Performance Testing Contracts in 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 Performance Testing skills in IT contracts advertised for the Yorkshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Performance Testing over the 3 months to 24 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 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
24 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Performance Testing
Rank 79 85 82
Rank change year-on-year
+6 -3
Contract jobs citing Performance Testing 31 27 16
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Yorkshire 1.668% 1.209% 0.875%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.426% 1.715% 1.386%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 7 6
Average daily rate £300 £413 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-27.27% +10.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £270 £263
10% offered a daily rate of more than £395 £475 £500
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
Yorkshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category		 1278 1574 1154
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Yorkshire 68.78% 70.46% 63.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 712 868 548
Average daily rate £325 £350 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-7.14% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £225 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £455 £475
UK excluding London average daily rate £365 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
- -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 44 40 60
Average hourly rate £26.00 £16.50 £23.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+57.57% -29.78%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.00 £12.45 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £170.00 £32.50 £60.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.00 £25.00 £29.50
% change year-on-year
+20.00% -15.25%
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 Yorkshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

Yorkshire 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 Yorkshire region.

Yorkshire Performance Testing Daily Rate Trend

Performance Testing
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Performance Testing across the Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Yorkshire Performance Testing Daily Rate Histogram

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 Yorkshire region.

Yorkshire 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 Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 24 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
West Yorkshire +4 22 £250 -41.17%
South Yorkshire +4 2 £350 -26.31%
Performance Testing
England

Performance Testing
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Yorkshire 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 46 (66.67%) Oracle
2 32 (46.38%) Business Intelligence
3 31 (44.93%) SQL
4 27 (39.13%) Data Warehouse
4 27 (39.13%) ETL
4 27 (39.13%) Oracle BI EE
5 26 (37.68%) Data Integration
5 26 (37.68%) Oracle 11g
6 25 (36.23%) Data Modelling
7 22 (31.88%) Oracle OWB
8 19 (27.54%) Informatica
9 17 (24.64%) Oracle 8/8i
10 15 (21.74%) Capacity Management
11 12 (17.39%) LoadRunner
12 11 (15.94%) Linux
13 9 (13.04%) Test Automation
14 8 (11.59%) Web Services
14 8 (11.59%) Java
14 8 (11.59%) SSL
15 7 (10.14%) MySQL
16 6 (8.696%) Puppet
16 6 (8.696%) MongoDB
16 6 (8.696%) Node.js
16 6 (8.696%) Bash shell
16 6 (8.696%) nginx
16 6 (8.696%) Amazon EC2
16 6 (8.696%) Amazon S3
16 6 (8.696%) Amazon AWS
16 6 (8.696%) Route 53
16 6 (8.696%) Redis

