The first table below looks at the demand for Web 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 Web Testing over the 3 months to 23 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
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Web Testing
Rank 477 473 472
Rank change year-on-year
-4 -1
Contract jobs citing Web Testing 64 92 114
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.138% 0.158% 0.184%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.195% 0.232% 0.272%
Number of daily rates quoted 43 48 69
Average daily rate £347 £305 £240
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+13.59% +27.18%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £252 £253 £150
10% offered a daily rate of more than £400 £432 £335
UK excluding London average daily rate £313 £310 £225
% change year-on-year
+0.80% +37.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Average hourly rate £29.00 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £29.00 - -
All Processes & Methodologies
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
32894 39591 41969
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 70.99% 67.83% 67.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 19661 22733 23826
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 £579 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £365 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
- -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 963 1284 1487
Average hourly rate £30.50 £25.00 £29.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+22.00% -13.79%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.50 £12.68 £13.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £50.00 £45.00 £45.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.45 £25.00 £29.00
% change year-on-year
+21.78% -13.79%

Web Testing
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Web Testing Jobs Demand Trend

Web Testing
Daily Rate Trend

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

Web Testing Daily Rate Trend

Web Testing
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Web Testing within the UK over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

Web Testing Daily Rate Histogram

Web Testing
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Web Testing Hourly Rate Trend

Web Testing
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 Web Testing within the UK over the 3 months to 23 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 +17 64 £347 +15.39%
London +24 29 £369 +26.69%
South East +22 23 £313 -
City of London +25 11 £400 -
Hampshire - 11 £340 -
Berkshire - 8 £375 -
West Sussex +15 3 £290 +5.45%
North West +11 3 £313 +6.63%
East Midlands +1 3 £338 -12.90%
Yorkshire -3 3 £400 +48.14%
West Yorkshire - 3 £400 -
Crawley - 3 £290 -
Leeds - 3 £400 -
Buckinghamshire - 3 £160 -
East of England +18 2 £270 -
Manchester +12 2 £313 +6.63%
East Sussex +8 2 - -
Leicester - 2 £344 -
Beaconsfield - 2 £160 -
Leicestershire - 2 £344 -
South West +23 1 - -
Northamptonshire +11 1 £175 -54.83%
Brighton +10 1 - -
Surrey +8 1 - -
Norfolk - 1 £290 -
Essex - 1 £250 -
Dorset - 1 - -
Winchester - 1 £325 -
Reading - 1 - -
Norwich - 1 £290 -

Web Testing
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing Web 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 Web Testing.

1 54 (37.50%) Selenium
2 34 (23.61%) Microsoft
2 34 (23.61%) Agile Software Development
3 32 (22.22%) C#
4 31 (21.53%) SQL
4 31 (21.53%) Finance
5 27 (18.75%) HP Quality Center
5 27 (18.75%) Cucumber
6 26 (18.06%) Visual Studio
7 25 (17.36%) SQL Server
7 25 (17.36%) Scrum
8 24 (16.67%) ISEB
9 23 (15.97%) .NET
10 22 (15.28%) Ruby
11 21 (14.58%) Java
12 20 (13.89%) TDD
12 20 (13.89%) Test Scripting
13 19 (13.19%) User Acceptance Testing
13 19 (13.19%) QA
13 19 (13.19%) Automation Testing
13 19 (13.19%) HP
14 18 (12.50%) Team Foundation Server
14 18 (12.50%) Test Automation
14 18 (12.50%) Manual Testing
15 17 (11.81%) E-Commerce
15 17 (11.81%) Software Testing
15 17 (11.81%) Automated Testing
15 17 (11.81%) Regression Testing
16 16 (11.11%) Web Services
16 16 (11.11%) FitNesse

