Test Scripting Contracts in West Yorkshire
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for Test Scripting 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 Test Scripting over the 3 months to 21 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
21 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Test Scripting (Test Scripts)
Rank 65 31 38
Rank change year-on-year
-34 +7
Contract jobs citing Test Scripting 27 73 36
As % of all contract IT jobs located in West Yorkshire 2.103% 4.551% 3.288%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.951% 6.250% 5.028%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 44 18
Average daily rate £280 £280 £308
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -8.94%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £222 £225 £239
10% offered a daily rate of more than £365 £380 £410
UK excluding London average daily rate £329 £300 £315
% change year-on-year
+9.58% -4.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Average hourly rate - - £12.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £26.00 £27.50 £18.75
% change year-on-year
-5.45% +46.66%
All Processes & Methodologies
West Yorkshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category		 915 1168 716
As % of all contract IT jobs located in West Yorkshire 71.26% 72.82% 65.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 499 669 346
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 £459 £475
UK excluding London average daily rate £363 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
-0.68% -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 24 27
Average hourly rate £23.75 £19.25 £17.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+23.37% +10.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.78 £12.00 £7.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £38.00 £62.50 £25.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.50 £25.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year
+26.00% -16.66%
Test Scripting
Yorkshire

Test Scripting
Jobs Demand Trend

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

West Yorkshire Test Scripting Jobs Demand Trend

Test Scripting
Daily Rate Trend

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

West Yorkshire Test Scripting Daily Rate Trend

Test Scripting
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Test Scripting across the West Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

West Yorkshire Test Scripting Daily Rate Histogram

Test Scripting
Hourly Rate Trend

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

West Yorkshire Test Scripting Hourly Rate Trend

Test Scripting
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Test Scripting within the West Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 21 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
Halifax +9 12 £318 +19.81%
Leeds -28 8 £225 -22.41%
Bradford -3 5 - -
Test Scripting
Yorkshire

Test Scripting
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Yorkshire region citing Test Scripting 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 Test Scripting.

1 26 (44.83%) Finance
2 17 (29.31%) User Acceptance Testing
3 14 (24.14%) ISEB
4 12 (20.69%) HP Quality Center
5 11 (18.97%) SQL
5 11 (18.97%) .NET
5 11 (18.97%) Banking
6 10 (17.24%) Retail
6 10 (17.24%) Oracle
6 10 (17.24%) SQL Server
6 10 (17.24%) SAP
7 9 (15.52%) ASP.NET
7 9 (15.52%) SAP HR
7 9 (15.52%) Test Management
8 8 (13.79%) Retail Banking
8 8 (13.79%) SAP Payroll
8 8 (13.79%) HP
8 8 (13.79%) MS Project
8 8 (13.79%) HTML
9 7 (12.07%) C#
9 7 (12.07%) Stakeholder Management
10 6 (10.34%) Migration
10 6 (10.34%) TDD
10 6 (10.34%) ISTQB
10 6 (10.34%) Software Testing
10 6 (10.34%) Feature Driven Development
11 5 (8.621%) Unit Testing
11 5 (8.621%) MS Excel
11 5 (8.621%) Data Warehouse
11 5 (8.621%) Oracle BI EE

