The first table below looks at the demand for Automated Testing skills in IT contracts advertised for the Bath region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Automated Testing over the 3 months to 20 June 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 Bath 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 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Automated Testing
Rank - 10 -
Contract jobs citing Automated Testing 0 2 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Bath - 4.167% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category - 9.091% -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £300 £308
% change year-on-year
+8.33% -2.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £32.50 £40.00 £24.00
% change year-on-year
-18.75% +66.66%
All Processes & Methodologies
Bath
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
24 22 34
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Bath 52.17% 45.83% 51.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 11 15
Average daily rate £260 £309 £239
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-15.78% +29.31%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £190 £230 £210
10% offered a daily rate of more than £435 £400 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £370 £363 £375
% change year-on-year
+2.06% -3.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 2 7
Average hourly rate £17.50 £25.00 £27.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-30.00% -9.09%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.80 £25.00 £15.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £19.00 £27.00 £34.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.50 £25.00 £29.00
% change year-on-year
+22.00% -13.79%
Automated Testing
Somerset

Automated Testing
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Bath Automated Testing Jobs Demand Trend

Automated Testing
Daily Rate Trend

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

Bath Automated Testing Daily Rate Trend

Automated Testing
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Bath region citing Automated 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 Automated Testing.

1 7 (100.00%) Agile Software Development
2 6 (85.71%) Test Scripting
2 6 (85.71%) .NET
2 6 (85.71%) Visual Studio
2 6 (85.71%) ASP.NET
2 6 (85.71%) Release Management
3 5 (71.43%) Mobile App
4 4 (57.14%) Software Testing
4 4 (57.14%) Scrum
5 3 (42.86%) Military
5 3 (42.86%) ISTQB
5 3 (42.86%) QA
5 3 (42.86%) SC Cleared
5 3 (42.86%) Security Cleared
5 3 (42.86%) LAMP
5 3 (42.86%) E-Commerce
5 3 (42.86%) C
5 3 (42.86%) ISEB
6 1 (14.29%) Java
6 1 (14.29%) J2EE
6 1 (14.29%) JUnit
6 1 (14.29%) Eclipse
6 1 (14.29%) Hibernate
6 1 (14.29%) MVC
6 1 (14.29%) Finance
6 1 (14.29%) Team Foundation Server
6 1 (14.29%) Apache Flex
6 1 (14.29%) Informatics
6 1 (14.29%) Penetration Testing
6 1 (14.29%) Spring

Automated Testing
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Bath region citing Automated 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 Automated Testing. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 6 (85.71%) .NET
1 6 (85.71%) ASP.NET
2 3 (42.86%) LAMP
3 1 (14.29%) J2EE
3 1 (14.29%) Hibernate
3 1 (14.29%) Apache Flex
3 1 (14.29%) Spring
Development Applications
1 6 (85.71%) Visual Studio
2 1 (14.29%) JUnit
2 1 (14.29%) Eclipse
2 1 (14.29%) Team Foundation Server
2 1 (14.29%) Maven
General
1 3 (42.86%) Military
2 1 (14.29%) Finance
Job Titles
1 5 (71.43%) Analyst
1 5 (71.43%) Test Analyst
1 5 (71.43%) Tester
2 4 (57.14%) Software Tester
3 1 (14.29%) Flex Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Java Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Test Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 5 (71.43%) Mobile App
2 1 (14.29%) Informatics
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) Agile Software Development
2 6 (85.71%) Test Scripting
2 6 (85.71%) Release Management
3 4 (57.14%) Software Testing
3 4 (57.14%) Scrum
4 3 (42.86%) E-Commerce
5 1 (14.29%) MVC
5 1 (14.29%) Penetration Testing
Programming Languages
1 3 (42.86%) C
2 1 (14.29%) Java
Qualifications
1 3 (42.86%) ISTQB
1 3 (42.86%) SC Cleared
1 3 (42.86%) Security Cleared
1 3 (42.86%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (42.86%) QA