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Performance Test Consultant Contracts
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for the Performance Test Consultant role in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Performance Test Consultant in their job title over the 3 months to 20 June 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all Job Titles currently tracked.

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
20 Jun 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Performance Testing Consultant
Rank 536 576 581
Rank change year-on-year
+40 +5
Contract jobs requiring a Performance Test Consultant 5 3 9
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.010% 0.005% 0.014%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.011% 0.006% 0.016%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 3 4
Average daily rate £353 £440 £425
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-19.88% +3.52%
UK excluding London average daily rate £353 £440 £425
% change year-on-year
-19.88% +3.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Job Titles
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category		 45063 52855 57510
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 92.16% 92.46% 92.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 25972 29220 31540
Average daily rate £400 £400 £420
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -4.76%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £238 £240 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £575 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 2142 2525 2941
Average hourly rate £18.50 £18.50 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -7.50%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.00 £11.00 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £41.77 £40.00 £42.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%

Performance Test Consultant
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Performance Test Consultant within the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

Performance Test Consultant Jobs Demand Trend

Performance Test Consultant
Daily Rate Trend

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

Performance Test Consultant Daily Rate Trend

Performance Test Consultant
Top 15 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Performance Test Consultant within the UK over the 3 months to 20 June 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		 Find
Job
Vacancies
England - 5 £353 -
South East - 3 £375 -
London - 1 - -
Sheffield - - - -
Berkshire - - - -
Hertfordshire - - - -
South Yorkshire - - - -
West Yorkshire - - - -
Yorkshire - - - -
Borehamwood - - - -
Bracknell - - - -
Bradford - - - -
Leeds - - - -
Ealing - - - -
East of England - - - -

Performance Test Consultant
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK that cited Performance Test Consultant in their job title 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 with Performance Test Consultant in their job title.

1 15 (100.00%) Performance Testing
2 9 (60.00%) Security Cleared
2 9 (60.00%) Java
3 8 (53.33%) IBM
3 8 (53.33%) Rational Performance Tester
4 3 (20.00%) LoadRunner
4 3 (20.00%) Oracle
5 2 (13.33%) HP
5 2 (13.33%) Windows
5 2 (13.33%) HP Quality Center
5 2 (13.33%) soapUI
6 1 (6.667%) Non-Functional Testing
6 1 (6.667%) OpenSTA
6 1 (6.667%) Windows Server 2008
6 1 (6.667%) Stress Testing
6 1 (6.667%) SC Cleared
6 1 (6.667%) E-business
6 1 (6.667%) JMeter
6 1 (6.667%) VMware
6 1 (6.667%) Windows 2000
6 1 (6.667%) Oracle 8/8i
6 1 (6.667%) Windows XP
6 1 (6.667%) FTP
6 1 (6.667%) HTTP
6 1 (6.667%) TCP/IP
6 1 (6.667%) TOAD
6 1 (6.667%) QuickTest Pro
6 1 (6.667%) Windows Server 2003
6 1 (6.667%) Primavera
6 1 (6.667%) SQL Server

Performance Test Consultant
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK that cited Performance Test Consultant in their job title 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 with Performance Test Consultant in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 2 (13.33%) soapUI
2 1 (6.667%) SOAP
2 1 (6.667%) Web Services
Communications & Networking
1 1 (6.667%) FTP
1 1 (6.667%) HTTP
1 1 (6.667%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (6.667%) Oracle 8/8i
1 1 (6.667%) TOAD
1 1 (6.667%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 8 (53.33%) Rational Performance Tester
2 3 (20.00%) LoadRunner
3 1 (6.667%) OpenSTA
3 1 (6.667%) JMeter
3 1 (6.667%) QuickTest Pro
Operating Systems
1 2 (13.33%) Windows
2 1 (6.667%) Windows Server 2008
2 1 (6.667%) Windows 2000
2 1 (6.667%) Windows XP
2 1 (6.667%) Windows Server 2003
2 1 (6.667%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (100.00%) Performance Testing
2 1 (6.667%) Non-Functional Testing
2 1 (6.667%) Stress Testing
2 1 (6.667%) E-business
Programming Languages
1 9 (60.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 9 (60.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (6.667%) SC Cleared
Systems Management
1 2 (13.33%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 8 (53.33%) IBM
2 3 (20.00%) Oracle
3 2 (13.33%) HP
4 1 (6.667%) VMware
4 1 (6.667%) Primavera
4 1 (6.667%) SAP
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