Yorkshire Test Scripting Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Test Scripting (Test Scripts) skills within the Yorkshire region with a comparison to our Processes & Methodologies category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Test Scripting over the 3 months to 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Test Scripting (Test Scripts)
Location Aberdeen Abingdon Amersham Atherstone Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Berkshire Birmingham Bishop's Stortford Bournemouth Bracknell Bridgend Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Chatham Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Chesterfield City of London Coventry Crawley Croydon Dartford Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh England Essex Exeter Glasgow Gloucestershire Guildford Halifax Hampshire Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire Home Counties Hove Kent Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Liverpool London Maidenhead Manchester Marlow Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Plymouth Poole Reading Rugby Runcorn Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Sidcup Slough Solihull Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton St Albans Staines Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Telford Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Wilmslow Wiltshire Winchester Windsor Wirral Wokingham Worcester Worcestershire York Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	91	79
Rank change on same period last year	-12
Matching contract IT job ads	31	57
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.041 %	0.058 %
As % of the category below	1.867 %	3.217 %
Daily rates quoted	12	14
Average minimum daily rate	£285	£269
Average daily rate	£294	£296
% change on same period last year	-0.67 %
Average maximum daily rate	£304	£324
UK excluding London average daily rate	£326	£321
% change on same period last year	+1.35 %
Hourly rates quoted	1	6
Average minimum hourly rate	£30.00	£30.83
Average hourly rate	£30.00	£31.67
% change on same period last year	-5.26 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£30.00	£32.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£27.81	£30.86
% change on same period last year	-9.89 %
Processes & Methodologies Yorkshire
Matching contract IT job ads	1660	1772
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	2.213 %	1.793 %
Daily rates quoted	429	395
Average minimum daily rate	£342	£340
Average daily rate	£363	£359
% change on same period last year	+1.23 %
Average maximum daily rate	£385	£378
UK excluding London average daily rate	£380	£376
% change on same period last year	+1.21 %
Hourly rates quoted	109	97
Average minimum hourly rate	£25.11	£25.71
Average hourly rate	£27.00	£26.63
% change on same period last year	+1.38 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£28.89	£27.55
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£29.33	£30.16
% change on same period last year	-2.72 %
Test Scripting England

We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Test Scripting across the Yorkshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

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Daily Rate Trend

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

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Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Test Scripting across the Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008.

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Hourly Rate Trend

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

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Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Test Scripting within the Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
West Yorkshire	+4	22	£298	+2.75 %
South Yorkshire	-10	5	£292	-2.77 %
North Yorkshire	-9	1	-	-

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the 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 24 (36.36 %) User Acceptance Testing 2 17 (25.76 %) Finance 2 17 (25.76 %) ISEB 3 6 (9.091 %) Government 4 5 (7.576 %) TestDirector 4 5 (7.576 %) LoadRunner 4 5 (7.576 %) Manual Testing 4 5 (7.576 %) Automated Testing 5 4 (6.061 %) Software Testing 5 4 (6.061 %) QA 5 4 (6.061 %) Requirements Analysis 5 4 (6.061 %) Security Cleared 5 4 (6.061 %) Microsoft 5 4 (6.061 %) SQL 5 4 (6.061 %) Health

6 3 (4.545 %) Migration 6 3 (4.545 %) JUnit 6 3 (4.545 %) PeopleSoft 6 3 (4.545 %) Java 6 3 (4.545 %) SharePoint 6 3 (4.545 %) Windows 6 3 (4.545 %) QuickTest Pro 6 3 (4.545 %) NHS 6 3 (4.545 %) SC Cleared 6 3 (4.545 %) InvestOne 6 3 (4.545 %) Test Management 6 3 (4.545 %) Pensions 6 3 (4.545 %) System Testing 6 3 (4.545 %) Performance Testing 7 2 (3.030 %) Cost-Benefit Analysis

