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The first part of the table below looks at the demand for QuickTest Pro skills in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited QuickTest Pro over the 3 months to 19 March 2010 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second part of the table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Development Applications category.

LinkHP QuickTest Professional (QTP)
Location
3 months to
19 Mar 2010
Same period 2009Same period 2008
Rank251308307
Rank change year-on-year
Up+57Down-1
Matching contract IT job ads274134341
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK0.567 %0.340 %0.415 %
As % of the Development Applications category6.436 %4.753 %5.284 %
Daily rates quoted13653120
Average daily rate£329£375£338
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-12.26 %+11.11 %
90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£218£243£276
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£500£425£475
UK excluding London average daily rate£275£319£300
% change year-on-year
-13.72 %+6.250 %
Hourly rates quoted685
Average hourly rate£21.13£25.00£25.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-15.50 %-
90% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£20.63£21.63£16.00
10% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£86.75£33.75£38.60
UK excluding London average hourly rate£21.13£25.00£25.50
% change year-on-year
-15.50 %-1.960 %
IT Contractor Job Market, Development Applications CategoryAll Development Applications
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Development Applications category
425728196454
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK8.812 %7.146 %7.852 %
Daily rates quoted20329881988
Average daily rate£375£363£375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+3.230 %-3.130 %
90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£250£242£270
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£550£475£525
UK excluding London average daily rate£301£340£350
% change year-on-year
-11.61 %-2.850 %
Hourly rates quoted199205471
Average hourly rate£34.50£32.50£35.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+6.150 %-7.140 %
90% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£20.00£18.75£19.00
10% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£42.50£40.00£45.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate£34.00£31.75£35.00
% change year-on-year
+7.080 %-9.280 %

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.

QuickTest Pro
Demand Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing QuickTest Pro within the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the Development Applications category.

QuickTest Pro Demand Trend

QuickTest Pro
Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing QuickTest Pro within the UK.

QuickTest Pro Daily Rate Trend

QuickTest Pro
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing QuickTest Pro within the UK over the 3 months to 19 March 2010.

QuickTest Pro Daily Rate Histogram

QuickTest Pro
Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing QuickTest Pro within the UK.

QuickTest Pro Hourly Rate Trend

QuickTest Pro
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing QuickTest Pro within the UK over the 3 months to 19 March 2010.

QuickTest Pro Hourly Rate Histogram

QuickTest Pro
Top 30 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing QuickTest Pro within the UK over the 3 months to 19 March 2010. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

LocationRank 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
EnglandUp+64259£350-6.66 %
LondonDown-10152£438+14.75 %
South EastUp+3155£325+20.37 %
City of LondonDown-4945£475+26.66 %
BerkshireUp+1724£325-4.41 %
YorkshireUp+2017£213-7.60 %
SurreyUp+117£400+48.14 %
West YorkshireUp+516£213-7.60 %
LeedsUp+2015£213-7.60 %
South WestUp+514£225-24.36 %
ScotlandDown-712£308+64.00 %
EdinburghDown-911£325+62.50 %
ReadingUp+510£325+71.05 %
West MidlandsUp+187£425-
North WestDown-67£225-40.00 %
EpsomNew entry-7--
GloucestershireUp+136£243-
GuildfordNew entry-6£440-
OxfordshireDown-34--
GloucesterNew entry-4£260-
BirminghamNew entry-4£425-
HampshireDown-13£300+25.00 %
OxfordDown-23--
ManchesterDown-43£225-
BuckinghamshireNew entry-3£300-
BathNew entry-3£258-
BristolNew entry-3--
SomersetNew entry-3£258-
East MidlandsNew entry-3£230-
CroydonUp+52£350-12.50 %

QuickTest Pro
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 March 2010, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing QuickTest Pro 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 QuickTest Pro.

