Watford QuickTest Pro Contracts

This section looks at the demand for HP QuickTest Professional (QTP) skills within the Watford region with a comparison to our Development Applications category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited QuickTest Pro over the 3 months to 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

HP QuickTest Professional (QTP)
Location Aberdeen Andover Basingstoke Berkshire Birmingham Bournemouth Bracknell Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cheshire City of London Derby Derbyshire Docklands, London Dorset East Midlands East of England Edinburgh England Essex Glasgow Godalming Guildford Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harlow Havant Hertfordshire Ipswich Leeds London M4 Corridor Manchester Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Upon Tyne Norfolk North East North West Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Poole Reading Redhill Scotland Shropshire South East South Lanarkshire South West Stevenage Suffolk Surrey Swansea Swindon Tadworth Telford Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Wales Watford West Midlands West Wales West Yorkshire Wiltshire Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	28	-
Rank change on same period last year	-
Matching contract IT job ads	1	0
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.001 %	0.000 %
As % of the category below	3.333 %	0.000 %
Daily rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum daily rate	-	-
Average daily rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£321	£318
% change on same period last year	+1.17 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum hourly rate	-	-
Average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£31.39	£32.08
% change on same period last year	-2.15 %
Development Applications Watford
Matching contract IT job ads	30	43
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.040 %	0.044 %
Daily rates quoted	8	23
Average minimum daily rate	£313	£281
Average daily rate	£329	£286
% change on same period last year	+15.00 %
Average maximum daily rate	£346	£292
UK excluding London average daily rate	£329	£331
% change on same period last year	-0.66 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum hourly rate	-	-
Average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£32.89	£34.13
% change on same period last year	-3.63 %
QuickTest Pro Hertfordshire

We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

QuickTest Pro
Demand Trend

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

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Daily Rate Trend

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

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Top 16 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Watford region 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.

1 3 (100.00 %) TestDirector 1 3 (100.00 %) LoadRunner 2 2 (66.67 %) SAP 2 2 (66.67 %) PRINCE2 3 1 (33.33 %) Retail 3 1 (33.33 %) Automated Testing 3 1 (33.33 %) Polish Language 3 1 (33.33 %) System Testing 3 1 (33.33 %) SQL 3 1 (33.33 %) DB2 3 1 (33.33 %) UNIX 3 1 (33.33 %) AIX 3 1 (33.33 %) E-Commerce 3 1 (33.33 %) HP 3 1 (33.33 %) Regression Testing

3 1 (33.33 %) Games

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Watford region 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.

Database & Business Intelligence 1 1 (33.33 %) DB2	Development Applications 1 3 (100.00 %) TestDirector 1 3 (100.00 %) LoadRunner
General 1 1 (33.33 %) Games 1 1 (33.33 %) Retail	Job Titles 1 3 (100.00 %) Analyst 1 3 (100.00 %) Test Analyst 2 2 (66.67 %) Senior Analyst 2 2 (66.67 %) Senior Test Analyst
Miscellaneous 1 1 (33.33 %) Polish Language	Operating Systems 1 1 (33.33 %) UNIX 1 1 (33.33 %) AIX
Processes & Methodologies 1 2 (66.67 %) PRINCE2 2 1 (33.33 %) E-Commerce 2 1 (33.33 %) Regression Testing 2 1 (33.33 %) Automated Testing 2 1 (33.33 %) System Testing	Programming Languages 1 1 (33.33 %) SQL
Vendors 1 2 (66.67 %) SAP 2 1 (33.33 %) HP