Test Scripting
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Yorkshire region citing Test Scripting 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 Test Scripting. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 11 (18.97%) .NET
2 9 (15.52%) ASP.NET
3 8 (13.79%) HTML
4 4 (6.897%) CSS
4 4 (6.897%) XML
5 2 (3.448%) WCF
5 2 (3.448%) HTML5
6 1 (1.724%) XML Schema
6 1 (1.724%) WPF
6 1 (1.724%) NHibernate
Application Platforms
1 3 (5.172%) EPiServer CMS
1 3 (5.172%) SharePoint
1 3 (5.172%) CMS
Applications
1 8 (13.79%) MS Project
2 5 (8.621%) MS Excel
3 2 (3.448%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 9 (15.52%) SAP HR
2 8 (13.79%) SAP Payroll
3 2 (3.448%) Oracle Applications
3 2 (3.448%) Oracle EBS
3 2 (3.448%) Oracle EBS R12
4 1 (1.724%) Dynamics CRM
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.448%) Broadband
2 1 (1.724%) Firewall
2 1 (1.724%) VoIP
2 1 (1.724%) Cisco ASA
2 1 (1.724%) BIG-IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (17.24%) SQL Server
2 5 (8.621%) Data Warehouse
2 5 (8.621%) Oracle BI EE
3 3 (5.172%) SQL Server 2008
3 3 (5.172%) Oracle 10g
3 3 (5.172%) SQL Server 2005
3 3 (5.172%) Oracle 11g
4 2 (3.448%) Oracle Reports
4 2 (3.448%) GIS
5 1 (1.724%) SAP BW
5 1 (1.724%) PowerCenter
5 1 (1.724%) Data Mart
Development Applications
1 4 (6.897%) Visual Studio
2 3 (5.172%) LoadRunner
3 2 (3.448%) Selenium
4 1 (1.724%) Talend Open Studio
4 1 (1.724%) QuickTest Pro
4 1 (1.724%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 26 (44.83%) Finance
2 11 (18.97%) Banking
3 10 (17.24%) Retail
4 8 (13.79%) Retail Banking
5 3 (5.172%) Telecoms
6 1 (1.724%) Law
6 1 (1.724%) Legal
Job Titles
1 33 (56.90%) Analyst
2 20 (34.48%) Test Analyst
3 13 (22.41%) Business Analyst
4 8 (13.79%) Tester
5 6 (10.34%) Architect
5 6 (10.34%) Test Architect
6 5 (8.621%) C# .NET Developer
6 5 (8.621%) Developer
6 5 (8.621%) .NET Developer
6 5 (8.621%) C# Developer
7 4 (6.897%) ASP.NET Developer
7 4 (6.897%) Oracle Consultant
7 4 (6.897%) SAP Business Analyst
7 4 (6.897%) C# ASP.NET Developer
7 4 (6.897%) SAP HR Business Analyst
7 4 (6.897%) Consultant
8 3 (5.172%) Performance Tester
9 2 (3.448%) Functional Consultant
9 2 (3.448%) Enterprise Consultant
9 2 (3.448%) Oracle Functional Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 4 (6.897%) STB
2 3 (5.172%) NHS
3 1 (1.724%) EPoS
3 1 (1.724%) Reference Data
3 1 (1.724%) Handset
Operating Systems
1 3 (5.172%) UNIX
1 3 (5.172%) Windows
2 2 (3.448%) Windows XP
2 2 (3.448%) Linux
3 1 (1.724%) Windows Server 2012
3 1 (1.724%) CentOS
3 1 (1.724%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (1.724%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (29.31%) User Acceptance Testing
2 9 (15.52%) Test Management
3 7 (12.07%) Stakeholder Management
4 6 (10.34%) Migration
4 6 (10.34%) TDD
4 6 (10.34%) Software Testing
4 6 (10.34%) Feature Driven Development
5 5 (8.621%) Unit Testing
6 3 (5.172%) Web Application Development
6 3 (5.172%) Business Transformation
6 3 (5.172%) Business Intelligence
6 3 (5.172%) Business Analysis
6 3 (5.172%) Performance Testing
6 3 (5.172%) Manual Testing
7 2 (3.448%) Agile Software Development
7 2 (3.448%) System Testing
7 2 (3.448%) Asset Management
7 2 (3.448%) EAM
7 2 (3.448%) Test Strategy
8 1 (1.724%) TMap
Programming Languages
1 11 (18.97%) SQL
2 7 (12.07%) C#
3 4 (6.897%) JavaScript
4 2 (3.448%) Java
5 1 (1.724%) C
5 1 (1.724%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 14 (24.14%) ISEB
2 6 (10.34%) ISTQB
3 3 (5.172%) CCAB
4 1 (1.724%) SC Cleared
4 1 (1.724%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (6.897%) FATCA
2 3 (5.172%) GAAP
2 3 (5.172%) QA
Systems Management
1 12 (20.69%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 10 (17.24%) Oracle
1 10 (17.24%) SAP
2 8 (13.79%) HP
3 3 (5.172%) Hyperion
3 3 (5.172%) EPiServer
4 2 (3.448%) Cisco
4 2 (3.448%) Microsoft
4 2 (3.448%) Informatica
5 1 (1.724%) Talend
5 1 (1.724%) F5
5 1 (1.724%) Red Hat
5 1 (1.724%) JD Edwards
5 1 (1.724%) Perforce
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