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category		 32941 39581 41270
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 71.01% 67.87% 67.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 19678 22705 23413
Average daily rate £413 £403 £438
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+2.48% -8.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £275 £275 £275
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £580 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £365 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
- -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 976 1282 1475
Average hourly rate £30.00 £25.00 £29.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+20.00% -13.79%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.50 £12.50 £13.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £50.00 £45.00 £45.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.00 £25.00 £29.50
% change year-on-year
+20.00% -15.25%

Load Testing
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Load Testing Jobs Demand Trend

Load Testing
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Load Testing within the UK.

Load Testing Daily Rate Trend

Load Testing
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Load Testing within the UK over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Load Testing Daily Rate Histogram

Load Testing
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Load Testing within the UK.

Load Testing Hourly Rate Trend

Load Testing
Top 26 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Load Testing within the UK over the 3 months to 24 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)		 Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year		 Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads		 Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months		 Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
England +59 59 £400 +4.91%
London +52 29 £369 -1.60%
South East +17 14 £425 +45.29%
Berkshire +22 9 £475 +295.83%
North West +16 6 £425 +6.25%
East of England +17 5 £450 -
Reading +16 4 £475 +295.83%
Surrey +12 4 - -
City of London +12 4 £275 -31.25%
Yorkshire +1 4 - -
Cheshire 0 4 £425 +6.25%
Chester - 4 £425 -
Cambridgeshire +13 3 £450 -
Hampshire - 3 £388 -
Hull - 3 - -
East Yorkshire - 3 - -
East Midlands - 2 - -
Guildford - 2 - -
Southampton - 2 £375 -
Essex - 2 - -
Leicestershire - 2 - -
South Yorkshire - 1 - -
Middlesex - 1 £350 -
Kent - 1 £500 -
Manchester - 1 - -
Bracknell - 1 - -

Load Testing
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing Load 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 Load Testing.

1 28 (23.33%) Performance Testing
2 27 (22.50%) SQL Server
3 26 (21.67%) SQL
4 25 (20.83%) Test Automation
5 23 (19.17%) Oracle
6 21 (17.50%) QA
7 20 (16.67%) Java
7 20 (16.67%) Test Scripting
8 17 (14.17%) Test Strategy
9 16 (13.33%) Windows
9 16 (13.33%) Games
9 16 (13.33%) Agile Software Development
10 15 (12.50%) Visual Studio
11 14 (11.67%) Web Services
11 14 (11.67%) C#
12 13 (10.83%) Linux
12 13 (10.83%) E-Commerce
12 13 (10.83%) LoadRunner
12 13 (10.83%) Scrum
12 13 (10.83%) Selenium
13 12 (10.00%) jQuery
13 12 (10.00%) WebSphere
13 12 (10.00%) Automated Testing
13 12 (10.00%) JavaScript
13 12 (10.00%) MySQL
14 11 (9.167%) IIS
14 11 (9.167%) JSP
14 11 (9.167%) J2EE
14 11 (9.167%) ITIL
14 11 (9.167%) UNIX