Test Scripting
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the 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 2 (3.030 %) .NET 2 1 (1.515 %) Middleware 2 1 (1.515 %) SWT	Application Platforms 1 3 (4.545 %) SharePoint 2 1 (1.515 %) MS Exchange
Applications 1 2 (3.030 %) MS Excel 2 1 (1.515 %) MS Office	Business Applications 1 3 (4.545 %) InvestOne
Communications & Networking 1 1 (1.515 %) Intranet 1 1 (1.515 %) Internet	Database & Business Intelligence 1 2 (3.030 %) SQL Server 2 1 (1.515 %) Datawarehouse 2 1 (1.515 %) ETL 2 1 (1.515 %) PowerCenter 2 1 (1.515 %) SQL Server 7 2 1 (1.515 %) SQL Server 2005
Development Applications 1 5 (7.576 %) TestDirector 1 5 (7.576 %) LoadRunner 2 3 (4.545 %) QuickTest Pro 2 3 (4.545 %) JUnit 3 1 (1.515 %) Eclipse 3 1 (1.515 %) WinRunner 3 1 (1.515 %) Bugzilla 3 1 (1.515 %) QARun	General 1 17 (25.76 %) Finance 2 6 (9.091 %) Government 3 4 (6.061 %) Health 4 3 (4.545 %) Pensions 5 1 (1.515 %) Pharmaceutical 5 1 (1.515 %) Financial Institution 5 1 (1.515 %) Banking
Job Titles 1 27 (40.91 %) Analyst 2 21 (31.82 %) Test Analyst 3 18 (27.27 %) Tester 4 8 (12.12 %) Test Manager 5 5 (7.576 %) UAT Test Manager 6 4 (6.061 %) Coordinator 6 4 (6.061 %) Test Coordinator 6 4 (6.061 %) Business Analyst 6 4 (6.061 %) Systems Tester 7 3 (4.545 %) Test Engineer 7 3 (4.545 %) Senior Analyst 7 3 (4.545 %) Test Team Leader 7 3 (4.545 %) Software Tester 7 3 (4.545 %) UAT Analyst 7 3 (4.545 %) Team Leader 7 3 (4.545 %) Performance Engineer 8 2 (3.030 %) Systems Test Analyst 8 2 (3.030 %) Applications Tester 8 2 (3.030 %) Junior Tester 8 2 (3.030 %) Senior Test Analyst	Miscellaneous 1 3 (4.545 %) NHS 2 1 (1.515 %) Mainframe 2 1 (1.515 %) Client/Server
Operating Systems 1 3 (4.545 %) Windows 2 2 (3.030 %) UNIX 3 1 (1.515 %) Windows NT 3 1 (1.515 %) OS/390	Processes & Methodologies 1 24 (36.36 %) User Acceptance Testing 2 5 (7.576 %) Manual Testing 2 5 (7.576 %) Automated Testing 3 4 (6.061 %) Software Testing 3 4 (6.061 %) Requirements Analysis 3 4 (6.061 %) Security Cleared 4 3 (4.545 %) Test Management 4 3 (4.545 %) SC Cleared 4 3 (4.545 %) System Testing 4 3 (4.545 %) Performance Testing 4 3 (4.545 %) Migration 5 2 (3.030 %) Stakeholder Management 5 2 (3.030 %) Cost-Benefit Analysis 5 2 (3.030 %) Project Management 5 2 (3.030 %) Integration Testing 5 2 (3.030 %) Web Testing 5 2 (3.030 %) Data Migration 5 2 (3.030 %) Data Mapping 6 1 (1.515 %) BC Cleared 6 1 (1.515 %) Time Management
Programming Languages 1 4 (6.061 %) SQL 2 3 (4.545 %) Java 3 1 (1.515 %) VBScript 3 1 (1.515 %) VB 3 1 (1.515 %) C 3 1 (1.515 %) C#	Qualifications 1 17 (25.76 %) ISEB 2 1 (1.515 %) ISEB Practitioner 2 1 (1.515 %) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 4 (6.061 %) QA	Vendors 1 4 (6.061 %) Microsoft 2 3 (4.545 %) PeopleSoft 3 2 (3.030 %) Oracle 4 1 (1.515 %) SAP 4 1 (1.515 %) Compuware 4 1 (1.515 %) HP 4 1 (1.515 %) Informatica