The first table below looks at the demand for Integration Testing skills in IT contracts advertised for the West Yorkshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Integration Testing over the 3 months to 20 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 Yorkshire 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
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Integration Testing
Rank 89 60 52
Rank change year-on-year
-29 -8
Contract jobs citing Integration Testing 5 32 21
As % of all contract IT jobs located in West Yorkshire 0.394% 1.975% 1.927%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.554% 2.696% 2.933%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 15 9
Average daily rate £200 £301 £475
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-33.44% -36.73%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £190 £260 £310
10% offered a daily rate of more than £280 £465 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £358 £388 £361
% change year-on-year
-7.74% +7.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £36.00 £32.75 £37.50
% change year-on-year
+9.92% -12.66%
All Processes & Methodologies
West Yorkshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
903 1187 716
As % of all contract IT jobs located in West Yorkshire 71.21% 73.27% 65.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 493 684 345
Average daily rate £325 £350 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-7.14% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £235 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £453 £475
UK excluding London average daily rate £363 £363 £375
% change year-on-year
- -3.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 23 28
Average hourly rate £24.00 £18.00 £17.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+33.33% +2.85%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.68 £12.00 £7.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £38.00 £62.50 £25.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £32.00 £25.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year
+28.00% -16.66%
Integration Testing
Yorkshire

Integration Testing
Jobs Demand Trend

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

West Yorkshire Integration Testing Jobs Demand Trend

Integration Testing
Daily Rate Trend

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

West Yorkshire Integration Testing Daily Rate Trend

Integration Testing
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Integration Testing across the West Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 20 May 2013.

West Yorkshire Integration Testing Daily Rate Histogram

Integration Testing
Hourly Rate Trend

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

West Yorkshire Integration Testing Hourly Rate Trend

Integration Testing
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Integration Testing within the West Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 20 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
Leeds -13 5 £200 -34.42%
Integration Testing
Yorkshire

Integration Testing
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Yorkshire region citing Integration 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 Integration Testing.

1 10 (50.00%) HP Quality Center
2 8 (40.00%) Windows
2 8 (40.00%) Web Services
2 8 (40.00%) Firewall
3 6 (30.00%) VMware
3 6 (30.00%) UNIX
4 4 (20.00%) QA
5 3 (15.00%) User Acceptance Testing
5 3 (15.00%) SC Cleared
5 3 (15.00%) Security Cleared
5 3 (15.00%) Requirements Analysis
5 3 (15.00%) C#
5 3 (15.00%) SQL
5 3 (15.00%) SQL Server
6 2 (10.00%) SAP
6 2 (10.00%) E-Commerce
6 2 (10.00%) ISEB
6 2 (10.00%) BizTalk Server
6 2 (10.00%) XSLT
6 2 (10.00%) GAP Analysis
6 2 (10.00%) Finance
6 2 (10.00%) SQL Server 2005
6 2 (10.00%) SAP PM
6 2 (10.00%) IVR
6 2 (10.00%) WCF
6 2 (10.00%) Test Strategy
7 1 (5.000%) Root Cause Analysis
7 1 (5.000%) Agile Testing
7 1 (5.000%) Selenium
7 1 (5.000%) Unit Testing

Integration Testing
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 8 (40.00%) Web Services
2 2 (10.00%) XSLT
2 2 (10.00%) WCF
3 1 (5.000%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
3 1 (5.000%) .NET
3 1 (5.000%) ASP.NET
3 1 (5.000%) NHibernate
3 1 (5.000%) .NET Framework
Application Platforms
1 2 (10.00%) BizTalk Server
Business Applications
1 2 (10.00%) SAP PM
2 1 (5.000%) SAP FI
2 1 (5.000%) SAP FI/CO
2 1 (5.000%) SAP CO
Communications & Networking
1 8 (40.00%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (15.00%) SQL Server
2 2 (10.00%) SQL Server 2005
3 1 (5.000%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 1 (5.000%) Visual Studio
1 1 (5.000%) Selenium
1 1 (5.000%) WebDriver
General
1 2 (10.00%) Finance
2 1 (5.000%) Banking
Job Titles
1 6 (30.00%) Analyst
2 5 (25.00%) Test Analyst
2 5 (25.00%) Consultant
2 5 (25.00%) Developer
3 3 (15.00%) Infrastructure Consultant
3 3 (15.00%) Test Consultant
4 2 (10.00%) Tester
4 2 (10.00%) BizTalk Developer
5 1 (5.000%) SAP CS Consultant
5 1 (5.000%) PMO Analyst
5 1 (5.000%) UAT Test Analyst
5 1 (5.000%) Automation Tester
5 1 (5.000%) Testing Consultant
5 1 (5.000%) Automated Tester
5 1 (5.000%) Project Office Analyst
5 1 (5.000%) UAT Analyst
5 1 (5.000%) SAP PM Consultant
5 1 (5.000%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (5.000%) Project Office Support
5 1 (5.000%) Support Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 2 (10.00%) IVR
2 1 (5.000%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 8 (40.00%) Windows
2 6 (30.00%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (15.00%) Requirements Analysis
1 3 (15.00%) User Acceptance Testing
2 2 (10.00%) GAP Analysis
2 2 (10.00%) E-Commerce
2 2 (10.00%) Test Strategy
3 1 (5.000%) Root Cause Analysis
3 1 (5.000%) Agile Testing
3 1 (5.000%) Project Management
3 1 (5.000%) Regression Testing
3 1 (5.000%) Migration
3 1 (5.000%) TDD
3 1 (5.000%) Automated Testing
3 1 (5.000%) Unit Testing
3 1 (5.000%) Test Management
3 1 (5.000%) Continuous Integration
3 1 (5.000%) Test Automation
3 1 (5.000%) BDD
Programming Languages
1 3 (15.00%) C#
1 3 (15.00%) SQL
2 1 (5.000%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 3 (15.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (15.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (10.00%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (20.00%) QA
Systems Management
1 10 (50.00%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 6 (30.00%) VMware
2 2 (10.00%) SAP
3 1 (5.000%) CheckPoint