Performance Testing
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Yorkshire 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 8 (11.59%) Web Services
2 6 (8.696%) Node.js
3 3 (4.348%) XML
3 3 (4.348%) HTML
4 2 (2.899%) Gherkin
4 2 (2.899%) .NET
4 2 (2.899%) ASP
5 1 (1.449%) CSS
Application Platforms
1 6 (8.696%) nginx
1 6 (8.696%) Amazon EC2
1 6 (8.696%) Amazon S3
1 6 (8.696%) Amazon AWS
1 6 (8.696%) Route 53
1 6 (8.696%) Apache
2 1 (1.449%) WebLogic
2 1 (1.449%) MQSeries
Applications
1 2 (2.899%) MS Office
1 2 (2.899%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 6 (8.696%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (1.449%) SAP HR
Communications & Networking
1 8 (11.59%) SSL
2 6 (8.696%) DNS
2 6 (8.696%) DHCP
2 6 (8.696%) TCP/IP
3 3 (4.348%) HTTP
4 1 (1.449%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (39.13%) Data Warehouse
1 27 (39.13%) Oracle BI EE
2 26 (37.68%) Oracle 11g
3 22 (31.88%) Oracle OWB
4 17 (24.64%) Oracle 8/8i
5 7 (10.14%) MySQL
6 6 (8.696%) MongoDB
6 6 (8.696%) Redis
6 6 (8.696%) Amazon RDS
7 4 (5.797%) SQL Server
8 3 (4.348%) Oracle 10g
9 2 (2.899%) SQL Server 2008
9 2 (2.899%) Oracle 9i
10 1 (1.449%) Oracle Reports
10 1 (1.449%) MS Access
10 1 (1.449%) TOAD
10 1 (1.449%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 12 (17.39%) LoadRunner
2 4 (5.797%) Rational Performance Tester
3 3 (4.348%) Talend Open Studio
4 2 (2.899%) SpecFlow
4 2 (2.899%) TeamCity
4 2 (2.899%) Cucumber
4 2 (2.899%) WebDriver
4 2 (2.899%) Subversion
4 2 (2.899%) Selenium
4 2 (2.899%) MSI
4 2 (2.899%) Visual Studio
4 2 (2.899%) PVCS
5 1 (1.449%) WinRunner
5 1 (1.449%) TestDirector
5 1 (1.449%) QuickTest Pro
5 1 (1.449%) JIRA
5 1 (1.449%) JMeter
General
1 6 (8.696%) Telecoms
2 4 (5.797%) Retail
3 3 (4.348%) Banking
4 2 (2.899%) Manufacturing
5 1 (1.449%) Finance
5 1 (1.449%) Financial Institution
5 1 (1.449%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 16 (23.19%) Tester
2 15 (21.74%) Architect
3 13 (18.84%) Developer
4 11 (15.94%) Performance Tester
5 9 (13.04%) OBIEE Developer
6 7 (10.14%) Technical Architect
6 7 (10.14%) Designer
7 6 (8.696%) Operations Engineer
8 5 (7.246%) Analyst
8 5 (7.246%) Deployment Specialist
8 5 (7.246%) OBIEE Architect
9 4 (5.797%) Test Analyst
10 3 (4.348%) Performance Test Analyst
10 3 (4.348%) Performance Analyst
10 3 (4.348%) Oracle Developer
11 2 (2.899%) Oracle Architect
11 2 (2.899%) Test Leader
11 2 (2.899%) Performance Test Leader
11 2 (2.899%) Agile Tester
11 2 (2.899%) Test Architect
Miscellaneous
1 26 (37.68%) Data Integration
2 6 (8.696%) Client/Server
3 1 (1.449%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 11 (15.94%) Linux
2 3 (4.348%) Windows
3 1 (1.449%) UNIX
3 1 (1.449%) Windows 2000
3 1 (1.449%) Windows Server 2003
3 1 (1.449%) Windows XP
3 1 (1.449%) Windows Vista
3 1 (1.449%) Apple iOS
3 1 (1.449%) Windows 7
3 1 (1.449%) Windows 8
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (46.38%) Business Intelligence
2 27 (39.13%) ETL
3 25 (36.23%) Data Modelling
4 15 (21.74%) Capacity Management
5 9 (13.04%) Test Automation
6 6 (8.696%) Kanban
6 6 (8.696%) Incident Management
6 6 (8.696%) Load Balancing
6 6 (8.696%) Configuration Management
7 5 (7.246%) Test Scripting
7 5 (7.246%) User Acceptance Testing
7 5 (7.246%) Regression Testing
8 3 (4.348%) SOA
8 3 (4.348%) Software Testing
8 3 (4.348%) Web Testing
8 3 (4.348%) Agile Software Development
9 2 (2.899%) Agile Testing
9 2 (2.899%) Test Strategy
9 2 (2.899%) Scrum
9 2 (2.899%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 31 (44.93%) SQL
2 8 (11.59%) Java
3 6 (8.696%) Bash shell
3 6 (8.696%) Ruby
3 6 (8.696%) C++
3 6 (8.696%) Perl
3 6 (8.696%) PHP
3 6 (8.696%) PL/SQL
3 6 (8.696%) Python
4 2 (2.899%) C#
4 2 (2.899%) VB
5 1 (1.449%) JavaScript
5 1 (1.449%) T-SQL
5 1 (1.449%) BeanShell
Qualifications
1 4 (5.797%) Security Cleared
2 3 (4.348%) SC Cleared
3 2 (2.899%) BC Cleared
4 1 (1.449%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (5.797%) QA
System Software
1 2 (2.899%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (1.449%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 6 (8.696%) Puppet
2 3 (4.348%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 46 (66.67%) Oracle
2 19 (27.54%) Informatica
3 6 (8.696%) HP
4 3 (4.348%) Talend
5 2 (2.899%) VMware
5 2 (2.899%) IBM
5 2 (2.899%) Microsoft
6 1 (1.449%) SAP
6 1 (1.449%) Capita
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