Automated Testing Contracts in Berkshire
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for Automated Testing skills in IT contracts advertised for the Berkshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Automated Testing over the 3 months to 21 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 Berkshire 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
21 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Automated Testing
Rank 95 121 119
Rank change year-on-year
+26 -2
Contract jobs citing Automated Testing 30 14 9
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Berkshire 1.215% 0.449% 0.307%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.848% 0.713% 0.490%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 5 8
Average daily rate £350 £288 £288
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+21.73% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £278 £288 £231
10% offered a daily rate of more than £455 £340 £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £328 £325
% change year-on-year
-0.76% +0.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £42.50 £40.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+6.25% +14.28%
All Processes & Methodologies
Berkshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category		 1623 1964 1835
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Berkshire 65.71% 62.95% 62.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 654 743 727
Average daily rate £388 £370 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+4.72% +5.71%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £265 £250 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £525 £500 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £363 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
-0.68% -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 38 63 74
Average hourly rate £17.00 £19.00 £33.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-10.52% -42.42%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.75 £11.00 £14.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £37.50 £50.00 £47.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.50 £25.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year
+26.00% -16.66%
Automated Testing
South East

Automated Testing
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Berkshire 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 Berkshire region.

Berkshire Automated Testing Daily Rate Trend

Automated Testing
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Automated Testing across the Berkshire region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

Berkshire Automated Testing Daily Rate Histogram

Automated Testing
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Automated Testing across the Berkshire region.

Berkshire Automated Testing Hourly Rate Trend

Automated Testing
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Automated Testing within the Berkshire region over the 3 months to 21 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
Reading +12 10 £338 -3.57%
Hungerford - 5 £300 -
Slough -9 4 £350 -
Bracknell - 2 £450 -
Automated Testing
South East

Automated Testing
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Berkshire 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 20 (44.44%) C#
2 18 (40.00%) SQL
3 17 (37.78%) Test Automation
4 16 (35.56%) .NET
4 16 (35.56%) Selenium
5 15 (33.33%) Visual Studio
6 14 (31.11%) QA
7 13 (28.89%) SQL Server
8 12 (26.67%) XML
8 12 (26.67%) Microsoft
9 11 (24.44%) Java
10 10 (22.22%) Agile Software Development
10 10 (22.22%) Automation Testing
11 9 (20.00%) WebSphere
11 9 (20.00%) Software Testing
11 9 (20.00%) WCF
12 8 (17.78%) Performance Testing
12 8 (17.78%) Manual Testing
12 8 (17.78%) TDD
12 8 (17.78%) Scrum
12 8 (17.78%) C++
12 8 (17.78%) E-Commerce
12 8 (17.78%) BDD
13 7 (15.56%) SpecFlow
13 7 (15.56%) REST
13 7 (15.56%) IBM
13 7 (15.56%) CSS
13 7 (15.56%) Web Services
13 7 (15.56%) HTML
13 7 (15.56%) JavaScript

