User Acceptance Testing Contracts in the West Midlands
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for User Acceptance 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 User Acceptance Testing over the 3 months to 17 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
17 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
User Acceptance Testing (UAT)
Rank 38 40 62
Rank change year-on-year
+2 +22
Contract jobs citing User Acceptance Testing 62 74 32
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the West Midlands 3.755% 3.317% 1.689%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.581% 5.331% 2.669%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 39 7
Average daily rate £330 £325 £250
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+1.53% +30.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £301 £231 £169
10% offered a daily rate of more than £400 £475 £460
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £350 £350
% change year-on-year
-7.14% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 1 0
Average hourly rate £34.50 £29.00 -
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+18.96% -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.00 £26.28 £23.00
% change year-on-year
+14.15% +14.26%
All Processes & Methodologies
West Midlands
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category		 1111 1388 1199
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the West Midlands 67.29% 62.21% 63.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 532 653 558
Average daily rate £330 £330 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -5.71%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £240 £200
10% offered a daily rate of more than £523 £500 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £363 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
-0.68% -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 77 72 69
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 £31.60 £25.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year
+26.40% -16.66%
User Acceptance Testing
England

User Acceptance Testing
Jobs Demand Trend

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

West Midlands 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 West Midlands region.

West Midlands User Acceptance Testing Daily Rate Trend

User Acceptance Testing
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing User Acceptance Testing across the West Midlands region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

West Midlands User Acceptance Testing Daily Rate Histogram

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 West Midlands region.

West Midlands 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 West Midlands region over the 3 months to 17 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
Birmingham +2 20 £325 +18.18%
Coventry -7 13 £394 +14.13%
Warwickshire 0 5 £330 +20.00%
Sutton Coldfield - 3 - -
Staffordshire +14 1 £175 -24.32%
Walsall +3 1 £330 -12.00%
West Bromwich - 1 £305 -
Wolverhampton - 1 £310 -
User Acceptance Testing
England

User Acceptance Testing
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Midlands 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 30 (23.08%) Finance
2 28 (21.54%) SQL
3 26 (20.00%) Migration
3 26 (20.00%) Test Scripting
4 23 (17.69%) Stakeholder Management
5 21 (16.15%) Oracle
6 20 (15.38%) Security Cleared
7 19 (14.62%) SC Cleared
7 19 (14.62%) Integration Testing
8 18 (13.85%) ISEB
9 17 (13.08%) MS Office
9 17 (13.08%) SAP
9 17 (13.08%) Time Management
10 16 (12.31%) Microsoft
11 14 (10.77%) IBM
11 14 (10.77%) J2EE
11 14 (10.77%) Windows
11 14 (10.77%) Requirements Analysis
12 12 (9.231%) UNIX
12 12 (9.231%) RDBMS
12 12 (9.231%) Hyperion
12 12 (9.231%) Project Management
12 12 (9.231%) Essbase
13 11 (8.462%) Software Testing
13 11 (8.462%) System Testing
14 10 (7.692%) QA
14 10 (7.692%) Hyperion Planning
14 10 (7.692%) Test Strategy
14 10 (7.692%) Logistics
14 10 (7.692%) CRM