Web Testing
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing Web 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 Web Testing. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 23 (15.97%) .NET
2 16 (11.11%) Web Services
3 14 (9.722%) XML
3 14 (9.722%) SOAP
4 12 (8.333%) soapUI
5 11 (7.639%) HTML
6 8 (5.556%) HTML5
6 8 (5.556%) jQuery
6 8 (5.556%) Ajax
7 7 (4.861%) WCF
7 7 (4.861%) JSON
8 6 (4.167%) CSS
9 5 (3.472%) REST
9 5 (3.472%) RESTful
10 4 (2.778%) WebSphere
11 3 (2.083%) ASP.NET
12 2 (1.389%) KnockoutJS
12 2 (1.389%) AngularJS
12 2 (1.389%) Backbone.js
12 2 (1.389%) Gherkin
Application Platforms
1 8 (5.556%) Windows Azure
2 6 (4.167%) CMS
3 4 (2.778%) SharePoint
3 4 (2.778%) ColdFusion
3 4 (2.778%) WebSphere Application Server
4 1 (0.694%) ESB
4 1 (0.694%) SharePoint 2010
Applications
1 5 (3.472%) MS Excel
2 1 (0.694%) MS Project
Business Applications
1 3 (2.083%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.694%) SAP Oil and Gas
Communications & Networking
1 5 (3.472%) HTTP
2 1 (0.694%) Wi-Fi
2 1 (0.694%) 3G
2 1 (0.694%) Internet
2 1 (0.694%) TCP/IP
2 1 (0.694%) GPRS
2 1 (0.694%) LAN
2 1 (0.694%) WAN
2 1 (0.694%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (17.36%) SQL Server
2 8 (5.556%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 7 (4.861%) SQL Server 2012
4 3 (2.083%) DbVisualizer
5 2 (1.389%) Data Mining
5 2 (1.389%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (1.389%) SAP BW
6 1 (0.694%) SQL Server 2005
6 1 (0.694%) Data Mart
6 1 (0.694%) MySQL
6 1 (0.694%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (0.694%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 54 (37.50%) Selenium
2 27 (18.75%) Cucumber
3 26 (18.06%) Visual Studio
4 18 (12.50%) Team Foundation Server
5 16 (11.11%) FitNesse
5 16 (11.11%) WebDriver
6 12 (8.333%) QuickTest Pro
7 9 (6.250%) Concordion
8 6 (4.167%) WATIR
8 6 (4.167%) Maven
9 5 (3.472%) JIRA
10 3 (2.083%) JMeter
10 3 (2.083%) Ant
10 3 (2.083%) Visual Studio Team System
10 3 (2.083%) Rational Performance Tester
10 3 (2.083%) Jenkins
10 3 (2.083%) MSBuild
10 3 (2.083%) Hudson
11 2 (1.389%) JUnit
11 2 (1.389%) NUnit
General
1 31 (21.53%) Finance
2 5 (3.472%) Retail
3 4 (2.778%) Marketing
3 4 (2.778%) Banking
3 4 (2.778%) Investment Banking
4 2 (1.389%) Telecoms
5 1 (0.694%) Manufacturing
5 1 (0.694%) Advertising
5 1 (0.694%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 63 (43.75%) Analyst
2 61 (42.36%) Test Analyst
3 47 (32.64%) Tester
4 15 (10.42%) Automation Analyst
4 15 (10.42%) Automation Test Analyst
4 15 (10.42%) Senior Tester
5 12 (8.333%) Web Tester
6 10 (6.944%) Test Engineer
6 10 (6.944%) Test Manager
7 7 (4.861%) Automation Tester
7 7 (4.861%) Agile Test Analyst
8 6 (4.167%) UI Programmer
8 6 (4.167%) JavaScript Developer
8 6 (4.167%) UI Developer
8 6 (4.167%) Developer
9 5 (3.472%) Consultant
9 5 (3.472%) Technical Tester
10 4 (2.778%) Web Test Analyst
10 4 (2.778%) Manual Test Analyst
10 4 (2.778%) Test Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 7 (4.861%) Enterprise Software
2 5 (3.472%) Handset
2 5 (3.472%) Open Source
3 4 (2.778%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 3 (2.083%) Computer Science
5 2 (1.389%) iSeries
5 2 (1.389%) SaaS
5 2 (1.389%) iPhone
5 2 (1.389%) Blackberry
5 2 (1.389%) AS400
6 1 (0.694%) DTV
6 1 (0.694%) Mathematics
6 1 (0.694%) IPTV
6 1 (0.694%) Data Integration
6 1 (0.694%) Mobile App
6 1 (0.694%) Video on Demand
6 1 (0.694%) iPad
Operating Systems
1 10 (6.944%) Windows
2 8 (5.556%) UNIX
3 7 (4.861%) Apple iOS
4 6 (4.167%) Android
4 6 (4.167%) Linux
5 1 (0.694%) Mac OS X
5 1 (0.694%) Windows XP
5 1 (0.694%) Windows Vista
5 1 (0.694%) Windows Mobile
5 1 (0.694%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (23.61%) Agile Software Development
2 25 (17.36%) Scrum
3 20 (13.89%) TDD
3 20 (13.89%) Test Scripting
4 19 (13.19%) User Acceptance Testing
4 19 (13.19%) Automation Testing
5 18 (12.50%) Test Automation
5 18 (12.50%) Manual Testing
6 17 (11.81%) E-Commerce
6 17 (11.81%) Software Testing
6 17 (11.81%) Automated Testing
6 17 (11.81%) Regression Testing
7 15 (10.42%) BDD
8 11 (7.639%) Performance Testing
8 11 (7.639%) Continuous Integration
9 7 (4.861%) OO
9 7 (4.861%) System Testing
9 7 (4.861%) Test Management
9 7 (4.861%) Agile Testing
10 6 (4.167%) MVVM
Programming Languages
1 32 (22.22%) C#
2 31 (21.53%) SQL
3 22 (15.28%) Ruby
4 21 (14.58%) Java
5 10 (6.944%) JavaScript
6 8 (5.556%) PHP
7 3 (2.083%) Groovy
8 2 (1.389%) ActionScript 3.0
8 2 (1.389%) Shell Script
8 2 (1.389%) ActionScript
9 1 (0.694%) Objective-C
9 1 (0.694%) T-SQL
9 1 (0.694%) VB
9 1 (0.694%) C
9 1 (0.694%) C++
9 1 (0.694%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 24 (16.67%) ISEB
2 10 (6.944%) ISTQB
3 8 (5.556%) Degree
4 1 (0.694%) ISEB Practitioner
4 1 (0.694%) SC Cleared
4 1 (0.694%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (13.19%) QA
2 1 (0.694%) ISO 9001
2 1 (0.694%) Solvency II
System Software
1 2 (1.389%) vCloud
2 1 (0.694%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 27 (18.75%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 34 (23.61%) Microsoft
2 19 (13.19%) HP
3 8 (5.556%) Oracle
4 3 (2.083%) SAP
5 1 (0.694%) VMware
5 1 (0.694%) Google
5 1 (0.694%) Salesforce.com
5 1 (0.694%) Apple
5 1 (0.694%) IBM