The first table below looks at the demand for Performance Testing skills in IT contracts advertised for the Wiltshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Performance 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 Wiltshire 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
Performance Testing
Rank 47 41 44
Rank change year-on-year
-6 +3
Contract jobs citing Performance Testing 3 14 3
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Wiltshire 0.671% 2.244% 0.551%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.920% 3.440% 0.775%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 11 3
Average daily rate £425 £413 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+3.03% +26.92%
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
Wiltshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
326 407 387
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Wiltshire 72.93% 65.22% 71.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 235 260 209
Average daily rate £425 £380 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+11.84% -5.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £318 £238 £254
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £480 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £363 £363 £375
% change year-on-year
- -3.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 21 24
Average hourly rate £16.25 £26.50 £30.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-38.67% -13.11%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.50 £19.95 £12.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £42.75 £41.50 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £32.00 £25.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year
+28.00% -16.66%
Performance Testing
South West

Performance Testing
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Wiltshire 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 Wiltshire region.

Wiltshire 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 Wiltshire region.

Wiltshire 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 Wiltshire 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
Swindon -8 3 £425 +9.67%
Performance Testing
South West

Performance Testing
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Wiltshire 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 7 (100.00%) Finance
1 7 (100.00%) User Acceptance Testing
2 5 (71.43%) Retail Banking
2 5 (71.43%) HP Quality Center
2 5 (71.43%) Banking
2 5 (71.43%) Retail
2 5 (71.43%) WinRunner
2 5 (71.43%) LoadRunner
2 5 (71.43%) HP
2 5 (71.43%) ISEB
2 5 (71.43%) PRINCE2
2 5 (71.43%) Microsoft
3 2 (28.57%) JDeveloper
3 2 (28.57%) XQuery
3 2 (28.57%) SOA
3 2 (28.57%) ETL
3 2 (28.57%) XSLT
3 2 (28.57%) Business Intelligence
3 2 (28.57%) Linux
3 2 (28.57%) Oracle Reports
3 2 (28.57%) CRM
3 2 (28.57%) Siebel
3 2 (28.57%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (28.57%) PL/SQL
3 2 (28.57%) SQL
3 2 (28.57%) Oracle
3 2 (28.57%) Informatica
3 2 (28.57%) Shell Script
3 2 (28.57%) BPEL
3 2 (28.57%) Oracle Workflow

Performance Testing
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Wiltshire 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 (28.57%) XSLT
2 1 (14.29%) Middleware
2 1 (14.29%) Oracle Fusion
Application Platforms
1 2 (28.57%) Oracle Workflow
1 2 (28.57%) ESB
Business Applications
1 2 (28.57%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (14.29%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (14.29%) Oracle EBS R12
Communications & Networking
1 1 (14.29%) ATM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (28.57%) Oracle Reports
1 2 (28.57%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (28.57%) Oracle BI EE
2 1 (14.29%) Oracle 10g
2 1 (14.29%) Oracle 11g
Development Applications
1 5 (71.43%) WinRunner
1 5 (71.43%) LoadRunner
2 2 (28.57%) JDeveloper
General
1 7 (100.00%) Finance
2 5 (71.43%) Banking
2 5 (71.43%) Retail
2 5 (71.43%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 5 (71.43%) Test Manager
2 2 (28.57%) OBIEE Developer
2 2 (28.57%) Developer
Operating Systems
1 2 (28.57%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) User Acceptance Testing
2 5 (71.43%) PRINCE2
3 2 (28.57%) CRM
3 2 (28.57%) Workflow
3 2 (28.57%) BPEL
3 2 (28.57%) SOA
3 2 (28.57%) ETL
3 2 (28.57%) Business Intelligence
4 1 (14.29%) E-business
4 1 (14.29%) Data Security
4 1 (14.29%) ERP
Programming Languages
1 2 (28.57%) PL/SQL
1 2 (28.57%) SQL
1 2 (28.57%) XQuery
1 2 (28.57%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 5 (71.43%) ISEB
Systems Management
1 5 (71.43%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 5 (71.43%) Microsoft
1 5 (71.43%) HP
2 2 (28.57%) Informatica
2 2 (28.57%) Oracle
2 2 (28.57%) Siebel
3 1 (14.29%) SAP
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