Automated Testing
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Berkshire 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 16 (35.56%) .NET
2 12 (26.67%) XML
3 9 (20.00%) WebSphere
3 9 (20.00%) WCF
4 7 (15.56%) REST
4 7 (15.56%) CSS
4 7 (15.56%) Web Services
4 7 (15.56%) HTML
5 6 (13.33%) JSTL
5 6 (13.33%) Ajax
5 6 (13.33%) J2EE
5 6 (13.33%) EJB
5 6 (13.33%) JSP
5 6 (13.33%) JMS
6 3 (6.667%) Spring
6 3 (6.667%) Hibernate
7 2 (4.444%) jQuery
7 2 (4.444%) ASP.NET
7 2 (4.444%) ASP.NET MVC
Application Platforms
1 7 (15.56%) IIS
2 6 (13.33%) Windows Azure
3 3 (6.667%) WebSphere MQ
3 3 (6.667%) Oracle Workflow
4 2 (4.444%) ESB
4 2 (4.444%) Commerce Server
Applications
1 2 (4.444%) MS Visio
1 2 (4.444%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.444%) Internet
2 1 (2.222%) SMTP
2 1 (2.222%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (28.89%) SQL Server
2 7 (15.56%) DB2
3 3 (6.667%) DataStage
3 3 (6.667%) TOAD
4 2 (4.444%) Data Mining
4 2 (4.444%) SQL Server 2008
5 1 (2.222%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 16 (35.56%) Selenium
2 15 (33.33%) Visual Studio
3 7 (15.56%) SpecFlow
4 6 (13.33%) JUnit
4 6 (13.33%) Team Foundation Server
5 5 (11.11%) JIRA
6 3 (6.667%) Visual Studio Team System
6 3 (6.667%) TeamCity
6 3 (6.667%) Cucumber
6 3 (6.667%) Ant
6 3 (6.667%) QuickTest Pro
6 3 (6.667%) ERwin
6 3 (6.667%) WATIR
6 3 (6.667%) Maven
6 3 (6.667%) FitNesse
6 3 (6.667%) NUnit
7 2 (4.444%) Fiddler
7 2 (4.444%) LoadRunner
7 2 (4.444%) WinRunner
7 2 (4.444%) Jenkins
General
1 7 (15.56%) Games
2 5 (11.11%) Finance
3 3 (6.667%) Automotive
3 3 (6.667%) Telecoms
3 3 (6.667%) Retail
4 2 (4.444%) Banking
5 1 (2.222%) Billing
Job Titles
1 16 (35.56%) Developer
2 8 (17.78%) Tester
2 8 (17.78%) Software Engineer
3 6 (13.33%) Software Development Engineer
3 6 (13.33%) Development Engineer
4 5 (11.11%) Analyst
4 5 (11.11%) Test Analyst
5 3 (6.667%) Automation Analyst
5 3 (6.667%) Automation Test Analyst
5 3 (6.667%) Test Engineer
5 3 (6.667%) Senior Tester
5 3 (6.667%) Systems Developer
5 3 (6.667%) Software Test Engineer
5 3 (6.667%) QA Engineer
6 2 (4.444%) Test Coordinator
6 2 (4.444%) Java Developer
6 2 (4.444%) QA Tester
6 2 (4.444%) WebSphere Developer
6 2 (4.444%) Coordinator
6 2 (4.444%) Applications Developer
Miscellaneous
1 5 (11.11%) Enterprise Software
2 4 (8.889%) Computer Science
2 4 (8.889%) Open Source
3 3 (6.667%) iSeries
3 3 (6.667%) Cloud Computing
3 3 (6.667%) Mobile App
4 2 (4.444%) Mainframe
4 2 (4.444%) Client/Server
4 2 (4.444%) iPad
4 2 (4.444%) Kinect
4 2 (4.444%) iPhone
5 1 (2.222%) Blackberry
Operating Systems
1 6 (13.33%) UNIX
1 6 (13.33%) Windows
2 4 (8.889%) Linux
3 3 (6.667%) Android
3 3 (6.667%) Apple iOS
4 1 (2.222%) Ubuntu
4 1 (2.222%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (37.78%) Test Automation
2 10 (22.22%) Agile Software Development
2 10 (22.22%) Automation Testing
3 9 (20.00%) Software Testing
4 8 (17.78%) Performance Testing
4 8 (17.78%) Manual Testing
4 8 (17.78%) TDD
4 8 (17.78%) Scrum
4 8 (17.78%) E-Commerce
4 8 (17.78%) BDD
5 5 (11.11%) Game Development
5 5 (11.11%) Continuous Improvement
5 5 (11.11%) Web Testing
6 4 (8.889%) Load Testing
6 4 (8.889%) ETL
6 4 (8.889%) RAD
7 3 (6.667%) ATDD
7 3 (6.667%) Web Application Development
7 3 (6.667%) User Stories
7 3 (6.667%) Code Coverage
Programming Languages
1 20 (44.44%) C#
2 18 (40.00%) SQL
3 11 (24.44%) Java
4 8 (17.78%) C++
5 7 (15.56%) JavaScript
6 3 (6.667%) RPG IV
6 3 (6.667%) Python
6 3 (6.667%) RPG
7 2 (4.444%) C
8 1 (2.222%) Bash shell
8 1 (2.222%) Perl
Qualifications
1 7 (15.56%) Degree
2 2 (4.444%) ISTQB
2 2 (4.444%) ISEB
2 2 (4.444%) Security Cleared
3 1 (2.222%) SC Cleared
3 1 (2.222%) ISEB Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (31.11%) QA
System Software
1 2 (4.444%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (4.444%) SCOM
Vendors
1 12 (26.67%) Microsoft
2 7 (15.56%) IBM
3 4 (8.889%) Adobe
4 3 (6.667%) Oracle
5 2 (4.444%) VMware
5 2 (4.444%) HP
5 2 (4.444%) SAP
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