Test Automation Contracts in Basingstoke
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Hourly Rate Trend Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for Test Automation skills in IT contracts advertised for the Basingstoke region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Test Automation 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 Basingstoke 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
Test Automation
Rank 33 - 30
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing Test Automation 7 0 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Basingstoke 3.535% - 0.407%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.000% - 0.625%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 0 1
Average daily rate £400 - £226
UK excluding London average daily rate £344 £316 £350
% change year-on-year
+8.86% -9.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £32.50 £42.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year
-23.52% +21.42%
All Processes & Methodologies
Basingstoke
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category		 140 114 160
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Basingstoke 70.71% 62.64% 65.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 90 37 57
Average daily rate £350 £380 £395
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-7.89% -3.79%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £290 £275 £226
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £500 £518
UK excluding London average daily rate £365 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
- -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 14 17
Average hourly rate £39.00 £16.75 £16.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+132.83% +4.68%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.00 £25.00 £29.50
% change year-on-year
+20.00% -15.25%
Test Automation
Hampshire

Test Automation
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Basingstoke Test Automation Jobs Demand Trend

Test Automation
Daily Rate Trend

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

Basingstoke Test Automation Daily Rate Trend

Test Automation
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Basingstoke Test Automation Hourly Rate Trend

Test Automation
Top 26 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Basingstoke region citing Test Automation 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 Automation.

1 8 (100.00%) Test Scripting
2 7 (87.50%) Continuous Integration
2 7 (87.50%) Java EE
2 7 (87.50%) ESB
2 7 (87.50%) Release Management
2 7 (87.50%) PowerShell
2 7 (87.50%) Windows Server 2008
2 7 (87.50%) TeamCity
2 7 (87.50%) Git (software)
2 7 (87.50%) soapUI
2 7 (87.50%) MSBuild
2 7 (87.50%) SQL Server
2 7 (87.50%) IIS
2 7 (87.50%) SOAP
2 7 (87.50%) Windows
2 7 (87.50%) BizTalk Server
2 7 (87.50%) C#
2 7 (87.50%) Maven
2 7 (87.50%) Software Engineering
3 1 (12.50%) Project Planning
3 1 (12.50%) Automated Testing
3 1 (12.50%) TDD
3 1 (12.50%) .NET
3 1 (12.50%) Web Services
3 1 (12.50%) BDD
3 1 (12.50%) Manual Testing

Test Automation
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Basingstoke region citing Test Automation 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 Automation. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 7 (87.50%) Java EE
1 7 (87.50%) soapUI
1 7 (87.50%) SOAP
2 1 (12.50%) .NET
2 1 (12.50%) Web Services
Application Platforms
1 7 (87.50%) ESB
1 7 (87.50%) IIS
1 7 (87.50%) BizTalk Server
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (87.50%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 7 (87.50%) TeamCity
1 7 (87.50%) Git (software)
1 7 (87.50%) MSBuild
1 7 (87.50%) Maven
Job Titles
1 7 (87.50%) Release Manager
1 7 (87.50%) Build Manager
2 1 (12.50%) Analyst
2 1 (12.50%) Test Analyst
Operating Systems
1 7 (87.50%) Windows Server 2008
1 7 (87.50%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (100.00%) Test Scripting
2 7 (87.50%) Continuous Integration
2 7 (87.50%) Release Management
2 7 (87.50%) Software Engineering
3 1 (12.50%) Project Planning
3 1 (12.50%) Automated Testing
3 1 (12.50%) TDD
3 1 (12.50%) BDD
3 1 (12.50%) Manual Testing
Programming Languages
1 7 (87.50%) PowerShell
1 7 (87.50%) C#
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