1126 (28.64 %)Banking
2123 (27.95 %)Finance
3118 (26.82 %)Test Scripting
4116 (26.36 %)ISEB
5104 (23.64 %)SQL
698 (22.27 %)Investment Banking
793 (21.14 %)Test Automation
891 (20.68 %)LoadRunner
988 (20.00 %)Java
1072 (16.36 %)Agile Software Development
1167 (15.23 %)HP
1264 (14.55 %)TestDirector
1264 (14.55 %)Automated Testing
1359 (13.41 %)QA
1359 (13.41 %)WinRunner
1455 (12.50 %)VBScript
1455 (12.50 %)VB
1553 (12.05 %).NET
1652 (11.82 %)Software Testing
1747 (10.68 %)User Acceptance Testing
1846 (10.45 %)C#
1943 (9.773 %)XML
2037 (8.409 %)Performance Testing
2037 (8.409 %)Security Cleared
2133 (7.500 %)Windows
2232 (7.273 %)Test Management
2331 (7.045 %)Selenium
2331 (7.045 %)HP Quality Center
2430 (6.818 %)SQL Server
2528 (6.364 %)SAP

QuickTest Pro
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 March 2010, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing QuickTest Pro 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 QuickTest Pro. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

IT Contractor Job Market, Application Development CategoryApplication Development
153 (12.05 %).NET
243 (9.773 %)XML
322 (5.000 %)Web Services
417 (3.864 %)J2EE
514 (3.182 %)ASP
612 (2.727 %)XML Messaging
711 (2.500 %)HTML
810 (2.273 %)AJAX
96 (1.364 %)Middleware
105 (1.136 %).NET Framework
114 (0.909 %)Spring
114 (0.909 %)SOAP
114 (0.909 %)ASP.NET
114 (0.909 %)Hibernate
123 (0.682 %)CSS
123 (0.682 %)Flash
123 (0.682 %)WAP
123 (0.682 %)WSDL
123 (0.682 %)WCF
123 (0.682 %)jQuery
IT Contractor Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
18 (1.818 %)SharePoint
27 (1.591 %)CMS
35 (1.136 %)Tomcat
35 (1.136 %)Confluence
44 (0.909 %)SAP Portal
44 (0.909 %)IIS
52 (0.455 %)ESB
52 (0.455 %)MQSeries
52 (0.455 %)Lotus Notes
52 (0.455 %)Apache
52 (0.455 %)WebLogic
61 (0.227 %)Oracle Workflow
61 (0.227 %)Lotus Domino
61 (0.227 %)BizTalk Server
61 (0.227 %)CICS
61 (0.227 %)MS Exchange
61 (0.227 %)JCAPS
61 (0.227 %)Mule
61 (0.227 %)AquaLogic
IT Contractor Job Market, Applications CategoryApplications
120 (4.545 %)MS Excel
29 (2.045 %)MS Office
38 (1.818 %)MS PowerPoint
45 (1.136 %)MS Project
51 (0.227 %)Spreadsheet
IT Contractor Job Market, Business Applications CategoryBusiness Applications
16 (1.364 %)SAP IS-U
23 (0.682 %)Oracle EBS
23 (0.682 %)Oracle Applications
32 (0.455 %)Oracle EBS R12
32 (0.455 %)Cerner Millennium
32 (0.455 %)SAP HR
32 (0.455 %)Maximo
32 (0.455 %)SAP Payroll
32 (0.455 %)Endur
32 (0.455 %)SAP R/3
41 (0.227 %)Pivotal CRM
41 (0.227 %)Oracle Financials
41 (0.227 %)ADP Wilco Gloss
41 (0.227 %)SAP ERP
41 (0.227 %)Temenos T24
41 (0.227 %)Siebel Analytics
41 (0.227 %)Loan IQ
41 (0.227 %)SunGard AvantGard
IT Contractor Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
17 (1.591 %)Internet
17 (1.591 %)HTTP
25 (1.136 %)Extranet
32 (0.455 %)TCP/IP
32 (0.455 %)SAN
41 (0.227 %)BSS
41 (0.227 %)Ethernet
