Performance Testing Contracts in the West Midlands
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Hourly Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for Performance Testing skills in IT contracts advertised for the West Midlands region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Performance 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 for the West Midlands 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
23 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Performance Testing
Rank 93 95 88
Rank change year-on-year
+2 -7
Contract jobs citing Performance Testing 4 10 12
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the West Midlands 0.245% 0.445% 0.628%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.368% 0.700% 0.993%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 6 8
Average daily rate £328 £340 £475
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-3.74% -28.36%
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £400 £375
% change year-on-year
-18.75% +6.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £32.00 £31.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+1.58% -10.00%
All Processes & Methodologies
West Midlands
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category		 1087 1429 1208
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the West Midlands 66.65% 63.54% 63.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 524 674 553
Average daily rate £340 £330 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+3.03% -5.71%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £230 £233 £200
10% offered a daily rate of more than £523 £500 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £365 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
- -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 72 72 76
Average hourly rate £37.80 £20.26 £25.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+86.62% -18.98%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.45 £25.00 £29.00
% change year-on-year
+21.78% -13.79%
Performance Testing
England

Performance Testing
Jobs Demand Trend

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

West Midlands Performance Testing Jobs Demand Trend

Performance Testing
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Performance Testing across the West Midlands region.

West Midlands Performance Testing Daily Rate Trend

Performance Testing
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Performance Testing across the West Midlands region.

West Midlands Performance Testing Hourly Rate Trend

Performance Testing
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Performance Testing within the West Midlands region 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
Wolverhampton - 1 - -
Shropshire - 1 - -
Performance Testing
England

Performance Testing
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Midlands region citing Performance 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 Performance Testing.

1 8 (53.33%) LoadRunner
2 7 (46.67%) Test Scripting
3 3 (20.00%) ISEB
4 2 (13.33%) User Acceptance Testing
4 2 (13.33%) MS Excel
4 2 (13.33%) SharePoint
4 2 (13.33%) Microsoft
4 2 (13.33%) .NET
4 2 (13.33%) SQL Server
4 2 (13.33%) ASP.NET
4 2 (13.33%) Web Services
4 2 (13.33%) Windows
4 2 (13.33%) SC Cleared
4 2 (13.33%) Security Cleared
5 1 (6.667%) Sitecore CMS
5 1 (6.667%) Sitecore
5 1 (6.667%) SAP GRC
5 1 (6.667%) RESTful
5 1 (6.667%) HP Quality Center
5 1 (6.667%) OpenSTA
5 1 (6.667%) Inversion of Control
5 1 (6.667%) Information Architecture
5 1 (6.667%) HTML5
5 1 (6.667%) SharePoint 2010
5 1 (6.667%) Apple iOS
5 1 (6.667%) CSS3
5 1 (6.667%) Appcelerator Titanium
5 1 (6.667%) Continuous Improvement
5 1 (6.667%) Test Strategy
5 1 (6.667%) Appcelerator

Performance Testing
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Midlands region citing Performance 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 Performance Testing. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 2 (13.33%) .NET
1 2 (13.33%) ASP.NET
1 2 (13.33%) Web Services
2 1 (6.667%) RESTful
2 1 (6.667%) HTML5
2 1 (6.667%) CSS3
2 1 (6.667%) Windows SharePoint Services
2 1 (6.667%) .NET Framework
2 1 (6.667%) JSON
2 1 (6.667%) WCF
2 1 (6.667%) Symfony
2 1 (6.667%) jQuery
2 1 (6.667%) XHTML
2 1 (6.667%) XML
2 1 (6.667%) CSS
Application Platforms
1 2 (13.33%) SharePoint
2 1 (6.667%) Sitecore CMS
2 1 (6.667%) SharePoint 2010
2 1 (6.667%) SharePoint Server
2 1 (6.667%) MQSeries
2 1 (6.667%) BizTalk Server
2 1 (6.667%) CMS
Applications
1 2 (13.33%) MS Excel
2 1 (6.667%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 1 (6.667%) SAP GRC
1 1 (6.667%) SAP CO
1 1 (6.667%) SAP FI
1 1 (6.667%) SAP FI/CO
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (13.33%) SQL Server
2 1 (6.667%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 8 (53.33%) LoadRunner
2 1 (6.667%) OpenSTA
2 1 (6.667%) Appcelerator Titanium
2 1 (6.667%) JMeter
General
1 1 (6.667%) Swedish Language
1 1 (6.667%) Finance
Job Titles
1 6 (40.00%) Tester
2 5 (33.33%) Performance Tester
3 3 (20.00%) Analyst
4 2 (13.33%) Developer
4 2 (13.33%) Test Manager
4 2 (13.33%) Test Analyst
5 1 (6.667%) SharePoint Business Analyst
5 1 (6.667%) BizTalk Administrator
5 1 (6.667%) C# .NET Developer
5 1 (6.667%) LoadRunner Tester
5 1 (6.667%) .NET Developer
5 1 (6.667%) C# Developer
5 1 (6.667%) ASP.NET Developer
5 1 (6.667%) Test Consultant
5 1 (6.667%) Environment Manager
5 1 (6.667%) Performance Analyst
5 1 (6.667%) Performance Test Analyst
5 1 (6.667%) SAP Manager
5 1 (6.667%) BizTalk Developer
5 1 (6.667%) SAP Test Manager
Miscellaneous
1 1 (6.667%) Inversion of Control
1 1 (6.667%) Statistics
Operating Systems
1 2 (13.33%) Windows
2 1 (6.667%) Apple iOS
2 1 (6.667%) Linux
2 1 (6.667%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (46.67%) Test Scripting
2 2 (13.33%) User Acceptance Testing
3 1 (6.667%) Information Architecture
3 1 (6.667%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (6.667%) Test Strategy
3 1 (6.667%) Non-Functional Testing
3 1 (6.667%) Business Continuity
3 1 (6.667%) Programme Management
3 1 (6.667%) Content Management
3 1 (6.667%) SAP Implementation
3 1 (6.667%) OOP
3 1 (6.667%) Business Intelligence
3 1 (6.667%) BCP
3 1 (6.667%) Configuration Management
3 1 (6.667%) Process Management
3 1 (6.667%) Change Management
3 1 (6.667%) Disaster Recovery
3 1 (6.667%) Migration
3 1 (6.667%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (6.667%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 1 (6.667%) C#
1 1 (6.667%) Java
1 1 (6.667%) JavaScript
1 1 (6.667%) PHP
1 1 (6.667%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (20.00%) ISEB
2 2 (13.33%) SC Cleared
2 2 (13.33%) Security Cleared
3 1 (6.667%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.667%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (6.667%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 2 (13.33%) Microsoft
2 1 (6.667%) Sitecore
2 1 (6.667%) Appcelerator
2 1 (6.667%) SAP
2 1 (6.667%) Oracle
2 1 (6.667%) HP
2 1 (6.667%) Citrix
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