Load Testing
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing Load 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 Load Testing. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 14 (11.67%) Web Services
2 12 (10.00%) jQuery
2 12 (10.00%) WebSphere
3 11 (9.167%) JSP
3 11 (9.167%) J2EE
4 10 (8.333%) .NET
5 9 (7.500%) XML
6 8 (6.667%) JSON
7 7 (5.833%) Middleware
8 6 (5.000%) XSLT
8 6 (5.000%) SOAP
8 6 (5.000%) Java EE
8 6 (5.000%) Hibernate
8 6 (5.000%) Spring
9 5 (4.167%) HTML
9 5 (4.167%) CSS
10 4 (3.333%) Ajax
10 4 (3.333%) REST
11 3 (2.500%) SAP PI
11 3 (2.500%) Lucene
Application Platforms
1 11 (9.167%) IIS
2 9 (7.500%) WebSphere Application Server
2 9 (7.500%) CMS
3 8 (6.667%) WebSphere MQ
3 8 (6.667%) Windows Azure
4 7 (5.833%) Oracle Workflow
4 7 (5.833%) SharePoint
5 6 (5.000%) IBM HTTP Server
6 5 (4.167%) AquaLogic
6 5 (4.167%) Apache
7 4 (3.333%) Tomcat
7 4 (3.333%) Apache Solr
8 3 (2.500%) Exchange Server 2010
8 3 (2.500%) SharePoint 2010
8 3 (2.500%) MS Exchange
9 2 (1.667%) BizTalk Server
9 2 (1.667%) WebLogic
9 2 (1.667%) WebSphere Message Broker
9 2 (1.667%) Exchange Server 2003
9 2 (1.667%) Amazon AWS
Applications
1 2 (1.667%) MS Visio
1 2 (1.667%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 8 (6.667%) Oracle BPM
2 7 (5.833%) AquaLogic BPM
3 5 (4.167%) SAP CRM
3 5 (4.167%) SAP IS-U
4 1 (0.833%) Oracle EBS R12
4 1 (0.833%) Oracle Applications
4 1 (0.833%) Dynamics NAV
4 1 (0.833%) SAP FI-CA
4 1 (0.833%) SAP FI
Communications & Networking
1 6 (5.000%) HTTP
1 6 (5.000%) BIG-IP
2 3 (2.500%) Network Security
2 3 (2.500%) SSL
3 2 (1.667%) HTTPS
3 2 (1.667%) SAN
3 2 (1.667%) Internet
3 2 (1.667%) DHCP
3 2 (1.667%) DNS
3 2 (1.667%) iSCSI
4 1 (0.833%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (22.50%) SQL Server
2 12 (10.00%) MySQL
3 8 (6.667%) Oracle 10g
4 7 (5.833%) Oracle 11g
5 6 (5.000%) Data Warehouse
6 5 (4.167%) OLTP
7 4 (3.333%) SQL Server 2000
7 4 (3.333%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 4 (3.333%) SQL Server 2005
7 4 (3.333%) SQL Server 2008
7 4 (3.333%) SQL Server 2012
8 3 (2.500%) IDMS
8 3 (2.500%) NoSQL
8 3 (2.500%) VLDB
9 2 (1.667%) Data Mining
9 2 (1.667%) Oracle 8/8i
10 1 (0.833%) PostgreSQL
10 1 (0.833%) Oracle OLAP
10 1 (0.833%) DB2
10 1 (0.833%) OLAP
Development Applications
1 15 (12.50%) Visual Studio
2 13 (10.83%) LoadRunner
2 13 (10.83%) Selenium
3 10 (8.333%) JMeter
4 8 (6.667%) JUnit
5 6 (5.000%) Introscope
5 6 (5.000%) Eclipse
5 6 (5.000%) JIRA
5 6 (5.000%) Git (software)
5 6 (5.000%) Cucumber
6 5 (4.167%) WebDriver
6 5 (4.167%) Maven
6 5 (4.167%) FitNesse
7 4 (3.333%) QuickTest Pro
7 4 (3.333%) Subversion
8 3 (2.500%) Hudson
8 3 (2.500%) Jenkins
8 3 (2.500%) Team Foundation Server
9 2 (1.667%) SilkPerformer
9 2 (1.667%) Checkstyle
General
1 16 (13.33%) Games
2 5 (4.167%) Banking
2 5 (4.167%) Retail
3 4 (3.333%) Finance
3 4 (3.333%) Telecoms
3 4 (3.333%) Investment Banking
3 4 (3.333%) Billing
4 2 (1.667%) Publishing
5 1 (0.833%) Corporate Banking
5 1 (0.833%) Spanish Language
5 1 (0.833%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 23 (19.17%) Tester
2 16 (13.33%) Developer
2 16 (13.33%) Analyst