41 (0.227 %)SNA
IT Contractor Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
130 (6.818 %)SQL Server
211 (2.500 %)Datawarehouse
38 (1.818 %)SQL Server 2005
45 (1.136 %)ETL
45 (1.136 %)Star Schema
54 (0.909 %)TOAD
54 (0.909 %)SAP BW
54 (0.909 %)DB2
54 (0.909 %)Crystal Reports
63 (0.682 %)BusinessObjects
63 (0.682 %)RDBMS
63 (0.682 %)Sybase ASE
72 (0.455 %)Reference Data
81 (0.227 %)Siebel EIM
81 (0.227 %)Sybase IQ
81 (0.227 %)OLAP
81 (0.227 %)Oracle Reports
81 (0.227 %)DTS
81 (0.227 %)SQL Server 2008
IT Contractor Job Market, Development Applications CategoryDevelopment Applications
191 (20.68 %)LoadRunner
264 (14.55 %)TestDirector
359 (13.41 %)WinRunner
431 (7.045 %)Selenium
526 (5.909 %)JUnit
625 (5.682 %)FitNesse
710 (2.273 %)JIRA
710 (2.273 %)Rational Functional Tester
88 (1.818 %)Visual Studio
95 (1.136 %)Oracle Forms
104 (0.909 %)Rational Robot
113 (0.682 %)VSS/SourceSafe
113 (0.682 %)ClearCase
113 (0.682 %)QARun
122 (0.455 %)TestPartner
122 (0.455 %)Firebug
122 (0.455 %)Team Foundation Server
122 (0.455 %)Eclipse
122 (0.455 %)NUnit
122 (0.455 %)Subversion
IT Contractor Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
1126 (28.64 %)Banking
2123 (27.95 %)Finance
398 (22.27 %)Investment Banking
425 (5.682 %)Retail
524 (5.455 %)Insurance
619 (4.318 %)Telecoms
718 (4.091 %)Front Office
718 (4.091 %)Back Office
814 (3.182 %)Government
911 (2.500 %)Retail Banking
109 (2.045 %)Pensions
115 (1.136 %)Financial Institution
124 (0.909 %)Games
132 (0.455 %)Law
132 (0.455 %)Education
141 (0.227 %)Pharmaceutical
141 (0.227 %)Health
141 (0.227 %)Publishing
141 (0.227 %)Billing
141 (0.227 %)Online Games
IT Contractor Job Market, Job Titles CategoryJob Titles
1184 (41.82 %)Analyst
2166 (37.73 %)Test Analyst
3108 (24.55 %)Tester
434 (7.727 %)Test Manager
528 (6.364 %)Developer
617 (3.864 %)Java Developer
716 (3.636 %)Consultant
716 (3.636 %)Automation Test Analyst
815 (3.409 %)Test Leader
815 (3.409 %)Senior Analyst
914 (3.182 %)Senior Test Analyst
1013 (2.955 %)Test Consultant
1013 (2.955 %)Test Engineer
1112 (2.727 %)Test Team Leader
1112 (2.727 %)Team Leader
1211 (2.500 %)Test Specialist
1211 (2.500 %)Performance Tester
1310 (2.273 %)SQL Developer
149 (2.045 %).NET Developer
149 (2.045 %)QA Analyst
IT Contractor Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
123 (5.227 %)Derivative
214 (3.182 %)Fixed Income
313 (2.955 %)Client/Server
412 (2.727 %)Foreign Exchange (FX)
511 (2.500 %)Equities
66 (1.364 %)Open Source
66 (1.364 %)N-Tier
66 (1.364 %)EPoS
75 (1.136 %)Mainframe
75 (1.136 %)STB
75 (1.136 %)Credit Derivative
75 (1.136 %)Equity Derivative
84 (0.909 %)PDA
84 (0.909 %)NHS
84 (0.909 %)Management Information System
93 (0.682 %)Computer Science
93 (0.682 %)Interest Rate Derivative
102 (0.455 %)Statistics
102 (0.455 %)Credit Risk
102 (0.455 %)Market Risk
IT Contractor Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
