The first table below looks at the demand for Test Automation skills in IT contracts advertised for the Brighton 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 Brighton 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 25 34 -
Rank change year-on-year
+9 -
Contract jobs citing Test Automation 3 1 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Brighton 2.027% 0.391% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.632% 0.552% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 0
Average daily rate £238 £400 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-40.62% -
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
Brighton
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
114 181 93
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Brighton 77.03% 70.70% 67.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 60 90 52
Average daily rate £364 £400 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-9.06% +6.66%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £238 £225 £275
10% offered a daily rate of more than £535 £525 £438
UK excluding London average daily rate £365 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
- -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 6 3
Average hourly rate £32.50 £22.00 £45.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+47.72% -51.11%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.00 £25.00 £29.50
% change year-on-year
+20.00% -15.25%
Test Automation
East Sussex

Test Automation
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Brighton 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 Brighton region.

Brighton Test Automation Daily Rate Trend

Test Automation
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Test Automation across the Brighton region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Brighton Test Automation Daily Rate Histogram

Test Automation
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Brighton 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 3 (75.00%) SQL
1 3 (75.00%) Agile Software Development
1 3 (75.00%) MSTest
2 2 (50.00%) SQL Server
2 2 (50.00%) Finance
2 2 (50.00%) Team Foundation Server
2 2 (50.00%) HP Quality Center
2 2 (50.00%) WebDriver
2 2 (50.00%) BDD
2 2 (50.00%) TDD
2 2 (50.00%) FitNesse
2 2 (50.00%) SOAP
2 2 (50.00%) Web Services
2 2 (50.00%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (25.00%) Telecoms
3 1 (25.00%) E-Commerce
3 1 (25.00%) ETL
3 1 (25.00%) HTTP
3 1 (25.00%) LoadRunner
3 1 (25.00%) XML
3 1 (25.00%) Apache
3 1 (25.00%) J2EE
3 1 (25.00%) Oracle
3 1 (25.00%) C#
3 1 (25.00%) Java
3 1 (25.00%) JavaScript
3 1 (25.00%) Grails
3 1 (25.00%) Use Case
3 1 (25.00%) jQuery
3 1 (25.00%) Fiddler

Test Automation
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Brighton 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 2 (50.00%) SOAP
1 2 (50.00%) Web Services
2 1 (25.00%) XML
2 1 (25.00%) J2EE
2 1 (25.00%) Grails
2 1 (25.00%) jQuery
2 1 (25.00%) Apache CXF
2 1 (25.00%) Spring
2 1 (25.00%) Ajax
2 1 (25.00%) soapUI
2 1 (25.00%) REST
2 1 (25.00%) Gherkin
2 1 (25.00%) Hibernate
Application Platforms
1 1 (25.00%) Apache
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) SQL Server
1 2 (50.00%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (25.00%) SQL Server 2008
2 1 (25.00%) Data Mart
2 1 (25.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 1 (25.00%) DB2
Development Applications
1 3 (75.00%) MSTest
2 2 (50.00%) Team Foundation Server
2 2 (50.00%) WebDriver
2 2 (50.00%) FitNesse
3 1 (25.00%) LoadRunner
3 1 (25.00%) Fiddler
3 1 (25.00%) TeamCity
3 1 (25.00%) NUnit
3 1 (25.00%) Subversion
3 1 (25.00%) Maven
3 1 (25.00%) Checkstyle
3 1 (25.00%) JIRA
3 1 (25.00%) Selenium
3 1 (25.00%) SpecFlow
3 1 (25.00%) Gradle
3 1 (25.00%) Jenkins
3 1 (25.00%) StyleCop
3 1 (25.00%) JUnit
3 1 (25.00%) JProfiler
3 1 (25.00%) Cucumber
General
1 2 (50.00%) Finance
2 1 (25.00%) Telecoms
2 1 (25.00%) Billing
2 1 (25.00%) Games
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Developer
1 2 (50.00%) Analyst
1 2 (50.00%) Test Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Java/J2EE Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Java Developer
2 1 (25.00%) J2EE Developer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Mobile App
1 1 (25.00%) Open Source
1 1 (25.00%) Inversion of Control
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Agile Software Development
2 2 (50.00%) BDD
2 2 (50.00%) TDD
3 1 (25.00%) E-Commerce
3 1 (25.00%) ETL
3 1 (25.00%) Use Case
3 1 (25.00%) Performance Testing
3 1 (25.00%) Load Testing
3 1 (25.00%) Security Testing
3 1 (25.00%) Test Management
3 1 (25.00%) Continuous Integration
3 1 (25.00%) Penetration Testing
3 1 (25.00%) ATDD
3 1 (25.00%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) SQL
2 1 (25.00%) C#
2 1 (25.00%) Java
2 1 (25.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (25.00%) Groovy
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Oracle