The first table below looks at the demand for User Acceptance Testing skills in IT contracts advertised for the Warwickshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited User Acceptance Testing over the 3 months to 22 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 for the Warwickshire region.

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
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
User Acceptance Testing (UAT)
Rank 27 24 22
Rank change year-on-year
-3 -2
Contract jobs citing User Acceptance Testing 4 3 4
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Warwickshire 1.878% 1.200% 1.887%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.667% 2.000% 3.030%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 1
Average daily rate £330 £275 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+20.00% -26.66%
UK excluding London average daily rate £330 £350 £350
% change year-on-year
-5.71% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Average hourly rate - - £24.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.00 £26.14 £23.00
% change year-on-year
+14.76% +13.65%
All Processes & Methodologies
Warwickshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
150 150 132
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Warwickshire 70.42% 60.00% 62.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 72 69 48
Average daily rate £325 £320 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+1.56% -14.66%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £217 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £550 £500 £475
UK excluding London average daily rate £365 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
- -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 5 19
Average hourly rate £29.00 £16.85 £25.75
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+72.10% -34.56%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £22.65 £10.00 £14.85
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £30.00 £22.90 £32.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.00 £25.00 £29.00
% change year-on-year
+24.00% -13.79%
User Acceptance Testing
West Midlands

User Acceptance Testing
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing User Acceptance Testing across the Warwickshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

Warwickshire User Acceptance Testing Jobs Demand Trend

User Acceptance Testing
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing User Acceptance Testing across the Warwickshire region.

Warwickshire User Acceptance Testing Daily Rate Trend

User Acceptance Testing
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing User Acceptance Testing across the Warwickshire region.

Warwickshire User Acceptance Testing Hourly Rate Trend

User Acceptance Testing
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing User Acceptance Testing within the Warwickshire region over the 3 months to 22 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
Stratford-upon-Avon +1 1 - -
User Acceptance Testing
West Midlands

User Acceptance Testing
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Warwickshire region citing User Acceptance 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 User Acceptance Testing.

1 14 (66.67%) Migration
2 12 (57.14%) Essbase
2 12 (57.14%) RDBMS
2 12 (57.14%) Hyperion
3 11 (52.38%) Finance
4 10 (47.62%) Microsoft
4 10 (47.62%) J2EE
4 10 (47.62%) Oracle
4 10 (47.62%) WebLogic
4 10 (47.62%) IIS
4 10 (47.62%) MS Office
4 10 (47.62%) Hyperion Planning
5 3 (14.29%) Quality Management
5 3 (14.29%) Data Management
5 3 (14.29%) Information Management
5 3 (14.29%) Business Analysis
5 3 (14.29%) Test Strategy
5 3 (14.29%) Data Quality
6 2 (9.524%) Manual Testing
6 2 (9.524%) Test Management
6 2 (9.524%) ISTQB
6 2 (9.524%) ISEB
7 1 (4.762%) SQL Server
7 1 (4.762%) Configuration Management
7 1 (4.762%) Windows
7 1 (4.762%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (4.762%) E-Commerce
7 1 (4.762%) Client/Server
7 1 (4.762%) ETL
7 1 (4.762%) HTTP

User Acceptance Testing
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Warwickshire region citing User Acceptance 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 User Acceptance Testing. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 10 (47.62%) J2EE
Application Platforms
1 10 (47.62%) WebLogic
1 10 (47.62%) IIS
2 1 (4.762%) Magento
Applications
1 10 (47.62%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 10 (47.62%) Hyperion Planning
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.762%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (57.14%) Essbase
1 12 (57.14%) RDBMS
2 1 (4.762%) SQL Server
2 1 (4.762%) Data Warehouse
General
1 11 (52.38%) Finance
2 1 (4.762%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 12 (57.14%) DBA
2 4 (19.05%) Business Analyst
2 4 (19.05%) Analyst
3 3 (14.29%) Coordinator
3 3 (14.29%) Test Coordinator
4 1 (4.762%) Tester
4 1 (4.762%) Business Intelligence Analyst
4 1 (4.762%) Environment Manager
4 1 (4.762%) Oracle DBA
4 1 (4.762%) Systems Tester
4 1 (4.762%) Test Analyst
4 1 (4.762%) Database Engineer
4 1 (4.762%) Business Test Analyst
4 1 (4.762%) Integration Tester
Miscellaneous
1 1 (4.762%) Client/Server
1 1 (4.762%) Management Information System
1 1 (4.762%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.762%) Windows
1 1 (4.762%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (66.67%) Migration
2 3 (14.29%) Quality Management
2 3 (14.29%) Data Management
2 3 (14.29%) Information Management
2 3 (14.29%) Business Analysis
2 3 (14.29%) Test Strategy
3 2 (9.524%) Manual Testing
3 2 (9.524%) Test Management
4 1 (4.762%) Configuration Management
4 1 (4.762%) E-Commerce
4 1 (4.762%) ETL
4 1 (4.762%) Business Intelligence
4 1 (4.762%) Content Management
4 1 (4.762%) Process Management
4 1 (4.762%) Change Management
4 1 (4.762%) Regression Testing
4 1 (4.762%) Performance Testing
4 1 (4.762%) Test Scripting
4 1 (4.762%) Software Testing
4 1 (4.762%) Continuous Improvement
Qualifications
1 2 (9.524%) ISTQB
1 2 (9.524%) ISEB
2 1 (4.762%) ISEB Practitioner
2 1 (4.762%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (14.29%) Data Quality
2 1 (4.762%) QA
Vendors
1 12 (57.14%) Hyperion
2 10 (47.62%) Microsoft
2 10 (47.62%) Oracle
Stratford-Upon-Avon, West Midlands
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Posted: 22 May 2013