133 (7.500 %)Windows
223 (5.227 %)UNIX
38 (1.818 %)Windows Server 2003
47 (1.591 %)Linux
47 (1.591 %)Windows XP
54 (0.909 %)Solaris
63 (0.682 %)AIX
72 (0.455 %)Windows 2000
81 (0.227 %)zOS
81 (0.227 %)Windows 7
81 (0.227 %)VME
81 (0.227 %)Red Hat Linux
81 (0.227 %)Windows Server 2008
81 (0.227 %)Windows Vista
IT Contractor Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
1118 (26.82 %)Test Scripting
293 (21.14 %)Test Automation
372 (16.36 %)Agile Software Development
464 (14.55 %)Automated Testing
552 (11.82 %)Software Testing
647 (10.68 %)User Acceptance Testing
737 (8.409 %)Performance Testing
832 (7.273 %)Test Management
928 (6.364 %)Integration Testing
1026 (5.909 %)Manual Testing
1125 (5.682 %)System Testing
1223 (5.227 %)Scrum
1321 (4.773 %)E-Commerce
1417 (3.864 %)Regression Testing
1516 (3.636 %)CRM
1612 (2.727 %)RUP
1711 (2.500 %)Workflow
1711 (2.500 %)OO
1810 (2.273 %)Web Testing
1810 (2.273 %)Change Management
IT Contractor Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
1104 (23.64 %)SQL
288 (20.00 %)Java
355 (12.50 %)VBScript
355 (12.50 %)VB
446 (10.45 %)C#
525 (5.682 %)C
615 (3.409 %)Perl
711 (2.500 %)Shell Script
810 (2.273 %)VB.NET
810 (2.273 %)VBA
99 (2.045 %)JavaScript
106 (1.364 %)C++
115 (1.136 %)VB6
115 (1.136 %)XPath
124 (0.909 %)Ruby
133 (0.682 %)PL/SQL
133 (0.682 %)Python
141 (0.227 %)Jython
141 (0.227 %)T-SQL
IT Contractor Job Market, Qualifications CategoryQualifications
1116 (26.36 %)ISEB
237 (8.409 %)Security Cleared
328 (6.364 %)SC Cleared
427 (6.136 %)Degree
518 (4.091 %)ISTQB
613 (2.955 %)ISEB Practitioner
72 (0.455 %)DV Cleared
72 (0.455 %)IBM Certification
72 (0.455 %)MBA
81 (0.227 %)MCP
81 (0.227 %)Microsoft Certification
81 (0.227 %)PRINCE2 Certification
81 (0.227 %)CTC Cleared
IT Contractor Job Market, Quality Assurance & Compliance CategoryQuality Assurance & Compliance
159 (13.41 %)QA
23 (0.682 %)SLA
31 (0.227 %)ISO9000
31 (0.227 %)WAI
IT Contractor Job Market, System Software CategorySystem Software
13 (0.682 %)Active Directory
22 (0.455 %)Microsoft Virtual Server
31 (0.227 %)VMware ESX
IT Contractor Job Market, Systems Management CategorySystems Management
131 (7.045 %)HP Quality Center
25 (1.136 %)Netcool
32 (0.455 %)Netcool/Proviso
32 (0.455 %)McAfee ePO
32 (0.455 %)AutoSys
41 (0.227 %)OpenView Configuration Management
41 (0.227 %)NetBackup
41 (0.227 %)Tivoli
IT Contractor Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
167 (15.23 %)HP
228 (6.364 %)SAP
327 (6.136 %)Oracle
422 (5.000 %)Sybase
521 (4.773 %)TIBCO
620 (4.545 %)Microsoft
714 (3.182 %)IBM
84 (0.909 %)Singularity
84 (0.909 %)Calypso
84 (0.909 %)SunGard
93 (0.682 %)Business Objects
93 (0.682 %)Citrix
93 (0.682 %)Compuware
102 (0.455 %)Microgen
102 (0.455 %)Murex
102 (0.455 %)EMC
102 (0.455 %)Cerner
102 (0.455 %)Veritas
102 (0.455 %)Lotus
102 (0.455 %)Siebel