The first table below looks at the demand for the Senior Performance Test Analyst role in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Senior Performance Test Analyst in their job title over the 3 months to 20 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 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 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Senior Performance Test Analyst
Rank - 572 -
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Performance Test Analyst 0 1 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK - 0.002% -
As % of the Job Titles category - 0.002% -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate - - -
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
42921 54032 55868
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 92.24% 92.62% 92.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 24602 29796 30366
Average daily rate £400 £400 £425
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -5.88%
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 2138 2561 2889
Average hourly rate £18.53 £18.75 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-1.20% -6.25%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.00 £11.00 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £41.74 £40.00 £41.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%

Senior Performance Test Analyst
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Senior Performance Test Analyst Jobs Demand Trend

Senior Performance Test Analyst
Daily Rate Trend

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

Senior Performance Test Analyst Daily Rate Trend

Senior Performance Test Analyst
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK that cited Senior Performance Test Analyst 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 Senior Performance Test Analyst in their job title.

1 2 (100.00%) LoadRunner
1 2 (100.00%) Performance Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Software Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Test Scripting
2 1 (50.00%) Rational Performance Tester
2 1 (50.00%) HP Quality Center
2 1 (50.00%) WebSphere
2 1 (50.00%) Degree
2 1 (50.00%) Matrix Management
2 1 (50.00%) Banking
2 1 (50.00%) VSAM
2 1 (50.00%) Service Delivery
2 1 (50.00%) Finance
2 1 (50.00%) Validation
2 1 (50.00%) VMware
2 1 (50.00%) zOS
2 1 (50.00%) JCL
2 1 (50.00%) Mainframe
2 1 (50.00%) Oracle
2 1 (50.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (50.00%) WebSphere Application Server
2 1 (50.00%) SOAP
2 1 (50.00%) Web Services
2 1 (50.00%) UNIX
2 1 (50.00%) Windows
2 1 (50.00%) MS Excel
2 1 (50.00%) FTP
2 1 (50.00%) HTTP
2 1 (50.00%) TCP/IP
2 1 (50.00%) TOAD

Senior Performance Test Analyst
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 1 (50.00%) SOAP
1 1 (50.00%) Web Services
1 1 (50.00%) WebSphere
Application Platforms
1 1 (50.00%) WebSphere Application Server
1 1 (50.00%) CICS
Applications
1 1 (50.00%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) FTP
1 1 (50.00%) HTTP
1 1 (50.00%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) SQL Server
1 1 (50.00%) TOAD
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) LoadRunner
2 1 (50.00%) Rational Performance Tester
General
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
1 1 (50.00%) Banking
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Mainframe
1 1 (50.00%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) UNIX
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
1 1 (50.00%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Performance Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Test Scripting
2 1 (50.00%) Service Delivery
2 1 (50.00%) Validation
2 1 (50.00%) Software Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Matrix Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) JCL
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) Degree
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle
1 1 (50.00%) IBM
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (50.00%) HP
1 1 (50.00%) Citrix
1 1 (50.00%) VMware