The first table below looks at the demand for Stress 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 Stress Testing over the 3 months to 22 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
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Stress Testing
Rank 112 99 -
Rank change year-on-year
-13 -
Contract jobs citing Stress Testing 1 15 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Yorkshire 0.053% 0.652% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.077% 0.923% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 10 0
Average daily rate £400 £625 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-36.00% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £469 £333
% change year-on-year
-25.33% +40.97%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - £27.50
All Processes & Methodologies
Yorkshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
1298 1625 1131
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Yorkshire 68.79% 70.62% 63.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 714 895 537
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 £459 £457 £475
UK excluding London average daily rate £365 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
- -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 47 43 59
Average hourly rate £26.00 £16.50 £23.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+57.57% -28.26%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.85 £12.50 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £128.00 £32.50 £60.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.00 £25.00 £29.00
% change year-on-year
+24.00% -13.79%
Stress Testing
England

Stress Testing
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Yorkshire Stress Testing Jobs Demand Trend

Stress Testing
Daily Rate Trend

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

Yorkshire Stress Testing Daily Rate Trend

Stress Testing
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Stress Testing within the Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 22 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 -6 1 £400 -25.58%
Stress Testing
England

Stress Testing
Top 21 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Yorkshire region citing Stress 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 Stress Testing.

1 2 (66.67%) Basel II
1 2 (66.67%) Finance
1 2 (66.67%) ETL
2 1 (33.33%) Shell Script
2 1 (33.33%) Middleware
2 1 (33.33%) Oracle Fusion
2 1 (33.33%) Oracle Service Bus
2 1 (33.33%) WebLogic Scripting Tool
2 1 (33.33%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 1 (33.33%) Scrum
2 1 (33.33%) Jython
2 1 (33.33%) Subversion
2 1 (33.33%) Perl
2 1 (33.33%) PL/SQL
2 1 (33.33%) SQL
2 1 (33.33%) Oracle
2 1 (33.33%) WebLogic
2 1 (33.33%) UNIX
2 1 (33.33%) Python
2 1 (33.33%) JMS
2 1 (33.33%) SOA

Stress Testing
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Yorkshire region citing Stress 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 Stress Testing. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (33.33%) Middleware
1 1 (33.33%) Oracle Fusion
1 1 (33.33%) JMS
Application Platforms
1 1 (33.33%) Oracle Service Bus
1 1 (33.33%) Oracle SOA Suite
1 1 (33.33%) WebLogic
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Subversion
General
1 2 (66.67%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Business Analyst
1 2 (66.67%) Analyst
1 2 (66.67%) Solutions Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Middleware Administrator
2 1 (33.33%) Administrator
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) ETL
2 1 (33.33%) Scrum
2 1 (33.33%) SOA
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) Shell Script
1 1 (33.33%) WebLogic Scripting Tool
1 1 (33.33%) Jython
1 1 (33.33%) Perl
1 1 (33.33%) PL/SQL
1 1 (33.33%) SQL
1 1 (33.33%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (66.67%) Basel II
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Oracle
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