The first table below looks at the demand for SilkTest skills in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited SilkTest 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 of the Development Applications 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
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Borland SilkTest
Rank 530 572 584
Rank change year-on-year
+42 +12
Contract jobs citing SilkTest 3 1 4
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.006% 0.002% 0.007%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.059% 0.019% 0.063%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 3
Average daily rate £400 £220 £450
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+81.81% -51.11%
UK excluding London average daily rate - £220 -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Average hourly rate - - £35.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - £35.00
All Development Applications
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Development Applications category
5091 5370 6345
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 10.94% 9.205% 10.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 3210 3176 3565
Average daily rate £375 £375 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -6.25%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £275 £265 £260
10% offered a daily rate of more than £525 £550 £580
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £330 £325
% change year-on-year
-1.51% +1.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 140 212 322
Average hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £35.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+7.14% -
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £22.66 £23.88 £24.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £45.00 £45.00 £42.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+7.14% -

SilkTest
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing SilkTest within the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the Development Applications category.

SilkTest Jobs Demand Trend

SilkTest
Daily Rate Trend

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

SilkTest Daily Rate Trend

SilkTest
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing SilkTest within the UK over the 3 months to 20 May 2013.

SilkTest Daily Rate Histogram

SilkTest
Hourly Rate Trend

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

SilkTest Hourly Rate Trend

SilkTest
Top 3 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SilkTest within the UK over the 3 months to 20 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 +65 3 £400 +81.81%
London - 3 £400 -
City of London - 2 £425 -

SilkTest
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing SilkTest 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 SilkTest.

1 7 (77.78%) Agile Software Development
1 7 (77.78%) QA
1 7 (77.78%) Selenium
2 6 (66.67%) QuickTest Pro
2 6 (66.67%) Finance
2 6 (66.67%) Cucumber
3 5 (55.56%) WebDriver
3 5 (55.56%) Ruby
3 5 (55.56%) Derivative
3 5 (55.56%) C++
3 5 (55.56%) Java
3 5 (55.56%) .NET
4 3 (33.33%) Windows
5 2 (22.22%) Migration
5 2 (22.22%) VMware
5 2 (22.22%) Business Continuity
5 2 (22.22%) SC Cleared
5 2 (22.22%) Security Cleared
5 2 (22.22%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (22.22%) HP Quality Center
6 1 (11.11%) soapUI
6 1 (11.11%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
6 1 (11.11%) Bing Maps
6 1 (11.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (11.11%) Test Automation
6 1 (11.11%) Product Management
6 1 (11.11%) JIRA
6 1 (11.11%) Software Testing
6 1 (11.11%) Google
6 1 (11.11%) C#

SilkTest
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 5 (55.56%) .NET
2 1 (11.11%) ADO
2 1 (11.11%) SOAP
2 1 (11.11%) WCF
2 1 (11.11%) Silverlight
2 1 (11.11%) Google Maps API
2 1 (11.11%) soapUI
2 1 (11.11%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
2 1 (11.11%) Bing Maps
Application Platforms
1 1 (11.11%) ActiveMQ
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (11.11%) Oracle Reports
1 1 (11.11%) Oracle 11g
Development Applications
1 7 (77.78%) Selenium
2 6 (66.67%) QuickTest Pro
2 6 (66.67%) Cucumber
3 5 (55.56%) WebDriver
4 1 (11.11%) JIRA
General
1 6 (66.67%) Finance
2 1 (11.11%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 5 (55.56%) QA Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) Analyst
2 2 (22.22%) Test Analyst
3 1 (11.11%) Consultant
3 1 (11.11%) Test Manager
3 1 (11.11%) Senior QA Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Test Leader
Miscellaneous
1 5 (55.56%) Derivative
2 1 (11.11%) Client/Server
2 1 (11.11%) N-Tier
Operating Systems
1 3 (33.33%) Windows
2 1 (11.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (77.78%) Agile Software Development
2 2 (22.22%) Migration
2 2 (22.22%) Business Continuity
3 1 (11.11%) SOA
3 1 (11.11%) Scrum
3 1 (11.11%) Software Testing
3 1 (11.11%) Test Management
3 1 (11.11%) Test Scripting
3 1 (11.11%) Test Automation
3 1 (11.11%) Product Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (55.56%) C++
1 5 (55.56%) Java
1 5 (55.56%) Ruby
2 1 (11.11%) C#
2 1 (11.11%) SQL
2 1 (11.11%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (22.22%) SC Cleared
1 2 (22.22%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (77.78%) QA
System Software
1 2 (22.22%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (22.22%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 2 (22.22%) VMware
2 1 (11.11%) Telerik
2 1 (11.11%) Google
2 1 (11.11%) Atlassian
2 1 (11.11%) Oracle
2 1 (11.11%) Microsoft