2 16 (13.33%) Test Analyst
3 12 (10.00%) Software Engineer
4 11 (9.167%) Test Manager
4 11 (9.167%) Performance Tester
5 9 (7.500%) Consultant
6 7 (5.833%) Test Leader
6 7 (5.833%) Development Engineer
6 7 (5.833%) Software Development Engineer
6 7 (5.833%) DBA
6 7 (5.833%) Architect
7 6 (5.000%) Performance Test Analyst
7 6 (5.000%) Performance Analyst
8 5 (4.167%) SAP Analyst
8 5 (4.167%) QA Engineer
8 5 (4.167%) SAP Test Analyst
9 4 (3.333%) Java Architect
9 4 (3.333%) Java Developer
Miscellaneous
1 10 (8.333%) Cloud Computing
2 7 (5.833%) Computer Science
3 5 (4.167%) Open Source
4 4 (3.333%) Replication
4 4 (3.333%) Smart Meter
4 4 (3.333%) Data Integration
5 3 (2.500%) Mobile App
5 3 (2.500%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (1.667%) iDTV
6 2 (1.667%) iPad
6 2 (1.667%) iPhone
6 2 (1.667%) Kinect
7 1 (0.833%) Fixed Income
7 1 (0.833%) E-Learning
7 1 (0.833%) Online Games
7 1 (0.833%) Client/Server
7 1 (0.833%) Blackberry
7 1 (0.833%) NHS
7 1 (0.833%) Firmware
Operating Systems
1 16 (13.33%) Windows
2 13 (10.83%) Linux
3 11 (9.167%) UNIX
3 11 (9.167%) Apple iOS
4 6 (5.000%) Android
5 2 (1.667%) Windows Server 2008
6 1 (0.833%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.833%) Windows Mobile
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (23.33%) Performance Testing
2 25 (20.83%) Test Automation
3 20 (16.67%) Test Scripting
4 17 (14.17%) Test Strategy
5 16 (13.33%) Agile Software Development
6 13 (10.83%) E-Commerce
6 13 (10.83%) Scrum
7 12 (10.00%) Automated Testing
8 11 (9.167%) ITIL
8 11 (9.167%) User Acceptance Testing
9 10 (8.333%) Software Testing
9 10 (8.333%) Data Modelling
10 9 (7.500%) SOA
10 9 (7.500%) Disaster Recovery
11 8 (6.667%) Project Management
11 8 (6.667%) Workflow
11 8 (6.667%) Regression Testing
11 8 (6.667%) Content Management
11 8 (6.667%) Security Testing
12 7 (5.833%) BDD
Programming Languages
1 26 (21.67%) SQL
2 20 (16.67%) Java
3 14 (11.67%) C#
4 12 (10.00%) JavaScript
5 9 (7.500%) C
6 6 (5.000%) PL/SQL
7 5 (4.167%) PHP
8 4 (3.333%) T-SQL
9 2 (1.667%) Python
9 2 (1.667%) C++
9 2 (1.667%) Perl
9 2 (1.667%) Ruby
9 2 (1.667%) Groovy
9 2 (1.667%) PowerShell
10 1 (0.833%) sed
10 1 (0.833%) BeanShell
10 1 (0.833%) Objective-C
10 1 (0.833%) AWK
10 1 (0.833%) ABAP
Qualifications
1 10 (8.333%) ISTQB
1 10 (8.333%) Degree
1 10 (8.333%) ISEB
2 3 (2.500%) SC Cleared
2 3 (2.500%) Security Cleared
3 1 (0.833%) ISEB Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (17.50%) QA
System Software
1 5 (4.167%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.667%) XenDesktop
2 2 (1.667%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 7 (5.833%) HP SiteScope
2 1 (0.833%) Data Guard
2 1 (0.833%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 23 (19.17%) Oracle
2 11 (9.167%) Microsoft
3 9 (7.500%) HP
4 8 (6.667%) F5
5 7 (5.833%) SAP
6 4 (3.333%) IBM
6 4 (3.333%) CA
7 3 (2.500%) VMware
7 3 (2.500%) NetApp
7 3 (2.500%) Citrix
8 2 (1.667%) ATG
8 2 (1.667%) JBoss
8 2 (1.667%) Atlassian
8 2 (1.667%) AccuRev
9 1 (0.833%) Capita
9 1 (0.833%) Sybase
9 1 (0.833%) Red Hat
9 1 (0.833%) Empirix
9 1 (0.833%) Informatica
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