User Acceptance Testing
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Midlands 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 14 (10.77%) J2EE
2 9 (6.923%) .NET
3 7 (5.385%) WCF
4 5 (3.846%) ASP.NET
4 5 (3.846%) Web Services
5 1 (0.769%) XML
5 1 (0.769%) Middleware
5 1 (0.769%) WebSphere
5 1 (0.769%) COM
Application Platforms
1 10 (7.692%) WebLogic
1 10 (7.692%) IIS
2 4 (3.077%) SharePoint
3 3 (2.308%) SAS
4 1 (0.769%) CMS
4 1 (0.769%) Magento
4 1 (0.769%) SharePoint 2010
4 1 (0.769%) SharePoint 2013
4 1 (0.769%) MS Exchange
Applications
1 17 (13.08%) MS Office
2 8 (6.154%) MS Excel
3 3 (2.308%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 10 (7.692%) Hyperion Planning
2 4 (3.077%) SAP PM
3 3 (2.308%) SAP CRM
4 2 (1.538%) Maximo
4 2 (1.538%) SAP WM
4 2 (1.538%) SAP PLM
5 1 (0.769%) Servitor
5 1 (0.769%) Oracle Financials
5 1 (0.769%) SAP CS
5 1 (0.769%) SAP QM
5 1 (0.769%) SAP Oil and Gas
5 1 (0.769%) Dynamics CRM
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.077%) Firewall
2 3 (2.308%) SNMP
2 3 (2.308%) MPLS
2 3 (2.308%) TACACS
3 2 (1.538%) HTTP
4 1 (0.769%) 3G
4 1 (0.769%) Broadband
4 1 (0.769%) Ethernet
4 1 (0.769%) 2G
4 1 (0.769%) LLU
4 1 (0.769%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (9.231%) RDBMS
1 12 (9.231%) Essbase
2 4 (3.077%) SQL Server
2 4 (3.077%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (1.538%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 2 (1.538%) QlikView
4 1 (0.769%) Oracle 8/8i
Development Applications
1 4 (3.077%) Oracle Forms
2 1 (0.769%) LoadRunner
2 1 (0.769%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 30 (23.08%) Finance
2 8 (6.154%) Manufacturing
3 7 (5.385%) Automotive
4 5 (3.846%) Marketing
5 4 (3.077%) Billing
6 3 (2.308%) German Language
6 3 (2.308%) Telecoms
6 3 (2.308%) Banking
6 3 (2.308%) Retail
7 2 (1.538%) Military
8 1 (0.769%) Front Office
8 1 (0.769%) Investment Banking
8 1 (0.769%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 45 (34.62%) Analyst
2 27 (20.77%) Business Analyst
3 16 (12.31%) Test Analyst
4 12 (9.231%) DBA
5 11 (8.462%) Test Manager
6 9 (6.923%) Project Manager
6 9 (6.923%) Consultant
6 9 (6.923%) Senior Analyst
6 9 (6.923%) Developer
7 8 (6.154%) Tester
8 7 (5.385%) Mobile Applications Developer
8 7 (5.385%) Mobile Developer
8 7 (5.385%) Test Leader
9 6 (4.615%) Coordinator
9 6 (4.615%) Senior Test Analyst
10 5 (3.846%) Systems Tester
10 5 (3.846%) SAP Consultant
11 4 (3.077%) SAP Manager
11 4 (3.077%) SAP PM Consultant
11 4 (3.077%) SAP Project Manager
Miscellaneous
1 8 (6.154%) Mobile App
2 7 (5.385%) Management Information System
3 5 (3.846%) Enterprise Software
3 5 (3.846%) Smart Meter
4 3 (2.308%) E-Learning
4 3 (2.308%) Computer Science
5 2 (1.538%) Reference Data
6 1 (0.769%) Clustering
6 1 (0.769%) Client/Server
6 1 (0.769%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 1 (0.769%) NHS
6 1 (0.769%) Firmware
Operating Systems
1 14 (10.77%) Windows
2 12 (9.231%) UNIX
3 7 (5.385%) Windows Mobile
4 5 (3.846%) Linux
5 3 (2.308%) Windows 7
6 1 (0.769%) Windows XP
6 1 (0.769%) VMS
6 1 (0.769%) OpenVMS
6 1 (0.769%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.769%) HPUX
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (20.00%) Migration
1 26 (20.00%) Test Scripting
2 23 (17.69%) Stakeholder Management
3 19 (14.62%) Integration Testing
4 17 (13.08%) Time Management
5 14 (10.77%) Requirements Analysis
6 12 (9.231%) Project Management
7 11 (8.462%) Software Testing
7 11 (8.462%) System Testing
8 10 (7.692%) Test Strategy
8 10 (7.692%) CRM
8 10 (7.692%) Logistics
9 9 (6.923%) Business Analysis
9 9 (6.923%) Test Management
9 9 (6.923%) Infrastructure Management
10 8 (6.154%) Quality Management
11 6 (4.615%) Validation
11 6 (4.615%) Manual Testing
12 5 (3.846%) Data Analysis
12 5 (3.846%) SAP Implementation
Programming Languages
1 28 (21.54%) SQL
2 4 (3.077%) Shell Script
3 3 (2.308%) C
3 3 (2.308%) C#
3 3 (2.308%) C++
4 2 (1.538%) T-SQL
4 2 (1.538%) VB.NET
5 1 (0.769%) Progress 4GL
5 1 (0.769%) Pascal
5 1 (0.769%) VB
5 1 (0.769%) COBOL
5 1 (0.769%) JavaScript
5 1 (0.769%) PL/SQL
5 1 (0.769%) PowerHouse
Qualifications
1 20 (15.38%) Security Cleared
2 19 (14.62%) SC Cleared
3 18 (13.85%) ISEB
4 8 (6.154%) ISTQB
4 8 (6.154%) Degree
5 3 (2.308%) CCNA
5 3 (2.308%) Cisco Certification
5 3 (2.308%) GCSC
6 1 (0.769%) ISEB Practitioner
6 1 (0.769%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (7.692%) QA
2 4 (3.077%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.769%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (1.538%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 7 (5.385%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 21 (16.15%) Oracle
2 17 (13.08%) SAP
3 16 (12.31%) Microsoft
4 14 (10.77%) IBM
5 12 (9.231%) Hyperion
6 4 (3.077%) Cognos
7 3 (2.308%) Cisco
7 3 (2.308%) Juniper
7 3 (2.308%) F5
8 2 (1.538%) Capita
8 2 (1.538%) HP
8 2 (1.538%) Progress
8 2 (1.538%) Business Objects
9 1 (0.769%) Red Hat
9 1 (0.769%) JD Edwards
9 1 (0.769%) Cramer
9 1 (0.769%) Casewise
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